2019-11-04 Dinner gathering, Joe in HK

Dear All,

We had a dinner gathering on 04 Nov 2019 in Restaurant VTC Tao Miao Institute in Fotan. At 7 pm, all nine of us present, NN, Joe, Siu Ling, Mona, Kakoo, Koon Tai, Tomson, Stephen, & Ralph . Joe came back from Canada againto play football competition. He did enjoy playing the matches with 1 win and 3 losses.

We got our table and soon the food came. The first one is a soup. Every one has a nice bowl with a lid. When opened the lid, a good strong smell came out. This soup is made with Panax notoginseng田七 & chicken. Koon Tai asked what is the function of the notoginseng and how it cost? NN said he cannot eat this soup. We know that NN has had heart disease, but not knowing why he cannot eat this soup. NN explained that his doctor told him not to eat notoginseng. We are surprised that his doctor is a western doctor but notoginseng is Chinese medicine, how come his doctor say so. Thinking for a short while, NN said, his doctor told him that once the doctor told a patient not to eat notoginseng, the patient did not listen and died. Stephen said notoginseng is to take away the stasis of blood去菸血 and thining of blood. We seemed to understand why NN cannot eat it, but we can. And Koon Tai again asked how about the cost of Winterbugsummergrass冬蟲夏草, Joe said that the last day he visited Yue Hwa裕華國貨, it costed HK$10,000/catty. Mona said no, no, HK$5,000 can buy already. A voice said now it was saying that it has no real function.

Tomson said the last day he joined a cruise trip to see Aurora北極光. He said that he will never forget this adventure. The boat is going to sail to Iceland, and it is in fact going to Iceland. But the speed of the boat is so slow that they know it will never reach Iceland. Not long later, the boat captain announced that there was a hurricane near Iceland and they will change direction to another island. All of the 1300 passengers were astonished. As there are clever men within the group, soon they found that the hurricane was in Glassgow of Scotland, far far away from their place. All are furious, as they think that the Cruise captain is cheating the passengers just to reduce the sailing cost. As the trick was unveiled, the captain has to compromise to compensate them another cruise with discounts. The boat is of NCL, already a Company with good name. NN said recently he also had a trip to Yellowknife to see it, and showed us the pictures. They are really beautiful.

NN said these days our gatherings has fewer & fewer people. Luckily we still have Siu Ling & Mona joining with us. NN said before we had two gatherings in this restaurant. Last time was meeting with董潔文, a rush gathering as we found her, but she has to go back Australia in 2 days time. Only a few of us could join. The one before was gathering with June簡碧霞 & Godfrey黃國輝. We missed some classmates who seldom joined our gatherings. 鄧智 seldom joined. Alex李國榮joined & quitted with unknown cause.  馮潤鑑 quitted the forum. NN said Fung was happy to join our forum when he came back to us. He quitted cause the things posted in the forum was too left politically. Alex 陳忠信sponsored 秀華children education fund, but still cannot contact. Tomson said the group email account was not functioning. He will do something on email so that classmates not joining whatsapp can have the basic informations. NN said he has some uneasy feeling to some Classmates as he was bullying at that time in TPS. Koon Tai said Bullying the classmates is no good, but he felt very honourable being bullied by NN. He thought that NN being the chief captain of prefects must have good reasons to doing bullying and so he respected up to now. Everybody laughed at Koon Tai’s humour.

The room we sat was a big one with different furnishings. Looking at the furnishings, we began to talk about our eyes. Kakoo said he did not have short sighted and not comfortable on wearing glasses, nor Ralph, nor Siu Ling and Joe. Tomson said these days people used to clear away Cataract白內障, and told us that don’t let the Cataract be too ripe, cause that will blocked the doctor from seeing if the eyes have Matcula黃斑, which is a more serious eye disease occurred in the Seniors. Kakoo said these days science is so advance that they will find you anywhere through your eyeball. NN added that also finger print is something which is unique to you. Koon Tai asked if he can change the face易容, if they can find him? Ralph said if you go to China, when passing through immigration, they have a machine to facing you.  Ralph added, if you looked at your ID card photo which was taken 10 years ago, you have already changed your face. But the machine detected your eyeball and recognized you. 

