Name: Ahmad Azuan Bin Ton Mohamed Age: 18 years old
Since young I have always aspired to be... Pilot

“I began to set my ambition is to overcome the hardship of living in poorness and to create opportunity for my family and for those who does not have one, to create a better life.”

Honda Dreams Fund is the opportunity I have been waiting for to realize my dreams. Since I was young, I have always aspired to be a pilot. This aspiration has started from the very moment of the flying technology came into my knowledge.

I came from a moderate family, consist of 11 members, survived by the income from a responsible father who struggled as a full-time lorry driver.

To be a pilot, is a dream of mine, as a condition to make my life, my family’s life better. Yes, of course it is. My dream is to make our lives better, to create enough opportunity for everybody to be confident enough in efforts to realize our dreams, or in more specific words, to have the opportunity to be educated.

One of the incident that I remember the most is the time to get into secondary school. When I was offered to be in the list of students in a boarding school, I was very excited. Eventually, I created a chance to talk to my father and I told him that I want this opportunity. He just remained silent, with some pressure that can be defined from his face.

I know, the cost to study in a boarding school is already enough to get my 5 younger siblings studied in primary school even though I was excluded from paying certain fees. From that moment, I began to set my ambition is to overcome the hardship of living in poorness and to create opportunity for my family and for those who does not have one, to create a better life.

Although I have the opportunity to be educated in a boarding school, I faced hardship that come from shortage of money. My pocket money was merely enough for food, and if there is any addition fee required by the teachers, I will have to starve at recess time, and sometimes I fasted to recover shortage of money, or else I will not have enough money to go back at my hometown at the end of the month, since my hometown is more or less than a hundred kilometres away from the school. Sometimes. I feel depressed, feel like losing directions, alone, as a stranger in an unknown environment. My father never pays me any visit, I understand why. I have a family, but they are far away from me. My dream is to avoid all these hardships and feelings from spreading to my brothers and sisters. I want them to be focused in studying, without any obstacles.

I came from a rural neighbourhood, with rural people as my neighbours, with their rural thinking. When I was sent to study in a boarding school, they said it is no use of going that for just study, moreover the fee is a few times much more than it is in the secondary school existed in the village. They thought it was just a waste of money and time. They thought all the schools are the same, teaching the same syllabus. I had always have the desire to change their point of view about education and many other things.

These rural way of thinking had been the obstacles in the efforts of the Malaysian Government to build up a community which dedicated their lives to enhance religion, race and country. One day, somehow, with all my might, I will struggle in the efforts of the Malaysian Government towards all these hope.