In late October 2019, I visited former classmates, colleagues & students in Singapore.
Ko Zaw Tun (UCC) & Ma Kyu were our main hosts.
Ko Ngwe Soe (Silver, UCC) & Ma Nu hosted us at their second home in Jahore. Silver took us to Melecca. Earlier he took us to Sentosa which was about to bring down the Lion Statue. He also wanted to jolt my memory of the “Myo Putt Ya Htar”.
There were mini gatherings : 69ers, M73 group with their Saya U Tu Myint, ex-UCC and ex-ICST.
There were micro gatherings : Boe & Ma Phyu, Ma Pale & Ko Ye.
Ko Zaw Tun & Ma Kyu offered Soon at their house in addition to regular ones at Singapore Chan Myay Monastery.
Early November
In early November, we continued our trip. KK picked me up at Mingalardon airport and placed me at a hotel. He hosted two gatherings : speakers & coaches.
We flew to Mandalay to attend the 5th Irrawaddy Literary Festival. I was a panelist at two sessions : one on Education and another on Poetry.
During a break, Ko Thein Htut (UCC) took me on a quick trip around Sagaing & Mandalay
Received autographed copy from Htein Win (Dat Pon). He had to wait a long time before he could publish his photos and articles about two Dark Moments in Burma : U Thant Ah Yay Ah Khin & 8-8-88.
Mid November to End of December
There were several gatherings back in Yangon in November and December, 2019.
RIT Gatherings
RIT 69er Monthly Breakfast Gathering
Golden Jubilee of 69ers (Main event at Gyogone Campus, Reunion Dinner organized by Ko Aung Min at his old office compound)
Lunch hosted by Ko Tin Win (Min69)
Guest of Class of 72 (M72 Annual Gathering & PZP, additional : Indian Lunch, Chinese Dinner)
Guest at All Mechanical Gathering
Dinner by Ko Nyunt Htay (Met73)
Birthday Lunch by Ko Myint Toe (M71) & Ma Nwe (Met74)
UCC / ICST Gatherings
Acariya Pu Zaw Pwe of UCSY/ICST
Several ex-UCC gatherings (MICT, Sweetie, Soon Kyway by Ko Soe Win & KZ, …)
SPHS Gatherings
Wedding of Eddie Shein’s daughter
Soon for Uzin Saya Beatson
RUBC
RUBC Annual Regatta
Attendees include : U Tin U (Most Senior Past Captain), U Maung Maung Than Tun (Oldest Past Captain, GBNF), Dr. Myo Tint (Past Captain, GBNF), U Sein Htoon (Past Captain), U Myo Myint (Gold), U Tun Mra, U Tin Myint (GBNF), Dr. Thein Hlyne …
MARB
Visited new Building
Thai Tarot Master donated Air Conditioners
Sun Lun
Meditation sessions
Received two books from Junior Win about her grand parents U Khin Maung Latt and Daw Khin Myo Chit
Miscellaneous
49th Anniversary of Saya Dr. Soe Win & Sayama Daw May Saw Lwin
Thar Yay (သာရေး) Zeyar
Nar Yay (နာရေး) Ma Cherry
Other gatherings : Ma Hazel, my friends, my spouse’s friends…
Thanks for the rides : Ko Ohn Khine, Ko Win Maung / Lake, Ko Tin Aung Win / Oscar, Ko Tin Win, Ko Ye Myint, Ko Aung Myin Bo, younger son of Yacub Patail …
In this part of the world, three companies collect and monitor data to determine if a person is credit worthy. They provide a FICO score that is used by companies and institutions to determine the risk level of a person applying for a loan (e.g to buy a house).
Sad to say, one company was presumably STINGY or not technologically savvy to provide multiple line of defense against intruders. Even after two of its subsidiaries were hacked, the company did NOT report the intrusion to its customers and the general public, most of whom now have to figure what lies ahead with their precious private data (such as social security number, credit cards …) stolen.
