Cheung Chuk Shan College alumni overseas link UPDATES

Update # 40. August 19, 2001


 

 
HONG KONG

Thanks to Kam Wing Chi Bismarck [ F5 1980 ], from Hong Kong, for sending us photos taken during his visit to Singapore in July 2001. [ Pictures now on Family Album Page 78. ] At Singapore, Bismarck met with Ho Wing Ki [ F5 1975 ] and his family and had a pool side BBQ at his place. Eric Mok [ F4 1981 ] and his wife joined them later in the night. They all had a good time.
 
Tin Shun Kam Raymond [ F4 1989 ] who had finished his degree at SFSU and returned to Hong Kong lately, just informed us he is now working in a jewelry shop.
 
Mrs D Chan retires. After 30 years of devoted service to CCSC, Mrs Diana Chan, Biology Teacher, retires this summer. Mrs Chan holds a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. degree and a postgraduate diploma in education from University of Hong Kong. She has been Chairperson of Biology Panel in the School all these years. Surely Mrs Chan will be missed by all CCSC teachers and students, past and present. We wish her good health and every happiness in her deserved retirement.
[ I only have at hand an old photo dated 1982. Anyone who has a more recent one, please send it to me. ]
 

Thanks to Mr Wat for responding to my request and sending this newest picture,
taken after lunch with Mrs D Chan in a restaurant in City Garden Hotel in June 2001.
Click to see pictures in Family Album

 
Home Pages of CCSC Teachers. Education Department's new policy is to make all teachers not only computer-literate, but also good at it. One of the requirements to show proficiency is that teachers have to be able to produce their own Home Pages. Hence all the teachers at CCSC are busy making their own web pages. We have seen personal home pages of CCSC teachers coming up one after another: Mr J Yuen, Mr Pun, Mr Siu, and Mr Wat, and more to come. For easy access of interested bodies to these web pages, we have set up a corner called From the CCSC Staff Room, in the CCSC LINKS section of this website.
 
The Language Laboratory has been converted into a Multimedia Media Learning Centre.
 
[ APPENDED ON AUG 25, 2001 ]  
We are grateful to Mr Wat for sending us valuable Photos of Mrs S Yuen when she returned to Hong Kong in the winter of 1998. These photos probably are among the last photos she had taken with CCSC people. Mr Wat also scanned the last Christmas Card he had received from her in the year 2000. He writes, "....Please put them up in your home-page so that CCSC students or teachers can see them." The photos are now in the Family Album Page 79.
 

 
SAN FRANCISCO

[ EDITED & UPDATED ON AUG 22, 2001 ]   I met with two CCSC teachers here in San Francisco in the last few days.
 
Mrs Sinn, former Chinese teacher at CCSC who emigrated years ago, has been living in Hong Kong the last few years although she and her husband still go back to their Chicago home a few times a year. Once when she happened to be in Hong Kong for a short visit, she was invited to take up a temporary substitute teaching job. She accepted it but it rekindled her intense love for classroom teaching; subsequently she became a full time teacher again (in Kowloon), and have since stayed as such for several years. Mrs Sinn also has an very strong liking for garden-farming. In Chicago she used to grow a lot of vegetables and fruits and cucumbers. Now in Hong Kong, she rents a piece of land in the New Territories and grows things there. She and her husband attend to her field on weekends.
 
Mrs J Wong, current Biology/Science teacher, is here in San Francisco Bay Area to visit her relatives. She has brought update information about Alma Mater. She liked very much the 200-feet tall Redwood trees unique to the California coast when I brought her to Muir Woods in Sausalito. No wonder, since she is a biologist.
 
Both Mrs Sinn and Mrs J Wong have returned to Hong Kong as the new school year is due to begin in a week's time.
 

 
KENYA, AFRICA
 

Cheng Sau Ting Aileer [ F5 1994 ] continues with more episodes of life as a volunteer Chemistry teacher in Kenya. Currently she is on summer vacation which she spends on the Indian Ocean coast, and is enjoying herself.
 
 
Date: 8/16/01 12:56:25 PM
 
Subj: Hello from the wildlife
 
So I arrived Mobossa in one piece. Mission to the Seaman's-- a nice place with swimming pool free to member and volunteer, sky TV, a church and a bar. So I just turn up here, checking if there is any mzungu around then ask who got a spare bed.
 
TUE. night we went to 3 different pub/nightclub in mobassa, pool, dance, watched football (just like life at home). Went to FordJesus and old town in the daytime and explore around the castle. Walked around the beach and being Chinese I can only see food. Deep fried banana, and all the shellfish on the coast.
 
WED. we finally swam in Indian Ocean. white sand with clear water, the beach is beautiful. The trouble is the beach is really shallow, so after walking 50M, the water level went up to my neck. The water doesn't taste as salty as the water in Pacific Ocean though.
 
This morning, we went to Bamburi National Park. Here are those wildlife who wants to greet you: big birds with big mouth, Crocodile, Hippos, white monkeys, turtle as big as me, onyx. The best experience was, I hold a small snake on my hand and gave it a kiss. the first time was scary, but I think I can do it again and again. Now, my goal is do some fundraising to have a good camera, I was only 10M from these big animals but still couldn't take a quality photo.
 
Let me tell you some more about Indian curry next time, until then take care.
 
love
Aileer
 
Chemists are good at bond formation.
 
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Date: 8/17/01 2:10:43 PM
 
Subj: More about food
 
Hi all, let's continue with my holiday. Today we took the free ferry to an island, walked around then climbed down the cliff on my bare feet. All because we wanted to sit and watch the sea, then I saw some big crab. As you know I can never say no to my dinner, so I followed them. In the end, it was too scary to catch them with my bare hand, so no seafood tonight. The rocks were really rough and hurting my feet. We left and got a bit lost, but ended up in another small beach. White soft sand with big strong waves provided a good environment for massage. Finally we were brown enough to leave.
 
Sharing skills, changing lives (SO theme officially); changing skills and sharing lives practically. We took big banana leaves and weave our locally available hat. We enjoyed it. Everybody was looking at us when we walked back to town. Well they always look at us anyway (with or without banana leaves on our head), this time we enjoy drawing attention, this time we chosen to be crazy mzungu (white).
 
So this will be the end of my holiday in Indian Ocean.
 
Take care.
 
Love
Aileer
 
Chemists are good at bond formation.

 

 

 
 

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