Grandmaster Tse Wing Chun Note 445

As a result, Hong Kong government cancelled all public functions advised that all citizens should stay at home. This meant that the organisers had to cancel the birthday dinner on the 2^nd of September, but they said that if the typhoon weakened and it was safe, the dinner would be held on the 3^rd of September instead. Fortunately, typhoon did move away and weaken on the 1^st of September and so the dinner party could take place on the 3^rd of September. Everyone was happy on hearing this news as many people have come a long way to see Great Grandmaster Ip Chun, some like me had come from Europe, others from America, Australia and a lot of people had come from mainland China. However, although the dinner could now take place typhoon had disrupted a lot of transport and so some flights, even after the 4^th of September, and trains from the mainland would not arrive in time. This meant that around 30% of the students not make it. Some of them asked if they could be refunded although many did not ask for that. Fortunately, I always plan ahead so I had arrived in Hong Kong on the 25^th of August. This meant that I could take my time, spend time with my family and I even had time to go to Guangzhou, and opened a bank account to make my future travels in China easier.