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大埔官立小學

下列同學曾於１９６０至１９６４年間就讀香港新界大埔官立小學，如有連絡資料，請電郵﹕tps[at]drinkeat.com

譚美梨, Rosita Tam, 黃瑋, Grace Wong, 鍾譚芳, 黎碧玉, 古敬華, 方兆麟, 溫玉蘭, 黃開平, 廖浩波, 李長有, 董潔文, 郭傑華, 簡耀雄, 簡振雄, 張嘉猶, 李萬雲, 陳火貴, 許玉華, 鍾素秋, 鍾隸湘, 連潤妹，蔡梅, 劉少雄, 劉國榮.

Summer Holiday (year unknown)

Even after they finished TPS, these guys used to play basket ball at TPS sport ground during their summer holidays. At the far right is Ka Koo's brother, Yee Koo. The big red cotton tree, the natural symbol of our alma mater, is at the background.
On this piece of red-soil ground, we sweated and cheered for 4 memorable years.

Photos taken at the Aug 1, 2009 dinner

Cindy giving some advice to the 4 golden flowers: Janice Lam, Julia Li, Elke Lau and Hannah Tang.
Alex and Aliana, likely the next Lo Yeh and Nai Nai.

The Poons.

The Lis.

The Lam's next generation.

Photos taken at the Aug 1, 2009 dinner

Timothy and Ka Koo inspecting the old photos. At the right is Tammy Poon talking to Mice. Who or what makes Nai Nai so happy?
More joyful moments.

A partial group photo.

At the front row from left are Brian and Lilly, who just returned from their honey moon, Sam Poon, Julia Li, Elke Lau and Hannah Tang.

The happy second generation.

Photos taken at the Aug 1, 2009 dinner

Julia Li, Elke Lau and Hannah Tang ready for their university life after summer.
The beautiful wives.

Timothy, the quitarist; Alvin, the soloist. Watching at the back is Sam.

Sam and Brian, the 2 second generation sons.

Sam the quitarist and Cindy taping the enjoyable moment.

Report from Ralph on the August 1, 2009 dinner at Lei Garden Restaurant, Wanchai

Dear All,

A brief report of the dinner on 1 Aug 2009.

I did not make any counting of the numbers, but the atmosphere was so happy that the room seemed to be filled up with people. It was really unexpected that nearly all the 2nd generations did come with the parents. Quite a number of photos were taken, and I don't know which should be sent into the group, so I make a decision to enclose all the photos, except a few which were of mal-quality. There were many ladies present, and many youngsters present. Will you please guess who is who?

The names (If I made mistakes in the spelling, excuse me, & please amend for me) of the 2nd generations are:-
Alki Lau, Brian Lam+ Lilly Lam, Hannah Tang, Janice Lam, Julia Li, Samuel Poon, Tammy Poon.

Timothy brought us some precious photos of our young days, while we were surprised to see that we were so lovely when we were young. Samuel brought with him a guitar, and we all sang together a song "Today". Timothy also played the guitar, with Koon Tai offered his first song to all of us. Believe it or not, Koon Tai's voice was very suitable for singing. Then Samuel sang a lovely song which was written by him. Was this the beginning of "Green comes out from Blue" ?

How many "Golden Flowers" were there? Who was the happiest one in the dinner? Who was the one laughed most heartily?

Please see the photos and the answer is there.

Ralph

Email from Ralph after his son's wedding

The TPS classmates congratulating Ralph during the banquet.
Ralph giving his lecture or whatever.

The newly expanded Lam family.

The Lams with the TPS classmates.

The Lams with the in-laws.

Dear All,

It seemed a very exciting wedding dinner, 19-7-2009 my son Brian's marriage with Lily. Nobody knows the weather is quite good before that day as the typhoon is imminent, and everybody is wondering whether the wedding party can go on or not. I believed many of you must have prayed for us, and we thanked very much for your prayers which God must have heard and directed the typhoon to ease the blowing. This made my son's wedding party more memorable, and I was accordingly titled "Lo Yei".

I would like to express my sincere thanks to the kind participation to all of you joining the dinner, to some of you who couldn't join the dinner, and should apologise that not all of TPS classmates were invited due to limited seats. We are terribly sorry that my wife and I could not spend good attention to all of you, though I would very much like to bring my wife, my son, my daughter and my now daughter-in-law to see you all before the dinner or during the dinner, and really regret that even the planned photo taking before the dinner was also interupted. They are now having their Honey Moon, and the photos of the night will then be ready after they come back, and I shall gladly let you share with me the joys of the happy moments captured. This is really an exciting moment to all of us and cannot imagine.

Looking forward to seeing you in next gatherings.

Kind regards

Ralph

Email from Mr. Ma to Lee Kwok Wing

Alex,

Thanks for the 2 emails.

Indeed the 2nd one brought specail happiness. Because I really want to know if Vagabond is still there. And how nice of you to tell me it is. And the cost too. At US$70 per night should not be expensive. My impression is that it was clean and tidy enough. At the time the charges were met by my employer the HK govt. . Having lived there for 3 months makes me feel more or less that it is a landmark for my stay in LA. Reminding me of the joggings I did in the surrounding streets and once a black kid girl telling me that I need jogging because I was too skinny, my walking over to the USC campus practically every day to meet people and attend sessions and bringing books back to read, my crossing the Figuaroar Rd to Mcdonnald to buy burgers... Well, all flashed back. All sweet memories. All because I was young then and had ample time ahead. And all because I don't think I can ever revisit the place as I said earlier. Despite that at less than 120 lbs the econ seats would not give me a problem.

Thanks for the accommodation offer. Much appreciated even though no way of taking up.

I agree that the pension serves us ex civil servants quite well. Not having to worry about livelihood is a big plus for a retirement life. By the way I'm now 69. Should be about 12 yrs your senior.

I can see that you would have a very happy mini reunion in Canada shortly. And I'm happy for you to be able to add new old friends.

Real nice chatting with you.

Ma Kai Woon

入學試准考證（鄧永安）

Who could have known that this little piece of paper, dated July 26, 1960, would mean so much?

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