Silvana Adioska & her son; Paul & Sandra Winstanley.
Silvana gets her present from Santa in person...
Anthony gets his due from Santa...
from left to right: Santa, Neville (PM), Ina (from the media room), Pam (Cytology) & Greg (media).
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Saturday, 12 May 2018
RPAH's Anatomical Pathology 1984 Xmas Party
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital's Department of Anatomical Pathology formerly known as Histopathology Dept. had a Christmas party every year. Everyone contributed a little for the event. Dr. Jelihovsky never failed to bring a few branches of holly from her own garden; Dr. McCarthy usually brought a whole case of cherries; the secretaries would help with decoration etc.
By Xmas 1984, the Gastroenterology Ward had moved out of the Fairfax Building to the brand-new 10-story main RPA building so Anatomic Pathology could expand into what used to be a patient's area on the 7th floor.
These photos were taken on what used to be the Gastroenterology Ward.
from left to right: Dr. Tanya Jelivohsky (in a blue dress); Lipinska (partially hidden by the roses) & Debbie (sitting down); Luiz (centre); Silvana (?); Professor Alan Ng & Unidentified ash blonde.
from l. to r.: ...., ...., Helen Hoffman; Lipinska, Debbie & Luiz (sitting down); Dr. Jelihovsky; Miss Claris Solway from RPAH Archives.
right: Maureen looks at the camera, Lalitha Gupita looks at Dr. Brian Ronthal while Debbie chats away in the background: left: Dr. ? talks to Dr. Patricia while Anthony, Sue & Ted Will help themselves.
Around the world as a medical professor
article written by Harriet Veitch
for The Sydney Morning Herald
26 December 2008 at 11.00 am
Over the years Professor Alan Ng, a pathologist specialising in gynaecological cytology, worked in Australia, the United States and Malaysia. It led to some odd cultural crosses, such as his favourite Christmas dinner of lamb, gravy, potatoes and rice, but it allowed him to train new pathologists far and wide.
He was professor of pathology at the University of Sydney and head of the Department of Anatomical Pathology at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital from 1981 until 1998. He wrote or co-wrote more than 180 articles for medical literature as well as textbook chapters, and produced teaching materials that are still in use.
Alan Beh Puan Ng, who has died aged 74, was born in Kuala Lumpur, in 1934, one of nine children of Ng Chin Siu and his wife Lim Boon Tuan, who had migrated there from southern China.
In 1941 Japan invaded and occupied Malaya. The war years were hard because the Ng family owned a rubber plantation and were forced to produce material for the Japanese war effort.
After the war, Alan resumed his education at St John's College in Kuala Lumpur. In 1951, when he was 17 years old, he was sent to Melbourne and enrolled at St Kevin's College, matriculating the following year. He studied medicine at the University of Melbourne, graduated in 1958, when he was 24 years old, and was appointed to St Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne as a resident medical officer. That year he married Enid Charter, a nurse training at the hospital.
After two years at St Vincent's, he became a registrar in pathology there and, after further training in Ohio, became a lecturer in the faculty of medicine at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. In 1964, when he was 30, he was appointed the first professor, and head, of the new department of pathology at the university.
In 1967 Ng went to Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, as an assistant professor of pathology. He rose to be professor of pathology at Case Western Reserve and stayed there until 1975, when he became professor of pathology at the University of Miami, Florida.
There he continued teaching, researching and attending international conferences, where he presented papers and conducted seminars on cytology (the study of cells). In 1980 he was awarded the George Papanicolaou Gold Medal by the Evoikos Society of New England, for a distinguished physician/scientist in the United States or Canada who embodies the ideals and scientific spirit of Papanicolaou, the inventor of the Pap test.
In 1981 Ng took the chair of pathology at the University of Sydney and became head of the department of Anatomical Pathology at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, where he remained until retiring in 1998. Yet he continued to travel for research and teaching, and accepted a visiting professorship at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Ng was a member of many societies and academies of pathology and cytology around the world. He was at various times president of the American Society of Cytology and the Australian Society of Cytology, and a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia. He was an examiner in pathology for universities in Malaysia, Singapore and Papua New Guinea and an assessor for research grants from the Cancer Council of Australia.
During his time in the US, Ng had taken citizenship there but some years after returning to Australia he was proud to become an Australian citizen. He was recently recognised by the Australian Society of Cytology for his lifetime contribution.
In retirement, Ng remained interested in the work of the Royal Prince Alfred department of pathology. However, he was happy to enjoy retirement and travel for pleasure. He spent time in America and Paris, where Enid put her degree in French to good use, although Ng was proud of his ability to cope well without the slightest knowledge of the language.
