significance of certificates

Certificates are official document attesting a certain fact, in particular.
  

     Whether it's academic certificate , certificate of participation or certificate of acknowledgement , I'm sure everyone(most of us) owns at least 2 in their life. Why? Don't forget about the existence of our birth cert and death cert :P (lol) 
   
      So lately I got my King' scout certificate and some english test from australia cert.(I got distinction,yay me :) !) I have another certificate pending which will eventually be mine in approximately 3 years I guess. It's the official King's scout certificate (didn't I just get it? lol this is a different cert :P ) where on that particular certificate, There's signatures from all the Sultans of Malaysia and awarded to you by the Agung himself.
Sounds so awesome and yet they had to make us wait for 3 years for it -_- (They said the cert had to go around Malaysia for the Sultan's signature)

    Anyways, While flipping through my cert file, I've been thinking... which are the ones that I will actually use to apply for higher education and pursue a career? Sure, I have loads of certificates, mental arithmetic beginner to advance level, cert of participation for various competitions and events, some computer skills cert, post holder for clubs and organizations cert and so on. Not to mention I have a file specially for scout related certs. All together there should be around 65++. I have certs from china(national service training), japan(drawing), and australia (english thingy).
    
      But the point is... which are the ones that will eventually help me apply for whatever I'm applying for in the future? As a Malaysian student, most of us will start madly collecting certificates starting from form 4 because the co-curricular marks are counted and the certificates will help in future studies (as believed). But honestly, I doubt that a certificate of participation in a card making competition will get me anywhere. In my opinion, loads of Malaysian students waste time compiling certificates which gives an illusion of ticket to a better future.Sure, I might have LOADS of certs but I never intentionally join the event just for cert. The cert is just a bonus.
   
   I see seniors photocopying their certs and have it signed by the principal for uses to apply scholarship and stuff. I'm still in the midst of figuring out which are the certs that I want to bring along with me as a bonus (mario power up :p) during interviews and stuff. I'm think the interviewers will be sick of seeing a stack of participation certs ._.  
    
           I'm imagining myself as a single player (beginner) in a game called "the FUTURE STUDIES" , where interviewers are like NPC players and game masters . Whereby I'm a beginner (so called noob in games) trying to equip myself with the best equipment and skills and increase my hp level. Mission is to level up and get pass the NPC quest. The prize is obviously cash and some rare items but leveling up slowly gets harder as you unlock higher levels. Of course there are obstacles , like some hideous boss with a bad fashion sense (mushroom cap and green eyeshadows and manicure  maybe?) 
   Getting too far :P
lol

cool bunny too cool for you

(made it last year out of cork)

   

King's scout award ceremony

 All in all, it was an eventful morning. lol.

