Welcome to My First Blog!

Hello there! Welcome to my first-ever blog. I had been putting this idea off for a while, but I thought today is the day that I finally take action. 

Just a little bit of info about myself: Hi, my name is Carolina, or, as most of the people in my life call me, Carol. I'm a 20-year-old, A-level, KYUEM graduate student who is currently waiting for her enrollment into university, which will take place in September. I'm from Malaysia (Sabah in particular) and will be going into UNMC as a Yayasan Sabah scholar. A few of my favourite pastime activities would be reading, playing musical instruments, and maybe even exercising. Occasionally. Okay, that last one might be a lie. Oh, and I'm taking Psychology by the way (Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience to be specific because that sounds *fancy*).

But, you'll really get to know me after reading a few blog posts which I plan to submit once every week if this...Hobby? Venture? I'm not sure what to call it, succeeds to hold up despite my constant switch of interest from one thing to another. I will try my best to make this hobby stick, though.

What I'm Planning to Write About

The main theme of my blog would be Self-Education or Self-Improvement. 

Here is a little backstory.

For most of my life, I always had a knack for increasing knowledge and educating myself in things that I'm interested in because learning is so much fun. Personally, I dealt with (and still deal with, though to a lesser extent) social anxiety and that hindered me from doing a lot of activities that I've wanted to, which includes going to extracurricular classes, and even tuition classes. Thus I had to take it upon myself to study differently than my peers, and I had relied a lot on the Internet to provide me with the extra materials. This reliance upon the Internet for my education did not just stop at my academic journey. I also ended up learning a lot of the skills that I have today (drawing portraits, playing the ukulele, guitar, and piano) through the Internet, for free! Therefore I want to document my self-learning journey with the help of the Internet to encourage other students like me to start their own journey as well.

Since I still am a student, I plan to mostly write about my academic journey. What kind of experiences that I had encountered, what are the valuable lessons that I want to share, and so on. 

Some other topics I'd like to include as well are:

• Books, where I want to share my thoughts and lessons learned from books I just read, hoping to include tips on how to apply those lessons as well. 
• Financial Journey. I am currently on my own financial journey, and I'd like to share the lessons I've learned along the way. More people should have increased awareness of the importance of financial literacy, especially in times of crisis like this.
• Music! because, who doesn't love music? This is more of what I had learnt as I am still trying to teach myself more about music theory.
• And many more self-learning projects!

If you're a student like me, and interested in joining me on my self-education journey, do stick around! Thank you for reading this first-ever post from me, and I'll see you next week!