"Can you stop calling me again?" "Fine" "Hello?" "Hello?" "Who is this?" "Dad" "Nam?" "Is it Nam?" "Why haven't you called home for a whole year?" "Alone and away from home" "Don't you know we're worried about you?" "Where're you?" "Back in New York?" "Talk to me, you called yet you don't talk" "Nam?" "From the moment we were born until we die we have to make a total of over 20 million decisions" "The ability to choose is derived from human freedom but we don't have the freedom to avoid choosing" "The world is filled with choices" "Turning left or right at the intersection?" "Having dinner with family or friends?" "Who do we want to live with or alone by ourselves?" "Every decision reflects and affects our path ahead" "Amongst these choices we made many we regret, and want to choose again" "We want to choose again because we dislike our current situation" "(Fook Yuen Pharmacy)" "Eva" "Time for breakfast" "Relax, you're leaving tomorrow" "I already told Kahlil to come help you today and I upgraded you to business class remember to pick up the tickets later" "(Tung Wah Nursing School certificate)" "You haven't been on a long haul flight for decades" "Have some tea be more comfortable" "What?" "Eat already" "Stephen" "Stephen of Victory Restaurant brought these over" "You have lots to do today, let's talk more tonight" "Hot" "Hi Eva" "Hi Alice" " Hi Eva" " Hi Joan" "Hi Joanne" "I'm leaving for Hong Kong" "I leave these medicines for you" "I'll be back very soon" "We'll miss you" "Thank you, I will miss you too" "Thank you, see you" "It's Eva here" "After this" "Next time you'll need to make it yourself" "I am leaving" "Thank you" "These medicines are for you" "Be careful when you are alone" "Thank you" "Eva, I'm missing you already" "(Hot Airfare Deals)" "Okay, I'll come back after delivering the medicines" "Please clean out the medicine chest for me" "Goodbye" "We need to make more fortune cookies today" "Three tour groups are coming" "Please put on your smiley faces" "Hey, Eva" " Don't forget to come tonight" " I know" "Don't get caught up with your acupuncture sections" "And grind a pound of pearl powder for me" "Since you will leave for a long time" "Watch out" "Be careful, young lady" "What are you hurry for?" "Hey, Ma'am" "Are you okay?" "What's your name Ma'am?" "Thanks for being here" "Ms Kwan" "I guess my question Is how long have you been abusing drugs?" "I have an appointment" "Please have a seat" "Blockage is the root of pain it won't hurt when it's clean out" "Your migraine is due to blocked veins and bad circulation" "I'll put poke another one on the Union Valley here" "You'll sleep much better tonight" "I added 3 grams Xuanhu and 5 grams Fushen to your prescription" "They help you calm your mind" "Master" "These leavens have mold on them do I throw them away?" "No, no" "The mold is what makes the leaven effective" "It helps common cold, malaria to cholera" "The overseas Chinese's favorite" "Sometimes, just like life itself" "People mature only after "fermentation" "If you were trying to commit suicide" "The bad news Is, it hasn't been fulfilled" "But the good news Is if you could call it good news" "You have leukemia and it has reached the third stage the blast stage" "Why are you ignoring me?" "Why?" "Blockage is the root of pain it won't hurt when it's clean out" "Seems like there're many things in life that are not up to us" "Including birth how about death?" "We carry a symbol for life since the day we were born" "It is our name" "It's given by our family, not by our choice" "We inherit our surname from our family and our names are the wishes of our parents" "Long ago, not many people sought to change their names because they believe there's a special connection between their names" "But now seems like you can choose anything all over again when you don't like it" "(Temporarily closed." "Re-opening soon)" "Be careful" "It's heavy" "Isn't this too fancy, Nancy?" "It matches you well, Eva" "I'll say it matches you better" "You only received the power of attorney a few days ago" "He's just ignorant if he thought I'd just sign it like that" "Why on earth does he think I would agree to sell Fook Yuen?" "I just will not sell it" "Have you met this