Welcome to WYKAAO
Welcome to WYKAAO
(July 10 at Mon Sheong Court) Our President, David Wong gave a high-level yet interesting talk on 陰陽五行, 天干地支, 面相, 風水等等. The idea is to introduce to the audience the basic concepts and inter-relationships of the topics mentioned above. Basic it may seem, it certainly takes time and brain power to understand the underlying theories. This is meant to be an introductory discussion; more in-depth seminars may be held in the future depending on interests of the members.
David wrapped up the talk after a brief refreshment break; all attendees held on tight to the handouts with their scribbled notes because they know they will have more than food to digest afterwards (see the pictures here). If you are interested in obtaining a soft copy of the notes handed out in the talk, please click here and let us know.
"I have had a few moments of excitement last week hosting the tour of Her Majesty in Manitoba. Attached please find a few photo shots when I received E II R at our new airport which was still under construction
until September this year. My house was surrounded by securities during her stay at my residence. I did not comment on the English Soccer team in the World Cup when having a conversation with her. I was pleasantly surprised that when she made her speech which was 50% French; her French was very impressively accurate. She must have the genes of her great great great grandfather, Richard, the Lion Heart who was purportedly known to speak primarily French and very little English.
In this article, the author recounts his meeting with Zhou Pei Yuan 周培源, Fung You Lan 馮友蘭, Qian Wei Chang 錢偉長, Guo Moruo 郭沫若, Fei Xiao Tong 費孝通 and Su Bu Qing 蘇步青 in 1970s. "All these scholars were well educated in the Chinese tradition. They also had rich and notable experiences in universities outside of China when they were young..."
Click here to read the whole text.
Eliza and Don Yau (65) married recently. They were in town and attended a welcome dinner on June 24. They brought along a Red and a White which paired nicely with a menu drawn up by Gus Yueng and Andrew Tang. It was a very happy evening.
[Eliza and Don were at our 2008 AGM dinner held at the same restaurant.]
Click here for pictures taken by Andrew.
Jim Fung, R.I.P.
We received the sad news that Jim Fung passed away on June 7 after years of battle with cancer.
Jim was an active member of the Class of 73. He enjoyed soccer, the most popular sport at school, and continued playing Sunday soccer with wahyanites in Toronto before his illness. A solid centre defender of the soccer team, he helped WYKAAO to win the Anniversary Cup in 1999.
We ask you to keep him in your prayers.
Recent policy changes in privacy of Facebook caused quite a stir among social networking communities around the world. Facebook since then simplified (and improved) the privacy settings for users; yet there are some important points to keep in mind (click here) when signing up or browsing through Facebook friends/communities including our very own WYKAAO Facebook.
Donald Ng R.I.P.
Donald Ng passed away peacefully on Saturday, May 29, 2010.
An active member of Class of 1957, Donald and his wife Maggie had been very supportive of our activities. He had put up a brave fight against cancer for some time and was hospitalized since early this year. A good patient, he was always at ease wiith his visitors. Our sincerest condolences to Maggie and her family.
The 4th article in this series, The Miracle, traces how Shenzhen has become the second largest economic city in China, after Shanghai. In 30 years, this small muddy check point, with a name meaning ‘Deep Ditch’, has developed into a modern metropolis. The author attributes its success to the Power of Being Free. Please click the Features Page to read the article.
以「華仁教育、精神、服務」為主題的第12屆全球華仁舊生大會，將在8月20-22日於洛杉磯召開，預計來自全球各地約300名「華仁仔」赴會。除了香港及九龍華仁現任校長及校監之外，加拿大馬尼托巴省首任華人省督李紹麟、國泰銀行董事長、總裁兼首席執行長鄭家發、耶穌會香港區會長狄恆神父等也將擔任演講嘉賓。
Mr Laurence Tam writes, "On 2nd May, Sunday, I was invited by the Hong Kong Culture and Leisure Services Department (LCSD) to be the judge of a sand sculpture competition at Shek-O Beach. Shek-O was chosen, because the sand over there is extraordinary fine. There had been 12 rounds of competitions before this. This was the final round in which five of the winning teams who scored the highest points in the earlier competitions were competing. The winning team in this competition will be representing Hong Kong to take part in the international sand sculpture event to be held in coming August at Kagoshima in Japan.
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