Dear All,
After adjourning the dinner, we had a lunch
gathering with Raymond on 16.9.2012 at Lei Garden Shatin. Though no female
classmates present this time, we do have two female guests, Ka Koo's sweet
heart, Charmaine and my daughter Janice. We got a big table and everyone can
sit comfortably.
These years, Kai Ming was so busy &
cannot always attend our gatherings. This time, not only attend, but also
showed us his adventures in the passed few years. The photos he brought us made
us a proud feeling to have a classmate contributed so heavily to the Society.
His photo wearing the Airforce uniform and another one wearing the
helmet standing by the side of the airforce helicopter looks like he is going
to drive the helicopter and then do a parachuting amazed all of us. He also
told us his gathering with Pak Suen in Paris on his last trip to Geneva in
Swiss and reported that Pak Suen is fine and that she lived just close to the
Eiffel Tower. So if any of us paying a visit to Paris can easily have
a cup of coffee or tea with her.
Raymond told us that he had an unforgettable
trip to Huang Shan (黃山). We guys have been talking for years to go there, while Alex also
wondered if this was the case, now Raymond showed us the lead, acting 身體力行, a five
days trip, with 2 nights staying in the mountain. There are sedan chairs you
can take a ride for part of the journey, but people used to take the
option to Walk. Up the hill, you will have to walk about 3 hours. The road is
quite narrow and allows only one person at a time. You have to keep
walking as there are many after you. If you like hiking, this will not scare
you though you are carrying with you a bag of clothes & utilities to stay
in the hotel in the mountain. Well, with a big rainfall such as raining dogs &
cats, your clothes all wet, the camera wet, the shoes wet, the hair wet and the
glass also wet, you can imagine if you still think this is fun. And then up in
the mountain, it was surprisingly cold, about 8-9 degree Celsius. Can
never forget this experience.
Raymond further said, the taste of
food up in the mountain is for the purpose of keeping the hotel customers not
going to starvation, you cannot expect much. A regret to this trip is that he
didn't see the Sun-Rising which is one of the key sight seeing object. Yet
he is happy to see the Sky of Clouds which is marvelous. Raymond said he may
visit Huang Shan again in the future.
Then we changed our talking to the younger
generation, Janice said nowadays the working condition is horrible for the new
graduates. Without any experience and any knowledge of the job, she has been
sent to Shanghai to work a job, morning go, night come back and without any
senior supporting, leaving you one person in an oversea country without any
help. Raymond said his son also experienced similar thing in England. The first
practical training in the Hospital ward, the senior told his son that his son
will take care all the patients in the ward that night, without any experience
& without any doctor to consult if anything will happen. He has to
pray for nothing will happen that night.
Sau Wah reported that Marrow was difficult
to sit. Long time no seeing Marrow, and we shall see if next gathering place
will be close to Marrow's place so that he join us. At our age, we are getting
to retire sooner or later. Kai Ming also retired from CX, and can now do
anything he likes. Tomson chose to learn how to sing 大戲. Tomson,
Marrow, Fan Kai & Timothy were the Beatles-4 when we were P6. Talking
about aging, Ralph said he met a friend with age 78 but looked like 60. Raymond
said he has a friend about 100 but looks very healthy. Then we checked our
ages. It was interesting to know that with the several of us present, NaiNai is
the youngest. NaiNai is so happy about this. This is the numeric figure only.
We all admitted that Ka Koo looks the youngest. Charmaine is so happy that her
Honey just looked like about 30+, and Charmaine also looked like about 25.
Amazing!
We ended our gathering with the good food
in Lei Garden.
Ralph
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