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    Collections of old pictures of 30 years past...

    Here are the pictures I have kept from 1981-1982...

    From left to right:

    Picture 1: I sat next to a girl from the left. This picture was taken after my graduation from the English Teacher Training class. This picture was taken with my students as well. I was 15 at the time. As you can see, Maryanne and Mary Blatte were the English trainers for our class.
    Picture 2: I stood on the right...This was to say goodbye to a nice lady who left Galang for Canada to reunite with her husband.
    Picture 3: I am on the far left with a goggle. This was where we friends spent time at Galang beach on the weekend...

    If you can recognize anyone on those pictures, please let me know. Some are settling in the US and some are living in Australia now...
    • CommentAuthorTuanQTa
    • CommentTimeMar 31st 2010
     
    Even though, I don't know anyone in these pictures but these pictures brought a lot of my memory back during 1980. I lived there for 7 month (From April 1980-Nvember 1980)
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    Hi Tuan,

    Welcome to the site and yes indeed, it has been 30 years since that time when we once were kids...and now we are all grown up and established. Those moments are precious and I will cherish them forever. If you have pictures to share, please post them.

    Thanks

    Thuc
    • CommentAuthorTuanQTa
    • CommentTimeApr 1st 2010 edited
     
    Galang Pictures
    I wish I had more but.....

    Pic # 1 & 2: My Journey
    Pic # 3: Everyone in my boat (i believe)
    • CommentAuthorTuanQTa
    • CommentTimeApr 1st 2010
     
    One more ...
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    Tuan,

    These are great stuffs...I love them and thank you for sharing.

    I will scan more of mine and load them later...

    Thuc
    • CommentAuthorTina
    • CommentTimeApr 16th 2010 edited
     
    Thuc

    I think you would like to see some pictures that we took at Galang airport on the 3rd of February, 1980. We had Tai-Chi lessons that started earlier than 6am every morning. Lucia (Luong nữ) and I helped teach basic Tai-Chi classes there and the master taught more advanced classes to the few of us. Lucia is my late sister, Cam Hung is my friend who also helped to teach Tai-Chi sometimes who lives in Vancouver, Canada now. The group were all students. People in picture 2 and 3 in second row are not as short as they look. They are bending down a little.

    Picture 1: Frist row: far right, Tina (Thi Ngoc); Second row: far right, Lucia; Last row: far right, Cam Hung.

    Picture 2: Front row: Fifth person from right, Lucia.
    Second row: Fourth person from right, Tina and far left, Cam Hung.

    Picture 3: Front row: Sixth person from left, Tina and Seventh person, Lucia; Second row: Second person from left, Cam Hung.

    Tina
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    Tina,

    IRT picture 1, you deserve a perfect 10 for the excellent posture in Tai Chi stance.

    Thanks to all for sharing the pictures. They remind me that happiness does not need to come from money and fame.

    Hung
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    Tina,

    Awesome!!! These are great pictures and I love them. Thanks

    Like Hung said, these reminded us all those happy times during the difficult time we went through. Fame and money certainly do not bring happiness! Don't we want to go back in time to relive those precious moment?

    Everyone looked great!!! The girl from the second picture sitting far right looked WOW!!! :=)

    Thanks much for sharing and after all these years, we are a bit different so I will scan mine pictures and post them in a new section to show then and now. It will be fun...Please be ready to upload your recent pictures soon.

    Thuc
    • CommentAuthorTina
    • CommentTimeApr 25th 2010 edited
     
    Thuc

    I am glad that you like the photos. I have never had a close look like this and only can see them clearly when I scan them. Yes, everyone looks happy and relaxed. Every morning I was very happy to walk up the hill to the airport, the happiness was just simple.

    I hope someone in the photo can find this photo in this forum. We have taken more photos. The person that handled the film and said that he would go to Pinang to develop the photos, we paid him, but we never got the photos.

    I think the girl in the photo you mentioned is very sweet and WOW...beautiful! I also like that Chu (respect greeting that time)wore a blue top and striped pyjama pants in the second row in the first photo which looks familiar, natural and close, same as what most people wore in Vietnam.

    Hung

    Thanks, I forgot all my Tai-chi now. I could kick above my head that time, but not now. I tried the other day and nearly twisted my back.

