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  • Memories — 1

    by Hla Min

    Updated : August 2026

    Yu Ket / Edward Saw & Tin Maung Win

    • Ko Tin Maung Win (C86) is President of NorCal RITAA
    • Ko Yu Ket (EC85) is EC of NorCal RITAA. He provided various kinds of assistance to our family over the years.
    • We had a Lunch gathering.
    Ed 1
    Ed 2

    Dana for Grace

    • Grace passed away a year ago in Singapore. She succumbed to Cancer.
    • In her memory, Ko Tint Lwin / Daniel (M69) donated to Shwe Yaung Hnin Si Cancer Foundation.
    DTL

    Ma San San & Ko Myint Swe

    • Ma San San (EC74) and Ko Myint Swe (EP74) are super Chefs.
    • They enjoy Cooking and Entertaining Friends.
    • They hosted several gatherings.
    SS MS 1
    SS MS 2
    SS MS 3
    Gathering at MS & SS

    Ma Ma Ruby (GBNF)

    • She is my cousin.
    • On July 19, 2026, Dr. Win Hlaing / Ruby passed away at the age of 94.
    • She has two sons and a daughter.
    Ma Ruby
    Ma Ruby & Kim

    William Aung

    • Dentist / Specialist
    • Son of Ko Htay Aung / Victor (EC80, UCC) and Tin Tin Hlaing (UCC)
    • Received a Presentation Award
    William

    Uzin U Chan Min

    • Represented Institute of Economics in Chinlon and Rowing
    • Worked for EPC before moving to USA
    • After retirement, he became a monk at Dhammananda Vihara, Half Moon Bay, California
    Uzin Chan Min

    Toastmasters

    • I am a DTM (Distinguished Toastmaster).
    • I completed CC, ACB, ACS, ACG, CL, ACL, ACG and activities (e.g Club Coach; Contests at Club, Area & Division; Ambassador)
    • The photo was taken at a Halloween-themed Toastmasters Meeting
    Toastmasters

    PSA Tour

    • I was invited to join the PSA (Professional Speakers Association) Tour to Upper Burma
    • The tour covered six cities
    Professional Speakers Association

    Saw Lin (C71, GBNF)

    • In 2012, I made two trips to Yangon to coordinate with the Organizers of SPZP-2012
    • Ko Saw Lin hosted a Welcome Dinner. Attendees include Ko Ohn Khine (M70), Saya Ko Aung (C70), Ko Khin Maung Myint (ChE71) and Ma Mai Khin Nyunt / Rosie (ChE71)
    Saw Lin

    Texas

    • Ko San Lin / Robert (EC73) and Ma Hla Myint (EC73) hosted us in Dallas, Texas. They showed us around the Dallas area.
    • Dr. Ba Han (SPHS66, Psychiatrist) and Tin Tin Aye / Lillian (T72) hosted the rest of the Trip. He loves driving. He took us to Temple to see our common niece Dr. Khine Zin Oo and Myo.
    • Ma Khine and Maung Myo took us to Austin.
    • Ko Ba Han took us to Houston, San Antonio and a Texas border
    With Dr. Ba Han

    East Coast, USA

    • Ivan invited us to visit him in New Jersey. He hosted a gathering for RIT & UCC alumni. He also organized a whirlwind trip to Canada and East Coast. He provided his car and gas. Fred drove most of the trip and also took photos.
    • Massachusetts : Dr. Tun Aung Gyaw (EC69)
    • Connecticut : Ko Toung (EC69)
    • New Jersey & New York : Ivan Lee (M69)
    • Philadelphia & Maryland : Fred Thetgyi (M69)
    Fred, Ivan
    Ivan, TAG

    Steeve Kay (EC70, GBNF)

    • He is an entrepreneur and philanthropist.
    • He hosted several gatherings in Southern California.
    • The photo was taken at the party to celebrate 40th Anniversary of Steeve’s arrival in the USA.
    Steeve’s party

    RIT 69ers

    • 1999 : 30th Anniversary of Graduation
    • 2009 : 40th Anniversary of Graduation
    • 2014 : Golden Jubilee of Admission to RIT
    • 2019 : Golden Jubilee of Graduation
    30th Anniversary
    • 69ers had Monthly Breakfast Gathering (usually at Royal Rose Restaurant). There are hosts to celebrate Birthdays and Anniversaries
    With U Maung Maung Win

    Singapore

    • Danny (M69) and Emma (ChE70) hosted Htein Win / Chauk Pay (M70), who was visiting from Canada
    Emma, Danny, Chauk Pay

    NorCal RITAA

    NorCal RITAA

    Interview

    • by Mandalay Gazette
    Interview

    Oldies

    EP EC 85 Reunion in Bangkok

    Bangkok

    Saya U Tin Htut

    With U Tin Htut

    SF Bay Area Literary Talk

    With Alice

    SPZP-2000

    • Organizers
    • Embassy Suites Hotel near SFO International airport
    • October 2000
    SPZP-2000

    Dana Sri Lanka co-founder

    Emma Myint
    U San Tun
    With Benny
    2015 LA Reunion
    iNapa Winery
    Note book
    SF Bay Area Alumni Advisory
    Embassy Suites 2000
    Welcome U Soe Paing

    Books

    Kyi Thin
    Kyi Thin 2
    HMEE CD
    Process of Consciousness and Matter

    Links to my FB posts

    U Tin U & U Ba Than

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/1014714635226595/permalink/:28304604889144201/?

