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  • SPZP-2004

    • U Win Khaing (M 75) and his team (U Zaw Min, U Hla Win, …) form the core of the Yangon-2004 SPZP Organizers.
    • The event took place on December 26, 2004.
    • An earthquake that morning did not deter the attendees.

    From the Reunion 2004 Home Page

    RIT Reunion & Saya Pu Zaw Pwe – 2004
    Yangon, Myanmar
    26th December 2004

    Morning : Saya Pu Zaw Pwe
    Date : Sunday, December 26, 2004
    Time : 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 am
    Place : Myanmar Convention Center (MCC)

    Evening : Dinner & Entertainment
    Date : Sunday, December 26, 2004
    Time : 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
    Place : Dusit Inya Lake Hotel

    Pu Zaw Pwe Office & Contact
    Office : United Engineering Co Ltd
    Corner of Wayzayantar Road & Yadana Road
    Thingangyun Township 11071
    Yangon MYANMAR

    Contact : U Zaw Min (Mechanical 1975)
    U Hla Win (Mechanical 1975)
    Hotline : 571321/ 571877/ 571990/ 571995
    Fax : 571288
    Website : http://www.sayapzpygn.com/
    Email : zawmin@uegroup.com.mm

    SPZPs in Yangon

    • December 2004 Third world wide SPZP
    • December 2012 Sixth world wide SPZP
    • December 2016 Seventh world wide SPZP

    Due to COVID-19 pandemic, the Eighth world wide SPZP (which was scheduled for December 2020) is likely to be postponed or canceled.

  • Past Events in California & Yangon

    SPZP-2000

    • The First RIT Grand Reunion and Saya Pu Zaw Pwe was hosted by RIT Alumni International in October 2000.
    • It was a two-day Formal Event preceded by a Welcome Dinner for SPZP-2000 attendees at a SF Bay Area Seafood Restaurant.
    • The photo shows Saya Dr. Aung Gyi (Canada), Saya U Min Wun (Southern California, GBNF) and Saya U Ba Toke (Myanmar, GBNF).
    Welcome Dinner for SPZP-2000 attendees

    Golden Jubilee of Graduation in 2019

    • The Class of RIT 1969 celebrated the Golden Jubilee of Graduation in December 2019.
    • A Reunion and Acariya Pu Zaw Pwe was held at the Assembly Hall in the Gyogone Campus in the morning.
    • Some 69ers from overseas (USA, Singapore …) attended the Golden Jubilee celebrations.
    • Glad to see Daw Tin Tin (Ann, EC69) come back from USA to the Campus for the first time since Graduation.
      She donated to the event and also to the 69er HCF (Health Care Fund).
    • About 320 students who had passed the last ever I.Sc.(A) examination were admitted to the first ever 2nd BE at RIT (Rangoon Institute of Technology).
    • Most of them graduated in 1969.
      A few took sabbatical and graduated later.
      Some left RIT before graduation.
    • The Dinner and Entertainment Program was hosted by U Aung Min (M69, Chair of 69er HCF) and team at the premises of his old PWD office.
    • Sad to note that 128 members (about 40%) are GBNF.
    With 69ers (from Myanmar, Singapore, USA …)

    Gathering in Northern California

    • SF Bay Area Group hosted several gatherings in Northern California.
    • The photo was taken in 2002.
    • Saya U Tin Maung Nyunt (M60) received States Scholarship to study MS in Agricultural Engineering at Viriginia Tech in the USA.
      He taught at RIT before moving to Thailand and USA.
    • Saya U Kyaw Myint (M/Auto64) taught at RIT before taking up UN assignment in Beijing.
      After retirement, he moved to USA.
    • U Myint Lwin (Henry Chee, C63, GBNF) matriculated from SPHS (St. Paul’s High School) in 1955.
      He took sabbatical to get married and graduated in 1963.
      He worked for Municipal Corporation before moving to USA.
    • U Hla Min (EC69) is a Lifelong Learner.
    U Tin Maung Nyunt, U Kyaw Myint, U Hla Min and U Myint Lwin

