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Okay, yeah, I think I might do some skills.

I used to get sick from those piano examinations. I was so scared of them. To walk into this stone-called hotel lobby to take the elevator up and walk along the carpeted floors and stand outside the door of this examiner's room and then to have this row of chairs on which you could sit and to see other nervous children waiting being sort of calm and soothed by whichever adult was accompanying them.

The knot in my stomach just grew

tighter and tighter.

And then when the door opened and, there's foreign voices next.

But then you go into the room, there's a piano there,

and you're already, my hands were all cold

from the air conditioning.

And so I didn't know whether I could even play.

I think the first time I saw a white person was you know in these examinations

because you see them maybe on TV, but there was no occasion that I would see a real life person who was that color of hair and had skin that was all red because he had been in the sun and then he would sit at his desk and he just said

C major please

And you know first of all you had to tune your ears to the accent and think what he asked for.

Oh!

And my entire education in Malaysia was in Malay.

And all the time you were being judged and I was accurately aware of that,

you know, some children would be crying, others would have diarrhea,

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