Food was delicious and soon came to the end. Our talking did not seem wanting to end. Tomson asked should we hold a 55 years reunion gathering. This was unanimously agreed. We then took a group photo and had an early return home this time.

Reported by Ralph Lam

2019-10-22 Our Beloved Sau Wah Passed Away

Dear TPS buddies,


With greatest regret and sorrow, please be informed that our beloved classmate Sau Wah has passed away today. We will certainly miss him a lot and treasure every valuable moments we shared together during our study in TPS, plus the many many happy gathering some 60 years thereafter. May Sau Wah rest in peace, enjoy eternity and be embraced by love of God forever  !

Tomson




Kai Ming :
對秀華的離開，難免有傷感之情，秀華家庭是印尼歸僑，在粉嶺聯和墟開辦誠利百貨店，前鋪後居，兄弟姊妹眾多成朋友談 天說 地之所。君立應是常客而我只是 稀客，只是有一陣子涉足無線電在他指導下成功做了一迷你擴音器，及後他服務華光船務有次坐機到上船地點有到機埸送行，這些小事猶如昨天發生仍歷歷在目，無論如何秀華 的儒者風範永記心中，願他一路走好，永別塵世痛苦。



Tomson : 
秀華學長，博學儒雅，聰敏睿智，謙謙君子，虚懷若谷，學業卓越，年年期試，掄元拔冠，班長要職，非他莫屬，課堂諸事，處理皆宜，老師讚許，同儕羡賞，埔官青史，俊彥典範，如今哲人其萎，我等痛失良朋，能不痛惜！

[憶秦娥] - 悼秀華

秋風泣，良朋駕鶴塵寰別。塵寰別，英魂嗟逝，同儕悲絕。

紅棉春暉惜歲月，埔官懷情千千結。千千結，思憶無歇，哀傷難滅！

懷緬與秀華一起的日子

2019-06-24 Photo Album Of Lotus Flowers by KM Cheng

2019-05-11 Lunch Gathering in Shatin with Ma Sir

Dear All,

We had a gathering on 11 May 2019(Saturday). Soon all of us are seated in Lei Yuen Restaurant in Shatin. Ten of us present, including Ma Sir. Others present are NN, Kakoo, Koon Tai, Tomson, Ralph, Stephen, Alianna, Siu Ling & Woon Yee.

Ma Sir has not joined our gathering for some time. When he comes,we find him a fit fellow, even looking better than us. We can then ease our mind. Still we ask how Ma Sir is keeping the health so well. We learned many things from Ma Sir before, and we don't miss the chance to learn again. Ma Sir said it is easy as he just keeps doing a fast-walking exercise on a running machine(跑步機).Sometimes in the club house, now with a small auxillary one in the house, bought from Osim. But nothing is more important than setting the machine with an elevation of 15 degree. This helps strengthen the backbone.

We continued our chattering and the eating. Alianna said she was studying in Tsung Tsin Secondary School(崇真中學) after TPS, and noticed that a few of our classmates were also in Tsung Tsin. NN said 萬里程, 孫西霖 & 連潤妹 were in Tsung Tsin. Koon Tai was also in Tsung Tsin. NN went on saying that Koon Tai has written a Poem of the Autumn River and give to連潤妹. He then recited the poem to us. We are hearing and can see Koon Tai showing a deep feeling of self content, and keeping a smiling face all the way. With some surprise, Alianna wondered why she never saw Koon Tai in School and why without any connection to her. If you have ever seen a traditional show of the Chinese Changing Face, you will know how quick a face can be changed. Imitating to be serious, Koon Tai has to explain that as he studied one more year there, his relationship to her is already clear cut and she can find him no more in school. We all laughed at his humour.

