Friday, December 29, 2006

B71 #20: Class Directory

Full list of U-mates as extracted from 1970/71 directory. Please help to locate each and every one.

區志強 AU Chi Keung
陳秋敏 CHAN Chiou Min Clara Ann
陳衡浦 CHAN Hang Po
陳慶聰 CHAN Hing Chung
陳嘉淦 CHAN Ka Kam
陳禮忠 CHAN Lai Chung, Stephen
陳沛琪 CHAN Pui Ki
陳紹鉅 CHAN Siu Kui
陳達枝 CHAN Tat Chee
陳仰鈞 CHAN Yeung Kwan

陳宗岳 CHEN Tsong Yueh
鄭志偉 CHENG Chee Wai
鄭自良 CHENG Chi Leung
鄭恢俊 CHENG Fai Tsun
張歡鴻 CHEUNG Foon Hung
張士忠 CHEUNG Sze Chung
張玉玲 CHEUNG Yak Ling, Rose
程卓業 CHING Cheuk Yip
趙達萊 CHIU Tat Loi
蔡浩澎 CHOI Ho Pang

周礎剛 CHOW Chor Kong, David
周國強 CHOW Kwok Keung
鄒耀華 CHOW Yiu Wah, Philip
儲富有 CHU Fu Yau, Dominic
朱培慶 CHU Pui Hing, Trevor
朱肇成 CHU Shiu Sing, Stephen
朱華鈺 CHU Wah Yuk, Judy
朱耀成 CHU Yiu Shing
鍾鴻錫 CHUNG Hung Sek, Peter
鍾榮衍 CHUNG Wing Hin, Tom

鍾業華 CHUNG Yip Wah
霍淑嫻 FOK Suk Han
方展榮 FONG Chin Wing
馮志揚 FUNG Chi Yeung
馮佩嫻 FUNG Pui Han, Isabella
夏文洪 HA Man Ho
何振澤 HO Chun Chak
何松年 HO Chung Nin
何福康 HO Fook Hong, Ferdinand
何鴻德 HO Hung Tak

何錦嫻 HO Kam Han, Laetitia
何偉倫 HO Wai Lun, William
何穗祺 HO Sui Kee, Daniel
何如添 HO Yue Tim
葉錦明 IP Kam Ming *****
簡慧萍 KAN Wai Ping, Helen
姜錦明 KEUNG Kam Ming
高志超 KO Chi Chiu, Kevin
江錦鱗 KONG Kam Lun
關利平 KWAN Lee Ping, Lilian

鄺仕成 KWONG Sze Seng
林展鷹 LAM Chin Ying
林超英 LAM Chiu Ying
林鴻標 LAM Hung Piu, Robert
林嘉達 LAM Ka Tat
梁金滔 LAM Kam Toa
林榮標 LAM Wing Biu
林耀鎏 LAM Yiu Lau
劉端儀 LAU Tsun Yee, Rita
劉英 LAU Ying, Stella

李昭儀 LEE Chiu Yee, Grace
李文謙 LEE Man Him *****
李永佳 LEE Wing Kai *****
李若蘭 LEE Yeuk Lan
梁正 LEUNG Ching
梁根培 LEUNG Kan Pui
梁倩怡 LEUNG Shin Yee, Patty
梁時中 LEUNG Sze Chung
梁蕙蘭 LEUNG Wai Lan, Grace
梁永康 LEUNG Wing Hong, Henry

梁榮光 LEUNG Wing Kwong
李錫源 LI Shik Yuen
盧敏玲 LO Mun Ling
羅道縕 LO To Wan, Mary
盧有根 LO Yau Kan
馬兆林 MA Siu Lam
毛耀初 MO Yui Chor
吳家予 NG Gar Yee, Clara
吳佩衡 NG Pui Hang, Helen
伍大觀 NG Tai Koon

柯慧心 O Wai Sum
鮑德明 PAU Tak Ming *****
冼永生 SIN Wing Sang, Edward
薛志雄 SIT Chi Hung, Louis
蘇曼雲 SO Man Wan
蘇定光 SO Ting Kwong, Christopher
蘇宗得 SU Chong Dug
史佩倫 SZE Pui Lan
鄧自本 TANG Chee Poon
湯德寬 TONG Tak Foon, Patrick

