2006 – Page 3

28 May23:17pm

HOMECOMING CONCERT 2006
“A CELEBRATION”
- A fund raising event of DBS
Tuesday, 4 July 2006
Concert Hall, Hong Kong
City Hall, Hong Kong

Dear Students, Parents, Teachers, Old Boys and Friends of DBS,

The DBS Music Department, Diocesan Boys’School Parent-Teacher Association, Diocesan School Old Boys’Association and the DBS Fund Raising Committee proudly present to you - HomeComing Concert 2006.

This annual event serves two purposes:
(a) to honour the outstanding achievements of our boys at this year’s Music Festival - the Senior Boys’ Choir as the Best Boys Choir of the Year, Senior Mixed Choir as the Best Choir of the Year, DBS as the “Best Music School” of the year and (b) to raise funds for the school.

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Tickets at $100, $300 and $500 will be on sale through URBTIX on 4^th June 2006 (at any of the 33 URBTIX box office).

As part of the school’s annual fund raising event, you are cordially invited to sponsor the event. The following sponsorship arrangement is available:

Sponsorship as “Friends of DBS”	For donation of	Option to receive the following number of complimentary ticket ($500) for the concert and for the cocktail reception *
Platinum	$50,000+	10
Diamond	$30,000	6
Gold	$10,000	4
Silver	$5,000	2
Bronze	$1,000	1

* A cocktail reception (with light refreshment) will be held at the Maxim’s Restaurant, City Hall, at 6.00 pm.

Sponsorship for the event should be forwarded to the School by MONDAY 29^th May 2006 Sponsorship received will be acknowledged by email or phone by 3^rd June 2006. Sponsorship will be acknowledged in the program booklet.

Do join us at the Concert – support our boys and support DBS.

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04 May01:31am

DSOBA 2005 - 2006 Tennis Tournament

This year's tennis tournament adopted a new format by combining both singles and doubles play similar to the Davis Cup. Unlike the single-round knock-out format, it allowed players one more round of play and created team competition in a friendly atmosphere.

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Team Spirit” had players including Clement Lee, Jerry Chang, Louis Wong, Selwyn Chan, Roger Wong and William Wan while“Team Challenge” had players including Ronnie Cheng, Leung Sze Wai, Sammy Tam, Patrick Chan, Eugene Chow and Vincent Cheung.

In the new format, our “NSS” (Not-So-Scientific) seeding system initially ranked the players on each team from seeds 1 to 6. The first round matches had each seed play a total of four games against their corresponding rival seed. In the second round’s cross-over matches, the Number 1 seeds again played four games against the Number 2’s while the Number 3’s played against the number 4’s, and finally the Number 5’s against the Number 6’s. Three doubles matches of 8 games pro-set were to follow after the singles. In the end the team with the higher total of games won would be declared the tournament’s champion.

Team Spirit was up at 14 against 10 at the end of the first round singles with convincing victories from Clement and Roger. Ronnie and Sammy of Team Challenge then scored well in their cross-over singles helping to narrow the gap slightly. By the end of the cross-over singles round, Team Spirit had 27 games versus Team Challenge’s 21. With the doubles left to play, it was hardly a foregone conclusion. Both teams were strategizing their line-up’s hoping to maximize the chance of victory but as luck would have it, rain came soon after the first pair of doubles began play and the tournament had to be suspended.

With the Chinese New Year holidays at the end of February, it took a while until March 26 to resume the doubles matches. Unfortunately we were only able to gather enough players for two matches due the many reasons. This time however, Team Challenge with the help of Sammy, Patrick, Eugene and Vincent caught up with two victories and evened up the score at 37 games apiece.

It was only fitting to bring out the big guns for the final showdown. With the championship title on the line, the top seeds of both teams – Clement / Louis, Ronnie / Sze-Wai made their commitment to slug it out on April 30 under a revised format of best-of-three tie-break sets.

In the end, Clement/Louis claimed victory with a convincing score 6-0, 6-1. Fresh off his campaign at the April’s Hong Kong Nationals, Clement was still as much the dominant player as ever. The final score had hardly done justice to the valiant effort put out by Ronnie and Sze-Wai.

On behalf of the DSOBA, I must also appreciate all the players for their wonderful spirit and love of the game to produce the exciting see-sawing battle sprinkled with fun and camaraderie.

The individual names of the winning team will be engraved on the President’s Cup and souvenir trophies for each player will be presented at the May 11 AGM in Central. Hope to see you all there!

Victor Tan

Class of 1980

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02 May21:16pm

The class of 1976 is inviting all classmates to celebrate together its 30th anniversary on 2-Jul-2006. A tentative schedule includes a 1st July National Day fireworks, DBS school tour and dinner, golf day, drinks and dinner, and family outings.

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Contact: Wong Kin-on (76) at albertwong@swissprivilege.com

2-Jul-06 Sun Main event:

12:00 to 14:00

– Yum Cha, book a restaurant

15:00 to 17:00 DBS

– Sports get together at tennis courts and basketball

– Tea near the tennis courts

17:00 – 18:00

– Tour of DBS and DBSPD

– Photo taking in front of school entrance

– wear school uniform

18:00 – 22:00

– Dinner at Prefects dining room

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01 May20:59pm

Received from Winnepeg, Canada. Apr 2006.

Friend & Schoolmate Daniel,

So good to know you're alive and well, thinking of your old schoolmates. As you may well know, DBS Old Boys are the finest people on earth, but most don't ever write, even with the modern convenience of e-mail. I guess it's because we were brought up half-a-century ago. We made copies by hand. We even wrote lines -- a hundred times -- by hand.

