In preparation for the Joint School Table Tennis Competition organized by Raimondi College on Saturday, April 28, 2012, WYKAAO had her trianing session on Saturday, April 7.
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Click here for the lively discussion before the training sessin.
I used to travel extensively in Japan, to discover and to cleanse my soul, two decades ago when my son was there. The photos received bring back many fond and soothing memories. I wish to share them with all Wayanites, together with my thoughts and feelings.
What you see, slowly and deeply, is the art of achieving a peace of mind by finding the past from the present, and by appreciating the beauties and rhythms of nature as they present themselves. You should keep in mind that you are a part of nature, not outside it, nor trying to use it, and never to control or change it.
Just go through the photos with a minimum regard for the comments. Discover how serene everything is, be it a street, a building, food in a dish, berries and pine cone on snow, the characters in the signboards, the blue sky and green hills, the cherry blossoms, the furniture and the rooms, the food containers, the mood, the absolute cleanliness…..
Wong Hung-sum, Chui Lim-ming, Ho Hou-chi
I have been playing table tennis (tt) since I was five for almost 60 yrs. I was introduced to tt from my brother, Lim Kwok Chui. At WYK, I learned and competed with other school team players such as Cheung Kwok-Kwong, Joseph Pang, Andrew Zee, Clement Yu, etc and was able to represent WYK and won a few titles including the HKSSA Table Tennis Champion A Grade boys 1964-65 with John Wong Hung Sum and Anthony Ho Hou Chi.
With the sound foundation at tt I bestowed and developed in WYK, I was able to further my progress in tt by learning from other champions and constantly polish my tt fundamentals via physical training, practice as well as applying physics principles (such as mechanics, spring system, motion equations, etc). As a result, I was and continue to be able to win hundreds of tt tourneys as well as coaching many students, including my son Chi-Sun Chui (who won two silver medals in the Pan-American games for USA) and my daughter Jane Chui (who was four-time USA Intercollegiate Women’s singles Champion, she was also the alternate Olympian in 1996 and the 2010 US Open Sand Paper Champion); also Eric and Scot Boggan, Joe Eng who became World Team players for USA Continue reading
詩云：
先生姓Good我姓陳，相逢共事費精神 無中生有施詭計，勸君得勢且饒人
時過景遷年已老， 回首恩怨似浮雲 異國謀生非容易，和而不同路可行.
先生姓好
先生姓Good，名Bob，Bob Good。我稱他好先生。好先生是我大學畢業後的第一份「正經」職業的老板。
Nebraska Soybean field in Schuyler
好先生是一個窮苦學生。畢業於USC 「南加州大學」數學系， 他用了六年時間才修讀完這學士學位，因為他是半工半讀。
晚來一陣風兼雨 洗盡炎光
理罷笙簧 卻對菱花淡淡妝
絳綃縷薄冰肌瑩 雪膩酥香
笑語檀郎 今夜紗櫥枕簟涼
Tune: Picking Mulberries Li Qing Zhao (1084-1155) 江紹倫譯
A gust of wind and rain windup the lingering day
Washing the summer heat away
Her Sheng performance elicits music with such grace
Then beautifies her face light with not a makeup trace
Under a rosy thin dress her crystal-white skin is seen
Radiating an icy fragrance intimating hints
She whispers to her lover beaming with delight
The mat and pillow will be cool tonight
An Interview with Eddie H. K. Wong
Eddie H. K. Wong (1961 to 1968) was active in track and field, football and other sports at WYK. He was recently interviewed by Tim Kwan (1961 to 1969) on his track and field experience at WYK.
1. Eddie, which were your events at track and field?
I mostly ran 100, 200 meters and 4 x 100 relay, but also did triple jump at our school’s track meet because we were required to have both track and field in the three events we participated. I guess it was meant to encourage us to try both.
2. How did you get started?
I think I inherited my love for sports from my father. As a little boy he often took me and my brothers to see a football game. The stadium was always packed and I was thrilled at seeing the players in colorful jerseys running around in the green field. I started to read about the game on newspapers and then I got interested and read the whole sports page, enjoying the analyses and the stories of the players and their achievements.
On entering Wah Yan and like everyone else, I spent a lot of time after school playing football in the sand field, and on the way I often noticed the school’s track team practicing in the grass field. They looked so smart in their green track suit that I wished I could be like them one day. Continue reading
– Memories of the Classical Music Lovers Association (CLA, 1957) and of Music in WYK from around 1952 to 1964
Dedicated to Mr Alexander Wong (1927-2010) and Mr Wilson Hsueh (1924-2008), and In Memory of Jerome Shih (?-2005)
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謝 Cheetahs
豹兒情義薄雲天 麻雀青春結契緣
昔日稚童孫已抱 當時丰采記猶鮮
故鄉何懼千山遠 舊友唯期一睹先
歲月縱能催鬢白 傾懷相笑頓忘年
Thank You Cheetahs tr by Philip Lee
The friendship of Cheetahs is sky high
How it started at the Majong table cannot be denied
Those childhood days had transformed to seniors’ with grand children in our arms
Memories of those high moments followed us and around
While we are not deterred by being far from homeland
Everyone rushed to the reunion in order to shake one’s hand
Time passing by quickly and whiskers turned grey
Reunion with laughs allowed the yester years to be sent away
訴衷情 (宋·陆游宋)·陸游 (1125-1210)
當年萬里覓封候 匹馬戍梁州 關河夢斷何處 塵暗舊貂裘
胡未滅 鬢先秋 淚空流 此生誰料 心在天山 身老滄洲
Tune: Of Innermost Feelings Lu You (1125-1210) 江紹倫譯
Alone I rode ten thousand li so long ago
To the call in arms at frontier Leung Zhou
Now in fading dreams I know not where to go
My cavalier coat of sable worn and old
The invaders not defeated yet
My autumn hair no longer black
Tears shed in vain
Who could expect in this my life
My heart still focusing on mountain-high aim
My ailing body is but a mortal frame
水善不爭
老子在第八章裡以〝上善若水〞做提綱，說明一個行道的成功者如何處理自己和他人，超越時間與空間的限制。……
水的神話
在宇宙的金、木、水、火、土五個基本元素之中，人立足土地之上，以水為生，亦借水創造出最深的哲理，以及最浪漫的幻想。……
和諧生息
中華文化不同。中國人講求和諧、仁義、與順應自然，生生不息、安樂長久，綜合於天道人心的觀念中。……
柔弱美妙
老子用水的特質描述美的人生，强調它的柔能濟剛的力量。……
詩若流水
老子和莊子的文筆都清麗如流水。……
雨中見證香港回歸
1997年7月1日，香港結束一百多年的殖民地政權，回歸祖國主權。……
一國兩制前後
〝羅馬不是一天建成的〞。我回想起〝一國兩制〞構想的一些前提工作。越南戰爭的結束終止了東西方國家集團的冷戰，由美國總統訪華啟開一個新的世界局面。……
香港人喻水
香港是世界歷史中最特殊的地方。香港人更為特殊。……