The Day I Was Born by Chew Pin Yee

	The Day I Was Born
	27 June 1988

I am Chew Pin Yee, I was born on Monday, 27 June 1988. I am a pupil of Batu Lanchang Primary School.

I love sports and a lot of other things.

During my free time I enjoy going for movies with my best friends and also hanging out with them. I hope to be a famous sportsman one day.

The Adana-Ceyhan earthquake struck at 16:56 local time on June 27, 1998. The National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colorado identified the epicentral coordinates of the earthquake as: 36.9 degrees North (latitude) and 35.3 degrees East (longitude).

The earthquake epicenter is approximately 50 km to the east of Tarsus, the
birthplace of Paul of Tarsus and the putative meeting place of Antonius and Cleopatra.

The earthquake caused 150 deaths and injured several thousand. The areas severely shaken by the earthquake covered an area of approximately 150 km radius, but the damage was within a 30 km radius of the epicenter. It was
reported that the earthquake was felt as far south as Cyprus, Syria, Israel and Jordan.

I also share my birthday with, Alice McDermott, Brooklyn native, novelist Alice McDermott (1953), a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the 1998 National Book Award for , Charming Billy (1998).

Charming Billy (1998) is a book about Billy Lynch's family and friends who have gathered at a small Bronx bar. They have come to comfort his widow and to eulogize one of the last great romantics, trading tales of his famous humour, immense charm, and unfathomable sorrow. As they linger on into this extraordinary night, their voices form Billy's tragic story and their mourning becomes a gentle homage to all the lives in their small community fractured by grief, shattered by secrets, and sustained by the simple dream of love.