Where Is Our Money?
I am bloody pissed right now.
And I'm broke.
I'm pissed because I'm broke.
My account says I have rm 10.40(which BCB wont let me take out) and my purse only holds rm2 and some coins, which will obviously disappear with todays lunch. So, in about an hour, I'd be officially MUFLIS.
And its all PTPTN's doing.
Well, I dont know for sure if its PTPTN's fault,but its either the university's, the bank's or PTPTN's fault. At this point, the only thing I'm sure of is that if this blog is idle after a while, it means I've withered and gone.
How heartless can they be? Don't they know we have books to buy? Pressies to get?Bills to pay?This time last year, the loan was so prompt. I can't help but partly believe in the rumour that linked the fact that last year, raya was around the corner. And now coz its only xmas, no one gives a flying kite!
Multiracial-multicultural-bullsh*t!!
And another thing, people these days work like bulls. I dont want to generalise, but I've been proven right most of the time. How is it possible that a body as big as PTPTN does not answer the phone? They dont even have the prerecorded ringgit-sucking weird-accented female voice that greets you as with many other offices. Where are these people? At their endless tea-breaks drinking teh tarik and eating roti kosong, talking about their little rascals and office politics at a warung nearby? office politics..hhmmph! How can there possibly be office politics when there's NO ONE at the office?
Everyone in uni is bitching about the whole loan issue,yet no one wants to do anything about it. How typically Malaysian! No one's questioning anything. The so-called student union seems to be sitting on their butts. Frankly, the student union only comes alive during campus elections. And it's no wonder why;learning from examples set by figures in national politics.
Anyway,back to my bankruptcy issue...enough was enough. I sat down and wrote a letter to the papers to voice my grouses and here's what I wrote.I wanted to make it nasty,but I thought I'd be gentle the first time...I'm such a nice person
Well, they better not take advantage of that fact and buck up or else I'll drag my dad into this and we'll give them a tough time!!Chacko Power!! Ha ha ha...
I am a student currently enrolled in USM and I'm writing on behalf of many students who are unhappy with the National Higher Education Fund (NHEF). With the commencement of the new semester three weeks ago, we were expecting our study loans to be in by the 6th of December as it is clearly stated in the agreement that we would receive it by the second week of the semester.
Well, it has been almost three weeks yet the figures in our accounts show that the NHEF hasn't been keeping to their side of the agreement. The ironic thing is, they were the ones who set the terms and conditions. If the NHEF cannot honour their own words, then they have no reason to be upset when students take a long time to repay their loans, or in some cases do not at all. After all, we will be paying and exhorbitant 4% of interest upon employment.
I have been trying to get in touch with NHEF for quite some time now, but no one seems to be answering my calls. How is that so? Is the NHEF avoiding its clients for certain reasons? When I spoke to a university official regarding this matter, she said that the university has not obtained any information regarding the loans. Is it not part of the university's role as the intermediate between the students and NHEF, to be fully informed and answereable to the students? To be our voices?
I am appalled at the 'tidak apa' attitude displayed by these so called educated working adults. Being a student about to face the working world, I cannot help but wonder if this is how things are done these days. Responsibility and accountability seem to be a thing of the past and I must say that I am bitterly disappointed.
Please remember that we are students who are very dependant on our loans. As with many others, I am very eager to get settled and start getting into the swing of the academics; which is very hard to do, when you have no money to buy books and materials, no money to pay your bills, and when you have to share one packet of Maggi Mee between three people.
Coming from a middle-class family, I'm already painfully feeling the pinch. I just feel very sorry for the really poor students.I hope this matter will be looked into by the relevant parties as soon as possible.
And I'm broke.
I'm pissed because I'm broke.
My account says I have rm 10.40(which BCB wont let me take out) and my purse only holds rm2 and some coins, which will obviously disappear with todays lunch. So, in about an hour, I'd be officially MUFLIS.
And its all PTPTN's doing.
Well, I dont know for sure if its PTPTN's fault,but its either the university's, the bank's or PTPTN's fault. At this point, the only thing I'm sure of is that if this blog is idle after a while, it means I've withered and gone.