Allen?" "When his father was still alive he used to send me a few photos sometimes he was very small then" "If you're going back to Hong Kong then go in peace" "Let's see if the Fook Yuen here really can't survive without you" "Nancy, this place was opened in 1962?" "You senile?" "Have you forgotten that was the day we met?" "You came to watch the lion dance when this place opened" "It's been over 50 years" "The old staffs in Hong Kong have waited decades for you" "It's about time you visit home" "Someone is here for you" "I know" "It's Stephen who brought breakfast" "Hello Nancy" "Didn't I tell you not to come on Mondays to Thursdays?" "I need to work and have no time for you" "I miss you" "Lovely flowers, thank you" "You head back first" "I'll call you, bye" "Everything is for the best, nothing is in vain" "(Tung Wah Coffin Home)" "Excuse me, is the Coffin Home down there?" "Grandfather, I'm back" "I'll take you home very soon" "How should I address you, sir?" "The surname is Lam" "Hello, Mr. Lam" "Let's do this in the office" "We are hiring a permanent staff" "Have you returned from abroad?" "I studied in Australia a few years back" "Why would you want to work here?" "The truth is I haven't found a job yet" "Can you lift heavy stuff?" "Yes" "Can you put up incenses and sweep the place?" "Yes" "Are you afraid of all the coffins?" "I... suppose not" "Suppose not?" "Young people these days" "What are you thinking? "I... suppose not" "You are young and strong" "But you're dishonest and I hate dishonest people" "Let me tell you" "If I don't trust you, how can I let you work here?" "Mr. Lam" "Say no more, this is not the job for you" "Please find a job elsewhere" "Please forgive me, buddies" "I was too loud and angry just now" "Sorry about that" "For buying or for renting, Madam?" "I'm Allen Yu, what's your name please?" "So you are Allen Yu?" "That's right" "I'm your grand aunt" "Trying to sell your ancestral property?" "Over my dead body" "Excuse us, excuse us" "Don't worry, this one is "Fortune (Antonym of Bad Luck)" "Watch out" "What means "Fortune"?" ""Empty" sounds like "Bad Luck" in Chinese" "That means it's empty" "So people say "Fortune" instead, understand?" "Hey" "No photo-taking here" "This is a Coffin Home We have rules, stop your nonsense" "Are you here for interview?" "Over here" "Hey, I said no photos" "Are you alright?" "You ok?" "Are you hiring?" "I need a permanent staff you returned from abroad?" "I'm from San Francisco" "You can recognize my accent?" "Hire me, half price during probation" "What half price?" "This is not a department store" "Hire me, hire me please" "Can you move heavy stuff?" "No" "Can you offer incenses and sweep the place?" "What does that mean?" "Are you afraid of all the coffins here?" "No, I think this place is beautiful" "Well... okay but only for a try" "Thank you uncle" "I'm not your uncle" "My name is H" "I'm Nam, thank you Uncle H" "Do you have a place for me to stay?" "Come with me" "Thank you" "The old lady of this house is gone" "Dead?" "No, she's just out of town" "There's an empty room on the second floor" "You can see the Coffin Home from the window" "Just stay here first" "I'll move in right way" "Okay" "God knows what this "banana" is thinking" "Fascinated by the dead" "Are you talking to me, Uncle Hill?" "Oh, work starts tomorrow at 7 am" "The fish is so fresh" "After the chef was gone" "It's been ages since we have dinner here" "What's the occasion?" "Why are we cooking?" "Mulberry and Dragon Bone soup" "Uncle Radix made it?" "Yes" "Home so early today?" "We haven't smelled fried fish cakes here for years" "Nobody makes better fish cakes than our Taishan girls" "You should have more then, Radix" "Of course" "Why didn't you come back earlier?" "If you came back earlier" "Allen, that little brat wouldn't have made Fook Yuen so miserable" "Set the table for Allen too" "Okay" "Allen" "Time for dinner" "I've already eaten" "Look Miss, here's your chest" "Allen Yu?" "Allen Yu" "You are Allen Yu?" "And you are?" "I'm Nam, friend of Merry Kwan from San Francisco" "Oh, oh, right!" "How is she?" "Did she get better from her illness?" "She gives you this" "You two must be close friends" "Or else she wouldn't ask me to bring