I can never finish on talking about my amazing pre-teenhood, all happened in between age of 9 till 15: The first online game, my first virtual pet, first handphone bought.. Ahh.. And my first comic book/anime "Detective Conan".

Let's begin by talking about how I started to read comic book. At the age of 9, I was not a big fan of reading (including comics and novels) and/or the language Bahasa Malaysia. I always had a very very very bad grade for my Malay exams and that means failing every paper of it, my mom was determined for me to learn it up to be able to survive in Malaysia (Yes, our country needs this language for every governmental/educational purpose). She took the initiative to bring me to a comic book store near our house and asked for Malay comic that might interest me. Of course, I hated the thought of reading, not even drawings would do for me.

The shopkeeper handed me a comic book with brown covers and a kid in Sherlock Holmes outfit with specs on top of the cover, the title of the book was in Malay "Detektif Conan". I ended up renting a few of them, my mom even forced me to read them all, she said it will help me to improve my language skill.

Out of my expectation, the stories were extremely good with its reasoning and detective works. I fell in love with the comic even though I did not understand the language at all. After a few volumes, I continued renting them in the Chinese language so I could at least get what it was about, my level of understanding was really poor at that time. I read until volume 40+ then I stopped because I had to deal with the biggest exam at that time, UPSR.

I continued chasing the story around 16 years old and gave up again because of SPM. Till now, I have no continue my chase but am watching the movies on PPS. If you're interested, you could read some of the stories [HERE] but it wouldn't be as exciting as reading a real comic book or watching the anime.

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