Anyone who meets Khee Young for the first time will usually regard him as a very tall person who looks shy, introvert and quiet. However, one will find out that such perception is not completely true if he or she understands more about him. One will find him a cold person until he or she gets to know him better.
Born to a family of six, Khee Young is the third youngest child in his family. He comes from Seremban, the state capital of Negri Sembilan. He told me that he needs to take some time to acclimatize himself in a new environment and a whole new study life, which explains his nervousness on his first few days in college. As time went by, he started to show his usual behavior in a gradual manner. During lectures, he seems very serious. As a result, he is always considered to be a strict person by those who had never come into a close contact with him. In addition, he is a person who shows a considerable amount of concern towards his academic performance, although he always denies it. From his housemates’ account, he always studies and does revision almost every night. When one of his friends told him about this, he laughed and said that the statement was exaggerated before assuring him that he is just an ordinary student like the rest of his classmate. In front of his teachers and peers, he always tries to be as humble as possible. This is because he feels that showing respect to both teachers and classmates is an obligation of a student.
Another interesting fact about Khee Young is that he has a quite unique hobby- designing slide shows for presentation purposes. As a secondary student, he started to work with Microsoft PowerPoint and had created various kinds of slide shows. His very determined in creating an attractive slide show. This can be seen from the huge amount of effort he had put in to create his "masterpieces" for different occasions.
Like a normal person, Khee Young is not perfect. He is sometimes not able to communicate in a very fluent manner compared to his normal speech, probably due to lack of self-confidence which he eventually develops with time. This also results in behaviours which makes him feel awkward in the eyes of his peers. However, he was almost like a totally different person when he is making presentations. During a presentation in an English class, he sounded very confident and firm. Along with the special effects used in his presentation, he knew that he had slightly astonished a few classmates that day, but he remains down to earth and believes that there are people whom he does not know might achieve greater heights than he does in this field. Now, he no longer has an obvious problem in his communications by being more sociable and confident.
From the aspects of the academic field, he admits that he likes studying the domain of science. Physics and Mathematics are the two most interesting subjects to him. Whenever his classmates have a problem in any of the aforesaid subjects and ask for his assistance, he would try his best to help them. In spite of being a science student, he never depicts his ignorance towards other subjects that he is not very keen in, including art subjects. In addition, Khee Young is always linked to his "outstanding" academic performance by his peers, but he always denies it, saying that he is not the best among his classmates. To him, the most important key to succeed in studies is not to be the best, but to be better at all times by keep improving oneself. Thus, he feels that being the best student is not what it takes to be successful in his studies.
Just before the his Australian Matriculation (AUSMAT) course commenced officially, he said that this course will be a new and grueling challenge for him this year and he hoped that he would be able to overcome this challenge by passing this course with flying colours. All the best and good luck, Khee Young!
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