The 2012 Rose Parade is on!
Maybe, just like me, you totally can't take that "China Airline" still has not been changed to be "Air Taiwan". (actually, every penny of this airline is Taiwanese' tax dollars...)
Also, this year the Parade is unusually set on Monday, 1/2/2012.
For those who can't make it to see the parade or from TV...please enjoy the following nice taken photos, great job done by our brother Shih-Hung Lo. (His house is right there near the Victoria Park and he got free ticket to watch the floats on site...how lucky.)
Monday, January 2, 2012
Sunday, December 25, 2011
132nd Hakka Toastmasters Meeting (12/24/2011)
This is our 132nd monthly meeting...11 full years seem just like a flash, and how time flies! It is really a wonderful life experience to have these Hakka friends that stay so close and many friends that plug in from time to time. Thank you all, our good friends.
We came over to the new office building that Ivan and Jocey bought early this year. So glad to see the young couple's moving forward!
Brother Yuan-Hsiang Peng shared with us his recent trip report of Hakka Teachers' Seminar in Taiwan. Maybe pretty soon, our community will have an official Hakka Class. Well prepared and a marvelous presentation...that all our friends' hearts might be triggered...
We were treated by our Host, Ivan with a delicious lunch at Wabi Sabi near his office... and the meeting ended with a very happy Birthday cake cutting...a surprise to our birthday boy - Shih-Hung Lo...
It is so much for 2011 Christmas Eve.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Thanksgiving Concert (131th Hakka Toastmasters Meeting - 11/26/2011)
Last year, Hakka Toastmasters Meeting had a wonderful Mid-Summer Concert...and it has been a great memory. This year, due to Hakka Summer Camp, we skipped the program and move it to November for this Thanksgiving Concert. Lynn Huang and Rhapsody Trio (Jane and Yvonne), plus two new friends - Lorenzo Chang and Apple Chan brought a very nice program to us. Here is the link to see our program book.
Thanks to Brother Shi-Hung, we are able to enjoy the photos and also the following videos clips taped from the program:
男中音 Impossible Dream 黃令先編曲 表演者: 張淳菡
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
129th Hakka Toastmasters Meeting (10/1/2011)
10/1/2011 客語生活座談會 大家同聲朗讀 增廣昔時賢文
一方面學習 用客家話讀字
一方面聽長者介生活智慧撈心得分享
大家盡歡喜 比打嘴鼓 赫有意思
讀忒增廣 再收集 山歌歌詞 大家共下朗誦 學唱
愛習慣看字讀音 相信會有助鄉親寫客家三行詩介字彙
Please click a short film to see these happy bunch...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
2011 LA客語講習會 (9/3-4/2011)
The Fifth Hakka Summer Camp in Los Angeles took place on 9/3 & 9/4 at the Los Angeles Culture Center, City of El Monte, California. Our 128th (2011/August) Hakka Toastmasters Meeting was dedicated to this two days event. Glad to see so many Hakka friends enjoyed very much together...Not only they study hard during the classes, also bunch-up to chat at the breaks. These photos show them all!
Professor Ho and Wu are very popular and also the way of their approach seems working extremely well with majority of students. I believe they got their jobs done and they earned their respects from our participants.
Professor Ho and Wu are very popular and also the way of their approach seems working extremely well with majority of students. I believe they got their jobs done and they earned their respects from our participants.
Salute to our volunteers team, they have devoted much time and efforts before, during and after the event. There is only one thing bothered a few of us very much...The way this year's Registration seems to be way too loose. Apparently tried too hard to make it up for the headcounts... Anyone can easily observe that a great deal of people showed up simply for the "Foods" and "Gifts" !
This is not only a joke, irrespective to our instructors also the serious attendees, it also creates unnecessary wastes on the energy, especially an over-sized classroom with the light and air-conditioning., plus all the teaching materials, students ID to prepared.
We couldn't find the great tradition of "Ecological Practice" in our past four Hakka Summer Camps that we used to commit for "Reuse, Reduce and Recycle" practice and our Hakka friends were indeed very proud of it.
Other than that, during the hot summer time, we all have fun of learning our mother tongue and Hakka culture.
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Share with you...Hakka 3 line Poems that Mr. Leu has sent in after the camp.
This is not only a joke, irrespective to our instructors also the serious attendees, it also creates unnecessary wastes on the energy, especially an over-sized classroom with the light and air-conditioning., plus all the teaching materials, students ID to prepared.
We couldn't find the great tradition of "Ecological Practice" in our past four Hakka Summer Camps that we used to commit for "Reuse, Reduce and Recycle" practice and our Hakka friends were indeed very proud of it.
Other than that, during the hot summer time, we all have fun of learning our mother tongue and Hakka culture.
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Share with you...Hakka 3 line Poems that Mr. Leu has sent in after the camp.
