Carved Within: Race Back Home

Since primary school, i've been taught by my teachers not too look down in other races and also never discriminate them just because they're 1% out of 100&.

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Sadly, I have very racist parents at home, they always think Chinese is the best race among other races in M'sia, sometimes whenever I talked about a non-chinese friend, they will ask me not to hang around too much with them.

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Why did they see things different from mine? Did they grow up in a time where Malays are killing Chinese because they once lost the election? Or they saw countless Mat Rempik on the road putting their life on the bet with God whether they should win the race or lose their life?

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Very lucky of me, few of my best friends were non-chinese. 1st will be Jessie Janaki, an Indian where we meet each other in the same class at Sunway University College, we had been great friend ever since, talking about our future, and sharing sad and happy moment together. I've seen the impatient side of her, when she realise she was in love with someone, the joy she had when her feeling was returned, and the tears and anger when things had gone down the drain, but we keep in touch, just to tell each other to hang on, cos each of us will be there.

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Another best friend of mine, which i think i've made her sad and unhappy for a very long time until i couldn't even look at her and ask for forgiveness, but yet... she forgave me, thank god. Yup, she's Bilqis Binti Razin (Hope I didn't spell your name wrongly). I meet her during MSSD back in 2002, we were both selected for representitive in MSSS, she was the tallest in the team and she took my pose, haha. When MSSS ended, together with Yen Chiew, the 3 od us compete in streetball spalding 3-on-3, we got the 2nd price, it was so so close beating Kar Suet, Fat Fat & Yoke Ling, maybe if we worked a bit harder back then, we could beat them. Recently, she flew to Korea to further her studies, and i see her off at the airport, together with our friends and also her family & raltives, I still remembered your brother and mom cried when you passed the imigration, i'm sure they missed you a lot after you've left for not more than a day. I'm sorry Bil, for not being there when you're back, and breaking the promises i made, somehow i've not forgiven myself, but still... thank you for forgiving me.




This is a picture of Bilqis & Me during a basketball competition.