曾健明 TSANG Kin Ming, Frederick
謝淑儀 TSE Suk Yee, Doris
曹守愚 TSO Shau Yu, Michael
諸祺璋 TSU Gee Chong
黃仲平 WONG Chung Ping
黃衍慶 WONG Hin Hing *****
王啟芳 WONG Kai Fong, Anna
黃桂芳 WONG Kwai Fong, Eunice
黃文劍 WONG Man Kim, Richard
王武勛 WONG Mo Fan

黃祐怡 WONG Yao Yee, Gilbert
王易安 WONG Yu On, Pauline
黃鈺霞 WONG Yuk Har, Daphne
胡迪乾 WU Dick Kin, William
胡錦柱 WU Kam Chu
吳能明 WU Lang Meng, Anthony
任懿君 YAM Yee Kwan, David
邱曼德 YAU Man Tak, David
邱霜梅 YAU Sheung Mui, Carrie
楊美英 YEUNG Mi Ying, Susie

楊俊傑 YEUNG Tsun Kit, Pierre
楊月明 YEUNG Yuet Ming, Lily
葉殿恩 YID Din Yun
余美雲 YUE Mee Wan, Mable
阮秉謙 YUEN Bing Him
容啟光 YUNG Kai Kwong

Note: ***** passed away

B71 #19: January 2007 activities all-in-one (refer #21)

For January 2007, I have proposed the following activities, but none of
these seems to attract sufficient participation:
a) Hiking on January 7 at 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
b) Dinner on January 10 at 7:00 pm
c) Dinner on January 11 at 7:00 pm
d) Dinner on January 12 at 7:00 pm

一年之計在於春; I hope you share with me that we need a positive start for 2007.

May I propose something new:
(1) Hiking on January 6 at 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm ("6H"),
(3) Dinner on January 6 at 7:00 pm ("6D")
(2) Hiking on January 7 at 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm ("7H")
(4) Dinner on January 7 at 7:00 pm ("7D")



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Given the proposal above, please consider what suits you best:
* Edward Sin + spouse (6H, 6D, 7H, 7D)
* Robert Lam + spouse (6H, 6D)
* Anthony Wu (6D, 7H & 7D)
* Wu Dick Kin (6H, 6D, 7H, 7D)


Total counts
* 6H five (wait for 2 more for hiking to be organized)
* 6D six (wait for 4 four for dinner to be organized)
* 7H four (not likely)
* 7D five (not likely)

Thursday, December 14, 2006

B71 #18: Dec.11 Lunch Photos





Lunch photos
Photo 1 (left):
David Yau, Edward Sin, Chung Yip Wah, Ho Sui Kee, Ho Fook Hong, Leung Wing Kwong, Chu Pui Hing (small part), Anthony Wu (from the back)

Photo 2:
Anthony Wu, David Yam, Tom Chung, Clara Fung, Chu Fu Yau

Photo 3:
So Ting Kwong, Leung Wing Hong, David Yau, Edward Sin, Chung Yip Wah

Photo 4:
Leung Wing Hong, Ho Sui Kee, Wu Dick Kin (standing), Clara Fung, David Yau, Chung Yip Wah

B71 #17: David Yau urges to privatize

HKU BSc1971: "Edward Sin said:
Attention to all. Please respond to #12. Thanks"

David Yau said: Ah eSin, shall we not first privatize our blog before posting our contact numbers?

Edward Sin said: Let me try to privatize it now, and let's experience with it.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

B71 #16: HKU BSc1971

HKU BSc1971 David Yau said:

For those who don't already know, Tom Chung the "naughty boy" should be better known, among us, as Chung Wing Hin. His Christian name, as reported, was actually inspired from his teen-age idol Tom Jones the singer's. Just a tip to remember Chung's new name: Tom Jones but without the "ass"..... LOL

Edward Sin said:

Attention to all. Please respond to #12. Thanks

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B71 #15 : Tom Chung's comment for Hiking on Jan 7, 2007 (refer #21)

B71 #14: Photos

D.K.Wu: Can I attach digital photos to this blog?

