Before the war, kerosene lamp was the main form of illumination for villages. Lee Foo’s second uncle bought kerosene lamp from the USA when he was working as a sailor. Every day at 4pm, Lee Foo cleaned the lamp and got it ready for the night when he would do his homework. During Japanese Occupation, villagers switched to the dirtier oil lamps, which gave out dark smoke when the cotton lampwick was burnt. Since illumination was inadequate, the villagers usually had dinner at 5pm and went to bed before dark. When Lee Foo’s mother did not have to take care of her children, she would play Hakka paper cards (Luk Wu) with other women in the village as a pastime. Lee Foo still goes to bed and wakes up early after he got married in the 1950s. He would get up before dawn to care for his baby. With his wife, he would feed the child and change its diaper.