"They called us "Dànjiā"" "We lived in narrow boats" "My baby!" "According to folklore when disaster happens at sea the devil will substitute one life... for another" "You're Bo from Sham Kei Wan?" "Yes, from Sham Kei Wan's boat shelter" "Here he is" "Be careful" "I told you he looks different!" "Let's forget it" "You just had a miscarriage who knows if you'll ever get pregnant again?" "Someone has to help with the boat" "Don't look back if you have to sell your baby, it'll only lead to tears" "My mother lived and found a substitute for her baby" "But a Chinese boy with blue eyes and a single ear ring were more than she bargained for" "This is our story" "Tai!" "Hurry up" "Fion will be here any minute" "I said it's time." "Hurry up" "Coming" " Hi Wayne" " Hi" "Do you like ice-cream?" " Yes" " You do?" " There you go" " Thanks" "How come you are not dressed yet?" "Nothing seems to fit" "Where's your velvet jacket?" "Hi." "Dear" "Hi, Lilian" "Auntie" "I brought some ice cream help yourself, ok?" "Ok" "Try this one" "Could you get my shoes out?" "Can you tell him I don't want to go tonight?" "Again?" "All right, stay with the kids" "We need to clear out the left over in the fridge anyway" "Put these on" "Don't worry about it." "I'll hold the fort at home" "Time to go" "We've got to go" "Bye" "You're doing it again" "Welcome, Mr. Bo" "We've heard so much about the first Chinese "Taipan"" "of the Imperial East India Company" "It's a pleasure" "Thank you, Mr. Tsang." "The pleasure's all mine" "This must be Mrs. Bo?" "My wife is ill and couldn't make it." "This is Miss Fion Wong" "Miss Wong?" "Miss Wong, am I right.. you are ..." "You guessed right" "Nice to meet you" "Your father will be here too" "The Governor just came into office and looks forward to meet the city's elites" "You're among friends tonight" "Thank you" "Nice to meet you." "Cheers!" "You finally made it." "Congratulations!" "Thanks, Cheers!" "Cheers!" "Hey, Red-head!" "You look like a half breed anyhow" "Who am I?" "Tai wouldn't fall asleep without me by her side" "But I wouldn't want to go to bed, if she were still awake" "Today's a happy occasion" "If mother were still alive." "she'd tell us to bring out the wine glasses and celebrate" "But we can't just slip back into the past" "It can only be revived in heaven" "I am back!" "You must know your fish!" "Hey, 'Mixed'." "Why do you look so different?" "Did you get pickled in salt water?" "How am I different?" "We look like this you look like this parrot-fish!" "Come to think of it my cousin was the first to comment" "on my visual nature" "Father, did I get pickled in salt water?" "What?" "Why do I look like a parrot-fish?" "Aunt Ten!" "Come here!" "What?" "What rubbish did you tell the kids?" "Come here!" "I told you to watch your mouth but you had to shoot it off!" "Go back" "Go back" "Get the chicken!" "Why?" "Are we celebrating?" "Every time I asked this question my mother would simply cook a chicken" "If I persisted she'd slap me!" "♫ "You can't tell if a log of wood is rotten inside"♫" "♫ "but I can tell you have a heart of gold"♫" "♫ "my dear?" ♫" "♫ "You can find a needle in a haystack" ♫" "♫ "but I can't find another girl like you" ♫" "♫ "my dear?" ♫" "They said we were carrots and peas" "One day we'd get married" "A storm's brewing." "You're still going out to sea?" "We have no food left" "My mother said we'd get married soon" "But I don't have the money" "Do you have any fish?" "There's fish all around us" "Then you're rich!" "'Mixed', my mother said your mother isn't your mother" "No, your mother isn't your mother!" "Your father isn't your father, either" "Get lost!" "Your father is a balloon." "Your mother is a buffoon" "Mother, she said you're not my mother and father isn't my father" "Who told you that?" "Cousin" "Can you ever keep your big mouth shut?" "We'll marry as soon as I come back" "There's no escape!" "If they didn't set sail that evening my cousin would've been lynched" "I watched their boat disappear into the horizon" "Us boat people are lucky, we've seen all the beautiful sunsets in the world." "They never came back" "Chuen" "Chuen" "The priest said she didn't die" "Her family merely went to heaven" "We'd all end up there but some needed to make an early departure" "while others had to wait longer" "They lived in our hearts" "They'd jump when we jumped and laugh when we laughed" "They'd always be with us" "If she'd gone to heaven then where was I?" "A few years later we were baptized" "The priest said" "I could now look forward to asking