Could this incident have been prevented?
Personal Experience
Many years ago, I had to use a Smart Card to enter the office building and to access computers. We were told NOT to use SSN and sensitive information in e-mails. We had to refrain from printing documents heedlessly, and to shred them (or put in special bins for shredding later).
We had to take courses about
handling different types of data — private, sensitive, classified …
secure communication channels and/or secure data
integrity
One company developed software to encrypt or replace sensitive data from e-mails, files, database. The test environment has to ensure that no sensitive data is leaked. A subtle assumption is that insiders may explicitly or implicitly be partners in crime.
Some Incidents
the backup tape for personnel data went missing; The affected personnel had great pains to correct their profile
lap tops containing sensitive information were stolen; The information are not encrypted, or encryption with weak keys
a professor posted SSNs along with the grades; A few students started identity theft
without a unique national ID, many companies and institutions use SSN for storing/access records;
Phishing attacks or malicious companies set up with the intention of getting credit reports from unwary job seekers
a credit card was used in rapid succession at a different state or outside the country; Some credit card companies are good in sending alerts about fraudulent uses.
A bug fix made by a professor was NOT properly reviewed and validated
Rationale
I have touched only the surface of the security problem.
Professor Dr. Than Tun was asked “Why should we learn History?”
He replied, “To ensure that one is not stupid or dumb”.
To paraphrase, “Why should we learn about Computer & Data Security?”
“To save countless people from having sleepless nights. Losing one’s identity, assets … is intolerable”.
U Khin Maung Zaw (KMZ, EC76) wrote :
One of the first work items on the Data Security is the classification of the data, it depends on what kind (or items) of data is collected/stored in a given application, At some point, it is termed ‘Data Asset’ and have several categories as below.
HBI – High Business Impact
MBI – Medium Business Impact
LBI – Low Business Impact
PII – Personally Identifiable Information
HSPII – Highly Sensitive PII
Of course, the above is not the exhaustive list, and is UN, HIPAA – Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, has one of the strictest regulatory requirements.
Ivan Lee (M69) invited several 69ers to get together at his house in New Jersey around June-July of 2015. U Aung Myint & U Sein Tin (who had visited Ivan previously) could not make it to the 2015 mini-reunion.
Fred Thetgyi (M69)
Lives in Philadelphia
Joined the 2015 mini-reunion
Drove most of the 1800+ mile trip in Ivan’s Mercedes
Except when his batteries went out (and had to be replaced), he took pictures at the mini-reunion and the trip. He would appear only in a fraction of the photos, when someone else (Ivan, a waiter, or a complete stranger) would offer to take the photo.
Photos
Grouped by location
New Jersey — Main Host : Ivan; Other hosts : Saya U Soe Paing & Daw Saw Yu Tint
New Jersey
Niagara Falls on the way to Canada — Photos from the US side & the Canada side
Niagara Fall
Windsor, Canada — Host : Sayagyi U Aung Khin
U Aung Khin
Toronto (brief sight seeing)
Ottawa, Canada — Host: Sayagyi Dr. Aung Gyi & Daw Emma
Dr. Aung Gyi
Thousand Islands — quick trip
Thousand Islands
Massachusetts — Hosts : Dr. Tun Aung Gyaw (EC69) & Daw Khin Maw Maw; visit MIT & Harvard University
U TAG
Connecticut — Hosts : U Toung (Tom, EC69) and Daw Khin Myint; visit Yale University; visit Pizza place frequented by the young Bill Clinton
Ko Toung
Philadelphia — Hosts : Fred Thetgyi (M69) & Eunice; visit Pake Forge and Liberty Bell; visit my last remaining uncle U Thein Han in Maryland
Only son of Sayagyi U Ba Hli, first native Dean of Engineering & Proponent of Twinning Program between Faculty of Engineering and prestigious US universities.
U Ba Hli
Sc. D (Doctorate of Science) from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Helped Dr. Aung Gyi & U Min Wun, who were doing undergraduate studies at MIT under “Twinning Program”.
