In the dining room, my parents' lunch sits patiently under the gaze of my grandparents. Jit Chiang financed his younger siblings education at Malacca's Anglo-Chinese School in Tranquerah. The elder of the two, Jit Hui, was a sharp student who went on to study at Shanghai University, joined the Bank of China's office in Singapore and subsequently became its chief. Less academically-inclined Jit Ui left school to join the Kuomintang to fight the Communist forces in northern China, married a girl from Shanghai and later settled down back in Hainan Island. previous | next