Went to the farewell dinner of CSC last evening.
To the surprise of many of us, we found our dean and two previous deans amongst the guests. Our previous Secretary for Education and Manpower remained handsome and full of humour; the only trace of aging was the wrinkles on the face - of his secretary. In contrast, I have not seen the surgeon after he's back from New Guinea. Is he an incubating Sir Arthur Conan Doyle or Futaro Yamada (山田風太郎) ?
(As the part-time endocrinologist himself commented: Old deans never die, they just lose their faculties.)
TW was certainly naive on this because each of them did make a short speech and everything became very artificial. I was about to come to the conclusion that the last tribute we paid to the retiring general physician was to give face and attend a dinner of this kind.
PS. There was also a saying that old teachers never die, they just lose their class. I'm sure our English professor has a class that will not be easily replaced by the younger generation.
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1 comment:
Yes, I am probably too naive.
A give-face party is probably something important.
Just imagine if oneday you leave the workplace and nobody really cares, you won't be happy though, will you? Unless you are very autistic, (maybe I am quite autistic, haha :)
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