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Clans associations are started with good- under the tutelage of Sifu Yee Chuen Sen,
will and kindness to help those who travelled fondly addressed as SENG-KOR by his tens of
afar to foreign land to eek out a living to send thousands of students, twice a week, about
money back to their family in China. Many two and half to three hours a session. Each
died here from illness and disease without session is 15 minutes of stationary square
anyone to help inform their family or even horse stance, 30 to 40 minutes of legs and
send their body home. These Clans take it arms strengthening exercise, then the arts
upon themselves to do that with all tradition proper. The last hour is reserve for lion dance
and prayers, including temporary shelter for practice. There were at least 40 students
new clan members who just arrived, writing then.
letters back to homeland, sending money
back home, arrange marriage, etc. Subsequently after five years at Kangkar
Tebrau Sifu Seng Kor introduced me into the
5. was anyone in your Family in the arts? Cantonese Association. Back then to be tak-
en into the Cantonese Association as a stu-
Only my elder brother who was involved in dent in Johor Bahru town, you’d first have to
other arts which I’m unsure of. be of the Cantonese dialec of which I’m not.
However, Sifu introduced me and register me
6. what led you to become interested in the arts? into the association. The association name is
Kwong Siew Wai Koon, in Cantonese (Manda-
Secondary school; I was in one of the nastiest rin it’s called Kwang Sau Hui Kwan). He then
schools in Johor Bahru in the 70’s. Gangster-
ism, drugs, fights outside of school compound
is not uncommon. Friends took care of me, be-
ing the smallest guy among friends I was tak-
en care of by my larger friends. Most of them
trained in some form of martial arts. The mar-
tial arts school available in Johor Bahru then
includes arts like TKD, Karate (2 schools),
Shaolin arts (Hua Tiong Association, shaolin
monk trained masters from Singapore), fam-
ily members only traditional Chinese martial
arts (surname Lee), Tai-Chi, Hainan Island
Hung Kuen (Hainan Association) and Hung
Kar Kuen (Cantonese Association).

Interest started while watching the yearly
Chinese Ching-Gay Procession held on the
18th to the 20nd day of the Lunar New Year,
the lion and dragon dance troupe from var-
ious Chinese association, Large Flags over 3
stories tall being carried on the head, shoul-
der, chin and stomach, and many more mar-
tial arts performances. Other influences also
came from friends from out of town who were
very shilled in unarmed combat.
Luck came when one of my “big brother” who
was learning from Sifu Yee Chuen Sen at the
Kangkar Tebrau Chinese temple brought me
to the temple and introduced me.

7. with whom did you study and where?

First studied Hung Kar Kuen from a Chinese
temple at Kangkar Tebrau, Johor, Malaysia,

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