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4 years later....

Back here again 4 years later with more stories to share, more adventures and lessons in life. I can never stick to blogging or journaling. As a matter of fact, its something that definitely requires lots of discipline and I want to stick to it this time around (well I hope I do..:P). I was meant to have a part 2, a sequet to my first post. I suppose that will just have to wait another day when the mood is set right.

Today is all about getting back to groove, setting the discipline and getting back on track. Maybe I should just start short for the first day and lets see how it goes over time.

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A reflection of the past...

Women of the 21st century. What does it mean? 

A  21st Century Woman is:  financially secure, faithful, other-focused, healthy, relational, embraces her uniqueness, and social-experiencing life to the full ( http://www.chereacerichards.com/21st-century-woman/). But i sit down and wander is this the reality in my life?

Here goes the story of my LIFE...(PART 1)

Being the eldest in the family, I as a female child was never discriminated for being a girl. Gender discrimination was never spoke about in my house,as a matter of fact was never an issue in either my maternal or paternal side of the family as well. EDUCATION, CULTURE & RELIGION was the utmost important thing growing up. Papa was more concenred about being independent and doing well in school while besides education amma was equally concerned that we learn the thevarams and go to the temple every fridays and make sure we sing at the altar every mornings and evenings. 

Most of my childhood memories revolve around these things, either school or temple events. Cutting vegetables on the eve of any temple events, participating in bhajan classes which was done by a few teenagers within the community and etc. Also have memories going for music classes, taking up sangeetham and instruments. So as you can see CULTURE, RELIGION and EDUCATION were given so much importance growing up. 

As a child I was the only grandchild in both sides of the family that did well in school..Aced the UPSR, PMR BUT slacked in my SPM. Not exactly the best results as any of my family members would have expected but did averagely well in my defense :)  After SPM, I was very eager to do medicine as that was one of the TOP 3 careers usually highly encouraged in Tamil house holds. One of my closest friends set out to pursue her ambition in Medicine while i couldn't follow the path as my results didn't cut out plus was not financially well off  to uptake the path in a private university as well.

Should mention here that I come from a middle class family; papa a electrician while amma a Tamil school teacher. So we were not very well off financially. 

(Part 2 to be continued...)