Updated : May 28, 2019 U Myo Min Saya U Myo Min served as Professor of English at Rangoon University and later as Professor of English at the Institute of Education. He is a co-founder of the “Khit San Sar Pay” along with Theikpan Maung Wa (ICS U […]
Updated : June 17, 2019 Amateur Historian Despite my imperfect memory, I have morphed into an Oral and Written Historian of my alma mater with the help of sayas, sayamas, and alums. They shared their walks down memory lane and precious rare photos to be incorporated in the […]
Updated : June 17, 2019 Early Encyclopedias “Chamber’s Cyclopaedia” was one of the earliest encyclopedias. It covered 40+ subjects. In our younger days, we had “Pear’s Soap” and “Pear’s Cyclopaedia”. The company was probably building its brand name by supporting the publication of an encyclopedia. Encyclopedia Britannica My […]
Updated : June 17, 2019 The Categories are not exhaustive. Articles Some articles were published in RIT Alumni International Newsletter BAPS Newsletter Dhammananda Newsletter Swel Daw Yeik Sar Saung Swel Daw Yeik Magazine Some posts are written especially for the hlamin.com web site to commemorate (a) the Twentieth […]
Updated : June 17, 2019 St. John’s Dio SPHS
Updated : June 17, 2019 Methodist was founded as a “revival” movement of the Church of England. Methodist became a Protestant Denomination, and spread world wide. Burma had three kinds of Methodist Churches and schools. English Methodist Burmese Methodist Chinese Methodist MEHS stands for Methodist English High School. […]
Updated : June 17, 2019 Names TTC stands for Teachers’ Training College. In the early days, TTC had its own curriculum, which was different from those used in the [mostly all] English schools, [mostly all Burmese] Vernacular schools, and [mixed] Anglo-Vernacular Schools. TTC had a Practicing School. Some […]
Updated : June 18, 2019 Brother Directors The De La Salle Schools (including St. Paul’s in Rangoon, St. Peter’s in Manadalay, St. Albert’s in Maymyo, St. Patrick’s in Moulmein) had Directors and Sub-Directors. I studied at SPHS from Std IV D to Std. X A. Brother Hubert was […]
Updated : June 17, 2019 Saya U Than Lwin (Eric, GBNF) taught Economics at BIT as a Visiting Lecturer. He served as Librarian at the Faculty of Social Science. Daw Myint Myint Khin (Hazel) was Assistant Librarian. She moved to RIT as Librarian. U Than Lwin (Henry, EC69) […]
Updated : January 26, 2019 Before the advent of DVDs and Video Streaming, one has to rely on the Silver Screen. In our younger days, there were fifteen (or so) cinemas in Rangoon. They include President (Thamada) Palladium (Pa Pa Win) Globe (Gon) Royal (Taw Win) Carlton (Yuzana) […]