    Tina
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    Tina,

    Yes, she does have a look of being sweet and gentle. It was like so for every girl in that pictures, you and your "late" sister included. That is the trait of a VN women that I used to/imprinted in my mind. WOW with her look and I am hooked :=)

    That is why I am very interested in establishing another section here of named "NOW and THEN" so we an post pictures as relevant. The point or intention is for all to see which pictures would demonstrate a happier time. I still think, although we all went through a lot then, the pictures then were the winner. :=)

    I still wonder, silly me of course, who was the lucky guy to build a family with that WOW girl...hehehehe
    • CommentAuthorCarina
    • CommentTimeApr 27th 2010
     
    I love the idea of NOW and THEN, I will join in after you.
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    Carina,

    Wait a second...we already knew what you looked like then and also now...:=)
    • CommentAuthorCarina
    • CommentTimeApr 27th 2010
     
    I know, and that is exactly why I offered.... otherwise, I would have post photos of few ladies I wish I look like, LOL.

    C
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    hehehe....You do not wish to look like anyone else but yourself!!! No one can match that! :=)
    • CommentAuthorchinhdo
    • CommentTimeMay 1st 2010
     
    Hi everyone,

    Thanks to Thuc and Tuan for your Galang pictures. Here are pictures I have from Galang in 1984 and 1985. I am trying to do my part to preserve our collective memory of this place that is so very special to many of us. Galang had a big impact on my life because I was at the tender age of 15, going out on the world on my own and having so many wonderful and magical experiences each new day. Some of it seems like it was just yesterday. Once in a long while I would get extremely obsessed about my Galang experience and spend countless hours thinking about it, googling it (that's how I found this site :-)), and dreaming that I am back in it.

    All unaccompanied minors during my time in Galang had to stay in a special barrack just for kids like them. I managed to stay in a regular barrack and was able to roam free and do whatever I liked just like an adult. All of my Galang pictures are boy scout/hướng đạo related because I met so many good friends in the boy scouts and they became sort of my temporary family and my support system.

    I was amazed to read Thuc's stories and found that he too was a volunteer ESL teacher at age 15. Similiar to Thuc's story, I graduated from the teachers program in 1985 (age 16) and taught an ESL class for Save the Children for a short while before leaving for the US. I thought I was the youngest English teacher ever but now Thuc's story proves me wrong! I don't remember Save The Children having any problems with my age.

    When I was in Kuku and Galang, we refugees were provided enough food to eat, clothes, and other basic necessities including health care. I didn't see or experience any of the hardship that people who escaped several years earlier, like Carina, had to endure. The only really bad things I remember about the whole thing was avoiding several near death experiences on the high seas and missing my family afterwards in the camps.

    Here's the link to the photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/ChinhDo/Picasa?feat=directlink I hope these bring you some good memories.

    Chinh
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    Chinh,

    Awesome!!!! and thanks for reading the story.

    Like you said, all of us agreed of preserving our precious experiences of our journey to freedom. My children are still too young to want to know but they do ask from time to time of what those pictures were and how I was in those pictures. I am forever appreciative of what Chi Carina is doing in standing up this site. A big kudo to her as we called her the "MASTER"! :=)

    I am impressed that you were an English teacher as well at that very young age. No worries that I was the youngest to be one but having a heart to help fellow refugees was a magical story to be told years later. You did well!!!! I taught three classes there. The first one was being an assistant to an Indonesia English teacher. I was in charge of the listening comprehension and translation portion. The second class was that I, by myself, taught an English class to adult older than 18. The third one was for kids under 12. It was a great experience because everyone there who knew me called "THAY GIAO" whenever they saw me. :=)

    I am also impressed that you still have those pictures from Galang. Those are great pictures!!!

    Thuc
    • CommentAuthorTina
    • CommentTimeMay 23rd 2010
     
    Thuc

    Another Galang photo! Do you remember the church, I think it was up the hill, opposite the airport, it is not far from the Indonesian grocery shop.

    Galang Island 24-12-1979

    First row, Left to right: Tina, Lucia.
    Second row, second person from left, My linh.

    It was hot and windy that night, the dust and sand were blowing in the air, but we were very happy and were full of Christmas emotion.
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    Tina,

    Yes, I do remember the church very well. It was up the hill and I lived near there...two barracks down.

    WOW...Tina...that was a great picture and you looked marvelous at that time. Thanks goodness that I did not know you then or else a skinny boy might have you on the radar :=)

    Thanks for the picture.

    Thuc
    • CommentAuthorCarina
    • CommentTimeMay 26th 2010 edited
     
    Tina and Friends,

    It's awesome to see those precious photos you have saved over the years, thanks for sharing.

    These are photos taken in Galang, early 80.
    Photo 1, the choir in Galang, can you find me?
    Photo 6, "di dang Thanh Gia"
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    Tina,

    Lucia and you looked sharp in front of the church. I think that would get you on many radar screens in addition to Thuc’s -).

