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SM1 - 1st RuR nner Up - Ifeff oma Jennifeff r (4AC He)

I have always wondered how strangers on the street perceive me. What do
people think when they see me? Do they think that I look frff iendly? Rude?

Approachable? Maybe they look at me and think, “Oh wow, she is beautifuff l!” or
“Why does she look so diffff eff rent?” The faff ct of the matter is that people love to
make all sorts of assumptions of you in their heads just by looking at you. If I ever

get the chance to describe myself to a complete stranger, here is how I would do it.

People always look at me and assume that I am a foff reigner. Well I am actually
half Afrff ican and half Indian, but I was born and brought up right here in
Malaysia. The truth is that I am a hundred-percent Malaysian just like everyone

else. Although my physical appearance is average, I like my strong ethnic feff atures.
My almond eyes that resemble my faff ther’s, my pouty lips that my mother passed

on to me, I love all of them.

The faff ce is the fiff rst thing that everyone sees, but if you come just a bit closer,

you will see little scars here and there on my body that tell my lifeff stories. For
example, the little scar right above my knee describes my childhood. It describes

my carefrff ee childhood where I had no real problems whatsoever, the only
problems I had were which toy to play with later and what games to play with my
fr f f iends. I got that scar when I was around 7, where I had been running around

and playing happily with my frff iends when I had tripped over and feff ll. The pain
was unbearable back then to little me, but whenever I see it now, it just brings
back bittersweet memories to a time that I can neevveer rettuurn to.

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