It’s not that I don’t like Engineering. I’m naturally gifted cursed pre-installed with geek genes, so physical science doesn’t bore me. Even so, it doesn’t change the fact that my passion lies in natural science. I like playing with chemistry sets. I had no qualms dissecting a frog. I could look into the pink fleshy eye socket of a guy who lost one of his eyeballs [I kid you not] and not feel queasy or anything.

Throughout my SPM years I have always believed that I should be doctor, or at least someone working in the field of medical science.

But alas, here I am, crunching numbers, mashing circuits and coding in some alien language. Perhaps the only reason why I remained was that because I want to be in another field of my passion: teaching. That way, I’d be making plenty use of what I would learn in Uni. While not being able to study abroad doesn’t bother me, it does sometimes make my eyes green when I see my cousins and friends who get offered to study abroad start prepping up and all.

I thought it’d be nice to go overseas not just to study for their degree. They also get to expand their consciousness and whatever the hell that is that develops when they go to new places and meet new people. It’s a great thing, I’m jealous to not be able to experience it. Not to mention the fact that if they get to work there, they’d get higher pay and bring money from overseas back home.

Time passed by and before I knew it, one particular Datuk told a group Malaysian students in Britain;

“Money should not be everything,”

Pretty damn smart. If it isn’t then why the fucking hell does the country suffer from rising petrol prices and debts? Oh, pardon me, good sir, for I failed to realise that that was not his scope of concept. But really lah kan, if you’re saying that just to convince students to come home after studying abroad… you’d fail as a salesman [which is quite ironic, since politicians are better at tahi kerbau-ing than salespeople].

I hope the Datuk doesn’t overlook one fact. Sure enough, money is not everything but everything IS money. Heck, you wanna give birth oso you think free, ah? You wanna take a shit oso you think free ah? Must pay okay? If money isn’t everything, why are people so conscious[sp?] about it?

The Datuk said he realised that money was a big incentive for them but Malaysia was not “a bottomless pit”.
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I think he got that one wrong. Malaysia IS a bottomless pit. You just keep falling and falling and you still can’t dig out a single sen. It’s also a bottomless pit void of ethics. The best part is that more and more Malaysian keep getting themselves shoved into this bottomless pit.

“The Government is also committed to improving the quality of Malaysian graduates to enable them to compete in the international market,” he added.

Yeah, like, teach them how to cross the fucking street would be a good start.

“I do not let my schooling interfere with my education.” - Mark Twain

Sometimes I feel like kicking myself silly. I was checking up on my stats and discovered that one of the many keyphrases that brought traffic to my site was a pretty interesting one. So I ran a search on it to see just how high I ranked…

Yep. In case you’re wondering where that quote came from, you can read it up here.