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Subject: Happy New Year Author: Ding [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 01:53:19 01/01/03 Wed Dear Everyone of class 80: Happy new year! Wishing you all good health, peace and joy. Also, wishing you a very prosperous 2003. We living in Canada are always long to see old friends. Give us a call if you happen to be in Vancouver. Hope to see you all soon. Ding and family [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: Happy New Year Author: Kho Eng Tjoan Christopher [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 10:54:17 01/01/03 Wed Yes. hope 2003 will be a better year for everyone. Yesterday, I had lunch with a few social workers of a non-Government Organization (NGO). He recommended me to buy a book published by a overseas writer to report the work of our HKSAR CEO, Mr. Tung CW, on 2002. The book costs about HK$56. The first 6 pages are printed with text and the remaining some 40 pages are blank sheets! There is a lot to say about our Govt but we gotta be more careful after Article 23 is gazzetted later! Anyways, work hard, earn more, enjoy life, good health, be good to family/ parents/ friends whosoever, howsover etc. I guess most of us is getting to 40 years old. At least, I am in Nov 2002 already. HAVE A VERY MERRY AND LUCKY 2003 ONWARDS! [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Happy New Year Author: ho fu [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 11:42:23 01/02/03 Thu Imagine the remaining some 40 pages were printed with text. Happy New Year. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Happy New Year Author: Toby [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 23:32:10 01/02/03 Thu I wish all 40 pages were balnk. He's come to the phase when whatever he touches dies. No wonder a while ago a citizen refused to shake his hand during some out visit by the CE. As to Article 213, well yes since the effects are retrospective, all those things said here already will ebcome illgeal and we shall all rot in some forgotten prison. Let's try to remember as many dirty jokes as possible so our prisoan days can be more endurable ! [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Happy New Year Author: Lam [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 13:18:56 01/02/03 Thu Ding If you hope to see us, the easiet way is for you to buy a ticket to HK and you'll see a lot of us here. Happy New Year. For those who have kids, Sing Sing and I are taking our sons to Wah Yan at 3:00pm every Sunday to have football game there with Uncle Ho Fu and some others. You are welcome to join. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Happy New Year Author: Kho Eng Tjoan Christopher [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 14:38:21 01/04/03 Sat Well. Ho Fu is quite a happy person if he looks at the issue this way. Not bad! I wish we were all young again and our life will be much better nowadays! Toby, yes we will end up in prison under Art 23 for our speech but in Mainland China or in HK? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Happy New Year Author: Suen [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 17:04:05 01/08/03 Wed A book with blank pages is a good book where you can write and compose your own story with your beloved ones, no need to be in hand of the likes of T-ungs or S-ungs, etc. We should fight to keep books like that. Ding, I can't hide my delight telling you I have just passed the CFP certification examination. So, I am now in a better position to give advice on financial planning for clients just as what you are doing. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Happy New Year Author: Ding [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 04:59:09 01/09/03 Thu Ah Suen: Congratulations. The title CFP to me is just a jazz up term for a bloody life insurance saleman! I hardly do financial planning at all! Article 23 is interesting. I hear it's worldwide applicable. Ah Lam instead of me coming to HK may be I can set up a refugee camp in Vancouver for you guys(On one condition - everyone has to have at least a dozen dirty jokes - Toby and HoGu will win on this one...) Sure am thinking of coming to HK for years but wife is not willing to come because of our work and son. Who is going to serve our clients if we go away for 3 weeks??? Where do we stay in HK (Both sets of parents are living in Vancouver)? Summer time is too hot for us. Winter time is too polluted for son (who has asthmatic symptoms). Spring time is too humid! Fall time is ideal - low season plane tickets not too hot or cold, dry or wet but Daniel will have to miss school! Mr. Tung might be HK no.1 public enemy but he is Beijing No.1 puppet. As to the book - a blank pages are useful at times. We can cut and paste pictures from Playboy and Penthouse...is that right Toby? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Happy New Year Author: Lam [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 13:38:50 01/09/03 Thu Can't help but think your 'reasons' of not coming back are just poor excuses. If you want to come back, you will have done it long ago, but if you don't then you don't. Simple as that. Talking about trip to Canada and the US, my wife and I are in fact comtemplating one possibly this summer and may therefore need a refugee camp in your place. Tell me what is the best time to take a cruise to Alaska. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Happy New Year Author: Wong Hin [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 01:18:28 01/10/03 Fri Ding, I totally agree with your reasons of not being able to go back to HK. If I may add that being an employee, our vacation time is really limited after you have to take time off here and there to attend kids'school functions and care for them when they are sick. It is simply not time and economically efficient to go back for less than 2 weeks. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Happy New Year Author: Lam [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 14:21:49 01/10/03 Fri So, Wong Hin, are you telling me that this the reason why I have not seen you for 20 bloody years ? 