Blinded The squatters in the village stood on rotting refuse and human neglect, yet the spirit of camaraderie in the community was obvious even to the casual observer. Young children were running around, high in spirits as they enjoy the simple game of `catching’. Their...
A Gift I Treasure It was just a week before my seventeenth birthday. Party preparations had started. My family never celebrated birthdays on a grand scale. However, this was a double celebration. I had passed me A level examination with flying colors and my parents...
Memories of Childhood The memories of childhood have their own kind of nostalgia. With the passage of time, one feels more attached to this childhood, the best period of a man’s life. A child has no worries, anxieties, and no work. He is free from...
My Ambition in Life Ever since I was very young and saw perhaps a child cut and bleeding or an old woman suffering from an incurable disease, I have always hated pain and the human suffering that it causes. It has, therefore, always been my...
My Experiences as A School Prefect A classroom is a noisy place and when the master is not there the children have a tendency to indulge in all sons of mischief. Childish pranks are good but often children tend to quarrel and fight. The more...
My Favorite Activity The place where I live is just a stone’s throw away from the sea. Ever since Dad took up a job on Penang island ten years ago, we have been living in Dad’s ideal house that faces the sea. As he was...
My Favorite Day of The Work I live with my grandmother in Bentong, whereas my parents live and work in Kuala Lumpur. They usually come home to see us once or twice a month. If they manage to get away, it will be on the...
A Sad Occasion I am the youngest in a family of six children. My eldest brother. Ali, was almost twenty-three when tragedy struck suddenly to deprive our family of a filial son and loving brother. I came home from school that day, cheerful because I...
A Natural Disaster That Occurred Sometimes nature hits in such a hard way that the man will feel simply helpless. Take the case of an earthquake. Nothing can be done to stop it. The earth heaves and at its wake brings about untold misery. There...
My Idea of A Happy Life When I begin to think of my idea of a happy life, I think first of all of money — plenty of money for everything all the time. Money to buy a beautiful house for my parents or my...
