I was born on the 28th of November in a hospital in Glasgow, Scotland. My father was there studying for his masters degree. Nothing much happened there, and life passed happily until I went into kindergarten.
Kindergarten was a fun place to learn things. The teachers were kind and they taught you things like the alphabet and simple counting. However, there was one incident when I cried when my teacher scolded me for not bringing a blue crayon. Other than that embarrassing incident, life went on as usual until something funny happened on graduation day. That day, we were having a class photo taken by our parents after the graduation ceremony. One of my friends was holding his graduation certificate. However, he had unknowingly dropped it on the floor. After the picture was taken, he walked out and slipped on the certificate, falling on the other students. We collapsed in a heap and our parents burst with laughter.
In Primary 1, I went to St Michael’s Primary School. School started off quite uneventfully, but there came a day when I had to go to the school dentist. I had always hated dentists, for I had seen pictures of their sharp drills. Once, I had walked past the dental clinic and heard someone scream! Fortunately, the dentist was a nice man and after checking my teeth, he gave me a sticker.
In primary 4, I entered the GEP in Henry Park Primary School. Life turned around and was very different due to my new classmates, which I had never seen before. However, we learnt to get along together in the end. Then August came. I was called to the general office of the school. It seemed that I was going to be interviewed! The interviewer was a journalist from the Straits Times, and it felt surreal. Of course, it felt even weirder when I saw my face in the newspapers!
When I went to primary 6, I had a mathematics teacher by the name of Mrs. Idil. She was a very caring teacher, and she always made sure that everyone understood the lessons. Whenever I had problems with my work, she would patiently explain it to me. She was a very caring and inspiring teacher, and everyone in our batch that year got A-star for our PSLE mathematics exam.
Finally, in Secondary 1, I entered Raffles Institution. Here, the competition was even greater, and my new class did even funnier things! There was once, my friend Daniel found a big stick that was 5 metres long. He brought it back to class and it became our class stick. Also, we bought a carom table for our class. At the end of the year, we sprinkled the powder to smoothen the board on the floor and slid around!
Then Secondary 3 came. Along with OBS, which was completely ruined because of the weather. School started again and we got an autobiography assignment, which we had to do on our blog…