Can't be that short right? xD
     Okay,let's start from early in the morning. I woke up around 6 and there was a problem with the electric supply, So I had to walk around the house with a torchlight. While going through my morning preps, I thought to myself, if I weren't a scout. In these circumstances I'd be screaming and panicking like a 4 yeard old because the whole house was dark and creepy, Not slowly rummage through my drawer of camping supplies for my torchlight and candles. Anyways, I had shang coming to pick me up at 6.50am. He was late, as always. lol.
     We went to school to pick up SL and 2 scouters. Did I mention I forgot my bushmantong? (rope tied in a dna way to be worn by king's scouts) thank god shang's hs was nearby so I could borrow his bushmantong(THANKIEW VELI MUCH),Basically talked crap the whole journey to Hulu Langat.(Venue) It was funny how we had nasi lemak at a random road side with a besi buruk kilang infront of it. Its quite a weird sight really xD , You see 8 people standing in front of the besi burk kilang eating nasi lemak (some scouter tapao for us ) . While happily eating and talking crap, we saw a car make a U-turn just after it passed by us, having the intention of coming over. Turns out its a sir(scouter of quite high post in our district :) )  Everyone in the nasi lemak club froze and started laughing, why? hahahah, for 1 , we never tapao extra for him. 2nd, we got caught red handed. 3rd.It was hilarious.
    So eventually the vip scouter came over and started chit chatting with us while we ate. hahahhaha. one of the scouters initially said :"why no chicken wan?" when he got his nasi lemak. But soon after, a couple of real life chickens appeared behind him (prolly from the besi buruk place). Lol. After nasi lemak. shang drove like a madman. lol. hahhaha. (we were speeding in a place filled with graveyards.lol.from chinese graveyard to christian graveyard) 
    We reached. registered. reunion abit with a bunch of comrades.
afterwards was yadayadayada, speech and what not.
  When we got the award, yes go on stage to get it. Little did we know there was a mini awarding booklet ceremony directly after the official king's scout award. What happened was after I received my certificate for king's scouts, I marched out. As soon as I left the building, I was welcomed with a bunch of cheerful vip scouters from out district(shocking really)  gesturing us to follow the way their hand was pointing at. Around the corner was a happy shang (lol), shaking my hand and passing a booklet to me in an award manner and suddenly... a bunch of camera's came out of no where and flashes all around enough to blind me.(Honestly I was purely dumbstruck )lol. Fun? yep. turns out my friends had booklets handed to them as well by their own scouters, in my case was shang. lol.
   I took a pic with dad (joy) , well the after part consists of loads of camwhoring.  LOADS.

   -scouter/driver

dad<--

everyone... look happy !

yep,freestyle!

moral session bunch with the adorable cikgu hoh

Syok Sendiri :)

a different angle of life

   Yesterday was the last meeting for scouts and other clubs as well. Being the usual me who seems to always have a problem with transportation, getting to school was a problem that I faced frequently. For that I skipped most of my scout meetings after king's scout standardization camp. It's kinda sad, really. I missed out a hell lot.
   Anyways, one of my scouters sort of moved in to my area so hopefully transport for scouting activities shouldn't be much of a problem after this :)  And yes, I asked the dude (scouter) for a ride to school. We arrived at school at 8.15a.m (meeting starts at 8am -_-) . But it didn't really matter much since I can't be blamed for being late since the "boss" of the meeting was my driver. lol.
   So after one of the game , A girl from scouts (think she's form 1) asked me if I did king's scouts and yadayadayadayada ~ being the "good" senior I was, I answered her questions and persuaded her to take the challenge to achieve king's scout. My way of persuasion was nothing close to appropriate but meh :p watever :P it's for her own good to take king's scouts. But it wasn't that bad I guess.. I just told the girl that there were loads of hot dudes taking king's scouts and they were perfect gentleman (no lie there :P) lol, an immediate response came with an excited squeal . Go figure :P
    Next came the question on why was I late for meeting. And so I told her the "boss" told me he'd pick me up at 7.45 am but the damn dude came 15 minutes late -_- . Wanna know how she reacted?
"shoooo sweeeeet !!!" (said in an excited way as if she's watching a korean drama)
  And there was me who was still trying to understand how sweet relates to picking me up 15 minutes late . meh.. lol.  
    But to think about it, when I was that age, I'd be envious of some girls having seniors to fetch them and being the girl who was popular and close to a bunch of guy friends.I might be squealing in delight if it were to happen.
   And yet again, I thought to myself, I actually paid a price for what seemed like a fantasy back then to happen to me right now. The junior I was talking to probably won't know what I've gone through to be living the "little girl fantasy" . To ask them for favors wouldn't be easy if I haven't spent so much time with them in order to achieve king's scouts. The perception will never be the same as it were back then and rather than thinking that I have prince charming picking me up with a grand carriage or bachelors with limousines,  the current plain thought of having seniors giving me a ride is just a sign of how lucky I am to have comrades, peeps and buddies who are willing to give me a hand :)

 The me now would probably ditch prince charming for a proton filled with familiar faces and laughter . 
   
 Hopefully she's as lucky as I am :)  to understand the happiness that little girl fantasies never even came close to. It takes time, but eventually all will happen in time.