Blog

Video Broadcast

• Joined Rangoon University in 1947.
• Won Collegiate Scholarship
• Stood first for combined I.Sc. classes in 1949.
• Full Green, RUBC
• Studied twice at Imperial College, University of London
• Retired as Professor of Mechanical Engineering.
• His contemporaries include Dr. Myint Soe (Lawyer, founder of Burma Club in Singapore).

U Tin Swe

• Joined Rangoon University in 1947.
• Member of the Prome Hall soccer team, which won Inter-Hall trophy for three consecutive years
• Graduated top in Electrical Engineering in 1953.
• Received MSEE from University of Michigan
• Retired as Lecturer in Electrical Engineering
• Also played Tennis
• Early user at UCC
• His name was misspelled as U Tint Swe or U Tin Shwe
• In the early days, there was only one Professor per department.
  The Electrical Engineering department offered two options : Electrical Communications (EC) and Electrical Power (EP). It would take several decades before EC and EP would become departments.

Video Broadcast on December 24, 2020

Game

Five active players for each team

• Point Guard
• Shooting Guard
• Small Forward
• Power Forward
• Center Forward

Scoring

• Two points (for regular basket)
• Three points (for a shot from beyond the arc)
• One point (for each successful free throw)

Myanmar Basketball

• Black Cat
  Several members played for RASU and Burma
  
• U Thein Han (Maths, RIT)
  Burma Selected
  
• U Soe Win (EP69)
  Captain, RIT
  
• U Tommy Ah Nain (EE)
  RIT Selected
  
• Saw Edison and Saw Orson
  RIT Selected

USA

• NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association)
  64 teams (Later expanded to 65 and 65)
  March Madness

• NBA (National Basketball Association)
  Major winners include Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Lakers, Chicago Bulls
  Several European players joined NBA
  Yao Ming (first Chinese player in NBA)

Miscellaneous

• World Championship
  
• Olympics
  USA won the early championships (which allowed only amateurs)
  USSR, Yugoslavia and several nations caught up with USA
  
  For the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, USA sent a “Dream Team” of 11 NBA players and a Collegiate player.
  Larry Bird and Magic Johnson (Co-captains)
  Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen
  Karl Malone and John Stockton
  Patrick Ewing, David Robinson, Charles Barkley, Chris Mullen and Clyde Drexler
  Christian Laettner
  
• Early days : Dominant centers
  
• Later :
  Many three point attempts
  Use three or four guards (for special play)

Video Broadcast on September 10, 2020

Cartoon U Ba Gyan (1902 – 1953)

• Cartoons
• Comics
• Poster / Painting
• Novel
• 13th St Tazaung daing Cartoon Exhibition
• Alinkar Kyawswar (1955: posthumous award)
• Collaborators : U Hein Soon, U Ngwe Kaing
• Mentor : Burma Art Club President

Pagan U Ba Gyan (Minister)

• survived assassination on July 19, 1947 with a slight bullet wound
• Brother : U Ba Shan (Secretary, Mathematics Curriculum Committee)
• Nephew : U Boe Ba Shan (UCC)

U Ba Gyan (“Tin Moe”)

• Laureate Poet
• First to receive full marks for Burmese essay
• Burmese Distinction
• Two National Literary Awards
• Curriculum development for Myanmar Sar
• Prisoner of conscience
• Passed away in Southern California
• Publications
• 1 month Memorial
• 6 month Memorial

Video Broadcast on September 18, 2020

Meaning

• Intended meaning
  Myanmar Astrology

• Other meaning
  Name of Italian astronomer who accidentally discovered a Galaxy (using the Hubble telescope)

• Informal
  Viewing movies while lying on a bed

My Experience

• Prediction of my father’s horoscope
• Early studies of Bedin from books and two sayadaws
• Zabu Mahn Daing Sayadaw
• Inya Myaing Ma Soe Yein Sayadaw

Bedin programs developed at UCC

U Hla Min

• Supervised projects by U Win Latt and U Zaw Tun
• Wrote articles in Jotisha Veda magazine
• Shared Bedin knowledge to Computer Science students and professionals
• Shared Computing knowledge to BARB sayas and advanced students

U Win Latt

• Wrote three versions of Win Horo
• The basic version is used by many Bedin sayas to produce natal horoscopes

U Zaw Tun

• Prolog program for interpreting zartars
• Was surprised to find a young boy with characteristics of a rich person
  Turned out he inherited fortune from his Sawbwa grand father

BARB (Burma Astro Research Bureau)

• Early EC members except Saya U Min Wun are GBNF.
• U Myint Sein (Principal, expert in Medical Astrology, GBNF)
• U Than Htay (Ganita)
• U Myint Lwin (Phalita, GBNF)
• U Khin Aung Bo (Thanhita, GBNF)
• U Aye Win Kyaw (C70, Astronomy, GBNF)

