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Last Updated: 12 February 2012

2002 marked the year when Wah Yan College held the international conference in Toronto. It was also the year for World Cup Soccer. IC coincided with world soccer and this could only means chaos. The attendees for IC had one ear on the speech but the brains were dreaming of the soccer score. That proved all Wahyanites could multi-task.

The atmosphere was intense. The videos were concise and precise. The spirit was high.

We all wanted to get out of there and watch the final game in the lobby. That was the best conference I had been. We exchanged greetings. We welcomed each other’s endeavours and we lamented over the mis-happenings of our classmates.

We spent our lives search for comfort and support but nothing would match the friendship we built up during our adolescences. That was the true bonding which we should treasure. Somebody said it well, “classmates are the people who see us through life”. Not even our siblings would be able to achieve this.

With the above thoughts we made it our mission to seek out our long lost classmates and bring them in better contact.

We got the process going in 2002 after some wonderful advice from Francis Kwong. We were aware of the number of ’64 graduates in Toronto vicinity and we started building a data base. The networking was extended to cover all Canada. Then we reached our home base, Hong Kong. An Email list was created and we started sending messages out accordingly. It is funny what you can find if you ask. We got connected with classmates from US, Australia, even Indonesia and Hawaii. The idea of a class reunion was appreciated and we moved forward for our first class reunion in 2004, location – Hong Kong. We carried the tradition onto 2006, in Vancouver, 2008 in Hong Kong again, 2010 in Shanghai and this coming year 2012, we have the honour of hosting our class reunion in Toronto.

So look out world, here we come                                                        -  By David Wong

Last Updated: 11 February 2012

Every year the Torontonian ’64 classmates celebrate Chinese New Year with a dinner. It is no exception this year.

We had our New Year’s celebration dinner on Friday 3^rd February. 16 people showed up and all sat in one table.

For $30 each all inclusive (tax & gratuity), we had,

   As usual we enjoyed our dinner but most of all the company.

Last Updated: 10 February 2012

Class reunion II 2006

Location: Vancouver

We piggy backed on the Wah Yan College international conference. The arrangement was very simply. There were social programs organized by the IC committee. We just joined in and enjoyed the fun.

There were classmates who came with their golf clubs and they enjoyed a nice game of golf under the wonderful weather in Vancouver.

We also took a trip to Whistler; B.C. Whistler will be the venue for winter Olympics in the future. The trip was enjoyable, but most of all, we enjoyed seeing and meeting our old classmates.

We spent a few nights at Gregory Yu Tat’s house. His wife Melanie was most hospitable and she allowed the whole gang of crazy old men wasted time till 3 AM in her house. Spending time at Gregory’s place was the high light of the trip

Too sad we had to say good-bye but giving another 2 years, we will do it again                     - David Wong

Last Updated: 09 February 2012

Those were the days when we all looked so fit with bushy hair and strong teeth…

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Last Updated: 09 February 2012

Class reunion III 2008

Location: Hong Kong

China was getting hot. We wanted to visit our mother land. It is a great convenience if we had our reunion in Hong Kong. Besides all this, our classmate Ernest promised to take us for a gourmet expedition in Panyu (番禺).

We went through our usual reunion procedure and then took the train into China for a wonderful trip. The food was phenomenal and the price was more than reasonable.

We stayed in this hotel where they keep an in-house circus and some white tigers; wonder what white tigers tasted like.

I think we broke record at a morning tea feast. We order a total of 94 dishes of dim-sum.

The trip was way too short and we had to return home to Canada.

We missed our friends there too. But friends are not classmates.                                            - David Wong

Last Updated: 09 February 2012

Class reunion I – 2004

Location: Hong Kong

It was never an easy job to get a common consensus in a group of people. We finally managed to anchor on a date. We choose Hong Kong because we felt the first reunion should be held at the place of origin.

The response was good from all the attending classmates. There were ones we would never recognize on the street but we shared a common interest. We were home.

It was fun sitting in a classroom again when we had our morning meeting. We exchanged our greetings and updated each other with our present status. We were all getting older but not much wiser. I kept looking for the guy who owed me marbles. I guessed he did not show fearing he would lose his marbles.

We had lunch at a nice hotel

We also had a gala dinner.

It was a pity we could not stay together that much longer but we will meet again.

We promised each other.                                                                                             - David Wong

Last Updated: 09 February 2012

Class reunion IV 2010

Location: Hong Kong/Shanghai

The year of world expo – we took this opportunity to experience.

We did the tour with the help of a travel agency. The arrangement was a bit more complicated and somehow the visit of Expo in Shanghai took us out of our comfort zone.    It was a grand, massive, colossal, experience going through the Expo.

We had a chance to taste more interesting food than before. Thanks to Ernest again for making the reservations at different restaurants so we could enjoy the local culture. Thanks to Ming for all the little advice so we would not ended up with mud on our face and thanks to Ambrose for his utmost hospitality in treating us a most beautiful dinner.

I am a simple man. I would choose over our classmate than any other worldly vanity just to be closer to each other’s heart.

Time to say adieu and 2 more years, we will see each other in N. America - Toronto will be our next meeting place.                                                                                                             - David Wong

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