Malaysia's Retarded Education System

So the government wants to know what people are feeling through blogs. Here's my opinion about the retarded education system which I had been trying to suppress for a long time.

As a student, I find ourselves studying too many unneccesary subjects. Taking Pendidikan Moral is a waste of time and energy and spaces of mind. So what if we can answer them in practical? You cannot guarantee students who study Moral will act morally.

So what if we study Sivics?

Three lessons of Sivics (I guess) and three lessons of Pendidikan Moral a week are simply wasting students' precious time. Studying Sivics and Moral are pointless, you can try to brainwash people, but I can guarantee you your brainwashing is so far ineffective and, worse, making students hate studying. So much for trying to make studying interesting!

However, all the important subjects, like Biology and Physics, are only given 4 lessons a week, while the unnecessary and redundant subjects like Moral are given 3 soporofic lessons a week. Why?

We have a lot of things to cover in three Sciences: Biology, Chemistry and Physics, and four lessons a week is not enough.

Why do I say the time is sparse? Well, let's see: First Monthly Test falls on March, and the holiday follows, and when the school reopens, it takes a week time to go through and discuss about the test papers. Almost one month gone.

Mid-year examination falls on May, which takes 2/3 weeks and 2 weeks of holidays follow. Another one month ago.

When school reopens during June, a week is used to go through the papers, and hence only one week left for June. And after three weeks of studying, here comes the Second Monthly Test, and another two weeks in July are gone.

Year-end examination falls on September and it takes 3 weeks, and it take another 1 week (minimum) to go through the papers.

As a conclusion, because of the seemingly unfinished examinations, 3 months in a year are wasted, and if November and December are included, only 8 months are left to cover all the syllabus.

And let's do the calculations: 4 lessons of Physics a week, one month we have 16 lessons and 8 months we will have 8x16 = 128 lessons a year, excluding any unforeseen events like talks, sukan tara, exams, 4 lessons are used for useless PEKA, leaving the remaining lessons around 90.

A teacher would know how confusing the subjects can be and how long it takes to cover a subtopic. To cover a subtopic in a chapter in Biology, it takes around 2 lessons. So for Form 6 Biology Chapter 6 "Nutrition", because of its incredibly wide syllabus, it usually takes a teacher to finish the chapter in 2 months time.

Imagine this, it takes 2 months to finish a chapter, and the remaining 8 chapters are needed to be covered in the remaining 6 months. And any teachers would know it's impossible.

And what's more funny is students are required to construct an experimental report without performing any experiments, it's like asking a students to complete an add.maths questions without writing any solutions.

This is simply ridiculous.

What about Sejarah? Let's see: 3 lessons a week, 12 lessons a month, 96 lessons a year, and how many chapters we have in Form 4? Umm...OMG! 10 Chapters! And how long is 1 chapter? It's about....OMG 35 pages....

Every teachers in the universe knows it's impossible to cover the syllabus in one-year time, ergo students are required to study the uncovered chapters by themselves, including Additional Mathematics.

This is the retarded education system in Malaysia: where a student needs to attend 6 hypnotic classes a week, sparse lessons of three sciences and two mathematics, and unrelenting stress owing to endless exams.

Sukan Tara

As expected, we were assigned to complete 200m as our first set of the sports. This is insane, stupid and a tremendous torture for all of us. Running 200m as our warm up? No wonder yellow house loses every year.

Well, 200m was quite easy for all of us. I was in the first round, or first group of students, who runned and when the whistle was blown, I was not ready. But gladly, I was the first to finish the run! Yeah!

But, here came the bad news, most of our legs were weak and trembling, owing to the huge and painful torture, one which many people perceived and agreed as the worst warm-up a person could do. The next set was high jump, which most of us failed to jump, thanks to our weakened leg. Asking us to run when our legs were trembling? No matter how you deadened your leg, you still can't jump because they were still under stress.

Before our legs gained back its stability, we had to complete 100m. Another painful stress, and as a result, only 6 of us got the marks.

Then, while our legs were still weak, we had to have long jump, and the standard set by the teacher was insanely high. As a result, only 2 of us reached the target - barely.

Last stop, shot put. The metal ball was expectedly heavy. The heavy load was a burden and therefore not many of us managed to reach the target.

The sheer happiness felt at the beginning of the event was quickly replaced by the massive disappointment later. No much thanks to the school who always scheduled us to complete 200m as a warm-up.

Then later, tug-of war. What to say? All of our representers were either lanky or pasky looking or emaciated....Haiz...

Malaysian Have Best English in Asia?

I really don't know how to formulate a word to describe my feeling when I read the news. I was, though exuberant, momentarily stunned by the seemingly impossible news.

It says that Malaysia has the highest proficiency in English in Asia and ranked nineth internationally where English is not the mother tongue. I have to say - I'm stunned.

I agree some Malaysians are great in English, they can speak flawless English and construct discombobulating compound sentences and even translate English into other languages without leaving out any important points and able to retain its liveliness. But, toping Asia in English is a little bit flattering.

What about India? Indians have good command of English too. What about Hong Kong?? Phillippine?

If Malaysians really have that so-called good English, I would surely be on cloud nine. But based on my observations in Malaysia, though Malaysians have good English, it has not reached the standard that is considered 'high proficiency'.

I really like the compliment, but I find it a little flattering. I just don't buy the result.

I'm not betraying Malaysia nor am I discouraging Malaysians - let me make things clear - I'm just saying the results are a little faulty and Malaysia does not have the greatest command of English in Asia - not yet.

