Welcome to WYKAAO
Welcome to WYKAAO
Loo Wei-Zun, May and Fong-Ying Yu are in town. The 61ers had a dinner with them at Vince Seafood Restaurant in Markham, on Sunday, August 12. Mr. Ho was invited. Wei-Zun, now a Meditation/Qigong Master, and Mr. Ho have not met for over 50 years!
Dominic Lam of Hong Kong Wah Yan College was invited to be a featured artist of the 2012 London Olympic Games. His Millennium Olympic Odyssey II: From the Great Wall to River Thames - Embrace the World was awarded a gold medal among the 500 exibits. The whole story was reported by Hong Kong Tiger Standard.
He wore his Gold Medal received in London on August 3 to attend the International Students' Visual Arts Prize Giving Ceremony on August 4. It was a great encouragement to the young talents. Click here to view the album.
The windows of the Fathers’ Quarters located at 3/F of the Main Building of WYK are 60 years old, most of which are now rusting. Recently, three window glasses fell down onto the carpark. Fortunately, no one was hurt.
The school is not authorized to use any government funding to repair such windows since the Fathers’ Quarters are not treated as part of the school premises. The Fathers’ Community will be held liable if any injuries or damages are caused. In light of the aforesaid, the school urgently need to replace 20 sets of windows at the Fathers’ Quarters at the total cost of HK$90,000.
As initiated by Mr. Stanislaus Keung, all alumni are encouraged to show their support towards the repair works by making donations at any amount. If you are pleased to donate for the repair works, please send a crossed cheque payable to
“Bellarmine A/C” to:
WYK Past Students’ Association
c/o Wah Yan College Kowloon
56 Waterloo Road
Kowloon
The above bank account is the account of the Fathers’ Community
Augustine Yeung and Joseph Wong played host to the visiting Ms. Pauline NG Man-Wah (photo - sitting left), the recently retired Secretary General of the Hong Kong SAR Legislative Council (立法會前秘書長吳文華). She was a good friend of the WYK Christian Life Community (CLC) when attending Good Hope School and Maryknoll Convent School and co-operated closely with us in many volunteered projects of the Hong Kong Federation of CLCs.
Click here to read her latest interview in 東周刊.
Congratulations to Wah Yan College Alumni Association (US Eastern) for hosting a very successful International Conference on August 3, 4, 5, 2012.
Thanks go to the Organizing Committee and its functional groups with many able helpers for their hard work over a year to produce a very enjoyable programme.
Click here to view the list of WYK alumni and teachers attending the Conference. Click here to view the IC album.
Following the welcome dinner on Sunday (July 29), the student ambassadors from WYHK (Vincent Shum) and from WYK (Wilson Fung) had been busy with a week-long program in Toronto, Ottawa and the Niagara regions. While touring the Ontario famous landscapes, they also had an opportunity to meet with two professors (Raymond Kwong ’66 and Raymond Kan ’78) at University of Toronto and gained some first-hand knowledge about education in North America. They also learned a few challenges that the Chinese seniors are facing in Canada and the needs for the existence of organizations like Mon Sheong. Click here to see the pictures that captured some highlights of the activities.
After winning a series of dancing competitions and the last Australian National Dancing Championship (see stories in Magdalen and Philip Did It Again and A Memorable Win), our own ’64 classmate Philip Lee and his better half Magdalen were chosen to appear on the Australian National TV show – ‘Ever Body Dance Now’ (similar to our ‘So You Think You Can Dance’). Their dance show will be aired on National TV Channel 10 August 26 http://ten.com.au/everybodydancenow.htm
Here is the story of how a Wahyanite pushing himself against all odds to become a dancing sensation. Wah Yan spirit won again!
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Fortune in life rarely happens accidentally and opportunities knock only when one is ready to receive it. As immigrants building our lives in Australia, Magdalen and I have been very conscious of time use and how we could get the maximum benefits out of it. After we got married we took part-time jobs on top of our full-time occupations in order to accumulate wealth in a hurry. We managed the birth of our children in consecutive years so that child-rearing could be less drawn-out to allow us to move onto other things in life. We put in all our spare time into educating our three children so that they could get into selective schools and into university. Concurrently we had been diligent and productive, advancing in our careers with distinction. Everything seemed to have fit into place happily.
Philip Lee arrived in Winnipeg, fresh out of high school in Hong Kong, in the late summer of 1962.
The youngest of nine children from a well-to-do entrepreneurial family, Lee held a British passport. He was sponsored to Canada by his sister Angeline, who had moved to the Manitoba capital earlier to study education at the University of Manitoba.
His initial reaction upon arriving in Canada? "Wow, it's so spacious. The air is so clean," Lee said recently.
WYKAAO joined forces with Wah Yan Hong Kong Ontario alumni to host the 2012 Student Ambassadors from WYHK Class of 2013, Vincent Shum (photo 2nd right) and WYK Class of 2013, Wilson Fung (photo 1st left). A welcome dinner was held on 29 July during which the ambassadors presented the latest news from both schools. They arrived on 28 July and will stay in Toronto and Ottawa before heading off to New York City for the Wah Yan International Conference on Friday.
More photos of the dinner can be found here.
If you are interested to join in the fun, please contact us.
2012 WYK Student Ambassordor, Wilson Fung, was at the practice session on Saturday, July 28.
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