    Carina,

    I think you’re in the 2nd row, but I am not sure which one. I had to do a “eenie meenie miney moe”, and it said you were to the right of the lady in red. Maybe others can correct me if I got that wrong.
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    I agreed with Hung wholeheartedly. Tina was the first one in the first row from the right in that picture from the church. The picture where she sat also the first one in the first row but from the left. Both pictures showed you looked marvelously good. Although I was young at the time but I would not think anything at the time would deter me from not asking for a number. The WOW one has been dethroned...Congratulations!!! :=)

    Now I know why we want to go back in time to live the moment. hehehe
    • CommentAuthorCarina
    • CommentTimeMay 31st 2010
     
    hi a. Hung
    I was not in second row, on photo #1, guess again....
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    I would say that Carina was on the first row, second from the right. You were standing next to Tina. I am positive that I am right on this one. Carina??? :=)
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    Thuc,
    Thanks. I can definitely use some help here.
    H.
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    That was my “eenie meenie miney moe” guess too. Out of that, I felt I was right but only Carina can confirm that. :=)
    • CommentAuthorCarina
    • CommentTimeJun 1st 2010
     
    hi Thuc & a. Hung
    I am a bit confused when you mentioned Tina, are we looking at the same photo 'Galang_1979-001'? I don't know if Tina was in the picture.

    anyone else want to guess which one was 'me' in the photo?
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    Carina,

    One more look and this time was a bit more thorough...I have to say the first one from the right in the first row is Carina.

    Please...please...if I am wrong again, I will give up this job and will have my eyes checked for sure :=)

    Sorry that I was wrong the first time...

    Thuc
    • CommentAuthorCarina
    • CommentTimeJun 1st 2010
     
    OOPs! check again....
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    this is really tough...I will have my eyes checked soon. Please give me and Hung some hints...
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    Thuc,
    Give it up. Just tell her it was the cutest one in the picture. That would settle all bets.
    H
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    YES. I am going to say that now...admittedly, the cutest one in the picture is Carina. Actually, most looked really good so that was why Hung and I kept guessing it wrong! See our problem now, Carina? :=)

    Please confirm that Hung and I are right finally?
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    Thuc and Hung,

    I do not think Carina was not in any of these pictures. These pictures were taken in 1979 or early 1980 when she was still in Kuku not Galang.

    Khiem
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    Khiem,

    Thanks for the intel!

    Carina: Are you trying to trick us? :=)

    Thuc
    • CommentAuthorCarina
    • CommentTimeJun 2nd 2010 edited
     
    Here is 'the' answer

    Thuc said: 'Carina was on the first row, second from the right. You were standing next to Tina.' That is why I was confused because I was on first row, second on from the right, but the person next to me was not 'our' Tina.

    A. Khiem, you were right about the time, I did not come to Galang until early 80.

    Cheers,
    C
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    hahahahaha....I was right! Thanks goodness that I have not scheduled to see an eye doctor yet. If I did, it would cost me. Thanks for saving me. :=)

    Now since you admitted that I was right, I have to say I am really good...I am so happy to be right.

    Ever since you indicated that I needed to check it again, I am startled and could not sleep much since because I just did not know who else would be you in that picture.

    hehehehe.....
    • CommentAuthorCarina
    • CommentTimeJun 2nd 2010
     
    sorry to have caused you sleepless nights, didn't mean to, but I take that as a compliment anyway. hahahah
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    so who was standing next to you if it is not our Tina? I did not think so when I wrote my responses because I was looking at the previous picture (the one with her sitting down...) and wrote the response at the same time. I guess over years, my multi-tasking ability is not in a form it once was :=)

    Thanks
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    hi all,

    I upload most of my galang photos here :
    http://picasaweb.google.com/dangdthanh/GalangPhotos#

    enjoy !
    • CommentAuthorCarina
    • CommentTimeJun 3rd 2010
     
    Thanks anh Thanh for sharing these memorable photos

    C
    • CommentAuthorTina
    • CommentTimeJun 4th 2010
     
    Thuc and Hung

    Thanks. I am really surprised to hear that I look sharp in the photo and might have been on your radars, I’m very happy to hear that! I was very tan at that time. Our feet were always dusty but we did not mind at all. Do you remember that it was always muddy after the rain in Kuku Island? Once Lucia and I went to have a picnic with friends, we walked with our bare feet along the main street, our footprints were marked in the muddy soil after each step, the muddy soil was soft and comfortable to step in, our feet were all muddy. We talked and laughed loudly and the people who stood in front of the coffee shops all looked at us. We were young and happy at that time.

