Selamat Hari Merdeka to our nation that's still growing up

I GREW up in a middle class family with educated working parents, so I suppose I was raised in a gilded cage. My mother used to say it was very hard raising daughters, especially in Kuala Lumpur.

I resented all the control and the rules imposed upon me. I was more sensitive compared to my younger brother and sister, so my experience of growing up was pretty hard.