    အတိတ် က အရိပ်များ

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/1014714635226595/permalink/28310174808587209/?

    Lifelong Learner

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/1014714635226595/permalink/28310759471862076/?

    Aung Myaing & Gyn Yu

    AM GY 1
    AM GY 2
    AM GY 3
    AM GY 4

    Heartfelt night

    Nyunt Htay

    Nyunt Htay 1
    Nyunt Htay 2

    ရင်ထဲကည

    ဝါလကင်းလွတ်
    သီတင်းကျွတ်တည့်
    လပြည့်သည်ည
    တင့်ရွှန်းပမြိုင်
    နိုင်ငံအဝှမ်း
    မြေမဟီနန်းမှာ
    ကပ်ရောဂါဒဏ်
    စစ်ဘေးရန်နှင့်
    အန္တရာယ်ခပ်သိမ်း
    ကင်းလွတ်ငြိမ်း၍
    အောင်ကိန်းကိုပိုင်
    အောင်လံခိုင်မြဲ
    အောင်နိုင်ပွဲတွေ
    ရနိုင်စေ ။ ။

    မောင်ညွန့်ဌေး (အထက်မင်းလှ)
    ၃၁.၁၀.၂၀၂၀
    (ကိုနေမျိုးဇော် လက်ရာ ပန်းချီ ကိုကြည့်ပြီးရေးပါသည်။)

    Heart Felt Night

    End of Vassa , Rainy Season Retreat

    Thadinkyut , Lightening Festival

    The night of the Full Moon

    In glorious splendor

    Throughout the nation

    This Royal Land

    Calamities — pandemic

    battles and war

    countless dangers

    May they fade and disappear

    View Victory signs

    Hoist Victory banner

    May series of Victories be achieved .

    Translated by
    Hla Min (EC 69)

  • TOKM

    by Hla Min

    Updated : Apr 2026

    Book published for his 70th birthday

    Memories

    Book Presents

    Dr. Thane Oke Kyaw Myint (SPHS60) receives books from his former students and from his god-children.

    He received a book from Professor Dr. Nyunt Thein.

    Dr. Nyunt Thein proposed to have some (if not all) of the examinations for MRCP to be held in Burma.

    Dr. Thane Oke Kyaw Myint wrote :

    Due to Nyunt Thein’s efforts, all parts of the exam are being conducted in Rangoon and Mandalay.

    Dr. Thane Oke Kyaw Myint wrote :

    I am so fortunate that books written by my former students are either given to me by the authors or bought for me by my niece Hnin Wit Yee or Min Thet Aung.

    I got a signed copy of “The Female Voice of Myanmar” by Nilanjana Sengupta, translated into Burmese, by Myae Hmone Lwin. It was given to me by Ma Thida.

    The book consist of articles about and by four eminent lady Burmese writers and activists: Ludu Daw Ah Mar, Daw Khin Myo Chit, Daw Aung San Su Kyi and my “daughter writer” Ma Thida (San Gyaung).

    Please do not say that I am biased towards my daughter but I read the articles on Daw Ah Mar, Daw Khin Myo Chit and Daw Sung Dan Su Kyi once only but read and reread the articles by and on Ma Thida about three times or more.

    Coming from a family whose members were at different times and at different lengths of incarceration by the military government, each article about Ma Thida in prison brought back sad memories of my own family. I had to pause even in the middle of each article as such memories flooded my mind.

    From a very young age Ma Thida stand out among her contemporaries . A multifaceted person with deep attitudes and understanding of right and wrong, justice and injustice, tears welled up in my eyes reading what she went through in prison, and had to stop reading after going through some incidents described by her in the book.

    I am happy and very proud that she can be what she is now, an activist, feminist, author and running PEN Myanmar and many more.

    This book must be read in Burmese as in any other language, much would be lost in translation.

  • Till We Meet Again

    by Hla Min

    Updated : Apr 2026

    Poem

    Poem
    • My poem “Till we meet again” was published in the Forward Magazine on December 15, 1969. The Chief Editor was Maung Thaw Ka (Bohmu Ba Thaw).
    • I received fifteen kyats for my poem.

