About My Family
(Photo of my family taken when we were all young)
My father was born in Penang, Malaysia. He went back to China amidst the China-Japan War, and he joined the Nationalist Army and worked as an Interpreter for the China-American ally. After the Japanese surrendered, the Nationalist fought with the Communist, and when the Communists were about to overrun China, my father and mother fled to Hong Kong in a converted bomber (airlines then operated with left over bombers from the 2nd World War).
My father found a job in Sing Tao Newspaper as a proof reader, and later he bought a house in Homantin (a place in the middle of Kowloon). I was born there. I have an elder sister who was born in China.
Altogether my mother gave birth to five children. Me and three sisters after me are born in Homantin. All but me are girls, and I am the second.
We all attended schools. My eldest sister, after graduation from Form 5, worked and studied in Kwong Wah Hospital, and successfully passed the Nursing Examination and became a qualified nurse (or registered nurse).
She worked for quite a number of years as nurse, then she said she met some ghosts (spirits) in her living quarter in Kwong Wah (she lived not at home, but at the quarters provided for nurses at Kwong Wah Hospital). The belief at that time (and even now) is that if anyone hears or sees ghost, he is deemed to be mentally ill. And so the doctor thought that my sister was mentally ill, and he gave her lot of medicine to take. My sister grew fatter and fatter, and her mental power declined, because of the medicine, and she lost her job as a nurse. Later she got married to a male worker in another Hospital.
I can hear voices too. But because I am a Christian, and in the Bible, I know that angels and demons and spirits exist. Human being is not the only thing on earth that has intelligence. Who can say that ALL THINGS THAT HAS INTELLIGENCE MUST BE VISIBLE. We Christian believe that there are things that have intelligence and yet invisible. (Our human eye can see a very narrow range of the electromagnetic radiation.) Hence I don't believe that "all people who hear voices from invisible beings are mentally ill."
But this is a view not held by people in this society. Many people I know can hear voices of demons/spirits/angels, and are held as mentally ill and have to take in lot of medicine to make their mind dull. (This may be compared to the slaughtering of animals because infectious disease was found on some of them. Why don't we treat the animal? Are there no animal doctors? Are we going to kill all human if some are affected by infectious disease? Are we going to kill all birds if some birds are infected with infectious disease?)
My sister who was born after me also heard voices, and was told that she is mentally ill and was given lot of medicine (I can offer no advice at that time because I did not hear voices of demons at that time. I heard the voices of demons when I was about 36 years old. Hence I thought that the doctor might be right).
And she grew very fat (she was quite lean and good looking before she took the medicine). She was a good sister of mine, a good Christian and cared a lot about her brother and sisters. She would cheer me up when she saw I was unhappy. Her poor academic achievement hampered her in finding jobs, and she could only worked as private tutor or kindergarten teacher.
For some period of time she had been under pressure from outside. She did not tell us what happened to her. (And I think it is a very bad custom of the Chinese not to talk about their difficulties to their family members). She told me once that her former boss was extremely rude to her, and treated her not like a human being. She also told me that the mother of a girl she gave private tuition to suddenly reduced her wages (this should not be, as wages was fixed beforehand), forcing her to quit. Later she committed suicide.
I was young and inexperienced and un-sympathetic. What didn't happen to me I thought would not happen to others. It was only when I personally encountered such "pressure" that I began to understand what sort of situation she had been in, and was extremely sorry that I did not offer help to her at that time. Also, I was angry with her at that time because once she vented on me when she received extremely rough treatment outside, and I was un-forgiving then. Now I have learned to be more sympathetic.
I was lucky that I have the chance of studying in the University of Hong Kong. At that time, the thinking was that education was vital to a man's up-bringing, hence the fees were low and grants and scholarships plenty. And people studied for the sake of seeking knowledge, of fulfilling one's interests. I received grants as well as loans in my University years.
My character was not good then, and I lost 2 jobs because of that. Finally I worked in the Industrial Engineering Department of University of Hong Kong as programmer (formal name was computing technician). Because of the pressure I recieved there, I switched over to the Civil Engineering Department. And still the pressure followed me there. People from the secret service from China tried to gain control on various sectors of Hong Kong, and they used very cruel tactics.
I was not alone. There was another person whose pressure was much intense than that I have been subjected. Where-ever he went, the secret service would follow him and ordered people who have bowed to cooperate with them to apply pressure to him too. He was so agonized that he thought he would kill them all with a machine gun.
Unfortunately, the pressure on him had been so great, that he capitulated. The treatment he received was like the "breaking of horses, breaking of camels, of asses" - if it disobeys, it will be given no food, and torture, until it breaks. Because we human tolerate this, and pay no regard to the plight of animals, we human are now being subject to such "breaking", from the Secret Alliance, who grows bigger and bigger, because of this and because of the failure of the present day legal system in rendering justice. Many would join the Secret Alliance willingly, because of the promise of good jobs and benefits, but many are being "broken" into subjugation.
I resigned from the University of Hong Kong in 1985, because at that time I was thoroughly exhausted and wanted to take a rest. Initially I hope to rest for one year and then resume work. But the secret service's grip on me have not loosened. And I am unable to find work since then. (But I have not been idle, though I have no work and am on welfare, I continue to study and to write web pages for my homepage.)
Also during these years, I gradually begin to understand the pressure my dead sister, and other people experienced under the hand of this great Secret Alliance.
My mother and another sister of mine have been broken into subjugation too. Whenever I visit my mother, the secret service would use listening device to listen to our conversation, and give order immediately to either my mother or that sister of mine, and THEY MUST OBEY, OR ELSE THEY WOULD FACE TREMENDOUS PRESSURE FROM EVERYSIDE : FROM THE SELLERS IN THE MARKETS, FROM THE NEIGHBORS, .... People in the Secret Alliance have no regard for family values nor moral.
LORD gave us Law and Commandments, and these teach us what actions must not be done. But people would not believe in LORD, and do whatever they like, whether that action is considered sinful in the sight of LORD or not. They fear the visible, and they don't fear the invisible LORD.
I am able to stand because LORD helped me. After these years, I am thoroughly convinced of the truth of Jesus' word "Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's will. [Mt 10:29]" All the difficulties that befall us must have LORD's approval beforehand, and LORD will see that we are able to handle that.
I sincerely hope that people would follow LORD and Jesus's teachings, and trust in the faithfulness of LORD, and fear NOT DEATH, but always stand on the side of LORD. The demarcation line will be drawn between who would obey LORD's Law and who wouldn't.
Wu Siu Yan
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