Hi, I’m Joanna.. I grew up in a really small town by the beach in Malaysia.. When I was growing up, we didn’t have McDonalds, a cinema, pubs or clubs to go to. We used to admire those city kids who got to collect the toys from the “happy meals”. 😐
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No movie date nights or fancy restaurants. Well, A&W was the fanciest. 🤣 Ahhh.. who remembers the good old rootbeer float 🍺 and that bear with a huge belly! 😱
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To keep up, our only option was to purchased pirated DVDs 📀 and go over to a friend’s place to catch the “latest film” 🎥. By then, the movie was probably 3 months old and out of the cinema. 😅
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Our only “entertainment” was the beach. We used to play volleyball, kayak, swim in the ocean 🌊 and even slept on the beach 🏖 (like literally!) and of course got bitten by mosquitoes 😖 Hey, that’s pretty romantic eh.. 😏
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What did we do on weekends? Well daddy would take us fishing and sometimes we’ll hike to a waterfall and swim in that freezing cold water. I really miss that.. 🙁
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At the craziest point, we had 16 dogs, 100 over birds (I am NOT kidding you!), 30+ chickens, hamsters and goldfish. My house was a mini zoo. 😬
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Oh not forgetting jumping into the monsoon drain to catch tadpoles 🤭 Oh yeah, I was a right tomboy. You better keep up with me! 😈
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What about you? Tell me about yourself. 😉
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