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  • In memory of Saya Allen

    In memory of Saya Allen

    by Hla Min

    Updated : Sept 2025

    SPZP-2000
    SF Bay Area RIT Alumni Advisory Group

    Saya Allen Htay (C58) is a founding member of RIT Alumni International and served as its President.

    He wrote “Brother, can you spare US $500 and more?” for the First RIT Grand Reunion and Saya Pu Zaw Pwe (aka SPZP-2000).

    Saya retired thrice, but his former students coaxed him to un-retire twice.

    With the help of U Maurice Chee (M75), Daw Mu Mu Kin donated Saya’s books to YTU Library. The dedication ceremony took place at YTU on February 26, 2016.

    Saya Allen Htay & Daw Mu Mu Kin
  • Memory is fallible

    Memory is fallible

    by Hla Min

    Updated : July 2025

    အထင်မှား / အမှတ်မှား

    Short Story by Minthuwun

    Minthuwun

    “ဘကြီးအောင် ညာတယ်” ဝတ္ထု (မြန်မာ နှင့် အင်္ဂလိပ်ဘာသာပြန်) ကို ငယ်စဉ်က ဖတ်ခဲ့ရပါသည်။

    ဆရာ မင်းသုဝဏ် ၏ ကဗျာ / ဝတ္ထု တို့ ကို သူငယ်ချင်း စာပေပညာ ရှင်များ က အင်္ဂလိပ် ဘာသာ ဖြင့် ပြန်ဆိုဂုဏ်ပြုကြပါသည်။

    Dr. Htin Aung is

    NOT Bagyi Aung

    ယနေ့ တိုင် ဘကြီးအောင် ကို ပါမောက္ခချုပ်ဒေါက်တာထင် အောင် ဟု အထင်မှား အမှတ်မှားသူများ ရှိနေပါသည်။

    Prof. U E Maung is

    NOT Bagyi Aung

    blogger တဦးက စိတ်ကူးဖြင့် ဘကြီးအောင် ကို မြန်မာစာပါမောက္ခ ဦးဧမောင် ဟု ရေးသားခဲ့ပါသည်။ ထို blog ကို like/ share လုပ်သော စာ ဖတ်သူများ မနည်းပါ။ Internet တွင် misinformation, disinformation, hoax, unchecked facts များ တွေ့မြင်နေရပါသည်။

    U Nay Oke (St. Paul)’s named the Four Main Characters

    ဦးနေအုပ် (စိန်ပေါလ်) က TEDx talk တွင် ခေတ်စမ်းစာပေ ကဗျာ ဆရာ နှစ်ဦး ၏ မေတ္တာ အကြောင်း ကို ကဗျာများနှင့်အတူ ရှင်းလင်းပြခဲ့ပါသည်။

    U Nay Oke’s Talk about Two Poets

    အဓိကဇာတ်ဆောင် များမှာ

    • ဆရာ မင်းသုဝဏ် Minthuwun
    • ဒေါ်ခင်စောမူ (ဦးနေအုပ်၏မိခင်) Daw Khin Saw Mu (U Nay Oke’s Mother)
    • ICS ဦးတင်ထွဋ် (ဦးနေအုပ်၏ဘကြီး) ICS U Tin Tut (U Nay Oke’s Bagyi)
    • ICSဦးဘတင့် (ဦးနေအုပ်၏ဖခင်) ICS U Ba Tint (U Nay Oke’s Father)

    ICS U Tin Tut

    is Bagyi Aung

    ကာယကံရှင်များ ကွယ်လွန်ကြပြီးဖြစ်သဖြင့် “ဘကြီးအောင်” အဖြစ်မှန်ကို ဦးနေအုပ်က စေတနာဖြင့် တင်ပြခဲ့ပါသည်။

    To err is human

    To minimize or eliminate misinformation is desirable

    Thanks to all those who pointed out inadvertent errors and inconsistencies in my posts / writings

  • Memory

    Memory

    by Hla Min

    Updated : May 2025

    Types of Memory

    They include

    • Long term memory
      It is analogous to disk (or similar) storage in a computer system
    • Short term memory
      It is analogous to RAM (Random Access Memory)
    • Photographic memory
      Some people could glance at documents and recall them
    • Associative memory
      Facts are easier to recall if they are associated and chunked
    • False memory
      Some innocent people were victimized by key witnesses with “unreliable” memory

    Study of Memory

    • The study of memory transcends medical research, sociology, linguistics, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence.
    • It is often done by a team of multi-disciplinary experts.
    • Aging contributes loss of short term memory or the decline in the ability to retain short term memory. My younger cousin sister said, “I forgot what I wanted to say”.
    • One elderly could recall names of his primary school classmates, but could not recognize his youngest grand son that grew up in his hands.
    • Memory loss may be temporary. Ko Tin Oo (M87, SDYF, RITAA) temporarily forgot his name, but uttered “I pledged my donation for the YTU library, but I have not made the donation.”The memory lapse was attributed to a fall that hurt his back.

    Memory Feats

    • Mingun Tipitaka Sayadaw U Vicittasarabhivamsa was recorded in the Guinness Book of World Record for his phenomenal memory that he displayed in the Sixth Buddhist Council held at Kaba Aye (World Peace) Pagoda from 1954 – 1956.
    • He not only remembered 8000+ pages of the Scriptures, but he could also point out the variants of some Suttas while he took the Oral tests for the Tipitaka Examination.
    • He passed the Oral and Written tests for Vinaya (Monastic rules of conduct), Sutta (Discourses) and Abhidhamma (Ultimate reality) with Distinction.
    • Sayadaw became the Grand Custodian of the Tipitaka (Three Baskets) and was the key player in the Sixth Buddhist Council.
    • Dale Carnegie wrote that Harry S. Truman won the presidency because his campaign manager could address 50,000+ voters by their first name.
    • I thought that I should try for 500 or 5000 names.
    • Some trained / developed their memory to compete in memory contests (e.g. recall cards, numbers).

    My Memory

    • When I was in Middle School, Chauk Htutt Kyee Sayadaw came to our house to give a dhamma talk. After Sayadaw returned, I recounted the main points of the talk.
    • I have a built-in recorder and a reasonably good memory, but the use of association, chunking, mnemonics, and “learning how to learn” helped to make my memory better.
    • Not everyone appreciated my memory.
    • One person thought that I was dyslexic when I wrote English words and sentences backwards and upside down.
    • I also wrote a few in mirror image. Another said, “What’s the big deal? You just have to remember patterns.”
    • I often start a talk –tongue in cheek — by saying, “My brain is damaged. It’s easy to remember, but it’s hard to forget.”