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前数天在YouTube看以前香港生活的錄影,撩起了很多兒時的往事回憶。雖然我在加拿大已渡過了很多個寒暑,如我說: 『香港是我生長的根,而加拿大卻是我的家 Root is where I came from. Home is where I settle』,但人總是会飲水思源的,我之所以能夠有机会出外留學,都是因為上一代留給我的「禮物」。【三字經】有云:『養不教,父之過』在上一代來說,供書教學是做父母的職責,所以当我父親知道他有限的入息,實在不足夠支持我往加拿大讀大學的經費時,祖父就自願助他一臂之力,兩人合籌了共一仟一佰元加幣,再加上單程香港往愛明頓refugee class「難民」机票乙張,作為給我的留學「禮物」。在我接受這份「禮」的時候,我還是一個入世未深的青少年,根本領略不到他們用心之良苦。而是在年紀大了,心理成長了之後,我才明白到,父親入息不高的原因是因為他初中畢業後就被迫綴學,出外謀生賺錢,幫補家計,養活他幾個小弟弟,但學歷不足從此就成了他以後升職的絆腳石,影響了他終生的事業和入息。所以這個「禮物」,可以說是祖父和我父親一份未完成的希望,寄托在我的身上,正是『前人種果後人收』,我希望這個下一代的後人,沒有令他們失望。
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(Updated: 20081217 18:18 EST)
禮物 (共16份 :)
readandeat（今次出題者）
Michelle
筆路
小孜媽
mad dog
The Man Who Loves Everton
Haricot
芸
阿四
imak
Mugen C
揚眉
Zero
Athrunz
周游
膠碟王aulina
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嘩！咁咪講出你去加拿大留學嘅年代囉！
1,100 加紙可以捱到一個sem,
然後去Edmonton打暑期工。
如此厚禮，真要感恩。
（refugee class？行李艙乎？）
微豆兄，他們一定以你為榮。願你和你一家安好。
很感人呢。『養不教,父之過』哎，中國人的包袱。
好感動呀! :)
the love from parents is always the greatest of all.
very nice!!!
感人!你的爸爸和祖父值得尊敬!!
Space 兄:
The university was not on a semester system and I had to work part-time to stay afloat. So the $1,100 was the money made available to me, but not the actual cost.
ps: All my summer jobs were outside of Edmonton.
筆路: No doubt !!!
CM: This is what one would expect flying refugee class:
* A fly-by-night company would purchase an old plane, took all the good seats out, gut the inside, cramp in as many smaller seats as possible into the plane, and register the hunk of junk as a "charter flight".
* The pilots and workers are likely not unionized, and don't expect cheerful, young, stewardesses serving you French wine with your meals.
* Because it is a low priority flight (lacking the clout of big international airlines), there will be many delays and unscheduled stops. I remember my flight stopped over at Guam at 3 o'clock in the morning, either for a repair or a refill. Amazingly, the souvenir shop of that small island airport was actually open for business.
* For charter flight, you have to pay your ticket up-front and ahead of time. Be prepared to kiss your saving (and not your love ones) good-bye at the airport if the fly-by-night company goes belly-up before your plane can take off !!!
Michelle: "... 中國人的包袱。..."
Well, that's one of them !!
Mad Dog: Oh, now you are making me all teary eyes !!
Is it nature or nurture? (not that I am doubting their sincerity or feeling unappreciative of their generosity)
Gwen and Ian: Thanks for your visit. I was at your site earlier. And, congrat to the newly wed :)
周游: Thanks!! I wish I could have shown more respect to them when I was young and when they were still around. Mais, c'est la vie !!!
無話好說,內容令人感動!
對父母的感恩! =)
新鮮人:
『樹欲靜 ... 』 Dad's gone. 但母親仍健在。
對,
人愈大愈明白這道理,
時間過得飛快,
爭取一分一秒!
会請她食聖誕大歺 :)
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