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As a part of 5-members family and the youngest among us, I have always been taught
to be a kind-hearted person, optimistic, responsible, honest and determined in every good
effort I do. I was born on 28 September 1992 in Hospital Tanjung Malim, Perak and was given
name Muhammad Azfar bin Hamzah. Up until now this name really suits me well. Being born as
a last child, my parent always place a big hope upon me to fulfill my responsibility as a human-
kind, that is to succeed in this world and in the eternal life as well.

When I was 13-years old, I saw my sister graduated as an optometrist student from
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) in year 2006. From that precious moment, I could see my
parent smile in enthusiasm, seeing the first child of them had achieved what she had been
dreaming and striving all the years and I promised to myself that I would be like my sister,
perhaps better. My family is not classified as rich, but we lived simply and happily without any
lack in life necessity. My father used to work as a teacher and now he has been retired since
past 2 years while my mother as a full-time housewife. When looking deeply into themselves,
my feeling always touched by their attitudes and sacrifices in order to see me succeed in my
study.

I finished my primary school years with flying colours; 5A in UPSR. From that particular
moment, I was offered to continue my study at a brilliant boarding school with title Sekolah
Berasrama Penuh (SBP). I started my new life in secondary school on Sekolah Menengah Sains
Raja Tun Azlan Shah, Taiping, Perak in year 2005. Two years after that, I decided to get myself
transferred into Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Agama because of a few reasons. Firstly, the
main point was that my parent wanted me to be more religious and secondly, I emphasized on
my parent that I really wanted to diversify my knowledge not only in science field, but also in
religion. So I started my new life again as a student in SMKA Kerian, Semanggol, Perak in 2007.
I was lucky to have my father as my own principal in my own school. So, my father could visit
me more frequently and could keep his eyes on me for everything I do. On that particular year, I
sat for my PMR examination and with God‟s will, I got straight A‟s. Praise to God. From all the
years, I have learnt the importance of trustworthy in friendship, family, God, self and how do all
the values related to each others. I realized that those things really play big roles in my life.

Despite of those brilliant achievements in my study, I had never forgotten to focus on

co-curricular activities. To me, all those activities would cultivate my personal building like
self-confidence, positive-thinking and many other values that I could not retrieve them from
academics learning merely. I like music, and because of my capability in singing, I participated
in several „nasyid‟ competitions and had won several prizes from my contribution and the best
achievement was when we won the first prize in district level. Singing and standing in front of
public had taught me on how to overcome the crowd-fears. Other than that, I also realized that
cooperation was very essential in order for us to get our goals in anything we dream about. I
also like sport, so I participated in several kinds of them like Olahraga, Volley ball and rugby.
However, I enjoyed playing rugby the most because I like the kind of sport with vigorous and
rough movements. The best achievement I had was when I was in form 2; my team won the first
prize in state level. Besides, I was also appointed to be the president in scout organization in
my school. I was very grateful to my friends and teachers for giving me opportunity and trust to
be the leader in our organization. From that moment, it really reminds me of a cliché that my
best friend used to say “The best of a friend can offer is that trust”.

When I was in form 5, I was once again given a big responsibility as I have been
nominated to be the head-prefect of my school. Initially, I tried to refuse the post because I
truly worried if I fail to manage my time for my study and even worse I had to sit for SPM that
particular year. Nevertheless, I had proven that then when there is a will there is a way. I got 7A
2B and 2C in my trial examination. From my trial result, I tried to motivate myself to be more
determined and hardworking in order to face the most remarkable event on that year, SPM.

I got the slip with full of enjoyment and grateful dancing together in my mind. Praise to
god for giving the brilliant result. With the result 10A‟s and 1B, consequently I remembered
MARA. From the encouragement by my teachers and family, I applied the scholarship from
MARA. Whenever they asked me for why I chose this course I would simply reply “I like physics
and I love anything related to engineering”. I guess someday they will know what I meant to say.
Another distinct reason for why I chose engineering course is that engineer plays an important
role in this new era since it builds one‟s quality of life. By using creativity and technical skills, an
engineer is a problem solver. This can be proven when an engineer is better. Furthermore, an
engineer is a problem solver. This can be proven when an engineer is needed to overcome the
problems in this hectic life style such as the huddles of pollution, traffic congestion, drinking
water, energy needs, urban development, community planning and many other aspects.

To further my view of future, I ought to think of University of Nottingham, UK. The

university offers the study of mechanical engineering that consume about 3 years of study. The
primary reason for why I choose this university was that because of its excellent academic
performance. This dream was since I was a young boy when I had my father to study there.
Since then, I have aimed this university for quite a long time. I hope that one I could really
retrieve my dreams into reality.
 Malaysia is now searching for more available potentials in order to diverge its potential
resources. With this hope of nation, I wish I could be a part of the successors and change
Malaysia into a better country. After finishing my undergraduate study, I hope I can serve my
country well. The first thing is to resolve the current environmental issues and change Malaysia
to be a role-model of the world. Second is to serve the humankind in order to fight pollutions
and other threats to human life. With this kind of determination, I strongly believe that I can
make Malaysia a better place to live. With that, I end my writings with full of hope.