Portait of myself

  What is news? Is everything that is published on the pages newspapers considered the news? Of course not! News is an information that happened recently and is conveyed in the form of media through television, radio, and the print media. Besides , a person , a thing or an incident that is interesting enough to capture the attention of people can also be reported as a news.

   Everyone knows news in a different way. For me, the first time I get to know about news was when I stayed with my grandparents during my school holidays. My grandparents lived at a place, which is considered as a rural area and so there was less fun activities for them to plan when they stay at home. My grandparents have a special habit which never changed since I've known them. They will turn on television on time at 8pm every evening to watch Mandarin News on tv2. For a five years old child like me at that point of time, it baffled me of what they were doing. It was a weird habit, I thought. So I asked them: “is there any interesting about the show? Why both of you are so obsessed with this show?” My grandparents laughed and explained to me that the show was all about the news that covers the whole world so that they will get to know what is happening outside there. They watched this show to know all about what had happened on our world.  I said to my grandparents : ‘I also want to know what happened on our world.” So starting from that moment, I sat next to my grandparents everyday when the ‘show’ started and watched together although sometimes I do not really understand what the host who talk about the news is talking about, but I can see the videos and pictures on the television know what was happened around us. But I do not practice this habit after my holidays ended.

  I went back to my home and stayed with my parents. As my parents do practice this habit so I did not follow the habit again. However, this do not stop me to know news from everywhere in our world. I started reading newspaper since primary school and that was the time I started learning vocabulary. My parents bought me  newspapers everyday so that I can read the news now but with another media, a print media. I read Chinese newspaper named Sin Chew Daily, my parents encouraged me to read more news not only about the entertainment news but the local news and international news as it will broaden my knowledge and will be useful in my future. But somehow I still do not understand what is politic news all about.

  Day by day, I grew up and became a teenager. I will watch television and listen radio to know about news. When I am inside the car, my dad will turn on the radio and listen about the news. Most of the time I listen to the radio because I want to listen to some hit songs but this also another way to know news. After that, I used Internet well to know about news. I read the news and watched the video from my friends profile on Facebook to know what had actually  happened around us. I found that this was an interesting way to know the world well. As we can share and discuss together about the news we know. So I will continue to know news with all these ways.