MARB (Myanmar Astro Research Bureau)

• Past President : U Khin Aung Bo (GBNF)
• President : U Kyaw Myint (T72)
• VP : U Than Htay
• Secretary : U Hla Win (M72-75)
• Joint Secretary:
  U Thein Aung,
  U Soe Thein
• Patrons
  U Pyinnyeinda,
  Dr. Kan Nyunt,
  U Aung Myint

Miscellaneous

• Other Bedin types
• Other Bedin sayas
  
• Yadaya means Change
• Good Yadana
• Bad Yadaya

Video Broadcast on October 3, 2020

Concepts

• Mathematics
  Boundary Point
  Boundary Value
  
• Physical Boundary
  
• Mental Boundary

• Boundary Road
  Dhamma Zedi Lann
  
• Boundary Road School
  PPBRS (Private Primary BRS)
  PBRS (Private BRS)
  

Micro Saya Pu Zaw Pwe

• Teacher Kywe (Karen Christian)
  Infant (B) / Middle KG class and Music
  Transformed me into Life Long Learner

Miscellaneous

• Prizes
• Story books
• Aesop’s Fables (translated by Min Yu Way and Ngwe Tar Yi)
• Thermos Flask (for reciting Mingalar Kabyar)

Activities

• Concert
• Selected Sports

Gone But Not Forgotten

• U Kyaw Zaw and Teacher Ah Mar (Daw Khin Khin Aye)
• Tin Maung Thant (son of U Thant)
• Myat Hla Sein (son of Shwe Nyar Maung / U Chin Sein)
• Myint Sein (Veda)
• Nay Win (M69)
• Myo Set (son of Tha Gaung Gyi)

Video Broadcast on December 20, 2020

• The success of a company or a product often requires complementary skills.
• Three examples are provided.

Microsoft

• Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, passed away at the age of 65. He had the technical expertise.
• Bill Gates had the business acumen to turn Paul Allen’s ideas into products.
• The two were complementary.

Apple

• Steve Wozniak is fondly called Woz (Wizard of Oz).
  He built the microcomputer and wanted to give it free to the members of the Home Brew Computer Club.
  After retiring from Apple, he returned to school under an assumed name.
• Steve Jobs had the business acumen and persuaded Woz to form Apple Computers.
• The two were complementary.

Music

• Oscar Hammerstein wrote beautiful lyrics.
• Richard Rodgers was a talented composer.
• The two were complementary.
  They combined their talents to produce hits for Broadway Musicals and Hollywood Movies.
  Their works include “Oklahoma”, “Sound of Music”, “South Pacific” and “My Fair Lady”.

Miscellaneous

• Bricklin and Frankston
  Creators of VisiCalc
• Albert Einstein
  Work reviewed by his first wife
  

Video Broadcast on September 28, 2020

Introduction

• Studied basics of Chemistry as part of General Science

Dhatu Beda (Chemistry in Burmese)

• Took “Dhatu Beda” in the first ever HSF Only examination in 1962.
• Maung Maung Kyi (SPHS) scored the highest marks in Chemistry.
  He had Distinction in Chemistry also in Matriculation and I.Sc(A).
  Chemical Engineering (specializing in Pulp and Paper) from Dresden, Germany.

Chemistry (in English)

• Took Chemistry in the first ever Matriculation Only examination in 1963.
• Khin Maung U (SPHS) scored a perfect 100 and stood first in Burma.
• Grapevine says that the Physics examiners reluctantly took away a mark from Khin Maung U’s perfect score. He ended up with 99 marks in Physics, 100 marks in Chemistry and 100 marks in Mathematics.

Pros and Cons

• Guinea pigs for the Education System.
• Lost one year in the process, but learned some “Translation”.

Our Chemistry Sayas

• Saya Cecil D’Cruz (SPHS, Chemistry Saya, GBNF) moved to Australia and worked as librarian.
• I.Sc(A) : Daw Khin Khin Aye
• 2nd BE : Daw Thaung Khin (later Dr) …

Chemistry Sayas

U Po Tha

• First native Professor of Chemistry at Rangoon University
• Nephew : U Aung Khin (retired Professor of Mechanical Engineering)
• Served as an Interim Dean of Engineering at Rangoon University.
• Wrote Foreword for a book by Dr. Htin Aung

U Aung Khin

• Saya succeeded U Po Tha as Professor
• Cousin : U Khin Maung Myint
• Children : Robert and Maureen (GBNF)

Mehm Thet San

• Doctorate from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC)
• Room mate at UIUC : Dr. Yan Naing Lwin
• Director General of CRO
• Deputy Minister.
• Per U Aye (M62, HIC/ FAO/UN (Retired)) :
  Dr. Mehm Thet San was from Kadoe- Kaw Hnat, near Moulmein.
  He matriculated from St, Patrick’s HS, Moulmein, in 1947.
  He was our Dy. Minister for Industry.

