• ABOUT ME,  watercolor

    Have you ever been bullied during childhood?

    I know, I had. It was a nightmare. When my parents got divorced, my siblings and I had to be left under the care of my grandparents (now deceased) while my mother went to the city looking for a job to support us and to find a descent rental home to live. We were transferred to a school in Kg. Sega, Raub. The students were not very friendly and they had this mindset — “city kids are bad kids and therefore needs to be bullied”. Other states but Kg. Sega were considered ‘city’ that time. I had my nightmares when they throw leeches on me (on of them stuck on my leg), stole my money and my art materials. They were also using sarcastic remarks when I was the only one who reacted to the teachers when they asked questions. Showing off, they said.

    But all that came to and end when my mother came to pick us up and left for Kuala Lumpur in 1979. In Kuala Lumpur, I had never been bullied once. Never. I belong to the city.

    Not many of the students in my class back then knew this but I was actually born in Kg. Sega, Raub.

    Here’s one illo I did for the calendar project.

    And the mindset didn’t really leave the town, my niece and cousin were both bullied at schools in Raub few years back. Their stationery were stolen and they had to endure verbal abuse from classmates. My cousin who is now studying in one of the universities in KL really glad to finished school. As for my niece, she is staying with me now and go to nearby school. She never been bullied here.