Comments on: Pulau Bidung Monument http://pummkin.net/2005/03/pulau-bidung-monument/ I'm not here, I'm underwater...! Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:03:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 By: Amazing Journey Asia » Blog Archive » Tracing The Vietnamese Voyage – Part 1 http://pummkin.net/2005/03/pulau-bidung-monument/#comment-26272 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:03:31 +0000 http://www.pummkin.net/pitch/?p=34#comment-26272 […] I set my sight on the boats that lay soulfully on the seabed of Pulau Bidung years ago, I never thought I would be interested in how they were sunken. A man called Alcoh Wong, […]

]]> By: Pummkin’s Pitch » Blog Archive » Tracing The Vietnamese Voyage - Part 1 http://pummkin.net/2005/03/pulau-bidung-monument/#comment-25765 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:15:29 +0000 http://www.pummkin.net/pitch/?p=34#comment-25765 […] I set my sight on the boats that lay soulfully on the seabed of Pulau Bidung years ago, I never thought I would be interested in how they were sunken. A man called Alcoh Wong, […]

]]> By: Dan Tran http://pummkin.net/2005/03/pulau-bidung-monument/#comment-24449 Sat, 03 Nov 2007 14:42:07 +0000 http://www.pummkin.net/pitch/?p=34#comment-24449 Thanks for your warm thoughts. Pulau Bidong will always be in my heart. I have had dream of coming back to see the island just one time.

Nov 2nd, 2007

California, USA

]]> By: Tribute To Alcoh Wong » Pummkin’s Pitch http://pummkin.net/2005/03/pulau-bidung-monument/#comment-159 Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:11:00 +0000 http://www.pummkin.net/pitch/?p=34#comment-159 […] That was when I became extremely excited at the prospect of getting a lot more information about the story behind the wrecks which I’d dived two years ago. He helped the VBPs track their family members as well as the deceased members’ grave, to which they made such an adventurous trip back in time to trace hospital records & whereabouts they sent the bodies to, before they were buried. By then, I was sitting on the edge of my stool, as attentive as ever, while Kaseng repeatedly asked him to join us & sit down. He went on to tell us about how the VBPs had found freedom in Australia & other countries while maintaining contact with him. He painted such a vivid picture of things that I felt as if I was actually there in the period where they sought refuge in Pulau Bidung. He even published a self-funded book about them. I asked him for his contact number so that I could come visit him & get the book as well as a chance to document this magnimous man’s life & passion for the Chinese people. I was so encouraged to see a person so driven by his interest, to have amassed such knowledge & contributed back in the form of a publication & I wanted to acknowledge him in my work too. […]

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