Ng Fat Chuen's family suffered great changes during Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong. To give way for the expansion of the Kai Tak Airport, the Japanese demolished many villages nearby including Mau Chin in Nga Tsin Wai. Affected villagers were resettled in newly built duplex houses in Model Village in Kowloon Tong (i.e. the lot between Broadcast Drive and LaSalle Road today). Villagers were also given farmlands where they could grow crops. Six months after moving into Model Village, Ng’s father answered to a recruitment call and headed south to work as a mason, helping the Japanese build the airport. However, he never came back and lost contact with the family since. Ng’s mother had to take care of the two sons herself. The younger son, born in 1939, was only three years old then. Ng Fat Chuen lived next to his aunt. Feeling that Ng’s mother could not keep the family up, the aunt sent Ng’s younger brother to Longgang, Shenzhen, and put him in the care of relatives there. Soon, he lost contact with his younger brother. In 1968, Ng Fat Chuen and his mother travelled to Longgang to look for him. Since Ng’s mother knew the Hakka dialect, she had no problem communicating with the local villagers and was taken to the village where she was finally reunited with her younger son. Ng Fat Chuen recalled the harsh life during the Japanese occupation with a sigh, saying that he did not come by the life he enjoyed today easily.