My student days in UKM were memorable ones. I had developed an interest in politics, and the campus environment gave me the opportunity to be involved in student activism. Although Chinese students were a minority in UKM, we organised ourselves and make ourselves strategic, and that became the deciding factor in the student elections.
Through the Chinese Consultative Council, a body representing the Chinese students, we became very influential on campus. We fought for better canteen food including halal Chinese food, better library facilities, availability of books and newspapers in more languages including Chinese, and even held the Moon Cake Festival (or Pesta Tanglung) at the main Dewan Tunku Abdul Razak Hall for the first time.