Self-introduction

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Hi everyone, my name is Hwang Shean Loo, people usually call me Loo.  


I am a 21-years-old student and currently stay in my home town during this "covid-19 period" .

My family is a big "Hokkien" family, but now I only stay with my mothers and two sisters.  My whole family and my father's side relatives are the believer of a religion due to our ancestral house is a small temple.






I am live in my ancestral house which showed in the first picture.  The people inside the pictures are a part of my farther side relatives.

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