Alumnus of a monastic school founded by Sir Po Tha
Attended Workers’ College at night while working as a Ports Officer in the day
Quit his job to attend I.Sc(A) at Leik Khone in 1963
Worked at several mines (including Heinda)
Chaired Mining related Committees in Pyithu Hluttaw
Spouse : Mu Aye (cousin of Robert Win Boh)
U Tint Lwin (Daniel, M69)
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Matriculated from MEHS in 1963
Won Collegiate Scholarship
One of the top students in M69
Studied MS in Canada
Joined NanYang Technical Institute (later renamed NanYang Technological University) in Singapore
Retired as Associate Professor
During his tenure at NTU, he helped Singapore Alumni to get access to YTU facilities (e.g to celebrate Thingyan and to welcome Sayas attending SPZP)
He and his brothers (George and Henry) learned to play guitar from Burma’s Elvis Presley (U Win Mra).
He performed at SPZPs and at 69er gatherings (with Albert Kyaw Min and Robert Win Boh) as vocalist and/or guitarist.
Spouse : Grace
First Anniversary of Demise
Jeffrey
U Tun Aung (Jeffery, EC68) passed away in Southern California on October 5, 2021
He passed GCE examination from MEHS along with Dr. Anita Aye Pe. While most of their classmates went abroad, the two attended I.Sc(A). Anita was selected Luyechun from IM(1) in the Summer of 1965.
Jeffrey is the oldest of six brothers.
He and Peter (2nd brother) attended RIT.
Jeffery retired as Director of Engineering.
Spouse : Thuzar (Movie actress, sister of Academy May Yu) They have a son (Michael) and three grandchildren
Provides opportunities to get back in touch with old friends.
Share knowledge and experience with others.
Disadvantages
FB does not remove “wrong” tags in photos. It does not provide “untag photo”. A mistake by a FB user gets propagated.
FB has its own algorithms to display the pages. If you like a post, save it; otherwise, you might not be able to find it easily again.
Sometimes, FB might not be able to close sessions properly. You might have to “log out” those open sessions.
Feedback by Khin Maung Zaw
They are not very high on content synchronization. If you keep hitting “home”, you would see the contents change drastically.
(It is probable the request hit a different server, most of these gargantuan sites have many geo-locations with hundreds of front end servers on each locations).
Understandably, the nature of the app itself doesn’t need to be up to the second synchronized. It’s very expensive feature and needs specialized service providers to accomplish it.
The down side is that it is hard at times to back trace the previous page/content once you page forward or so.
Soon, Yuri Gagarin became the first cosmonaut to orbit the earth.
USA was left behind in the Space race.
NASA
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) was formed.
President Kennedy’s historic speech : “Before the decade is out, we will send men on the moon and bring them safely to earth” gave momentum to the NASA projects.
Mercury Project and Gemini Project were followed by Apollo project.
The Apollo 1 fire (causing the death of three astronauts) caused a set back.
In December 1968, Apollo 8 orbited the Moon.
Apollo 9 and Apollo 10 tested the Lunar Module and the critical systems.
In July 1969, Apollo 11 made President Kennedy’s dream a reality.
My Poem
My poem was submitted by my mentor Ashin Ananda to USIS/USIA (which forwarded my poem to NASA)
The poem was published in the Guardian Dailly.
The Eagle is the code name for the Lunar Module.
The three men are Neil Armstrong [Mission Commander], Michael Collins [Command Module Pilot], and Buzz Aldrin [Lunar Module Pilot]
MEN ON THE MOON
The Eagle made a soft descent And perfect rendezvous Does not the module represent A fantasy come true
To travel through that cold void space To have that faith in science To face death squarely in the face Yes, man acted with defiance
Man set foot on an alien world In July Sixty Nine That small step from the bravest man Was a giant leap for mankind
The walk in one sixth gravity Rock samples from the moon Three men who spoke with brevity For science what a boon
No event can ever equal That sublime unique mission The Apollo’s triumph will make the people Extend their own vision
Are we not brothers here on earth? So let us all unite There will be heaven here on earth If we all cease to fight
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