My 10 years of primary and secondary education sucks… I hate waking up early morning daily catching the school bus, I hate going back to school on weekend for extra-curriculum, I hate PE class in school (i was fat when i was young), I hate all-boy school!!, I hate tuition everyday, I hate having no freedom how should I live my life at that time.

That 10 years went pass so awfully slow as if it was 30 years of my life. Then came 1996! the year I graduated secondary school (high school) and the beginning of my next 5 years of tertiary education in college far far away from home, my first time being away from home. My parents was worry sick, I was a bit scare, but the feeling of having total freedom living on my own excited me. And the next 5 years of my life has been the best I ever had. It was colorful, you meet many new peoples, you do things which you haven’t do before, happy times and sad times.

I went to TAR College to pursue my Degree in Information System Engineering. It was sort of a college for the a bit “lower income” group but also because of this, it was famous for the college for real students that actually study! I rented a place to stay inside a 1-storey house with 4 rooms which houses 13 students! Is quite common as most student couldn’t afford renting a whole house or even a room.

It was my first time staying together with complete strangers, sleeping with stranger. My first night stay was scary Time passes and I started to know each other in the house and I was very lucky as everyone was friendly and wonderful. I was the youngest in the house since i’m in the junior year and everyone treated me nice. We study together, eat together, play together, celebrate birthdays together…

(I was standing on the right most. The yellow shirt girl was the birthday girl…)

(Seafood dinner at Port Klang… me in the middle at the back…)

and celebrate birthdays…

(My birthday and is a group celebration with some pretty housemates )

and celebrate birthdays again…

(Next birthday and I slimmed down! From left to right, AhMeei, me!, TingTing, Joey)

We created such a strong bond and it was very sad whenever one of us graduates and left. Many of us still keep in touch even now.

As for my study, is was great. I get to skip class if I couldn’t wake up which happened pretty often. I get to play computer games all day long without my parents nagging me. I get to study together with girls for the first time in my life! My course has the most students consisting of 500++ of us. It was a 5 years course and by final year, more than half of us dropped out or left. We were arranged into smaller classes of 40++ and we usually hang out with those people in our class.

(Junior year class photo. Back row third from right…)

(Senior year course! photo. Try to spot me… )

Look at the amount of people in our course.. is huge! Have problem finding me? No problem, check out the next picture…

(Hahahahaha…)

I look so slim during my senior year, it was the prime moment of my life. I lost almost 30kg in one year. Yeah is hard to believe I know but check it out in My Evolution post.

The following pictures was my senior year classmates. Some of them has been in my class for the entire course and we become close…

(See! what did I tell you… my prime moment… just look at those girls on my left and right.. )

Definately a great 5 years of my life. It was my best. Being away from my parents allows me to grow up and be a man and become who I am now. Times definately fly during happy times and before I know it, it was my graduation time.

(My girlfriend and I… she was my junior year student.. hehe..)