{"id":4616,"date":"2016-11-07T04:27:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T04:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/2016\/11\/07\/joseph-tsang-man-kin\/"},"modified":"2017-07-25T12:04:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T08:04:51","slug":"joseph-tsang-man-kin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/joseph-tsang-man-kin\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador Vijay Joypaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal<\/w:View> <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves \/> <w:TrackFormatting \/> <w:PunctuationKerning \/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas \/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false<\/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false<\/w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false<\/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF \/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-GB<\/w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE<\/w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE<\/w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables \/> <w:SnapToGridInCell \/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct \/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules \/> <w:DontGrowAutofit \/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark \/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp \/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables \/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx \/> <w:Word11KerningPairs \/> <w:CachedColBalance \/> <\/w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4<\/w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val=\"Cambria Math\" \/> <m:brkBin m:val=\"before\" \/> <m:brkBinSub m:val=\" \" \/> <m:smallFrac m:val=\"off\" \/> <m:dispDef \/> <m:lMargin m:val=\"0\" \/> <m:rMargin m:val=\"0\" \/> <m:defJc m:val=\"centerGroup\" \/> <m:wrapIndent m:val=\"1440\" \/> <m:intLim m:val=\"subSup\" \/> <m:naryLim m:val=\"undOvr\" \/> <\/m:mathPr><\/w:WordDocument> <\/xml><![endif]--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\">We mourn Vijay, our brother in arms<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\">We bonded at John Kennedy College<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\">Where he looked after books helping the boys<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\">Sail through pages of stupendous marvel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\">Life split us but once more together years <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\">Later at Foreign Ministry he shared<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\">&#8211; An astute mind and a prodigious pen &#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\">His extensive knowledge of world affairs<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\">In a country where light is snuffed or dimmed<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\">His stood at the crossroad of East and West <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\">A colossus who had nothing to prove<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\">Also a sage who calmly showed the way.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\">I may be mourning now but here you are<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\">In our midst telling us not to grieve!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\"><strong>Joseph Tsang Man Kin <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We mourn Vijay, our brother in arms We bonded at John Kennedy College Where he looked after books helping the boys Sail through pages of stupendous marvel. 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