Hers was not the most secure of childhoods.
“I never knew my father. My mother wouldn’t say much about him and my relatives didn’t say anything,” said Prisca Loke, 57.
“I wasn’t bothered by it. Maybe it’s my nature. I’m quite accepting of things.
“Mo lo tao zao mo lo tao lor (so what if I have no father). But that didn’t mean there wasn’t a place in my heart for queries or curiosity.”
The little that Prisca knows of her father is this. She has one.
“Throughout my growing up years, I thought I was illegitimate, that I had no father. But I have one because his name is on my birth cert.”
Her father is 20 years her mother’s senior. When Prisca was just two months old, their relationship fell apart and her mother took baby Prisca to live with her family.
“I was quite an aggressive little girl. I would fight with my older cousins. We would beat each other up. I was very good at fighting.
“We spoke Cantonese and I learnt all sorts of foul language from them. My foul language was top class!” Prisca said with a laugh.
By the time Prisca was three, her mother would move out once more to work in Kuala Lumpur.
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