Congrats, but what will he do in say 30 years time? Reading news on telly?

I admire his feat, Five-year-old a fast and keen reader.

Unfortunately, not many good things comes to a Malay child prodigy in Malaysia. Remember that Hanafi guy from Kedah in the 70s? He went on drugs for a period of his life, I wonder what is he doing these days?

That chinese malaysian boy fared better, I guess? He went to US and change his future history.


The Star Online > Nation

Thursday May 26, 2005
Five-year-old a fast and keen reader

BALING: A five-year-old boy is the apple of everyone's eye here because he can read newspapers and books in both Bahasa Malaysia and English.

Not only can he read well, he actually loves to read and picks up any novel or reading material that is around.

Mohamed Ali Abdul Rahim was said to have been able to recognise script at the age of three and was reading at an amazing speed a year after.

AVID LEARNER: Mohamed Ali reading the newspaper at his house in Taman Saga, Baling yesterday. — Bernamapic
His mother Roslinda Ahmad Shuhaimi, 40, said Mohamed Ali was a fast and an avid learner. The boy is the youngest child of four siblings.

She teaches him with her own method for an hour every night.

“He loves reading and will read anything – novels, newspapers – at an amazing speed and without spelling out the words,” she said at her house in Taman Saga here yesterday.

Roslinda is a businesswoman while her husband Abdul Rahim Mohamed Sheriffe, 43, is a Public Works Department employee. – Bernama


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