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  • Dr. Nyunt Wai

    • Old Paulian
    • Stood Fourth in Burma in the Matriculation of 1963
    • Taught in Myanmar and Malaysia
    • Hobbies
      Writing poems and articles
      Painting
    • Founder of “Sagar Pariyae” Facebook Group
  • News & Newspapers

    Broadcast on October 22, 2020

    NEWS does not stand for

    North, East, West, South

    Notable Events, Weather, Sports

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    Collection and Distribution

    Before the Internet

    News Agencies

    AP
    AFP
    Reuters
    UPI

    Correspondents

    Local
    Foreign
    Special / Area / Event

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    News Agency Burma (NAB)

    English Section
    Myanmar Section

    Select news for translation

    U Ohn Pe (Tet Toe)
    U Kyaw Min (Min Kyaw Min)
    Spouse of Sao Aung Myint

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    Early Newspapers in Burma

    Myanmar
    10+ Morning Newspaper
    A few Evening / Weekly

    English
    Nation
    Guardian

    Guardian

    Features / Sections
    Breaking News
    World News
    Local News
    Editorial
    Letters to the Editor
    Articles / Columns
    Cartoons
    Poetry
    Horoscope
    Horse racing
    Examination results
    Lottery results
    Advertisements
    Special Supplements

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    After Coup d’etat

    Many newspapers were shut down

    Four Myanmar newspapers
    including Loke Thar Pyi Thu Nay Zin (with Shwe Oo Daung as Chief Editor)

    Two English newspapers
    including Working People’s Daily (with U Khin Maung Latt as Chief Editor)

    WPD Newspaper
    WPD Supplement on Modern Burmese Writings

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    Miscellaneous

    Censorship

    Decline / Demise of hard copy newspapers

    Need for Fact Checking of news on the Internet

  • May 8, 2020

    Ye Lay

    In September 2017, Peter and Win Mar hosted us at their house in Reading. We say first hand several expertise of their younger son Ye Lay.

    Peter asked Ye Lay to play music for his guests. He was the leader, guitarist, composer and vocalist of a band.

    During his visit to Myanmar, he would entertain his grandma with her favorite songs (e.g. Danny Boy). He would present his grandpa with his favorite “medicine” (Scotch Whiskey). Min Sway-Tin (Peter’s cousin) would arrange Ye Lay to give lectures (e.g. Python and applications) at the Physics Department and selected places. Ye Lay would also do programming / testing in the evenings and night for a project that he was working back in the UK.

    During our visit to Reading, Ye Lay had taken a break to consider his options :

    • study for a second Masters (specializing in AI)
    • study for a doctorate
    • work as software developer and SME (Subject Matter Expert) in the UK or abroad

    Peter asked Ye Lay to be my guide to visit Oxford University and to discuss with him at home and during the trip.

    I called Ye Lay the other day to inquire about Win Mar’s health. He said that his mom is doing well. Ye Lay and Min Ko are staying with Win Mar. Since Min Ko had rented a flat / apartment for a couple of months, Pru visits daily from the flat.

    Ye Lay remembered my chats with him. He said he had read my posts of his father’s final days (e.g. Ye Lay singing “Loch Lomond” and the trip to St. Andrew in Scotland for his second Masters degree). I requested him to archive Peter’s posts about cooking (e.g. recipes of his mother, grand uncles and grand aunts), his ancestors and photos.

    Ye Lay is adding “Cloud” expertise to his repertoire. I wish him success in his endeavors.

    Peter & Win Mar
  • To The Shwe Duo

    Poem by Tekkatho Moe War (Saya U Moe Aung)

    In memory of Saya U Tin Shwe and Saya U Hla Shwe

    U Tin Shwe (EP66, GBNF)

    U Tin Shwe

    U Hla Shwe (T69, GBNF)

    U Hla Shwe

    ရွှေ နှစ် ရွှေ သို့

    ရွှေနှစ်ရွှေ…..

