Update # 37: Cheung Chuk Shan College alumni overseas link

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Update # 37. July 5, 2001

VANCOUVER, CANADA

[ BACK ] Lo Yin Ping Terry and husband Li Kwok Hay Edward
[ FRONT ] Myself, Au Yuk Hang Peter and his wife Rodensa

Towards the end of June I set off for a trip, driving from San Francisco to Vancouver and back.

At Vancouver, I had the great pleasure of meeting Li Kwok Hay Edward [ F5 1974 ] and his wife Lo Yin Ping Terry [ F5 1976 ] and their two children, and the family of Au Yuk Hang Peter [ F5 1978 ] with his wife Rodensa and their children.

It's been such a long time. I was real thrilled to get the chance of meeting them again after they had left CCSC nearly a quarter of a century ago. (I did meet Peter last year in the Bay Area, though.) Edward Li has a very successful business in real estates in Vancouver, while Peter Au is currently in the top management of a big manufacturer firm for high-end medical equipment.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the two families for their hospitality, and certainly, for the very delicious Japanese cuisine.

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I ran into Bonnie, daughter of former Chinese teacher, Mr Lee Lip Ming, in San Francisco. I was delighted to hear that Mr Lee is in excellent health and he keeps on writing and publishing his work from his home at Pinole, California. Lately he had returned to Hong Kong to receive a prize as a successful Chinese author.

Tin Shun Kam Raymond [ F4 1989 ] visited New York and New Jersey. He had lunch with Lam Ting Wa Terence [ F2 1988 ] who is now working and living in Momounth County in New Jersey. Raymond is expected to be back to HK after July 6, 2001.

Lam Ting Wa Terence [ F2 1988 ] has begun preparing for his marriage, though the exact date of the wedding has not been decided yet.

Li Hiu Fai Hilda [ F5 1991 ], in Hong Kong, is now working in Sybase as consultant doing the IT solutions for clients, mainly in banking and finance. She did a lot of travelling, and pictures of her trips can be found at http://photos.yahoo.com/li_hilda

Fung Pik Yeuk Rebecca [ F7 1984 ] recently met Eric Mok [ F4 1981 ] in the Bay Area. Rebecca writes:

"I was only able to meet Eric Mok and his family quite briefly on Monday. But we both felt very lucky that it did happen. We were once in the same class, but he had moved to Canada after F.3 or F.4.

I actually found him thru your web site just a few days before our dinner gathering. Thanks again!

His Chinese name is Mok Chung Kwong (same as the translation for the Japanese dept store Sogo). He's been moved to Singapore for a while now and is doing very well in the field of advertising.

I also met his lovely wife and two girls, age 3 and 7."

Ko Ting [ F3 1974 ] was happy to be able to get connected once again, albeit electronically, to long-lost classmates Au Yuk Hang Peter, Li Kwok Hay Edward and, in particular, Tse Tin Sing. Ko Ting writes:

Subj: Re: thanks
Date: 7/3/01 4:52:43 PM Pacific Daylight Time

Hi Peter, Edward and Mr. Ching :

Nice to hear from you folks.

Peter & Edward, it's been almost four years since we last met. How's things?

Peter, I am really glad that I now have e-mail address of Tse Tin Sing, my buddy in Form 3 at CCSC. We lost contact for about 16 years. Thanks to technology and of course Mr. Ching, we are now in contact again (electronically).

Hope someday we can all get together again.

Cheers,
Ting

Tse Tin Sing [ F7 1979 ] wrote separately to tell me about his lost-and-found story with Ko Ting:

Ko Ting attended F2C while when I was in 2E. Then we were classmates in F3B and since we were neighbors, we became buddies. However, KT left for high school study after completing the Form 3 school year.....

After Ko Ting went abroad, we kept in touch for serveral years but lost each other when I came to the States in 1984.

I found him again recently in the e-mail distribution list when you sent out the news about Mrs Yuen.

I guess the internet REALLY has changed our lives and made the world closer.

Tin Sing

FROM AILEER CHENG [ F5 1994 ] IN KENYA

news from last week

Those people living in the states, if u like to see nice postcards, pls give me your postal address, again now or never. I have some friends coming to US in July, I shall ask them to do special delivery again. These posts should be able to reach you 99%. (compare to 50% in Kenya, pls take this chance)

yesterday I met 3 mediumly handsome chinese guys from Shandong. I wish I had learnt more mandarin. It is a very small country, we went to a shanghainese restaurant (there are over 30 restaurants) in Nbi. This owner happened to be the relative with the only Chinese restaurant in Kisumu. so she heard about the one and only one person from HK.

CBS will be filming the 4th survivor in North Kenya in Aug.

news from this week

This week the other teachers go on strike too, so I am no missing much lessons.

so I didn't made myself clear last time. Well I was excied with the idea of going to a very developed country after 2 years in developing country. So I am interested in doing either my teacher training or a PhD in the US.

There is never a same day here. Tue was a parents day, so no classes again. I set some fire in the lab. it is very easy to be the most popular teacher in school. Also I sat on he grass with students, tried to learn their names and faces, with all the funny meaning of the names eg Nyadasaba, a boy in F2 with 7 stomaches, Atom another small boy in F2, and Nyena which is a wild animal, of course we have a green monkey and a brown chimpanzee in F4, a black gorilla in F3.

Thanks to the VSO activity pack, or maybe I've been on strike too much. The HIV lesson I gave to the F3 was very enjoyable and soon the whole school heard about it. In my chem lesson, they wanted me to teach them AIDS instead. Then in F4, the teacher after me didn't turn up and I have been away from school for so long anyway. We ended up having a triple lesson instead of a single according to the time table. And strange enough, I had all of my students (normally 70% attendancy)

After meeting 2 guys from mainland china lsat week, I wished I am better in mandarin (though we somehow can communicate. then this morning I met someone from HK. Oh we are so happy.

that's all my news this week. I'll talk again in Kisumu next week.

love
Aileer

[ Appended 7/12/2001 ]
Here comes the "special delivery". Smart Aileer Cheng gave her post card to an American tourist, who then brought it back home to USA to mail it here. The Post Card arrived intact. Thank you very much indeed, Aileer. I scanned the front and back of her Post Card for the others to see. [ NOTE: The woman in the picture is not Aileer. ]

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