her all about heaven and earth" "For you" "Thank you" "What does it say?" "God's eternity" "Do you want to learn to write?" "I can arrange it" "Who doesn't want to go ashore to study?" "Nonsense!" "We have to take care of our boat" "Ever since I knew the Lord" "I was always full of gratitude" "Whenever father closed a door an me the Lord would open a window to let me through" "What are you looking at?" "My cousin has gone ashore, she now works in a factory" "I want to collect leftover from the foreign ships" "We need the extra money" "Why not go on shore?" "On shore?" "Mother said I'm too stupid to leave the sea" "The priest told me to go to school" "But you're the eldest you will inherit your family's boat anyway" "I can earn more money then I'll buy you a pair of gold ear rings" "Those ear rings meant for my cousin" "were now Tai's" "Fire, water, mountain, sea, wind, rain, cow, lamp, dog..." "Why aren't you at school?" "I quit!" "Can you write your own name?" ""Dànjiā"-people have names, don't they?" "Can't you speak..." "Father" "'Mixed' can't come anymore" "The other parents don't want him" "Gradually," "I entered the rebellious age" "Chuen" "Father" "The priest wanted me to continue my education" "He gave me my first pair of shoes" "They were as thick as bricks" "All pupils here have day jobs" "We have shoe shine boys, coolies, you name it" "Every evening after seven we gather here to learn to read and write" "Ok, let's sing a song now" "Could somebody lead the class?" "Ready, everyone." "Begin!" "♫ "We own the future"♫" "♫ "We're the children of the future"♫" "♫ "We will drive the steam engines and fly the aeroplanes..."♫" "It turned out that I was a child of the future" "I would drive the steam engines and fly the aeroplanes" "So this is the heaven the priest talked about" "There's only one left." "You two share it" "You take it." "We "Dànjiā"-people aren't used to it" "I'm one of you" "I thought this must be what heaven tasted like" "Thanks to Li, who showed me the way" "If you get into the Imperial East India you'll get paid and have a place to live" "Somewhere to live, too?" "Like my cousin" "They even paid for his education" "He didn't pay a dime" "Get moving" "Good Morning Sir" "That's the Taipan" "I felt I was at heaven's gate" "Heaven seemed to be within my reach" "My heart was in my mouth." "I was no longer myself" "Hurry up!" "Excuse me..." "Boss, this is my eldest son, Chuen" "I would like him to get a captain's license in a few years time" "Good idea" "It's time to find a wife for 'Mixed'" "Help him start his own family and get him a boat" "I'll lend him the money" "Much obliged" "My name is Bo Wah Chuen" "'Mixed' you don't like to be called 'Mixed'?" "I have a proper name" "Shut up!" "This is the boss you're talking to!" "This is the boss you're talking to!" "Shut up!" "How dared you do this to him?" "You can cook for yourself!" "Shut up or I'll beat you too" "All that book learning has screwed up his mind" "He shot his mouth off at the boss our boat could get recalled and we'd lose everything" "Who would feed us?" "Listen up!" "We live and die on this boat!" "Like my father and all those who came before him" "That's our fortune!" "Cook for yourself!" "One day I'd become a child of the future and drive the steam engines" "But for now I was just a fish on my father's chopping board" "However, time flies" "Thank you" "That's great!" "Anymore?" "No more!" "Uncle, I got lucky today" "A whole bucket of left over steak how much do you think the restaurants paid for it?" "Ten dollars!" "Not so much!" "Four dollars" "I saved you some" "Get out of here" "Tai was now a full time left over collector" "I left my father's boat without a backward glance" "Father thought I was a traitor" "He told the priest there were two people he hated the most" "One of them was Judas, the other was me" "He came to see me one day and I thought he'd beat me in front of everyone" "You're back." "Father" "Drink with me" "I'm busy" "Come here!" "I'll wait for you outside!" "You have it" "Drink up!" "Chuen!" "whatever you do take care of your family" "Don't you ever forget!" "Remember we have a photo session tomorrow" "All he wanted to tell me was" "Son!" "You're a man now" "Go your own way" "Look at the camera..." "Ready..." "Dànjiā people all had family portraits no matter how poor" "Since I started earning money" "I never took my father to a restaurant or bought him cigarettes," "not even a shirt" "Hello?" "Chuen this is the priest" "Father?" "Your mother took the boat back" "Let me