I am unable to blog about what I wanted to post, the one about all my friends and families. I didn’t have the time because I am sick.
It has always been a tradition that I will get sick on almost every Chinese New Year. But this year was bad since I am going to depart to Adelaide during the New Year.
Now, I decided to change plan about blogging about you all. I’ll have all the time to write when I’m in Adelaide. I will update it on my Facebook.
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR :)
This is just a short update about myself before I start my longest ever post in this blog.
First, take a look at this: http://www.sinchew.com.my/node/147702?tid=1
This is my first time having a photograph of myself / along with my family in the newspaper. For once, I feel proud and glad of myself. This is an honourable moment for a scholarship offered by the Malaysian Australian Colombo Plan Commemoration (MACC).
These are some photos of the event at the Residence of the Australian High Commissioner:
H E Penny Williams – the Australian High Commissioner giving her speech
Scholars of the MACC Scholarship along with the Endeavour Awards
Scholars of the MACC Scholarship with the EXCO Member of Sunway Group
For a while, I thought that it was feeling great that everybody starts congratulating me once they saw the news article. But after a second, it wasn’t really something worth being overjoyed about. By receiving that RM50,000 scholarship which is only 1 out of 2 years of my tuition fees in Australia, I will need to spend another RM150,000 to RM200,000 there. Besides the once-in-a-lifetime experience that I would get over there, I am just being ignorant to accept that ungenerous offer.
To make things worse, I think I am the only one who applied for that scholarship in Taylor’s and that is why I got it. If they are only giving out one offer (original plan was to offer to the top scorer of each of the 3 courses in Taylor’s), why can’t they give me just 2 years of tuition fees waiver for my studies in University of South Australia? I don’t suppose I am too demanding for the results I worked so hard for, am I?
Anyways, my longest ever post will be published the night before I leave Malaysia. It’s going to be about you guys!