    SF Bay Area Literary Talk

    • The photo was taken at the Literary Talk by Min Ko Naing and Aw Pi Kye.
    • Daw Saw Yu Tint (Alice, T69) was visiting her son and grandson.
      She took time off to attend the Literary Talk.
    Attendees of the SF Bay Area Literary Talk

  • Translation of Poems

    U Moe Aung & me

    I translated some Kabyars by Saya U Moe Aung (Tekkatho Moe War, Laureate Poet)

    • Shwe YaDu Lann
      Commemorating RIT Golden Jubilee in 2014
    • To The Shwe Duo
      In memory of Saya U Tin Shwe (EP66) and Saya U Hla Shwe (T69)
    • Computer In My Heart
      Old Kabyar written in Singapore

    Shwe YaDu Lann (Kabyar)
    by Tekkatho Moe War

    Shwe YaDu Lann
    Let it be rough [but it’s tough].
    Flowers are blossoming again.
    Fear not the summer
    Care not the rain [drops]
    or the thick fogs & darkness
    or if winter’s not true to its form

    Shwe YaDu Lann
    Let it be rough.
    No gentle stream flowing
    Fear not high winds
    Care not dense clouds
    Topsy turvy [come what may]
    Can paddle upstream
    With strong mind & conviction
    Place where heroes [Thu Ye Kaungs] are produced .

    Swel Daw Myaing Dann
    Shwe YaDu Lann
    is a start [of a journey]
    To raise the Banner loftily
    to the skies, to the Zenith
    displaying our Thitsa (vow of truth and integrity)

    Shwe YaDu Lann

    To The Shwe Duo (Kabyar)
    by Tekkatho Moe War

    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.
    [ Wei-nyin = ဝိညာဥ္ ]

    To the Shwe Duo
    U Tin Shwe (EP66)
    U Hla Shwe (T69)

    Computer In My Heart
    By Tekkatho Moe War

    Desktops
    to select at will, computers [galore]
    encircle [me], obey my command
    in an AC room, touch keypad
    where finger tips lie, [work] and rest
    somewhere in a foreign land

    Computers
    welcome data — texts, messages, numbers
    with open arms. Fabulous memory
    store forever, retrieve [compute & display]

    Deep within my heart
    stored & preserved, [notable] events of my life
    love, hate, loss, gain [joy, pain]
    assessed & archived — in my heart’s computer.
    Shaking, pushing, … to close it’s door
    would be in vain. My dear beloved
    do you think I can ever forget?

  • J

    Java

    • J2EE
    • J2M2
    • J2SE
    • JDK
    • JSP
    • JVM

    Jubilee

    • Centennial : 100th Anniversary
      Rangoon University Centennial (December 2020)
      First RU Students’ Strike Centennial (December 2020)
      U Ba Toke’s Birthday Centennial (December 2020)
      Myanmar Movies Centennial (2020)
    • Sesquicentennial : 150th Anniversary
    • Bicentennial : 200th Anniversary
    • Tricentennial : 300th Anniversary
    • Silver Jubilee : 25th Anniversary
    • Golden Jubilee : 50th Anniversary
      RU Golden Jubilee (1970)
      69er GJ of Admission (2014)
      69er GJ of Graduation (2019)
    • Diamond Jubilee : mostly 75th Anniversary; a few 60th Anniversary (e.g for Coronation)
    Golden Jubilee of RIT

  • O

    Operator / Operation

    • Add / Adder / Addition
    • And / Conjunction
    • Arithmetic operator
    • Binary operator
    • Comparator / Compare / Comparison
    • Convolution
    • Difference operator
    • Differential / Differentiate / Differentiation
    • Exponential / Exponentiation
    • Integral / Integrate / Integration
    • Log / Logarithm
    • Logical operator
    • Operator theory
    • Or / Disjunction
    • Relational operator
    • Rotate / Rotation
    • Subtract / Subtraction
    • Sum / Summation
    • Summary / Summarize
    • Set Difference
    • Set Intersection
    • Set Operation
    • Set Union
    • Symmetric Difference
    • Transform / Transformation
    • Translate / Translation

