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不見不散_[AB Hi-Tea] 大家好！Annie 與 BenBen 約定您於 2021年1月5日(二) 在這裏跟大家見面！ [AB Hi-Tea]是一個輕鬆的消閒節目，您可以從Annie的親身示範中，得到一些簡易的廚藝創作靈感。透過輕鬆的暢談內容，您亦可得到心靈的滋潤和啟發。 Annie 與 Be...

Honoured by the Queen

My father was famous. It is because he received the British Empire Medal in 1981. Every year many people in Hong Kong receive medals, but it was unique to my father because he was the first person working in the lowest rank of the Government receiving this honour. The reason that he was nominated was that he was diligent, helpful, and most of all was to compliment his capability to help the Forensic Pathologist to find out the reason of death in many severe cases. As a result, the Hong Kong newspaper widely reported his work and his life, and by then "F**k Bo" was known to many people.
On that day, I was honoured enough to accompany my parents to attend the ceremony, merely that I got a car and my other siblings didn't. On the way to the Governor House, my father was quiet.
"Are you nervous, Dad?"
"No, if dead bodies didn't scare me, nothing can," he replied.
I knew that he was nervous. He just tried to be calm.
When my father's name was called out at the ceremony, he walked up to the stage gently and gracefully. After receiving the medal, the Governor shook hands with him and started talking to him. I was worried because my father didn't speak English at all. (At that time Hong Kong is a British Colony, so English was the official language.) Amazingly I saw my father talked back to the Governer and I was wordless.
"How can you understand what the Governor said? What reply did you give him?" I asked my father on the way home.
"I don't know what he said, but I recognise that he must have spoken some congratulated words of appreciation that I had done a good job, etc. Therefore I replied "Yes" and "Thank you". "
My father was full of intelligence.
I always look up to my father and want to be a "tiger daughter". (There is a Chinese idiom saying "Tiger father do not have dog son". )
Just before I migrated to New Zealand, my boss told me that the Education Department would recommend me to the nomination list of the British Empire Medal. I nearly got the chance to receive the medal like my father, but unfortunately, due to my short service with the Government, my nomination was turned down.
I was disappointed not because I could not get the medal, but I knew I would never be the same as my father.

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ESOL lesson Plans 1-11