Wednesday, November 07, 2012

Ralph on Mak Hong Shing



We had a gathering on 3 Nov 2012. But this time is a mourning gathering to give our respect to Mak Hong Shing who passed away. Eight of us is available to attend and represent the hearts of our TPS64. We have friendship of  about 50 years.

As we can remember, Mak Hong Shing lived in Taipo Kou, and his grandfather brought him to school everyday. He has been invited some of us to his house in our primary school days, and we can remember lots of funs in the playfield under the cotton tree.

He married with Sylvia and gave birth to a daughter Sheila, now studying in Australia. Sylvia said that Mak hong Shing suffered from intestine cancer, with pain but not too serious pain, and thought it was some kind of  hemorrhoids. When lastly found the cancer, it came quick. While they were chattering one day, and Mak Hong Shing just passed away, with his family by his side, and without suffering from the usual pain in cancer. Our thinking of the next gathering close to his house is too late. He has gone and we can only hope he will rest in peace.

Among the eight of us present, four have retired, and Kai Ming now has time to undergo his interests, and will be holding an exhibition of his photo shots in the coming days. We then expect Kai Ming to help coordinate more on our classmates as well.

Ralph

Monday, June 18, 2012

More old photos from Mok Kwai Sang

These are indeed very intereting.




A 1949 TPS photo

Tai Po Government Primary School was founded in 1946. Mr.Mak is the first Headmaster.  Attached is the photo when he retired. Sitting near him is Mr.Fung, the Headmaster after Mr. Mak until 1955.  As you may know TPGPS hired flats in the town as its school premises and we cannot identify where the group photo was taken.
 -- Mok Kwai Sang


Monday, June 04, 2012


Dear TPS Folks ,
I just had a holiday trip to Canada with my wife for 2 weeks after my retirement and was much honored to have met some TPS classmates there: Pik Ha & husband (Alwin), Alex, Kwun Yan, Kwok Fai and Fun Kai in Toronto; Wing Yee & Husband (Joe) and Man Tak in Vancouver. I was so glad to find them all healthy, young & handsome and was also extremely excited because for some of them, I did not see each other for almost half of a century! This was indeed a very valuable gathering for me!
Our heartfelt thanks to the superb hospitality from TPS friends in Canada: inviting us to very nice meals plus excursion in Vancouver (indebted to Man Tak for his hard efforts of long distance driving)! Despite the short gathering for only 2 days, we were all overwhelmed in recalling the good old days and those naughty things done in our childhood, ranging from putting nails & coins on the railway, jumping train, catching warrior spiders, steeling sweet potatoes and all sorts of other mischief; we were completely obsessed in nostalgia complex. Anyway, this was how we grew up; we had very simple life as kids but we reaped incredible amount of happiness & satisfaction which we are always proud of.
Attached please find some snapshots of our gathering. TPS friends in Canada are keen to welcome our visit from time to time and let’s hope we could have re-union both in Canada and HK occasionally. By the way, in this visit, I found out 2 more classmates with super memory power who can recall many exact details of our TPS life: Fun Kai and Man Tak, in addition to our memory power champion, Nainai. I really admire them !

Kind Regards
Tomson