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Two
by Hla Min

Updated : Apr 2026

Bicameral Parliament ပါလီမန်
- US Congress : Senate & House of Representatives
- UK : House of Lords & House of Common
- Old Burma : Upper House & Lower House
Extremes to be avoided ရှောင်ရန် အစွန်းနှစ်သွယ်

From ဓမ္မစကြာ
- Sensual pleasures
- Self mortification
Meditation
- Samatha သမထ — Concentration meditation
- Vipassana ဝိပဿနာ — Insight meditation
Nama-rupa

နာမ ရူပ
- Nama — Mental formations & characteristics
- Rupa — Physical characteristics
Number
- Hindu-Arabic numeral — 2
- Roman numeral — II
- နှစ် (Two in Burmese)
- ဒုတိယ (Second)
- Duece, Duo, Duet, Duel, Pair
Reality

သစ္စာ
- Sammutti sacca — Pannatti — Apparent reality သမုတိသစ္စာ
- Paramattha sacca — Paramattha — Ultimate reality ပရမတ္ထသစ္စာ
Rowing — Coxless Pairs

ပဲ့နင်းမဲ့ နှစ်တက်လှော်
- Stroke & Bow
- ARAE Regatta Trophy — Venables Bowl : Won by RUBC crew (Tin Htoon & Harry Saing) at 1958 Regatta in Calcutta
Two tier architecture
- Front end & Back end
- Client & Server
Two valued logic
- Constants — True & False
- Truth table — 4 entries : FF, FT, TF, TT
- Logic Functions — 16
Worldly and beyond
- Loki လောကီ — Mundane (Worldly)
- Lokotra လောကုတ္တရာ — Supramundane (Beyond world)
Chief Disciples

အဂ္ဂသာဝက
- Sariputtra ရှင်သာရိပုတ္တရာ
- Mogallana ရှင်မဟာမောဂ္ဂလန်
General

အထွေထွေ
- Ascent & Descent
- Bicycle : cycle with two wheels
- Binary number system : 0, 1
- Bifocal : Having two foci
- Back court & Front court — Basketball
- Closed & Open — Case; Interval
- Dilemma
- Diode : Cathode & Anode
- Dual & Primal
- Duality — Principle (e.g Geometry, Logic, Linear Programming)
- February — 2nd month in the Gregorian Calendar
- East & West; Eastern & Western
- First half & Second half
- First term & Second term
- Gemini : Heavenly Twins — Castor & Pollux
- Gemini project : Two astronauts
- High & Low
- It takes Two to Tango
- North & South
- President & Vice President
- Prolog & Epilog
- Sports : Men’s Doubles, Women’s Doubles, Mixed Doubles
- Tea for Two — Song
- TF (True or False) Quiz
- Two heads are better than one — Proverb
- Two Phase Commit — Database
- Up & Down
April 22, 2026
RU Sports Council
by Hla Min

Updated : Apr 2026

Dr. Ko Ko Lay & U Yu Khin
- Dr. Ko Ko Lay : Chair, University Sports Council
- Dean U Yu Khin : Chair, Sports Promotion Committee
Dr. Ko Ko Lay, U Yu Khin

Dr. Hla Thwin

Dr. Hla Thwin 1

Dr. Hla Thwin 2

U Ba Toke

U Ba Toke

Saw William Paw

Saw William Paw

Dr. Maung Shein

Dr. Maung Shein

Saya Nyein

Saya Nyein
April 22, 2026
Visits in 2015
by Hla Min

Updated : Apr 2026

Invitation

Ivan Lee (M69) invited several 69ers to get together at his house in New Jersey around June-July of 2015. U Aung Myint and U Sein Tin 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, 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 stranger) took the photo.
Phil 1

Phil 2

Phil 3

Phil 4

Phil 5

Phil 6

Phil 7

Phil 8

Phil 9

New Jersey
- Main Host : Ivan
- Other hosts : Saya U Soe Paing & Daw Saw Yu Tint
- Ivan took us on a short trip to New York
- Ivan showed us around New Jersey
- For several years, Ivan had hosted the RIT-UCC Gathering with Saya Dr. Aung Gyi and Saya U Soe Paing as Guests of Honor.
- Photo shows two Sayas and six 69ers — Fred, TAG, HM, Alice, Toung / Tom and Ivan
New Jersey

Niagara Falls
- On the way to Canada
- Took photos from the US side & the Canada side
Niagara Fall

Windsor, Canada
- Host : Sayagyi U Aung Khin
- Saya patiently waited for our arrival.
- Saya let me and my spouse spend the night in his Guest room. Ivan and Fred stayed at a motel.
- Saya prepared Mohinga and Ah Kyaw for breakfast.
- He gave us mementos.
U Aung Khin

