My first school

I attended school at the age of seven years old. My first school was a tiny little complex attached to a Buddhist temple. Actually it was part of the temple. It had one or two classrooms. I was in year-1 when I began school. Throughout the time I spent during at school I was sick from day. Merely couple of months of school, my mother had decided that school was not suitable for me. She believed the cause of my sickness was because of the temple. The temple had a memorial hall which kept many dead people’s altars, like a cemetery. My mother believed that this made me sick or it was because of age that I was not appropriate for me to begin my education. As a result I was spared another year for schooling.

Introduction

I was born in a middle class family. I have two older brothers (Kong and Sing) and three older sisters (Yung, Fong and Hing). I was pretty happy living in a family like this. I always had what I wanted. When I was about ten years old, I had set my goal to finish high school and was happy if my parents arranged a marriage for me after that. I thought I would never need to work in my life other than help my father in his business. I thought my life was as simple as that but not quite.

Why I am here?

Half way through Anh Do’s memoir, I was thinking I can write my own memoir as well. Anh Do’s memoir has so many things in commons during his escape from Vietnam and stayed at the same island in Malaysia. His book gave me an inspiration to start my own memoir.  Actually I have already written so many short articles for my high school assignments back in 1980 and I have continue written more articles about my childhood, life in Australia and my discovery in Buddhism.

I told my children about writing my own memoir and they said why not mum. So how can I go about this? Should I start my own blog? Which website should I start my blog with? My girl suggested I should use blogger. So here I am.