'Drop makan gaji mentality'

'Drop makan gaji mentality'
2009/10/11


KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Yang Dipertua Negeri Tun Ahmadshah Abdullah urged Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) graduates to drop the makan gaji mentality and venture into areas where they can be their own boss.

"They must change their mindset towards fields like farming, fishing or plantations that were once considered traditional and look at them as commercially viable businesses that can become revenue earners.

"If that can be done, it will be a true reflection of UMS' motto of excellence," said Ahmadshah in his speech at the UMS convocation at its campus in Teluk Likas, here today.

Ahmadshah said obtaining a degree was a prerequisite towards achieving bigger success in the future because graduates would be able to accommodate and apply what they have learned as well as to chart their future career.

"Within more than a decade since the UMS was set up, globalisation has helped to change the way they think, act and react and all these need strong resilience and tough mental strength," he said.

Ahmadshah later handed out scrolls to 802 graduates for the first session of the university's 11th convocation which also saw two graduates -- Wan Khairul Muzammil Abdul Rahim and Christiana Loh Sze Xying -- receiving the Royal Education Award.


Some 4,435 UMS graduates would receive their scrolls in stages, until tomorrow. -- Bernama