2008-08-18 visit to 湖南 (Hunan) schools ... helps needed!!



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Dear friends,

Wish you all have a joyful Christmas & A Prosperous 2008!!

Tony Lo
25-Dec-2007

Hi there,

The saying “time flies faster as you grow older” is soooo true. The 2007 Christmas is right around the corner while the 2006 Christmas seemed to be just a few weeks ago. We hope this letter finds you all well, brings you an update about our family, and wishes you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

As you can see from the collage, our grandchildren have grown a lot and we have become much older. Our 7-year-old grand-daughter, Sarah, is extremely literate and gifted at drawing. Every time she finishes drawing a picture, she will write stories about the pictures and staple the pages together to make them look like a book. The 4-year-old Nathan is great at assembling puzzles while still crazy about cars. He can finish a 60-piece puzzle in no time. In early 2008, another exciting moment is awaiting us. We are ready to welcome the newest member in the family - Angela’s baby girl!!

In mid-January this year, we finally had our kitchen remodeling completed. During Easter we went to HK to visit our parents’ graves. We took the opportunity to tour Macao, Shanghai and Xuzhou. Macao is Dominic’s home town. That visit brought back a lot of cherished memories to Dominic. His elementary school and high school were still there. He also located where he used to live even though the house is now replaced by high rises. One can hardly tell that Macao was once a small and quiet town if not for a few ceramic street signs and some old trees here and there.

Shanghai is Christina’s home town. The changes in Shanghai are more than we can imagine. This is especially true with PuTong. Christina did not have the luck to find the street, not to mention the house she grew up in. Xuzhou has become an industrialized city. Yet it’s pleasantly surprising to find small houses with black roofs and white walls not too far away from the modernized zone. (You can get a glimpse from the background of the collage.) By touring the streets and shops in old Xuzhou and visiting the temples’; preserved big, old mansions; and privately-owned gardens there, we re-appreciated the poems and essays we learned from way back when. This is our culture and it is still running in our blood. We are proud to be Chinese.

How about you and your family? Jot us a note whenever it’s convenient.

Once again, we wish you all Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Christina & Dominic

好消息！

各位同學：

有人自遙方來，想約見我們一班叔伯兄弟、姊姊妹妹。是誰？
就是濶別多年的 陳繼成 和 黃麗明 同學。大家是否也想跟他們見見面呢！

請記住我們約了他們在 九月二十六日 （星期三）晚六時半，
在 九龍 旺角 彌敦道 倫敦酒樓 相聚，預埋你「四圍走」，風雨不改，不見不散。

到時可能有更多意想不到的人出現，快來報名参加。

請盡快通知杜碧環或李皓光，以作安排。

平社同學會
20-9-2007

Warren Buffet 的訪問

An interview with Warren Buffet

There was a one hour interview on CNBC with Warren Buffet, the second richest man in the world who has donated $31 billion to charity. Here are some very interesting aspects of his life:

巴菲特（Warren Buffet）是世上第二位最富有的人，他曾捐贈三百一十億元給慈善團體。他在CNBC接受了一小時的採訪，以下是他人生中一些有趣的事情。

1) He bought his first share at age 11 and he now regrets that he started too late!
十一歲時他買了第一手的股票，今天他卻遺憾自己開始得太遲。

2) He bought a small farm at age 14 with savings from delivering newspapers.
十四歲時用自己派報紙儲下來的錢買了一個小農場。

3) He still lives in the same small 3 bedroom house in mid-town, that he bought after he got married 50 years ago. He says that he has everything he needs in that house. His house does not have a wall or a fence.
他依然住在那間有三個睡房的小屋，沒有圍牆也沒有籬笆。就是五十年前結婚時所買下的那一間，他說那裏擁有一切他所需要的。

4) He drives his own car everywhere and does not have a driver or Security people around him.
無論往何處，他都會自己駕駛，沒有司機，身邊亦沒有保鏢。

5) He never travels by private jet, although he owns the world's largest Private jet company.
雖然他擁有世界上最大的私人飛機公司，他卻從來不會乘搭私人飛機。

6) His company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns 63 companies. He writes only One letter each year to the CEOs of these companies, giving them goals For the year. He never holds meetings or calls them on a regular basis.
他的Berkshire Hathaway公司擁有屬下六十三間公司，但他從不與這些公司的總裁開例會或常規性地致電給他們。只是每年寫一封信，給他們訂下目標。

7) He has given his CEO's only two rules. Rule number 1: do not lose any of your share holder's money. Rule number 2: Do not forget rule Number 1.
他只為他們定下兩個原則。第一個原則： 不要丟失你任何一個股東的金錢。
第二個原則：不要忘記第一個原則。

8) He does not socialize with the high society crowd. His past time after hegets home is to make himself some pop corn and watch television.
他不和上流社會中人來往，回家後的消遣就是為自己弄玉米花和看電視。

9) Bill Gates, the world's richest man met him for the first time only 5 years ago. Bill Gates did not think he had anything in common with Warren Buffet. So he had scheduled his meeting only for half hour. But When Gates met him, the meeting lasted for ten hours and Bill Gates became a devotee of Warren Buffet.
世界首富Bill Gates在五年前才第一次與他見面。Bill Gates認為自己與Warren Buffet沒有甚麼共通點，因此計劃好只與他會面半小時。但當Bill Gates見了他後，這一次會面竟持續了十小時，而且Bill Gates更變成了Warren Buffet的擁護者。

10) Warren Buffet does not carry a cell phone, nor has a computer on his desk.
Warren Buffet 不攜帶手機，書桌上亦沒有電腦。

11) His advice to young people: Stay away from credit cards and invest in yourself.
他對年青人的忠告是：遠離信用卡，把投資放在你自己身上。

（註: 以上資料由麥婉玲同學提供）

蔡老師二OO七－人心、藝術、真善美演唱會

日期時間：九月一日（星期六）下午七時三十分
地點：尖沙咀文化中心（音樂廳）
門票：$250;$150 (城市電腦售票網)

各位同學：

你們想再次欣賞331當晚蔡玉如三朵姊妹花所唱「萬水千山總是情」的美妙歌聲嗎？
告訴大家，九月一日（星期六）下午七時三十分，「蔡老師2007～人心、藝術、真善美演唱會」，就在尖沙咀文化中心（音樂廳）上演。蔡同學已預留一區域給我們平社同學。門票部份收益會撥作慈善用途。
相信你們一定不會錯過這次機會的。
如欲訂票, 請給蔡同學一個回郵或電話，以便安排。

平社同學會
August-2007