Chinese
daughters on board/Carlos Pueblo
There are more and more Chinese youngsters
working on board nowadays. I
have met
several pleasant staff on Deck 12 Garden Café and 4 of them become
my adopted
daughters and another one, Miss Liu of Kuangchou, Canton whom
I have a
pleasure met twice missed my adoption due to time restraint. Another
one was on
the front desk of the Atrium counter on the night shift. I shall
introduce
every one of them below.
The first
Chinese daughter Yin H of Mai County, Canton, a Hakka, is quite new on
board just a
matter of week on Jade. I have had my Chinese Nationalist education
in Taiwan
and very familiar with the pre-Communist era China plus I speak Mandarin
and
understand the classical Chinese thought completely. I indicated that Hakka was
really
derived from the ancient Huns outside of the Great Wall of China. She smiles
innocently and
still listening then asked me how Taiwanese Hakka language sounds like.
I exhausted
myself for two sentences. Se mai un chang means this girl is pretty; Ten
Gong lot sui
mu lot sui? Means is it raining or not in the sky? She laughed and understood.
I have had
many Hakka speaking friends during my colleges years who are the second
large population
in Taiwan and like their ancestors they are martial spirit or warlike
spirit that
make them serve in governments between Taiwan and China.
The second
daughter is really the first one I like to adopted, Jan C of Senyou Co. Hokkien
near the
western boarder of Chianghsi Province. I tracked her down very much in details
of Hokkien
Province, asking if she spoke Fuchou, the provincial capital area where Fay’s
parents were
coming from. Fay is my sister-in-law, Yancy’s wife. They both met Jan on
their trip
to Quebec City from New York last month
on this ship. She is going home in January
, 2018 and
coming back to another ship, Joy, in Shanghai for the Eastern Asia route. She
is very pretty, kind, pleasant and hard working.
The third
one is An C of Kuanghsi or Kueichou Provinces, a very shy and pleasant one at
the
Garden Café mainly.
The restaurant was very busy and we rarely met again or I was interrupted
by the
others or not at the restaurant simultaneously.
The fourth
one is Rui L of Shanhsi Province another pretty with pleasant personality. I
asked her
how far from
Yenan, His’s father old stronghold during the 30’s and 40’s. She indicated that
about 5 hours high speed rail time from the north to the south of the province,
Hsian is in the
center of
the province and an ancient capital of Ching, Han, and Tang Dynasties. She told
me a
restaurant
owner at Kralendijk, Bonaire taking them to tour the scenery area of the city
and also
specially
made a dish of sour vegetable with fresh fish for them. She was so excited and
I was
very happy
for these group of fine girls.
The fifth
one is Chia H of An-Ching, Anhui Province. She works at the front desk of the
Atrium
office of
the ship’s customer service night shift. Now I know why my old ala mater is
named
An-Ching
from nowhere. When the Chinese Nationalist took over Japanese sugar factory
after the
War, they built an elementary school at the site of the factory compound and
named a city
of the old Anhuei Province as the name of the school. I told her that I had had
one favorite
middle school Chinese literature teacher was from Uwei, Anhuei, as a matter of
fact, I had
had a lovely friend, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Houston engineering
school was
graduated from Anhuei Normal University at Uhu, and Hefei, Anhuei, Chinese
University of Science and Technology at Hefei, the provincial city of Anhei.
