Week 1: My Life Story


              A baby girl was born on July 28, 2000 to two Malaysian emigrants in Houston, Texas. I used to be a crybaby (literally) and I was basically stuck to my mother’s side. My first words were “Ma” and “Ba” which I still call my parents today, but because they sound too similar both my parents tend to respond when I say either name. I have visited Malaysia several times throughout my life and since I speak Hokkien, a Malaysian dialect, there wasn't a language gap between adult family members and I, but trying to speak to kids my own age was pretty difficult because my Mandarin skills are rusty/nonexistent. However, every time I visit I definitely feel a cultural gap and the effects of being an ABC (American Born Chinese) because not having English as a first language in America made me feel different here but when I went back to my parent's hometown I was the most fluent in English. I was a pretty shy child that used to lash out and kick boys in elementary school if they were being annoying. The one activity I ever did as a child was swimming but that only lasted for a couple years. When I entered middle school that was the first time I was ever exposed to so many new and diverse students and I ended up making a lot of new friends that I’m still close with in high school. I played basketball for 7th and 8th grade and I can say that those were my two most physically active years in my life. The past few years of high school were some of the most stressful years of my life, mentally more than anything due to playing the GPA game and worrying about getting into college because adults harass you constantly on where you’ll be going and how you need to decide your life plan as soon as possible even though you’re still just a kid. And here I am on the edge of graduating, so close, yet so far.



            I’m going to be graduating in June 2018 which is coming up very soon. In less than 3 months I’ll be free from the constraints of high school and entering a new world far away from my home. I think my graduation will be freeing, but sad at the same time because I know I’ll be heading a different direction from many of my close friends. In college I see myself studying a lot because I’m not really the party type and college is way too expensive to waste your time during it. Hopefully, I will be graduating college in 4 years, in 2022 with a degree in finance. With that degree, I want to be a financial analyst, planner, or real estate agent.  I hope to marry in my late twenties and stay in Texas. I would like to have two kids, not more, if and when I am in a financially stable situation. I hope to retire by the time I’m 70 so I can go on trips to national parks or beautiful natural areas. I hope to die at age 100 but with the new cancers and diseases emerging these days I might not make it that long.


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