    Order

    • Ascending order
    • Descending order
    • Higher order
    • In order
    • Low order
    • Pre order
    • Post order
    • Sequential order

    Osaka University

    • Professor Harada (Chit Man Nwe)
      Burmese Department; Won Literary Prize for translating “Thway” (by Journal Kyaw Ma Ma Lay) into Japanese
    • Saya U Wun (Minthuwun)
      Visiting Professor of Burmese
      Worked on Japanese/Burmese Dictionary
    Minthuwun

  • Boundary

    Usage

    • Boundary stands for a dividing line.
    • In Mathematics, we learned about Interior points, Exterior points and Boundary points.
    • Boundary Road marked the limit of the old Rangoon.

    PPBRS

    • Private Primary Boundary Road School (PPBRS) was founded by Daw Tin Tin Aye.
      Her assistant teachers included her younger sisters : Daw Yi Yi and Daw Khin Khin Aye (Teacher Ah Mar).
    • Daw Khin Khin Aye succeeded her sister as Principal.
    • PPBRS expanded into Middle School and ultimately High School.
      One reason was not wanting her children — Thane Myint, Kyaw Thein and Moe Moe — to move to another school.
    • PPBRS became Private Boundary Road School (PBRS).
    • During our days, children started with Infant (C) and then progressed to Infant (B) and Infant (A).
      Some other schools would call them LKG (Lower KG), MKG (Middle KG) and UKG (Upper KG).
    PPBRS 1
    PPBRS 2

    PPBRS Alumni

    • Tin Maung Thant (Ah Pho Gyi, GBNF) son of UNSG U Thant
    • Francis Ohn Maung (son of Arzani U Ohn Maung)
    • Flora Aye (medical doctor who worked in Brunei and moved to the USA) and her sister Shirley Aye
    • Peggy Mya Maung, Winnie Mya Maung (Win Mar, winner of Academy for her role in “Pho Pyone Cho”), Ted Mya Maung (Toe Nyunt, “Shwe Gaung Byaung”), Rosebelle Mya Maung (Sar Oo, Academy award winner Sandar) and Mya Zaw (Fuji)
    • Margie Bu (Ma Aung Si), Stanley Bu (A1 Than Htut), Freddie (A1 Thein Htut), Bobby (Aung Myint, Thamankyar Ko Myint) and Sai Wunna (GBNF)
    • Nay Win (MEHS63, M69, GBNF)
    • Han Tun (SPHS63, DSA) and siblings
    • Elizabeth Kyaw Tun (Ph.D. in English, Elder daughter of Saya U Kyaw Tun (RIT EE))
    • Myint Sein (Bobby, Principal of Burma Astro Research Bureau, IDEA Astrology, GBNF), siblings and cousins
    • Myat Hla Sein (GBNF) and Chit Mya Sein (Children of Director U Chin Sein)
    • Khin Maung Oo (Master Mariner)
    • Saw Oo, Kyi Kyi Tin and Tin Tin Aye
    • Robert Gale (Khin Maung Oo) and Dolly Gale (Ma Swe)
    • Myint Swe (Monty) and Errol Thein

    Micro-PZP

    • I did not like to go to school.
    • That all changed when Teacher Kywe transformed me.
    • My mother would ask me to pay respect to her annually until she retired.
    • It was my micro-PZP.

