繁忙一週/莊峻華

繁忙一週/莊峻華

從未想過不做事，仍有繁忙之一週，今晨需要趕往奧斯汀，拜訪

琳兒，幫忙整理她之庭院，估計其毛桃成熟時，我們想大規模鹽

漬食用，這是幼年台灣家庭水果食物。昨日校友告別式，美蘭妮

告知，週末校友餐會，報名者渺，我再不參加，校友會惟恐關閉

矣，責任重大，今年起週六忙碌，清晨網球賽，趕往西班牙語課

，直到中午。

週日，我需要煮牛肉麵，給元兒晚餐，感謝他捧場多年，煮牛肉

湯，需要一整下午。從奧斯汀回來，需要趕上週二夜網球局，我

們幾位老頭，希望繼續活動筋骨，若一兩局雙打下來，夜晚容易

入寐，一覺到天亮。

週三與五，準備申報聯邦所得稅，週三先處理自己，週五處理元

兒，愛美和元兒，都將開始學習申報。週四上午有日文課，現在

日西語課先生，學問高教學認真，進度神速，我在家努力溫習，

可能有突破。

剛剛將珍珠號愛女合照寄畢，我已經注意多時太陽號，從智利聖

帝牙哥返回邁阿密，船價接近可以，只是單程機票昂貴，又與愛

美洛杉磯行衝突，我想已作罷，專心四月下旬之英國行。

春天已來到，今年檸檬花苞已冒出，只懼冰霜和無蜂蝶，我也需

要開始割草，幾日前購妥肥料，準備年度施肥，還好愛美喜愛庭

院，否則我真是不勝其煩。

Remember Dr. Neng Chyang Leu/Carlos Pueblo

Remember Dr. Neng Chyang Leu/Carlos Pueblo

Dr. Neng Chyang Leu passed away recently and I have had this

privilege to deliver my remembrance of our friendship in the

Taiwan Normal Alumni Association. He was one of our chapter

President and had contributed very much for our activity

Including the scholarship to help students in our beloved Alma

Mater.

One time, he described to me of his humble childhood. He was

brought up in an orphanage and I was mistaken that he was

an orphan of a deceased solider during the big pull back in

1949 from China. Mrs. Leu told me last night when I asked. It

was actually not because of the hardship of the family, his

parents had to leave two of the siblings to the orphanage. This

fate didn’t hinder his efforts to pursue advanced education. He

made it to the Biology major  at Taiwan Normal and eventually

came to the U.S. to get his Ph.D. in biology and served at Houston

VA Hospital until his retirement lately.

On side of his scientist profession, he was also an inventor. One

Time, he showed me his key board invention with a pattern and

was ready to put into production. It was all before the current

overwhelming computer world. Mrs. Leu told me that he was

still doing something at home. I admire him and his life as a

good husband and father.

懷念呂能強校友/莊峻華

懷念呂能強校友/莊峻華

能強兄因病告終，令人扼腕，我有此榮幸，在此道別，茲述幾十

載校友會相會一場，祝兄一路順風，我們佛家曰人生有苦諦，生

老病死，愛親別離等，平素兄沉默寡言，剛毅為人，學業事業有

成，家庭美滿，令人羨慕。

我們在校友會中共事，蒙兄多指點照顧，校友會得有今日基礎，

兄曾語我其幼年艱困，在孤兒院照顧下成長，我道是烈士遺屬，

今聞曉芹解釋，始知家中子女眾多，父親失業，被破寄放子女於

孤兒院，兄人聰穎過人，潔身自愛，在困阨環境中，脫穎而出，

考上我們生物系，畢業後，來美留學，博士學位後，一直在聯邦

政府隸屬，榮民總院服務，直到最近退休。

職業順利，並非偶然，抑或運氣，而是幼年鍛鍊出來之毅力，我

甚佩服和羨慕，因特地描述。兄不僅是專業科學家，而且也是業

餘發明家，曾展示我其打字鍵盤設計專利，只遺憾其嗜好努力，

為今日電腦網路所淹沒，我不認為這是一人生損失，兄有過人之

智慧，穩定之職業工作，熱愛家庭，為人楷模，令人懷念。

E-mail back photos to daughters/Carlos Pueblo

E-mail back photos to daughters/Carlos Pueblo

During my adoption procedure on board with my daughters, I request

to take photos with these pretty ladies and have their e-mail addresses

in order to mail back their pictures with me later for the remembrance.

I have started it in several days before when I finished my journal with

Pearl on the last Eastern Caribbean cruise. I’ll explain how I do it and

Identify them correctly from my notes.

There is an order of photos taken one from another on any kind of my

Note on board, can be on a piece of a pad paper, on a notebook, and an

old name card, etc. When I put up on the desk top, there is an order

which I can track the names from the sequence of photos taken. I do

have some vivid memory of some whom I have had conversation with.

One by one that I have identified toward the end of my list of 40 almost

on this trip.  

I shall send my writing blog site to them first to test their e-mail addresses

to make sure if the address is working. Then, I shall send all photos to

them as I have promised. Some of them do keep the correspondence and

some of them do go to my blog, i.e. I can see my readers from some of the

nation on Google’s statics, i.e. Philippines, Indonesia, and the unknown

territory which means from China, etc. It is very interesting.

