East meets West

During vacation in California, Phoebe Fu visited her former teacher, Felix Ching. The latter drove her to the Civic Centre Area to look at various buildings from outside. They went to the Fisherman’s Wharf to look at the boats, Pier 39 to watch the sea lions, watched the exhibits of warships and looked at Alcatraz Island from a distance.

Last time when Roger Chan drove me there, he suggested me and wife to drop in the City Hall of San Francisco for a short while. We could not find much interest inside except we marveled at the Dome over our heads. We went back to Roger’s car and climbed to Telegraph Hill to look at Alcatraz Island and the city, stopped by Chinatown to buy some tarts and up and down the Crookedest Street, then by way to the vista point at the Golden Gate Bridge. On the way through the City, I saw the building I longed to see, the Trans-America Building (it looks like a pyramid).

On another day during my stay in San Francisco, Felix Ching similarly took me and wife to the Fisherman’s Wharf, having lunch at “In and Out”, then to Pier 39 to watch the sea lions resting on the floating platforms and boarded an empty cable-car to have a photo taken.

Phoebe was once a student of Felix and me in the “80”s. I met Phoebe some months or a year ago in Facebook. I remember that this “Ace” of mine was a quiet, shy girl in class. She attended my Mathematics lessons and proved herself one of the attentive students in her class.