Today, I received a sad news from
MingPao that Dr. CN Ng passed away on 13th Dec 2019 because of stroke. I expressed hearty condolences to Dr. CN Ng's
family, friends and colleagues. Dr. CN
Ng (Associate Professor, Dept. of Geography, HKU) is my final year project
supervisor of HD in Applied Science (AP) in City Polytechnic of Hong Kong in
1992, and my external examiner for MPhil in Chemistry (BCH) in City
University of Hong Kong in 1997. We met again
in the AP 25th Anniversary Homecoming on 22nd Nov 2014.
I remembered that Dr. CN Ng had
taught me about air pollution and then I followed him for my final year
project. (It was pity that I haven’t
taken photo with him on that time because he was not in office during ceremony
day.)
My Higher Diploma (HD) title
named “Time-series Modelling of Air Quality Data from Hong Kong” in which
employed recursive least squares algorithm and regression model. Dr. Ng told me it was very difficult and are
you sure to take it? I said I like challenge.
I appreciated Dr. Ng’s guidance
and my friends’ technical assistant. I remembered that I used CPU 386 plus a
chip 387 to calculate the two parameters for 3 years data of TSP that using
about 5 min!
After that I finished my BSc in Applied
Physics and continued my study for MPhil in Chemistry (Atmospheric Chemistry). I followed Dr. Ronald Sequeira in Department
of Biology and Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong. Dr. CN Ng and Dr. Ronald Sequeira are good
friend.
During my experiment work in the
rural Kadoorie Agricultural Research Centre (KARC) to collect aerosol and
rainwater sample, Dr. M.R. Peart (Department of Geography and Geology,
University of Hong Kong) gave assistant for this research. His nick name was “Water
Monster”. Both Dr. MR Peart and Dr. CN Ng are my external examiners.
When I served in society, I met
Dr. CN Ng in many activities related to environment and green issue organized
by HKQAA below.
The 25th Anniversary Forum &
Celebration Cocktail Reception was held on 28th November 2014.
Green Finance Certification
Scheme Launching Ceremony cum Seminar on 12th Mar 2018
Hong Kong Quality Assurance
Agency (HKQAA) Green Finance Certification Scheme Presentation Ceremony cum
Forum 2019 on 25th Mar 2019.
HKQAA 30th Anniversary Forum cum
Celebration Cocktail Reception on 18th Oct 2019
Dr. CN Ng told me a secret during
the AP 25th Anniversary Homecoming that he must remembered me because he got a Nasopharyngeal
carcinoma (鼻咽癌) during review of my MPhil thesis as external examiner. He told me that
he had miracle several times because of Dr. Ronald’s gift from his sister which
was a Mother Teresa prayed lady icon. I
hope Dr. CN Ng rest in peace.
MingPao News on 14th
Dec 2019
Reference:
CityU - https://www.cityu.edu.hk/
20141123:
CityU AP 25th Anniversary Homecoming - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2014/11/cityu-ap-25th-anniversary-homecoming.html
20141128:
HKQAA 25th Anniversary Forum & Celebration Cocktail Reception - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2014/11/hkqaa-25th-anniversary-forum.html
20180312:
HKQAA Green Finance Certification Scheme Launching Ceremony cum Seminar - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2018/03/hkqaa-green-finance-certification.html
20190325:
HKQAA Green Finance Certification Scheme Presentation Ceremony cum Forum 2019 -
https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2019/03/hkqaa-green-finance-certification.html
20191018:
HKQAA 30th Anniversary Forum cum Celebration Cocktail Reception - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2019/10/hkqaa-30th-anniversary-forum-cum.html
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My MPhil Supervisor knew the sad news and replied:
Dear Dr. Lotto,
Thank you for the news. Very sad indeed. Dr. Tanner also sent me a msg about Dr. Cho-nam. I then read the SCMP news which had further details.
We have all lost a gentle soul, a good friend, and a dedicated Friend of the Earth /Nature in all its goodness. I will be sending you about the secret he told you. That is very true...More in next.
May Cho-nam's soul Rest in Eternal Peace. Mother Teresa must have already met and welcomed him over there !
Pl. say hello to Minda for my wife and me. .
Bye for now and best wishes
- dronald
on 16 Dec 2019
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