    SEAP Games

    • The First SEAP (South East Asia Peninsula) Games was held in Bangkok, Thailand in 1959.
    • Burma hosted the Second SEAP Games in December 1961, and the Fifth SEAP Games in December 1969.
    • Myint Aung won six Gold medals in Gymnastics. Jimmy Crampton won Gold in 800 m and 1500 m. Shimbwegan succeeded Mee Tung Naw as the Marathon Champion.

    Tekkatho Moe War wrote : Well, Maung Hla Min, this is indeed one of the unexpected from your expected works. Congrats!

  • အမိမြန်မာပြည်

    By Okpo Maung Yin Maung

    Updated : Mar 2026

    Saya U Aung Myaing

    Okpo Maung Yin Maung

    ကျွန်ုပ်တတ်နိုင်တာက ဖြစ်ချင်တာကို ကဗျာနဲ့ပြောတာ။

    “အမိမြန်မာပြည်”

    မသေခင် မြင်ချင်စမ်းပါဘိ
    လှလွန်းလွန်လှည့် မြန်မာပြည်
    ဤကမ္ဘာ တည်သရွေ့။

    ငြိမ်းအေးကာ ညီညီညွတ်
    အထွတ်ပေါ် အထိပ်မိုး
    တိုးတက်ပြီဟေ့။

    အုတ်ဖို မောင်ရင်မောင်
    ChE72, RIT
    3rd November 2020

    “Myanmar — Motherland “

    Before I die
    I want to see
    Myanmar — most beautiful
    Till the end of time

    Peaceful and United
    Towering peaks
    Achieved progress and prosperity

    Translated by
    Hla Min (EC69), RIT

    ChE Chemical Engineering
    EC Electrical Communication
    RIT Rangoon Institute of Technology now known
    as YTU Yangon Technological University,
    Myanmar

  • The United Nations

    by Hla Min

    Updated : Mar 2026

    • My poem “The United Nations” was published in the Forward Magazine on November 1, 1969.
    • The UN Day is celebrated in October.
    • Received fifteen kyats for my poem.
    • U Thant served as the 3rd Secretary General of the United Nations. First Asian to be elected UNSG. Succeeded Daj Hammerjold, who perished in a plane crash.
    • U Thant earlier served as the Permanent Representative of Burma to the UN. He was preceded and succeeded by James Barrington (ICS, RUBC Gold).
    Poem
  • Newspapers & Magazines

    Newspapers & Magazines

    by Hla Min

    Updated : June 2025

    Early Days

    • In the early days, there were many newspapers, news agencies and reporters.

    Journalists

    • U Ba Cho (Deedok ဒီးဒုတ်)
    • U Law Yone (Nation)
    • U Sein Win (Guardian)
    • U Ba Than (UPI)
    • U Nyo Mya (Oway အိုးဝေ)
    • U Ohn Khin (Bama Khit ဗမာ့ခေတ် later Mogyo မိုးကြိုး)
    • U Thaung (Kyemon ကြေးမုံ)
    • U Thein — ဇဝန
    • U Ohn Pe — တက်တိုး
    • U Hla & Daw Ah Mar (Ludu လူထု)
    • They were some of the journalists and/or publishers.

    After 1962

    • Only six newspapers : four in Burmese and two in English.
    • News Agency Burma (NAB), collected news from the news agencies, selectively translated them and distributed them to the newspapers.
    • There was a silver lining. Working People’s Daily (WPD) and Guardian had interesting Columns & Supplements.

    WPD

    • U Khin Maung Latt was the first Chief Editor. His successors include U Than Saw & U Ko Lay.
    • U Ko Ko wrote the “Motley” column.
    • Had Sunday Supplement & Special Issues for Thadinkyut, Sar So Daw Nay, etc. Featured Translation of Modern Burmese Writings (e.g. Short Stories, Poems). I received fifty Kyats for translating “Nge Thay Loe ငယ်သေးလို့” short story by U Thu Kha). U Thu Kha was given fifty kyats.
    Translation in WPD
    • Daw Khin Swe Hla (Editor) wanted to encourage fledgling writers. She earlier founded the “Dawlay’s Circle” at Guardian & held Essay Contests for young writers. The winners included Hla Yee Yee, Winsome & Katherine Ba Thike, Errol Than Tun (Bobby Myo Tun), LRC Trutwein and Tin Maung Aung. Subsequent “Dawlays” include Mr. Tim Marshall and Mr. P. Aung Khin (Paul).