talk to her" "She's heavily pregnant" "I was afraid she might abort so I took her to the hospital" "How about my father?" "The mast collapsed in the storm" "It hit my father and he drowned" "There would be no more family portrait until we meet again in heaven" "But I'd rather meet him again on our family boat" "Not long after my father's death my seventh sister was born" "A new life was born into our family" "While I replaced my father as the head of the family" "Chuen" "Set a good example for the little ones" "I will" "Did you pay?" "Where did you get the money?" "Odd jobs here and there" "It was nothing" "I'm much obliged" "I juggled several jobs at once baby sitting," "doing people's laundry" "Every nickel counted to support the family" "I didn't mind" "After all beggars aren't choosers" "Mother!" "We meet again, 'Mixed'" "You intend to return my boat?" "We have no money for your loan and we don't have a captain's license" "Even if you gave me the boat you'd still have to pay the rest of the loan" "Please, boss the children are still young" "Can we pay less?" "You call that young?" "We gave you our boat already" "Why do we still have to pay the rest?" "It was father's debt, not ours!" "We all know that 'Mixed' brought you a string of good fortune after you had him" "Your husband bought his family boat you gave birth to scores of children no such luck with this one though" "Your sixth, right?" "Why don't you buy another one like 'Mixed'?" "It may prove more profitable" "I never said I wouldn't pay!" "Boss, someone here to see you" "Coming!" "I didn't give birth to you but it's the same to me" "I know..." "I suckled you like this one" "like the rest of you all!" "I know..." "I AM your mother!" "I know!" "All right" "I'll give you a discount" "Clean up the little ones we aren't beggars" "Uncle" "Beat it!" "Just fifty dollars" "The little ones have to eat" "You wouldn't know how to spend fifty dollars anyway" "Chuen" "Wake up" "Wake the others" "Time to go" "Wake up" "The three of them are lucky" "God bless them" "They'll have education and a place to live" "Where are we going?" "Children only" "Take the lead, you're the eldest" "Follow your sister" "Son!" "Stop crying, or I'll hit your sister" "No!" "I'll hit her too if you don't stop" "Go on" "You're in Jesus' hands!" "Don't cry!" "Stop crying!" "We aren't beggars!" "Don't cry" "Don't look back if you have to sell your baby it'll only lead to tears" "Please take the money" "I don't want it!" "Please take it." "It's only right" "I don't want it!" "Sometimes living feels like a nightmare" "But at least you can wake from a nightmare" "The priest advised me to pray more often so I got to know the saints" "St. Paul, St. John, St Mary." "All English names" "On the day I took the entrance exam to heaven" "I got my own English name too" "Hey!" "Red head!" "Do you speak English?" "English!" "What's your name?" "No?" "Look's like a half breed any how" "He wants to know if you want to work here?" "That's it?" "Half breed?" "Put his name as Half Breed!" "Yes Sir" "Don't tell him you can read" "Two forms." "Two futures" "Why not?" "If you can't read, you'll lead the stable life of a technician" "It's hard work but that's the price to pay for security" "If you can read, they'll put you in an office" "What's wrong with that?" "You'll have to learn English" "Bloody difficult!" "If you fail you'll still be cleaning the chamber pots when you're 80" "We can't read" "You can fill in your names, right?" "I'll fill the rest for you" "How about you?" "I want the other form." "I can read" "What?" "You must write down your education level" "Can I simply put down" "'I can read'?" "Of course not!" "Sir, he has no education but he knows how to read and write" "He wants to go for office boy" "I entered the Imperial East India as an errand boy with top marks" "They even paid for my education" "I was a twenty-one-year-old primary school student and I was in heaven" "On top of my wages, I saved money by walking to school" "I was content" "This is China" "We are Chinese" "China is our motherland" "Sir, why don't you teach us the syllabus?" "Because this is more important" "Don't worry what I'm holding contains all the answers to the company's exams" "This is the national flag of our motherland" "At the union's night school" "I saw the Chinese flag for the first time" "I never knew that dignity could be derived from a flag" "I wanted that dignity, too" "I've completed primary school within two years" "Now they want me to come and learn" "So what's the