Edward Sin: Yes. It's very simple. Just press the picture icon on the top row and follow the instructions there.

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

B71 #13: Dinner on 23 or 30 March 2007

It is proposed to organize dinner gathering on either one of the following dates:
  • 23 March 2007
  • 30 March 2007 (first choice).

If you have the 2007 diary, please mark in both dates now, to avoid forgetting.

Monday, December 11, 2006

B71 #12: Putting information on the Blog

Grace Lee suggests to compile an information sheet with contacts:

For those willing to participate, please fill in as follows (Notation:H=home;M=mobile;W=work;P=preferred contact)
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* Edward Sin 852-9379-3240 (MP)
* Edward Sin 852-2875-7959 (H)
* Grace Ho +44-141-577-9071 (HP)
* Grace Ho +44-7890-114-774 (M)
* Patty Chan 973-535-9138 (P)
* Grace Leung 61-8-8278-8353 (P)
* Ho Yue Tim 852-2464-5228 (WP)
* Ho Yue Tim 852-2741-4824 (H)
* Chung Yip Wah 1-847-644-0200 (P)
* Chu Pui Hing 852-9497-1617 (MP)
* Philip Chow 852-2833-3011 (P)
* Ho Fook Hong 1-604-448-0768 (HP while in Vancouver)
* Ho Fook Hong 852-98-000-478 (M while in HK)
* Wu Dick Kin 852-2338-3783 (HP)
* Tom Chung 852-9093-9045 (MP)
* Frederick Tsang 852-2579-9222 (WP)
* Frederick Tsang 852-9408-8203 (M)
* Lam Hung Piu 852-9474-2848 (P)
* Wu Kam Chu 1-519-673-3022 (HP)
* Lily Yeung Lam 1-514-989-7939 (HP)
* Susie Chan 1-416-592-1980 (WP)
* Susie Chan 1-905-326-9001 (H)
* Sze Pui Lan, Byron 852-9750-7408 (M)
*

Thursday, December 07, 2006

B71 #11: Privatizing the Blog

Please read the article :Jailed for a Blogpost

In a cramped jail cell in Alexandria, Egypt, sits a soft-spoken 22-year-old student. Kareem Amer was remanded to over a month in prison for allegedly "defaming the President of Egypt" and "highlighting inappropriate aspects that harm the reputation of Egypt." Where did Amer commit these supposed felonies? On his weblog.

If the Alexandria prosecutors' standards of censorship were applied in the US, thousands of Americans would be behind bars. The Egyptian authorities' decision to jail an obscure student for his blogposts reveals a larger struggle for free speech playing out between dissident bloggers and state prosecutors across the Middle East.

For decades, the region's dictators maintained a monopoly on public information. Newspapers, radio stations, and national television broadcasts were nearly all owned by the state. These regime-controlled media outlets toed the government line, aligned political opponents, and blocked critical voices. By inverting the watchdog role of the press - where journalists expose, investigate, and question - what should be a critical independent institution was instead transformed into a mouthpiece for government propaganda.

The advent of blogs in the past few years, however, has reshaped the playing field. While some regimes (like Algeria) may still own the main printing presses and control the national supply of ink, any citizen can access free blogging services. Now an individual's voice - even that of a random student at Al-Azhar University, like Kareem Amer - can reach audiences around the globe.

Regimes accustomed to control have struggled to respond. In Tunisia, web publisher Zouhair Yahyaoui was dragged from an Internet café by security forces and tortured into revealing his site's password after he posted a quiz mocking President Zinedine Ben Ali. In Bahrain, the Information Ministry blocked the blog of entrepreneur Mahmoud Al-Yousif for covering a political scandal. In Iran, authorities arrested student Mojtaba Saminejad after he condemned the arrest of several fellow bloggers and "insulted the Supreme Leader."