you this from afar" "In fact" "Let me cut to the chase" "Please return the letter to her" "I just don't know how to be friends with her" "I first thought the photos on her blog were pretty and we started to chat online" "I don't even know what she looks like" "No need to send someone on a plane to give me a letter" "Is she" "She is not crazy" "Forget it, just pretend that you never saw me and bring the letter back to her" "Thank you" "She's dead" "Okay" "Ready" "Let's play" "Allen" "You don't need to be afraid" "I can't bother you anymore" "I found your address on the internet" "I know I was going too far bugging you all the time with my unreasonable requests like asking you to come to San Francisco" "But it was all because" "I realized that my illness has reached the final phase" "That made me very unstable" "Although we have never met we're only friends on the internet" "I kept bothering you with my troubles all because I felt that you never criticized my past" "You really cared for me" "In the whole world you're the only one whom I can trust will never betray me, leave me or abandon me" "But why were you so cruel?" "When I most needed someone to care and understand me you avoided and ignored me" "I know" "My death has nothing to do with you" "But why, during my last days you have to disappoint me so completely?" "Come again" "Be careful" "1, 2, 3, Okay" "Now turn around" "Hold me tight" "Thanks" "I was saying that it's really cold tonight" "I want to have something hot" "I don't know sign language" "How could I know what you're saying?" "But you were making signs with me" "I thought you understood" "I thought it was like learning English" "I just follow what you do and then I'll learn by following" "You are very special indeed and also very funny" "Thank you very much, Sir" "If I must say so myself" "You are quite correct" "Get up for work" "Nam, wake up" "Young lady, please remember that" "Alarm service is not provided with your employment" "If you don't get up" "I will keep shouting at you with this blow horn" "Until you get up to work" "Wake up to work!" "Wake up to work" "Wake up to work" "Oh no" "Wake up to work!" "Wake up to work" "Wake up to work" "Hey, where are you going?" "This way to work" "I know how I can help you" "You won't cough anymore" "We will be here for two more days" "If any family member has not received the vaccine tell them to come quickly" "Free Cow Pox Vaccination" "You won't get smallpox after cow pox vaccination" "We will be here for two more days" "If any family member has not received the vaccine tell them to come quickly" "(Vaccinia vaccine)" "I don't even know this one" "I want to drink too" "Big thirst, Big Slurp" "Big slurp, Great Taste" "("He Dao", meaning Harmonious Road)" "My grand aunt is already back in Hong Kong" "Just wait a little longer for me" "What about that?" "Allen, we've known each other for so long" "If I were not serious" "I wouldn't have followed your case for 7 years" "Just get her to sign it" "I don't think she's come back to play a joke on me" "What's wrong?" "My tummy hurts, I need to use your bathroom" "Use the restaurant's bathroom" " Can't" " Come on in" "Do you need to use the bathroom again?" "Do you suffer from diarrhea and constipation intermittently?" "And sometimes both at the same time?" "Right, right" "In western medicine this is called "IBS" "Irritable Bowel Syndrome" "What does that mean?" "Don't worry it's very common among city dwellers" "It's all caused by anxiety and worry" "Western medicine only relieves one symptom at a time" "My medicines are not complete yet" "Come back in 2 days everything should be ready by then" "Yes, Master" "Remember, don't drink so much coffee" "Yes, yes" "Thank you so much" "Show some mercy, Master" "Remember well, I will not sign the papers" "I got it, I got it." "Sorry to disturb you" "I'll prepare your medicine again in 2 days" "Excuse me, do you sell Chinese medicine here?" "What do you need?" "Not me." "I'm buying for my uncle" "He has been coughing for days" "And do you have any wine rubs?" "He sprained his ankle as we" "Come in" "These pills can relieve a little but is not a long term cure" "That should stop the cough" "This is my own wine rub" "Just apply