Some of our classmates has been lost contact, NN said. 陳火貴 has once joined back to us, but then lost contact, as he opted so.Same as 李國榮(Alex Lee), he opted to leave our forum. Woon yee said this is curious, as Alex has been so eager to join back to us. Is it because some of us cannot remember him when he came back to us?  No, though he did not study P6, this should not be any problem. NN said maybe in a few cases he cannot join Alex's invitations, because of busy. Still we cannot understand, and let Alex decide his option. NN said we also missed 陳忠信(Alex Chan).He has responded & contributed to our raising education fund for Sau Wah's daughters. But then he kept himself invisible again. We hope he is going well. We talked about Sau Wah & Mice as well, hoping they are getting on well.

KaKoo said some of us joined TPS after P2, but he joined after P3. Ralph said also joined after P3, as it was said that if you are not in the top 10 in your school, you will not have the chance to sit the TPS entrance examination. Alianna said when she was sitting that exam, her grandfather told her to sit well, and after the exam she will have a cone of ice-cream. Stephen said he met a friend who just put down the name & go away. Ralph said maybe the exam is not so difficult so we all can sit here now. Woon Yee said you just put the thing the other way round. It was because we all passed that exam and those not passed were not sitting here. Stephen said TPS welfare is very good and has eye inspection for students. When the inspection slip came, those with the slip could immediately quit the lesson and  went to Sai Yee Street(洗衣街)for the checking. Ralph said the teeth inspection also. Each time quite a number of us quitted the lessons and went to digging of the teeth.

Time passed easy, Stephen has to go, as he has booked a practice of the Ping Pong. NN said why not we go together, and we then took a group photo before we searched for the afternoon.

Ralph

2019-03-11 A Fascinating TPS Photo Album Complied by Kwok Kit Wah, Great job well done, Bravo !

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5sANVTMI1o&feature=youtu.be

 

2019-03-10 Happy TPS Gathering with Raymond Yau in HK

 Hi TPS buddies,

We have had a nice gathering in Shatin Jade Garden resturant with Raymond coming back to Asia for holidays in Spring 2019. Looking forward to more & more TPS guys coming back for reuion after their retirement.

Tomson

2018-10-16 Dinner Gathering with Hui Sau Wah in Tung Chung

Great to see Sau Wah still doing fine after heavy chemo treatment. We all strongly support him and wish him good success in fighting the cancer. With his determination to win and great amount of love from his family, friends and all of us, he will certainly recover soon in near future. May God gives Sau Wah all the strong support and the strength he needs to become healthy and fine again soon.

Tomson

2018-07-08 Visiting Mice Lee in Care Centre

2019-02-11 Dinner Gathering, Rudy Kwok coming back

We have had a great dinner gathering on Feb 11, 2019 in Jade Garden Monkok, with the very valuable presence of Kwok Kit Wah, Rudy and his wife coming back to HK. For some of us, this was really an exciting occasion because we haven't seen Rudy since we left TPS. It's absolutely great to find him healthy and fine. Hope he could come back more often.

Tomson

 

 

 

Event Report in details by Ralph Lam :

 

We had a dinner gathering on 11 Feb 2019 in Jade Garden Restaurant(翠園酒樓) in Mongkok. Thirteen of us present, NN, Kakoo, Rudy+wife, Tomson+wife, Koon Tai+wife,Mona, Siu Ling,Stephen, Kai Ming & Ralph . Rudy (郭傑華)came back from Canada..

Rudy has lost contact with us for years. Last year end, Joe made a contact with Rudy’s brother and found Rudy. Now we sit together and Rudy said that he can recognize each of us. He was so kind that he said we haven’t  changed our looking.  As we began to chatter, Kai Ming suddenly said: Wait, don’t chatter, I want to put money into your pocket. Everybody was surprised at his speaking. Some astonished, and some smiled, thinking that he was kidding. Then he took out some red packet Lucky Money envelopes showing that he is serious. See this, NaiNai said if needed to give, he will give, and no need for Kai Ming’s money. Kai Ming then had to explain what he is giving out is something special. He said what he is going to give to each of us is a coin of the North Sung Dynasty(北宋古錢), which is valueless. Everyone of us thanked Kai Ming for this.

