Something Worth Bragging About For A Second

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

Receiving the award from the Aussie and Puan Sri Datin Seri Dr Susan Cheah

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!