My BC

Happy New Year 2008!

I was born, and it's stated in my birth certificate, in 1973. So that means I'll be 35 years old this year.

My birth certificate is a work of art. By that I mean the "facts" contained in it can be beautiful, but not necessarily correct.

For example, it's stated in the BC that at the time of my birth my father was earning a living as a rubber tapper. I asked my father about this and he said at that time he'd just retired from the Askar Melayu Diraja (makes a lot of sense to me) and was not tapping rubber. He added that he wasn't all that sure that I was born in 1973 because they, for reasons still unknown to me, decided to report my birth to the authority several months after I was born!

At any rate, I love my BC.