: About Me

Day job: Auditor with one of the Big 4 accounting firms. I have the best bosses in the world, I've not been this happy to be at work for years!

Dream job: Globe-trotting, Christian Dior-clad, Bally-toting, Manolo Blahnik-shod Princess. I am nowhere close to this dream though if there is an opening out there, I can give aforesaid loved bosses 4 weeks notice and be at your beck and call!

Blood and body: I am an Iban (the Iban are an indigenous race of Borneo - we used to be headhunters, before the British arrived and banned this practice. Damn Brits!) born in Malaysia, currently living in Australia. I started writing in my early teens and had a few articles published in the New Straits Times, a national Malaysian newspaper. I only recently started writing again so I'm a bit rusty - it's been more than a decade! My parents (I love you, Mum & Dad!) completed their education in an English-speaking school system, due to Sarawak being a British colony, hence we speak English at home almost all the time - unless my mother is angry, then she will throw some Iban words about the place!

My passion is ...

Music, reading, shopping, travelling ...

I know too much about ...

Perfumes and bags!

My parents always told me ...

Have a career, education is important

My childhood ambition ...

To write a book

My favorite memory ...

Being with my family during Christmas

Why I write ...

I don't really know - I enjoy it and I like reading what I have written ...

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Reading Atonement by Ian McEwen, the last movie I watched was The Painted Veil and I just got my hands on Delta Goodrem's latest offering which I am really enjoying.

My inspiration ...

My family. As Daddy says "Success does not normally come by chance".

Creative Writing > Memoirs Testimonies: Taking prescribed medication for depression

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I am currently taking medication for depression. It was prescribed by my doctor, a gentle man, perhaps in his fifties, who said kindly to me about three months ago that I was "in a bad way". He gave me a six month prescription of cipramil. I took the prescription but did not fill it. I always had this notion that taking medication was the easy way out, especially for something like depression where I couldn't see where the pain was coming from on my body. There were no bruises, nothing was broken, unless you counted my spirit. I also feared the side effects which could range from nausea to...

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