Yesterday, I finally did what I have wanted to do for a long time but did not. I threw away a whole box of college prospectus. Like all school leavers just after my SPM, I diligently looked for the perfect college to attend. I wrote to almost all colleges in Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, USA, Canada and even Europe. The only continent that I was not interest3ed to study in was Africa. And that was how I collected a whole box of them.
In my young naive mind, I believed that like all my friends, my parents would be able to put me through college and looking back at the calculations that I did back then on tuition fees, board and lodging and general living expenses, studying in a fairly good college in the United States only required something like MYR25,000 per year while this same amount could put me through two years in a local college in Kuala Lumpur or Petaling Jaya.
But that was not meant to be. I remember that we were so broke that I nearly didn't even complete my secondary education. I guess I could have worked part time to put myself through college or that if my grades were better, I could have gotten a scholarship but my father is a proud man and to have his children work part time shows his inability to provide an education for us and he will not have it.
Well, what's past is over. There's no point going over and over about it and so I threw them all away. They would not be relevant anymore, anyway. Besides, I was thinking, now that I could pay for my own tuition, why should I? I'd rather buy a house with the money. LOL
In my young naive mind, I believed that like all my friends, my parents would be able to put me through college and looking back at the calculations that I did back then on tuition fees, board and lodging and general living expenses, studying in a fairly good college in the United States only required something like MYR25,000 per year while this same amount could put me through two years in a local college in Kuala Lumpur or Petaling Jaya.
But that was not meant to be. I remember that we were so broke that I nearly didn't even complete my secondary education. I guess I could have worked part time to put myself through college or that if my grades were better, I could have gotten a scholarship but my father is a proud man and to have his children work part time shows his inability to provide an education for us and he will not have it.
Well, what's past is over. There's no point going over and over about it and so I threw them all away. They would not be relevant anymore, anyway. Besides, I was thinking, now that I could pay for my own tuition, why should I? I'd rather buy a house with the money. LOL
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