Assalamualaikum warahmatullah wabarakatuh,
Today, my long lost friend came all the way from london to visit me. We went to the same secondary school but she left to New Zealand to get a PR there so that she can have a better chance for higher education there in the future without having to pay international student fee, since Malaysia cannot guarantee enough and fair places for non-bumiputra in local university. Since then, we only get to meet no more than 2 times and the last time was 10 years ago. We were best friends at school and her departure to NZ is quite bitter for me but that's for her own good.
Yet, ALLAH is Ar-Rahman and Al-Latif, today we finally met. She still looks ever stunning like she used to be, only that she used to be far taller than me but now we are only 5 inches difference. She has married and moved to London from NZ. Her husband is from Kuching and a PhD holder in Fire Engineering. I am so happy for her because he gives her a lot of freedom. We went to have a cup of tea to catch up each other's history, 10 year of history. Since today, the sun was so generous that the temperature for the first time this year shot up over 20C, we sat on grass and continued the history and talked about life in general. We went to my room and continued the conversation and this time about my conversion to Islam. I am so glad that she can accept me and most of the teaching of Islam. Her husband is a practicing Roman Catholic and she is a Buddhist. She is very aware of the similarity between Christianity and Islam. We chatted for a long time regarding Islamic teaching and cultural practice that blurs out the beauty of Islam. She totally agrees with it and I pray that ALLAH will give guidance for her and her husband to accept Islam as a way of life.
I wish to meet more of my high school friends in the future.
ALLAHU'alam.
Wassalam.
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Salam Fatin,
MasyAllah! May Allah grant your friend and her husband the hidayah.
With regards to tertiary education in Malaysia, I find it funny that the government is encouraging more private colleges and opening more colleges and universities to cater for foreign students, when local student - not only non-bumiputra(I do loathe that word), but bumiputras as well - can't find placement!
Assalamualaikum,
Thanks. Please make dua for them.
International students pay 10 times more, so better open more private colleges! Local universities were being scrapped off 30% of subsidies, obviously priority is to be given to international students too cos that's the pengkoperatan and pensyarikatan universities. Will we ever have free tertiary education? I hope we will but not that easy cos for example in UK, practically the tertiary education seems like 'free' but actually many students are taking student loan here, that's how universities here can survive, even there are more than 150 of tertiary institutions over that whole UK.
ALLAHU'alam.
Wassalam.
Salam again Fatin,
Kalau free, tolong baca my latest entry dan berikan idea bernas. Terima kasih :)
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