a thin layer" "The wound will swell up if you apply too much" "Come back in two days" "Our pharmacy will re-open" "Okay" "Goodbye" "Nam" "I have something to ask you" "Read this letter first" "There's more?" "Bye" "Where were you the whole day?" "What's wrong with you?" "What's up with young people these days?" "Why didn't you say where you're going?" "Where were you?" "Is this how you behave?" "What are you doing?" "Do you know people are worried about you?" "Can you find the number for the herbal supplier?" "In the top drawer" "Are you senile?" "Need a Doctor?" "Don't bother me, I'm calling to place orders" "Yes, Hing Kee" "Our boss has returned from San Francisco so we need more stock" "Nothing happened." "Only good things can happen" "We need fern rhizome, clam shell, gecko and talcum" "Plantain Herb, Peony Bark, Harlequin Leaf" "Angelica root (means living alone)?" "No need for Angelica root." "We have lots" "No need" "We need them urgently" "Can you deliver earlier?" "Thank you" "I told you I'm allergic to Chinese medicine" "You just don't believe me" "Especially these clam shells" "Drink it" "Drink it, you said you're allergic" "Why make me drink Chinese medicine when I'm allergic to it?" "Drink it!" "It's good for you" "Do you have a candy for me to wash out the taste?" "If we tell people you're the owner of a Chinese pharmacy no one could possibly believe" "I never bother about the shop front" "Hello, yes, yes" "I'm selling" "I know..." "I know" "Just hold on a little longer, please" "There's some progress now" "Hang up" "This is important" "Take a walk with me" "Wait a minute" "You stopped sneezing, haven't you?" "Why do you have to sell it?" "Why can't I sell it?" "Fook Yuen is so worn out already" "I need the money to help someone" "Who are you helping?" "A girl?" "Which one?" "The one from Wynn St or the one who buys medicine?" "Don't pretend to know a lot about me" "I just need to help someone" "You can't sell it" "You can't just think of yourself" "Didn't you also just leave like that, years ago?" "Why could you leave, and I can't now?" "Do you know what you're selling?" "Do you know what Fook Yuen actually does?" "I know. "Pigs and poultry" ""Sheep and cattle, dragon and turtles" "I've learned the "instructional songs of formulas" by heart" "And what good is that for?" "Do you know why I went to San Francisco back then?" "To save the world, Florence Nightingale" "I know nothing" "Back then, the cargo ships of Fook Yuen" "Helped to bring coffins back to Hong Kong and offered pro bono medical service" "I went to San Francisco to help people" "Old Master said" "To be committed and do your duty, right?" "What you did was helping people" "Am I not helping people now?" "Why is "the past" always right and" the present" always wrong?" "If you could choose again" "I bet you would think twice too, Grand Aunt" "We're done talking" "I can sign the paper" "You give me one month in exchange" "You'll stay in Fook Yuen for one month" "And do whatever I tell you to" "What does that mean?" "Don't ask" "Can you do that?" "After the fall of Shantou in June" "Mainland refugees continue to flee to Hong Kong in large numbers" "Japan offered four conditions of truce to China and China is required to join the Anti-Comintern Pact" "Yesterday 500 students in Boston joined a parade with Boston citizens in order to support China in anti-Japanese war" "It is called Thyme in English" "Thyme" "Now please enjoy the following song" ""After You've Gone" ""After you've gone" means after you went away, correct?" "Correct" "Eva" "Yu Bing-t" ""Bing-ti" in English is 2 buds 2 buds means 2 flowers" "2 flowers - sounds like Er-hua, Eva" "My English name?" "E-va" "Eva" "I'm sorry, Allen" "I shouldn't have said all those hateful things before especially shouldn't have reminded myself how you really don't care about me at a" "And keep disturbing you" "But still, I couldn't help it but repeatedly doing the things that hurt the both of us" "In fact, my situation has nothing to do with you" "It is me who is selfish" "I apologize once again" "Nam, where are you?" "I don't know why I'd hired you" "There's so much work to do, Nam" "Where are you?" "You here, Nam?" "Nam" "Where are you?" "Nam" "We