English in my life

I grew up from a small village where everyone speaks Hokkien and Teo Chew commonly. There is only one Chinese primary school. When entering secondary school I hardly find English important, because uncle aunty in my “Kampung” never speak English.

To be frank, most of the Chinese school students are having hard time learning to speak good English in public. Surely I understand this, because I am one of them. Maybe it’s due to lack of exposure to English :)

From my blog posts, u can see that I only manage to write in very common English that really consider as easy to understand and to read. Kekeke.. I am still learning and keep improving in my English’s writing and speaking.

After graduated from form six, I successfully entered to local university (UKM). But unfortunately, their lecturers were teaching us all the subjects in Malay. So, my Malay standard is improving from there. On the other hand, I don’t really feel that English is a must to practice in my life.

I started realize the importance of English after entering working life. I got into an interview that really knocked me up, where the interviewer insulted me with sophisticated English, and even told me that why my English is so lousy after graduated from University. Thank you for that actually, or not I won’t be realizing that I need to improve my English.

In working life, people always communicates in English. I learn to speak proper English, thru out my conversation with my customers, colleagues, and also friends. In PJ, uncle and aunty who selling Char Kuey Tew also speak fluent English. Duhh...

And recently, I am exposed to blogging. Blogging really improves my English writing a lot. Blogging is actually a really good media to practice on your English writing; I can really tell you all that before I learn to blog, articles or essays that I wrote in a year was not more than 50. I wrote just because I need to reply some important emails, I wrote when I need to submit some reports to my manager. Today I looked at my blog, and only this year, I blogged for 128 posts including this one. What an achievement!!!!

I will keep learning and keep moving ahead. Cheers!! For Life!!!