Contacting three female classmates

Irene Ko kept a forty-year old classmates contact list. The phone numbers were changed and the number of digits increased from six to eight. This didn’t affect Irene’s idea to use the old phone numbers in which these numbers are traceable.   Although the classmates had moved homes, their family members might still be using the old phone numbers. Hence, we could possibly obtain the current contact numbers of our classmates.

Irene called the classmates using the old phone numbers. She was excited and found two female classmates’ families, Ms A Ho and Ms B Ho.  A never answered Irene’s call. B spoke to Irene a few times. However, B spoke frankly that she didn’t want to reconnect with us since her graduation.  Whenever we had gathering, Irene invited B to join us but she kept refusing our invitation. She almost came to our welcome dinner for Johnny Shum on 16^th Dec 2012. She said she had sore legs and Adrian Hung offered to pick her up from her home and Cannie Tong suggested escorting her. B changed her mind in the last minute and to everyone’s disappointment, she did not show up. Irene was most frustrated.

Ms Wong was a civil servant. She sometimes appeared on television concerning some health issues a few years ago. She is now retired. We searched for her name on the Internet and found one with the same name but we couldn’t identify whether she was our classmate.

Adrian Hung wrote to the committee members:

Can you recognize Ms Wong in the photo? She was the Superintendent of HC Association but retired on Oct 2010. Please advise if you think she is our classmate.

Simon Fan replied to the committee members:

The facial profile looks like her, although I would not be able to recognise her like a lot of our good classmates. It is not surprising that our friends like to dedicate their efforts to the charity organisations. The only chance I met her was in the street in HK while she was studying in the health/research field. She was interested in the water purifying system located at the Castle Peak Hospital.

Simon offered his help to check this out although he was still in Melbourne. We gave Ms Wong’s previous employment phone number and email address to him. He sent an email to her colleague to confirm whether Ms Wong was our classmate. A few days later, we were disappointed that she wasn’t our classmate.

Later on, we learnt that Ms Wong was living in Lam Tin. We tried to put a notice in Park’n Shop there hopefully she could read it. To our disappointment, there wasn’t any notice board in Park’n Shop where we could post our notice. Eventually, we obtained her email and home address which had yet to be verified. Adrian Hung sent her an email and also a letter to her home but to no avail.