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I am a MINAH PENANG but I am not ANAK MAMI. Minah is a local name to address a girl, very informal so please if you in Penang do not just call anyone ‘Minah’, because it also carries an indication that this girl can be cheeky, boyish ( mainly because she like to do what man likes to do as such riding motorbike, play sports, etc.), and out-spoken. Basically, not very much the ‘ideal Malaysian women’ type. In Malaysia there is certain kind of mold for women, and if you don’t fit in that mold then you can be call Minah..  as such rough like a boy. ANAK MAMI, is also from Penang, but not on the character wise but it is from the family tree. You won’t be anak mami if your parent is Malay, Chinese or Indian. Instead it is only when your parent is a mix marrige between Malay and Indian background then you can be entitled to be call ANAK MAMI. Not me. Both of my parent are from Malay background, however, they are not purely Malay, I have a mix blood between the Pattani, Siam (now Thailand) and Minang, Indonesia. But in Malaysia, I fall under the Malay ethnic group.

My interest in arts and design started since I was a kid, at a very young age. My mom and other relatives who remember my little show when I was little would remind me almost every time we had a chance to meet. At the age of 3 years old, I can make money by making noise (and they said its a cute one) from my mouth, following what ever tempo that I caught and imitated from radio, Television or from my mother or my grandmother singing while cooking in the little kitchen. I did know that I amuse them, because they tend to asked me to sing again and again.. until it probably began to make me bored, not because of singing but because I have to repeat the same songs again and again. Later I learned a technique, that every time at the end of my last line in singing, I will raise hand and request to be paid. Didn’t I know how to make money since I was a kid? It’s horrible, but at least I am could earn few sens when I was at that age. And my aunties ( Kak Ngah, Pak Lang, Mak Lang, Cu Embun, Pak Cik Yob, etc.) and relatives still remember the songs, they sings them when ever we had a chance to chat. I adore them!

My wonderful superwomen mom saw this in me and start registering my name for composition. Yeap, since then, singing has been part of my life, then I discovered the others, like acting, drawing and making things. I started my own graphic design club, along with my other friends who have the same interest at Convent (girls only) high school because there is none and the clubs they have are mostly art base, commerce or sciences. Of course at that time I did not call it graphic design, as I have no idea what is graphic design. But I tried very hard to justify it from art practice and fine arts drawing. I got involves with making posters for schools and clubs, promotion and selling ideas. I guess now we can call it branding, graphic design and public relation.