ANUGERAH BIASISWA NASIONAL

Salam
Interesting to discuss regarding the inaugural recipient of the anugerah biasiswa nasional that is considered as a performance based by merit and totally colour blind in Malaysian context. As colour is always being the daily culprit for almost everything in the country and of course the most difficult and sensitive issue, it is very important to stress that there is no colour element in this scholarship. (as per reported by the media)

Enough said that how many times they are trying to stress out that it is totally colour blind, there will be scores of unhappiness outside there that shout that it is tainted by colours. (again). So Malaysian.

For me, I would just like to hilight a few points from the result.

From the list below we notice that:
1. Majority are from sekolah harian and not from asrama penuh

• Daily school: 17
• SBP: 7
• MARA JSC: 4
• Religious school: 1
• Private: 1

2. SBP and MRSM is considered as elite school in terms of selectivity of the student who enter the school. No other daily school can boast a highly concentrated high achiever in a school (if UPSR and PMR result be considered) compare with SBP and MRSM but somehow the so called high achiever did not translate to high scorer in the result. This I found a bit unfortunate because we are expecting them to do better due to the environment, the ability and their potency. Is this because they don't have the high quality competitor compare with daily school? I am not sure but one thing I found lacking was the spirit to compete due to the so called comfort zone in the system. I could still remember when I first entered one of the boarding school after my PMR, the first thing that I learn was, the one who enter that school will definitely go to the university and to certain extent, will definitely go abroad to further their study. Depends on how you look at it, of course my school was the best in the MRSM system during that time and almost every year the school will beat all the other MRSM but this is not the thing you want to hear first if you want to keep competing. This kind of comfort environment create an artificial sense of safety of the hassle of trying to compete with very best and definitely will left them behind in the long run. I, definitely very sure that they are comparable if not better than those high achiever but something must be done to make sure that their potency can be translated into a very satisfactory level of achievement. If not, there is no reason to pool them all together in a boarding school with the so called cream of the cream if the end result is nothing special. With counts of SBPs and MRSMs in every state, they should do better. Only 11 is a pittance number. What is lacking? Competitiveness. Motivation. Drive to excel.

3. The best part is could anyone figure out any of the said school below come from small district? small town maybe. Kampung? Remote area and any place that is far from big town? Ya, maybe three from Buloh Kasap, Matang and Tangkak. Any reason? Thousands can be said.

Here are the listed names

1. Gladys Tan Yee Kim (SMK Green Road, Kuching)
2. Grace Kiew Sze-Ern (SMK Perempuan Sri Aman, Petaling Jaya)
3. Khadijah Ahmad Jais (SM Agama Persekutuan, Labu)
4. Akmal Hidayat Sabri (SMK Derma, Kangar)
5. Syamilah Mahali (Kolej Tunku Kurshiah, Seremban)
6. Amelia Lee Wei Ling (SMK Taman Melawati, Gombak)
7. Nur Syuhadah Muhamad (SM Sains Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra, Kota Baharu)
8. Lai Yin Kwin (SMK Tinggi Melaka)
9. Corinne Gunn Huey Min (SMK Taman Melawati, Gombak)
10. Hu May Khei (SMK Convent, Taiping)
11. Muhammad Amal Aiman Mohd Yusof (MRSM Kota Baharu)
12. Kuah Jia Ying (SMK Bukit Jambul, Pulau Pinang)
13. Chean Chung Shen (SMK Methodist (ACS) Sitiawan)
14. Ahmad Zhafir Zulkfli@Zulkifli (SBPI Temerloh)
15. Goh Diangde (SMK Derma, Kangar)
16. Ameenah Azman (Kolej Tunku Kurshiah, Seremban)
17. Erin Chuah Wei Yen (SMK Seri Bintang Utara, Kuala Lumpur)
18. Mohamad Syukri Azmi (MRSM Kota Baharu)
19. Muhammad Syafiq Kamarulzaman (SBPI Selandar, Melaka)
20. Neelam Devi Nath (SMK Buloh Kasap, Segamat)
21. Ooi Hui Lynn (SMK Convent Green Lane, Pulau Pinang)
22. Nurliyana Sanusi (MRSM Kota Baharu)
23. Gan Li Fang (SMK Tun Mamat, Tangkak)
24. Muhammad Sallehuddin Mansor (SMK Matang, Perak)
25. Muhammad Izzat Solihuddin (MRSM Tun Ghafar Baba, Melaka)
26. Nurizzati Zainal Nazeri (Kolej Yayasan Saad, Melaka)
27. Khairunnisa Che Bahrun (Maahad Ahmadi, Tanah Merah, Kelantan)
28. Nurulaida Mohd Darus (SBPI Jempol, Negeri Sembilan)
29. Loh Sook Yin (SMK Tinggi St David, Melaka)
30. Malathy a/p Balakrishnan (SMK Ibrahim, Sungai Petani)