Barber
Updated : August 16, 2019 By U Thein Han (Maryland) Ko Aye Pe has been my barber since my University days in 1947 till 1971. He also cut the hair of my two sons. He worked at Varsity Hair Dressing Salon in Bogyoke Aung San Market. We were […]
Luck
Updated : August 16, 2019 By U Thein Han (Maryland, USA) I believe in luck. It was in 1948 during my Rangoon University days I did Nation Newspaper Crossword Puzzle and won 2000 Kyats. At that time the value of Kyat was very good. With the money I […]
Rowing
Types of Rowing Laung : for traditional rowing in Burma Leg rowing : [mostly] for Inntha (inhabitants of Inlay Lake) In the early days, the western style of rowing was done at RBC (Rangoon Boat Club). It was an exclusive club. Rangoon University Boat Club (RUBC) was founded […]
Soccer
Updated : August 15, 2109 Grapevine says that Shwe Yoe (Scott, author and teacher) introduced soccer [football] to Diocesan Boys High School. BAA (Burma Athletic Association) stadium (aka Aung San Stadium) hosted the First Division matches. There was (a) League Championship (b) Dunlop Knock Out Tournament … For […]
Guidelines to live by
Updated : August 15, 2019 Be mindful every moment. Most meditation retreats advise the yogis to continue practicing mindfulness in daily life. If one is inattentive for a few seconds while walking or running, then one can trip or fall and incur serious injuries. A dhamma friend succumbed […]
Suggestions from Sayagyi Dr. Aung Gyi
Updated : August 15, 2019 Ko Hla Min, I read through your updates shown in hlamin.com and my suggestions are given below. I feel that your book should reflect the love of RIT students for their alma mater, the respect and gratitude shown by RIT students towards their […]
IDC Kerosene Stove
By Dr. Myint Thein (M73)Post : 2012Updated : August 15, 2019 Dear (Not Exactly = Chit Hla Zwer Thaww) U Hla Min + RIT Brothers + Sisters: .. who were/are tirelessly offering participating joining efforts, energy and time .. planning organizing implementing SPZP-2012 and Revitalization of our Mother-RIT. […]
Contribution to Saya U Aung Zaw’s books
Updated : August 15, 2019 Saya U Aung Zaw (UCC ) has published two books. First book It’s title is “Bawa and Dhamma“. I edited some parts of his first book, and also wrote a Foreword. Second Book A section of the book is “A grandfather’s advice for […]
U Tin Myint
Some words of advice to Mechanical Engineering Students (undergrad and graduate) Three phases of life (traditional) Six phases of life (western view) အခု ေျပာမဲ့ အေၾကာင္းက ေက်ာင္းၿပီးေတာ့မဲ့ ေနာက္ဆံုးႏွစ္ ေက်ာင္းသား / ေက်ာင္းသူေတြကို အထူးရည္ရြယ္တာပါ။ ျမန္မာေတြကေတာ့ ဘဝကို အပိုင္းသံုးပိုင္း ပိုင္းေလ့ရွိၾကတယ္။ ပညာရွာ၊ စီးပြားဥစၥာရွာ၊ တရားရွာတဲ့ အရြယ္ အေနာက္တိုင္းကေတာ့ ေျခာက္ပိုင္း ပိုင္းတယ္၊ Childhood, adolescence, odyssey years, adulthood, active […]
Logic Systems
Updated : August 14, 2019 Two-valued Logic (2-VL) It is the most commonly used logic system. There are Logical Constants : False and True (which are often expressed as 0 and 1) There are 16 Logical Functions including AND, OR, NOT, XOR. Boolean Algebra is named after George […]
