Author: cheok hong chuan
Date: 05-01-12 18:41
Lea,
I am Dapu Hakka from Malaysia like Yoon Ngan.
I worked in HK for about 7 years on and off.
Next time you are back in HK please find out for me, whether the Cheuk Association in New Territories is still active. In Malaysia Cheuk is spelt Cheok.
The present Governor Tsang in HK is Hakka, so is the President Ma of Taiwan [and the previous two, Chen and Lee], and the PM of Singapore and the PM of Thailand!
I am not much into Sun Koh like my father or maternal grandmother. When I was young, and as we lived in a mixed dialect community, the favourite was Lei Tai Soh on Redifussion where you had different characters, one a Hokkien, another Hakka, another Cantonese, and then Hainanese, Chiuchow and so forth including Bahasa!
Good to know that you are Hakka. Do not let anyone put you down for being a Christian. Many Hakkas and many of our distinguished Hakka forebears in modern Chinese history starting from the Taiping Rebellion are and were Christians.
My father was unusual in that he was a member of the Tuck Kow Wooi, which believd in Jesus, Mohammed, Confucius, Lao-tze and Buddha! I am a baptised Jesuit Catholic and I still attend Church every Sunday. Jesuits are quite rebellious and have been excommunicated a few times! In recent times since Vatican II, Jesuits have been influential in changing the Catholic Church to promulgating universal salvation for all mankind!
CHC
2/5/12
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