Hey … my name is Nurul Hana. You can just call me Hana. I’m 14 years old from Malaysia., . I am blessed to live in an international community. . When I was in 4th till 7th grade, I was kind of into sports. Including track, high jump and long jump, that’s the 3 things I was competing in previous school. In 7th grade, I did high jump and long jump. I got 3rd place for high jump 2nd place for long jump. Art is my life. Whenever I’m free, I take time to draw anime. I also like to try and learn different types of drawing. Books are my passion as well. So far, I’ve read series of collection of Roald Dahl , Harry Potter, The Kite Runner, and some Malay books. Hmmm… movies, I do love movies but my favorite is comedy and action. My favorite movie so far is Inside Man. I don’t know if you would like it. I also love football. I don’t play it but I love to watch it. I started watching since last year, the FIFA world cup I support for France, but I don’t want to quarrel bad things about each others country. But I would like to know what country you supported, not say bad things to them. I didn’t really remember all the players but I still do like other footballers in other countries. I also like Arsenal although I’m not really into it but I support it. All this football came from my brother-in-law. Thanks to him I’m into football. I have 5 siblings. 1 brother and 4 sisters, I’m the youngest of all. We are really close to each other. I can be quiet person or the hyper active one. If the person I feel comfortable to talk to, then maybe I’ll be a hyper active person. Depends on my mood! I love music. I actually can’t live without it. Here are some English, Indonesian and Malay bands, (English bands)- Muse (my favorite band 2 years now), Eminem, Orson, Radiohead, Oasis, The Strokes, Dashboard Confessional, Travis, Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer, Everclear, The Thrills, My Morning Jacket, Silverchair, Stone Temple Pilots, Snow Patrol, Sixpence None of The Richer, The Killers, The White Stripes, Coldplay, The Coral, Switchfoot, Modest Mouse, Incubus, New Radicals, 1000 Clowns, Rooney, Aqualung, Blink 182, Bowling for Soup,Ash,Stone Sour, Green Day, Jem, Ok Go, Cake, Cardigans, Garbage, Death Cab for Cutie,U2 etc. (Indonesian and Malay bands-) Padi, Dewa, Peter Pan, Sheila on 7, OAG, Samson, Coklat, etc. Most of the songs came from my siblings. If I’m with my siblings, I would always be weird, hyper active and funny.
One of the issues that concern me at my age is about different culture and people. When I was in public school in Malaysia, although we have 3 different cultures but I realize that we are falling apart. I have a lot of Malaysian friends but I can see they have their own groups.Not all the people do that, they also have togetherness inside them. I don’t know why they even have that feeling of racism? When I went to US, I felt I was the minority because I was the only Malaysian out of the whole middle school. But I was glad that they treated me nicely but I was much quieter because I wasn’t used to present in front of class. People think I was a quiet person even my close friends thought I was quiet. But when I went to international community, I got to see the difference between both schools. If we have a lot of different culture, we can collaborate with each other. If people prejudge them, then there won’t be any racism.
Another issue that also concerns me is about the society.
Malaysia’s crime rate has increased from my perspective. Why I say that is because, when I was in 1st grade, I could walk with my neighbour 5 minutes from my house. Now, I see newspapers a lot of people get killed and you need a man to guide you anywhere! However, I think maybe some places not when a lot of people are there.