Saya U Aung Khin

Memento

Toronto
- Brief sight seeing
- Saya Des Rodgers had earlier invited to drop by his house, but our schedule did not have slack time.
Napean, Canada
- Host: Sayagyi Dr. Aung Gyi & Daw Emma
- Saya drove us around Toronto
- We spent two nights at Saya’s house.
Dr. Aung Gyi
- Took a quick trip to Thousand Islands. Ma Ma Emma bought a gift for my Myee
Thousand Islands

Shrewberry, Massachussetts
- Hosts : Dr. Tun Aung Gyaw (EC69) & Daw Khin Maw Maw
- Since they were renovating their home, U TAG hosted us at a hotel.
- Visit MIT & Harvard University
U TAG

Dinner

Trumbull, Connecticut
- Hosts : U Toung (Tom, EC69) and Daw Khin Myint
- Visit Yale University
- Visit Pizza place frequented by the young Bill Clinton
Ko Toung

Place frequented by young Bill Clinton

Philadelphia
- Hosts : Fred Thetgyi (M69) & Eunice
- Dropped by to see Fred’s elder sister
- Visit Pake Forge and Liberty Bell;
- Visit my last remaining uncle U Thein Han in Maryland
MD 1

MD 2

MD 3

MD 4

Posts
- 69er
- Alumni
- Reunion
- Sayas
- Visits
April 22, 2026
One
by Hla Min

Updated : Apr 2026

Numeral
- Hindu-Arabic numeral : 1
- Roman numeral : I
- တစ် (One)
- ပထမ (First)
Miscellaneous
- Ace — ဖဲချပ်။ လေသူရဲ
- First day of the month — လ အစ
- January ဇန္နဝါရီ လ— 1st month of Gregorian Calendar
- March မတ် လ — 1st month of old Roman Calendar
- Monocle — မျက်မှန်
- Monograph — စာတမ်း
- Monopoly — စျေးကွက် ကို တဦးထည်းကြီးစိုး။ Board Game ကစားနည်း
- Monarchy — ထီးနန်း
- Monotheism — Belief in one god or deity
- Single — တဦီးချင်း။ အိမ်ထောင်မရှိ
- Singleton — Bridge ဖဲကစားနည်း မှာ Suit တခု မှာ Card တချပ် ဘဲရှိ။
- Unique, Uniqueness
- Universe — စကြာဝဠာ
- Universal
- Unicycle — စက်ဘီး
- Union — ပြည်ထောင်စု (စသဖြင့်)
- Unit — အတိုင်းအတာ
- Unity — စည်းလုံးမှု
Poem
April 22, 2026
Four
by Hla Min

Updated : Apr 2026

Numeral
- Hindu-Arablic numeral : 4
- Roman numeral : IV
- လေး (Four in Burmese)
- စတုတ္ထ (Fourth in Burmese)
Recent Buddhas မြတ်စွာဘုရား
- Kakusandha ကကုသန်
- Konagamana ဂေါဏဂုံ
- Kassapa ကဿပ
- Gautama ဂေါတမ
Sacca / Noble Truth သစ္စာ
- Dukkha ဒုက္ခ
  Unsatisfactoriness / Misery / Suffering
- Samudiya သမုဒယ
  Cause of suffering
- Nirodha နိရောဓ
  Cessation of suffering
- Magga မဂ္ဂ
  The Path / The Middle Way
Foundation of Mindfulness သတိပဌာန်
- Contemplation of the kaya / body ကာယာနုပဿနာ
- Contemplation of the vedana / feeling ဝေဒနာနုပဿနာ
- Contemplation of the citta / mind စိတ္တာနုပဿနာ
- Contemplation of the dhamma ဓမ္မာနုပဿနာ/ general objects — not covered by the above three
Brahma Vihara Practice

ဗြဟ္မာစိုရ်တရား
- Metta မေတ္တာ
  Loving kindness / Unbounded love
- Karuna ကရုဏာ
  Compassion
- Mudita မုဒိတာ
  Sympathetic joy / Altruistic joy
- Uppekkha ဥပေက္ခာ
  Equanimity
Guardian deities

လောကပါလ
- Dhatarattha (East) ဓတ္တရဌ
- Virulhaka (South) ဝိရူဠက
- Virupkkha (West) ဝိရူပက္ခ
- Kuvera (North) ကုဝေရ
Mahabhuta

