Chinese Writing

I am thrilled that Sarah Yeh, the founder of DimSum, the British Chinese Community website, has invited me to write an article for them about the inspirations for my writing - and blogging.

You can read the article here - http://www.dimsum.co.uk/community/fusion-view.html

The title to this post - and the illustration - is misleading, I’m afraid. I have to confess that the article on DimSum is in English and not in Chinese. To my eternal shame, I can’t read or write Chinese - I grew up in Malaysia speaking English: my parents, grandparents and extended family all speak English as their every day language. I think in English. So you could say that English is my mother tongue.

I remember going to Chinese lessons where we learnt to speak Mandarin and had to write out words/ characters endlessly. It was sooo boring. Especially as I never had the need to actually use it in daily life. I guess it would have been different if we’d had Mandarin speaking friends or gone on holidays to China. But no, it felt as obscure as learning Latin…