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9 July, 2009

Turning tail and running from failure

Filed under: Rant — ωϊΪΪϊαm §öö @ 11:35 am

I read with shock that we’re now turning tail and running from our failure to persuade everyone to teach Science and Maths in English.

At the end of the colonial era, everyone wanted to be part of the patriotic movement and blindly embraced a ‘national identity’ that speaks nothing of improving ourselves but instead we choose to carpet bomb everything into Bahasa Malaysia.

Smart moves.. but 40 years down the road and we’re faced with dummies that can’t cope, can’t compete, can’t talk with their peers on their international stage. Dummies that stammer and unable to express themselves confidently nor can they vocalize their theories for lacking a SIMPLE understanding of technical terms. Sorry but PEPEJAL and SEBATIAN in chemistry just don’t cut it when faced with a room full of Nobel laureates while trying to explain your next big bang.

So what do we do? We turn tail and hide. Unable to withstand the pressure under the international spotlight of peer review (when no one gives a shit about learning BM or Mandarin or Tamil to understanding what they’re trying to say), we crawled back on all fours back to our little cozy corner of the world to avoid being laughed at, sniggered at and most importantly, feel comfortable with fellow dummies and most importantly, know what the heck they are talking about.

I must also say I have never felt so much SHAME in our teachers that they can’t even be bothered to learn in teaching a new language when the 40 odd students in a class is trying hard at the same time.

Teachers have seriously lost their glory. I still remember when teachers have to pass exams to be eligible for promotions and when most of them failed, the Government scrapped the exam. I would still like to see the Gov scrape SPM subjects because the passing rate is too low. They can start off with Advanced Math followed by Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Leave Moral and History studies at the bottom of the scrape list. Those are VERY important. /sarcasm

To make matters worst, now those same bunch of teachers are having trouble teaching in a language that the rest of the world uses on a daily basis, and what does the Gov do about it? Giving them the finger and cut their pay for failing their competency skills? NO! The Government is going to scrape the whole English thingy and going back to teaching in BM (where everyone feels right at home, I must add).

I pity the new batch of students. They are the one that will be in a limbo over this, English in primary, BM in secondary, then English in College/Uni and then possible BM again in the work force. If I’m any one of them and with enough cash, I’ll just enroll myself in an international school, then continue my University course in some private Uni and when the time is ripe for me to join the work force, I’ll send in my CV to Boleh-land in French or German out of spite and go look for a job in Singapore.

The patriotic can keep staying under this well of theirs and leave the unpatriotic ones serving humanity in whatever language the rest of humanity understands.

Teachers! If you are reading this I’m ashamed of you! Especially so if you are from a Mandarin / Tamil school and are teaching Math and Science in your mother tongue. You can go all mother hen protection on your oh-so-proud ancestral language and watch your entire generation fail in their future!!! I hope you can sleep well tonight!!!!!!!

PS: If I ever get the chance to interview anyone with sufficient qualifications from I-don’t-care-which-local-Uni but is not proficient in English, I’m going to send them back to their schools to get 50 signatures from their teachers that agrees that they have F***-ed up their future and thanks for nothing.

Low Ink by Nocturnal Devil

Filed under: Pictures — ωϊΪΪϊαm §öö @ 10:24 am

So darn cute!

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2 July, 2009

Horrifying crash on the way back from KLIA

Filed under: Blogs — ωϊΪΪϊαm §öö @ 9:47 pm

Yesterday I witnessed a shocking scene on the way back from KLIA.

I took a cab back home and was travelling along the KL Putrajaya route. The driver took up his walkie and started chatting with his buddy on the line.

Didn’t really bothered to hear what they are blabbing about as I’m dead tired from the flight. I only knew my cab driver was telling the guy on the line to go get some sleep and that it wasn’t worth it to take another fare. Then unlike the previous conversation where you’d get a click and more chatter, this time it was a click-click-STATIC-ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

It was 10 minutes later when someone radioed in and say there was a crash somewhere ahead of our route when I saw it:

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^ Sleepy cab driver fell asleep and rammed his head on the guardrail. My cab driver was there (guy in black).

The scene was so horrifying I didn’t get closer to snap another picture. I know it was bad cause the amount of blood on the streets tells me so. You can only get closer to the scale of 10 on doom when you paint the car interior red with skull matter.

The guardrail had grazed his skull with the word grazed used generously. When the doctors took him out (alive), one side of his skull was cracked open and the other was bleeding out the cracked windows. Talk about in between 2 hard places.

Last I heard the guy was on his way to Putrajaya hospital and no news on his survival. I hope he survives and learns his lesson. Driving while doing anything but driving, kills!

I wish the authorities here would implement water drums like highways in the united states to break the impact. Over here those drums will be crashed on, smashed on with such regularity that there would be no risk of aedes mosquito ever breeding in peace without being splashed all over the scene.

30 June, 2009

Alice in Wonderland Concept Shots (Wide-screen post)

Filed under: HD, Pictures, WideScreen — ωϊΪΪϊαm §öö @ 9:28 am

Very very interesting shots. Click to enlarge.

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29 June, 2009

Labuan: Going back soon

Filed under: Blogs, Labuan — ωϊΪΪϊαm §öö @ 10:08 pm

My colleague’s senior just joined our project today arriving from the airport in the afternoon. Unfortunately due to a clash in room arrangements, he’s currently sharing the smaller room with his team mates.

He’s from finance and I’m from IT. So the 2 of them shares a closer bond with common chit-chat topics. I can foresee sleepless nights for the both of them.

Anyway I feel kinda bad for taking the larger room myself. But seeing that I’ll soon be leaving and he’ll be re-claiming ‘his’ room in 2 days time. I guess I should think too much into it.

I’ll be heading home soon, will miss this place. But I miss my internet more.

THIS PLACE SUCKS MY INTERNET! LITERALY!

Soon it will be back to the land of traffic jams and more work related stresses.. Haih.

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