He was a frequent visitor to Malaysia, where many of his siblings and their families still live. He took an interest in visual arts and began to collect paintings and sculpture. He loved to tell a joke, but often laughed so hard he couldn't get the punchline out. He loved food and making his special fried rice for the family. He was delighted to be a grandfather.
Alan Ng is survived by Enid, their children Amanda, Kathryn, Timothy and Denis, nine grandchildren and six of his brothers and sisters.
Hi, Sandra,
Look what I found at the SMH's obituary.
They just don't mention the "causa mortis". What was it?
Sandra Winstanley, 31 Mar 2018.
Hi Luiz,
Prof Ng was being treated by haematologist for multiple myeloma for many years so imagine that to be the cause.
Monday, 23 April 2018
Maria Gouveia
Myself and Maria Gouveia at her front-door garden on 16 Beach Road, in Bondi, Sydney.
The Ritz Cinema, next to the Royal Prince of Wales Hospital, in Randwick, in a photo taken in 2018. When Maria was staying at the Hospital in the last stretches of her illness, circa September 1998, I went to visit her on a late afternoon and she decided she'd like to go and see 'There something about Mary', a screwball comedy starring Cameron Diaz & Matt Dillon which was showing at the Ritz. Maria didn't even change; she just stood up, got hold of one of my arms and there we went walking through the Hospital byways, entered Saint Paul Street, crossed Avoca Street, kept walking another block, crossed Perouse Road and finally arrived at the Ritz.
We bought tickets and sat down at comfortable seats to wait for the show to begin. I acted as everything was right but I knew Maria was feeling pain even though she had an intravenous cannula in a vein on her belly to apply morphine in case the pain increased. I noticed Maria fumbled with the contraption once which meant she was feeling pain but was adamant to keep watching the movie.
Soon, the two of us had a pleasant surprise: Ray Conniff's rendition of Ary Barroso's 'Aquarela do Brazil' exploded on the big screen and both of us were taken back to São Paulo in 1962, when this record was Number One for a few weeks. It was like having taken a shot of morphine mixed with some upper!!! I'll never forget that moment...
indeed, it was Maria's last picture show...
Tuesday, 13 March 2018
one of Mother's favourite pot plants
it is called Starfish Flower Cactus or Stapelia grandiflora...
Mother with her prized possession...
Thursday, 10 August 2017
Jaime Carlos da Silva aka Jaime Ponciano
When Jaime Ponciano saw this newspaper photo of Rua Augusta taken in September 1965, he didn't think twice... he immediately customized the image by colouring the Wolkswagen beetle in a light-green hue that reminisced the one my Father bought circa 1978. When I met Jaime in 1979, I used to drive it around.
Jaime grew up watching 'Sitio do Pica Pau Amarelo'... as he was a born-mimic he used to talk like Zé Carneiro to everyone's delight (hilarity)...
Jaime had a pop-culture bent... he followed the sports news and kept his eye on photos like this one above depicting Vampeta & his colleagues Odvan & Serginho.
Boxing was not exactly Jaime Ponciano's cup of tea but there was an element of novelty & esthetics in it that fascinated him.
Jaime Ponciano in Europe in the winter of 1998-1999.
Jaime in Rome, Italy.
Jaime at a Roman cafè.
Jaime da Silva, 1985.
Wednesday, 19 July 2017
Our pets through the years...
João & Lucas hold Zozô tenderly... Zozô was rescued from a voodoo worship practice into our family in 2012.
João Luiz & Zozô.
Zozô - 26 August 2012.
Lucio, Zozó & Carlus Maximus.
Lucas had his dream come true when Tombinho was added to the family... after Zozô had died an early death; Tombinho held by Lucas & Lucio - 31st December 2013.
Tombinho, an utter charmer...
Tombinho became an instant success - 2015.
Tombinho trying hard to stay awake... 16 June 2013.
Joãozinho & Tombinho, 2013.
Tombinho is King... held by Kaun & Lucio, watched by João & Lucas.
Lucas holds Tombinho while Cauãzinho looks into the camera... 10 October 2015.
Lucas & Botinha, 3 October 2015. Botinha was born on 21st September 2015.
3rd October 2015: Branquinho, Tigrinho branco, Tigrinha, Botinha & Malhada aka Marcada.
Tombinho at our backyard.
Peludinha and the blogger on 12 August 2015.
Branquinho.
Rute, Sandra & Malhada aka Marcada.
Botinha on top of the wall against the front bedroom window...
Sandra & her favourite Botinha.
Sandra & Fofão in April 1989.
João Luiz at Jaguaré MacDonald's, 2017.
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