Marriage

Marriage

Reunion

"I liked school, liked the teachers. We had a reunion with them 25 years later; they came to visit us in Taiwan, and we took them to eat and walk around. We brought them to the hot springs too. At that point, the two of them had diabetes and we haven't contacted them since. They're long gone."

Business

"Around the 1940s to 1950s, we had very good business; we had anywhere from four to five doctors come in, to work for a few hours at a time. We also had a hakka - to make herbs - and an apprentice - to get herbs. We'd open shop at seven in the morning and wouldn't close until ten at night; it was a 15-hour workday. Tiring, I tell you. At night, people would knock on the door to ask for herbs. Not anymore, nothing like that anymore."

Kids

"Back then, [my youngest child] studied at a private school. Every morning, I'd take him there and back. I used the bicycle downstairs - he'd sit in the back and in the morning, I'd cycle him there. In the afternoon, I'd take him home. That was… it's 50 years later, now. The tuition was very expensive, for that school. By the afternoons, he had nothing to do - he'd just sit there in the corner, a little chubby boy. He'd plop down and stay there all day."

Herbs

"The younger generations don't want to eat herbs: with western medicine, they just swallow a pill. With herbs, they have to drink a bowl full."

Today

"I'm happy where I am. Traveling? It's all the same to me; there's nothing new to look at."