talking to my collegue who's scholarship just got terminated made me sit up and wonder " do we take our everyday lives for granted?"

i didn't know what a study loan was until she told me. people can borrow from a bank to study in a school of their choice. but the interest rolls in moment they leave school and they have to work to pay off their loan. note: this amount is not small. its alot. in singapore, the loan per year in NUS for a foreigner is 10,000 for tuition fees and hostel per year. this excludes transport, food and shopping. by the time, one pays off their loan, 3years plus wld have passed. its quite quite sad. here i am splashing my money on clothes to satisfy my vanity when there are people struggling to actually get an opportunity to simply STUDY. i know NUS compared to other unis like Austrailia or the UK or the US. But, it really made me wonder, is education the survival of the wealthiest?

Singapore is one of the most established countries in Asia and we are lucky that any average singaporean gets 500 at least( correct me if i am wrong, din quite check the stats). but in other countries, they aren't that lucky. my collegue just told me that her parent's combined salary is only 500 sing( which is half of what most temp staff get before cpf when they work a 9-5 job). Of course maybe this amount is enough to feed her family and give her family a roof over her head,but what about her family global monetary status in relation to the world?

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