Miri has a very small population mostly immigrants with a mix of tribes, Punans/Ibans, Kayans and Kelabits and more. Only one Chinese store, one market. Two schools English/Chinese run by Missionaries. Charlie and I attended the English school. Our friends are mostly Iban kids they don’t attend school. Our playground is the jungle. I remember we use to chase small mouse deer, play with flesh eating plants we feed them with rats etc. The larger ones in the interior would devour large animals like wild boars.  Jungle is full of surprises and dangerous. Rivers are dominated by crocodiles, every corner you turn there are snakes

Two brothers Ah Guan and Kuyong were adopted by my parents. Ah Guan was our house keeper and cook, Kuyong looks after the market store that Mother started. When we left for Singaporeshe gave that store to the brothers. Mother was very enterprising, she was engaged by the Shaw Brothers movie company to manage the first open air silent movie in Miri, everyone has to bring their own stool or sit on the ground, pay half price to watch from the back screen. The Cinema operates twice per week, if films failed to arrive in time from Kuching there will be no show.