Example of Tougher Life.. Version 2010

Location: Fraser Hill (A famous highland resorts settlement in Pahang, near the border of Selangor).

Main character: Mid-age Malay Makcik

Nature of Complaint:

1. She has few children which the youngest studying down the hill in a secondary school near Raub.

2. The child staying in hostel to avoid intensive travelling, despite the fact that the road up and down the hill isn’t that great condition and sometimes could be extremely dangerous in the dark. 

3. For past years the child only come back home once a month with weekends staying in school.

4. Starting this year, due to reduction in subsidy to the students, the children are sent home every week, unless the parents were to pay RM 8 a day for the children to stay in school during weekends.

5. Either way, the burden for the parent had increased. In average she need to have extra budget of RM 48 a month if she continue to put the kid in school during weekend. For her to bring the kid back every weekend, she has to travel down more frequently which increase her expenses as well.