    Carina

    I guessed that the middle one who stood at the front of the microphone in the first row was you, but I was wrong. I am surprised that Thuc thought I was in your picture. I think that the church you were at was not the same church that I took the picture at. I don’t have any memory of the church at which I took the picture, was it the same as the Kuku one?
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    Tina,

    I am sorry for wrongly stated that you were in that picture. I was looking at the picture where you sat down and wrote the response at the same time and that was why I was dead wrong. Also, please do not be surprised about us complimenting you of looking sharp. There is no surprise there at all for me. It was what it was. You definitely looked sharp!!! The WOW girl is no longer WOW and you just took that title from her. :=)

    I am still waiting for your picture. Where is it??? :=)
    • CommentAuthorTina
    • CommentTimeJun 6th 2010 edited
     
    Photo of Galang Island Temple 27-1-1980

    At the time I made a pose to take a photo, my 師弟 (younger classmate) (we all had basic Tai-chi skills in Vietnam) stood on the side and kept asking: "Can we take a photo together? 師姊?(elder sister)" I shook my head and said "No! No!" He kept begging "please! Please! 師姊" I finally agreed, he was very please to jump in quickly and stood next to me.

    He gave me this photo and wrote a few words at the back. It was '師姊 祝武術日進千里 李棉標師弟贈師姊 存念' (elder sister, I hope your kung fu gets more advance each day. Greetings from little brother Ly Cam Tiêu, have it as a keepsake)

    He also wrote in English 'more power to you!' Hung, can you translate the word 師弟 to Vietnamese

    "喂!師弟 你在何方?"(Hi! little brother, where are you?)

    Tina
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    Tina,

    Very nice. Who wouldn't want to take picture with you??? Now, we want your "now" picture.

    Thank you very much for sharing!

    Thuc
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    Tina,

    Nice picture. I am impressed by your devotion to Tai Chi.

    To answer your question, in Vietnamese you are 'Sư Ty' (師姊)and Mr. pretty boy there is 'Sư Đệ' (師弟). If he ranked higher, he would be 'Sư Huynh' (師兄)', and you would be 'Tiểu Sư Muội' (小師妹). In that case, the picture would be more intriguing....Regardless, your Tai Chi would still rock, and you would still glow in many radars.

    Cheers.
    • CommentAuthorTina
    • CommentTimeJun 21st 2010 edited
     
    Hung

    Thanks for translating this for me. You are so good in Vietnamese, Chinese and English. I think I saw your ID photo in the ID section. You look great, you are exactly what I thought you would be.

    I would like to show you another Tai-Chi photo (27-1-1980). I took this photo at the back of the school. Do you remember the office at the school? At the back of the office, there was a short cut from the school to the market; a steep way from the hill to the market. I had a good memory and a beautiful impression of this small road. I walked with my friend back home (we both trained with Mark and Estella and taught English at school) on this road. The sun was about to set like a million lights reflecting their orange golden and shining glittering lights and glittering onto us. The falling sun made it less hot, the evening wind breezing our smiling faces. Reaching the top of the slightly steep hill, we jumped from the rocky ground and naturally accelerated then slowed to a normal gait. We could see the people at the market were packing up for the day. Walking through the market, I arrived home (Barrack 133) first and said goodbye to him feeling happy knowing that I will see him again tomorrow.

    We had a wonderful time in Galang, it was a pity that I left Galang in a hurry and did not have a chance to say goodbye to him so I do not know exactly where he is now. I think he is in U.S.A now.

    Thuc

    I am sorry to show you the old photo again. It is easy to show you the old photo as the young person but not the new photo of an older person. :)

    Tina
    • CommentAuthorTina
    • CommentTimeJun 21st 2010
     
    Here's the photo I wanted to show you before.
    • CommentAuthorCarina
    • CommentTimeJun 21st 2010
     
    Hi Tina,
    I don't know very little about Taichi, but I think you do look really good, great form.

    Carina
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    Tina,

    You look terrific. I like seeing that sword held perfectly in parallel with the ground. That must have taken a lot of practice. Hey, a Tai Chi stance in bell bottom pants actually looks quite mesmerizing -).

    Your prose about the small road in the back of the school sounds so romantic. Yep, it feels wonderful when we look forward to seeing that special someone everyday. It seemed the last time I had that feeling was long time ago and far away, hehe.

    Cheers.
    • CommentAuthorTina
    • CommentTimeJul 5th 2010
     
    Carina and Hung

    Thanks. I forgot all my Taichi now.

    Yes, it feels romantic when I think about it. When I was young I felt happy with many simple things (most of us feel that way). I felt happy chatting with a group of friends or walking home together with this particular friend. The happiness was simple, we only looked forward to our future and didn’t have many responsibilities like now, and especially when my parents were not old, they were still young and healthy that time. Now my mum is not well…

    Tina

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