want to choose again" "Because we dislike our current situation" "We dislike our current situation" "Because we think the people around us" "Have better and more options than ourselves" "Doubting ourselves" "Regretting the choices we've made" "But if we've never made any wrong choices" "Making the right choices seem meaningless" "Yes, sure, no problem" "If you change your mind, please call me back" "I just don't get the old owners" "The government offers $9,000/sq." "Ft and they won't se" "On Wynn Street or Gage Street?" "On Wynn Street" "He has only a few tenants and the rents are cheap" "Didn't you just say you have a lot of questions?" " Previously" " What?" "Previously, I did have a lot of questions" "But now, I don't want to know anything anymore and I don't want to remember this person" "I have nothing to do with things about her" "I really don't want to know any more about her" "If you have more of her letters please do not give them to me" "(Paradise)" "Uncle Hill!" "Where are you going?" "To work" "Don't these only go in?" "Do they go out as well?" "His family found him and got the documents to enter the mainland" "So I'm seeing my friend off now" "This picture is classic" "It was taken after Old Master built the watchtower in Taishan" "It was homecoming glory" "Incredible" "How old were you at that time, Miss?" "12 years old?" "I'm was the same age as you" "What?" "What's up with you?" "Radix looks at least 20 years older you, Miss" "Because I live among herbal medicines longer than him" "He came to Fook Yuen only when he was teenage" "That's right" "Polyporus, Elephas, you weren't here yet" "You haven't seen the glory of our miss back then" "Please go Tai-wo-lung to get the samples later Polyporus" "Okay" "Shall I re-write the words?" "They're fine" "Uncle Elephas, let me do it" "Hey, Yanny" "Something's up today?" "Go in and sit down first" "Have some tea" "Thank you" "You made these?" "I made a lot of dumplings" "So I bring some here for Allen to share with colleagues" "The two coffins lie in the same room" "Who are they?" "A couple of Tung Wah directors who established this Coffin Home" "They've been here for almost 100 years but I've never seen any visitors for them" "Only you and me would offer them incense now" "These are the documents found during renovation a few years back better call them relics" "These are all the records of who's come in and out decades ago records of "friends" "To find a home in life and a home in death" "People are very practical now" "Today, no one thinks that the coffin home is important" "If we organize these information it's almost a 100 years history of Hong Kong" "Be careful!" "It's fragile" "1918?" "The Sunny South freighter enters the Victoria Harbor among the cargos it contains 200 bags of Idaho potatoes" "'94 boxes of dead Chinaman" "Though these people were dead they shouldn't be described as if they were not human" "Do you know what "coolie trade" is?" "They were called Chinese Pig back then and you said you came from San Francisco" "Piggy... potato" "The coffins that returned to Hong Kong at that time tell all sorts of stories" "thousands of them" "At first there were some empty boxes" ""Fortune" boxes" "Yes, "Fortune" boxes with only names on them" "It was because their bodies were not found so they shipped back the souls" "to bring some comfort to their family" "So many coolies were sold abroad they all wanted to be buried in their home village after they died" "to return to one's roots" "Everywhere was chaos back then it wasn't easy." "Not easy at a" "It wasn't possible during the Anti-Japanese War nor during the civil war" "During the 1960's, nothing could enter China" "Let alone these friends" "When I first came the mainland has just lifted the sea embargo" "Those who could, all came to claim their ancestors" "It was so busy everyday" "What if no one wants them?" "There must be a reason if no one comes to claim a coffin" "Everybody has his own story" "We'll take care of them first" "Just wait" "He's been on a ship" "Uncle H" "How long did it take to come back from San Francisco by ship?" "A little more than a month" "Nowadays, some young people do the other way round" "They send their ancestors from home