Hi! My name is Rachel Kan Hong Ting. The part “Hong Ting” seems a bit off tune to be a Singaporean, don’t you agree? Well, basically, i am half Hong Kong and Singaporean. I was born in Singapore, while my other family members are all born in Hong Kong, but i recently became a full Singaporean from PR a few years ago. I am 13 this year, for me it is a “lucky” year, because it is my favourite number, but I don’t believe in luck though. My favourite numbers are 21 and 9. Why you ask? Its my birthday numbers of course! My birthday is on the 21 September 1995. I am from St. Margaret’s Secondary and I graduated from my sister school, St. Margaret’s Primary.
What about my life? Let’s see. I have a four people family. That includes my mother, father, sister and me. My mother’s name is Regina, my father is Herman. My sister is called Ruth. The way I look at it, my father spoils the name of my family. Why? Because my mother’s, sister’s and my name all start with an “R”, and then my father’s one is a “H”. The perfect chance of having the whole family to be “R” is gone. All my other relatives are all in Hong Kong, which means that only my family moved here. My family name “Kan” is going to disappear soon, unless my sister or I don’t get married. I feel sorry for my great-grands. After carrying the surname down so long it stops at us cause there are no boys. On my father’s side, I do have two male cousins, but it was my aunt who was married out, so that’s it. Unless my new aunt gives birth to a boy. My uncle, referring to my father’s brother is so bad. He cheated on my previous aunt, whom I like a lot, and had another baby with another woman. Evil right? Now I have a new aunt. I don’t mind her though, she’s okay. But her already married her I think, and divorced my previous aunt. At first I could not believe it. They got along so well. It’s not because of a fight, but because my uncle lost interest in my previous aunt because she could not give birth. So now I have a new baby girl cousin too. I miss her a lot, because i visit Hong Kong every year, and I always live at their house. This incident happened about a year ago. I have to admit, my new baby cousin is quite cute.
Back to topic, thats the story of my family’s surname. In my family, we are all christians, on my father’s side, only he and his mother are christians, my mother’s side is most of her siblings. In my point of view, my sister is very pretty. She is 24 years old. Look at the age difference, 24-13=11 years apart. So imagine, my mother gave birth, when my sister was 11, like maybe primary 6, I came along. I wonder if i was born during the PSLE period. At home, I speak cantonese, it’s on par with my english. I can speak fluently with a Hong Kong accent, I am proud of it! I grew up with cantonese. I speak cantonese more than english actually, because I only speak english when I am in school. School is about 7 hours, so I speak cantonese for the rest of the day. So that’s what my life is about.
Since young, I have learned ballet. Now I am still in ballet, seventh grade. I can’t say I am good though, I think I am plain average. Ballet lessons are once a week, on saturdays. Church is on Sunday. Now I am in Secondary 1 and my CCA is fencing. Cool right? Poke, Poke, Poke!
How about my favourite colour? Well, I am those kind of person that cannot decide at all, so actually I like rainbow or all colours. But I especially like the colour black. It’s really nice. The colour I least like is hot pink. It’s too flashy.
The title of my post was inspired by a picture on my handphone that says, “Happiness….Doesn’t Exist”. It’s a picture of a person sliding toward the end of the rainbow and below there are thorns. I don’t think it doesn’t exist though. It’s just that sometimes life gets tough. Afterall, life is filled with ups and downs.
What about books? I love reading books, especially if they are mysteries and exciting crimes. My favourite used to be Geronimo Stilton, it was funny and cute. The pictures were more or less colourful. Then my previous favourite was Warriors by Erin Hunter. It’s about warrior cats. Believe it or not, Erin Hunter is actually two person who are writing the story. They decided that they would create a name instead of writing their own names. It’s too troublesome I guess.
So what do I do during my free time nowadays? I used to be addicted to maple story, but I soon found it quite boring and lame because it was hard to level up and I had no idea what monsters to kill either. From my brilliant brain, I think I stopped at level 32-34. So now I am currently addicted to anime. In case you don’t understand, it means japanese cartoon. I was curious what was so nice about so I started by reading manga, then moving on to watching my first anime, Naruto. My ”animes” are Naruto, Shippuuden, Vampire Knight, Prince of Tennis, D.gray Man, Shugo Chara!, La Corda D’oro, Ouran High School Host Club, Fruit Basket, Wagaya No Oinari-sama, Bleach, Itazura Na Kiss, Chi’s Sweet Home and Special A. Compared to most people, I am a slow starter, but I caught up with some. I started at the start of this year. I love reading manga too, but my mother is those kind of strict mum, where you can only buy things if you have asked permission. Others can just walk into a shop and buy something as long it is their own allowance. But I am somewhat used to it. I know my mother’s concerned about me, so I’ll just be grateful if she allows me to buy something. Because of this, I had rebelled and secretly bought three Vampire Knight mangas to read, even though I already read all, but it was nice. In the end, my mum asked me whose it was, I said my friend had lent it to me. I felt guilty, so I told her soon afterwards. She was angry I had told her a lie though. After much of my mother’s Won’t-talk-to-you attitude, she softened. She seemed to understand that I wanted to buy what I wanted. So finally, she said I could only buy this series, so I was allowed to buy the rest. Other people would say, “Your mum is so bad!” Because they have lots and lots of manga series at home. But I am contented by reading It over and over again.
I am not those kind of person that would bother to write a blog. I tried but no matter how, in the end it became super boring. That was what happened to my journal too, write for a few days and get bored. The good thing is you can look back at yourself in the future. That was what I did a few days ago. I read the thorn pages and found it quite cute. I started friendster and facebook but I create them and now I can’t be bothered anymore. Why am I writing all this then? I guess it’s because this is part of homework and once in a while I wouldn’t mind typing this much. Normally, would have better things to do. But what can you expect? I am sitting in the library now doing this project. What else can I do? Read boring magazines and find out more about Supermoms? I’d rather type. It’s more fun to. Anyway, who knows? Maybe ten to twenty years down the road I might suddenly remember that I did this project and typed this post. And if I can still remember the password, I would post another post here again. If not, I would just look at this and laugh at myself. This is lame, I sound like a novel writer now. I think it is because of reading those boring three books that I have to do for homework. They have long words. i am beginning to write like them. I hope I don’t end up like them though.
I don’t really know what I would want to be when I grow up. I seriously have no idea at all. No ambitions, nothing. Maybe being a crime solver or a vet would be nice, but it means a lot of science knowledge and maths, so maybe no. I wanted to become a waitress at first, because my sister used to work there and it looked fun taking down orders and serving food to customers. But that can’t be a life job. It’s just a part time job. So practically I have no idea at all.
Shangkari was here a moment ago telling me how fast I typed. Oh well. I don’t know what to write anymore. It’s getting boring that I feel like going home. I hope Wan Wen doesn’t insist on staying until 3 pm. Afterall, it’s only a half an hour difference. Yay! My goal is achieved by the wonderful me! I typed more than Ainur! Muahahaha! Sorry, ignore me, I am a bit too active. Now I have to pretend to be sitting down here at the computer typing until Wan Wen lets us off. So see ya people around some time. Enjoy our Supermom blog.
If I bother I would be posting another post soon,
Rachel