Protecting free speech in the Middle East hinges on the fate of young activists like Kareem Amer. Raised in a strict Islamic household, Amer was placed in Al-Azhar's religious school system at the age of six and watched as his sisters were forced to quit school and wear the niqab (the full-body black veil). After 18 years in the rigid world of the Al Azhar system, Amer evidently felt trapped. Rather than embrace the religious establishment, he became a critic of discrimination against women and non-Muslims.

Blogging became Amer's outlet - and his downfall. When Al-Azhar officials discovered a blogpost criticizing extremist professors, Amer was expelled and his case referred to the public prosecutor.

Although a human rights lawyer accompanied Amer to his interrogation, prosecutors made clear they were indicting Amer for his beliefs. "Do you fast on Ramadan?" they demanded. "Do you pray?" They even insisted he reveal his opinions on the Darfur crisis. Amer would not retract his blogposts, so prosecutors threw him in jail - and laughed at the human rights attorney present, openly mocking the concept of standing up for individual rights.

Only a few years ago, the arrest of a student at Al-Azhar would have been met with silence and indifference from the outside world. But today, hundreds of fellow bloggers and readers from around the world have raised the alarm. Over 1,500 have sent letters to the Egyptian government and the State Department demanding Amer's release. The technology that has empowered unknown students in closed societies to speak to the world also gives readers everywhere the ability to rally together to protect free expression.

It also enabled Amer to smuggle blogposts out from his Alexandria cell. "A person using his brain and expressing his ideas freely," he observed, "is more dangerous in our country than someone who destroys others' property or deals drugs."

Amer's arrest - for writing on a website few people have ever read - comes as the future of the Middle East hangs in the balance. While recent years have witnessed a surge in young voices challenging the status quo, powerful forces are trying to close down that window of greater liberty. In the campaign to hold Egyptian authorities accountable for criminalizing free speech, much more than the fate of one young blogger is at stake.

Dalia Ziada is a staffer at the Cairo-based Arabic Network for Human Rights Information. Jesse Sage directs the HAMSA project of the American Islamic Congress.


For sanitary and security reasons, we shall be privatizing our Blog soon. Please join in as member the soonest possible.

Saturday, December 02, 2006

B71 #10: Go Hiking on Jan.7, 2007 (refer #21)

To celebrate the start of Year 2007, suggest to go hiking.

Date of Hiking:
January 7, 2007 (the first Sunday of year)

Place of Assembly:
Bus #13 Terminal at Kotewall Road.

Time of Assembly:
1:00 pm

Route:
Walk via Victoria Peak to Pokfulam (1:00 pm to 5:00 pm)

Please enrol if interested
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* Edward Sin + spouse
* Anthony Wu
* Wu Dick Kin

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Borrowed description for your reference:
(路線參考:漁護署網頁http://parks.afcd.gov.hk/ )

薄扶林至龍虎山 (We shall go in reverse direction)

難得幾天假期,一家出外遠足,選一條既可盡興又不難走的路線,最後決定到兩個位於港島的郊野公園,嘗試一口氣走完。

乘搭巴士到薄扶林道起步,經過香港首座儲水庫 - 薄扶林水塘。聽父親說,香港天然水源不足,開埠初期僅依靠山澗和水井供應食水,到了1850 年代,政府因人口日增,設賞金徵求開發水源的方案,建築師匠心獨運,利用薄扶林山谷地形闢建水塘,將雨水聚。工程 1863 年完竣後,附近居民獲益匪淺。

信步前行,未幾抵達太平山頂。相傳太平山原名「硬頭山」,海盜張保仔曾盤踞山上,揚旗為號,故又名「扯旗山」。稍作休息,欣賞維港景色,天高海靜。

沿爐峰自然步道前往龍虎山,參觀松林炮台。炮台位處海拔三百米高地,已有上百年歷史,曾改裝作防空用途,堪稱本港炮台之王。如今營房荒棄,廢堡滄桑,只能從說明牌追憶昔日雄風。

日落前趕抵摩星嶺,在青年旅舍細賞青洲的日落餘暉,短宿一宵,一家共度平靜而喜悅的聖誕。