By this e-mail, I hope my DB/GS Schoolmates in Canada, U.S. and elsewhere will voluntarily get off their rocking chairs to send you some photos that I haven't even seen. I will personally follow up with a few who might keep photos of their class reunions here and abroad.

One question I'd like to raise is: When do you think DSOBA will make an honest attempt to reach out and include overseas Old Boys, so we may get back into the swim of DBS family affairs again? If you have neither seen nor heard much of overseas Old Boys or Old Girls in recent years, I assure you that we're not dead yet. Better hurry.

Best from Robert Sung Kien-Tung, DBS'55

From the open prairies, somewhere south of Winnepeg, warm greetings to my DB/GS friends who have kept the faith to keep in touch, sometimes, or once in 50 years. Just want you to know that I’m thinking of you.

I imagine there are vast stretches out there where you can look 360 degrees all around to see only land that meets the sky. People here call it “God’s Country.” No small town in No Man’s Land, because Walmart has arrived, open 24 hours year-round.

I’m in Stromsburg with my wife, to celebrate Mom Avis’ 95th birthday. May we all live this long, in good health, to enjoy two huge cakes, which are now ready for the party to begin. I’m sure someone here will offer a prayer:

I Jesu namn,
Till bords vi ga,
Valsigne Gud
Den mat vi fa.

Amen.

So, we all come to the table, asking God’s blessings of food (and friendship) we receive. Amen.

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01 May20:44pm

Greetings from Washington DC
Teddy Leung '58

Hello Fellow DBS Alumni,

Greetings from Washington DC.

Shall we dance? Shall we chat? Shall we reconnect?

In recent years, every time I stop by DBS, invariably I learn of some classmates retiring and of some reporting to St Pete's Gate, let alone our teachers and headmasters, whose familiar faces and names are on the ever-shortening list. We learn in high-energy particle physics of time reversal. For us, however, the arrow of time is but one direction.

Since graduation we have spread out to seek our world. With the Internet, we have again reconnected. Shall we share our experiences, our achievements, and our sorrows? Here we can find each other again.

“Tho’ much is taken, much abides: and tho’
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are:
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, and not to yield.”

— Tennyson, an abridge from BJ Monks poetry class.

No kidding. Can we once again find those youthful faces in the 50’s
and 60’s in the DBS hilltop? A guy with thinning gray hairs was
grinning at me from the mirror this morning. Do I know that guy?

Do not compute eternity,
As light-year after light-year.
One step across that line called ‘Time’,
Eternity is right here.

Time is of our own making,
Its clock ticks in our head.
The moment we stop thought,
Time too stops dead.

Come on, fellows. Let us dance. Let us chat. Let us reconnect.

Warm Regards,
Teddy ’58.

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27 Apr19:36pm

Newsletter 2006 Spring

The DSOBA newsletter 2006 Spring is ready!

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22 Apr02:09am

New CEO of HKGCC

Alex Fong Chi-Wai (’73) is confirmed to become the new CEO of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce in August this year 2006. He left the HKSAR Government earlier this year, and his last post was the Principal Hong Kong Economic and Trade Representative in Tokyo.

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10 Apr23:09pm

DBS syndicate win at races

Hugo Hui class 78 and his syndicate partner also from DBS Gilbert Fong had 2 of their horses win the races (race 3 and 4) at the shatin racecourse on March 29, 2006.

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24 Mar00:41am

Annual General Meeting & Dinner

The DSOBA Annual General Meeting was held Thursday, May 11, 2006 at the the Chinese Club. The AGM Dinner was be held immediately following the AGM of DSOBA Ltd. This was a good opportunity for all members to get together for fellowship in a casual setting.

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President	Victor Tan (80)	Subcommittee
Vice President	SAL Rahman Desmond Yip (82) Terrence Chang (Hon) (65)	Social	Alvin Li (86) Kasim Fattedad (97)
IPP	Stanley Fong (78)	Club activities	Lawrence Lee (74)
Treasurer	George Hong Choy (79)	Newsletter and Internet	Daniel Ma (76)
Hon Trasurer	Daniel Wan (82)	Mentor	Lau Pau (76) Kasim Fattedad (97)
Committee	Tony Choi (75) Raymond Chu (78) Henry Leung (74) Richard Leung (66) Horace Chan (66)	Membership	Daniel Wan (82) Marc Wong (03)
		Ball Chairman	George Hong Choy (79)
		Rules	Selwyn Chan (77)

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19 Mar12:57pm

The untold story of the future of Hong Kong
Steve Chan ('75), 12 Jan 2006
So Chit Restaurant, Central.

Do you know that Hong Kong is detined to have a female CE just because the CEs have forgotten to seek fung shui master's expert advice before their decision to move and build the future government headquarters to Tamar?

Do you know that the harbour view from the Peak will be interrupted by the proposed government headquarters?

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Do you know that the government is taking the lead to ignore the established Urban Design Guidelines which says that developments should not reduce the amount of harbour surface visible from the peak?

Do you that our governement by her committment has to carry out sustainability assessments on any proposals, but the Tamar proposal has skipped such assessment?

It isnt surprising that your answer, like those from the public, are NO. It is difficult for the public (even for DSOBA smart guys) to fully understand the issues involved, as the vital information is either missing or difficult to find.

About Steve Chan ('75)

A part time professional architect (as hobby), amateur photographer (for bread and butter), regular (irregular) writer and commentator, a production (non-productive) politician,

..and a full time bird-watcher.

Won an award at a Hong Kong Design open competition, a few photographs published by Time magazine, a few articles published by SCMP, and a lot more are put to rest RIP in clients and editors bins. Personal photographic exhibition sponsored by committee for promotion of arts, HKU.

Contact: stevevfc@gmail.com

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