轉送鄉賢 呂清雲老師 課後所作 客話三行詩 分享:
09.04.11
客語講習會
何吳先生台灣來
客家鄉親心頭開
(2011年海外客語巡迴教學由客家新竹寶山何石松文學博士，以及花蓮玉里吳榮順音樂博士擔任講座，九月三日、 四日兩天密集課程，讓一兩百位鄉親對客語有更深一層的理解， 對客家山歌的演唱，亦領略一點訣竅，人人歡喜， 頗有滿載而歸之感。) 老來唱山歌
越唱山歌越思鄉
故鄉在台萬年長山歌客家寶
隨口唱出腔調多
談情勸善樣樣好頭擺客家人
耕田摘茶透日忙
唱條山歌心開陽教授教山歌
阿公阿婆隨口唱
有腔有調喜洋洋客語老古言
一代一代傳下來
漢民寶粹毋係吹寶山何石松
滿腹經綸隨口出
傳揚文化來洛城客家諺語多
一句一句記心頭
祖先經驗全係寶
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
127th Hakka Toastmasters Meeting - featuring Chang Chiu-Tai (7/30/2011)
七月三十日，三十餘位客家鄉親在洛杉磯近郊Azusa Mountain Cove (暱稱: 水汴頭)，共度一個溫馨又歡喜的週末。這一次的聚會是我們「洛杉磯客語生活座談會」的127th月會，也藉機大夥歡迎我們的好朋友 張秋台校長暨家人的來訪。
張校長在大家自我介紹之後，就以猜謎語方式切入，帶領我們跟隨他進入源源不斷的客家語言、文化、習俗、智慧、幽默的寶藏。
隨行的客家鄉賢涂先生，原本要保留精彩雙聲山歌到全美會表演，禁不起本地山歌老手挑釁，也讓大夥搶先一飽耳福。
「三合水工作坊 」 班底 黃令先 帶來 Rhapsody Trio 到場作即興表演，也為她們 9/10 公演作暖身。鄉親直呼賺到了！
豐盛多樣的 Potlucks 與 分組結群的 逗嘴鼓‧ 歡笑聲洋溢一屋間。這一天 實在美，真的是 很客家 很台味！
鄉親 羅慶士， 呂清雲，許正龍 各作 客家三行詩 為此次聚會留誌:
鄉親坐兼來
母語交談感尤親
故鄉話題更加親
張秋台校長
多才多藝又風雅
用講用畫乜精采
客語座談會
敦親睦鄰講客話
關心臺灣選舉情 (羅慶士)
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客語座談會
聆聽生趣阿母話
認真發揚唔會假
歡迎張校長
熱情鄉親集一堂
三重演奏共欣賞
特別介集會
美食滿桌任你嚐
歡唱山歌喜洋洋
生趣介座談
客家文化多精彩
人人聽到笑海海 (呂清雲)
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歡喜來集會
有講有唱雅音享
無計無較情義長
客家介智慧
話頭話尾多玄機
校長笑談傳慧心 (許正龍)
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Sunday, July 24, 2011
A family concert for Mrs. Huang Wen Wen-Tse's 90th Birthday Party
7/23/2011 at Taiwan Center in City of Rosemead Calif., we're honored to be invited to the family event of Huang's. Our beloved Hakka friend, Mrs. Huang Wen Wen-Tse is celebrating her 90th Birthday with a family concert in classic style. What an amazing family and what a wonderful idea!
Mrs. Huang raises 9 kids and total 23 grand children. There are all very outstanding in different fields, yet sharing the same hobby - music. The family concert is the best Birthday gift the big bunch present to their Chief.
We are so happy to be there...
Mr. and Mrs. Tseng Der-Jing have prepared a big pot of Hakka Mochi for the event, one of the most popular dessert...and Mr. James Leu did write up his Hakka 3 line Poems for this beautiful event:
老太有福氣
子孫滿堂全優秀
琴聲繞樑祝高壽
(黃溫老太太，文子女士，子孫滿堂，個個才藝出眾，七月二十三日，於台灣會館，別開生面，以家庭音樂會方式，祝其九十高壽，上百親友，共聚一堂，歡樂感人。)
家庭音樂會
鋼琴合唱小提琴
子孫共慶老阿祖
特別介祝壽
家庭子孫音樂會
九十老太笑開懷
(家住洛城，山歌滿腹，客家鄉親稱之為國寶的黃溫文子女士，兒女九位，個個傑出，內外孫共二十餘，一家醫生十數人，尤其令人仰慕的是大大小小，鋼琴、小提琴、歌唱，都有極高造詣，今天他們從美國各地，專程前來台灣會館，舉辦音樂會，為高齡九十的老阿姆、老阿婆慶生，確實是別開生面的一次家庭音樂會。)
Thanks to Hui-Yuan and Chang-Ting to help in charge of our gift shopping. Appreciate to Wen Sung, John Hsu, Ivan Huang, Lisa Wu, James Leu, Clyde Kiang, Shih-Hung Lo, Mu-Lien Lai, Sandy Lo for the chip in.
Shih-Hung did a marvelous job for the photography. Karen and Ben, again good volunteers for the set-up and cleaning up.
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