villages to overseas so they can visit more easily" "DHL can do the job, no more waiting" "What about the music box?" "Why is there a music box in the room?" "One must find a home in life and in death" "In a nutshell, each person his own story" "It's other people's business" "Uncle Hill, where is your home?" "Come on, shoot" "One more time" "Go get it" "Allen" "The rules of Chinese medicine are passed on through generations" "Remember the songs of formulas?" "I taught you when you were little" "I remember" "He memorized it perfectly" "But he may not understand it" "The names of Radix, Polyporus and Elephas" "Grand Aunt, you expect me to memorize hundreds of names?" "Do you think I could actually remember all that?" "But you have to understand them" "Recite repeatedly and you can always get the right drawer" ""Rain water hits the stones three drawers on the top" ""Red green white and black four, five, six to eight" "You can't just recite them, it's useless" "It's discipline" "You might kill someone if you make any mistake" "You're really taking a risk If you let me do it" "Don't confuse the raw and treated rehmannia roots" "Remember we" "Did I do it wrong?" "It's not like this, I've told you" " Do in circles like this" " Okay" "Excuse me, I need some herbal medicine" "Is it for your uncle again?" "Wait." "This time, you try" "If you're poisoned, it's her fault" "You must be clear about the positions of pulse taking" "Place your 3 fingers on 3 parts:" "Cun, Guan and Chi" "The middle finger determines the Guan" "Cun comes before Guan, and Chi after Guan" "Since the Japanese invade many refugees have fled to Hong Kong" "The population in Hong Kong has grown 250 thousands" "Most refugees are located in the northern New Territories" "Now a special report" "At 3:30pm today the Japanese army has occupied Guangzhou" "(Hill, an ordinary h Flower, an ordinary flower... )" "Guangzhou is now officially taken over" "The Japanese has enforced martial law and will closed all border completely" "By midnight tonight" "It's lucky that our ship had been arrived yesterday" "I'll go and check out the coffin home see if we can offer any help" "Radix, watch the shop with Bing-t ...the government agrees to turn the old National Hospital and the Victoria prison into temporary shelters for the refugees and plans to build refuge housings" "I asked a Shanghai tailor to make it specially" "You can use it forever" "unless you lose it" "Did the teacher call you a smart boy today?" "Yes" "How smart were you?" "Very very very smart" "Were you smarter yesterday or today?" " Today" " I see" "Are you hungry?" "Hungry" "What do you want to eat?" "I'll eat what you cook" "Wow, daddy has bought me a gift again" "This doesn't look right" "Upper Star, Morning Court" "This is Upper Star... this one is Morning Court" "Oh, they are close to each other" "Careful with your needles" "Let me see" "It looks alright, doesn't it?" "You're here" "Uncle Polyporus" "Are you doing acupuncture?" "Yummy, hold on" "Dumplings?" "Use chopsticks" "Want some, Uncle Polyporus?" "How can I eat with needles over my head?" "Uncle H" "I'm here" "Uncle H" "I'm here" "Uncle Hill, I want to learn to cook" "What do you want to cook?" "A Taishan dishes" "Taishan fish cakes" "Let me get changed" "We'll head to town" "Uncle H" "Why didn't you ask me about the cooking?" "You brought me so much trouble" "It's only natural that you learn my favorite dish and cook me something nice sometimes, no?" "Of course" "Surely I'm not learning that to woo other young men" "Why didn't I ask?" "There's a thing I wanted to ask" "What?" "Not everything can be asked explicitly" "Why are you lugging that camera all the time?" "It's coo" "How cool?" "It's not even a "Zeiss" lens" "What?" "The smartest thing about this camera Is" "It's the first Japan-made camera with a German lens which go perfectly with your military jacket" "Like you're all set to go to war You're the coolest" "Hey, I really know how to take pictures" "Let me take one for you" "Hey, not here" "I said no photos" "What happened?" "I wanted to ask just now" "Why are we taking this way?" "Why are we taking the long route?" "This is the way I go." "If you don't like it you can go by yourself" "I