Spouse : Daw Myint Thwe (sister of U Tin U & U Ba Than)
Children : Tin Tin Hlaing (ex-UCC, Tha Hlaing (EC 83) & Min Thet Tun (GBNF)
Daw Myint Thwe and children
Per request from Saya U Aung Khin, he wrote an article about his beloved father in the RIT Alumni Newsletterfor SPZP-02000,
Service in Burma
Part-time Lecturer, Electrical Engineering Department
Acting Director, Burma Atomic Energy Commission
Director General, Union Of Burma Applied Research Institute (UBARI)
National Advisor, Ministry of National Planning
Member, UCC Board of Management
External Examiner, UCC
Post-retirement in Australia
After retirement, he moved to Australia
Celebrated his 93rd birthday on June 28, 2015
Had a heart attack on June 30,2015 and was taken to West Mead Hospital.
Passed away at 3 AM (Australian Standard Time) On July 1, 2015.
Messages of Condolence
From Sayagyi Dr. Aung Gyi
Ko Hla Min,
I am very sad to know that Dr F. Ba Hli has passed away recently.
As I have mentioned before in my contributing article to the History of Engineering Education in Myanmar, Dr Ba Hli was one of the nicest persons that I had the privilege of knowing in my life. He was helpful in every way to me and U Min Wun so that we were able to adapt successfully to our studies at MIT.
I send my heartfelt condolences to his family.
From Saya U Soe Paing
Please convey our condolences to Daw Myint Thwe, Htay Aung, Tin Tin Hlaing and the family of Saya Freddie Ba Hli.
Dr. Ba Hli was an active member of the UCC Board of Management
From Association of Myanmar Engineers in Australia
Funeral program details of Dr. F Ba Hli are as follow:
6 July 2015 Monday
3:00 pm
Castlebrook Memorial Park Cemetery, Windsor Rd, Rouse Hill NSW 2155, (02) 9629 1477
As per family’s request: it would be greatly appreciated if you wish to contribute donations toward ‘Heart Foundation’ instead of memorial/sympathy flowers.
Per Saya U Tin Myint (M80), G-Hall Thu’s called a Saya and his assistant with the nicknames
Myauk Phyu မျောက်ဖြူ
White monkey
Ah Yan Kan အရမ်းကန်
Random kicking footballer
Bo Daw ဘိုးတော်
Could be sarcastic
Saya Maung ဆရာမောင်
Given by a girl to her teacher/boy friend
Tar Tay Gyi တာတေကြီး
Reference to an actor for scary movies
Dauk Soe ဒေါက်စိုး
Dr. Soe Myint Win (GNBF) was called Dauk Soe by some students
Nyi Nyi & Pho Nyi ညီညီ နဲ့ ဖိုးညီ
Nyi Nyi may be used in a name e.g. Dr. Nyi Nyi, Nyi Nyi Than
Nyi Nyi & Pho Nyi are used as nicknames, e.g. Than Htut (M67, RUBC Gold)
Sonny ဆန်နီ
May be used in a name, e.g. Sonny Yone Sein
May also be used as a nickname, e.g. “Sonny” Aung Myint, “Sonny” Soe Naing
Lake or Leit လိပ်
U Win Maung (EE69er) represented RIT in Rowing, Swimming and Water Polo. He is a Back Stroke specialist. He swam the 2000 meters Cross-Lake with Back Stroke. He is known as “Lake” or “Leit” (Tortoise in reference to his Back Stroke swimming). U Htay Aung (M69, Burma Selected) and several others using Front Crawl finish quite ahead of Leit. Before graduation, he went to UK for license & training in air craft maintenance. He joined UBA/BAC. He is now an entrepreneur doing family business.
Khwet ခွက်
U Sein Myint (K K Wong, EP69) represented RIT in Rowing, Swimming & Water Polo. Someone transformed his name “Kwet” into “Khwet”. He is a major donor of the 69er Health Care Fund and the EE69er HCF. After retirement, he spends time in Singapore, Yangon and California.
