Are all certificates matterrrrrrrrrrs?

I would like to respond this to an entry made by Anne.

I am a firm believer that education is important. That is the very reason why I furthering my study for Master. Not that I could distinguish with other people that I am executive with Master, like my workplace would love to do in a very short future. Yeah I tell you friend that my employer would like to discriminate poeple with cerfiticates with their employee ID card. Soooo pathetic.

I continue my study because I want my children to emulate me. I want them to know that in order to taste success, they got to work, not only smart, but hard as well. I want them to know that whenever exam approaching they must surrender everything and start to study, instead of watching TV and play PS2. So what I preached must congruent with my action which I did.

But are all certificates matter in this life. Well heaven knows it isn't happen that way. Simply because Allmighty Allah is great. If all peopel in the worlds are smart I could not imagine what will happen to us right now.

I know most parents would be proud if their children graduated from university or from one of the best colleges. I can vividly remember the face of my mum when I rejected the offer from Mombushua Japan. My mum taught that I rejected the offer on purpose, as a protest, for not allowing me to get into TUDM Flight Cadet Officer and stopped me to get into UTM which they felt it just a waste of registration money if I quit Politeknik.

No, I didn't do it on purpose. I was in love with Arc that I could not think myself studying for another 5 yrs to complete my degree. I told my mum that I will fly for UK that could offer me 2 yrs to complete my degree. Save 3 yrs and meaning that I could marry Arc lagi cepat la kan. I tried to comfort my mum and she still upset with my decision to go for UK simply because the new intake would be the following years. The rest is history when I graduated from Liverpool University. My mum proud with me because I finally got the certificate. Would that really matter.

I have a neighbour in Serdang how he admire me for being able to study abroad, not like his sons that school until form 5 with SAP certificates. I told him that certificate does not mean the whole things will comes good on me. No................... I still got to pay JPA for the loan and the numbers, walllaaaaaa.............. you guess.

Well, I look to my friend even with SAP certificates they still live good, have his own house and car that is far off better than mine (bagi aku la kan kete Korea tu lagi baik la kan dr proton, tak caya tanya DJ Elf Pemantun Tegar Sinar FM). Run a business even tough small but still return profit at the end of year. He didn't have any technical certificates but are hiring a chargemen that graduated from ILSAS and mind you, from Politeknik. Tell me if this is not something.

I know conservative minded peopel will think that education is the only 'property' they have these days. Its not entirely true. There are other things that can make up people for better living. Not just degree certificate or master.

My friend is just a small story that I can put up as an example. Lets look at people who have similar background to my friend. People from abroad. Kan org kita suka dengar benda benda dr abroad nih. Do you know Anthony Robbins? He is the author of best selling book, UNLIMITED POWER. Well he is not Dr Dale Carnegie or Dr Stephen Covey. He is a high school dropped out and made a living by writing inspiring and motivational books. He do not have any doctarate in any field and still writes book from observation he made and from self study he conducted to improve himself. Not only that he had inspired himself, he have inspired million of people. Another author that inspired me is Og Mandino, a millionaire writer of THE GREATEST SALESMAN IN THE WORLD. Being dumped by his wife and have made an attempt to suicide, he turned calamity to success.

Lets look to Anita Roddick, the founder of BODY SHOPS. She never completed her study from a university in Israel and look with what she has built today. A lot of Phd holder, a biologist working for her company to make her product even more environmentally and animal friendly. Don't you think this is amazing. What about the ex richest man in the world, Mr Gates and Mr Dell from Dell corporation. Both of them never completed their study and have build computers and network empire around the globe. Do you still believe that certificates are all matters. As off my personal opinion, it is not.

When I read the success of some personality figures, I found that the Peeeeeeeeeeeeeees are all matter; Passion, Patient, Perseverance and Persistent.

Dream any dream you want and make action to make other people proud of you and when you start to work out your action, do with the 4 Ps. This is all I can say, certificates is just a paper. There are some other things that a family can proud off.