How heartless can they be? Don't they know we have books to buy? Pressies to get?Bills to pay?This time last year, the loan was so prompt. I can't help but partly believe in the rumour that linked the fact that last year, raya was around the corner. And now coz its only xmas, no one gives a flying kite!
Multiracial-multicultural-bullsh*t!!
And another thing, people these days work like bulls. I dont want to generalise, but I've been proven right most of the time. How is it possible that a body as big as PTPTN does not answer the phone? They dont even have the prerecorded ringgit-sucking weird-accented female voice that greets you as with many other offices. Where are these people? At their endless tea-breaks drinking teh tarik and eating roti kosong, talking about their little rascals and office politics at a warung nearby? office politics..hhmmph! How can there possibly be office politics when there's NO ONE at the office?
Everyone in uni is bitching about the whole loan issue,yet no one wants to do anything about it. How typically Malaysian! No one's questioning anything. The so-called student union seems to be sitting on their butts. Frankly, the student union only comes alive during campus elections. And it's no wonder why;learning from examples set by figures in national politics.
Anyway,back to my bankruptcy issue...enough was enough. I sat down and wrote a letter to the papers to voice my grouses and here's what I wrote.I wanted to make it nasty,but I thought I'd be gentle the first time...I'm such a nice person
Well, they better not take advantage of that fact and buck up or else I'll drag my dad into this and we'll give them a tough time!!Chacko Power!! Ha ha ha...
I am a student currently enrolled in USM and I'm writing on behalf of many students who are unhappy with the National Higher Education Fund (NHEF). With the commencement of the new semester three weeks ago, we were expecting our study loans to be in by the 6th of December as it is clearly stated in the agreement that we would receive it by the second week of the semester.
Well, it has been almost three weeks yet the figures in our accounts show that the NHEF hasn't been keeping to their side of the agreement. The ironic thing is, they were the ones who set the terms and conditions. If the NHEF cannot honour their own words, then they have no reason to be upset when students take a long time to repay their loans, or in some cases do not at all. After all, we will be paying and exhorbitant 4% of interest upon employment.
I have been trying to get in touch with NHEF for quite some time now, but no one seems to be answering my calls. How is that so? Is the NHEF avoiding its clients for certain reasons? When I spoke to a university official regarding this matter, she said that the university has not obtained any information regarding the loans. Is it not part of the university's role as the intermediate between the students and NHEF, to be fully informed and answereable to the students? To be our voices?
I am appalled at the 'tidak apa' attitude displayed by these so called educated working adults. Being a student about to face the working world, I cannot help but wonder if this is how things are done these days. Responsibility and accountability seem to be a thing of the past and I must say that I am bitterly disappointed.
Please remember that we are students who are very dependant on our loans. As with many others, I am very eager to get settled and start getting into the swing of the academics; which is very hard to do, when you have no money to buy books and materials, no money to pay your bills, and when you have to share one packet of Maggi Mee between three people.
Coming from a middle-class family, I'm already painfully feeling the pinch. I just feel very sorry for the really poor students.I hope this matter will be looked into by the relevant parties as soon as possible.
5 Comments:
hi. i went thru all that nonsense during my uni days as well. at times, our loans were only banked-in half way into mid-semester. some students were actually photocopying the books they need chapter by chapter until they had the money to buy proper ones.
been there... its frustrating i know. for us it was usually the second month or so after the sem starts... and not on time! what i used to do is, i always save up some money frm the previous sem so that i can survive until the loan comes in.
yeah, ur complain letter works! saw it in the paper
Hi. This isn't exactly an anonymous comment because i'm Sonia/Soni/Sonia Ann Lopez. Anu, I just wanted to ask you. You know you posted a letter to the News Straits Times, right? Well what date was it published. I mean on the newspaper. Cause we have this old news paper stack. And if I find out before the old news paper man comes, then I can read your letter.Well, this is the end of my comment.Bye!
Sonia/Soni/Sonia Ann Lopez.
Soni.. her letter came out on the 14th of December 2004. Happy Hunting!
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