There are two Edward Wongs in the Office of Information Technology and Services. Six-foot tall Edward Wong Man-lee is one of them. Since there are two of them with the same English name, new staff to the office are always confused.

Although Edward has been working at the HKIEd for ten years, to this day, he still receives mis-directed emails from his colleagues from time to time. The other Edward Wong suffers the same problem. However, both Edwards are used to these occasional misunderstandings, which they playfully describe as “beautiful”. Once they receive a “mis-directed email”, they will “return it to its proper owner”.

“In fact it is very easy to differentiate the two of us; one is a Computer Officer, and I am an Assistant Computer Officer. I am the more junior one.” Edward jokes.

To differentiate the two in recent years, Edward’s supervisors and colleagues no longer call him by his English name. They simply call him “Man-lee” now. He actually prefers the latter, as he thinks that Wong Man-lee (“Man-lee” means “ten thousand miles” in Chinese) sounds more forceful and majestic.