When Ng Sai Ming was a teenager, he played with the Sha Po children and rarely got to know other children in the village. Children from different villages were hostile to each other. One day at the age of 10 to 11, he went to Ma Tau Wai Village to visit his aunt who was married into that village. When passing the Pak Tai Temple on Lomond Road, he was surrounded and beaten up by local children because country children were not friendly to strangers. He sometimes played with his friends in Kowloon Tong, and often got into fighting with the “Western Boys” (Portuguese children) whose fathers mostly worked in the government or banks. He rarely went out alone; instead he travelled together with four to five friends from the same village, including the Lees and Chans.