Elderly Person :: History

Elderly PersonChang Sing Lok, also realise as Uncle Lok is famous for his mouth watering Chau Kuey Teows which is a kind of fry noodles. He is very well known in Taman University, Petaling Jaya for his exquisite dish. He was born on March 23, 1926 at ShenYang, eastern China and he was brought up there until the age of 9. He is the youngest of the six children in the family and that is wherefore his parents named his last name as Lok, which means six in Cantonese. He is from a poor family. His father was a cook and his mother was a maid. Both parents served a rich family in ShenYang. He was brought up in a village and he spent his formative years nurtured by the humble, traditional values of Chinese village manners. He lived with his family in a typical wooden house and the crystal clear water of the menstruation nearby his house was made his playground. As years passed, the domain of a function contend II occurred. The Japanese army invaded most of the eastern part of China. A t that time, most of the citizens of China had migrated to the other countries since they could not suffer the hardness of heart in China. Chang Sing Lok had also decided to migrate to Tanah Melayu. So he came to Tanah Melayu with about a hundred of others Chinese who had decided to migrate to Tanah Melayu besides by a very old style ship. At first, life was not very good and not stable since he had not get all job. It was because there are too many outwear sources in Tanah Melayu at that time. Further more, he was also too young for any heavy job. Finally, he got a job at a Chinese restaurant as a cleaner. He helped the employer to cleanup the entire restaurant as well as washing all the plates. It was there he first started gaining knowledge of cooking. At that time, he had a negative spot towards the past, as he had went through lots of difficulties and struggled his way through World War II, where he had lost his family, friends and property. But he had a more positive att itude towards the future. According to him, future is the continuity of the present and if he succeeds in his present life, he believed that the future would be better for him as well as his family.