Even though it has been quite some years since I finished my studies in a local Uni, I still am not able to forget my experiences. I hope what I am about to tell you may help some other out there. 

Most of my school life was spent with one burning ambition; to get into University. This was my one and only thought. Nothing else. I simply wanted to graduate. It was a thought imprinted in my head I guess, since even before I was born, by my parents. So determined was I, that I competed tooth and nail with my Chinese friends to get through SRP, SPM and eventually STPM. I did not do that badly in STPM, even though I never wanted to be there in the first place (I thought I could escape through SPM to Uni, which later I found out is just a day dream for many). My results in STPM got me into a good engineering course, though, and off I went to my most favorite place on earth - University. Wow.