20 years, my friend, is a very very very very very very loooonnnngggggg time ! [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Happy New Year Author: Wong Hin [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 00:55:30 01/11/03 Sat To be exact, it's been 17 years not 20. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Happy New Year Author: Ding [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 02:23:15 01/11/03 Sat To answer your question first. Camp is open for the Cheung family, kids and adult free but like living at a youth hostel, you will have to clean our toilet bowls and mow the lawn (just kidding). I guess you have a point too. I do have excuses but Wong Hin is also right - he speaks out my heart. We feel so exhausted just with daily living and we never actually get things done as a family. The major reason is really getting a travel permit from my wife (All those are her excuses) and MONEY. If I were single then it would be much easier to come to HK! The main incentive coming to HK is seeing old friends and contacts but not the place. Going away for 3 weeks means we will have to make arrangements for someone to willing look after our practise and we will have to trust him or her totally. Also, if we don't have accomodations in HK then it means we will have to stay in a hotel for 2/3 weeks. Expensive stuff. The best time to cruise Alsaka is probably late June to early August. The cruise liners start late May to end of September. You get great bargains at the beginning of the season or late in September but the weather is not ideal. I went on a cruise last year July and the scenery was spectacular to say the least!!! If you can stay longer in Vancouver before or after the cruise then I can be your tour guide to many superb places. The Pacific NW is a BEAUTIFUL PLACE indeed. Now give me excuses of not coming. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Happy New Year Author: Lam [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 08:46:21 01/13/03 Mon Ahhh...Wong Hin, I can see that you are getting old now. The one and only time you came back was at a time when I was not in HK, so I have in fact not seen you for 20 years by now. Ding, except for money, I do not have any excuses of not coming, so it really is a matter of time. And honestly my wife and I are both thinking seriously about doing it this year and personlly I very much look forward to it. That the surrounding of Vancouver is absolutely beautiful is something I have long known. Hoepfully by the time I come I will already have my wife's permission to buy a new digital SLR to take some shoots there. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Happy New Year Author: Ding [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 10:29:10 01/13/03 Mon We can have to whole park to play football with the kids! [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Happy New Year Author: Lam [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 11:09:32 01/13/03 Mon Good. But make sure that's not American football. Football, in my humble opinion, should be a game played predominantly with the feet, not the hands. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Happy New Year Author: Ding [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 13:46:54 01/13/03 Mon I mean rugby fooall! You are dead! Man! I have years of experience playing that game! Ask Toby or Stephen Lau about my injuries!!! I played in the wing for quite a few years and frequently came back to boarding school with stud marks on my chest... [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Happy New Year Author: Lam [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 11:24:02 01/14/03 Tue Forget it. By football I mean football. Anything that is not round shaped is by definition not a ball and anything not played with the feet should not be called 'foot'ball. Amazing how the Americans came up with this name! But we are still very serious about a trip to N America in early August. Have just talked with San Tsai Lo on the phone about this and he said hopefully he should be able to join us then. Maybe you can ask more people to come along. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Happy New Year Author: Ding [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 00:53:46 01/15/03 Wed Yahoo! Wonderful! Perhaps you should ask whether Jason Cheung and family to cruise along with you. As to me I will not be cruising Alaska as I did it last year. However, as I said earlier, I would love to be your tour guide when you are here and also volunteer to be your football(the round type! Hey where is your sense of humour!?)opponent! Let me know the development over the months. You should get Ashley to come too as his parents live in Richmond too just 5-10 minutes from my home and 1 minute from my daddy's home. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Happy New Year Author: Lam [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 08:07:39 01/15/03 Wed Getting Ashley to come along is kinda impossible. Ashley junior no. 2 is on its way to this wonderful world, EDT is around May I think. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Happy New Year Author: Ding [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 07:44:17 01/19/03 Sun I agree with me. However, the idea of a cruise works very very well with families of youngs and olds. Imagine, say, organising a trip to the Canadian rockies when you have a village of people. Where to stay? Where to do rest stops? What type of food to eat? Old people get tired and young get bored...BUT When you have everyone on the ship; Children can go to kids corner, adults can do separate activities and old farts can take afternoon naps. There's plenty to do, lots of port calling, and you don't have to worry what to eat and stay. I met a couple with 3 baby triplets when I first cruised in Mexico. The whole family seemed to be quite relax. Bring your Brazil team jersey when you come. I will have a battle with you with my English jersey! Watch out the well trained hooligan :) [ Post a Reply to This Message ]