Ralph said have seen the video of Rudy’s daughter Emily playing wrestling, and said the referee should put her hand up earlier, then the opponent will not suffer too much when nearly cannot breathe. Rudy said no accident has ever come up. The referee has to wait for her to surrender. Nainai said Emily is world champion of the Brazil Wrestling. If you google Emily Kwok, you will find her. Tomson asked if Rudy was living in Shatin when he was in TPS. No, Rudy said he lived in 下禾輋. NaiNai said 許玉華 & 陳火貴 lived in Shatin. They once joined back to us like Alex Lee李國榮, but thereafter lost contact again. Mona & Siu Ling were very surprised that Alex Lee lost contact again. Stephen said he remembered a phrase from Rudy 50 years ago. One day they were in the railway line, a strong wind blowed towards them, and blowed away Rudy’s study notes and blowed out the golden words from Rudy. Rudy said, its good, now the study notes are blown, and no need to study so much for the exam.

Rudy told us how he met his better half many years ago in Canada, now living in Richmond in Vancouver, just having a trip to Korea and come back to Hong Kong.In fact, this is the second time he came back to Hong Kong, last time was in 2018. He said that Hong Kong changed a lot, much different from when he left Hong Kong. KaKoo and NaiNai showed the photos of our classmates in this 50 years to Rudy as well as the several gatherings in Canada. There we have 黃國輝, 郭冠仁, 歐訓佳, 歐穎兒, 陳忠信, 張敏德. NaiNai said regret that he cannot make contact with陳忠信. 陳忠信has showed his sympathy on Sau Wah’s case. Several of us have tried to contact him but no response comes back. A voice said 許華仙 is also in medical trouble and asked if I know. Koon Tai then asked how is your brother’s case? Which doctor is now attending Sau Wah? Thanks for everybody having concern on people near us. Ralph said that his brother did lots of medical checks every now and then but cannot detect the cancer. Though he worries it is, but the cancer index is near zero and doctors told him not to worry. On Sep 2017 he talked to an old medical friend to help checking, and found the cancer index is extremely high, stage 4 with a fierce cancer in liver, and his life should in no case be more than 3 months. This friend referred a Doctor Chan to him, this doctor has a mind to deal with him and my brother followed every word & suggestion from this doctor. Chemotherapy(化療) has no effect in his case and worsen rapidly. This Doctor Chan changed to use a treatment called 吊針免疫治療, a treatment which needs a criterior that the patient’s certain blood index achieving a certain suitable level.  Upon half year treatment, the 11cm cancer becomes zero. Koon Tai said this is miracle. NaiNai asked if he takes any kind of 補品. Ralph said we know many, like 花生衣水, 五青汁、薯仔汁、my brother said he tried all but are no use. Doctor Chan said there may have coincidence happened during treatments, but there is no real medical evidence that these work. My brother now will not take any of these. He is still living in this world. NaiNai asked if he is totally recovered. Mona said you have to see the cancer index. Ralph agreed with Mona. It may go & come again. Siu Ling asked if any side effect with this treatment. Ralph said yes, like sore throat, diarrhea, no appetite, but these are minor, and exercise is very important. NaiNai said better refer this doctor to Sau Wah. Ralph said Sau Wah is now seeing this doctor, but Sau Wah is facing more on the pains which he cannot take away with the other doctors, and is referring to Pain Specialist recommended by Doctor Chan now, see if the 電療will relieve his pain. Mona said it is better if Sau Wah will line up in Government Hospital treatment as long term the treatment will be very costly in private doctors.

Stephen was wearing a special knapsack when he came. Tomson has been asking what is its function. Before we finished our dinner, Stephen said that was for cooling the back and massage the back muscles. Before we go, Stephen took out a purse and dropped out an ancient coin to let Kai Ming to see. Kai Ming immediately said this is of Ching Dynasty, but this one is common as it is plenty. Stephen said then he will polish the北宋古錢 and put inside. Kai Ming made a smile. We ended our dinner. 

Ralph Lam