Botak's law

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/10/17/nation/2300354&sec=nation

i have always taught that our home minister can make any statement funnier than the one he made about detention of the journalist under ISA to "protect her". But he did. Maybe a new responsibility of the Home ministry is "to be able to make malaysia a laughing stock in the whole world"

What is he thinking i really don't know. No wonder the criminals nowadays are braver than the policeman.
Just 1 thing...i always look forward for any statements from the home minister (especially when i'm stressed) because what he say really make me laugh my innards out.

Maybe we should set up a Happiness & laughter Ministry and let him head it :)

Moody

some way or another, dispassion start to sink into me this few days.
I have to force myself to smile. i am not interested in whatever my housemates are doing. While writing this post, my housemates are all busy gazing at their monitor screen "aiyo hen mei leh zhe ge,174cm leh" says one but i dunno why i am simply not interested to join them like i usually do.
I tried to entertain myself by disturbing my best friend,my ex roommate but that doesn't work either. He will end up scolding me for "molesting" him and this will hurt me even more.

I dunno what am i thinking right now. I simply feel like there;s no meaning to be nice or to be cheerful etc. Theres no colour in life at all.

Possibly, i should just follow my head, be the serious muka masam fella that i used to be. This way, maybe i would be free.

Policy

Just look at our SMART government policy in hiring staffs now
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/10/3/nation/2176309&sec=nation

and the downfall of our education policy is clear
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/10/4/nation/2185275&sec=nation

In the first report, Johor Immigration new policy in hiring staffs is: Give priority to staff's kin. Means the Johor Immigration, sooner or later, will be dominated by members of a family. On what basis does the immigration implement this stupid ridiculous nepotism? Are the kin of the staffs better qualified? From what aspect? Just as our dear Pak Lah go around shouting "NO NEPOTISM!, here one department is encouraging nepotism and cronysm. I wonder whether is this a KJ idea.

In the second report, now suddenly everybody is againts teaching of maths and science in English. 5 years ago, everybody support, 5 years later everybody againts. The reason? "o...the result we get is not as good as we expected, so cancel the policy la...". So, our government is sending a clear message to students from all level of education. If your result is not as good as expected, just quit! DOn't bother doing anything to improve. Just quit i say. That is a Smart move by a Smart government kan.

If we are going to cancel a policy simply because it does not give a desired result in a short time frame, i'm very very disappointed. The victim will be the students going to form 1 next year. They have been learning fraction and simultaneous equation for 5 years, suddenly they will have to learn Pecahan and Persamaan serentak! And then, 5 years later, Smart government decide that "o, our students stupid, not competent in english, must teach in english" then our poor students have to revert back to "oxidation and reduction" instead of Pengoksidaan dan Penurunan. Then in the university students use both, because lecturer also dunno english. Then go international buat malu diri sendiri use rojak english. Then Government yang smartest in the world say our Researchers not competent in english, even when the policy of teaching math and science in english is implemented. Then Smartass government decide to cancel the policy again. The cycle goes on until we are behind vietnam, thailand, and of course, singapore.we are already far behind :(

Do something.

Why i don't believe in friendship

Actually don't like to let my ideas out like dat la...but since holiday too free, wat to do?

Friendship...what is it? Kapal Sahabat. a ship is fragile. any storm, iceberg can easily break it. That's y i don't trust friendship.
Some may use friendship to their advantage. I am one example.

I use friendship to my advantage in my form 6 days.

Due to friendship, i tirelessly studied Biology, using 3 different textbooks and the Net to deepen my knowledge, in order to help explain to my friends and help them understand better.

At that time, of course, they are my friends. Good friends, in fact. So u can say the friendship is very strong then.

One question is, where are they NOW?

After STPM, everybody walk their way. I go and read Medicine. Frankie go and read Microbiology. Desmond, Jin Guan and Hong Kiat go to read chemistry. Another number go to some other colleges and universities.

What happen here is, people say that human must move on with their life(ok, at least Frankie said this). I beg to differ. Human must go on with their life but not once must he forget his roots.He or she must not forget his old friends, whom have gone through sweet and sour with them together. Old friends are the ones who will really help you are in trouble.(theoritically la...)


I'm not saying that my friends are not good friends. They were.

during the first year in university, we exchange greetings of forwarded messages via sms. Almost every festival, we do that. Sampai credit handphone almost habis and outbox handphone also penuhwith greetings

2nd year, ada kurang sikit but still ok la...at least the one who u sent forward message to will reply. At least outbox is half full.

3rd year, you send 10 messages, only 3 reply. some say they busy. some say they do this do that. When you holiday, you try to go meet up with them, dah kata sibuk exam pulak. Hari raya pun exam aiz-_-". Only 1 or 2 of your frens remain la....these are your best frens

i wondering what will happen in 4th year, 5th year and so on. Ni baru 3rd year, half of the population of frens dah hilang entah ke mana.

So, where is the "ship" yang evybody loves to say? Last time tiba tiba will get 1 forward message via SMS with one big big "FRIENDSHIP FOREVER". Itu semua karut. No ship last forever.

Reflecting thus, there is no such thing called friendship forever. There is no such thing as friendship. if you really believe in friendship, go find it when you are in trouble. The ship will sail away without you most of the time : ) Trust me.

Human

Last monday i was boarding on the LRT station on the way to KL central when i notice one thing that really disappoint me.

