A Small Yet Significant Dream

Koo Yong Boon, Videographer & Announcer

Hey guys, my name is Koo Yong Boon, you can call me Franky as well. When people ask what I am studying now, and after they know the answer, half of them will give me the face like “What? Are you sure?” Then, those people will ask the following questions like “So can you read my mind now?”, “Do you know what I’m thinking?”, “What are you going to do in your future?”, “Are you sure Psychology can help you earn money?”, and etc.

The reason why I want to study psychology is because I’m interested with it, simple and easy. I like to interact with people, I want to learn more about a person, and I want to know the role that psychology plays in our life. "MY Psychology", is a group of passionate students who are trying to share the knowledge of psychology to the public audience by using simple, easy, and understandable language. We are trying to make a difference in this society. Since psychology is everywhere in our life, no matter what you are doing, there are sure to have something that related to psychology. Your habit, your friends, your family, and the characteristic of you, all of these are some of the factors that shaped who you are today, and all of these are related to psychology.

Throughout this production team, you get to learn more about how psychology plays an important role in our daily life. I’m now the second year last semester student in HELP University Bachelor of Psychology degree course, I really enjoy what I have learned here, and it really affected my life so much. In these two years of studying psychology, I have changed my perspectives towards my life and this world so much.

There will always be reasons for you to do something, so there must have some reasons why I want to join in this production team too. Basically what I want to achieve in this production team is I want to learn more about video shooting skills and I want to learn more about the topic that I’m interested with. Normally in our education system, we are always getting spoon fed by teachers or lecturers. Due to this spoon feeding factor, most of the students nowadays don’t have the motivation to study the things that they were interested with. The education system in Malaysia had made majority of the students aim for the result in exam rather than aim for their dreams. You get how many A's in the exam is the result to show that how hard working and how intelligent you are. I totally disagree with this. It is true that some of the students they are really hard working and intelligent, they deserved to get the A's they want, but some of the students are being forced to get that A, they are being forced to do the things that they don’t like. I personally felt that nowadays, the majority of the adolescence in this society has lost their dreams. We are being force to learn the things that have been set by the education system, most of the time we are not allowed to question why we need to learn the things that we don’t like and the things that seem like not going to be useful in the future. However, we can’t refuse to learn, and so, we learned helplessness.

We learned to use another way to learn what we want to learn and what we interested to learn. That’s one of the reasons why we have "MY Psychology" today. We are using another platform to learn what we are interested with and what we are feeling that public audience should know with. I’m very glad that I have a chance to join into this production team. Thanks to all the members in this production team who are giving me a lot of chances to do what I want. Thanks to the people who are supporting us, you guys are the reason why we want to continue for it. Thank you.