use of book learning?" "You end up an apprentice like me!" "What's so funny?" "Never forget who pulled you out from the gutter, Half Breed!" "My name is Bo Wah Chuen" "Sounds like a parrot" "I got a whole bucket of lamb chops today" "I've never had lamb in my life" "Have you?" "No but I know it tastes good with fish" "How do you know?" "If you put the character for 'lamb' beside 'fish' you'll get the word for 'delicious'" "How do you write 'fish'?" "Fish..." "This is the head of the fish... this is it's torso... these crosses are the scale... the four dots stand for water" "Fish" "This is a fish" "See?" "How about the word for the sea?" "It consists of three characters" "This is a man walking" "This is the character for 'mother'." "It looks like a pregnant woman" "It has a child in its belly, while carrying another in her arms" "There are waves in the sea" "These dots represent the waves" "When you put them together" "Man." "Mother." "Water." "You get the sea" "The sea is the mother of life" "There won't be life without the sea" "Let me try" "We never held a pen in my" "Hold it between these fingers" "I'll get a captain's license" "You have to learn a lot of words to pass the exam" "It's impossible, isn't it?" "Once I get a license, I'll borrow money to buy our own boat" "Then the family can be reunited" "And if we die, we'll at least die together" ""F..." "I..." "S..." "H"" ""R..." "A..." "I..." "N"" "Direction pointer..." "Direction pointer" "East" "South" "South" "West" "North" "Chuen" "What's this character?" "Love" "This is the character for love?" "There's no point in learning it" "Who'd use it?" "Your husband never said it to you?" "Never" "Did your father say it to your mother?" "It's a word for the thick skinned." ""H..." "I..." "L..." "L"" "The North Vietnamese took advantage... of the power vacuum... in the south... after the departure of... the US troops... to instigate a new series of attacks" "(Violence)" "Violence" "(Injustice)" "Injustice" "(War)" "War" "The priest said obstacles could only make us stronger" "Father!" "We're moving to Vietnam" "Over there, there are more orphans everyday" "Only we had more funds" "Goodbye Mr. Wood" "Goodbye, God bless you" "Goodbye Mr. Wood" "Good bye, God bless" "Good bye, God bless" "Goodbye Mr. Wood" "Thank you" "Sir!" "Excuse me, sir" "I want to apply for company accommodation" "I don't seem to recall your name" "Could you refresh my memory?" "My name is Bo..." "Half Breed!" "There are two requirements one, you have to be a full time employee two, you got to be married" "Do you qualify?" "Too bad" "Sir" "Can you make an exception?" "In your dreams" "Let us pray" "May the Lord be with you" "Amen" "Good" "You don't even have a license" "If not for Jesus, I wouldn't have agreed to it" "I get half of your catch and you pay for the maintenance" "Also, you pay for the fuel" "What fuel?" "Isn't it a sail boat?" "They all have motors on their boats nowadays" "I want one too" "You pay for it" "But we don't have the money" "'Mixed' does" "Suit yourself" "Chuen, we'll be all right" "There's no turning back for us" "Let's set sail!" "Look at you!" "You look like a Taipan" "At least I don't have to clean chamber pots now" "Congratulations, by the way" "What for?" "I heard you got promoted" "It was cancelled" "Why?" "Dick doesn't like us" "To him we're just some bloody Chinese" "It was you who improved the work flow" "Dick said it was his idea" "I don't get it" "Why do we always get pissed on by those gringos?" "Anything else, Mr. Bo?" "Come in" "Mr. Copper?" "Pardon me." "I thought Mr. Copper was in" "Copper is on leave" "How can I help you?" "I owe everything I've got to this company" "But it's not without its flaws and I feel it's my duty to draw your attention to them" "You're dissatisfied with the company?" "I only meant to say..." "You're going above your superior's head" "That's dangerous" "I'm sorry" "Wait a minute" "Tell me about yourself" "Do I have something on my face?" "No..." "I'm a product of the Imperial East India Company" "You're a loyal man, I like that" "I first came here ten years ago" "Never stayed here for long but this time..." "This time is for good" "And you?" "I was already accepted by the University of London by then and was a member of the British Institution of Engineers" "But I thought it always pays to be humble" "I was practically raised by this company" "Are you alright?" "And you?" "Are you alright?" "Damn!" "I haven't got my Hong Kong license yet" "You think you own the road?" "I've got a Sir