Ordinary=?

Once upon a time, there lived a girl blablabla..... This is the starting of a typical fairy tale that we're all so familiar with. The story I'll be sharing is none fairy tale nor a great adventure filled with challenges and obstacles, it is just a very plain story where I'm the main charcter of the story. My name is Sook Ling (call me Kanra if you like). I’m currently a 2^nd year Biotechnology student in UCSI University. I'm nothing but an ordinary girl living an ordinary life like most of the people in the world.  For me, being ordinary is my comfort zone and I love my ordinary life.

I truly believe that being ordinary doesn’t mean that you can’t do great things. What makes a person great is not living a life filled with surprises and the unpredictables, it’s one’s passion in doing something that will make a person great.

I’m part of a mid-sized family of 6, my parents, 3 younger sisters and my grandmother. I won’t describe my family as the greatest in the whole wide world but hey I love my family. My family is always there supporting me and knowing I’ll forever have a shelter to rest and replenish myself is the sole motivation driving me giving all my best in my life. If I were to pick someone from my family to be my favourite and most important, it’ll be my dear baby son (cat) Kotora! (Sorry mom! But hey… he’s just a teeny tiny bit above my mom and my 2^nd sister). I’m a cat slave and I’m proud of it!

Like I mean just look at him, the adorable, fluffy, overwhelming cutenesss,… (I can go whole day just to describe my lovely baby boy!) He is just such an angel. By the way, Kotora mean little tiger in Japanese. Kotora is actually my 5^th cat. The previous cats I owned had all passed away, 3 got hit by car right in front of my house and 1 by sickness. Words can’t even describe my feelings when I had to bury my babies by my own hands. At that very moment, heartbreaking really meant literally.

If I were to describe myself, I would rather say that I’m quite a peculiar girl. Just like typical girls do, I enjoy shopping too, but instead of shopping for clothes, accessories or cosmetics, I do book shopping. The very 1^st place I would visit if I ever enter a shopping mall is the bookstore and I could spend hours and hours in it. Even if I’m not planning in buying anything, the simple scent of the bookstore is just so calming and enjoyable to me (hmm…It sounded so wrong hahaha.)  

Book fairs are a must for me, especially the book fair held by POPULAR Bookstore around June every year. I would purposely go all the way from Seremban to KLCC alone just to go to the book fair and like spent literally my whole day there! I even worked in a book fair before but my experiences there would be a whole other story.

So back to about myself, the one thing I would like to emphasize about myself is that I absolutely HATE take pictures! I hate taking pictures so much to the extent that I even tried hiding from the camera during family photo sessions! (Yup! That’s right! I would NEVER EVER post any pictures with myself in!) Maybe it’s just me but I really feel very uncomfortable and awkward in front of the camera or maybe it’s a very common thing?

Due to my lazy nature, I’m a social media hermit. My FaceBook is literally dead (Last post like 2 years ago?), I don’t have Instagram, my Twitter account is merely for me to get the latest updates of the games that I’m playing. I really don’t understand the mindsets of most people nowadays, where there seems to be a trend of sharing everything in your life onto social platforms. Don’t get me wrong here, I’m not saying that social platforms are bad nor posting about daily lives are inappropriate. I prefer my own privacy and would love to keep it, I own my life and I don’t need to share it to everyone else.  

What I do during my free times? I must say, I truly enjoy sleeping. Yup, sleeping! I can sleep for more than 16 hours a day. Some might call it unproductive and a waste of time, but I like to call it ‘mediation’. For me, sleeping is the easiest and cheapest hobby one could ever imagine. If you stay at home, you won’t spend any money, you’re sleeping your body doesn’t need to do anything besides resting! Ain’t it easy?  Why don’t do sports you ask me? Well, I don’t like sports either. Basically, I’m a very lazy person who enjoys staying in my bed doing nothing.

Besides from sleeping, I do read novels or mangas (Japanese comics, did I mention love mangas and animes?), either e-books or physical books and play games. Just recently I did bought a few new console games to play, and sadly to say I never had the time to really sit down and start playing any of them, not to mention I had not finish neither any of my old games (This is what you get if you’re too lazy to even play games). 

I would not describe myself as a heavy reader. My reading pace really depends on my mood and available time. If I’m in a reading fever and have all the time to myself, I could finish 2-3 books in one day; if I’m not in the reading mood it’ll take me more than 1 year to finish 1 book. Despite all of that, I do have a habit of reading something before I go to bed every day. It’s a habit I had developed over the years and I just can’t sleep if I didnt read regardless how tired I am.  

I’m a Malaysian Chinese, so like all Malaysians do, I went to primary school for 6 years, and then continued 5 years in secondary school. Primary and secondary school days seemed so foreign to me now because I really don’t recall anything special during my school day. As I had mentioned, In my secondary school, I picked pure sciences stream so I took chemistry, biology, and physics and add maths. This later leads to my choice of subjects when I did my Cambridge A-Levels in UCSI University (That’s right, I had been in the same university for almost 4 years!). I picked 4 subjects during my A-Levels, which is mathematics, biology, chemistry and physics. It was such a challenge for me back in the days as I struggled with my physics. Luckily for me, I manage to come in good terms with physics later in my studies and ended up with results which I’m very satisfied of. I really learned how to roll with what life has installed for you and eventually you’ll get there someday. There’s really no such thing as impossible, thing will only be impossible when you don’t even try.

As an overall, I would say that there’re really nothing really special about my life up until now. It’s just a life of a typical ordinary Malaysian student who is only special by the fact that she is very lazy, is a social media hermit and veteran cat slave.