The opportunity came to my life again when I was finally accepted to do a matriculation in a place far away from home. Had I let this opportunity passed, I probably would have never made it to Australia and thus became a doctor. Only later on I realized that Form Six is about the hardest way to get into any universities. I was only 2 months in Form Six and I was already feeling the complexity of the syllabus, mainly because lack of qualified teacher. Had I stayed there longer, I may have terminated my study life earlier due to various difficulties.
I still remember having a Physics Graduate teacher teaching us Add Mathematics. I pitied her because she had to always call her friends in Peninsular Malaysia, just to get solution for some of the problems we encountered.
I soon found out that in matriculation classes, we were having better (if not the best) qualified teachers. Learning therefore was easy. No joke. A topic I tried to understand in 2 weeks in my old school, I grasped in one session (1 hour) in the Matriculation class. It was at that time when I felt sorry for all the students in my old schools for having such second-rated teachers. I wish I could have been here (at a prestigious school) much earlier.
From that time on, every opportunity that came to my way would surely earn my full attention. I would always jump at the latest news and offers. After learning that I could have a chance to go overseas (Australia), I missed no times in trying my luck by applying it. Despite being giggled by fellow friends, I tried. Always believing that shooting for the sun will at worst put me among the stars. I tried and succeeded and the rest was a beautiful history of my life.
Until today, the best portion of my life is the 6 years I have spent in Australia. I can honestly say that I have grown into the adult of I am now, in Australia. I took the opportunity to learn different cultures, different languages and meet different kind of people. Not to mention the beautiful weather, nice environment, established systems and more civilized community. I have also taken the rare opportunity of learning a Bible course while studying medicines. This is something which is quite impossible in Malaysia. There were many other opportunities I have taken which were largely unavailable here in my homeland.
Even at the conception of this book (2004), I am about to take another opportunity which is a major leap in my life. This is a step which could possibly increase my wealth ten folds. It is going to be sure risky one, but so did all the other opportunities I have taken before. It is going to be no different this time. I promise that you will surely know about this in my later books whether this going to be a successful one or a failure. Time will tell.
So look around you, if there are no opportunities, look even harder. If opportunity presents itself, grab it. It may be the turning point of your life.
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