Explicative Essayist
I was staring at my fingers froze for a couple of minutes thinking of what should I share and how can I tell stories about myself without sounded narcissist? The ideas of telling more about myself are jumbled up and I do aware that I will start to burst everything haphazardly. Again, I lay my eyes on the ceiling and window while scratching my back thinking of how can I start to write my own biography creatively? I was born on 8 of June 1993 at 6:15 PM as I read from my Birth Certificate. My mother gave birth to me at University Hospital of Kuala Lumpur. I grew up in Petaling Jaya, Selangor at a Police Barrack. My mother was a Police Inspector which explains why were we stay at a Police Barrack for six years as far as I could remember.
When I reached seven years old, we moved to Kampung Sungai Mulia, Gombak and I started my Primary School in Gombak. Seven years later, we moved to Taman Sri Gombak because my parents finally bought a house, and we are still live in the same house up until today. I am the third out of four siblings and all of us are females. My elder sisters are both married with two children respectively. I have always thought that having a huge age gap between me and my elder sisters is something unusual, but as I grew up and I have met a lot of people, it turns out that it is quite normal to have a huge age gap between siblings. I am five years younger than my second sister and seven years younger than the eldest. Therefore, my childhood is filled with the memory of me playing alone in my parents' room. The question is, why? That happened due to the fact of having a huge age gap between me and my elder sisters, the way we think and perceive the world was very much different back then.
Since my mother was a policewoman, her working hours were bizarre. Sometimes, she had to work a night shift, and sometimes she had to work during the holidays. Thus, I did pretty much grow up playing alone and I cling to my father so much. But for every single time I have the chance to cling to my mother, I would literally follow her everywhere. Since I cling to my parents more than I cling to my friends or siblings, I have been so much matured than my age, at least until I started to make a lot of friends when I enter Upper Secondary School. I grasp the way my parents' talk which results in I have a good acquisition in communication skills. I have entered numerous Speech Competitions, Story-telling Competitions, Forum Competitions, Pantun Competition, Malay Language Debate since I was in Primary School up until the tertiary level.
Those competitions which I have entered resulted in my character as a person who is very much competitive, self-assured in my plan and in my decision, and being detail-oriented from ideas organisation to be thoroughly in organising documents and things. When I grow older, the habit of organising has now become critical when I started to organise every single thing in my life to be very symmetrical. Since I have been self-educate to play alone and plan things by myself when I was a little girl, I have so much get used to it which cause me to prefer working alone. However, I am still learning to work in a team and be a good team player.
Now, let me proceed in telling the story of why I choose to be a writer or an English Literaturist out of so many other fields in today's world. Whilst, I am currently listening to Emeli Sande's 'Read All About It' which very much synchronise through my memory which reminiscing the reasons why have I chose to be a writer. When I was 14, every student is required to fill up a blue form containing a detailed biodata to be kept in school's record. One of the questions was "What are your ambitions?" and there are three lines provided below the question;
What are your ambitions?
1. Lecturer
2. Lawyer
3. Actress
Right when I reached home, I showed the blue form to my mother. She smiled. I asked her,
"Maa, kalau Adik jadi Pelakon, Maa redha tak?"
Translation: "Mum, if I be an actress, will you give me your blessing?"
My mother answered, "Ada banyak lagi pekerjaan dalam dunia ni."
Translation: "There are so many other careers in this world."
Since then, I do understand that my mother would prefer if I could have a focus on the subjects which I could teach to my student if I happened to be a Lecturer. Henceforth, as I perceive things differently, and my mind has been so much wider to look at issues from many aspects and different angles, I have set my mind to be a writer.
I really have no idea that I could ramble so much about myself. I guess, this is it. Thank you for spending your time to read my rambling entirely.
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