  • Initialism

    CHM
    • ACM — Association of Computing Machinery
    • BCM — Boston Computer Museum
    • CHM — Computer History Museum
    • DMR — Department of Medical Research
    • EI — Emotional Intelligence
    • FIFO — First In First Out
    • GIGO — Garbage In Garbage Out
    • HTML — Hyper Text Markup Language
    • IQ — Intelligence Quotient
    • JDK — Java Development Kit
    • KIS / KISS — Keep It Simple Stupid
    • LIFO — Last In First Out
    • MVP — Most Valuable Player
    • NY — New York
    • OLAP — On Line Analytical Processing
    • PGP — Pretty Good Privacy
    • QL — Query Language
    • ROI — Return On Investment
    • SDK — Software Development Kit
    • TLC — Tender Living Care
    • UN / UNO — United Nations Organization
    • VA — Value Added
    • WHO — World Health organization
    • XML — eXtensible Markup Language
    • YMCA — Young Men’s Christian Association
    • ZTP — Zero Tolerance Policy

  • Games

    Scrabble

    Type of games

    • Athletic games (Badminton, Football, Hockey)
    • Board games (Checkers, Chess, Scrabble)
    • Card games (Bridge, Solitaire)
    • Word games (Lexicon, Scrabble)

    Obsolete games

    With the advent of the Internet and sophisticated games, the following games are obsolete.

    • Gin (Top)
    • Doe (Gon Nyin)
    • Htoke Si
    • Tug o war
    • Kite flying
    • Phunn Khone Dann
    • Hide and Seek
    • Treasure Hunt
    • Fizz Buzz
    • Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?
    • Simple Simon Says
    • Musical Chairs
    • River Jordan
    • Rope Skipping
    • Limbo
    • London Bridge is falling down
    • Blind Man’s Buff
    • Hokey Pokey
    • Whispering
    • Charade

    Old Games

    • Thone Pone Phair
    • Ket
    • Mah Jong
    • Follow the leader
    • Fizz Buzz
    • Marbles
    • Sit Tu Yin (Burmese Chess)
    • Chinese Checkers
    • Chinese Chess
    • Pontoon
    • Foosball

  • Two Sayas named Hunter

    ဟန်တာ (Hunter) နှစ်ယောက်

    မက်သယူး ဟန်တာ
    Matthew Hunter

    • ဓာတုဗေဒ နဲ့ ရူပဗေဒ ဆရာ Taught Chemistry & Physics
      ဘူမိဗေဒ လည်းလေ့လာ Also studied Geology
    • ရန်ကုန်ကောလိပ် ကျောင်းအုပ်ကြီး
      Principal, Rangoon College
    • 1918 ပညာရေးအဖွဲ့ ရဲ့ Vice Chairman
    • အားကစား / ဘော်လုံး — အားပေး Sports / Soccer
    • ကျောင်းသား များ က ချစ်ခင်လေးစား Appreciated by students
      1920 သပိတ်မှောက် ကျောင်းသားများ က ကန်တော့ တောင်းပန် RU Strike Students sincerely told him that there was nothing personal about the boycott
      1923 အင်္ဂလန် ပြန် — နှုတ်ဆက် မျက်ရည် ကျ He shed tears during the farewell to move back to England in 1923
    • 1917 – 1922 ဥက္ကဌ၊ Burma Research Society — President
    • Matthew Hunter Gold Medal
      ရွှေတံဆိပ်
    • စည်းကမ်းကြီး Disciplinarian

    ကိုဘသန်း (နောင် Dr. ဘသန်း) နဲ့ ကိုကျော်မြင့် (First in Burma; နောင် ဝတ်လုံတော်ရ ဦးကျော်မြင့်) တို့ကို Calcutta တက္ကသိုလ် က စစ် တဲ့ ဆေးပညာ သင်ခွင့် စာမေးပွဲကို ဖြေခိုင်း။ He chose Ko Ba Than and Ko Kyaw Myint to take the examination by Calcutta University to study medicine.

    ကိုကျော်မြင့် က မိခင်စျာပန တက်ရောက်ခွင့်တောင်း။ ဆရာ က ခွင့်မပြု။ ကိုကျော်မြင့် က စျာပန တက် လို့ ကျောင်းထုတ်ခံရ။ Ko Kyaw Myint asked permission to attend his mother’s funeral. Saya refused. Ko Kyaw Myint attended the funeral. He was expelled.

