I was unhappy having to live apart from my parents , and so accompanied some professional gamblers to the mergui pagoda festival where I helped them operate their gambling booths. A month later the motor sampan on which we travelled put in at tavoy. Where I deserted the gamblers. While swimming one day with three or four companions, some workers on a motor sampan asked us if we would like to come along with them on a trip to Rangoon as dack-hands, and I jumpad at the idea. After an uneventful trip we wound up in Rangoon