Ma Sui Wai
Ma Sui Wai
Hoklo immigrant integrated into the walled village
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Firm childhood friends
Firm childhood friends
All people in this photo taken at the 2008 Tin Hau Festival were residents of Nga Tsin Wai who helped organise village affairs after their retirement-Provided by Leung Shek Lun
Firm childhood friends
All people in this photo taken at the 2008 Tin Hau Festival were residents of Nga Tsin Wai who helped organise village affairs after their retirement-Provided by Leung Shek Lun
Ma Sui Wai made firm friends among his fellow village youngsters early on in life 
When Ma Sui Wai was a student, he used to visit Nga Tsin Wai and had entertainment with the villagers. He did the same after he started to work after graduation. The choices of entertainment were few in the 1960s, most people would gather in the village after dinner for a chat. After Kong Chi Yin started to work, he would treat Ma Sui Wai and several friends, who were still students, to a movie in the Ritz Theatre in Mong Kok. A villager who worked as an usher in the Ritz Theatre would get them the cheapest tickets (30 or 40 cents) for the morning session. Ma Sui Wai remembered that there were the Loong Shing Theatre and International Theatre when he was a child. In the past when people lived in poverty, children who wanted to watch a movie’s only chance was to beg a kind-looking middle-aged woman at the theatre entrance to take them inside. Ma Sui Wai made good friends with the Nga Tsin Wai villagers because they were classmates and shared common hobbies, so it was the Nga Tsin Wai villagers but not the children who lived on Pei Pin Street that he always met.