    ဝေတော့လည်း တူ

    ကြွေတော့လည်း အတူတူ

    ငြူစူခြင်း ကင်း

    မျှဉ်းမျှဉ်း အသက်ရှူ

    စိုက်ထူမှတ်တိုင်

    မယိမ်းယိုင်ခဲ့…..

    မနိုင်ဝန် ပိ

    အလှည့်သင့်လာ

    သောအခါ မှာ

    ခန္ဓာအမွေ

    ကြွေသာ ကြွေလည်း

    မသေ ဝိညာဉ် ဝဲပျံနေသေးတကား ….။ ။

    ( ကိုတင်ရွှေ- လျှပ်စစ်စွမ်းအား နှင့် ကိုလှရွှေ- ချည်မျှင် သို့)

    တက္ကသိုလ် မိုးဝါ

    (၂၆ ဇန္နဝါရီ ၂ဝ၁၅ – ည ၉:၅၅ နာရီ)

    To the Shwe Duo

    Poem by Tekkatho Moe War

    Translated by Hla Min

    SHWE duo

    Blossom in unison

    Disappear together

    Free from complaint

    Even with thin breath

    Showed mark [of courage and wisdom]

    Never ever wavered …

    Pressed by burden

    At the awaited turn [of journey’s end]

    Body — inheritance [from previous lives]

    Succumbs [to failing health]

    Yet, “Wei-nyin” is fresh, alive and hovering.

  • P – T

    Psychology

    • Discipline
    • Department
    • Dr. Hla Thwin

    Queue

    • FCFS : First Come First Served
    • FIFO : First In First Out
    • Data Structure
    • Deque : Double Ended Queue
    • Queuing Theory

    Question

    • FAQ : Frequently Asked Question
    • Q&A : Question and Answer

    Retire vs. Re-tire

    • U Thaung Sein (Steeve Kay, EC70) is a Multiple Golden Sponsor of SPZPs. He told me,
      “You should not retire. You may re-tire (as in re-threading a tire).We will try to support you and your projects.”
    • I am retired from working to make ends meet.
    • Took a few on-line courses (for credit)
      Too taxing and slow
      Opted to audit 100+ courses (covering many subjects)
    • Listen to Blinkist
    • Listen to Merriam Webster’s Word of the day (WOTD) Podcast
    • Ride stationary bike for 40+ minutes daily
    • Write or revise several posts every day.
    • I am re-tiring as long as my physical and mental health permit.

    Rowe Co. Ltd.

    • Before nationalization, Rowe Co. Ltd. was one of the busy shops in Rangoon that offered a wide range of products.
    • My mom bought a Rayleigh bicycle for me.
    • Rosie (Mai Khin Nyunt, ChE71) still has a Rowe’s bag.

    Serendipity

    Some inventions are attributed to Serendipity.

    Three notable examples are

    • Discovery of X-rays by Rontgen
    • Discovery of Penicillin by Alexander Fleming
    • 3M’s Post-it notes

    Three

    • 3-D : Three dimension
    • 3-D Matrix
    • 3-D Model
    • 3-D Photo
    • 3-D Printer
    • 3-layer architecture

    Tie

    • Aequal (in examination result)
    • Joint champion
    • Joint winner

    Tie Breaker

    • 12-point game in Tennis
    • Extra holes in Golf
    • Extra innings in Baseball
    • Less misses in High Jump and Pole Vault
    • Lower body weight in Weightlifting
    • Overtime (selected sports)
      May need double or more overtime (in Basketball)
    • Penalty
      Penalty kicks in Soccer
      Penalty shootout in Ice Hockey

    Time

    • Calendar
    • Clock
    • New Year
    • Time Arrow
    • Time Management
  • 1970 RU Centennial

    မှတ်တမ်း (တချိ့)

