This is my eldest brother Moay Siew Loon. His last name is Moay, due to a mistake at the town hall. The clerk translated the name by sound, and used a different dialect (my mother's Nam Hoi dialect, rather than my father's Cantonese dialect), so the mistake stuck.
Siew Loon went to Plymouth, UK, to finish his Marine Engineering degree. He worked as a Radio Officer on merchant ships, so he gets to travel the world. This was taken in Copenhagen, Denmark. It must have been in the later part of the year, because it appeared to be quite cool. I believe my sister Sui Fun went there for a business trip years later.
We owe the family's survival to Siew Loon. After father died, Siew Loon graduated and started work at the MISC (Malaysian International Shipping Corporation ?). He sends his paycheck home to mother, to keep the family alive and going. It is because of him that the rest of the siblings can continue to finish school. We owe our successes to him. Thank you very much, Loon.
Siew Loon has a boisterous and infectious laugh. He likes to tell tales and jokes, and laugh out loud. He would home in on a target and tease him or her to no end. Sarah can attest to the "The water is clean here!" tease, and Becky can remember his tease as well. "We are the Muis, not the Moays." He is a lot of fun to be with.
Fascinating! What was uncle loon's most recent job? Did he ever come to the US?
ReplyDeleteI will answer you in a new post, "Loon's travels".
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