Congratulations to the Chan Family
Charles Chan, former editor at The Star who is now residing in New Zealand, is now a proud father-in-law.
Yesterday, Sunday 21 January 2007, was a joyous occasion for the Chan family as their daughter, Mei Chan, was married to David Young at The Woolshed, Ohariu Farm; Wellington.
My sifu CY Leow, also residing in Wellington, was an invited guest to the wedding ceremony. Both Charles and CY went back a long way as the former was the News Editor when CY joined The Star as its first Photo Editor, in 1974.
Just like a good photojournalist, CY went to the wedding ceremony with his Canon 30D, with ONE lens, and the super compact Canon G7. CY was stunned by how good the tiny G7 is in shooting wedding!
Proud father Charles with Mei
The happy Chan Family, New Zealand
More pictures, a hundred of them, are available at CY's online albums at Picasaweb.
Comments
Malaysian quitters?
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January 22, 2007 01:08 PM
SOUR GRAPES? ha ha ha....
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January 22, 2007 03:02 PM
Not quitters but we feel a wind of a kind of sour grapes!
That is Mr. Chan’s prerogative. We have to respect that.
A shallow pond no longer could keep the green dragon. He has to cross the blue ocean to seek a deeper and better water to accommodate him.
Look at the exhilarating greenery at the background of the photo with caption “The happy Chan Family, New Zealand “
; The smiles from the bottom of the hearts, that tells all.
Congratulations to Mr. Chan & family.
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January 22, 2007 03:16 PM
For the less informed, those green hills were anhilated of their trees many years ago by European immigrants.The wooden products were exported to australia or europe.Due to this, there were conflicts with the local Maori tribes. But the migrants decided to give the local tribes share of the deal to overcome barriers.
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January 23, 2007 09:44 AM
There is a process we call “wealth creation “. They cleared the land, sold the wood, created the sheep farm, export meat and hence job creation. If I am not mistaken, they have very good replanting schemes to replace the lost trees.
Development is not a bad thing provided that it is planned properly such that it does not cause flood, land slide or any other environmental disaster.
From the photo, we can see the hills are still alive with the sound of music.
In any case, we should be happy for people who have one way or another achieved something.
Yes, that is humanity.
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January 23, 2007 02:14 PM
Well said King Kong, thank you! NZ CARE about her environment, they make sure the pine forest are self sustaining; the fisheries ect.
"The less informed" ;) thought those green hills were annihilated of their trees many years ago by European immigrants? Ha ha ha... that valley is a sheep farm!
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January 23, 2007 05:19 PM