{"id":1582,"date":"2008-03-19T08:54:23","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T00:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/03\/19\/hardworking-kamaladevi-scores-in-spm\/"},"modified":"2008-03-19T08:54:23","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T00:54:23","slug":"hardworking-kamaladevi-scores-in-spm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/03\/19\/hardworking-kamaladevi-scores-in-spm\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardworking Kamaladevi scores in SPM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/kamaladevispm.jpg\" alt=\"kamaladevispm.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Taking pride: Sugana poring over Kamaladevi&#8217;s achievement of 13As and 2Bs in the recent SPM in Johor Baru. (The Star)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hard work and little sleep pays off<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/metro\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/3\/18\/southneast\/20667681&amp;sec=southneast\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By FARIK ZOLKEPLI<br \/>\nJOHOR BARU: For M. Kamaladevi, her sacrifice and hard work, including<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"> waking up at 5am to catch a bus to school <\/span><\/strong>from her home in Taman Puteri Wangsa here, paid off as she obtained <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">13As and two Bs i<\/span><\/strong>n the recent SPM.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old Sultan Ibrahim Girl&#8217;s School student, who aspires to be a doctor, said she often sacrificed her sleep to study and complete schoolwork.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>I often studied until 4am and slept for 40 minutes before waking up and going to school.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t mind the challenges as I <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">knew it was for my own good<\/span><\/strong>,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Kamaladevi said her success would not have been possible without the support of her parents, teachers and schoolmates.\u00a0 &#8220;My parents often gave me space to study and did not pressure me. &#8220;I honoured their trust by giving my best,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Her mother S. Sugana, 44, was proud of her daughter&#8217;s achievement.\u00a0 &#8220;She deserves this result as she worked very hard for it. &#8220;Her result is a good example for her two younger siblings,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking pride: Sugana poring over Kamaladevi&#8217;s achievement of 13As and 2Bs in the recent SPM in Johor Baru. (The Star)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[19,90],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-education","tag-role-model"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}