Sunday, January 11, 2009
Life Began In Saigon City
On a business trip to the Saigon’s Chinatown District of Cho Lon, grandfather was introduced by a friend to meet up with a Singaporean businessman named Sai Tung, who owned block after block of real estates in the Chinatown District which he rented out to various shop owners.
At the time, Mr. Sai Tung was interested in hiring someone to take over the job of collecting monthly rents and running his daily errands. Convinced by grandfather’s fluency in both Vietnamese and Cantonese, he immediately offered grandfather the job. Taking on the job meant that grandfather had to move his family to Saigon and Mr. Sai Tung had agreed to let grandfather and his family living in the two stories house, number 31 on Nguyen Cong Tru Street, located in the Saigon’s District 1. By day, it was Mr. Sai Tung’s office. By night, it became home for the Thai family.
And this time around, it was grandfather leading his family adjusting to the new life in the city.
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