here" "Mine too" "I'm not a Sir" "Oh, he is a Mr" "Do you speak English?" "Yes" "Ask the Sir if he wants to sue the lorry driver" "They want to know if you'd like to press charges against the driver?" "Is anyone hurt?" "Do I need to go to the station?" "Do you want ts press charges?" "Surely it's the other way round?" "He said no" "Why don't you wait?" "I'll call an ambulance" "Just stay here" "Move along" "He hit me, not the other way round!" "Move along!" "Who pays for my damaged goods?" "Want to sort it out at the police station?" "Beat it" "Call the ambulance" "What's going on?" "I'm sorry your wife's cake" "Father!" "Father" "Yes?" "Tai hasn't been baptized yet" "Could you baptize her, please?" "We're getting married" "We are?" "Have you talked it over?" "I did." "You weren't listening?" "Maybe she didn't hear you" "Make sure she hears you" "She needs to know" "We'll get married sooner or later" "Now is the right time!" "Why?" "I'm a staff of the Imperial East now" "They provide housing for married employees it shouldn't be like this" "First your mother has to talk to my mother" "Then my mother will ask my father" "We need to prepare the costumes and everything!" "I told you a million times!" "♫ "You can't tell if a log of wood is rotten inside"♫" "♫ "but I can tell you have a heart of gold, my dear?"♫" "Why are you singing the old folk songs all of a sudden?" "♫ "You can find a needle in a haystack"♫" "♫ "but I can't find another girl like you, my dear?"♫" "Tai!" "Tai!" "Down with British Imperialism!" "Anti-British riots broke out in 1967 the most serious of their kind for a hundred years" "Anti-British slogans could be seen anywhere, even at the Imperial East India" "Down with British Imperialism!" "Down with British Imperialism!" "Down with British Imperialism!" "Business went on as usual at the Imperial East India" "It's a big arrangement, lots bigger than what we expected" "Can I say a few words, please?" "Thank you." "Run along" "Mom!" "He wet his pants again" "Not again" "Wayne, don't swap lunch boxes with your friends again" "Your teacher told me you gave away a chicken drumstick for a gummy bear" "Hurry up" "How stupid is that?" "No wonder you're so skinny!" "Hurry up!" "You should've got up earlier" "Say goodbye to daddy" " Bye" " Bye" "Margret Thatcher arrived in Beijing this morning to discuss the future of Hong Kong with China's Deng Xiao Ping at the Great Hall of the People" "After the meeting, Mrs. Thatcher fell on the stairs outside" "Chinese officials helped her up" "I don't like it" "Fion." "Please" "Congratulations!" "You've really had it made, haven't you?" "I mean..." "I don't know a fat pay cheque and well paid vacations for doing absolutely nothing" "I want your job too!" "Really!" "That's why they called you Dick." "Dick!" "Fion, please." "Be reasonable" "You want me to be reasonable?" "I could've sued you for this disaster" "You know that right, don't you?" "How can you stand this crap?" "Enough!" "This is a reputable British company!" "Well, I'll see you in court then thank you for your wine" "Fion, please" "Dick, please leave, now" "Fion, please" "Bo, could you come up here please?" "I've decided to replace Mr. Callahan with this gentleman" "Bo" "Please" "How long did Mr. Callaghan say, it'd take to finish the building?" "A hundred and fifty days" "Was started for ten days and it's four days late alright?" "Give me a hundred and twenty days" "What makes you think you can do it?" "The scaffolding will be constructed in Japan" "We'll put it together here like Lego" "What's your name again?" "Bo." "His name is Bo Wah Chuen" "You know" "I have a Master degree in architecture when I was in LA." "after that, my father asks me to come here to help" "What about you?" "I'm nothing compared to you" "You're like same deity in the sky" "I'm just like an ant" "You mean like a fish?" "That's right" "I'm just a parrot-fish" "What?" "Hey, Greg" "Hi." "Boss" "Hi." "Sally" " Hello." "Fion" " Good afternoon" "Don't worry, we are in good hand" "We won't delay you anymore" "See you then" "Bye" "Sorry to interrupt, Bo..." "My wife and I would love to have you at our Christmas party next week" "Fion got lost last year we nearly had to get a helicopter to find her" "Please, bring your wife enjoy your lunch." "It's on me" "Thank you" "Congratulation" "Why?" "Only the elite gets to be invited" "No wonder I never saw you there" "Welcome!" "I don't feel comfortable socializing" "No need to worry." "I can train you!" "Like in "My Fair Lady"?" "Yeah!" "Let's start with