Education is COOL!

Hey all, my name is
Eugene and I’ll be writing about my life so I hope you all would sit back and enjoy, although it may be quite dull. First of all, I just turn 14 last December and I’m Chinese-Malaysian. I’ve spent half of my childhood in
New Zealand since I was born there in
Auckland 1992, December 15^th. I’m not quite sure why it was such a pain in the neck to fly all the way but I’m guessing it’s because my parents had jobs they much prefer there. I can’t really remember anything because everything was so blur since my parents were still having their life before serious parenting. All I recall is that I have a few good friends there but sadly I forgotten their names. The only thing I remember clearly is the one thing that haunts me for the rest of my childhood. I was five, on that one stormy night; I lurked through my uncle’s house in Epsom,
Auckland. I discovered his office room; I always wanted to enter that wide space of opening. I decided to sneak into for a quick peek. Some how, I was attracted to a huge shiny wood carved table desk. It had a cover which opens to a small capacity to store stationeries and such. Suddenly, something shimmering caught my eye; it was a silver hook to support the table cover. Curiosity got the better of me and I touched it. BANG! The support broke the cover came smashing down my finger. Deep red blood trickled down my ring finger; I wasn’t in much pain but seeing blood was not a good thing at my age. I was admitted to the hospital and needed a bandage to stop my bleeding. Me and my bandage flew to
Malaysia and stayed there for few months. During the year 1999, which was the year my sister, Eileen (who is 8 years old now) came in. Somehow we had to return to NZ and my mom given birth to her. After all that, we settled down in MS and I started schooling at the age of 6. Frankly, I’m actually doing quite well in my studies. About my hobbies, I’ll tell you mine. It’s simply the same among any boys, having fun outside, playing video games and stuff. Recently, I have also developed a passion for c-walking, although I’m not really good at it but it’s enjoyable and somewhat entertaining. Like other kids, I enjoy music like rock and heavy metal and as a fact, it’s what kept me energize or just calmed.

As I’m growing and experiencing the real world bit by bit, I have some concerns about technology, educations and natural disasters. I’m quite sad about the fact that
Malaysia’s technology isn’t as advanced as
Japan. It seems to me that MS lacks of more advanced technology in daily life. Take their phones for example, MS’s handphones are not as durable and flexible as
Japan’s handphones.

Have you ever wondered how our lives are going to be like if we lack of education, but not profession education or subjects we learn in schools, but financial education? I’ve been thinking quite a lot on this topic, and even searched through books and websites explaining this subject. I’m so used to being told, ‘study hard, go overseas, get a PHD, shine your future” that I’m sick of it. By some means, has it ever occurred to you that financial education is as important to us as education we get in school? To me, I don’t want to grow up working for money, I don’t want to be a slave to it. So the only way I can avoid it is by controlling it. And that’s where financial skills come in handy.

To those who aren’t living in MS, Johor is the south state of the
Malaysia peninsular. Lately, there have been extremely terrible floods there going up to 15 feet. Estimated 140 million ringgit (39million
US) worth of property was destroyed by the floods. It has been a very sad case and severely affected the economy. That goes to every region all over the world, we should do our best to prevent these disasters from destroying properties and taking lives away.

Well, that’s all I have to say about myself and I hope you enjoyed it too.