今天 是K 場歡聚之日，大家凖時齊集深圳福田口岸。可惜天不造美，連綿下雨，但不減熱情，我們擔著雨遮，步行約十分鐘到深圳時代廣場的春滿園飲早茶。點心尚算過得去，令人驚喜的是那個蒸魚頭，內有酸筍及紅椒，而大家都喜好。

餐後雨勢未停，但無阻我們掃街的熱情，先後買了炒栗子，蒜茸花生，及豆腐花。
到了今天的主角，加卅紅 KTV, 即時入會，選擇了可容納 20 多人的 VIP 房，由中午到晚上七時，房租只收八十元人民幣，飲品及食物另計。

回說那個 VIP 房，有一支企咪，另外兩支無缐咪，三個相對的電視，四個哪叭，音量足夠，地方寬闊，燈光媲美夜總會，興起時甚至可以起舞。一句到尾，抵玩。

晚飯到了東方御宴酒樓，㸃了一個十人的豪華套餐，結果要打包五盒回家，都不用一千元人民幣。

因此，在晚飯時間，大家即時約定十二月一日（星期四）再來一次。歡迎各位報名參加。

The Snake heralded us into another year and we met for dinner for the first time this year on February 20 or the ninth day of the first month of the lunar calendar at the Chinese Recreation Club in Causeway Bay on Hong Kong Island. Participants included teachers, Mr and Mrs Chan, Mr and Mrs Siu (Ms Cheng) and Ms Chan Chun Kum. It was a weekday evening but those who live as far as in the western and the northern parts of the New Territories showed up. We cheered with jubilation to greet the New Year, wishing each other good health and happiness. Joy pervaded the room over good news: Cheung Wai Ha has been ‘sing le’, upgraded to a higher level of status in the family － Grandma and so is Clara very soon going to be. Everyone shared their honor and we also shared some practical information on keeping healthy. Adrian is always updated with information on not only physical exercises but some recipes for herbal tea. If you are interested, pop in the comment bubble and ask Adrian.

Life treats us in different ways that we cannot plan ahead though. “Cherish what you have and who you share your life with,” so you have heard a lot over the years. As life moves on, some of our fellow students have left us even without our knowing it in time. Hui Man On has left us in an accident, according to his sister who informed us of the sad news a year after his passing away. We tried by all means to reach our old fellows － or their families. At our age, we might have had experiences of losing our family members or even ‘the other half’ － the spouse. As we talked about how one of our classmates (who was not present at the dinner) expressed his feelings over the loss of his wife through writing poems and posting them on Facebook every day, Mrs Chan advised us to ‘pull him out of his own world’ to join our gathering and talk. True, we do not share only joy but sadness which is an inevitable part of life.

Remember a saying, “When joy is shared, it is doubled; when sorrow is shared, it is reduced by half.” So do get connected and share how you are doing with friends from the prime time of your life who do not tease your failure or envy your success. After all, ‘fail or succeed’ is only part of life. Friendship sustains us so we can develop on and on even in the ‘golden age’.