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!
The webmaster had taken the Appeal off for a while but now it's back to school because "di money soon done!". 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 2011 and beyond?
Its future depends on you.
Thanks for your time.
The Editors
We went hiking to see a waterfall high in the mountains which was appropriately called Cascada Escondido. On the trail we did not have any luck spotting any birds as it was now mid-day. When we got to the waterfall, there along the stream watercress was growing. I picked some and they were already clean from the running water... click on "Panama Jack" on the left.
Tsung Tsin Association of Ontario celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival on September 10, 2011. For the festival of the biggest and brightest moon of the year, the hall was decorated with many beautiful lanterns. A menu of delicious, traditional Hakka dishes and the essential moon cake and pomelos was served... click on "Mid-Autumn Festival" on the left.
AS QUIET and unassuming as the Gibraltar Camp Road section of the UWI campus is today, 60 years ago it was anything but. The site of an evacuation camp for some 1,500 Gibraltarians (hence its name), an army base, and later an internment camp, the land was covered by row after row of wooden huts with a few commodes here and there... click on "Gibraltar Camp" on the left.
Following my request for nostalgic photos are these circa ‘50’s generously provided by Ms. Simone Tai of her family at Hope Gardens with pond, swans and Long Mountains behind; along with a one of her dad at the beach. There is also a current shot for you back-home yardies, of a grey squirrel in my backyard fattening up for the winter. I am sure we all have albums chock-full of photos from JA in the good old days that we have lying around and taken for granted-well those photos are a treasure trove for me and anyone of similar nostalgic vein. Well I am begging you for these. I know there may be some that are too painful, intimate or personal but anything else please share with us... click on "Picture Appeal" on the left.
I believe......that how we tend to look at things in our daily life, makes all the difference in the world. One could look at a rose and see thorns. While another would see that the thorns come with rose. One could look at a caterpillar and see a worm, while another could see the beautiful butterfly it will become... click on "I Believe" on the left.