Memories from Malaysia
1. "I was 16 and due to the time difference, it happened at night for us. It was the weirdest thing because I went to sleep not knowing what happened. Woke up, went to school and heard absolutely nothing from anyone. It was by all means a very unremarkable day.
When I came home from school that afternoon, I served myself some lunch, plonked myself in front of the telly and turned it on. I flipped the cable channels and as soon as I got on to CNN was when I saw it. By that point, it has been at least 18 hours since the attacks happened. They were just on replay, but I was watching it as if it was happening for the very first time. Naive, 16 year-old, South Asian me kept thinking they were talking about the Empire State Building.
From then on, that's all everyone was talking about. Newspapers, news, magazines, dial up internet at cyber cafes."
- F. S.
When I came home from school that afternoon, I served myself some lunch, plonked myself in front of the telly and turned it on. I flipped the cable channels and as soon as I got on to CNN was when I saw it. By that point, it has been at least 18 hours since the attacks happened. They were just on replay, but I was watching it as if it was happening for the very first time. Naive, 16 year-old, South Asian me kept thinking they were talking about the Empire State Building.
From then on, that's all everyone was talking about. Newspapers, news, magazines, dial up internet at cyber cafes."
- F. S.