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SCMP Reporter

APPLES seemingly flooded Kau Yan College, and between mouthfuls students said a fruity ''thank you'' to Form 2 student Yuen Jing-wai.

   Thanks to Jing-wai's winning a recent Chinese epigram contest, the whole school received a gift of Australian apples.

   Over 300 primary and secondary schools took part in the ''Healthy and Happy Lifestyle Epigrams Competition'', organised by the Australian Trade Commission and the Education Department.

  Thirty-nine epigrams were chosen from 9,125 entries in the primary, junior and senior high school categories.

  This year's contest encouraged a positive lifestyle among young people. Some of the topics were ''Positive Attitude'', ''Caring for the Disabled'', ''Building a Good Relationship with One's Family'' and ''Love of Life''.

  The winners of the primary and junior high sections, Kwan Yiu-fai, 10, and Jing-wai, 13, expressed a caring attitude towards the disabled.

  Jing-wai's verse read: ''Judging others by their faces is too one-sided; Being polite to others is more multi-faceted.''   ''I have seen many examples in life in which politeness proves to be a superior quality than appearance,'' the student said.

  A Chinese books lover, Jing-wai likes well-known Chinese author Ba Jin, and won a merit prize by writing a book report on his prose last year.

  It was a personal experience that inspired Yiu-fai, a primary four student from Li Sing Government Primary PM School, to write: ''You're human. I'm human. The disabled are human, too. So don't discriminate, treat every one as a human.''    He explained: ''I chose this topic because of a disabled classmate I had two years ago. Most of my classmates would laugh at him, but I pitied him.''   Lily Chung Yee-mei of St Stephen's College took the senior high championship with her practical outlook towards difficulties.

   She wrote: ''When you run into trouble don't despair; analyse the problem and the problem will disappear.''   Yee-mei's analytical nature is reflected in her interest.

  ''I love reading biographies that trace the success of financial giants like McDonald's and Li Ka-shing,'' the Form 4 science student said.

  Mr Bob Jennings, Senior Trade Commissioner of the Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) and Mrs C. H. Kong, deputy chief inspector of the Education Department, were among the guests who presented certificates to the winners at the Austrade office at Harbour Centre, Wan Chai.

  The winners also received book vouchers separately while their schools were given either Australian pears or apples.

  The winning epigrams have been made into bookmarks with illustrations and will be distributed as souvenirs at the 4th Hongkong Book Fair at the Hongkong Convention and Exhibition Centre from July 22 to 26.



Fruity reward for schools in Healthy and Happy Lifestyle Epigrams Competition