Good on you. Well done!

Don’t forget to give back to society through whatever means deem fit.

I have a funny story to share about my SPM results. When one of these mamas called my house as soon as I arrived home after getting my results – I told him I had 3 Cs, 3C5, and some F9( I am a slighly older guy than most of you lah…), basically a very average or slightly average result. He went on a ‘ennuku appeye theriyum da…….’ to ‘nee ellam padicthi, kilicthi’…. ‘Poi lori license edduda!’ and so on…..

By the way, this mama is in no way related to me whatsoever – he just happen to be a close family friend who I sincerely think was interested to see the down fall of my family more than anything else – don’t know why exactly though. Anyway, within 3-4 hours time, I had tons of calls from people whom I hardly knew pretending to be concerned about my results. Some of them even wanted to speak to my parents etc, and I told them they are too upset to speak about the results. When one of them managed to speak to my mum directly, the maami was even saying that she knew this is gonna happen because she had a dream about it before my exams and she advised that my parents to make me start working immediately.

You see, my dad is a government servant and my mum is a housewife. My dad and mum was so focused on our studies that I think 70% of the household income was spend on our studies. I remember my dad was earning less than RM 1000 in the 90s, which means about RM 2000 in today’s terms and my mum had pawned all her jewelleries to help us with our daily struggle. My dad doesn’t drink or smoke and my mum was so calculative with the expense. Long story short, my parents sacrificed their entire lives to make sure we did well in our studies. Everyone who knew our family knew this is the case, including the mamas and maamis I mentioned above. My dad and mum knew the only way they can get us out of hardship is through education.

Today, all their children are graduates, employed in good companies, holding good positions. My parents have also worked on us from young on applied living education – including helping the needy and giving back to society although they themselves had very little to give – but they still gave. Every now and then they do remind us the same, even till today.

Coming back to my results, see I actually scored very good marks for my SPM. After learning this a few days later, the mama said “enneku appeye theriyum’ – the same that he said earlier but now in a different context……talk about putar belit…..I am just wonering the maami that had a revelation through dream……what did she have to say?

padichavan lam summa irkan,padikathavan lam sathichi kittu irkan.
nambe padichi yarukume uthavi seiyalana apro enna payan?

Hola Durai,
I m back
Talking about this SPM, I also have a flashback. My parents force me to score all A’s just cos they dun wanna get embarrassed in front of their relatives. And that was really so sad. My parents are regretting now for whatever they hv done to me and my siblings.
Just would like to advise all the brothers n sisters out there, no matter whatever is the result, just stay calm n think about what you are going to do next . What type of course that you would like to pursue? Please don’t give up! I wish all of you all the best. My prayers will be always there for you .
Durai, good job. God bless ya!
~Sai Ram~

my story is even tragic..i scored 11A’s for spm…and my family got torn apart..in a nutshell,my dad and my uncle were doing business together(without any black n white agreement as my father was like,”nambe machan thanne,emathevaa poraru)..and when i got this result,my dad requested me to do MBBS and my uncle’s side was worried sick that “enge ithuku 500k selavu panni nambeh sothteh alichchiruvaangalo’nu” they fought n left the home with their share of the assets and money leaving barely enough for us..and my other relatives started accusing me..”ithu 11A’s edutha neram,kudumbemeh pirinji pochi!” and “unnaleh thaan kudumbam pirinji pochi” n stuff…imagine,at the mere age of 18,despite getting the result most people would die for,i had to carry this “guilt” and “name” on my shoulders..nevertheless,god was and still is on my side…never got to do medic but no regrets…i am in one of the top institution in the country now and will be finishing my masters soon earning no less than rm7000 a month at the age of 23..:) ALL IS WELL

yaa…200% true…. jus few weeks ago i gotta ma result…. haiyoo….i x tk ma result oso,it was bout 10am but ma aunties n uncles r started to call la…. haiyooo goooood….
i tot i won gt (A) n will fail in ma sejarah…. but atlast i pass in sejarah n gt 3a’s… heppy la… (; but ma mom still scolds me…noe wat….
“ungeleh padikkey vekkirathe kaasukku kedu tha’”…. (;(;(;

Pa.. exactly rite. I’ve gone through the same experience during ma schooling days n oso now even in col… I duno whn all this people will change.. I will say, spm is just the thing which will decide our career but not our life. Lets take an example: Ma place ( Cameron Highlands), as u all know most of the people here are self employed mean most of them are farmers.The chinese n indians frens whom from last classes during schooling time r much more richer compared to the educated 1. This is because most of them are farmers and thy r earning more money thn the doctors. Its true man.. so, education is nothing actually.. we can success in life if we r able to take the challenge and hardworking.. .. gals n guys out there.. dun ever give up…:)

very true…i’ve experienced!!!!!

‘Education is merely a scale meter in life to justify your knowledge in something. IT IS NOT LIFE!’

Well said bro.

and im eagerly waiting for the ‘sambungan’ of pei yii kathe..:)

@Vivek : Lol. Well said brother. Those normal things that they say after getting the result is all the same. They never differ.

You also thought me smoking drinking and the rest also wat..Apeh seri samemah pochi…Cheriya..