didn't mean that" "Let's go" "It's almost okay." "Enough, enough" "Slap it down!" "Slap it and it'll thicken" "Tell me, why learn to cook all of a sudden?" "I thought you'll never ask" "Get me some ginger, I'll start the wok for you" "Why do you choose such a cumbersome dish?" "This is a very common Taishan dish" "But if you make it we it tastes excellent" "Did you cook this to woo women back then?" "Why every time I asked about the music box and you'll go speechless?" "Now!" "The fish cake" "Tell me" "The fish cake" "Don't tell me you're for a girl." "So corny" "How long did you wait?" "Why did you wait here?" "Who is she?" "Why?" "Then why did you come to Hong Kong?" "See?" "Not everything can be explained" "Every young person is the same makes a big deal over small things" "She took the ship to far far away without saying a word just for spite" "You must understand, don't you?" "So ungentlemanly" "You should be more generous to a girl" "You should've chase after her instead of sulking here" "What do you know?" "It was so chaotic during war" "After the war I got bone consumption" "I'm lucky enough to be alive" "Let alone go find her" "Does she know you're waiting?" "It doesn't matter" "I stay wherever I want to stay" "I never thought that she'll really show up" "Just try my luck" "Time still flies whether you try or not" "Perhaps... it'll be safer to invite him to a barbeque?" "It's easier to prepare some chicken wings Isn't it?" "Is Allen here?" "Can you pass this to him for me?" "Come in" "Give me your hand" "Have I met you before?" "San Francisco?" "Maybe" "Do you know from where in Hong Kong you can see San Francisco?" "Which way is San Francisco?" "When we went to San Francisco in the past the ship departed from here" "It took a month and more to get there" "By ship?" "Why did you have to go so far?" "Fook Yuen in San Francisco needed help" "At that time, a lot of Chinese workers became ill or died, with no one to care for them" "Fook Yuen was always so busy" "That's why I went there to help" "And you haven't come back all these years?" "It's because of a person" "You hurting?" "You work at the hospital in the mornings and at Fook Yuen in the evenings It's too hard on you" "You'll soon have no time to see me" "So you'll cherish your time with me more" "Have you thought of quitting your job at the hospital?" "Why should I quit?" "I put so much effort in the nursing school" "Very few doctors believe in using Chinese  western medicines together" "But I'm sure it will be different in the future" "What if I want you to quit?" "Why?" "In fact, if we get married the hospital will stop hiring you" "Maybe they'll change the rules by then" "My family may not like you to be a nurse" "Then how about Fook Yuen?" "They won't like me to stay in Fook Yuen either" "I really can't understand" "Yes you can" "If you want to marry me, you'd understand" "What if I tell you I can't?" "Vice versa if Grandpa in San Francisco needs me there" "Will you come with me?" "I didn't say that we have to decide anything tonight" "Hey Wayne, told you I got one" "What time is it?" "Wayne, would you like some food?" "Sure" "What happened?" "What are you doing?" "Don't you know what this place Is?" "Get out" "All of you get out" "You" "Sorry" "It's okay" "Barbeque causes internal heat" "I'm sorry" "My son also liked red bean popsicles" "The guitar is my son's" "Sorry" "He had an accident during hiking years ago" "They never found his body" "I looked for him for over 8 months in the mountains but still couldn't find him" "From that time onwards my wife and I have never spoken to each other" "I ended up being here" "I don't want to see anybody" "The one you're waiting is your wife?" "No" "The one I wait will never come" "I've already bought the boat ticket back then planning to find her" "But the Japanese army came and took everything away" "I met my wife when we were fleeing together" "Everywhere was chaos and everything uncertain" "I didn't even know if I could survive the day" "Nothing else mattered" "Let alone wait for someone" "It's just an excuse I gave myself to stay here" "We" "it's not important" "Do you know why I hired you?" "I don't know either" "You know how to play it, do you?" "If