Our Story : Chapter 2 : Her Beginning Years

Her Beginning Years

            Siti Azura was born on Friday morning to at first a loving family. At that time her father was in a jungle somewhere in Pahang. As a police officer, his responsible was to the country. The communists still at large. This was on 14th September 1973. She was born at a general hospital Batu Pahat, Johor.

            She was raised as normal as possible, under the strict eyes of her mother. With a strong hand she was a pure heart at the beginning. I'm not sure what happened then. I didn’t ask anybody about her. This is only base on what she told me along the years we were together.    

            She told me that her mother was so strict that when she wants anything she just has to restrain. Even at one time she fell from a bicycle and was bleeding and hurt, her mother would hit her and yelled at her because she was not careful enough.

           It becomes worst when her brother was born. Azlan was born in 1977. Her brother was her mother's pearl. He was the apple of her mother's eye. He was much pampered. Everything that Azlan want she will gave, for Siti, the answers always no. What ever fights when they were kids, her mother always side with the son, not that Mrs. Tugarah didn't love her, is just that she didn't pay enough attention to her.

            Enters Endang, an Indonesian lady that stayed with the family. Siti’s mother took her in and treat her like a sister. Endang was the one who always there for Siti. When her mother was mad and angry, Endang was the one who she confides. When Azlan and she had a fight, Endang will be the one who took her side. She played an important role on Siti’s growing up and behavior.  

            She never had any grudge, to her brother or her mother. She loved both the way it should. They were very happy when disaster strikes. Her father slowly become obsesses with other things than his family and work. At that time there were staying in Kuala Lumpur. Her father was stationed at Brickfields; they sold their house in Batu Pahat and moved as a family to a police beret at Sentul. She was 13.

For reason unknown her father become wild. He gamble, drink, a womanizer and always not home. She told me that sometime she and her mother would go to a 'dangdut' bar to search for Mr. Johar. Her life was juggled between taking care of her youngest brother, Azli at that time still a baby, housework and school work. On top of that her parents always argue with each other. She didn't go crazy. She had her feet to the ground.

...to be continued