JUNE 27, it was the day I departed from my home city, Ampang to a very rural and small town to enroll myself to a local public university, UniMAP.
At the first few weeks, I felt miserable and frustrated, by the slow pace mentality of the people here, I felt that I came to a wrong place where people do not practice punctuality, I felt lonely and no one here could share my views of life and my way of doing things.
However, my view changed as I went through many things in Perlis.
I performed at the Orientation Night where my singing skills were appreciated ; I joined the Bakti Siswa where I got a foster family in Kg. Cermai Jelepok; I joined SUKSIS (Volunteered Core Polis Force) to find back the value of punctuality.
Even most of the activities, lecture classes, laboratory experiments and etc. are far out of my expectations, I am grateful to be here. Here I have the precious opportunity to challenge myself to work with poeple who have different perspectives of time management as I understand that not everyone in this world is that concern about punctuality. Not everyone had a chance to be trained to be discipline and to be passionate.
My dream is to get myself to St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, United States. This dream was once dissolved; luckily, I know a few of inspiring friends and counselors. I am so happy that they understand me and keep on pushing me to pursue my dream. Most importantly, my parents and my brother are always with me, supporting me either financially or emotionally. Albeit they all do not really understand what kind of application process I am going through now, they always trust me and provide me whatever I need to be able to strive for my dream.
In UniMAP, though I do not have anyone who are as understanding as my close friends and my family, I still have some friend who I can hang out with. I wish to show my gratitude to all my peers and seniors who know my plan and keep on asking about my progress, some even give me a little verbal support.
Lately, I have been reading a book, The Success Principle, written by Jack Canfield and Janet Switzer. The book said that we have to see everything in our life as an opportunity. So, I just follow it to be an inverse paranoid. And, this kind of attitude make me feel great as I encounter everything here in my life. I see my bad bus service (which often late) as a great opportunity to train my patience; I see my lecturer using Bahasa Malaysia to teach the English as a chance for me to train my mind in translating the lecture every minute in the class;
Now, I am TAB-ing (Taking A Break) to write this post. After TAB-ing, I would recharge myself with the support from my friends and family, with the advices of my counselors and with the passion of chasing for my dream.
Haha... it is a very dreamy dreamy day... :)
