DOCTOR IN THE MAKING

To my niece, Dina Ho for getting straight A’s for her SPM. I wondered what is inside her head. She is so, so, so smart and gifted.

Dina is the first grand daughter (my first niece) and everyone was looking forward to welcome her into the family. When Dina was five, they went to New Zealand. Both my sister and her husband went to do their PHD and took along Dina and her brother Danny.

When they came back to Malaysia, Dina couldn’t speak a single word of Malay and it was really difficult for her to adjust to the new surroundings. I remembered her first Bahasa Malaysia essay ‘Jika Saya Menjadi Seorang Jutawan’. In her essay she said if she becomes a millionaire, she would buy as many Kuih Pau as she could find. And for that she got ‘E’ for her essay. She does not know what the meaning of ‘Jutawan’ is.

Dina is a very talented young lady. Dina won her first piano competition when she was six representing Dunedin Pre-School. She represents Malaysia for the Ice Skating Competition in Singapore and won gold medal. She can play piano, violin and guitar and she’s very good with kids.

And today, she has proved it all. Beauty with brains and that’s my niece. No doubt sometimes she can be a pain in the butt, but she has made us all proud. If my late dad is still around, he will be so proud of her. Passing all her major exams (UPSR & PMR) with straight A’s and hopefully she will be a very good, devoted doctor one day, insyaallah.