Successful life

Continuing the previous blog posted – Power of words : 

‘Is it that people who have only a high school education can’t have success in life?’ This was one of his questions. 

I remember I shared with him and the group: “Frankly to tell you all, I got out of school and started working after I finished my SPM exam. I think my life is good. Besides working, I do volunteer work. I continue learning and feel wonderful. I have a lot of friends with bachelor’s degrees, and some have master’s degree; however, I have self-confidence and never think that I am not good enough or lower than others.” 

In fact, I was very poor in Malay language subject; I got 8 points, meaning ‘Pass’ only (1 is highest; 9 is failing) on my SPM (senior year in high school) certificate. The system is: Regardless of scores in other subjects, scores in Malay language must be between 1 and 6 to get an A grade certificate, which is required for admission to Malaysian public universities.   

My family was poor and couldn’t support me to study in a private college. Also, I didn’t like studying boring books, so the only way for me was going to ‘work university’. 

I rarely share about this; only when someone asks questions. I know a successful life is in one’s attitude, not based on how high he/she graduated.

接下篇載文Power of words: 

‘考完SPM出社會的人就不能成功？’ 他的其中一個問題。

我記得我給他及組員們的分享大略是: “老實告訴你們，我只是考完SPM就出社會工作。我覺得我的生活很好，除了工作還當義工，一直學習，人生很充實。我的義工朋友很多是大學生、有些是碩士，但我對自己很有自信心，從不覺得自己比人差。”  

其實我的馬來文科最差，SPM成績是得到8，即是Pass而已（1是最高分; 9是不及格）。教育制度 - 不管其它科目，不過馬來文科必須介於1至6，才有甲等文憑，及有可能上政府大學預備班。

我家庭不富，不能讓我上私人學院，我也不是很喜歡啃書，就這樣只好上社會大學了。

除非有人問起，我是不会刻意分享這方面，因為我認為一個成功的人生並不是在於他的文憑學歷，而是態度品格。