Two families leave China 100 years ago, This is a journal recording their passage, their so-journ in Borneo and then on to Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, England and beyond. A fascinating account of how time and place have changed the members.
Saturday, March 25, 2017
Monday, March 20, 2017
Thomas Iboh and The Chans
My
Dad had the greatest love story. It was 1945, It was World War II. Dad
was forced to find a wife to avoid being conscripted to the Japanese
army. He was 20. Mum was forced to find a husband to avoid from being
caught to be a sex slave.She was 15. Both strangers.
There is a Chinese saying, let us die at the same time.
Mum died in 1988. Dad was heart broken. Dad still cried and mourned for Mum everyday. Dad died in 2006, 18 years after Mum, on the same date.' on the 18th. and same month.
There is a Chinese saying, let us die at the same time.
Mum died in 1988. Dad was heart broken. Dad still cried and mourned for Mum everyday. Dad died in 2006, 18 years after Mum, on the same date.' on the 18th. and same month.
Thomas Iboh
Thomas Iboh YOUR DAD - THE LATE SARIKEI DIVISIONAL EDUCATION OFFICER- MR CHAN - WAS A MOST PERSONABALE PERSON TO MYSELF, AND MY 2 PARENTS IN 1975- WHEN 1ST POSTED TO BINTANGOR AS SAO CLASS 1. WHEN WE HAD NO FRIENDS IN SARIKEI UPON VISITING THERE. (HAVING READ SO MUCH OF THE COMMUNISTS BRUTALITIES WHILE STILL IN NEW ZEALAND IN BOOKS OF THE YR OF E RUNNING DOGS, AND ETC. WE/I SAW AS IF COMMUNISTS WERE LURKING EVERY WHERE ? AND OTHER PEOPLE WERE NOT TO BE TRUSTED? WE FOUND SOLACE IN ALEX ISUT A FORMER TAJONG LOBANG LOWERS 6TH FORM CLASSMATE AND AN EDUCATION DEPT TECHNOLOGISTS? AND YOUR DAD. WHO WITH YOUR MUM AND DAD SERVED US A SUMPTOUS DINNER - COMPLETE WITH COLONIAL STYLE COAK TAIL SERVINGS. (WHERE THE BUSINESSES OF GOVT PUBLIC SERVICES , AND FREQUENT TRANSFERS IN LATER YRS LED TO US TO OVER LOOK AND OVERSIGHTED TO THANKS). DR HENRY CHAN - YOUR BROTHER IS MARRIED TO KELABIT PN ELSIE?
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