Stuck At The "A"s

Two more interviews hot and piping, from the battlefields. Due to the sheer amount of gore involved, we have edited out the plane crashes, friendly fire, aborted missile launches, accidental detonation of landmines and near-executions our intrepid reporters had to experience to get the news out to the waiting public. Salute the journalists, dear readers, for without them there would be no events.

Owing to the above threats on our lives - and the sheer amount of Malay parents who only want a name starting with "A" for their children - we haven't finished the "A"s yet - today we feature AJ (Religious), Afida (Academic) and Akmal Batu (Sports). Have I mentioned Ajak, Anwar, Acai, Amira...you get the drift.

AJ, when approached working for Bangsawan, laughed nervously but maintained she ran as she had religious awareness (Editors Note: SMAB Labu girl!) and felt responsible for the moral issues in college. She says she's definitely trying her best as it was a new experience She admits she has yet to prepare a manifesto and was reluctant to tell me its general drift. Told me to wait and see. We'll see.

Why does she think she's better than the others? Basically, "I think I can carry out and do responsibilities and I think I can. If other people think I can, they'll vote for me."

Afida, sincerely, is a girl of great speech patterns. There was no need for me to ask any questions - one and the long unspoken words spewed forth. Her raison d'etre is to plan well. She eschews popularity as a winning basis and merely wants to discover herself. Though it may involve time and - obviously - money, she feels it is something she needs to do.

Dr Ikmal, CEO of the college and her sponsors' representative, once said they should know their ability and expand it, just keeping at what they were doing, taking what they thought was positive. She feels she wants to "see herself and discover the whole tip of the iceberg", for in her words "90% of myself has yet to be discovered."

Before this, she held some posts, most notably as Head Prefect of her previous school and candidly describes it as "high-pressured". She declares it was up to herself to make decisions to choose her own path, and thus the consequences would be hers alone to face.