Htaw Kyin ထော်ကြင်
U Htin Kyaw (Peter Wun, MEHS63) worked for the Institute of Economics and UCC before joining HIC and FERD. He was called “Htaw Kyin”. Some British could not pronounce his name. They called him “Ha Htin Coil”.
Kyein ကြိမ်း
U Kyaw Nyein (GBNF) taught Numerical Methods & Numerical Analysis at UCC. He played soccer and volley ball. He was fondly called “Kyein”.
Bo Shoke ဗိုလ်ရှုပ်
U Mya Thein (GBNF) taught at the Institute of Economics, UCC and ITMBU. He was originally called “Bogyoke” and later became known as “Bo Shoke”.
Ah Thay Lay အသေးလေး
U Thein Oo taught at the Institute of Economics and UCC. His friends called him “Ah Thay Lay”. He was good at volleyball, table tennis and cards.
Ah Pho Gyi အဖိုးကြီး
Tin Maung Thant (son of UNSG U Thant) was called Ah Pho Gyee by his PPBRS classmates
U Han Sein (C69, GBNF)
Shwee ရွှီး
U Kyaw Zan Hein (C69, GBNF) was admitted to the 2nd BE in 1964 as Roll Number 14. There were no word processors in those days; only the use of cyclostyle (Gestener). So, when the person who was admitted as Roll Number 14 did not join RIT, the Admin Office typed in Shwee’s name instead. Some would call him Kyaw Zan Shwee.
Ngu Yin Kong Kee
ငုယင်ကောင်ကီး
Burmanized name of a Vietnamese General
Saya U Win Kyaing (GBNF) is uncle of Maurice Chee (M75). He is often called Ngu Yin Kong Kee. He was also known as Wah Kyaing, younger brother of Wah Kyu.
Hna Khan Hmwe နှုတ်ခမ်းမွှေး
Some have notable mustache
One such person was Ko Khin Nyo, “Kyaung Tha Thadin Htauk (Student Reporter at RIT)”. According to Ko Zaw Min Nawaday (EP70), he met — several decades later — Ko Khin Nyi without mustache in New York, USA
Pauk Si ပေါက်စီ
U Hla Min (L T Gwan, SPHS64, EP70, GBNF) joined UCC as Chief Operator. He was called CO by his colleagues and “Pauk Si” by his close friends. His father loaned money to a Pauk Si vendor, who did not pay back the loan. At break time at SPHS, he would get Pauk Si from the vendor.
Pauk Pauk ပေါက်ပေါက်
Daw Aye Aye Than (ChE72) is the sister of Sayama Dr. Hla Hla Sein (Maths) and Ma Myint Myint Sein (Diana, M70). Her friends called her Pauk Pauk.
Bu ဘူး
U Myint Maung (EP69) is one of the young 69ers and one of the few Eligible Bachelors. He represented RIT EE Department in Volleyball along with Saw Edison, U Aye Thein & U Maung Maung. He was called “Bu” in reference to “Minbu” (his home town).
Shastri ရှပ်စတြီ
U Khin Maung Myint (C69, GBNF) was called Shastri (former Prime Minister of India).
Ohn Thee အုန်းသီး
U Ohn Thwin (PPFC, GBNF) attended classes at UCC & BARB. He was called “Ohn Thee” (Coconut) by his friends.
May Pa Le မေပုလဲ
Daw Yee Yee Aung
“မေပုလဲ” is a two-handed compliment given to selected female RIT students. e.g. Daw Yee Yee Aung (EP67, EC member of RIT EE Association)
It means Miss Pearl (a belle who is Pearly White).
It’s concoction “Mae Pa Le မဲပလေ” means “Wow. So dark [complexion]”.
