Jeremy Chin

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18 December 1975... I stepped outside for some fresh air. They never let me back in again.The kindergarten I attended was run by Catholic Nuns. Its a bit disappointing when you see how I've turned out, considering I was exposed to good habits from a young age.My first 3 years of primary education were at a pretty rough school called Road 10. I know most of you are thinking, "what kind of f**ed up school name is that?"My parents fished my hide out of Road 10 and tossed me into a new fish bowl, Bukit Bintang Primary School. Things were a lot more orderly there but I was severely behind academically. I got to know the principal there quite well.At 10 I took up chess and trained professionally for a few years. While other kids were out playing ball and pulling legs off grasshoppers, I spent my days dissecting games played by grandmasters a century back. At the ripe old age of 15, I retired from competition.When I was very young, I remember being told that I would some day like girls. "NNooo!! Never!!!" And then I turned 11 years old.My first year at Sultan Abdul Samad Secondary School was a tad nightmarish. My classmates were a motley crew of hoodlums who came to school with long pieces of wood hidden in their pant legs. I felt inadequate at first because I thought they so much more endowed than I was. Then I learnt the bulges were merely weaponry. Phew!!I took up tennis somewhat seriously when I was 13 and since then it has been my favorite sport. There were 20 in my class and I got to hit 5 balls every half hour.During metal shop, a friend was hammering away at sheet metal using a huge vulcanized rubber hammer. The hammer head filed for divorce from its stem and chose to marry itself to my head. I was a really quiet kid for the first 15 years of my life but have since been a non-stop potty-mouthed jabberer.I summoned all my energy for that one final push. The veins in my neck pilgrimmed to the surface to witness the desperate final effort. A final verdict was reached. I was going to be 5ft 5" for the rest of my life. I contracted soccer fever in Form 4. I used to play barefoot until the other kids got soccer boots. It was a bit hard to play with bandages on, so I finally got a pair of my own.I had my first cigarette at 17, a Marlboro Red. My college friends were a bunch of party mammals so smokey nightclubs, branded clothing and maintaining exclusive cliques published its way into my lifestyle.At Taylor's, my friends, lecturers and even the principal used to call me the Young Marx for my deep appreciation of his ideaology, and my ability to defend almost any topic from a Marxist position. There's a quote that goes, "If you are not captivated by Marxism by 18, you are a fool. If you still are captivated by Marxism after 30, you're a damn fool"I intended to take up law as a career. Along the way, a prolific lecturer, Charlene Rajendran, was able to draw out creativity in me. I started cart wheeling towards advertising. America was the place for it, so after completing my Cambridge A Levels, I enrolled for the American Transfer Program at Inti College. I had my first non-blow up doll girlfriend in Inti.

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