Category: GBNF

2005

Dr. Mohan

2006

U Sein Shan

• Saya U Sein Shan (RIT Maths) : 17th Oct 2006

2010

U Thein Tun Aung

• Saya U Thein Tun Aung (M) : Nov 2010

U Han Tun

He passed away on 16th September 2012. His body was donated to MC 2 per his desire.

U Hla Thwin

When he passed away at his home, there was no one around him. No one knew about his demise for five days.

This sad event invoked reverence, sympathy, surprise and the need for special action for similar cases.

Saya U Sein Win (EE)

• MS in EE from University of Michigan
• Taught at RIT
• Retired as Professor of Electrical Power, YTU
• After retirement, worked as Consultant
• Technical Advisor for the UCC Project
• Line Judge at RUBC Regattas
• President, RIT Rowing Club
• President, RIT Swimming Club
• Swam almost daily
  Even when he was visiting Singapore on business trips.
• GBNF

Invitation to SPZP-2000

• Saya was invited by his former students in the US and Singapore to attend SPZP-2000.
• He gently declined the offer.
• Told his students to sponsor EE saya who had not been to the US.
• Said that he had been to the US for his studies. |
  He was a top student at the University of Michigan, USA.
• With permission from Saya Allen Htay, we are printing the letter from Saya U Sein Win.

Saya’s Letter

Dear Allen & Ko San Hla Aung,

Long time no see!

Since I retired in 1993, I have been doing odd jobs. I was a mechanical and electrical supervisor for about 6 months at the FMI shopping center constructing job. Then after the construction phase, I retired, doing nothing, except to drive my youngest daughter to various tuition places.

For the last two years, I worked part-time again, 3 times a week, from 11:00 a.m to 5 p.m., as a consultant for the maintenance of mechanical and electrical works, as my youngest daughter finished her matriculation classes.

Since last month, I have another part-time jobs as consultant to a UPS selling company, working on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I am now in Singapore for a week, at the Liebert UPS (USA based Ohio Co.) Co., for servicing and repair of UPSs and am going back [on Tuesday] with one of the company men.

Since both my jobs are part-time jobs, and I am on company’s expense here, I do not have any leave privileges, etc. and I am sorry I can’t afford to go to USA.

My eldest daughter and my second daughter are now medical doctors. My youngest is now reading for her first year medical course. I am still living in the same old house near the Inya Lake.

I hope both of you are healthy as I am now a health buff and tried to stay in health but at this age nobody can say what will happen as I noticed, looking up obituaries of people around my age in the newspaper and see the names of old friends.

Yours,
—- auld lang syne—
Sein Win

Anecdote

Saya U Sein Win left his brand new spouse at a Zay (presumably Bogyoke Zay).

Saya went back to RIT, and had a long discussion with his students.

The students asked, “How is Sayagadaw?”

Saya’s reply : “Let’s end the discussion. It’s past time I should have picked her up at the Zay”.

Uzin Bobby Myo Tun (A69) wrote :

Classic example of ‘the absent-minded professor!’

U Aung Myint (UCC) wrote :

I heard about that from some of the students or from the Lab staffs while I was in EC lab: What I heard was a little different. What I heard was “He parked at Hledan Zay. His wife went for buying. He was waiting inside the car. Suddenly he got an idea of taking hair cut nearby instead of waiting for a long time. After hair cutting he forgot everything and drove the car alone. I don’t know if that is true or not.

Dr. Khin Maung Swe (Tekkatho Maung Thin Char, Retired Professor of Mathematics) passed away on June 7, 2020.

He was Editor of the Thin Char Journal.

He wrote a book about Sayagyi U Ba Toke based on his interviews and research.

He did post graduate studies in the U.K.

Saya’s spouse Daw Myint Myint Khaing (Mathematics) is the daughter of Arzani Mahn Ba Khaing.

Saya U Moe Aung (Tekkatho Moe War) wrote :

သူငယ်ချင်း စိုးလွင်(စက်မှုအင်ဂျင်နီယာဌာန၊ ရန်ကုန်စက်မှုတက္ကသိုလ် – ငြိမ်း) ကွယ်လွန်ခြင်း အတွက် ဝမ်းနည်းမှတ်တမ်း။

” အလှည့်သင့် …”
(သူငယ်ချင်း စိုးလွင်… သို့)

သူငယ်ချင်း…
မင်းရဲ့ အလှည့်၊ မြန်လှချည့်လား
ထင်မှတ်မှား ဖြစ်
တရား ခုံမင်၊ ဆင်ခြင်ဖို့ ဓလေ့
ရင်မှာပွေ့ပိုက် ထွက်ခွာပြီ။

လောကလူ့ရွာ၊ ကံံကြမ္မာလျှင်
ဧည့်လာဧည့်သွား၊ အသိသားနဲ့
ဖဝါး ဒဏ်ရာ၊ ခြေရာ ပျောက်ရှ
လှိုင်းမထတော့…
ဖွဖွ လှမ်းထောက် တိတ်ဆိတ်နေ။

သူငယ်ချင်း…
မင်းမှာ ရိုးဂုဏ်၊ ကုံလုံကြွယ်ဝ
နှုတ်က ဟ တိုင်း၊ ရိုင်းစိုင်းမရှိ
သိမ်မွေ့ဘိ တိုးညင်၊ ခင်မင်မှုရှိုင်းနက်
သက်သေ တစ်ကမ္ဘာ တည်လေခဲ့။

