The Annual Begging Season

And so the controversy is stirred up again, year after year, the annual begging season begins, and people start to cry foul because they feel injustice has been done unto them because they were not successful in obtaining a PSD scholarship.

I am frequently amused because in reality, the PSD does not owe anyone anything. It is not obliged to reward a student who has received excellent results with a scholarship... nor is it obliged to reveal how it selects who to award a scholarship to.

I have not read any statement that makes it compulsory for anyone to get a scholarship just because they had some number of A's in their exams...

Then it is also interesting to see how people react to this situation, trying to use political influence to grant them favours, and on the other hand, some people who tell others to be happy with what they have and not ask for more...

But based on my observation, what I am most intrigued at is how, at the end of the day, 6 PSD scholars from some 120 students managed to come up with a common altruistic objective of wanting to serve their student community here in Penang. Certainly the PSD must have got their selection criteria correct somewhere?