Sleepy After Lunch

I just had a HEAVY lunch. An Aussie Beef Burger at this shop called Chillies Espresso at Sooka Sentral. And OMG, I am full to the max! Alhamdulillah. I actually forced a dear colleague of mine to treat for me lunch because he recently got a promotion. I think it’s only fair because I deemed it as fair. All is right in my world, I suppose. And now I am sleepy. Very sleepy that I had to make coffee just so that I don’t doze off. And I suddenly feel that all my clothes are tight. Well, my pants here for 10 years are also feeling tight about my waist. An indication also that I have put on [sigh]…. Oh well. What can you do.

I am actually guilty of not updating the blog. It’s been ages and ages, but I just seem to not be able to find a time to update any story. When for actual fact, I’ve got LOADS to tell (listening to Paula Abdul’s Rush Rush at the moment – I love this song and I even love the video clip coz it featured Keanu Reeves during his younger days. Yeah.. I am sucker for Keanu Reeves). But I guess I’ll just have to find a time to write them. You know, just share my thoughts.

The one thing which I am so inclined to share with the rest of the world is the request to abolish PTPTN and give education free, I guess from primary to tertiary education. I’m all up for that, but who’s going to fund it? Don’t expect a taxpayer like me to fund it when I’ve got other things to pay. But just talking about study loan, I had such loan for my tertiary education. And I was requested to pay the amount, about RM46k of it in my second year of joining the labour market. But I paid. Every month without missing a payment. I believe that if I pay my part, the money that I pay will get the chance to be used on other students who need them. So I don’t mind. To me, what goes round comes around. I was blessed enough to have had the loan offered to me, and I suppose that this is the time for me to give it back. Not to say that I have a big fat paycheck every month, which I don’t, but I just feel that it’s something which I must do. And after 10 years of paying, with no glitch, thanks to Ayah who made sure that I don’t miss any payment… Alhamdulillah, my final installment will be paid Insya Allah in July 2012. And that marks the end of my study loan.

To me, I’m fine with the PTPTN loan, but of course I think they shouldn’t charge any interest so I think the government should do away with the interest-admin charges. And to those who are asking to abolish the PTPTN loan, come on lah. It isn’t much to pay. Just think of the upside. How the repayment can help others who need them. Not all of us come from rich families (well, I don’t) and things like the PTPTN is so much better than bank study loans.

Well, those are my thoughts anyway.