An old man, with 2 bags in his hand,was standing because all the sit is occupied. No one bother to offer their sits to him. No one at all. And a group of sungai wang chao ah bengs was chattering away happily, not even bothering to take note of their surrounding.
This is not the worst thing. A nice guy from about 4 meters away from that old pakcik finally noticed him. He got up,walked over to the pakcik, and offered it to the pakcik who gladfully accepted. but before he could pick up his bags to walk over, a girl, 18 year old at most, with her stupid yellow headphones on, take the sit without even asking!
The girl, i have noticed, have been standing near the nice guy and have even SAW him walk over to offer his sit to the old man. Assuming she is not blind, surely she can do better than "rampas"ing a sit from an old pakcik!

What annoys me the most is, she saw that the guy meant to offer his seat to the poor old pakcik, not to her, who is young, fit(although fat). She's not even pregnant. And she's happily listening and humming away to her stupid musics from her stupid fat headphone, enjoying the seat which is meant for an old man who deserves it. Doesn even feel sorry or guilty for the poor old man.

Its not that i want to bising bising regarding small matter. my sisters will say "biasalah, orang malaysia". But this girl is wat i call a really "tak tahu malu" sort of human. Bad upbringing. Got eye never use, got ear go put headphone listen to stupid music until the brain become numb.Useless human.

I don't blame her. After all, she may have scored an A1 in her Pengetahuan Moral kan...Thats the product of Moral. : )

Describing

Now our education emphasize so much on memorising facts such that a student become rigid.

This bring problem to the students especially when they're in tertiary education level where memorising is useless.

I can only give example from a medical faculty point of view. In pathology, frequently slides are given to students to be interpreted. Students find this difficult because they are not used to describing.

But students can change this. Although they're not taught how to describe in school, they can practice everywhere. For example, when they see Petronas Twin tower, try to describe what you saw. What is it's shape? How tall is it? is it well lighted? Is it separate or combined? If combined, by what means and at wwhich part is it combined together? Thats the way.

understanding History

ask any medical student what History is, they will tell you history of presenting illness la,Medical history surgical history family history obs and gynae history social history and dunno what else history

Ask a for 4 student what is history, immediately the procerus muscle contract and they say :boring subject

Why? Because in SPM level, no core subject is hated more than Pengetahuan Moral and Sejarah. Why? The way they ask questions in sejarah makes no sense and doesn't allow students to say what they think. It is very Rigid. and it will lead students to think that sejarah is just another memorising subject where all you need to do is to memorise facts. The question sound like this : Apakah perbezaan antara kerajaan agragria dengan kerajaan maritim?--> this kind of question relies only on memory,it does not measure the maturity or critical thinking of the student at all. And this question is useless to say the least. Why do i say so? Alright, just say the student know the difference between agragria and maritim. So what? What use is this knowledge in today's world? The student may score an A1 for knowing this, and then what happen? The student will forget it, not even a trace of agragria or maritim in his head. Because he or she have regurgitate it onto SPM paper!

Another question that is frequently asked in the objective part of examination is what year some events happen. This is an equally nonsensical question. Take this for example : Pada tahun apakah stamford raffles membuat perjanjian dengan SUltan johor berkenaan singapura?ok, if the student know what year the agreement happen, so what? He gain nothing from it. What's the point of asking this type of question? To test knowlege? What good does the knowlege on when an event occur? If the event occur 10 years later or 2 years earlier, does it make any difference? In the above question, no matter when the agreement between Johor sultan and Raffles takes place, the incident have happened: Singapore is taken by Raffles. this is more important than asking what year it happen!!!!!

while writing this i dah meluap luap because having taken the history paper myself in spm, i find that it can be applied in many ways in our daily life(especially now, when the politics have turned ugly), but due to the way question is asked in exams for so many years, everybody upon graduating from SPM everybody declare: History=memorising=useless.

So, instead of asking, bilakah Malayan union ditubuhkan or siapa yang tubuhkan malayan union, which rely purely on memory, i suggest history questions be more orientated towards the application of the lesson learnt from the historical event. Example :

Instead of asking bilakah malayan union ditubuhkan, the question should ask "Malayan union ditubuhkan pada tahun so&so dan dibubarkan pada tahun so&so. Apakah pengajaran yang boleh kita pelajari dari pembubaran itu dan bagaimana kita boleh mengelakkan kejadian yang sama dari berulang?" These sound more reasonable, at least, the students can use their critical thinking rather than regurgitating out whatever they memorise. They can apply their knowlegde of history, lesson from the history, into today's world.

another question: Instead of asking : Nyatakan kesan rusuhan kaum 13 Mei 1969, we should ask, apakah peranan generasi muda dalam mengelakkan berlakunya kejadian seumpama, or cadangkan langkah langkah untuk memastikan kejadian di atas tidak berulang.

TEaching method should also be changed. I remember last time, in my form 3, my sejarah teacher question everybody regarding history. Her question sound like that:
Siapa yang memerintah Jepun sebelum Meiji?
I find this absurd. Ok ok i know its Shogun, so what? i think, if she want to ask question, ask something like that?
Antara Shogun dan Meiji, yang mana satu yang anda rasa berkesan dalam pemerintahan sebuah negara? Jelaskan.--> this stimulate critical thinking! instead of knowing who perintah who before when!

Putting all in a nutshell, i think its time History teaching and learning method be reviewed. History is important.

Look at our country now, not one of the politicians have learn from history. History shown that external "campur tangan" bring detrimental effect on sovereignity of our country,but yet 1 or 2 politician go around the world, getting help from the US to speak for him when he got arrested, asking the whole world to speak againts our nation's laws , just to become the premier.

And someone in penang trying to show his "kejantanan" by giving seditious remarks about other race during his ceramah and refusing to apologise.

Why did all these happen?

Because they MEMORISE history, they never LEARN from history.

Ask them when british invade Malaya, they will proudly tell u.

Ask them when racial riot happen, they will more proudly and loudly tell you as well.

But ask them what they learn from history, they give u BULLSHIT. Thats how education have failed us.