BY DINA ZAMAN | September 10, 2013
The Malaysian Insider
Mazlyn Mustapha is a doctor. She enters the cafe we are in, in a crisp-like manner. Dressed in a blouse, long skirt, tudung and sporting sunglasses. Her hands are clasped tightly as she begins talking. She may cut a diminutive figure, but her speech is clear and measured, and she has very firm ideas.
She is from Petaling Jaya, and leads “a normal life. Nothing unusual.”
Her late father wanted one of his children to be a doctor, and when she received a scholarship to study medicine in Ireland, she did what he had planned for her. She did very well academically.
In short, she was the quintenssential school girl who excelled, and was expected to come back with a degree, marry, and practise, all of which she did.
A stranger in her own country
When she and her husband came back to Malaysia, they lived in Kelantan for awhile.
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