Rocket ရော့ကက် ဒုံးပျံ
U Ko Gyi was a Lecturing Tutor in Maths. He is known for reciting the first 100 digits of PI (a constant which is 3.14159265 …). He used Rocket as an example in his classes. For some reason, he named Tin Tin Myint (Emma, ChE70) as “Rocket”. Classmates who witnessed the naming might provide details.
Emma is co-founder of Triple Gems Publication. She is also co-founder of Dana Sri Lanka (DSL). She is called Mae Daw Gyi မယ်တော်ကြီး by the young monks studying in Sri Lanka.
Emma
La La လာ လား
It is a form of “Kala” or “Kular” (Person of dark color).
Some young dark skinned kids (e.g. Aye Win Hlaing (Abel, EE72)) are given the nickname “La La”.
Ajala အာဂျလာ
He was a Nigerian student who led demonstrations in front of the US Embassy in Rangoon (in our younger days).
U Moe Hein (ChE69) represented RIT in swimming & water polo. He has a loud voice (which is very helpful in supporting RIT athletes in the Inter-Institute Tournaments). He is called Ajala by his close friends.
Maung Kabar မောင်ကမ္ဘာ
Obituary of Kabar Myint Thein
Maung Kabar was an adorable Cartoon character.
Those who have slightly round faces are called “Maung Kabar” or “Kabar”.
Saya U Myint Soe (SPHS64, C68, GBNF) was named “Maung Kabar”.
U Myint Thein (M69) is also known as “Maung Kabar”. It appeared in the Obituary.
Bagyi Aung ဘကြီးအောင်
Fictional character from Min Thu Wun’s short story.
U Hla Aung (EP68) wrote : May I share our time nick names. May Pa Le is Yee Yee Aung (EP67). Her friend is Nancy Hla Aung. My nick name is Ba Gyi Aung.
Three Sizes
In Mechanical Drawing, we learned about scales.
One student gave the nicknames “Half size, Full size and Double size” to three female students.
Sayama Daw Mya Mya Than (EP68, GBNF) was “Full size”. Daw Nyunt Nyunt Zaw (T68, GBNF) was “Double Size”. Daw Cho (?) was “ Half Size”.
Sargalay & Lada စာကလေး နဲ့ လဒ
Sargalay is a sparrow. Lada is a vulture.
U Khin Maung Win (EP69, GBNF) was the training partner for Sai Kham Pan (EP69, Burma Selected in Badminton). Kham Pan would give him 10 – 12 points bonus to play a 15-point game.
At a reunion, Daw Saw Yu Tint addressed Khin Maung Win as Sargalay. He replied, “I am now a Lada”. He gained a lot of height from 2nd BE to Final Year.
The nickname allows 69ers to differentiate Khin Maung Wins — Sargalay, Roland Thein, Donald Ba Pe and ChE Kyet.
Most 69ers might remember the cartoon by Kyant Ba Hone Aung Myint (Pet69). “Ah Ba. Kar Ku La Thin Char (Calculus) is very fascinating. If we differentiate a Lada, we get a Sargalay. If we integrate a Sargalay, we get a Lada.”
Kywei Gyi ကျွဲကြီး
Kywei Gyi is a big, strong Buffalo.
U Khin Maung Lay (Henry, T68) was Secretary of RIT Track & Field Association. He competed in 100m, 200m, 4 x 100m relay and Long Jump (emulating Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics). He represented RIT in Track & Field, Soccer and Rowing. He is called “Kywei Gyi” for his physical prowess. His elder brother Ko Khin Maung Latt (M63) represented the Faculty of Engineering in Rowing.
Mu Tu မူတူး
U Khin Maung Lay (M70) represented RIT in soccer. He was emcee (Master of Ceremonies) at the Reunion & Acariya Pu Zaw Pwe of the Combined 1st BE Intake of 64 and 65. He was a member of the Myanmar Human Rights Commission. He is the son of U Khin Maung Latt (AFPFL Minister) and younger brother of Saya U Khin Maung Gyi (English, GBNF).
