From people, to machine.

5 years or 6 years and a half to be precise, to finish my so-called higher education after leaving schools. When majority only spend 5 years, I had to take extra time to be on the same level as they are today.

And this, is the story of my life. I was offered to study medicine abroad back in 2010. Considering doctor as my only dream job, yes I took the offer under JPA and started with A-level right away, uh-ah without a single hesitation.

Long story short; things just backfired in the middle of the preparation journey. Forget about that Ireland, forget about that medicine, forget about getting married to rich handsome mat salleh (jk this was not in my wish list back then), forget about the dream whatnots - it was all over. 

But, let me clarify the situation here. No I did not fail the course. I purposely pulled myself out of the program due to certain inevitable reasons which actually halted my study for more than a year after the first strike of only-God-knows-what-is-happening thingy. Simply said, it was just a twist (extreme one for sure) to my life plot. And Allah arranged in a way that I had to leave that doctor path and divert to some other paths- which I later decided it to be engineering.

"Tell me the toughest engineering course for girls, kak."

Mechanical. Duh, I know it might not be tough enough for some people out there. But yes, considering the limited options I had back then, I guess I did the right choice.

From medic to engineering, I know people would just say I am out of my mind. Like, "why didn't you go for pharmacy or something closer to medic". To be honest, I had no idea as well why I went too far with the course diversion. It might be because of the frustration, the distress- you know, like when you do not get something that you yearn for, it is either you have it or you just do not have it. There is no such thing as having something in between. Take it or leave it, sort of. 

So from the initial plan of studying people, I then decided to study machines instead (not all the times though). I would not say engineering is hard. But it is certainly not easy, either. It is like something in between, having its own ups and downs. Remember His verse, "Verily, with hardship there will be ease." (As-Sharh, 94:6)?

True enough. Never had I felt starting something new is easy, but Allah totally eased my path for the past 5 years. He cleared the way for me to complete the study despite of the fact that I still had to struggle fighting for the incessant pain and disturbance throughout the journey. And for that very reason as well, it makes me ponder deeply for His verse that goes, “And it may be that you dislike a thing which is good for you and that you like a thing which is bad for you. Allah knows but you do not know.” (Al-Baqarah, 2:216)

Subhanallah there we go! Allah's plan is always beautiful after all, don't you think so? Beautiful at the right place, at the right time, for the right reasons.

13th August 2017.

I now officially graduated from UNITEN, with final CGPA of 3.99 (because 4 rata is too mainstream pfft) in Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering. Allah closed the first door for me to become a doctor back in 2010, but He gave me a new door to become an engineer now- with extra special gifts in fact.

Silver Chancellor award, Vice Chancellor award, Best Student Mechanical Engineering award and Best Student for Overall College of Engineering award (telling you all these because MARA said it is still not good and convincing enough to change my loan to scholarship *rolls eyes*) - Tell me what goes beyond Alhamdulillah for these exchange gifts, people. I know I don't deserve it, but I know it even more that He said, "Barangsiapa yang bersyukur, maka Aku akan tambahkan nikmatnya."

"No matter how high you rise, keep your feet on the ground."

Yes thanks Sir Mike, I would always keep that in mind. Because no matter how good you are, no matter how rich you are, no matter how smart you are, no matter how good looking you are, no matter how perfect you think you are, it is all granted by Allah SWT. Harta pinjaman yang tak layak untuk kita riak, ujub, takabbur, berbangga walau sezarah sekalipun. Be grateful and always turn back to Him no matter how great life has to offer you.

Cheers!





(The jambang guy next to me is handsome, just saying.)





One for the ending with this kembar!






Comments

  1. ArE DeEp9 October 2017 at 19:45

    wow publicly 3.99? well its an open secret anyway.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. ArE DeEp9 October 2017 at 19:45

      and theres me and halimah! hahaha

      Delete
    2. Unknown9 October 2017 at 21:52

      Because nobody ever reads my blog. They don't even know the existence of this thing

      Delete

Post a Comment