မဟာဘုတ်
- Patthavi ပထဝီ
  Earth element
- Tejo တေဇော
  Fire element
- Apo အာပေါ
  Water or liquid element
- Vayo ဝါယော
  Air or wind element
Undergraduate Classes

ဘွဲ့ကြို
- Freshman
- Sophomore
- Junior
- Senior
Baseball
- First base
- Second base
- Third base
- Home plate
Miscellaneous

အထွေထွေ
- Four sided figures စတုဂံ
  Rectangle, Square, Parallelogram, Parallepiped, Rhombus
- Games အားကစားပြိုင်ပွဲ
  Four quarters (e.g. Football, Basketball)
- Rowing လှေလှော်
  Coxless fours, Coxed fours, Quadruple sculls
Coxed Fours
- April ဧပြီလ 4th month of the Gregorian Calendar
Posts
- Computation
- Digital
- Number Systems
- Numerals
April 22, 2026
Five
by Hla Min

Updated : Apr 2026

Numeral
- Hindu-Arabic numeral : 5
- Roman numeral : V
- ငါး (Five)
- ပဥ္စမ (Fifth)
First group of disciples

ပဥ္စဝဂ္ဂီ
- Kondanna ကောဏ္ဍည
- Baddhiya ဘဒ္ဒိယ
- Vappa ဝပ္ပ
- Mahanama မဟာနာမ်
- Asajji အဿဇိ
Five Khandas / ခန္ဓာ Aggregates
- Rupakkhandha : Material phenomena ရူပက္ခန္ဓာ
- Vedanakkhanda : Feeling ဝေဒနက္ခန္ဓာ
- Sannakkhanda : Perceptionသညာနက္ခန္ဓာ
- Sankharakkhnada : Formations သင်္ခါရက္ခန္ဓာ
- Vinnanakkhandha : Consciousness ဝေညာနက္ခန္ဓာ
Five Precepts

ငါးပါးသီလ

Abstain from
- Killing
- Stealing
- Sexual misconduct
- Lies
- Intoxicants (liquor, “drugs”, …)
Five Senses

အာရုံငါးပါး
- Hearing
- Sight
- Smell
- Taste
- Touch
Five Nikaya / Collection

နိကယ် ငါးရပ်
- Digha Nikaya : “long collection”
- Majjhima Nikaya : “middle-length collection”
- Samyutta Nikaya : “grouped collection” — “thematically linked discourses”
- Anguttara Nikaya : the “further-factored collection” — discourses grouped by content enumerations
- Khuddaka Nikaya : the “collection of little texts”
Miscellaneous
- Five Jhana စျာန် ငါးပါး
- Five fingers on each hand လက်ချောင်း ငါးချောင်း
- Five toes on each foot ခြေချောင်း ငါးချောင်း
- Pentagon five sided polygonပဥ္စဂံ
- May မေ လ 5th month of the Gregorian Calendar
April 22, 2026
Dr. Chit Swe
by Hla Min

Updated : Apr 2026
- Graduate of Imperial College, Liverpool & Glasgow
- Founder & Director, Universities’ Computer Center
- Professor, RASU Maths
- Rector, RASU
- Advisor for Burmese postgrad students in Bangkok and Sydney
With two youngest sons Swe Latt & Chit Khin

DCS 1

Saya’s Family

DCS 2

Computer Pioneer in Burma

DCS 3

Former Rector, RASU

DCS 4

Yahan Khan at UCC

DCS 5

UCC Alumni in Sydney

DCS 6

Obituary

DCS 7

Last Journey

Castlebrook Memorial Park Crematorium

Date : 28 November 2019

Time : 12 – 2 PM (Australia AEDT)

Location : 712 – 746 Windsor Road

Rouse Hill NSW 2155

(Opposite Rouse Hill Shopping Center)

Web site: https://www. castlebrook.com.au

Posts
- Computer Pioneers in Burma
- Dr. Chit Swe’s Vision
- Memories of UCC
- Names — Chit Swe
- Sojourn in Sagaing Hills
April 22, 2026
RIT Table Tennis
by Hla Min

Updated : Apr 2026

Inter-Institute Champions

Team Coach

Saya Mao

Saya Mao & family

Saya Mao Toon Siong (M62)
- Represented Burma in International Competitions
  (SEAP, Asian Games and World Championship)
- Retired Burma National Coach
Players

U Win Myint & Stan Liou
- U Maung Maung – C67
  (aka Chin Kaung Hook – extremely good in Chess)
- U Win Myint – E67 (aka Hin Lok Kung)
  Retired engineer, San Francisco Bay Area
- Stan Liou – M67
  Former Chair, Board of Directors, NorCal RITAA
- U Myat Lwin – Ch67 (GBNF)
April 22, 2026
Celebrations
by Hla Min

