The above proverb has made things gone hay-wire to lives of many people if it is to be pronounced by academicians or professionals even in its literal or face value meanings of the phrase. Care must be taken when non-professionals or people who do not have any qualification in the entire universe to utter the phrase let alone to write it in a piece of paper or typed in a computer screen.
The Malay proverb is full of deep in meaning phrases and nobody will really understand the reflection of the reality based on the proverb itself, rather elusive than the representation of the reality based on the people who heard or received or even read the phrase uttered upon them (even if the phrase is not meant for them at all).
Foreigners or better known as non-Malay speaking people or people who speak Malay Language as their 2nd.........n-th language or the Malays who speak Malay Language as their mother tongue but do not properly taking care of the above phrase wisely; worse, using it daily as their thinking language : those categories of people should never use the above proverb entirely due to its distrastrous effect(s) should the phrase is to be spoken or dictated to anybody either men or women.
Many people do not really care to speak to the right people when they apply to further their studies in universities or colleges.There are so many advertisements in local and foreign newspapers promoting many universities and colleges in different fields of studies. These learning institutions are making huge investments in marketing their premises to prospective clients and they need instant enrolment from the fresh students after they finished their higher secondary exams (you name them) without regard to their English or Malay Language proficiency levels.
Many of the sponsors (such as banks, NGOs, GLCs etc) are eyeing for the best talents as their reserves (forget about non-appropriated profits or surpluses in their balance sheets) so that
they are fully secured to have a continuous sources of human banks (resources) to make their organisations or establishments in vivo.
Perfect number of students' enrolments are good money for them. Let's say 500 prospects are to be registered as students for a particular programme or qualification for a period of 5 years. You may use your hunches to see the final percentage of these students who would obtain their scrolls after 5 years. If you are brave enough to be an external auditor for those universities or colleges, you can find a surprising fact that all of them would get their scrolls.
Kindly do not try to analyse what are in their scrolls because if the above Malay proverb is to be uttered to you, disastrous effects might set in. Care must be taken when you are dealing with Doctors or Professors (who are so much avoided due their physical and intellectual well-being) so as to prevent you from being too sarcastic or bombastic in your thesis statements, and hence your persona in their eyes.
Education is an investment to many developing countries and even to developed countries. One University in recent years, has stated the fact that students are not supposed to be barred in continuing their studies even if they are caught up with financial restraints and situations where they unable to study (in whatever circumstances) surrounding them.
Well, it is a rhetoric as it seems to be because the more you analyse the products (graduates) from many universities and colleges, the more you will find that you need more money for yourself exceeding the money needed by a Senator or President of an NGO (which gives free cookies and cakes for charities or even to the-wives-of nobody-knows-how-to-address-them during festivities). You are not supposed to utter the above Malay proverb if you are to deal with them, indefinitely.
The more scary it will become, when you are to ask the offices of those universities and colleges about your examination results or studentship status. It is a phenomenon of an eclipse of full moon occurring when you are perceived as a nuisance when you are trying to ask about your outstanding balances (owed to the universities) and some of the universities or colleges would bar you from viewing your results and CGPA or even to check your marks if you are indebted to them in the respective semesters of studies.
If you are too demanding, you will always be barred to such an extent that you are deemed as a total nuisance and hindrance due to your status; not a status as a student, but a status referred to as "indebted to the University".
Worse, if you are trying to ask them for extra monetary aids, you might feel as if you are not welcomed at all. A distinct treatment you get from the first time you enrolled for registration. You are perceived as an enemy who needs to be destroyed when you are asking or calling them in the offices.
This is where the phrase "No money no talk" appears to be reflected in our local university systems. The shift from being the prospect for graduation to prospect for holding grudge will make you feel uneasy to study in the universities or colleges even if you have the best high ranking (not rank and file lower subordinates kind of people) chancellors or lecturers presiding therein. Nobody cares about this feeling when you are being treated as a nuisance in those universities or colleges.
I do not need to write further about the above proverb because it will make many people to suffer from sleepless nights for more than 2 months if they take the above proverb seriously.
We live in a situation of uncertainty starting from early tertiary level of education system. For those who find the above as too obscure may always re-read my previous articles about rich and poor universities.
I do not want to be an enemy to the local and international universities and colleges, surpassing the effects of the above Malay proverb subsequently.
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