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1927: Wong Sui Cheng and Chung Chow returned to Taiping, Malaya to be reunited with Chan Ah Kee. Chung Chow about 12 years old then.
1930: Chung Keng Wan was born.
1935+: Chung Chow, then about 20 years started work as an apprentice machinist at the Kamunting Tin Mining Company in Kamunting. Chung Sui Wan was born.
1937: Chung Keng San was born. (December 21, 1937. Tuesday - Chinese 11th lunar month 19th day, Ox Year).
1941 - 1945: Japanese soldiers first landed in Sabak in Kelantan (December 8, 1941). Eventually entered Taiping from the north through Selama. Japanese Occupation: February 1942 to September 1945.
Back in Taiping, our grandmother Wong and our father Chung Chow reunited with our grandfather Chan. They stayed in several houses before finally settling down at No.15 Tupai Road. Father Chung Chow recalled that some of the houses they had lived in were at Temple Road opposite the Chin Woo Association; at Eastern Road opposite the Lido theatre; at Tupai Road in a house which is now occupied by Cheong Electric Company; and then finally, in 1942, they moved across the road to No. 15 Tupai Road during the Japanese Occupation.
No. 15 Tupai Road, Taiping
It was in this house that father Chung Chow finally settled down, got married to our mother Lee Mooi, and raised nine of us. Our parents lived in this house for 54 years but had to vacate it in 1996. It was in this house too that our grandfather and grandmother passed away in 1947 and 1955 respectively.
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