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For the next four years, life continued, and every Christmas I would think of Mei Ling and the two boys, who I continue to miss very much, and I would lay flowers at the memorial site for them each year on Boxing Day at 9am, the time when the tsunami hit Malaysia. The business was doing extremely well now, with Kyle now living in New Zealand where he is the companies Area Manager for the 4 branch shops over there, with 2 other shops located at Dunedin and Wellington, plus the 4 other new sh
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Two years have passed, and I have now been so busy with the business and bring up the boys, that I have not had time for anything else, as the Christmas period comes and goes, our family does not celebrate it like everyone else, because of the pain of memories of what had happened in Malaysia. I had recently purchased the two neighboring duplex units, and had builders put a doorway in the adjoining lounge rooms and dining rooms; to that, it was now one big home for my family. Mum had finall
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Monday morning ended up being quite busy, firstly I dropped the twins off at childcare, before taking Isaac to several stores, for some new clothes, shoes, and a mobile phone. Once those were delivered back to the house, we went off to see the three schools that I had researched on the internet the evening before and had called earlier in the morning to organize some appointments. The first school was a government co-ed high school, which had a lot of extra subjects, plus a good variety of s
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I was shocked at how badly Isaac has been treated by our Dad and that Isaac had to walk so far to get to a place where he felt safe, on top of that, Jared had to drive two hours from University to where I am living, to see what I can do to help. Because Isaac is not permitted to stay in the student rooms, since he is not a student on campus. Firstly, I had both brothers follow me to the kitchen, where I started to make some cold meat and salad sandwiches, and I quietly watched as both hoed
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Yes that is quite a coincidence, as you may recall I posted this story some years back. I hope that all who are effected by the latest one, get back to a normal life as soon as possible, to build a bigger and stronger community. Q
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Ooo I lost my virginity, that is interesting. thanks @Carlos Hazday
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Fixed, sorry about that...
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Meanwhile 130 kilometres south of Penang, in Ipoh, Perak, which is a city 200 kilometres north of Kuala Lumpur, a group of boys had just arrived at the St Michael’s Institution, that will be housing up to 200 orphans, as a result of the tsunami, and amongst them, were two young brothers, who looked only part Malaysian, who spoke the language but because of the shock of the event, they could not remember who they were. The only thing that they had on them was a small pewter necklace each, wi
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Thanks @Carlos Hazday
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When there was a knock on the door of my hotel suite, I had totally forgotten that Kyle would be arriving some-time this evening, I had fed the boys and finally managed to get them to sleep, after telling them that their mother and older brothers were badly injured in an accident and that they are in hospital, this was very upsetting for them, and it took a while to get them to settle down, and eventually to sleep. As I opened the door, I stared at the man in front of me, I was quite shocke
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When I woke up, it was to the sound of the telephone ringing, “Hello, Lukin Ashburton speaking” I said sleepily into the phone receiver, and there was a bit of a pause before there was a reply, “Hello little brother, how are you holding up, is all the family safe?” came the reply from my older brother of two years, who I hadn’t seen since Kyle was kicked out of the family home, a day after his 18th birthday, when he announced to the family that he was gay, “Hey Kyle, when am I going to see you a
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I actually wrote this story a few years ago
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No, it's says some gone, some lost...
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Shortly after noon, I stepped out of my final meeting in Penang, I noticed many staff gathered around a television, watching a live news broadcast, as I joined the gathering, I started to get a horrible feeling in my stomach, on hearing the words “Kuala Kedah, Tsunami and destroyed in the one sentence. I collapsed as I was in full panic mode, landing down hard on the ground. When one of the men – Kim, who I had been meeting with earlier, crouched down and saw me shaking in shock, with tears down
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Nah you don't, you love them...
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This is a very short story, until my editor gets back from a well deserved holiday, then he has another story ready to be edited. Q
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For the rest of the day, the family relaxed by the pool, and Mei remained silent during this time, and I did not want to disturb her thoughts on what could be a big event in her life, and we just happily watched the boys have a great time in the kid’s pool. Once the boys decided that they had enough of the pool and that they were hungry, I organised the boys to shower and change into their pyjamas, while Mei ordered some dinner for all of us, and once everyone had eaten, the boys brushed th
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For the first time since getting married to Mei Ling, a third generation Australian, who’s great grandmother comes from the Kuala Kedah area near Penang, Malaysia, I was finally able to save enough money to take Mei and our son’s to Malaysia for a holiday and give Mei a chance to visit the area where her ancestors come from. For me, I am a fifth generation Australian, our family originated from Scotland on one side of the family and the Isle of Man on the other side, I had visited my ancestr
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While on a family holiday in Malaysia, a disaster strikes, as a giant Tsunami seperates the family, some gone, others lost.
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Hi Johnny, yes there are about 14 Australian authors on GA, I recommend stories from @Graeme as a good starter.. regards Quokka
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Yes it only had ten chapters the first time
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