Articles on reflection of the past and things to remember
My first step of Honors student in the University of Rangoon in 1988 was mixed with joy and disturbances. Universities were not fully calm because of student riots. We could not attend the classes comfortably. But on the other hand,…
(University of Rangoon (Hlaing Campus) I had studied for 2 years.)(Photo by Maung Yit.) The road to Honors Degree was not smooth. There happened student riots because of withdrawing kyats 25, 35, and 75 notes from circulation on September 1987.…
Since my childhood, my father who was a Mathematician and lecturer at the University had been talking to me about mathematics. But there’s one thing was not clear. It’s about the difference between the points of views of my teachers…
My twin brother passed with 2 distinctions in his tenth-grade, and went to the Rangoon Institute of Technology. But I remained in my tenth-grade at high school. He would be one year ahead of me even I would reach the…
My high school life was ease, and happy. However I failed minor tests, or did not have good marks in every subject, I did not care. I always forgot spellings, and meanings in English. I could not remember the important…
When I failed my eighth-grade (8th standard), I was so shocked and felt miserable. The most important thing was, my twin brother passed the exam, and he was going to attend the ninth-grade. I was crying for this catastrophe. My…
The Taming of a Mathematician I was stupid through my school life. I could not get good marks in every subject. In every 3 months, 3 times per year held the minor test in school. I was included in…
(We missed our grandparents when we were at Basin. We wrote letters once per week to grandpa, and grandma.) In the 7th July of 1975, the monstrous cyclone hit Basin while we were staying in the Basin University Campus. After…
My Primary School Life (We were at TTC primary school. I was not happy, but my brother was easy.) (I was at the front role, the fourth from the left, and my brother was in the last role, the fourth…
(We were born as twins, a boy and a girl.) We twins were born in the 14th March of 1968. The same date that the famous Scientist Albert Einstein was born. I do not know we shall become genius as…
(Shwedagon Pagoda.) Today I went to the Shwedagon Pagoda with my aunt, and paid respect at the foot of the pagoda. Before we left I saw a long queue represented the showing of the novitiation ceremony. It was one…
(Portrait of me in 1984, by Paw Oo Thet (Artist).) I started to write about my school life. I was opening my mind in specific. I recalled that I always did not have good marks in the examination. I could…
Introduction (My Life Will Go On, by Junior Win) I started to write in 1996. I wrote because I wanted to write. But I did not want to be a writer. I was not sure for my career as a…
‘Our histories are never dead to us, because we have never forgotten them.’ (Junior Win’s A Memory of My Grandparents. 2015) I wrote a book ‘A Memory of My Grandparents’ to held the hundredth anniversary of my grandparents in 2015.…
In our Burmese custom, during the Thadingyut festival, young people brought foods, or cakes or gifts, and they offered in front of their teachers or adults, and paid respect. My grandpa was a teacher, and he received gifts, and respect…