The Truth Behind Meat Production

This video is simply sickening and it shows how cruel people can be when they strive for money.

This is sick. I know eating meats is part of the ecosystem, but the way they handle it is cruel and deserved to be punished under law.

Seriously, I might consider being a vegeterian, or a vegan if necessary. Watch the video!

I couldn't even finish the first 3 minutes. The video shows how pigs are cruelly treated and slaughtered. To kill them, they hit the pig on the floor, with full force, until the pigs die, or they hang the pig upside down and strangle them to death, or they hang them and slit their throats and let them bleed to death, while the pigs squeak sadly and painfully.

I can feel the pain the pigs feel. I do not understand why they can't. This is really sick.

Meat-eaters should watch this video!!!!!!

This type of people, if bludgeoned to death, do not deserve any sympathy! And I'll even mock them on my blog. SICK!!!

Diary Of The Week

Okay. I'm gonna briefly talk about what transpired last week.

4-4-2011 (Monday)
Nothing much interesting happened. First two lessons were Biology, and we were having our Biology lesson. I really hate to say this, but NBK's English is abominable. The only good thing about that was her determination to learn English, even if she realised her English is horrible to the point our mind distorted in agony. The lessons, or one hour of twenty minutes of speaking, I've zeroed in my attention on her teaching, and I heard no complete sentence or grammatically correct sentence. Looks like she needs some brushing. But of course, she's 1000xxxx much better than Najwa.

Next two lessons: English. OMG Susan literally read the novel in the class. Imagine this: your English teacher, who's trying to teach you literature, reads the novel words by words, rows by rows, sentences by sentences, pages by pages to you. And here's the effect: half of the class were drifting off, another one quarter doing their respective works, impervious to the teaching, and the rest listening to her tedious reading, endeavour not to fall asleep. The other lessons were fine, if boring, and the day ended with tons of unfinished Additional Mathematics with the unrelenting stress pertaining to the Graduation Magazine.

5-4-2010 (Tuesday)


Exceedingly short assembly owing to the absence of principal. Two lessons of exceptionally boring Chemistry lesson thanks to the hypnotic Chemistry teacher and one lesson of useless Moral began the uninteresting day. I did my Chinese oral that day. I volunteered to be the first because I hated waiting. So after I had done my oral and I could sit on my chair fidgeting or sleeping while the others were waiting while their hearts pounding like hell and their sweat glands kept secreting excess sweat and their legs went wobbly and numb. I deadened my leg and did my oral, and I did quite well admittedly. The day went on as usual later.



To be continued......

Please Do Not Abolish PPSMI

As the title suggested, I would like to talk about the hot talks about the cancellation of PPSMI. It is, indeed, a sad news for all students. Teaching Mathematics and Science in English is undeniably a very important approach for Malaysia to improve, to ensure Malaysia's education system is on the par with the world's standard and to make sure Malaysia is not left behind in the world of education.

Unfortunately, two years ago, they had been discussion about PPSMI, saying teachers found it exceedingly challenging to teach these two subjects in English, and therefore a commotion was born, and after they made waves, PPSMI is abolished, effective next year. I find this move preposterous and screamingly stupid. Here's my opinion:

Yes, it is indeed very difficult to learn them in English. But that should not be the reason that hinder our learning. Malays - as mentioned by every people, I do not know the true facts - find it difficult to learn them in English, and say it's already mind-boggling trying to learn Maths and Science in Malay, and it's more difficult to learn them in English. But, have they considered, Chinese and Indians and every other races too have troubles learning Maths and Science in English. We've been criticised very often and sometimes slated for our inaccuracy in writing our answers. My teacher once told me: "You understand the concept, but you can't write them because your English is not good. What you wrote is not what you wanted to deliver'. Learning Maths and Science in English, though difficult, should not be a reason for PPSMI to be abolished.

Learning them is hard, but if we want to improve, we have to face them with bravery and determination. Again, it is indeed true China, Japan and Korea are able to be developed countries even though they learn them in their own language. But please note that Malaysians are not as disciplined and hard-working as them. And I don't understand why they brought this up in the first place. So what if they learn Maths and Science in their own language? Why do we have to follow them? Why do we have to look at this angle? Why can't we see learning Maths and Science in English as a mean to improve, a route to success, a journey to victory?

I'm not trying to be offensive, but Malaysia has not achieved what Japan, Korea and China do. Don't compare ourselves with them yet.

And, 6 years is too soon to say PPSMI fails to work. Most students who studied Maths and Science in English, even the first batch of students, have not graduated from university and contribute to the society. They're still learning. How do you know PPSMI failed? Based on what?

6 years is, as I mentioned earlier, way too soon to say it's not working. Please don't abolish PPSMI, for the sake of Malaysian, please don't!

Illicit Act

If you think buying cigarettes is unorthodox or obscene, try this: selling cigarettes to underaged children discreetly. I chanced upon this illicit act when I was queeing up buying something at a driving school. The two boys in front of me who were looking a little nervous and the woman sitting on a chair by the counter made some contact I did not decipher, and later the woman took out a box of cigarette and took out a cigarette, threw it on the table, and took RM1 from the boy. The other boy requested 2, and paid RM2 for them. A lighter was tied at the counter, and they lit their cigarette there. Selling cigarette to underaged children is strictly prohibited in Malaysia, and their illicit act is highly condoned. If they are caught by the police, they'll be charged and the prosecution is undoubtedly severe and painful. Maybe I should have exposed them to the police, but I don't have the guts. Hopefully someone will bring their action to light, and give them punishments for violating the law.