Last two weeks, when I was checking out my Facebook recent happening, someone's recent status caught my attention.
It's my good friend, Herman who would start his first sem on 23th of February in Lim Kok Weng University of Creative Technology.
The other two of my good friends, Andy and Pui would also start their first sem in February in Segi College.
Actually, they were my Form6 classmates who had had no "luck" to be chosen to study in local university.
Luck is definitely the right word to be used to describe their situation at the time.
Why do I say so?
It's becuz of the education sytem tt we hav in our country, which will always be directly associated with the quota system once we mention our "highly praised Education System".
Well, I know it's a sensitive issue to talk about.
So, I will only lightly talk about my own experience with regards to what I hav encountered in my U.
Here is the case:
Last sem, one day during my Managerial Math class, when we were all doing our math exersice, one guy who was sitting in front of me, suddenly turned his back on me and asked me,
"Bang, bagaimana nak selesai bahagian ini?"The question that he asked me was merely about "i+3i" is equal to wat.
Obviously, he and his friends dunno how to do it so the guy had to ask others.
I'm neither exaggerating the case nor showing off, the question's really a form 4 level question and he should know it before he entered the U.
Different kind of feelings got to me at the time,
I'm shocked for being asked a damned simple question,
I'm wondering why my friends, Herman, Andy and Pui who hav all these math knowledge at their fingertips, failed to get to local university,
I'm angry at the goddamn education system that only cares for the "majority" and treats others like shit.
I mean, this quota system has truly become the main stumbling block in efforts towards fostering a national identity.
Evidently, the guy, who asked me the question, is one of those "lucky" majority.
As a polite, educated person, I'm glad that at that moment, I could help replying,
"Dik, ini pun tak tahu buat ka? Bgmn mu dapat masuk ke U".
I know three of my friends had gone through a really baaaaaad patch during those time when they're waiting for the private U intake.
They worked as a temporary teachers in order to save some money for their very expensive future college costs.
They put in a great deal of effort to search for the rite private college & to apply for the scholarship and PTPTN things.
The process isn't as easy as I thought it would be since everything would be done by themselves, not by Faci.
Among three of them, Herman is the one who I think, had worked the hardest.
He really worked his ass off to apply for his HOPE scholarship and PTPTN education loan.
Making thousand of calls to PTPTN counter, attending the HOPE scholarship interview alone...I'm just very impressed by what he had done for himself and wanna giv him a big thumbs up.
Lastly, I just wanna say,
I'm
very very very PROUD of u guys.
Finally u guys hav made it.
