on Sunday, January 30, 2011 @ 4:15 PM
This is my autobiography! :)
Enjoy:
I was brought into this world in Mount Alvernia Hospital on January 22, 1998. This day is important in our family for two reasons first and of course, it was my birth date and secondly, I shared the same birthday with Francis Bacon, a famous and influential scientist from England. My father felt that it was a sign showing that I would excel in my future and is that the reason why I am in Hwa Chong now?
I am the youngest born in my family. Before me is my sister and we are now thirteen and sixteen respectively and we are happy with each other and respect each other with the factor of age although we do quarrel sometimes. My sister and I were treated with utmost love and affection by our parents. Gender disparity is a topic that has been going on and on for many decades and even centuries, but my sister and I are always treated the same. We were given the same for everything, regardless of love or anything else. And I am quite relieved with that, at least my family is not a totally 'traditional' one.
My family consisted of five family members: my grandmother, father, mother, sister and I. My grandfather had died long before I was born, and if I was able to see him on the year he passed away, I would have been 31 years old by now. My father told me that my grandfather was someone with great honesty and dignity. He also said that my grandfather was a very smart boy back in his village in China, and he could be a teacher in his village, just that he decided to migrate to Singapore to develop himself.
I longed that I was able to see how my grandfather looked like, but I knew it was impossible. All my family had of him is a picture of him and some papers with his beautiful and elegant handwritings on it. Most importantly, memories of him will always be with us.
Enough talking about my family. Let me introduce about myself. I started school when I was four and went to the kindergarten just below my block. My mother had predicted that I would have a big bump on my forehead during my first day of school as I was rather clumsy at that time and still could not walk properly. Her prediction came out to be totally correct and I came home with a bruise on my head as I had fallen down and hit my head against the wall.
Anyway, at that time when I entered kindergarten, I was not able to speak English properly, and it happened that my form teacher was an English teacher and she was a rather fierce one. In just the first week, I was scolded by the teacher for speaking Mandarin in her class. I was punished and sent to another class to be scolded. And that, I could say, was a 'turning point' of my life. That night I promised myself that I would start learning to speak English properly. And at the end of the year, my form teacher gave me a very good in my conduct. At that time, I felt that the teacher would always give a 'Very Good' for the conduct to anyone who spoke English in her class.
I did not really have any memories of my kindergarten though some incidents are still firmly etched in my mind. I was enrolled in West Grove Primary School when I was seven. My favourite teacher of all time is none another than Miss Wang. She is a truly dedicated teacher and had taught me for three years, and if you compare it with my number of years in West Grove Primary School, the number of years Miss Wang had taught me is half of my primary school years!
I loved playing soccer with my primary school friends. And when we played together as a group, we would often be punished as a group. My friends and I were the most crazy about soccer last year and it happened that we were going to take our PSLE that year. Therefore our form teacher was very worried about our safety and had warned us against playing soccer but we never really did listen to her and continued playing soccer. And that was when she started becoming angry and punished us if we played soccer. Once, we were even suspended from our supplementary for playing soccer! Right now, I really wished that I had listened to her. And wished that I had chosen to stay back in class to talk to my beloved teacher and spent more time with her as I doubt if I could ever find another teacher as good as her.
People say time flies quickly. But for me, time is much faster than that. It teleports. One moment I was studying in my kindergarten, and a second later, I am now studying in my secondary school. I wished I could go back to the past, but strangely, time does not bring us back, it only brings us forward. I will treasure what I have now and work hard in my next few years in Hwa Chong. One day, I will repay my family, teachers and friends for what they had done for me...