you want to make someone smile what would you do?" "Write a poem" "A poem?" "Will it work?" "If you don't trust me, don't ask" "One has to smile after reading" "He'll definitely smile if he likes the poem" "Then let's go" "Where to?" "Let's go write the poem" "You write what I say" "Can you write Chinese?" "I went to Chinese school" "Ask me if you don't know the word" "Listen" "H as in Uncle H" "An ordinary h" "Flower" "An ordinary flower" "Hey, what is this?" "Does it work?" "You're smiling, aren't you?" "Write it down" "Flowers bloom across the h" "Hill is blossomed with flowers" "Flower nestles." "Hill wards" "You wrote It wrong" "Which one?" "This one" "Hill resides." "Flower dwells" "Dwells?" "I said you wrote it wrong" "Why didn't you correct it?" "Not like this" "Dwells" "You know the word?" "No" ""Dwells", that means still exist, not dead" "You?" "Hey, Toby" "You're getting better at it" "Do you like this bicycle?" "I like it" "But Uncle Alien" "If I get a C in the next math test what will daddy get for me?" "What would you want?" "I don't know yet" "Then think about it" " Be careful, not too far" " Okay" "Don't spoil him" "I only buy him things when he studies hard and I'm not buying expensive gifts" "I can never argue with you" "There's something I wanted to tell you for long time" "It hasn't been completed" "but it looks like it'll be completed soon" "I'll have $10 million when it's finished" "And then you and Toby can move to a better place" "You can stop worrying about his school fees and can even send him abroad to study" "You can also have an easier life and have more time to take care of Toby" "What is it?" "Yanny" "Allen" "We really thank you for doing so much for us all these years" "But really, you're not to be blamed for my husband's death" "How can you say that?" "If I hadn't change shifts with him the canopy wouldn't have fallen on him" "I should be dead, not him" "It's not about you!" "Don't you understand?" "It's been seven years" "Toby is almost seven years old" "I could've forgotten about it but you keep reminding me" "I know you feel guilty so you do many things for us" "I really want to let you do things for us but I feel so tired" "$10 million" "Do you know what you're doing?" "In fact Toby and I are okay on our own" "I can take care of us" "In fact Toby doesn't need to know how it feels to lose his father" "But you keep giving him false hope" "He's growing up quickly" "Now you tell me how am I to explain to him" "Sometimes the best thing you can do to care for others" "Is to leave them" "I know what present I want" "I want 2 tickets to fly to find Daddy" "(To Allen)" "Young Master, this is an odd hour you return" "Shall I say good morning or good night?" "Good, as long as you're home" "What now?" "Didn't I tell you not to bring me more letters?" "But this one is written by me" "Can you read it now?" "What is it?" "Poem" "Let me read this to you" "Hill, an ordinary h" "Flower, an ordinary flower" "Flowers bloom across the h" "Hill is blossomed with flowers" "Flower nestles:" "Hill wards" "Hill resides;" "Flower dwells" "What are you saying?" "You should take it back" "Come and help, Young Master" "In fact I made everything up" "I am "Merry" in the letters" "I'm also Nam" "Why did you have to lie?" "I wanted to rehearse and find out would anyone still remember me after I die" "If he ignores me I want to make him remember all the more" "The more you want him to remember the more he'll ignore you" "You shouldn't ask others to remember you but you to remember others" "Grand Aunt" "if a dead person suddenly appears before you what will you do?" "Is he gone?" "Not yet" "You really won't meet him?" "You want me to call someone for you?" "Don't be afraid" "I'm here" "Lucky you're still alive" "Merry" "After you recover can you go to San Francisco with me?" "Hill resides;" "Flower dwells" "Did I say it right?" "Ms Yu, please don't worry" "We will take good care of your grandfather's coffin until it goes back to Taishan" "Thank you" "All the documents are here" "We'll call you when the discharge date is confirmed" "Thank you" "Goodbye" "(Yu's House)" "(Lunch break)" "Eva" "Goodbye" "Bye-bye" "Everything is for the best now, nothing is in vain"