Oh! When the brain goes down the drain!

Studying for a better future overseas?

So as usual, at this time of the year, the local newspapers will be plastered with news of how great the public examinations results were. They will give a breakdown of how the overall percentage of the result had improved. It is beginning to sound like a re-run of an old soap opera or broken gramophone record - just like me, too!
There would soon pictures of handicapped students passing with flying colours and children of hawkers and seamstresses obtaining good results.
A few days after that the announcement would be out on the closing date of applications for scholarship and entrance to universities. Like clock work, a few days after the results of acceptance of the above, flashed again on the newspapers, would be disgruntled parents who will be complaining about how his kids with such exemplary results failed to secure a place and how excellent his extra curricular results were. Then Michael Chong (the Public Complaints bureau of Malaysian Chinese Association) would appeared on the Star newspaper posing with the result slip, rejection letter, forlorn parents and kid. Then there would be knee jerk responses from ruling and opposition political leaders.
All these would die a natural death when Singapore offers them scholarships on a carrot attached to a long string. And this disgruntled students will leave their motherland, vowing never to return, eternally grateful to their 'Newfoundland'. Little will they realise that even if they wanted to, they would be tied down with a long pay-back clause that by the time the tenure expires, they would be too cushy there with probably too big an extra baggage to come back home to Malaysia (which disappointed them, anyway)!