 His family moved to the Glenmarie Estate near Klang (now in Shah Alam) where most of the Brahmin community had gone, and then stayed with old family friends who had a bungalow off Lorong Seputeh in Old Klang Road.However, by early February 1942, his family returned to Peel Road.Singapore fell on 15 February 1942 and the Japanese took over the administration of the Peninsular immediately after that.