Saturday, January 26, 2013

A Surprise - Tung Kit Man, after 50 years





As you may see in recent emails, Ralph happened to meet a long lost contact classmate, Kitty Tung Kit Man, and we have, before the time passed, had a gathering on 24-01-2013. We did not have many present in this dinner party as this is a bit rush. Place is not important as time of gathering is too close, and food is also not important, as what we are concerned is a long long time friendship. We have Nai Nai, Sau Wah, Kit Man, Kai Ming, Tomson & Ralph.

NaiNai started to say that in last time gathering with June & Godfrey, he had been asking if can find Kitty or not. His dream soon came true, seemed like miracle. We told Kitty that we have been connected together with the Group Email link. And our TPS blog showed our passed gatherings, as well as searching our lost contacted classmates. Ralph said that as a custom, not every classmate did the postings in the emails, some would like to post a little bit more, and some less. Some postings came from overseas just like from your neighbour.

Tomson this time brought with him an ipad. He had put the old photos of  our TPS gatherings, starting from the classroom days, through our secondary school days to recent years so that everyone can have a better memory of the old days, even with clips of the "紀念冊" kept by NaiNai.  Do you still remember what you have written to NaiNai? Some pictures showed many of us joining  picnics when we were about P6. Some pictures showed many of us joining picnics in our teenages. Some pictures showing our old school with the cotton tree. But now the cotton tree in the playground was gone, the school also moved to Tai Wo. And we had a 60 years anniversary dinner there some years ago to celebrate TPS.

Kit Man said she has moved to Australia and first time came back to Hong Kong in the 17 years. She & her husband came back to visit the relatives. In fact they had another dinner party that night, and she decided to split the functions and joined this union with us. Kit Man is still serving the society as a teacher. In leisure time will travel here & there in Australia, and quite settled & accustomed to the life in Sydney. This time came back seemed like a visitor travelling here & there, and found that Hong Kong changed a lot since she left. She said that it was such a short time they made the decision to move to Australia, just like all of a sudden. Same sudden happened when Ralph met Kitty in the restaurant, both passed by, such familiar face, but without the courage to say Hello to Kitty at that very moment. A thought came out if she is Kit Man or not. Kitty already came back to her table, with 3 other persons talking to each other.  Time is lapsing, still wondering  go or not go. With this wondering condition, Ralph went forward for an interruption……. Thanks God, no mistake.

We told Kitty that with the members now sitting in the table, half is already retired. Some of us got the insurance in UK, but in fact never did the move. Some stayed in other countries like US, UK, Canada. Sau Wah had been staying in Australia for quite many years and came back to Hong Kong. Kai Ming last year needed to have meeting in Zurich of Switzerland, and took the chance to travel to France and met Pak Suen in Paris under the Tour Eiffel. Ralph told Kitty that Kai Ming is the Member of  Labour Union of  Cathay Pacifics (CX), and if he says no, the aircrafts will stop flying. Of course Kitty knew this was a joke.

Now is 2013. Next year is 2014, 50 years since we graduated from TPS. Is it possible for us to have another gathering to see more familiar faces?

Cheers
Ralph


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