After leaving Vietnam for Hong Kong as a boat person, before immigrating with my father and a very pregnant mother to Canada where I would spend the next 35 years studying at college for computer engineering, getting married to my beautiful wife and the start of my career in IT.
Vietnamese boat people, also known as boat people, refers to the refugees who fled Vietnam by boat and ship following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. This migration and humanitarian crisis was at its highest in 1978 and 1979, but continued through the early 1990’s – the term “boat people” to apply only to those who fled Vietnam by sea. Many of the refugees failed to survive the passage, facing danger from pirates, over-crowded boats, and storms. According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, between 200,000 and 400,000 boat people died at sea.
Sources from Wikipedia.
After one of our visits to see my wife’s mother, we noticed that she started showing signs of Alzheimer’s so we deiced to move to Hong Kong so we could look after my mother-in-law who was in her late 90s. Where we would start our next chapter with my wife here in Hong Kong.
Alzheimer’s disease is a brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills and, eventually, the ability to carry out the simplest tasks. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia among older adults.
Sources from NIH.gov.