Re: Nelson Mandela died (5/12/2013)

 Ar an seachtú lá de mí na Nollaig, scríobh Ross Clark:

 > [...] This reminded me of the story of Yat Hang Mew. When I was growing up
 > in Vancouver, we knew him as Angus Leung, proprietor of Varsity Produce, the
 > local greengrocer. He came to Canada from south China in the 1920s, aged 15.
 > Laws respecting Chinese immigration were getting more restrictive, so he had
 > to pretend to be the son of a family friend who was already resident, and
 > assumed his surname (Leung). He was sent to an English language class. "I
 > wanted to learn English...so I took the first seat in the first row, right
 > up front....[The teacher said] 'I'm going to put a list of English names on
 > the board, and I want each of you to pick one, then you'll have a name
 > English people can remember.'...I thought 'I'm in the first seat in the
 > first row, so I'll take the first name. Which was "Angus"."

There is no shortage of Angus Leungs in Google results today, many of them Hong
Kongers, unshockingly. And mostly fairly accomplished. I can’t seem to find yours.

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‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /
How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’
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