Phone Gyi ဘုန်းကြီး
Several alumni are called “Phone Gyi” (Monk) by their friends.
U Tin Tun (SPHS63, M69) was my classmate since Std. IV(D) at SPHS. His mother Daw Tin Tin would come and feed him at lunch break. He studied and taught Marine Engineering.
Tin Htoon
U Tin Shein (M69) and I were classmates at the 2nd BE English class of Saya Des. He gave a talk on Chinlon. He represented RIT in Chinlon.
U Soe Myint (M72, GBNF) volunteered as a Kappiya at the Kaba Aye Sun Lun Gu Kyaung. He helped with the maintenance. He retired as Pro-Rector of ICST.
Soe Myint (3rd from Right)
Chauk Pay ခြောက်ပေ
Some tall students are called Chauk Pay (Six Footer).
U Htein Win (Richard, M70) represented RIT in Rowing, Swimming & Water Polo. He tended the goal at the Shallow End. He moved to Canada. He bought tickets for SPZP-2000, but could not attend due to a strike.
Ja Bu & Shorty ဂျပု နဲ့ ရှော်တီ
Some short students are called Ja Bu (Midget) or Shorty.
U Myint Sein (M70, GBNF) represented RIT in Soccer.
There were two Bohmus named “Shorty” Tin Myint.
Japan Gyi ဂျပန်ကြီး
Some who were born during the Japanese Occupation were given Japan Gyi as their nick name.
U Hla Tun (T69, GBNF) would end most sentences with an expletive. He married Dolly Gale (my primary school classmate).
Cowboy ကောင်းဘွိုင်
U Tin Nwe (C69, GBNF) was a jovial person and was called Cowboy by his friends.
Three Paulians — Tin Nwe, Min Thaw (Gilbert) & Maung Maung Aye — were involved in a car accident after an OPA dinner gathering, but they were not hurt seriously. Sadly, they are now all GBNF.
Duwa ဒူးဝါး
It is a title for a Kachin Leader.
U Zau Lai (EP69) spends time in Myitkyina & Yangon. He is an entrepreneur & a Kachin Leader. He often drove a long way from Myitkyina to attend the 69er gatherings.
Zau Lai
Bei Oo ဘဲဥ
It is a “Duck Egg”. It may also stand for “Zero”.
Daw Kyi Kyi Sein (T70) represented RIT in Badminton & Hiking. She is an organizer for the Combined 1st BE Intake of 64 and 65.
Kyi Kyi Sein (Seated 3rd from Left)
Kyet Taw ကြက်တော
I know some people named Kyet Taw. They may have “Taw” in their names.
Harry Taw (MEHS57) was a friend of my older brother.
Dr. Nyan Taw (Dicky, SPHS63) was my neighbor for some time. We jogged, biked and rowed. He worked at RASU, Pearl & Fishery before moving overseas for assignments. He invited me to the wedding receptions of his younger son and daughter.
U Khin Maung Lwin is an organizer for the Class of 87 & 91. RIT was closed for three years. He organized the Golf Tournament for the alumni. He served as Secretary of the Swel Daw Yeik Foundation.
Saya San ဆရာစံ
He is a revolutionary figure in the history of Burma.
U Maung San studied his Masters in the UK. He often shopped in the “Junior” section. He taught Geology at RIT & Assumption University.
I met U Aung Than (Saya San) at a meeting for the Combined 1st BE Intake of 64 and 65. He told me that he had to study for the last ever 7th Standard Government examination.
Gaing Gyi ဂိုင်ကြီး
The Burmese sometimes pronounce “Kyaw” as “Gyaw”; “Kyee” as “Gyee” and “Khine” as “Gaing”.
