Yasmin talking with Alan Chong Kwan Part 2
Recording for Asian Connections ProjectTrack 1 length 48 minutes, 40 seconds [draft paper list at Archive Centre]Please note the conversation on the disk does not come to a close- the recording went into a loop. His adventures as a child. (1.11) Discussion about smacking children. (3.00) His eldest son not prepared to accept parental discipline asked to go into care at age 14. (6.32) His son and daughters’ jobs. (9.34) Discussion about his partner and their baby boy. (10.49) Studying joinery at college as a mature student c.2000. (16.32) Discussion about his mum. Takes turns with brother to look after her. (22.00) Discussion about a friend who cut her daughter out of her will because she had no children and left her property to cousins. (36.44) Finding silver linings in disasters. (37.15) His son’s accident aged 6, Alan was 30, very scary situation. Discussion about funerals and contacting members of the family with bad news. (41.00) Alan does not speak Chinese. Speaks some French. When he was travelling abroad he used to dream in French. (42.46) Celebrates Chinese New Year and other traditions . His partner cooks some Chinese dishes. (44.28) Yasmin describes Sagh made with rapeseed shoots. She asked a farmer for some. Asian women helping themselves from rapeseed fields.