Updated : Apr 2026

Centennial Celebrations
- Rangoon University (Established on December 1, 1920)
- Thakhin Kodaw Hmaing (Founder of Peace Movement and Principal of National College)
- Bogyoke Aung San (Architect of Burma’s Independence)
- U Thant (United Nations Secretary General)
- U Thein Han (Zawgyi, Chief Librarian of Rangoon University Central Library, Laureate Poet)
- U Wun (Minthuwun, Professor, Head of RU Translation Department, Lexicographer, Visiting Professor at Osaka University)
- Dr. Maung Maung Kha (Rector of Rangoon University)
Dr. Maung Maung Kha

Dr. Maung Maung Kha & Family
- Ludu Daw Ah Mar (Amar, Author and Publisher)
- U Khin Maung Latt (Taught English at RU and at his private school, Chief Editor of Working People’s Daily)
- Daw Khin Myo Chit (Participant in the struggle for Burma’s Independence, Award winning Author and Translator)
RU Jubilees

The University of Rangoon was established in December 1920. The Jubilees include
- Silver Jubilee (in 1945)
  Most of the schools were closed for three years. The University of Rangoon reopened in 1946.
  There were make-shift classes on Mogul (Shwe Bon Tha) Street during that period.
  Saya U Ba Toke was lucky to receive his Masters during the war (thanks to his supervisor).
- Golden Jubilee (in 1970)
  I used to have a commemorative issue.
  I also had a small part as a volunteer of the “Zay Nay Yar Cha Htar Yay Ah Phwe”.
- Diamond Jubilee (in 1995)
  Saya Dr. Soe Win has posted a picture.
- Centennial (in 2020)
  EC Members of the “Tekkatho Kalaung Ah Thin (1958 – 1962)” will publish a Kabyar book and a commemorative issue.
  
  The Engineering Education was established in 1923.
  Rangoon University Boat Club (RUBC) was founded in 1923.
  The Centennial Celebrations could be held in 2023.
At the centennial celebrations of some universities, the alumni and staff were asked to nominate events and people to be honored as the 100 items associated with the school. The Group members could propose a list of memorable items about their alma mater.
April 22, 2026
SPHS54
by Hla Min

Updated : Apr 2026

Class Photo

SPHS54

Alumni
- Alan Khoo / Than Win (GBNF) : ADB
- Ernest Po Saw / Thein Oo Po Saw : Nuclear Physicist
- Koon Yin Chu / Phillip : First in Burma; Architect; Entrepreneur
- M Hla Min : RUBC Gold; SPHS Saya
- Dr. Myo Paing : Medical Researcher
- Oo Thwin / Michael (GBNF) : Rutgers Graduate
- San Maung / Gerald (GBNF) : RUBC Gold & Coach
- Sao Hso Hom : English Honors; Law; Sawbwa
- Dr. Thein Htut : RUBC Gold
- Tin Htoon : Architect; RUBC Captain & Gold
- Tun Shein / Willie : RUBC Gold
Koon Yin Chu
- First in Burma
- First in Architecture 1960
- Entrepreneur
- Currently in USA
Oo Thwin (Michael)
- Graduate of Rutgers University
- Passed away in Houston, Texas
Oo Thwin

Sao Hso Hom
- Son of Arzani Sao Sam Htun
- Mong Pawn Sawbwa Lay
- First Class English Honors
- Law Graduate
- Author, Translator
- UN Retiree
- Currently in Australia
Sao Hso Hom

Tin Htoon
- Architect, Thiri Pyit Saya Hotel in Bagan
- Architect, Burmese Buddhist Temple in Singapore
- Advisor, selected S N Goenka’s Projects
- RUBC Captain & Gold
- Winner of Venables Bowl for Coxless Pairs, 1958 ARAE Regatta in Calcutta with Harry Saing
- Winner of Willingdon Trophy for Coxed Fours, 1960 ARAE Regatta in Colombo with Harry Saing, Victor Htun Shein and Sein Htoon
- RUBC 40th Anniversary Magazine with Sithu U Tin and U Po Zon
- Chair, RUBC 90th Anniversary Magazine
RUBC 90th Anniversary

Dr. Thein Htut
- RUBC Gold
- Parents : Col Min Sein, Dr. Daw Yin May
- Currently in Australia
Thein Htut

Tun Shein
- Aka Willie Saing
- RUBC Gold
- Sr. Novices Winner in 1954
Tun Shein

Paulian Crew — Sr. Novices Winners in 1954
April 21, 2026