လောကလူ့ရွာ
ကံကြမ္မာ နှောင်ချည်၊ ဘယ်ဆီ ဘယ်သို့
ပို့ဆောင်ခံရလင့်၊ အလှည့်သင့်ချိန်…
“အိမ်” ဆိုသည်ကော ရှိလို့လား။

လောကလူ့ရွာ
ကံကြမ္မာကိုမေ့၊ မွေ့လျော် ပွေ့ဖက်
တွယ်တာမက်လည်း
“တစ်သက်တာ” ဆိုသည်ကောမြဲလို့လား။ ။

သို့သော် တချို့တော့
မေ့လျော့နေကြ
မြဲနေသမျှ ကုပ်ယူ
အလံထူလွှင့် ​ကျင့်နေဆဲ…။

တက္က သို လ် မိုး ဝါ
၁၀ – ၉ – ၂၀၂၁
(ညနေ ၆ နာရီ)

• Sayama Daw Khin Saw Tint taught English at RIT.
  Her friends call her Anne
  
• Sayama comes from a lineage of Statesmen and Scholars.
  
• Her uncles :
  U Tin Tut (First Burmese to be invited to be ICS; Minister; Newspaper Publisher …)
  U Kyaw Myint (Dean of Law; Supreme Court Justice; Chair of Tribunal to try Galon U Saw …)
  U Myint Thein (Chief Justice of the Union of Burma; Ambassador; Author : MMT …)
  Dr. Htin Aung (First native Rector of RU; Distinguished author; Folklorist …)
  
• Her mother Daw Khin Saw Mu studied under Sayagyi U Pe Maung Tin.
  She wrote “Khit San Kabyar”.
  
• Her aunts :
  Daw Khin Mya Mu (Kyauksar Expert; Thamadi Myo Wun; Spouse of Burmese Professor U E Maung)
  Daw Tin Saw Mu (Senior Lecturer, English, RU)
  
• Sayama is a bilingual author.
  Wrote about 30 books
  She wrote about the “Three Sisters : Mom & Aunts”
  
• Sayama donated K5 Lakhs for the YTU Library Modernization project.
  
• She told U Wynn Hytain Oo (M72, Hmaw Sayagyi) that “It would be nice if Swel Daw Yeik Foundation could consider providing some aid to needy Sayas and Sayamas from non-Engineering Departments.”

• He is a Saya of the Mechanical Engineering Department.
• No one knew when he passed away (alone).

Maung Maung Lay wrote :

ကိုHla Thwin က 79 Mech ပါ။ သူဆုံးတ့ဲသတင္း သတင္းစာမွာပါေတာ့ စက္မႈတကၠသိုလ္က အၿငိမ္းစားဆရာ မည္သူမည္ဝါမွန္းမသိလို႔ ပါလာပါတယ္။

သတင္းပါၿပီးေနာက္တေန႔ 85 Mech က ညီငယ္ ကိုေအာင္ၾကည္စိုး၊ ကိုႏြဲ႔ဝင္း နဲ႔ ကိုညြန္႔ျမင့္တို႔ အိမ္ကိုေရာက္လာၿပီး RIT Mechanical က ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ဆရာ ဆုံးသြားတယ္လို႔ သူတို႔ေျပာမွ ကိုလွသြင္မွန္း သိရပါတယ္။

သူနဲ႔ 5th Year တုန္းက ပလစ (၂ )၊ အမရပူရမွာ field အတူဆင္းခ့ဲဘူးပါတယ္။

ကိုလွသြင္ ေကာင္းရာသုဂတိ လားပါေစ။

Comments

• Maung Maung Lay wrote :
  ဓါတ်ပုံထဲက ဘယ်ဘက် တတိယမြောက်က ကိုလှသွင်ပါ။ သူ့အရှေ့ ထိုင်နေသူ ဘယ်အစွန်က ကိုဝင်းမောင်ပါ၊ သူလည်း ဆုံရှာပြီ။ သူက ရဟန်းဘဝနဲ့ (၂၅) ဝါအရမှာ ကင်ဆာရောဂါနဲ့ လွန်တော်မူပါတယ်။ ညာအစွန်မှ ပဉ္စမမြောက်က ကျွန်တော်တို့ရဲ့နောင်တော် ဗိုလ်ကြီးသံစင်မြင့် ( Met 74) ပါ။ အကိုသံလည်း Covid third wave မှာ ဘဝတပါးသို့ ကူးပြောင်းသွားပါတယ်။ သုံးယောက်စလုံး ကောင်းရာသုဂတိ လားကြပါစေ။

Sad News

Received news from U Ohn Khine (M70) about the demise of U Kyaw Phone Myint (Victor Kyaw Phyo).

He was my classmate in Middle School at SPHS.

I met him at the gatherings of the Combined 1st BE Intake of 64 and 65.

One gathering was hosted by U Thaung Sein (Steeve Kay).

Another gathering was at the Reunion and Acariya Pu Zaw Pwe of the Combined 1st BE Intake of 64 and 65. He was among the those seated on chairs (mostly having medical problems).