AGM - Pig Lunar Year

I can't remember when did we change the date of AGM from Ang Mo New Year to Ting Nan New Year. I think it happened in early 90s.

We proceeded to HouKor’s palace after persuaded by Kok Chun Khai. We were fed by non stopping serving of food and unlimited drinks. We then had the AGM to nominate and elect Hui Chang. Like the previous years as well, the new Hui Chang also won by one slim vote.


Thanks to HouKor for hosting us and for the pictures. We like the design of the house though not designed by the best architect in Penang (some say in Ipoh and China too). We were delighted by your hospitality and we will definitely go back :)

新年聚餐

With the clear delegation from Hui Chang Pong, Ah Pee and Turkey went for a round Penang Island search for a suitable restaurant. At last, we managed to continue with our tradition, the Chinese New Year Dinner at Equatorial Hotel.

We had quite a good turnout – 17 adults and 7 new generation kids. We could not say much about the quality of the food but the company was great. And the latter is definitely the more important reason.

For some of us, we were extremely pleased to see Ah Chiang and Mun Hua are on track to contribute to additional head count to the Chinese community. Hope more good news from other brothers and Ah So’s soon.

Eow Kuai Pai

I still have few blogs to post on CNY activities and will try to complete all before Chap Goh Meh. Sorry it these are not posted according to first in first out.

Now the story......

We missed 2 big legs – Tua and Elephant – and one 铁头this year for our annual gaming. Like the last 20 years, O Pui and Turkey emerged as the winners. However this year we also have a surprise winner in Lau Ee.

We also came to know that Lau Ee has this 特异功能- ability to recognize the cards from their back sides. The cards for mi-hua A and mi-hua 9 were having small folds and Lau Ee demonstrated his capability to remember those cards.

Hence we decided to swap cards and picked up 2 closet match cards and modified them. We named them as Eow Kuai Pai.

And riding on the Eow Kuai Pai’s, Lau Ee managed to go on winning streak – almost matching Liverpool’s unbeaten home run – and ran away as the big winner for the night.

Hence all the brothers staying till 3am on that morning witnessed the historical event – the first victory of Lau Ee in 20 years.

Next time, please make sure you do not go heads on with Lau Ee when you are playing with Eow Kuai Pai’s.

Reaching 不惑

十五志学

三十而立

四十而不惑

五十知天命

六十耳顺

七十随心所欲,不逾矩

Ah Pee, Happy Birthday!

Dear Eldest Brother Pee,

I think all brothers did not remember your birthday on your birthday eve when we had our big makan at Hai Boay. Our sincere aplogy for that. Otherwise we would have turned it into a wild birthday party.

I am glad that O Kwang, Keun Wei, Turkey, Pong and I are able to have small drink with you on your surprisingly super low profile birthday.

Happy Birthday Ah Pee.

May you have a fulfiled life ahead!

Testing 1 2 3

Hi Brothers,

Low tech people testing to so called blog. Hopefully is the 3rd one to be in. Tks.

Survivor(s) of the fittest

This is the first sporting activity for Wo-Men in the new lunar year – the Hike to 84 of Penang Hill. Since this is a gruelling expedition, it was decided that each region only sent in their fittest brother to participate. Hence we have Turkey representing brothers residing in Penang, HongSoTatt representing brothers residing in KL and Ham representing brothers residing outside Malaysia.

We took the picture with the Chung Ling school logo marked on the stones to commemorate this important event.

One amazing thing that Ham and I found out was the popularity of Turkey among Penangites. He seemed to know every other man/woman we met on our way up and down. Ham and I only met and knew one Andrew Fong throughout our 2 hours expedition.

It was an extremely close race until we reached marker number 18. This was when Ham and HongSo pulled away from the rest (I mean the one) – the evidence is available in this post. Perhaps it's difficult for you to figure out where Turkey was in the picture....as it is really tiny.

At the end, Ham and HongSo registered a photo finish at the 84 marker with 46min 35.25sec. Turkey, at 75kg, was at the distant third with 1 hour 47min 46.21sec. All the brothers were rewarded with great Kopi O Kau, Chinese Tea and Roti Tiao at the finishing line.

The Penang contingent vowed to send in more competitive brother for the race next year. Rumours have it that in the last training session among the Penang based brothers, Lau Ee and Prince vomited even before reaching marker 43; and Ah Pong could not even lift his leg over the bar at the guard house.

Hopefully, we really have a fit brother in Penang.

We have a blog!

"It's amazing a group of old friends still enjoy each others company so much after all these years.Cheers to our friendship; that's the real celebration." - Ah Beh

I decided to use this quote from Ah Beh as the preamble to this blog. I think it's quite appropriately summing up our feeling and the sense of belonging that we have.

This is a blog about Wo-Men de Tong Xue Hui - formed by a group of 24 friends in 1987- and later progressed to 26-man strong tong xue hui. We are into 20 anniverssary year this year. And we are still growing strong as ever - despite we spent lesser time together as a group.

As usual for this year, we have the dinner on the first day of CNY. We then went to Ho Ko's palace for gathering, 3-ki-pai and AGM. Pai seh pai seh, I was elected as the Hui Chang for the next Lunar Year.

This is a simple blog just to kick start. Hopefully this will throw stone attract jade and we will have many better and memorable blogs from fellow brothers. I have sent the access rights to all brothers so as all of us can share the postings. The intent is to have every brother to write and post here - they can be the memories in the past, pieces of advice to fellow brothers, future plans, wo-men activities etc etc.

Welcome on board and happy posting, suaning and commenting!