    ဖြူနီညိုပြာ ထီးယိမ်

    ဖြူနီညိုပြာ ထီးယိမ်း

    RITထီးယိမ်း ဇတ်စင် ၃။

    စွယ်တော်ရိပ် အနုပညာရှင် (တချို့)

    • ဇာတ်ဆရာ
    • မင်းသမီး
    • လူရွှင်တော်
    • ဆ်ု က ရေး တီး

    မုခ် ဦး Design အဖွဲ့

  • Tin Moe

    Name

    • တင်မိုး Tin Moe (Pen name)
    • ငယ်မည် — ဘဂျမ်း Ba Gyan (Given name)

    စာပေ Literature

    • အမျိုးသားစာပေဆုရှင် National Literary Award Winner
    • စာအုပ် 20 ကျော် (အများစု — ကဗျာ) Published 20+ books (mostly poems)

    Studies

    • တက္ကသိုလ်ဝင်စာမေးပွဲ Matriculation exam
    • မြန်မာစာ — ဂုဏ်ထူး Distinction in Burmese
    • စာစီစာကုံး — အမှတ်ပြည့် Full marks for Essay
    • မန္တလေးတက္ကသိုလ် က ဘွဲ့ ရ Graduated from Mandalay University

    Experience

    • ရန်ကုန်တက္ကသိုလ် Worked at Rangoon University
    • ဘာသာပြန် ပင်မ Translation
    • မြန်မာစာသင်ရိုး (အကြံပေး) Member for development of Burmese Curriculum

    In Memoriam

    • Guest book at Memorial Service
    • Memories, Poems & Articles by Friends, Colleagues & Literary Lovers
    Tin Moe 1
    Tin Moe 2
    • ခြောက်လ ပြည့် Publication on the 6 month Anniversary of his demise

    Three Amigos

    • တင်မိုး Tin Moe
    Tin Moe 3
    • မောင်စွမ်းရည် Maung Swan Yi
    Maung Swan Yi
    • ဒါရိုက်တာဝင်းဖေ Director Win Pe
    Director Win Pe
  • Memory

    *** မှတ်ဥာဏ် Memory

    ** အမျိုးအစား

    * Short term memory

    ရေတိုမှတ်ဥာဏ်

    * Long term memory

    ရေရှည်မှတ်ဥာဏ်

    * Photographic memory

    ဓာတ်ပုံရိုက်သလို ကောင်းတဲ့ မှတ်ဥာဏ်

    * Associative memory

    အကြောင်းအရာတွေ ကိုဆက်စပ်တဲ့ မှတ်ဥာဏ်

    * False memory

    အမှတ်မှား

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    ** မှတ်ဥာဏ် ကောင်း အောင်

    * Memory aids & training

    အထောက်အကူ + လေ့ကျင့်

    Chunking

    အချက်တွေ ကို စုစည်း ပြီးမှ STM ကနေ LTM ထဲ သိမ်း

    Spaced recall / review (instead of Blind Repetition)

    အချိန်ခွါ ပြီး သင်ခန်းစာ ကို ပြန်လေ့လာ ဆန်းစစ် ဝေဖန်

    Mnemonics

    ဥပမာ

    VIBGYOR (သက်တန့် ရဲ့ အရောင်များ)

    ဆန်း၊ မြ၊ ချို၊ ခိုင်၊ စံ၊ ဝင်း၊ ဇာတ်၊ အုန်း၊ ထွေး (အာဇာနည်)

    Flash cards

    Indexed cards

    Mind map

    Games

    Physical games (အားကစား)

    Mental games (စစ်တုရင် …)

    Word games (Crossword puzzle …)

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    ** မှတ်ဥာဏ် ယိုယွင်း တတ်

