In memory of

植樹仁先生Rickie Shu Yan Chit

June 3, 1955 - August 22, 2018

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Catherine Vosper (work friend)

Entered August 24, 2018 from Campbellford

Our years of working together will always be special to me, and you will always be special to me. RIP Rickie.

植聯輝 (堂弟)

Entered August 25, 2018 from 香港

Rickie was 9 days older than me, because of same age, we always got together whenever having family gatherings in our childhood. In my memory, he was always good looking with neat and tidy clothing, cheerful and gentle. As he is now away from us to a better place without suffering, may he rest in peace! His gentle face remains forever in our image.

Tony and Lisa Kwan (Good friends)

Entered August 25, 2018 from Thornhill

Very bright and nice person.

Oliver Au (nephew)

Entered August 27, 2018 from Hong Kong

After learning the news of Rickie having passed, fond memory with him comes back little by little.

When I was in grade 8 or 9 just before he moved to Toronto, I walked to his home in Happy Valley in Hong Kong a few times after hanging out with friends in Causeway Bay. He always asked me to sleep over and did not mind sharing the upper bunk with me. Susanna of course occupied the lower bunk comfortably all by herself. :-) I didn’t have to bring anything when I visited him because he would give me his clean pajama to wear. He enthusiastically told me the details of how he built loud speakers. I hardly understood the coil winding steps and his calculation. But it sure felt good to share his joy.

It should be 1978 when he visited Hong Kong after having immigrated to Toronto. We were standing in the balcony of an upper flat at the old Arsenal Street Police Quarters. He identified the makes and models of the cars passed by below. I was amazed by his ability to recognize them. Let alone the cars were far below us.

A year later, I seized my first opportunity to come to Toronto to study. I knew whenever I needed a big brother, Uncle Rickie will be around. I still remembered his complaint about waiting for the bus on McCowan Road off Kenhatch Blvd in freezing temperature. I used to think my decision to study computer science was totally independent from his. In retrospection, I am not so sure anymore.

We once went night fishing together with your dad (my great-uncle) and other family members. It didn’t take me long to fall in sleep. Knowing that I was bored, he, Susanna or Uncle Peter walked me to a nearby place to catch something which I recall should be scampi.

He influenced me on my favorite genre in music by introducing me to soft rock. He played Seals and Crofts’s Summer Breeze all the time from a black vinyl record and it became one of my all-time favourites too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED6z9He07ks

Uncle Rickie, you could get angry. But real people should get angry on things that weren’t right. I am happy to be a real person like you. I am sorry for not spending time with you for a long period of time including after you got ill. I will miss you but I will not be sad for very long because memory of you brings joy. Thank you for the memory and influence on me through your gentle kindness.