Life: My First and Last Bachelor's Degree Convocation in UUM

P/S: Something in me triggers me to write this post in Bahasa Malaysia (BM) today. Pardon my poor BM as I have abandoned this language long time ago since I left Form 5. I have always been rather poor in BM especially the peribahasa and simpulan bahasa thingy which I hated the most. And the good news is I need not use BM during my Sixth Form. Phew!!! Can you imagine learning Biology and Chemistry in BM? It's gonna be god damn tough, man. You're not going to like it!!! 

Please excuse my BM here because it has been deteriorating since and still deteriorating. Why? Simple. I never planned to beef up my BM skill. LOL. The proof: Read along and you will realise how bad and disastrous it is.

Akhirnya, hari yang dinanti-nantikan sudah tiba. Ibubapa saya tampak sangat beria-ia dan bersedia untuk menghadiri hari yang dianggap hari kebesaran kepada ibubapa yang meletakkan harapan pada anak mereka. Bapa saya pertama kali membeli baju dan tali leher baru sejak perkahwinannya yang berlangsung 25 tahun dahulu. Pada Sabtu lalu, kami sekeluarga bertolak ke Stareast (Bridal House) di Bukit Mertajam (BM) untuk mengambil gambar bertema "Graduation". Bayarannya hanya RM188 (tidak termasuk bingkai gambar dan hanya 5 gambar dipilih) iaitu setimpal dengan kualiti fotografi dan kualiti gambar. Sesi penggambaran itu berlangsung untuk satu setengah jam dan memenatkan. Jurugambar-jurugambar suruh bapa saya membuat gaya macam Superman, Tan Sri, Batman. Macam-macam. Sweat. Gambar belum keluar lagi. Ahad ini kami sekeluarga akan ke studio Stareast untuk memilih gambar untuk dicuci. Kami memang mengharapkan muka kami tidak macam mayat. LOL. 

 My sister's Mock Graduation Photo. Haha. 

Keesokan hari pula, kami bertolak ke UUM pada pukul 10 pagi untuk menghadari Konvokesyen Ke-23, Sesi Pertama yang berlangsung untuk tiga hari berturut-turut dari 27-29 March 2010. Walaupun jubah saya nampak hodoh dan mortarboard terlalu kecil untuk kepala besar saya, ibu bapa saya sangat gembira kerana akhirnya anak mereka sudah graduate. Hari ini juga merupakan hari yang amat bermakna kepada saya kerana inilah hari yang dinanti-nantikan selepas 3 tahun meringkuk di dalam penjara hutan. Walaupun ditemani monyet-monyet sekalian, saya tetap berasa bosan dan tidak bersabar-sabar untuk "berhijrah" balik ke Pulau Pinang. Hehe. Tetiba di perkarangan UUM, saya tidak dapat menahan keinginan saya untuk bergambar di depan Canselori yang cacat dengan tidak terhingganya kerana ini mungkin peluang terakhir saya untuk bergambar di UUM. Walaupun cuaca panas terik, kami sekeluarga masih bergambar di sana sini. Hahahha. 

I can barely open my eyes. My eyes looked like Mashi Maro under the scorching sun. 

 With my family members and behind us is the so-called ugly Chancellery Building

Selepas berpenat bergambar di bawah matahari terik, tiba masanya untuk para graduan berkumpul di Dewan TSO pada pukul 1.30pm. Kedudukan para graduan akan diatur mengikut kursus. Pada masa yang sama, nama First Class students akan dipanggil untuk menerima pingat emas dan sijil emas sebelum masuk ke Dewan MAS. Selepas itu, kami diarahkan untuk masuk ke Dewan MAS mengikut aturan yang disusun oleh staf-staf UUM. Di dalam Dewan MAS, ibubapa dikhususkan hanya duduk di belakang dan atas dewan dan para graduan di tengah manakala staf UUM ditempatkan di barisan hadapan. Scroll kami diterima di atas pentas dari Tan Sri, Pro Canselor UUM. Memandangkan kami merupakan batch pertama dan yang terawal untuk graduate, bilangan graduan kursus Pengurusan Operasi hanya terhad kepada 4 orang. Tetapi saya amat berbangga dan ingin mengucapkan tahniah kepada 3 orang ahli coursemate yang berjaya menamatkan kursus ini iaitu Arul Jothi (First Class), Leong Pei Yee (First Class) dan Aqilah (Second Class Upper). Tahniah!!!  

 Congratulations to Pei Yee (First Class). Salute, salute, salute

 Congratulations to Arul Jothi (First Class). Clap, clap, clap

Bread face again. I need some face lift or Botox. LOL 

Sesi pengambilan scroll akhirnya tamat pada pukul 6pm selepas nyanyian "Negaraku" and "Lagu UUM". Time untuk memulangkan jubah!!! And sayonara to UUM. 

 Me and my sister

Hope the next time I am back is for Master's Degree or PhD. Haha. 

I need to down with some 100 plus now. I didn't know writing in BM could be so difficult. Looking at my BM standard, I understand why I do not know how to differentiate kepala and kelapa or bapa dan bapuk.

Life: I Have Complicated Life or I Make It Complicated?

I have been trapped in this dilemma for too long that I could not even remember when it first started. Many people advise me while I am in a relationship, enjoy the joyous, precious and memorable moment together. Yes, it is true. I could never deny that but love is love. We need to do reality check from time to time. Tonnes of worries clouded my mind when I was thinking to commit myself in a relationship. Friends told me I think too much, colleagues said that just go with the flow, my heart tells me please come back to reality, and, and, and....I am just too confused. Honestly, my thoughts is rather orthodox and so unconventional. For me, I love being fed than to fed. 

 If I planned to go on a long journey with this guy, I have to consider this:

- his earnings is lesser than mine for now. Yes, for now it's okay but will the figure in the pay check will not increase much or that's it. That's his limitations. Without a preferred education level these days is a disadvantage and of course, your pay will never be good.

- i am pursuing my master's degree in a few months time and I hope (crossing my fingers) to graduate with MBA soon and he is only a high school graduate. Obviously, there is going to be gaps between us - communication, understanding, perception, knowledge, maturity, etc. The question is, will the relationship survive or it will just be another history?

- my parents will never wanted to accept him if his qualification is so much lower than mine. My cousin's wife left him because they weren't level headed. His wife has a PhD whereas he himself only has a basic degree. At times, his wife thinks he does not fathom what she meant and he never gets her right when it comes to understanding. 

Do I abandon this relationship or do I foresee everything and proceed? 

Will my future be better without him or removing him out from the picture is a better start? 

  

I don't want a househusband in the future, definitely. I want him to be the man of the house and is wise enough to make his own decisions. 

Hmph....I make my life complicated isn't it?