 where he experienced many personal hardships, near- death experiences and witnessed many untold horrors and atrocities.After the Japanese surrender in 1945, he made the arduous journey southwards on foot and railway from Siam to Malaya, where he had an emotional reunion with his family who thought he had perished during the war.He resumed his studies at Victoria Institution to complete his secondary education, where he also rediscovered his passion for art, depicting landscape scenes mainly with pencil and on occasions with watercolour.