U Ohn Khine (M70) was named Ohn Gaing at St. Peter’s High School in Mandalay. He was called “Gaing Gyi” by some friends. He is the founder and moderator of the Google Group for the intake of 64 and 65. He volunteered for SPZP-2012, Shwe YaDu, SPZP-2016, SDYF, HMEE-2012 and HMEE-2016. He translated Section 1 and summarized Section 2 of the HMEE-2012 book. He and I compiled the CD supplement for the HMEE-2012 book.
Ohn Khine
Byte and R ဗိုက် နဲ့ အာ
Byte may mean stomach or belly. R may mean “talkative”.
U Tin Hlaing (M63) was called “Byte Tin Hlaing” and “R Tin Hlaing” by his friends to differentiate from the senior Saya U Tin Hlaing (M59, GBNF). He was later known as Dr. Tin Hlaing.
U Kyaw Zin (EP69) was called “R Zin” by some of his friends.
U Myint Soe (UCC) worked as Maintenance Technician in the Systems Division. He was called “Byte”.
Shwe Gaung Byaung ရွှေဂေါင်းပြောင်
It is the name of a cartoon character. It literally means “Golden, Bald Head”. Toe Nyunt (Ted Mya Maung) starred in a movie of that name.
U Wynn Htain Oo (M72) is a super fund raiser is fondly known as “Shwe Gaung Byaung”. He is also known as
WHO (not World Health Organization)
Hmaw Sayagyi မှော်ဆြာကြီး
Mg Mar Ga မောင်မာဃ
Bo Pu Cho ဗိုလ်ပုချို
Mg Mar Ga
Sa Yay စာရေး
Sa Yay may mean a Clerk.
Sa Yay Gyi စာရေးကြီး is a Senior Clerk.
Sa Yay Lay စာရေးလေး is a Junior Clerk.
U Khin Maung Zaw (EC76) was called “Sa Yay Lay” by his teacher Perrera (V Standard in St. Paul’s High School).
In primary school, my spouse was told by her teacher that her hand writing looked like that of a “Sa Yay”. It motivated her to become a medical doctor.
Hanuman ဟာနုမန်
It is an Indian Diety.
U Han Tun Maung (GBNF) was a star athlete at SPHS. He excelled in Track & Field, and Soccer. He was called “Hanuman”. He was President of Old Paulians Association, Kokkine Swimming Club, Equestrian & Archery Associations. His family owned a Stable with “Sein Hlyan” as a Champion horse. The family opened Sein Hlyan Cafe. The Intake of 65 meets monthly as the Cafe.
Mote Seit မုတ်ဆိတ်
It may mean “Beard”.
U Myo Hein (69er) is called Mote Seit by his friends.
Reverend Frederich Ludwig (Buddhist Archbishop of Latvia &!Lithuania) was called “Moke Seit Phone Gyi”. He later shaved his beard and ordained as a Theravada monk with the title Ashin Ananda. He is a Laureate Poet.
Papu ပါပူး
Collegian Nay Win was called Papu by soccer team mates.
Po Htaung & Po Maung ဖိုးထောင် နဲ့ ဖိုးမောင်
Sons of U Khin Maung San (Tommy San, PBRS, GBNF)
U Nyunt Win (classmate of Tommy’s wife Lily at Darjeeling) liked the nicknames and used them in a movie.
Gyi ကြီး
Japan Gyi ဂျပန်ကြီး — Hla Tun (T69)
Kyaw Gyi ကျော်ကြီး — Kyi Win (EP69)
Maw Gyi မော်ကြီး — U Myat Htoo (C68)
Not so nice
Phaung Gyi Sin ဖေါင်ကြီးဆင်း
Ba Lar Gyi ဗလာကြီး
Chota ချိုတား၊ ချွတ်တား
Mutta မွတ်တား
Fatty ဖက်တီး
Chee Pay
EE69ers
U Thein Swe (EP69) described nicknames of the EE69ers in his post.
Example : So Si စိုစိ
RIT English Sayas & Sayamas
Saya Des described some nicknames in his article.
Examples : Byaing Ma ဗျိုင်းမ Ya Khine Gyi ရခိုင်ကြီး
