How's Everyone? (United States - 1)

What else? I have traveled to quite a few places. I flew more than 50,000 miles on business just this year. And I am not even a consultant! Farthest I went to Europe, I also traveled to different states in the US. I still like California best! :o) I have also joined the San Francisco Symphony Chorus. When at school, I went to Japan with the UCLA Chamber singers. All these choirs are great. People are talented and I learned a lot from them. But somehow, they are different from the choirs in SPCC. I enjoyed the time that I spent in the SPCC choirs despite the vigorous rehearsal schedules. I missed the training and competitive atmosphere in the SPCC choirs and I really missed the fun and laughters that we shared when we practiced, when we were riding to the competition places, and when we were backstage putting on makeup, preparing for our school opera... Those were the days that I will never forget, and those were the memories that I will cherish.

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     Single

Home:
     Los Angeles

I moved to San Francisco and finished my high school there. Then, I went to University of Wisconsin at Madison where I met a lot of old friends from St. Paul's. We spent a good four years in Wisconsin and it was still the best time I ever had. There were a lot of St. Paulians studying at Madison and the reunion was always a big event. The one thing that I remembered the most at Madison was the basketball team. There were several old friends from St. Paul's that I played with, like Wat Chi, Anselm Leung, Daniel Fung, Benny To, Johnson Kan, Alan Leung, and others. We won several championships!!! I hope this web site will be a continuous thing so I can send some photos from Madison.

I studied Mechanical Engineering and continued my study in M.S. Manufacturing Systems Engineering. Since graduation, I moved from Wisconsin to upstate New York in a small town called Norwich. The closest city people will know is Ithaca where Cornell University is. I am currently working for Procter & Gamble Pharmaceutical Company. This is the health care division of P&G and I am working in the production department. This is my fourth year.

Norwich is pretty close to Toronto and I go there often. There, I also have a chance to see my other friends from St. Paul's like Roland Pang, Victor Fung, Jimmy Ng, Weldon Liu, and Kitty Kwan. There are many others whom I forgot their English names, sorry.

I was married three years ago and I met my wife at Wisconsin. This year I bought a Golden Retriever named "Mochi". I will send some photo in the future. He is really cute and he takes up a lot of my time.

My updated address is:
32 Sunset Drive
Norwich, NY 13815
(607)334-3961

Marital Status:
     Married

Marital Status:
     Single

Currently, I am working as a lab technician at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. I am doing molecular studies of a few novel genes in mice ovaries.

Short term plan is to get married... Long-term goal is to get back some experience in the medical research field. and then go to industry or go to business school in a few years.

If anybody is coming down to Texas for whatever reason, I will be very happy to meet up with him/her.

Marital Status:
     Single

After finishing A-Level, I was exiled to California. With all those weird and radical people, I studied Civil and Structural Engineering at Berkeley. After I received my Master's degree in 1994, I was once again expelled to Southern California. I labored at a sweatshop in Los Angeles, designing buildings to stand up in earthquakes.

With all the abuse for the past few years, I seek the assistance of the Anderson School at UCLA. It welcomes me to the warm Anderson family, takes my eighteen grands every year, and promises that I could be a manager some day overseeing the sweatshop operations. Working full time at the sweatshop and serving time at the Anderson family has not been easy. But at the turn of the millenium, I would be ready to utilize my entrepreneurial spirit to open up a sweatshop of my own.

With all these thrills, I escaped a few times to see the other part of the world. I've been to Vancouver (where my parents reside now), Boston, New York, Europe (click and see a few pictures on my web page), Hong Kong, and I will spend the Christmas holiday this year in Florida (more pictures to come), with old friend Andrew Yu (the Silicon Valley executive) and Simon Law (the poor Ph.D. scientist). Guess who would be paying for the restaurant bills :> (This sentence is for you, Andrew)

On my days off at the sweatshop, though it doesn't happen very often, I would go to the golf course and relieve some of my frustrations. Russian Vodka and red wine are my favorite pals these days. But if you visit Los Angeles one day, bread and water for me would be equally appreciated!

Hope everyone is doing well, and I look forward to seeing any of you anytime soon. Let's keep in touch.

Marital Status:
     Single

We are now a registered non profit organization headquartered in the heart of the Silicon Valley in San Jose, where we receive new converts every day. Our club membership now totals 10,243 and is growing by the minute. As the General Secretary of the Club, I am proud to announce that we published 3 titles last year, "Fruicakes!", "All you ever need to know about Fruits", and "The Fruitarian Bible". Other information about the Fruitarian Club can be found at www.thefruitarianclub.org. And I appeal to you, my fellow earthmates, to join us in this worthy cause of saving our motherearth. I assure you that you will find true meaning in the Fruitarian way of life. I eagerly await your calls.

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You see, real life can be so much more mundane and ordinary sometimes. Like most everyone else, I went to school (UPenn), graduated, got a job, and have since joined the ranks of software engineers in the Silicon Valley.

I left SPCC and HK in 1989, after completing my Higher Level (HL) Form 6. My first stop was the stylish and beautiful West Los Angeles, where I spent my Freshman year at UCLA, and proudly became a big Bruins fan in practically each and every sport the university participates in. By the end of the year, Lau (Wa) To, Clarence Lee (Chi Wai), both '88 and HL'89, and I were planning for a HL reunion at the Tech. But for one reason or another, Lau To landed in the 'wrong' Tech, Caltech that is, and Clarence was too contented living in his little house in New Haven and denied the chance to come to the Tech. Thus I was once again a loner in a foreign land.