that" "I messed it up just now" "You know, today is Sunday only the waiters wear ties" "Thank you" "This woman has seen the world" "Now she sees something in me that I've never noticed before" "What am I?" "I'm a parrot fish" "I'm a mixed" "I'm a half-breed" "I'm Bo Wah Chuen" "Is there more to me than that?" "Is she a gift from heaven?" "Can't I stay behind?" "Let's go" "Most people can only dream about these opportunities" "Dinner is in the kitchen." "Heat it up when you're hungry" "Heat it up when you're hungry" "Mom, your hearing aid" "How did your hands get so dirty?" "Wash your hands before you eat" "Let's go" "Don't stay up watching TV" "Lock the door" "Bye" "When we get to McCordle's house his wife will come out to greet us" "Remember her?" "See you then" "She didn't acknowledge you then because she thought you were still a small potato" "When we get there tonight she'll take Tai to the other wives" "Why don't you came with me, Te?" "They all look like they were born with a silver spoon" "They'll converse in English even though they all know Chinese" "McCordle will introduce you to the other guests" "They'll talk about things you might find alien" "Treat it as an initiation rite" "They knew you're a up and rising star" "Bo." "Say hi..." "Hello... nice to meet you" "I've heard so much about your husband" "Oh, my Greg doesn't talk about anyone else these days" "But I read that article about your husband the other day in the morning post" "So dapper!" "You must tell me a secret about his upkeep" "Mine is falling to pieces!" "Get him to work on a tug boat" "Later girls" "Stay" "Have some tea..." "How's your holiday?" "That's nice" "Thanks, try some, it's really nice" "Cheers!" "Congratulations!" "So what do you people going to give him?" "This may well be our last funfair before the end" "Pardon me?" "Haven't you heard from now until 97 there'll be no more project from the government" "all the government contracts will be valid only till the 30th of June 97" "NO" "Our Mother Company wants to know whether we should leave Hong Kong" "They want our views especially the views of the local businessman with thorough knowledge of China and Hong Kong and of western business practices" "Hello, love." "Following the old man's footsteps?" "Dare say you fare better than I did" "They go to same public school" "Meritocracy my arse" "Dick, for heaven's sake" "We weren't expecting you, Dick" "Oh I forgot." "I wasn't invited this year" "Just come say farewell to the boys" "Merry Christmas!" "I will leave you" "Let go of me." "Bull shit" "♫ "Jingle bells, jingle bells." "Jingle all the way"♫" "Let go of me." "Half Breed!" "Thank you for giving me an English name" "Without me, you'd have rotted in the sea and got shat out by sharks" "But the rest, I achieved by myself" "You think you're one of them?" "Did you go to the same school as them?" "Do you speak with the same accent?" "This company, this land, will never belong to you!" "It'll always be theirs!" "Hello, Mr. Bo" "Boss?" "Please call me Ah Cheung" "In the past," "I was just a businessman trying to make a buck" "I didn't mean any harm" "Now that the government provides loans to the fishermen" "I'm out of business" "If there's anything I can do for you please let me know" "Thank you" "And congratulations!" "You have to queue up with the alien passages" "I'm British" "I'm afraid not" "This is a British passport, isn't it?" "You're a subject of a British colony so by definition you're British reality is you have no nationality" "Then... what am I?" "I'm afraid I don't have answer for that" "Sorry, that's a history for you" "I've put you down for a membership at the Jockey Club" "Bo, Bo" "Are you ok?" "Sorry." "Jet-lagged" "But, I don't gamble" "It's just another way for you to make more contacts" "Do you know how long it normally takes to get one of these?" "Five years is what I heard" "Now it's just a signature away" "I have a question" "Fire away" "How high could I ever get to in this company's hierarchy?" "My assistant?" "We can arrange for you to get a British citizenship" "What do you thinking about?" "Learning to speak English becoming an 'elite', getting a British citizenship" "It's like I've joined a secret organization" "Do you like it?" "Do I...?" "I guess I do" "Can I ask you something?" "Sure" "Do you find me... annoying?" "Why did you ask?" "My parents had a stormy marriage" "I was always afraid that they'd abandon me" "I thought nobody wanted me" "Hug me" "Hug me like this" "You never told me how you feel" "We boat people