38 YEARS HAVE MADE "LITTLE" DIFFERENCE
Committee Members of your Science Society 1969:
Committee Members of your Science Society 1969:
vs.
Ex-Committee Members of your Science Society 2007:
(Picture taken on March 31, 2007)
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It may be more appropriate to call it The Match-making Committee.
Classmate Ho Fook Hong probably is not making a fair-enough comment:
First, there was no match for each of Lam Ka Tat and myself.
Second, I can testify that the "mating exercises" only visibly began way AFTER the tenure of their office in the Science Society: Ho Wai Lun during the final year and Lam Chiu Ying after graduation.
Third, Ho's comment might not be totally unbiased because he, being a QES boy, could inevitably feel defeated in losing another QES girl to a King's boy. Ho's another classmate Alice Mak, another QES girl and presently Head of Hong Kong's IRS, is also married to a King's boy. But who is to be blamed?
My reply between the lines:
First, there was no match for each of Lam Ka Tat and myself.
[I would just take your words for that.]
Second, I can testify that the "mating exercises" only visibly began way AFTER the tenure of their office in the Science Society: Ho Wai Lun during the final year and Lam Chiu Ying after graduation.
[For humans, mating comes normally a fair amount of time after match-making by a match-maker, if there is one. After match-making there usually follows information gathering, going steady (holding hands), perhaps a few gamess of "hide-and seek", presenting to parents, courting, wedding before mating. Further, I wonder: how come you "visualise" their mating?]
Third, Ho's comment might not be totally unbiased because he, being a QES boy, could inevitably feel defeated in losing another QES girl to a King's boy. Ho's another classmate Alice Mak, another QES girl and presently Head of Hong Kong's IRS, is also married to a King's boy. But who is to be blamed?
[I never thought King's and QES were competing for anything: glory, positions, fame, honours or affection. Girls are to QES boys equals whom they may or may not fall in love of. By the way I had been a teacher in King's for a few months. My personal experience was quite an unhappy one. I felt suffocated for the apparent strict discipline imposed. Secondly, marriage is not a football or a volleyball game. There is no win or lose. Thirdly... I think I had better hold my tongue. But it suffices to say that I certainly envy you because you have something to occupy yourself: 分田分地真忙(毛澤東) ]
Monday, April 02, 2007
How could one outargue a lawyer?
I only want myself to be better understood:
Firstly, by "mating" the always innocent me intended to mean "pairing or bringing two people together" but not the sophisticated definition our classmate Ho wrote.
Secondly, it is not my intention to casue my alma mater to be "antagonized". Afterall, inter-school marriage ( 和親 ) is meant to promote coherence and friendship.
Match-making or not, it is indeed none of my business so I think I better hold my tongue too....
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