I have just started my 30mething life for not long, and have to start facing death.
Of coz it's not something to be happy. My Grandmum passed away in 1/5/05 that I still feeling something missing out inside my body. And then I receive a email from my bro, that one of the influential teachers when we are in secondary school (yes, my bro and I studied in the same primary and secondary school as well), committed suicide yesterday.
Mr. Kong is a great teacher as far as I know. He's so pride that his english was so good, his life was just so english gentleman (he once told me he has a castle in England, a CASTLE!), and he has own a horse here in Hong Kong--all that old traditional intellectual gentleman should have to do during one's life.
And Mr. Kong is so harsh as a teacher, or to be precise, so harsh as a person. He will never praise someone if one's english is not good enough (that means, he always look down at someone when one's english is poor, ok?). Of coz when we are young, we all think that he's a very difficult person. But when I am grown, and I find that my written english is not that poor, I can know how his harshness give us advantage.
Ok, I am not one always-attend-secondary-school-reunion-man. But I still hear some weird news about Mr. Kong during recently years. What I think is that, who cares, as long as he himself is happy. That's his way to choose how his life should be. And no one can blame whatever he do, coz u r not him.
But I am still pity he choose to commit suicide at the end. He has everything and he wants to end everything, that must have some unsolveable reason inside, that we will never know.
Adding some color black in the month of color red and green, is never a good feeling. And the old english gentleman makes himself a legend among all his students' heart now.
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In memory of my english teacher, Mr. Francis Kong. And hope I have make no grammer mistake in my above writing.
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九華名師 江之鈞 城門河自盡
2005年12月13日
【明報專訊】九龍華仁書院著名英文老師江之鈞昨晚被發現在沙田城門河遇溺。警方暫列作自殺案處理。九龍華仁校長蘇中平昨晚接受本報記者查詢時指出，剛收到有關江老師去世的消息，已即時趕到沙田威爾斯醫院了解情，但暫時未能接觸到死者家人了解情。
死意已決 途人制止不果
警方表示，昨晚6時20分，有一名姓黃(59歲)途人目睹江氏在沙田火炭路翠榕橋對開，正欲跨過欄河欲步入城門河中，黃某立即上前制止，但有人似乎尋死意堅，掙開黃的雙手，跑向河邊，然後縱身一躍跳入城門河，在水中載浮載沉，未幾沒頂。途人見狀立即報警求助。
另一名23歲姓黃青年途經見狀，即跳入河中拯救，將江救起，扶至岸邊，由多名途人合力救上岸，江當時已昏迷不省。其時警員及救護員亦接報趕至，立即由救護車將江送院搶救，惟抵院後至晚上6時48分證實不治。
警方在江身上找不到任何遺書，但在肇事現場附近發現江氏的一個袋，內有他的身分證明文件，所以校方很快接到消息。警方初步調查後相信案件無可疑，暫列作有人自殺案處理。
任教45年 李柱銘同窗
記者昨晚到九龍華仁書院查詢，校工表示學校教職員不在，但印象中江之鈞在華仁任教已有45年。
江之鈞的英文名是Francis Kong，現年69歲，與立法會議員李柱銘分屬香港大學的同窗，畢業後在1960年加入九龍華仁書院任教，主要是教授英文科，4年前退休，但其後以義工身分，繼續在九龍華仁任教，充分顯露他春風化雨的決心。由於他40多年來一直在九龍華仁執教，因此桃李滿門，加以他的英文造詣甚深，以及十分平易近人，所以很多華仁畢業生都十分敬重這位英文老師。
律敦治及鄧肇堅醫院行政總監馬學章便曾接受江之鈞老師的教導，昨晚聞訊後感到十分悲傷。他憶述江老師對學生的關懷遠超出一般老師。他對學生的愛護猶如對自己的子侄。他予人最深的印象是英文造詣很好、記憶力很強，而且中文的造詣也很好，有時兼教數學亦頭頭是道。
