About Me — Sarah Yap
Professional daydreamer and cat-lover
Hi everyone! I’m Sarah, turning 18 in April this year, and I’m a student from Singapore.
A Few Things About Me…
Where to start? I’m an INFP, an Aries in Western astrology, and a Dog in Chinese astrology, though funnily enough, I prefer cats more. I like my grandma’s cooking, reading, and anything sweet, and I hate eating medicines like antibiotics or cough syrup that leaves a yucky aftertaste.
I live with my parents and my younger brother, who I have the biggest love-hate relationship with. An interesting fact about my family is the age dynamic among us. My uncle is 3 years older than my mom; my mom is 3 years older than both my aunt and my dad, and I’m 3 years older than my brother.
My experience with writing
My earliest memory of writing was in primary school, in Primary One (P1), when I was 7 years old. The air was as stale as ever in the very humid Singapore and the scratchy, gritty fabric of my blouse was soaking in my sweat as I struggled to write even the starting line of my composition. The teacher wanted us to write about a trip to the zoo, and while everybody else was heavily concentrated, with their pencils scratching against their paper furiously, I sat there, completely at sea, looking all funny and lost. I didn’t know what to write after “Once Upon a Time”. Yes, I used to think all stories had to start with that opening phrase, and I remember dreading writing assignments all the time because I just couldn’t stay on topic, had to spend hours on it, or just didn’t know what to write.
I’m much better now though, not very good but not very bad. In the last year of primary school, it was like something clicked in me, maybe an epiphany, and my writing started receiving phrases from my teachers. I grew to enjoy writing (especially creative writing and personal narrative writing assignments) and even chose literature as an elective subject to study in Secondary school.
Why I’m on Medium
Although my writing is different now, and I’ve undergone many changes over the years, that feeling of being at sea and feeling lost stuck with me and has always been a subconscious feeling that lingered throughout the years. I don't know what I want for myself, besides money of course, and I’m here to try out new things and see where this journey with Medium takes me.
The End
I don’t have any captivating hook, nor did I have anything particularly unique or special that I shared here, so if you made it until the end of my introduction, thank you very much and I hope to see you in the next one. :)
