Glad to make a report before things being
forgot!
Dear All,
After so many years, Godfrey & his wife
came back to Hong Kong. At the same time, June & her husband also visited
Hong Kong again. Coincidentally, they both came back from Canada & are both
joining their child’s graduation ceremony here. We have congratulations to
them.
A dinner gathering is organized on 13th
Dec 2012 in Restaurant VTC Tao Miao Institute in Fotan by Kai Ming. We gathered
in the Fotan Railway station, and then marched to the restaurant. We have four
couples present, Godfrey’s, June’s, Aliana’s & Tomson’s and together with
Stephen, Koon Tai, NN, Kai Ming, Tang Chi & me, totaled to 14 of us.
It is glad to see each other, & more
glad to see the familiar faces some of us haven’t seen for many years. June has
come back counted some years ago, and Godfrey stayed abroad some twenty
years already, really long time no see. NaiNai of course first introduced Kai
Ming to all of us again, cause Kai Ming is tactful in
many aspects and now got more time to join with us. Tomson added that he got a
lot of of titles which cannot be fully printed in one name card ….front &
back page. As member of the Labour Advisory Board (勞工顧問委員會), one of the
work he did was the introduction of the Minimum Wages in Hong Kong. It was
found that though the minimum wages is HK$28 per hour, the cleaners are earning
over HK$50 per hour. NaiNai got a humor that one day when he is going to
retire, he will pick up the job of a cleaner. Aliana made a suggestion that
anyone can try to wash the “big dishes” at home first.
Food continued coming, and we ordered some
beer as well. Godfrey said he is still working at his own, a specialist in
Rolex watch in Toronto. Anybody with difficulties in watches can seek advice
from him. But he added that with new technology, the faked watches are so
brilliant that some are made with the outlook totally the same, not likely to
discover unless opened. June said she
lived a more leisure life, the funs of making snowman or digging snow are not
so great now. Instead, they like to travel from here to there, visiting small
towns. This is the life many people admired.
Tang Chi said he also retired,
but he is doing another thing…. helping some oldies to sort out problems for
them. Tang Chi said one time he helped an old woman to look for a domestic
helper, thinking that should be an easy job. To his surprise, over 10 agencies
found, but none is willing to work for an oldie. One time he helped another
oldie for a HK$5,000 cash transaction, but turned out to be a Million Dollar
deal of ELN persuaded by the bankers. Tomson explained it is interest linked
investment tool. Koon Tai asked if a deposit got an interest rate of 2% is a
real deposit or not? Probably not all of us know what is ELN, and sometimes it
is a merit to be a good listener, and I am glad that I can
be one. Tang Chi, being an ex-banker, concluded that the
business environment is so keen that the Banks have to go for some value added
services and we should be award not to fall into a trap……or, perhaps into a
fortune unless we understand it.
Stephen got a new assignment recently by
establishing a food shop/ restaurant in Tang Lung Street(登龍街) in
Causeway Bay providing various types of delicious Western Food. This is good
news for the gourmets. This is proved by Stephen using some rice vermicelli
mixed into the lambs meat pot and all of us found good taste and the dinner,
including beer, each costs HK$200 only. Is it marvelous? We ended with a happy
dinner.
Ralph
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