Mr. Kwok Fei Yang 郭飞扬

Memory of a lost friend.

一个失去的朋友的记忆。

His name in his passport is Kwok Fei Young. Surname Yang. But, his real surname is Kwok.

他护照上的名字是扬郭飞。姓杨。但是，他的真姓是郭。

He swam across the coastline from China’s Guangzhou to Hong Kong when he was a teenager. His life is an interesting one full of twists and turns.

十几岁的时候，他从中国广州游过海岸线到香港。他的人生是有趣的，充满曲折。

Upon arrival to Hong Kong he was taken into a motor workshop where he was trained as a motor mechanic. Those were the days before formalised apprenticeships and examination trade certificates.

抵达香港后，他被带到一个汽车工场，在那里他接受了汽车机械师的培训。那是正式学徒制和考试行业证书之前的日子。

He had very little education. He self-taught himself the reading and writing of Chinese words and a smattering of Mandarin language besides his spoken Cantonese.

他受过很少的教育。除了会说粤语外，他还自学了中文单词的读写和一点普通话。

He had run successful motor mechanical workshops and later motor vehicles saleyards in Hong Kong and in China’s Foshan City, Guangzhou.

他曾在香港和中国佛山市广州成功地经营过汽车机械车间和后来的汽车销售场。

He migrated to New Zealand in the early 1990s and he was known as the first Kiwi who had started importing second hand cars from Japan into Auckland, because of his connections in Japan. He had once told me that the law in Japan then was write off cars that are more than ten years old. And because Japanese seldom travel much in cars (preferring to us public transportation) those written-off cars were often of low mileage travelled.

他在 1990 年代初移居新西兰，由于他在日本的关系，他被称为第一个开始从日本进口二手车到奥克兰的新西兰人。他曾经告诉我，当时日本的法律是注销超过十年的汽车。而且由于日本人很少乘坐汽车（更喜欢我们的公共交通工具），这些注销的汽车通常行驶里程很低。

During the mid 2000’s he returned to Hong Kong and only lately (2019) he settled back in Auckland’s eastern suburb of Botany.

在 2000 年代中期，他回到香港，直到最近（2019 年）他才回到奥克兰东郊的 Botany。

He left behind three sons and two daughters. For his funeral service however there were only five of us - his wife, one son, one daughter and then Lin and I, his friends.

他留下了三个儿子和两个女儿。然而，他的葬礼只有我们五个人——他的妻子、一个儿子、一个女儿，然后是我的夫人和我。

May he Rest In Peace.

愿他安息。

Finally, we would like to have a song to be dedicated to Mr. Kwok. “I’ll have to say I love you in a song”, by Jim Croce.

最后，我们想有一首歌献给郭先生。 “我不得不在一首歌中说我爱你”，吉姆·克罗齐（Jim Croce）。

Well, I know it’s kind of late, I hope I didn’t wake you. But what I got to say can’t wait, I know you’d understand.

Every time I tried to tell you, The words just came out wrong. So I’ll have to say I love you in a song.

Yeah, I know it’s kind of strange, Every time I’m near you. I just run out of things to say, I know you’d understand.

Every time I tried to tell you, The words just came out wrong. So I’ll have to say I love you in a song.

Every time the time was right, All the words just came out wrong. So I’ll have to say I love you in a song.

Yeah, I know it’s kind of late, I hope I didn’t wake you. But there’s something that I just got to say, I know you’d understand.

Every time I tried to tell you, The words just came out wrong. So I”ll have to say I love you in a song.

嗯，我知道有点晚了
我希望我没有吵醒你
但我要说的等不及了
我知道你会明白的
每次我试图告诉你
刚才说错话了
所以我不得不在一首歌中说我爱你
是的，我知道这有点奇怪
每次我靠近你
我只是无话可说
我知道你会明白的
每次我试图告诉你
刚才说错话了
所以我不得不在一首歌中说我爱你
每次都是对的
所有的话都出来错了
所以我不得不在一首歌中说我爱你

是的，我知道有点晚了
我希望我没有吵醒你
但我有话要说
我知道你会明白的
每次我试图告诉你
刚才说错话了
所以我不得不在一首歌中说我爱你