Thursday, January 21, 2010

Harapan Bangsa?

Lecture : Engineering Mathematics 1
Week : 2
Day : Thursday

"Okay so that's all for Fourier Transforms and Analysis. I hope you guys can manage to do the tutorials, and you'll see me again in the later part of the semester for the next topic."

So that's it for the second week. I sat in the middle of the lecture hall and stared blankly into the projection screen. Nothing went into my head. Initially thought of staying late at the library to revise some tutorials, but what the heck. What's all this? Nothing. Irrelevant. Engineering Maths? Bullshit. Just a hullabaloo of numbers and senseless equations to me. What's all this? What's the fuss about a Degree?

'1 in 6 applicants made it to local universities.' - news

So what. So what if I am not 'enjoying' it here. I'm forced to do equations which would utterly make no sense to me after I complete the course.

'Just look at your friends. How many of them are where YOU are now?'

Yup. It's a fact. Not many Melayus in Singapore are doing what I am doing now. I should consider myself lucky. I get to prove to Singapore that the Melayus aren't just a bunch of hopeless troublemakers. We can do something about it.

I can do something about it.

So what am I going to do about it? I'll strive. I'll suffer. I will do what it takes to accomplish my degree. For me. For the ones around me.

Insya Allah