    Guardian

    • U Soe Myint was Chief Editor. He is the eldest son of U Thein Maung (Htin Lin) and the son-in-law of U Than Saw (his former boss at WPD).
    Poem in Guardian
    • My poem “Men on the Moon” honoring the Apollo 11 astronauts was published in the Guardian in July 1969. Ashin Ananda gave a copy of my poem to Mr. Hall (USIS), who forwarded to NASA. Mr Hall also put me on the USIS mailing list. I received “Lin Yaung Chi လင်းရောင်ခြည်” and translations of selected books.

    Writer

    • I became a free lance writer.
    • I received fifteen Kyats for writing poems, articles, translation of poems in WPD, Guardian and Forward Magazine.
    Poem in Forward Magazine
    • The later magazines (Pan — ပန် Veda — ဝေဇဒ) offered 25 to 50 Kyats.
  • Dhamma Books

    Dhamma Books

    by Hla Min

    Updated : June 2025

    Sunlun Sayadaw U Vinaya

    • Chief Resident Monk of KabaAye Sunlun Gu Kyaung ကမ္ဘာအေးစွန်းလွန်းဂူကျောင်း
    The Yogi & Vipassana

    In the Buddha’s Words

    • Mr. Li Chan (Buddhist Chaplain) taught at the Summer Dhamma Camp at Dhammananda Vihara, Half Moon Bay, California, USA.
    • He gave me the book as a dhamma gift.
    In the Buddha’s Words

    Milinda Panha

    • Ashin Nemeinda (Taungyi Thein Daung Taik) taught courses during his visits to California
    • One course covered the book about King Milinda (မိလိန္ဒ မင်း) & Ashin Nagasena (အရှင်နာဂသိန်)
    Milinda

    Dhamma Dana by U Ba Than & Family

    U Ba Than
    • U Ba Than is Retired Professor of Mechanical Engineering at RIT.
    • He offered Birthday Soon Kyway and gave dhamma gifts.
    Things that every Buddhist should know

  • Process of Consciousness and Matter

    by Hla Min

    Updated : June 2025

    Subtitle : The Philosophical Psychology of Buddhism

    By Sayadaw Rewata Dhamma

    Completed : 2004

    Last book by Sayadaw

    Publisher: Triple Gems Publication

    The book is intended for all serious students of the Abhidhamma.

    It serves as supplement to Bhikkhu Bodhi’s book “A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma”, and treats various important aspect in more detail – in articular the process of consciousness and matter.

    Preface by Sayadaw U Silanandabhivama, Rector of the International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University, Yangon

    Acknowledgement by Sayadaw Dr. Ottaranyana, Birmingham Buddhist Vihara, UK

    Introduction

    Chapter I : CONSCIOUSNESS AND ITS FACTORS

    CHAPTER II : PROCESS CONSIOUSNESS (CITTA VITHI)

    CHAPTER III : MIND-DOOR COGNITIVE PROCESS (MANODVARA VITHI)

    CHAPTER IV : ABSORPTION JAVANA IN THE MIND-DOOR PROCESS (APPANA JAVANAVARA MANODVARA VITHI)

    CHAPTER V : PROCESS OF MATTER

  • The (hidden) power of Kabyar

    The (hidden) power of Kabyar

    by Tekkatho Moe War & Hla Min

    Updated : June 2025

    Saya U Moe Aung (Tekkatho Moe War)

    U Moe Aung (Left)
    • Distinguished poet, writer, editor and publisher
    • Wrote for newspapers, magazines and journals
    • Compiled and published collections of his works
    • His mentor was Daung Nwe Swe (Laureate Poet)
    • Served as an all-round volunteer for the publication of the Annual Magazine of RUESU (Rangoon University Engineering Students Union).

    Chief Editor and/or Publisher

    • RIT Annual Magazines
    • Hlyat Sit Sar Saung (for RIT EE Association)
    • Commemorative issues of Swel Daw Yeik Sar Saung for SPZP-2002, SPZP-2007, and SPZP-2010
    • Commemorative issues of Swel Daw Yeik Magazine for Swe YaDu and SPZP-2016

    The (hidden) power of Kabyar

    Kabyar is animate

    But [it’s life is] not just a [fleeting] morn

    Kabyar is a weapon

    But not for destroying the world

    Kabyar is key

    For liberation and independence

    But not devoid of principles [and morals]

    Kabyar has power

    Hidden but efficient & effective

    Like sharp-pointed spear-head

    Can thrust into [the heart of] a power-maniac

    Cause trembling, shivering, throbbing & anguished pain

    Poem in Burmese by Tekkatho Moe War (Saya U Moe Aung)

    Translated by Hla Min

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    • Saya U Aung Myaing (ChE72)
    Aung Myaing

    Illustrator

    • Bagyee Myat Myo Myint / U Myo Myint (M73)
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    • Maung Sein Win (Padeegone)
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    Translator

    • Hla Min (EC69)
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    Vine (Translation)
    Want to forget … but (Translation)