like to keep to ourselves" "You're not one anymore" "Don't forget to tell your wife how you feel or she'll never know" "and don't forget I told you that" "Fion?" "Bo, are you coming?" "This is where it all started" "We transformed this place from a fishing village to what it is today" "Do you mean the British or the Imperial East?" "The Imperial East of course" "They first came here on our ships" "I was the errand boy a hundred years ago!" "Let's leave" "I'll always be grateful to my mentor" "Greg McCordle" "Fourteen years later, on the eve of the handover he left Hong Kong for England" "He was the one who contacted the police during the riots" "He was afraid that there'd be reprisal from the leftists after China's takeover" "People's lives are intertwined" "The Imperial East India continued to flourish in Hong Kong" "while its last Taipan died in a nursing home in London" "This is where it all started" "Your birth mother was very young" "She didn't even know she was pregnant" "Who was my father?" "Your birth mother was a leftover collector" "A sailor from a British war ship raped her" "I was sold for five hundred dollars" "This is where it all started" "Dear Goddess have you seen my birth mother since?" "Has she been back?" "Has she had a good life?" "I have fought the good fight" "I have finished the course" "I have kept the faith" "Your siblings all have comfortable lives on land with their own families" "and everything provided for thanks ts you" "I shall never forget to take care of my family" "I like it here." "I don't want to move" "Here?" "After sixth sister's marriage" "I want you to live with us" "You've been a good son" "Jesus gave me everything, everything I ever cherished" "Including your birth mother's due" "She deserved better" "I have everything I ever wanted." "It's too much already" "To ask for more would be greedy" "What are you talking about?" "That ear ring belongs to your birth mother" "It came with you" "Ear ring?" "It came with me?" "Nobody's ever seen your mother again" "Mother came live with us" "Coming?" "The other way round, you need to face the moon" "Lets start the ritual" "First." "Eternity..." "Eternity!" "Second." "Prosperity..." "Prosperity!" "Third. have a house full of children..." "The Lord be praised" "mother was blessed with eleven grandchildren who all gathered around her during their free time to keep her company" "She spent the happiest hours of her life in their company" "Even though she was immobilized in her last days" "her children and grandchildren would be her chauffeurs" "and escort her to church meetings and other gatherings" "Ready" "Like every mother who ever graced the earth" "she devoted her whole life to her children" "Praise the Lord for endowing us with her as our mother" "It has been a great blessing to all of us and we are eternally grateful" "I'll now show you clips of Mrs. Bo" "to commemorate her" "After her retirement, Mrs. Bo remained active" "She participated in church activities with great diligence and continued learning till the very end" "Whenever she encountered a new word whether she was singing a hymn or watching television" "she'd ask people its meaning" "Her curiosity knew no bounds" "Whenever we organized a visit to a nursing home" "Dad" "You should be in bed" "Mommy always complains of dizziness" "She says it feels like she's just walked off a boat and couldn't walk straight" "Did she see the doctor?" "He didn't find anything wrong with her" "Your mother's always had a bad ear" "Take care of her, will you?" "Her hearing aid isn't working" "She never changes the batteries" "Let me see" "been like this for a long time" "She said she was useless unlike Fion who could help you with so much" "Go back to sleep" " Let's ask this foreigner!" " Go ahead" "Excuse me." "The taxi to peak?" "Take the tram, you'll get a better view" "His Chinese isn't half bad" "Your Chinese good" "Where the taxi to peak. please?" "You'd better take the tram." "You'll get a better view" "Is it over there?" "Yes" "Behind?" "Behind" "That way" "Thank you very much!" " Bye" " Thank you" "Daddy" "Where's mommy?" "In the kitchen" "♫ "You can find a needle in a haystack"♫" "♫ "but I can't find another girl like you"♫" "♫ "my dear?"♫" "She was in a living hell of my creation" "I condemned her to it" "Whatever I may be" "I'm not someone who creates hell" "Before her retirement mother finally got her captain's license" "Once again" "Her boat has now set sail for the most beautiful sunrise on earth" ""Floating City" sub v1 edited by ☺ktR"