Annual General Meeting

On Friday November 18, 2022, HKUAAO held its first in-person AGM and Dinner after more than three years. The event was held at the Lobster Port Chinese Restaurant in Thornhill.

AGM started promptly at 6 pm with Tim Cheng acting as the Chair and Agnes Man as the Secretary of the meeting. The meeting went smoothly and swiftly, approved the annual report, the financial report and passed the by-law amendments to extend the timing in-between AGM to 15 months maximum and to assert that the Association meets the audit exemption criteria.

The new Board of Directors and advisors were elected with Margaret Law elected as the new President. The other executive positions will be elected in the first board meeting following the AGM. The new Board is as follows:

Honorary Chairman – Professor Lap-Chee Tsui

Advisors – Ms. Irene Chu

                  Mrs. Peggy Sum

                  Mr. Bassanio So

President – Ms. Margaret Law

Directors – Mr. Dennis Au-Yeung

                 Ms. Agnes Man

                 Mr. Raymond Leung

                 Mr. Verdi Yau

                 Ms. Maggie Poon

                 Mr. Franki Cheng

                  Mrs. Winnie Fung

                  Mr. Hilton Lok

                  Ms. Lilian Ma

                   Mr. Tim Cheng

We accepted the resignation of Mr. Augustine Chan and Mr. Romeo Au from the Board and thanked them for their services to the Association.

AGM Dinner

Dinner reception started at 6:30 pm and all guested were seated by 7 pm. This year’s attendance was beyond our expectations with over 140 alumni, families, guests, presidents, and friends from JU. Margaret was the MC of the evening and started with introducing our guests and table prize draws.  Ms. Emily Mo was our guest of honour. She made a vivid presentation to update us on the recent developments in Hong Kong. She was also our guest of honour 3 years ago in 2019. How time flies! We presented her with a plaque bearing a distinctive HKU emblem to thank her for her ongoing support of our AA.

The dinner was delicious which included 8 lbs of stir-fried lobsters and other sumptuous dishes. The new Board and advisors were introduced, and the two retiring VPs were presented with plaques to recognise their long and dedicated services to the Association. We recognized all the newcomers among us, over twenty of them, who are younger alumni and will be the future pillars of the AA. We also recognized the coordinators and members of our interest groups, including the table tennis group who turned out in large numbers to support this dinner event.

We enjoyed the singing performances from Margaret and Verdi’s family. Verdi and Maggie’s daughter, Vincy, took the spotlight and sang in chorus with Verdi and Thomas Law the song “I want it that way”. The performers were presented with flower bouquets by the two cute little girls. Romeo’s game of “name that tune” was our favourite and engaging. Winners were presented with boxes of chocolates to share.

The final event was lucky draw which was always popular with our guests. With over 20 prizes donated by our directors and guests, there were many lucky one who went home very happy! The party ended with the MC thanked all volunteers, restaurant staff and all attendees who together made the event so enjoyable.

Reported by Tim Cheng

Click here to view photo album (Photos taken by Hilton Lok)

Click here to view photo album (Photos taken by Beaker Fung)

(Please note that HKUAAO AGM dinner is another event, for more information, please click here)

Finally Hong Kong Joint Universities Alumni (Ontario) HKJU will organize a banquet after 3 years (our last banquet was on Oct 6, 2019). We all understand the COVID19 is not over yet, however, it is in a ‘stable’ condition and we all take high alert to protect ourselves and others. Therefore HKJU committee considers it’s time for us to meet again.  

2022 HKJU 校友歲末聚餐  

Date: Saturday Nov. 12, 2022 

Venue: 黃金閣鮑翅海鮮酒家Golden Court Abalone Restaurant 

270 West Beaver Creek Rd, Richmond Hill, ON L4B 3Y9 

Cost: $55.00 

Reception: 6:00 p.m. 

Dinner: 6:30 p.m. 

Registration Closed: Wednesday Nov 2, 2022 

Please register through augustinetoronto@hotmail.com 416-930-3666 or romeoyhau@hotmail.com 416-529-3361 

Each alumni association will be responsible 1 performance item in any format, we appeal here to those who are interested and please contact me in the above email or mobile phone. 

We look forward to seeing you all to share our experience in the last three years. 

Stay safe, happy and healthy. 

North Greenwood Conservation Area, Pickering – Sunday Oct 2, 2022

Fall in Ontario is beautiful and is a good time for outdoor activities and hiking. Every year, except in the peak of the pandemic, HKUAAO, in cooperation with the Tai Chi Group under Tom Wong, had organized a hiking in the fall to enjoy the beauty of Nature. This year our hiking trail is in the North Greenwood Conservation Area in Pickering on Sunday October 2, 2022.

It is a nice fall day. We had a huge turnout, close to 60 people, including many of the younger, energetic alumni who are newcomers to Ontario. After taking a group picture, the group embarked on the trail. Initially there were some uphill but that did not present any difficulty at all. The trail was relatively easy and scenic. Part of our trail was along a river, and we spotted some large salmons struggling to swim upstream to give birth to the next generation. We had the enthusiastic photographers among us who took quite a few pictures to share with the group. In addition to enjoying the beautiful outdoor, our alumni used the opportunity to socialize, to catch up with one another.

The hike started at 2 pm and finished at around 4:30. Most of the group then headed to Sam Woo Chinese Restaurant in Scarborough to enjoy a nice delicious multi-course dinner served with wine and dessert. Our 5 tables+ were the noisy bunch but added a lot of live atmosphere to the restaurant! We departed fully contended.

Many thanks went to Liza Tsui who spent hours to help organize the hike, and to the others who helped to keep the hiking safe and smooth.  Of course, we thank everyone for participating in this event. See you all next Spring!

Reported by Tim Cheng

HKJU had organized a picnic on Sunday July 17, 2022 in Darlington Provincial Park. The weather is perfect, no rain and bearable hot. HKUAAO has over 20 participants including our president Tim Cheng, past president Lilian Ma and alumni Margaret Liu, Christina Jong, Darius Wong, TC Kwan and Sidney Chu. I am glad we have new blood joining the picnic like Thomas Law, Zoe Li, Elaine Ng and Lok Yi Lam (with the latter two just came to Toronto recently). 

May I take this opportunity to thank Liza for all the logistic work of collecting fee, distributing JU souvenir, organizing games teams and helping Tim’s wife, Annie to master the food counter. Thomas Law, our surgeon to dissect the water melons in an appropriate size to feed us all. A strong team of Zoe, Lok Yi, TC, Wendy, Sidney, Sandie and Darius to help unloading stuff and doing all chores for us. Hats off to Lilian and Tim for picking up/dropping off alumni. After all, I just want to say it’s the team work that made this event a success. I am sure we all enjoyed a great day after a long absence of in-person activity. 

By the way, congratulations to TC Kwan whom is crowned 2022 HKJU King of Frisbee Game and won $50.00. TC, you are our gem and we are proud of you. 

You can view event photos in the following link: 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DWXpGoemRbNvXOS060OykbJ2Mnt__6zU?usp=sharing

Reported by Augustine Chan & Romeo Au 
Designated Representatives to HKJU 2022