i love to write
i love to write. i dont know why. word seems to attract me more than number. i hate sudoku. never able to finish one. except for those super simple ones.
i found 2 exercise books when i was rearranging my cupboard few weeks ago. the first one was written when i was in standard 2, year 1987. it was labelled as Berita. sort of like a journal what i do every monday, as per the day in the pages.
#1 : Berita (below are the unedit version, what i wrote when i was 8 years old)
(L) Pada masa cuti sekolah, saya menolong emak menyapu sampah. Lepas itu say pergi main.
(R) Pada masa Tahun Baru Cina saya bermain mercun dengan kawan-kawan saya. Selepas itu saya pergi mandi.
i have thrown away all my exercise books. i dont remember keeping this exercise book. but it was inside my cupboard. there were 19 entries in my first Berita book.
my second exercise book was written when i was in secondary school, Form 5 naluri. journal writing, that was what my english teacher forced us to do. he said we could write anything we wanted in it. "the more you write, the better you get".
inside, i wrote about my hobbies, my family, friends, holidays, chicken pox, dream guy (!) and eventually stopped after journal 12 when he no longer asked us to submit for marking.
in between 1990-2001, i had a secret diary (no longer secret now!). my love-hate relationships, my ups & downs, my upsr, pmr, spm and stpm results, i wrote all in my secret dairy and kept it in a hidden place (of course not telling you where!). i had stopped writing in it. my last entry was on 24 nov 2001. that long ago.....
# 2 : (clockwise top left) 2 melur, 5 naluri, my secret diary, my travel journal & the journey of mine (latest!)
above are my collection of journals. the pink (middle) is my travel journal. i started writing in it during my first company trip to Perth in 2005. i had nothing to do while inside the plane, hence i decided to write to keep myself occupied. and i continued writing. trip after trip, treasure hunt after treasure hunt, i wrote about places that i have been, activities that i have done, prizes that i have won, etc. it's fun everytime i read back the old entries. i only managed to finish writing in all the pages this year, 2008.
i open another journal in July 08. i will write when i have to wait for the train for a LONG time. i called this Journey of Time. just short daily updates about work and whatever that crossed my mind. must have a good pen in hand.
a friend once asked me, "what is your ambition?"
i remember i replied, " i want to be a journalist" (and ended up in media)
the conclusion is, i love to write (oh, i still write snail mails to friends....)
i guess, by writing in journals, i am a journalist, in heart.
i found 2 exercise books when i was rearranging my cupboard few weeks ago. the first one was written when i was in standard 2, year 1987. it was labelled as Berita. sort of like a journal what i do every monday, as per the day in the pages.
#1 : Berita (below are the unedit version, what i wrote when i was 8 years old)
(L) Pada masa cuti sekolah, saya menolong emak menyapu sampah. Lepas itu say pergi main.
(R) Pada masa Tahun Baru Cina saya bermain mercun dengan kawan-kawan saya. Selepas itu saya pergi mandi.
i have thrown away all my exercise books. i dont remember keeping this exercise book. but it was inside my cupboard. there were 19 entries in my first Berita book.
my second exercise book was written when i was in secondary school, Form 5 naluri. journal writing, that was what my english teacher forced us to do. he said we could write anything we wanted in it. "the more you write, the better you get".
inside, i wrote about my hobbies, my family, friends, holidays, chicken pox, dream guy (!) and eventually stopped after journal 12 when he no longer asked us to submit for marking.
in between 1990-2001, i had a secret diary (no longer secret now!). my love-hate relationships, my ups & downs, my upsr, pmr, spm and stpm results, i wrote all in my secret dairy and kept it in a hidden place (of course not telling you where!). i had stopped writing in it. my last entry was on 24 nov 2001. that long ago.....
# 2 : (clockwise top left) 2 melur, 5 naluri, my secret diary, my travel journal & the journey of mine (latest!)
above are my collection of journals. the pink (middle) is my travel journal. i started writing in it during my first company trip to Perth in 2005. i had nothing to do while inside the plane, hence i decided to write to keep myself occupied. and i continued writing. trip after trip, treasure hunt after treasure hunt, i wrote about places that i have been, activities that i have done, prizes that i have won, etc. it's fun everytime i read back the old entries. i only managed to finish writing in all the pages this year, 2008.
i open another journal in July 08. i will write when i have to wait for the train for a LONG time. i called this Journey of Time. just short daily updates about work and whatever that crossed my mind. must have a good pen in hand.
a friend once asked me, "what is your ambition?"
i remember i replied, " i want to be a journalist" (and ended up in media)
the conclusion is, i love to write (oh, i still write snail mails to friends....)
i guess, by writing in journals, i am a journalist, in heart.
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