But that didn't last long... Before I knew, I had found myself in the mix of many old ex-St.Paulians. Maw Lo (F.1-3F, 4A) was a transfer from the University of Toronto, and David Ma (F.1-3F) also came up from the remote Ithaca (Cornell) to join us in the culturally-refined Boston. Both became my close friends in the years that followed. There were also other old folks from SPCC. Kai (Pak) Chan ('87) was the first I ran into at Orientation, and soon, I also got to know Ada Yau and David Hau, both '87. In the ensuing years, even more ex-St.Paulians were seen around the campus: Bernard Wong ('89), my old pal King (Chung) Yu ('88), and Irene Fung (AL '89). There were some older folks as well... Stephen Cheng ('??), Grace Cheng ('??), Alan Fung ('??, at Harvard), etc. Later, I also got to meet Vivian Cheung ('88) when I returned to Cambridge for a visit after my graduation in early 1993. Therefore, those years had been like a mini-SPCC reunion of some sort.

But I must further and better define the community which had slowly but surely become the (divine) means of change for me. The true significance of this group of people (yes, everyone mentioned above) lies not in our common bonding dating back to our old SPCC days... nor in the fact that they are all brilliant students (and far smarter than I am)... but in the fact that, together with many other friends I met at MIT, they became my true brothers and sisters in Christ! It is our fellowship in the name of Jesus that distinguishes them from the rest of the people. There and then, in the midst of great academic battles and struggles with many worldly callings, they stood by me and pointed me to the direction where our Savior and Master would have me troded.

It was no small struggle which I had gone through in order to enter into the ministry that I am now in. I was, after all, a faithful follower of modern materialism, and a good disciple of the Sloan School of Management, who concentrated in Finance and dreamt of making big money... And it is not for boasting that I now recount to you this story, but for gratitude to the grace of God, in calling me and preserving me, and the love and support of all my fellow ex-St.Paulians and MIT colleagues who had enabled me to fight the good fight, keep the faith, and finish the race...

It has been 5 years since I departed from that beloved MIT, and many more things have happened, with and without my old pals. Yet, above all, God remains faithful as He has been throughout all ages... For 3.5 years, I was working in Singapore, where my parents became citizens since I left HK in 1989. I had hoped to enter into theological seminary right after college, but strong opposition from my father led me back to Singapore. Yet I was never contented to remain in the business world. There is a dream bigger than this life, there is a vision further than the horizon... and for that I devoted my life, for that I continue to strive...

I returned to the U.S. in Fall '96 to attend Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, PA. And believe me, theology is tough, at least far tougher than I first imagined! The academic vigor is truly no less than any other graduate schools, and the transition from science to humanities, from numbers to books, from finance theories to Greek & Hebrew... was not always as smooth as I wanted it to be. [If you don't believe me, ask Vivian Cheung ('88), who bypassed her PhD at MIT to take on a Masters of Divinity at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary in MA. Like me, she recently graduated. Congratulations, Vivian!!!] Anyway, by the grace of God, and some added diligence which I have never had for the first 20 something years of my life, I graduated with my Masters of Arts this past May. Right now, I am serving as a preacher and full-time pastoral intern at the Chinese Christian Church & Center in Philadelphia Chinatown.

It has only been three months into the 'real life', but I feel like I have learnt so much. I am working with the English Speaking Ministry (ESM), with a young congregation of about 180, a very vibrant and outgoing group. Apart from regular preaching, I am also working with the college fellowship, consisted mostly of students from PENN. Suddenly, my finance background comes to very good use with many of my students coming from Wharton! But the truly rewarding part of a Chinatown ministry lies in its diversity. While the ESM people are mostly young, well-educated, and situated in the middle/upper class, I also frequently run into others who are more advanced in age, with almost no education, and considered the poor and needy by the common standards of our society. Very often, it is with the poor and lowly that I begin to learn what true service is all about.

I am constantly struggling with my lack of compassion... The 'power game' of the business world, which I have grown to master so well, must now give in to the compassion and mercy of my Lord Jesus. What a contrast of worldviews?! Our culture 'brain-washes' us so much about moving upwards, getting wealthy and powerful, yet I find my Master constantly challenging me to learn the lesson of 'downward mobility', of throwing away my degrees, my intelligence, my (bright) future... things which I lean upon and build my life around... This He said is the abundant life He has come to give... I must admit I am a very slow learner in this arena, but He has been patient with me, helping me to see what true greatness really is, what I should live for, and to find joy in choosing the seemingly 'foolish' way of living... What can I say? But to call myself 'blessed'...

My future plans? The short-run plan is to faithfully complete my work in Philadelphia. In the medium-run, I am considering taking up a PhD program in Historical Dogmatics, i.e. Church History and Systematic Theology (whatever those mean to you...). And in the long-run, I would love to be involved in two things: (1) Strengthening the theological foundation of the Chinese churches, (2) Doing Global Missions Research and Urban Missions, especially among the poor and the needy. Do they sound like two worlds apart? Uhm... but God is a great God, and somehow, somewhere He would bring them together...

Soli Deo Gloria! [That is 'Glory to God Alone' in Latin!]

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     Single