I am going back to cruise again very soon and I anticipate to meet some of

my daughters again somewhere on some ships. I am going to meet and

adopted some more daughters. This is a very unique group of youngsters

who are pretty, hardworking, and very polite to their passengers. As I have

mentioned so many times that I don’t see that often in my real life experience

anywhere in the world.   

寄送愛女合照/莊峻華

寄送愛女合照/莊峻華

郵輪旅行回家後，開始寫遊記，告一段落，開始寄送與愛女合照

之相片，我在結緣過程中，要求合照，索取電郵住址，回家後，

元兒幫忙將相片，轉載到桌型電腦，待我準備寄發時，我按照回

憶，筆記順序，一一對出相片和住址，然後寄出，先是査對網址

，附上我之部落格址，如退郵件，表示不通，於是不再寄相片，

這次約有四十位愛女，我已經寄出二十多位，希望一週內完成。

我估計一共有將近兩百位愛女，絕大部分是從三艘郵輪，也有幾

位是陸地旅行之因緣，我之愛女群，已經輾轉服務於其他船隻，

因此，可以隨時旅行，遇見知己愛女，人生幸福也，也因此我樂

於郵輪旅行。

有些愛女，珍惜這段因緣，與我通信，我相信有人放假時，到我

部落格點閱，令我感激不已，也希望我們後會有期。

Doctor’s appointment/Carlos Pueblo

Doctor’s appointment/Carlos Pueblo

Recently, I have been to several doctor’s appointment for myself

and my son Arthur’s appointment. I have had my routine physical

and he has his cataract procedure. It becomes very important in

our life for such healthcare and no wonder Americans’ longevity

are improving. Amy and I almost have had a conclusion that people

cut their life short usually have no adequate health insurance ;

therefore, no sufficient doctor’s appointment to monitor health

issue.

I mention Dr. Jong’s successful practice to my eye surgeon Dr. Kopel.

He knows it immediately because that both of them work for the

same group. Jong is famous for his cataract surgery while Kopel rescues

the complication of eye surgery. Both are very successful and busy yet

I can converse with Kopel other than my eye vision while Jong is simply

very shy away other than medical business. I understand that he is busy

and I don’t mind at all. We have known Jong’s parents for years and they

are in their 80’s, a very successful story of immigrants from Taiwan.

My family physician, Dr. Broussard, is also trained in New Orleans, Louisiana

the same as both eye surgeons mentioned above. I believe that Broussard    

is even more relax, He makes me feel very comfortable of my health issue.

His main concerns is my diabetes, the level of my blood sugar. Every 6 months

I must go to visit him for blood test in order to refill my drugs. Last summer,

I ate too much watermelon and came back from a 23 days cruises and we had

to postpone the re-test of blood to avoid further sever prescription.

All of them now inform me, the patient, immediately both by conversation and

by e-mailing official report and I believe that both physicians receive the same

report as mine of their counterpart, i.e. my blood sugar in my eyes and the level

in my body. They are very familiar with my physical condition and I believe that

Broussard does monitor any of my other regular concerns of my body such as

prostate cancer or heart issue. Cancer and heart failure are two of the most

reason of mortality of man’s life.

I am very glad that many Democrats join in for the 2020 Presidential campaign

and advocate Medicare for all as their agenda. Doctor’s appointment must be

a right for American citizen.

門診/莊峻華

門診/莊峻華

門診成為我退休生活之大事，因我有老人健保，食用糖尿病藥物，

每半年需要驗血，査看血糖，控制藥物劑量，糖尿病影響眼睛，因

此每半年，需要眼科門診，門診後半小時內，報告分別寄到我，和

兩位醫生信址，如有狀況，護士將立刻追蹤，兩診所都在十號公路

南北兩側，非常方便，美國老人，漸漸長壽，和老人健保有關。

最近，我常門診，因為元兒白內障手術，前後四次門診，幾天後有

第五次。昨日是我眼科例行門診，我是清晨首班，卡布耳大夫曰，

雙眼視力甚佳，以後一年一次門診即可，我和大夫提到元兒手術，

他聞鍾大夫大名，立即稱讚是位好醫生，我形容其手術房盛況，他

並不意外，兩大夫是不同個性之好醫生，卡布耳是專科，鍾為一般

眼科，卡甚親切，鍾則稍忙，無暇閒談，這和我幼年讀到之醫生描

述，完全相仿，醫生濟世為業，一言一行，都能影響病戶之情緒。

我之內科醫生，布魯梭大夫，也在路州訓練，我喜歡知道大夫出身

背景，這三位大夫，都在紐澳良醫學院，路大醫科，抑或杜蘭醫科

，畢業後，都來休士頓開業，都是一般基本門診，服務社會，布大

夫慢條斯理，給人一安全無慮之感覺，他之責任是追蹤我之糖尿病

，連平常之預防注射，都有紀錄，自從進入老人健保後，我之心情

輕鬆愉快，我常費神何以愛美，不願經常旅行？原來她尚無老人健

保，門診尚自費，僅住院開刀耳，憂慮旅行意外狀況發生，影響家

政財務。