Myself

       The name given by my parents is Jasmin Bt Mohd Jifri. But I am commonly called as Jasmin among my family members, friends and also my teachers. I am 19 years old and currently I am doing my Diploma in English at Sultan Idris Educational University or commonly known as UPSI located in Tanjung Malim, Perak. My hometown is Kampung Keda Bukit Kura, Kuala Nerang, Kedah Darul Aman.

       I started my learning when I was 4 years old in kindergarten and finished my kindergarten when I was 6 years old. After that I went to Sekolah Kebangsaan Pedu as a Standard One student. The school is near to my house and it takes about 10 minutes for me to reach the school. I sit my UPSR and I managed to get straight A's in my UPSR. Since I have got an excellent result, I was offered to Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Dato' Syed Ahmad, a cluster school and I accepted the offer. I continue my study in SMK Dato' Syed Ahmad as a Form One student in religious stream and I sit for my PMR there. Unfortunately, I did not manage to get an excellent result for my PMR, yet I got 6A2B1C so I did not apply for any better school. I continue my studies in religious stream as well for SPM and gratefully I managed to get 8A1B for my SPM result. Since I love to learn English, I decided to apply for universities that offer English programme and I got accepted in UPSI for Diploma in English Programme.

       Everyone has their own likes and hobbies. As for myself, I have my own hobbies. During my free time, I love to listen to songs and sing whether alone or along with family and friends. If I have free time, I will always sing to myself and sometimes I will sing in front of my friends. As for listening to the different songs, I prefer to listen to English songs because I believe that it is one of the way for me to improve my English. When I listen to English songs, I will try to follow the pronunciation and the different accents correctly and it somehow had improved my pronunciation a lot. I also prefer to listen to instrumental songs since for me it can make me relax whenever I am feeling depressed by my daily pressure.

      Similar to other person, I have my own dreams for my future. One of the dreams is I want to be an educator. At first, it never crossed my mind for me to be an educator, for example, a teacher. Since my passion was about art, since I love to sing very much since I was younger until now. But somehow, my parents have a really high expectation for me to be an educator and it has been one of their biggest dream. Because of that, I decided to give up on my dream and continue to achieve my parents' dream because I believe that usually, parents' choice will lead to a great success. I want to make their dream comes true, but in the same time I still can always do my dream, with changing it to my hobby. I can sing whenever I want but I cannot be a teacher whenever I want, that is the principal that I hold on to.

       In life, the most important thing is never give up on any things that you are doing. And it is important for you to make an effort, and give the best for yourself and others that related to you. I believe that, being myself, will able me to make great changes in my own way.