my autobiography

Full name: Phung Thi Ngoc Thanh
DOB: 1 October 1988
100% Vietnamese, 50% old Hanoian, 100% new Hanoian

I was born in the last years of the period Bao Cấp (the period when the Gov subsidized all goods and services) when almost all people as well as the nation were poor. Moreover I was early born, weighted only 2.2 kg, so small and weak, thus my parents had to go through a lot of hardship to bring me up. We used to live in my dad's apartment at his school, 9m2 for 3 people. Only when I was 7 and we moved for the 4th time, we settled down in an apartment of 40m2 up to now.

I'm the only child of my family. People always think that I would be sad and alone. Funnily enough, I never felt alone or unhappy when I'm with my parents. They married old, at around 30 but their souls have never been old. My mother is very beautiful and she's a typical Hanoian woman. She has P.h.D in languistics and is especially talented at cooking!!! She has a quite nice taste in arts also, thus our tiny home is full of paintings. 5 ones for a 14m2 room hichic But I love it too!!! My father is a professeur at one Academy for 30 years. He is from the rural and I resemble him everything, including the chubby shape, the open mind and underarm smell haha. We have never been rich financially but all the time we have abundant laughters and happiness.

They love me and love me being at home with them as much as possible. When I was small, I felt depressed a lot because I wasn't allowed to going out with friends much, and totally no after 5 pm. But as time passed by and after suffering from serious illness, I know how much my family means to me, and how less I did to them. Then I feel so content with this condition. I may sacrify all my close relationship for this, but it makes my parents happy, and that's all I care now. Thus, after all the house-moving and no hang out late and often, I have so many friends, but I hardly have any true and very close one. I really have serious problem with being so close to anyone. I had my heart broken twice, one took me 4 years to vanish his affection on me and the other took 1 year, a so much painful heart and 3 kgs to recover after her leave.

That's all about the relationship. Now's the study stuffs. I was selected to be in the best class of most outstanding kids at primary school. Then in secondary school, I had to be in the worst class due to my father's late enrollment hichic Since then my kid life changed totally. I was the best at class but after a non-sense misunderstanding all the kids in class hated me. They even called me THE PIG all day and night (I live next to school) :-s And for a 12 year-old girl, it was such a nightmare. I still remember coming back from school everyday crying my eyes out and shouting angrily at my parents feeling no one understand and being at my side. I learnt the importance of being loved and so much scared of being left alone since then. 2 last years of secondary school, I became quite famous and loved so much all around the classes. My academic record still remained so good, always at top (my school is a small and low-rated one). I learnt to being nice to all kinds of people since the class was made up of kids from all kinds of backgrounds, a butcher's son or a gas-delivery girl. They were so naughty that the boys smoked when we're only in grade 6 and started bringing swords and big knives to school at grade 8. However, they made my childhood much more lively and memorable in comparison to being in an honor class haha Coming to Specializing Language High School, I was so shocked at all the hard-working students and so many requirements from the teachers. I was among the worst achiever at class. The kids were almost all girls and they were so talented and independent. They teached me so much in the sense of being more understanding and open-minded to anything. Afterall I made it to college. Hard-work and time spending at highschool brings me so great result in university entrance exam, then I made it to the most prestigious (at that moment) department of Finance and banking in Hanoi University. College brings me so far something: being confident, childlike is fun, being different is difficult but outstanding.

Now I know what I am up to and how I should be feeling. I worked as a volunteer at SJ Vietnam for half a year, tutoring the disadvantaged children living on the island in the Red River. The work and meeting people there insprire me very much. It brings me the sense of experiencing new things and being humble and caring. I know how much happy and lucky I am. And I want to treasure every minute I have and everyone I know.

just Live to the Fullest!!!