2 posts tagged “scholarship”

Is PSD or JPA for us who continue to use Malay acronyms in an English written article over promising to the people of the country, especially those blessed with enough brains to get 10A1's and wish to be doctors?

Or is this just an isolated case?

If it is, what were the reasons for such a request to fall through the cracks, not only by JPA, but also by the Education Minister's department for Matriculation.

While I don't deny that I don't actually have a care for her, it is harrowing to think that after one issues out a statement promising everyone with results of 9As and above a scholarship, JPA can't seem to keep it.

Why?

Did she take more than 10 subjects and flunked the other two?

I'm hoping to see a reply from JPA as soon as tomorrow in the papers on this one, because we all know that whatever goes wrong with this will simply erode the people's belief in the federal government.

I honestly don't know how I suddenly merited a whole blog entry dedicated to me.

Though I'm thoroughly honored anyways, even if he encouraged me to read Orwell's Animal Farm, which I will clearly say that I'm not a "sheep".

Allow me to present some scenarios of how the world isn't just divided into the rich and the poor.

Let's start with this:

If you have two kids, one poor and one rich, with the rich one having better results, high participation in extra-curricular activities, stunning awards and achievements from various international events, and a poor one having good results.

Which would you choose?

Would you deny the rich one a scholarship, an award for outstanding achievement in his academic development as a whole, discriminating him due to his parent's income?

What if the rich one was disowned by his parents because he chose not to follow in his father's footsteps? What then?

Another scenario:

Poor kid is given a scholarship for university. He goes out and buys a handphone, a motorcycle and lacks behind in his studies. What's more he ends up having to ask his friends to pay for his food half way through the semester.

Meanwhile his rich counterpart takes the college bus, works part-time at Friday's in Subang Jaya, pays for his books with that cash, and manages to get on the Dean's List five times in a row, missing his final one by a .20 margin.

And another one:

A semi-rich-in-comparison kid, studying ICT under a scholarship, still asking for cash from his parents because he was living a rather grandiose lifestyle while managing to gain an upper second class degree, but almost had to re-do his thesis because his final semester's workload almost drove him to burnout. Now he's working off 5 years in the GLC which offered him his scholarship.

Meanwhile, his poor-er classmate, ditched the scholarship interview while he had better results than the person above, deciding that he'd rather owe PTPTN.

Now, I don't know what he's doing. Last I heard, this classmate of mine ended up working for TM Net's call center, and then quit to find a better job, while having a girlfriend based in Putrajaya.

These are simply the scenarios I managed to hear and experience myself while I was myself in university three years ago, which personally warped my views on giving out scholarships.

Also, if you haven't caught on yet, I'm the semi-rich-in-comparison guy above, thus disproving this whole "bloggers are rich" part that perhaps another blogger is using to label.

25 years-old, working 5 years for a GLC, staying with my parents, and still relying on them through some financial difficulties, with about 3000 bucks in debt on my credit card which I clear annually with my bonus, which also partially goes back to my parents.

Need I be more transparent?

I still stand by my point that scholarships should be given based on one's excellence in the related field, regardless of whether or not they're rich or poor.

In this case of scholarships, I think blogger Chan Kam Wing got the best question we should be asking?

What scholarship are we talking about? One as an award or one for aiding the poor?