Mehm Tin Mon

• Principal of Moulmein College.
• Professor and Adviser at IMBTU.
• Bilingual author
• Wrote and taught “condensed” courses in Abhidhamma.
• Daughter : Dr. Mi Sandar Mon (Mechanical Engineering Professor).

Dr. Ko Gyi

• Met Saya when I attended the Head of Department meeting(s) as a representative from ICST.

Dr. Soe Win

• Stood first in the Matriculation examination in 1958.
• Father : Saya Sein (Our Burmese teacher in SPHS)
• Spouse : Daw May Saw Lwin
• Sons : U Aung Mon, Dr. Nyi Thet Lwin
• Took Chemistry Honors
• Joined the Chemistry Department of Rangoon University
• Doctorate from Imperial College, University of London
• Retired as Rector of YUFL (Yangon University of Foreign Languages).

Some Other Sayas and Sayamas

• Dr. U Aung
  Brother : U Soe Thein (UCC)
  
• Dr. Aung Myint
  Former Head, Workers’ College
  Once known for his long hair and Yaung Don
  
• Daw Khin Aye
  Spouse : Dr. Myint Thein
  
• Daw Khin Aye Than
  Lu Ye Chun for 3rd year in the summer of 1965
  
• U Khin Maung Myint
  Spouse : Daw Than Than
  Moved to USA
  
• U Khin Maung Zaw Taught at IM(1)
  
• Dr. Khin Mar Tun
  Spouse : U Nyunt Win
  
• U Khin Zaw (Workers’ College)
  Requested “Chemistry Mi Thar Su” to help teach (on line)
  
• U Kyaw Zaw
  
• U Kyaw Tun
  Taught at Chemical Engineering Department
  Transferred to Chemistry
  Spouse : Daw Than Than
  Moved to Canada for some time
  
• Daw Kyi Kyi Tin (PBRS, Workers’ College, Assumption University)
  
• Daw May Saw Lwin
  Spouse : Dr. Soe Win
  
• Dr. Myint Oo
  Attended UCC courses.
  
• Dr. Myint Thein
  First Myanmar to study Nuclear Chemistry in the US
  Spouse : Daw Khin Aye
  
• Dr. Myint Tun (Henry Cho Tun, SPHS60)
  Collegiate Scholarship in the Matriculation examination of 1960
  Gold Medal for I.Sc.
  
• U Nyunt Win
  Early Associate Professor
  Brothers : Dr. Ohn Kyaw, Dr. Myo Nyunt
  Spouse : Dr. Khin Mar Tun
  
• Dr. Ohn Kyaw
  Brother : U Nyunt Win, Dr. Myo Nyunt
  
• Daw Than Than
  Spouse : U Kyaw Tun
  Moved to Canada for some time
  
• Daw Than Than
  Spouse : U Khin Maung Myint
  Moved to USA
  
• Dr. Than Than Nyein
  Sister : Daw Yin Yin Waing
  Requested former students not to invite her to the Acariya Pu Zaw Pwes (in order to concentrate on her meditation practice)
  
• Dr. Daw Thaung Khin
  Head of RIT Chemistry Department.

• Dr. Thein Aung (GBNF)
  Warden of Thaton Hall.
  Principal of Pathein College
  Spouse : Daw Than Sein, Myanmar sar (Burmese Dept)
  He and his wife passed away recently.

• Dr. Thein Aung
  Taught at RIT before moving abroad.
  
• Dr. Tin Win (David)
  
• Dr. Tin Win (Alan)
  Moved to Thailand
  
• U Yu Htay
  
• Dr. Zeya (Moved to Canada)

Miscellaneous

• Branches of Chemistry
• Relationship with other disciplines
• Bridge : IC – Chemical Engineering

• Dr. Myint Han (SPHS59, 9th)
  Studied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
  CRO,
  won awards from Sweden

• U Ye Myint
  Played soccer and badminton
  RASU Lu Ye Chun for 2nd year in the summer of 1965.

• U Maung Maung Kyi (SPHS63)
  Highest marks in Chemistry in the first ever High School Final Only examination in 1962.
  Stood 11th in Burma in Matriculation examination in 1963 and was awarded Collegiate Scholarship.
  Gained distinctions in Chemistry in the first ever Matriculation only examination and the last I.Sc.(A) examination.
  When the schools were closed, he applied for a scholarship to study Chemical Engineering (with specialty in Pulp and Paper) in Germany.

Some Chemistry Graduates

Dr. Soe Win and Daw May Saw Lwin

At Geeta Hewun