Volume 7 Summer 2006 The Alumni Magazine of HKIS - Hong Kong ...

Timothy Gregg (timgregg@hotmail.com)
Amy Ruhter McMillan (aruther@iesabroad.org)
Shoumes Goswami writes: Spencer Chiu (‘93) tells me he’s still a striker
in the purest sense as he’s notching up goals in a weekend soccer league
now that he has reunited with former A Grade Soccer team-mates Henry
Chien (‘92), Pravesh Narain (‘92), and Howard Tang (‘94). Their most
recent recruit is Lyman Doyle, who moved back to Hong Kong after
graduating from Columbia Business School. They complete against 10
other teams and are currently in fifth place in there. Lyman is working
with his Dad and though he lives in Hong Kong, he spends a lot of his
time in Shanghai and New York. Josh Goldberg has also moved back to
Asia finally admitting to his Chinese roots. He is with the State Department
up in Shen Yang. Josh got married last year and his wife Amy is
working on permanently moving to China to be with him.
Over Christmas break a number of people met up at Tiffany Yip’s wedding
which was held at the Repulse Bay. Spencer was not invited and
is still feeling jilted, but all the others who made it had a great time.
Ozer Onkal came back to Hong Kong for the first time since graduation.
The HKIS table had Lyman, Ozer, Angela Lee, Emily Ma, Miki
Maruko and Shoumitro Goswami. Ozer was torn between the Turkish
contingent and his HKIS roots – we all know where his true loyalties
lie. Tiffany’s cousin Jeff Liu ’93 was there as well. He is married and
works for HSBC and his wife is an architect. From the Class of ’94,
Sharifah Abukhary was there and continues to be the life of every party.
We don’t want to mention names….Sharifah…but the photographs do
reveal crazy debauchery. We would ask people to please not dip their
fingers in the chocolate fountains in the future….Mrs. Yip.
Tiffany, thanks for throwing a great party.
Tiffany’s wedding, picture are (left to right):
Susan, Tiffany, Ozer, Sharifah, and Shoumitro
Manesh Balani continues to live in Dubai where his business keeps
reaching target after target. His business trips now involve him ‘holi-
daying’ in the south of Spain with his girlfriend. Speaking of business
success, David Souza and Adrian Liang have sold the business they
started together a few years ago. We have not heard from them since
and believe both are sitting on a beach somewhere thinking up their
next venture. Pankaj Bengani who lives in San Francisco is expecting
his first child with his wife Leena.
Vinit Dutt, with young son in tow and his wife as well as Pat Liu are
all well.
Word from the reliable sources (Lyman and Shoumitro) describe a
scene of a stuttering Tim Gregg mouthing an utter refusal to introduce
his HKIS buddies to his fiancee in fear of compromising his impending
marriage. Turns out Tim subscribed to some good old revisionist
history by spinning his high school achievements (or lack of) into a
mish-mash of heroic stories of championing local community service,
environmental protection, and civic think tanks. Apparently many
things have”changed” since Tim’s old days of strange obsessions with
muscular men in Conan and the Barbarian movies, his constant whining,
and his not-so secret crushes on many members of the HKIS student
body .
Tim and Nina Gregg, October 15th, 2005.
Spencer Chiu, Josh
Goldberg, Ms. Talbot,
and Mr. Handrich in
Ms. Talbot’s apartment.
Josh Goldberg spent
a weekend in Hong
Kong and somehow
we ended up waking
Ms. Talbot from her afternoon nap on Sunday and barged into her
apertment for a little chat along with Mr. Handrich
Ozer Onkal, Spencer Chiu, Shoumitro Goswami, and Lyman Doyle.
Ozer stopped by Hong Kong in January with a full beard and appetite
for Hong Kong nightlife. Spencer, Shoumitro and Lyman were all out
in force to show Ozer a good time
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