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VegetablesandFishes
MadeEasy
-
Peter Yeung
(’75)
On 15th November 2015, with the help of Lai, Kwok
Yan Edward (
黎國仁
), MH, an old boy from ’68,
Vegetable Marketing Organization (“VMO”,
蔬菜統營處
),
Fish Marketing Organization (“FMO”,
魚類統營處
),
SJACS, SJACPS, PTA, and the Josephian Association
held a talk and workshop at the Brother Paul Sun
Memorial Hall of SJACS.
Mr. Henry Yip from the FMO and Mr. Kenneth Law
and Ms. Christine Chan from VMO told us
about the functions and structures of the
organizations and other interesting matters
relating to vegetables and fishes.
We learned how vegetables and fishes
were accredited and how to distinguish fishes
caught in the wild from those raised in a farm.
In particular, attention should be paid to the
tail of the fish – if it was torn or otherwise
damaged
chances were the
fish was from a
fish farm, with the
reason being that
fish would be
packed in a fish
farm and they
would be chasing
each other and
biting each other’s
tails.
Mr. Yip urged us to support Accredited Fish Farms
by buying their fishes. As these fishes would be fed by
better feeds, when steamed, they would be less fishy
and would taste better. We could find fishes from the
accredited fish farms with a plastic blue label issued by
the scheme appended to each of them in the
supermarket rather than in traditional wetmarket.
We were given posters and mouse pads with
locations of the accredited fish farms, photos of
domesticated fishes with their names in English and
Chinese, and recipes for cooking fishes, which my
helper found very helpful and made my meals more
enjoyable.
Mr. Law andMs. Chan of the VMO taught us how to
wash our vegetables to get rid of pesticides, how to
select vegetables and how tomake salads. All audience
participated in making their own bowl of salad using
tasty Japanese salad sauces and feasted on it. Packs of
different kinds of accredited vegetables, towels and
booklets were given to
us to take home.
With the donation of
thePTA and students of
the Primary School, we
managed to raise a fund
of $34,530 which will be
used
as
general
working capital of the
Association, which in
turn will sponsor more
activities of SJACS and SJACPS. (Since the Association
began to waive the membership entrance fee, the main
sources of income are from donation of members and
schoolmates and from running events.)
I would like to thank Edward Lai who, despite of his
poor health and susceptibility to flu, had graciously
acceded to our request to lead the Vegetable Marketing
Organization and FishMarketingOrganization inmaking
this event happen and attended the entire event himself,
thus exposing himself to potential health risks. On behalf
of the Association I wish him good health and a
prosperous 2016.
TheJosephianQuarterly
-
Andrew Lee
(’86)
In this second issue of
The Josephian Quarterly
(“
JQ
”), you’ll learn about events organized by the
Josephian Association and reunion of old boys, enjoy
the stories shared with us by retired teacher Mr. Wong,
the poem written by retired teacher Mr. Lo, and get to
know thenewPrincipal Mr. PoonWingKeung.
When Principal Poon, who has been at the helm of
SJACS sinceSeptember 2014, accepted our invitation to
do an interview, I thought the session would last at most
one hour. Yet, as our conversation took its course,
Principal Poon ended up spending over two hours with
us with him telling about himself, St. Joe, the measures
that he has instigated and would instigate, and how old
boys could contribute to our almamater.
Indeed, there’s somuch that can be transcribed into
words from our conversation that I only hope the articles
(to be published in this and next issues of the
JQ
as a
two-part series) have done enough justice to Principal
Poon.
Believe it or not, this was actually the second time I
interviewed the principal of St. Joe. Back when St. Joe
celebrated its 30
th
Anniversary, I interviewed Principal
Kenneth Chan. The article, alongside with other articles
about St. Joe and our 30
th
Anniversary celebration,
appeared in a two-page feature in the Young Post of the
SCMP.
ContributionsWelcomed
Contributions from old boys, teachers and staff
members (current or former) of SJACS or SJACPS to
the
JQ
are most welcomed. Please submit your
contributions (in Chinese or English) by email to
stating your name in full, years
studied or worked at SJACS and contact details (email
and phone number). Submissions should be inMSWord,
rich text or plain text format with or without pictures (gif,
bmp or jpeg). Contributions submitted to the
JQ
may or
may not be selected for publication and may be edited
for publicationpurposes.