    —-

    မာ့က် ဟန်တာ
    Mark Hunter

    • Sir John Mark Somers Hunter
      (1865 – 1932)
    • အင်္ဂလိပ်စာ / စာပေ ဆရာ & စာအုပ်ပြုစု သူ
      Author of Texts on English Literature
    • Director of Coimbatore College,
      Professor of Presidency College,
      Madras, India
    • 1918 ပညာရေးအဖွဲ့ ရဲ့ Chairman
    • 1918 -1920
      Professor, Government College,
      Rangoon, Burma
    • ပညာမင်းကြီး
      Director of Public Instruction
    • 1920 RU Act
      ရန်ကုန်တက္ကသိုလ် အက် ဥပဒေ ကိုအဆိုပြု
    • ကျောင်းသား များ နဲ့ ထိတ်တိုက်တွေ့ RU students staged a Strike to protest the 1920 RU Act
    • (နောက်) Professor, Rangoon University
    • ဆာ ဘွဲ့ရ Sir

  • U Tin Tut & Siblings

    ICS U Tin Tut

    U Kyaw Myint

    Related Posts (e.g. long article by Dr. Thane Oke Kyaw Myint)

    • Barrister, Judge of Supreme Court, Head of Tribunal that tried Galon U Saw, Dean of the Faculty of Law, Politician, Head of private Law firm that defended several people accused by the MaSaLa government).
    • Stood first in Burma from Central with distinctions in all subjects. Sadly, he was expelled from the University of Rangoon for attending his mother’s funeral and earned the ire of the Principal and his father. His saga is recounted in a series of posts by his son Dr. Thane Oke Kyaw Myint.
    • Dhamma friend of my beloved parents. They built Dat Paung Zon Aung Min Gaung pagoda and supported “Mon” Sayadaw U Thilawanta.
    This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is u-kyaw-myint-barrister.jpg
    Brief Bio of U Kyaw Myint

    U Myint Thein

    Related Posts (e.g. Garawa to his elder brother)

    • Uncle Monty was Chief Justice of the Union of Burma.
    • On March 2, 1962, a Coup D’etat took place.
      Arrested along the Prime Minister, Cabinet Ministers, several Sawbwas and high ranking officials.
      During his detainment, he was allowed only one day off to attend the funeral of his spouse (an early Burmese female to be called to the Bar in the UK).
    • Ambassador (e.g. to China).
    • Outstanding author and translator.
    • Pen name : “MMT” (for Maung Myint Thein). His works were heavily censored.

    Dr. Htin Aung

    Related Posts (e.g. article by Win Aung Gyi / Aung Mon)

    • Served as Principal of Rangoon College and as the first native Rector of the University of Rangoon.
    • Prolific writer (covering history, folklore and several topics).
    • “Burmese Drama” and “Thirty Burmese Tales” were prescribed texts.

    Daw Khin Mya Mu

    Related Posts (e.g. article by Daw Khin Saw Tint, Lost Manuscripts)

    • Served as Lecturer in Burmese, Thamadu Myo Win (and family court judge)
    • Expert in Kyauk Sar (stone inscriptions)
    • Spouse : Burmese Professor U E Maung
    • Her handwritten manuscripts were not published due to lack of fonts, and were ultimately lost

    Daw Khin Saw Mu

    Related Posts (TEDx Talk by Nay Oke, article by Daw Khin Saw Tint)

    • Early student of Sayagyi U Pe Maung Tin (Pali scholar, who successfully proposed the establishment of a separate Burmese Department).
    • Khit San Poet
    • Spouse : ICS U Ba Tint
    • Children :
      Sayama Daw Khin Saw Tint (RIT English, bilingual writer)
      and U Nay Oke Tint (St. Paul’s, TED-x Yangon speaker, successful tuition saya, Chair of the Myanmar Board for organizing the 5th ILF (Irrawaddy Literary Festival).

    Daw Tin Saw Mu

    Related Post (Article by Daw Khin Saw Tint)

    • Lecturer in English at Rangoon University