    Memory loss / Dementia / Alzheimer’s disease

    မှတ်ဥာဏ် ယိုယွင်း အဆင့်ဆင့်

    Slow memory access

    အဖြေ ရအောင် အကြာကြီး စဉ်းစား ရ

    LTM ချို့ ယွင်း

    လူတယောက်

    သူငယ်တန်းက အကြောင်း မှတ်မိ၊

    အနားက လူတွေ ကို မသိ

    Stage fright ပရိသတ် အရှိန် ဟပ်

    ဆိုနေကျ သီချင်း စာသားတွေ မေ့

    —-

    ** Excellent Memory အံ့မခန်း မှတ်ဥာဏ်

    တိပိဋကဆရာတော် အရှင်ဝိစိတ္တသာရာဘိိဝံသ

    1955 ဝန်းကျင် က Guinness Of World Records မှာ ဖေါ်ပြ ခံ ရ

    Jim Farley

    US သမ္မတ Harry Truman ရဲ့ Campaign မန်နေဂျာ

    လူ 50000 ကျော် ကို First name ခေါ်ပြီး နှုတ်ဆက်

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  • Alumni

    Latin

    • Alumnus stands for a former male student
    • Alumna stands for a former female student
    • Alumni is a plural form of alumnus
    • Alumnae is a plural form of alumna

    Current usage

    • The term “alumni” covers all four cases.
    • Note that “alumni” is not synonymous with “graduate”.
    • Most universities have an alumni organization and a department to support alumni activities.
    • Some organizations also have Alumni associations.

    Alumni Worldwide

    • RIT Alumni International
      Founded in the San Francisco Bay Area
      Hosted the First RIT Grand Reunion and Saya Pu Zaw Pwe in October 2000
    • Singapore alumni hosted SPZP-2002, SPZP-2007 and SPZP-2010
    • Alumni in Myanmar (mostly from Yangon) hosted SPZP-2004, SPZP-2012 and SPZP-2016
    • NorCal RITAA is an alumni organization based in Northern California.
      Holds summer picnic and/or dinner every year except during the pandemic
      Executive Committee headed by the President and the Board of Directors (BOD) headed by the Chair.
      Provided support for the YTU Library Modernization project.
      Provided scholarship for eligible YTU students
    • ARITA or RITAA stands for Association of RIT-YIT-YTU Alumni
      Based in the Gyogone Campus
      Annual membership costs 12,000 Kyats.
      Life membership costs 60,000 Kyats.
      Executive Committee headed by the President.
      Patrons.
      Activities : SPZP-2016, seminars and support for YTU Library Modernization project.
  • Inya

    Names with Inya

    Inya is the name of

    • a lake : Inya Lake
      Home of Rangoon University Boat Club (RUBC) and Rangoon Sailing Club (RSC)
      Cross Lake swimming event was held as part of the Inter-Institute Swimming Contest
    • a road : Inya Road
      It has an entrance to the Main Campus of Rangoon University
    • a residence hall : Inya Hall / Inya Saung
      It was for female students of Rangoon University
      Some writers (e,g, Moe Moe) use as a suffix for their pen name.

    Inya Saung / Inya Hall

    Daw Su Su was the first occupant of Room No. (1) at Inya Hall.

    She danced three roles in the fund raiser for the Tekkatho Dhammayone. The director of the play was her cousin brother Saya U Lu Pe Win (Pali and Kyauksar Scholar). The rehearsal was assisted by U Nyi Bu (First male actor in a Burmese movie, Brother of A1 U Tin Nwe, U Maung Maung Soe and A1 U Tin Maung).

    Daw Su Su was honored at the Thet Kyee Pu Zaw Pwe (Paying homage to the elders) held at the Tekkatho Dhammayone. Her account was published in the Golden Jubilee Sar Saung of Inya Hall.

    She has three daughters :

    • Daw Hazel Saw Lwin
      mother of Dr. Tin Tun
    • Dr. Olive Saw Lwin
    • Daw May Saw Lwin
      mother of U Aung Mon and Dr. Nyi Thet Lwin

    She wanted them to have experience (like her) at the Inya Hall.
    Per their mother’s request Daw Hazel Saw Lwin and Daw May Saw Lwin spent a year at Inya Hall as room mates.