Thanks for visiting our website. If you are visiting for the first time we welcome you with open arms. If you’re an old friend, thanks for your loyalty. And if you’ve read this far, we hope we’ve captured you!
You know, the editors of this website, which we affectionately call CEEJAY (for Chinese Jamaican) have kept it alive for 8 years and are still working very hard to keep it going. Your monetary contributions alone won’t make our website stay afloat…we need materials from you, our readers, to make it a viable medium.
We are asking you to please scan and submit some of your old photos of people and places for our MEMORIES Section, news from your corner of the world to share with the rest of us, personal stories that you think might be of interest to your fellow Hakkas who are part of a wide Diaspora.
You don’t have to be an experienced or Pulitzer Prize writer to submit your article – just treat CEEJAY as your family notice board and a place to “meet” people with similar interests as yours.
We will publish Obituaries and announcements of upcoming social events free of cost as long the materials are non-political in nature. Your articles can be written in any style, even in Patois, but not inflammatory. We like to keep our –YOUR - website a common ground where you can view your own material and read other readers’ viewpoints. Indeed, many readers have obtained great recipes from this site and we do welcome new ones for our cooking section. We also welcome any suggestions for improvements.
So, how about it? How about helping us to keep CEEJAY going throughout 2008 and beyond?
Its future depends on you.
Thanks for your time.
The Editors
I am searching for my father Robert (Bugs) Lee (updated Aug)... click on "Robert (Bugs) Lee" on the left.
I attended the presentation at Easton's invitation. His delivery was fantastic, no less. Of course, with his broadcasting and theatrical background, Easton was comfortable and natural. I found that he captured perfectly his "ole man’s" way of speaking imperfect English that was unique among his father's peers, who were Chinese immigrants like himself - not to mention the right intonation for those few Chinese words Easton used during his narrative. His public speaking skills, in adding some humour, kept interest alive in the subject of his lecture to a Jamaican audience of substantially African ancestry, most of whom appeared not to have known much about the history of the Chinese in Jamaica... click on "Emancipation" on the left.
No one was ever meant to cry or suffer alone. Yet there are many among us who will go for years suffering in silence rather than ask for help we need so badly. We believe that others should be cognizant of our pain, even though we say nothing about it.... click on "Communication" on the left.
While the world is still in the process of trying to cope with the late 2004 south-east Asia Tsunami, that was followed in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina in the southeastern United States, and the mud-slide in Central America that wiped out entire villages, we are yet again in 2008, witnessing more natural disasters on a massive scale, affecting millions of people, with a cyclone in Myanmar (formerly Burma), and earthquake in Sechuan, China. ... click on "I Believe" on the left.
It was in early 2007 that Mavis (Chang) Wong- class of 1957 - had a vision of bringing together classmates from the years 1950 through 1959 for a grand reunion to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their graduations from their beloved Alpha Academy. Leave it to Mavis to think BIG!... click on "Alpha 1950" on the left.
For the last two decades or more, there has been an active movement in the Chinese Jamaican community to restore and reconstruct the Cemetery, where many of our parents, siblings, and even grandparents, are buried. Now, a dedicated team, led by Robert Lee, has been working quietly and tirelessly to restore the dilapidated Chinese Cemetery... click on "Chinese Cemetery" on the left.