Mid-year exam, Day 1

While the Malay papers went swimmingly for most of the people, it was quite a problem to me. Paper 1 was fine. I finished the paper pretty quickly because I had a problem regarding my bladders. They were near to explosion but I endeavoured not to pee in the class. It's extremely embarassing if you decided to release the pressure in the class instead of politely asking to go to the loo. Paper 2 was the killer paper. Novel was fine, but I wouldn't be confident to get anymore than 11 marks. Rumusan was....outlandish. KOMSAS was terrible. I never read Hikayat Siak, and hence my result will be abominable. Tatabahasa was another problem. Overall, the percentage of passing Malay is 30%, while the percentage to get an A is zero.

Tomorrow papers: Bahasa Cina. Where the hell is my coffin???

Random

1. Mr. Tor will be transfered to SMKTP. He is going to be the principal of the school and he'll be seating on a chair that is highly revered but strongly hated. Anyone sitting on the chair in question is deemed annoying, troublesome, and sickening. Whatever. He's going to transfer to another school, so the position he's holding in our school will be replaced by another teacher, and if the new PK T6 is Pn. Kok, I'll not study F6. Oh, did I mention my father works at SMKTP?

2. Everybody has been lamenting about the incompetence of Mr. Lee, the plump guy (to sound polite) who sits in his office everyday and a person who has piles of work to deal with until he doesn't even have spare time to give us the time table for the mid-year examination. All he does is sitting on his chair and posting the time table on the website and ignoring all the complaints thrown furiously at him. I hate to say this, but he's a lousy PK. He defends his dignity when he's challenged, and does everything he's capable of to make sure school gets the sum of money he aims.

3. My terrible biology teacher has come after her labour and she does nothing except asking us to do exercises while she slowly walks from the basin to her seat to check the PEKA and then slowly and lazily takes the files and open them and then place them aside with a speed almost impossible to be calculated using any apparatus available in the lab owing to its extreme slow movement.

4. Being a monitor is horrible, you basically have to put out with all your classmates. Sometimes they simply do not cooperate and this further exacerbates your already terrible work. And when they don't cooperate and you ignore them, they later put the blame on you. WTF monitors are not people who serve you, they are representative of the classes in any occassions.

5. Mid-year examination is around the corner and I'm not ready yet. Five caskets are ready: three for three sciences and two for Additional Mathematics and Sejarah. First aid kits are already prepared - thanks to my friend who sponsored me, and if you want to use them, help yourself - for the rest of the subjects which have 95% chances of failing.

6. I thought Malaysians are bad at English, but turns out Taiwanese are worse. The way they learn English is totally wrong! I don't know what principal they based on and what grammar rules they use, they 'sophistically' analyse the sentence and end up having a conclusion like "what to do = how to do it", they say both phrase are the same in meaning. Huh?

7. Camping in school, but no overnight staying - what's the point?

8. Realise I've been aggressive and easily annoyed recently. Probably because of a person I've tried to tolerate for months and still continue to do so. Anyway, learning to be patient and calm are also teachings we simply have to learn and apply in our daily lives for a better life.

Inactive

I'll be quite busy for the next few days, but as usual I'll update my daily status during the Mid-year Examination. I'll regale you with my stories about the mid-year examination, whether I survive the heavy piles of questions or suffocate under the heavy loads of it. Future cannot be predicted accurately, but I sense something ominous lurking ahead and beckoning me to it.

Whatever transpires later, and no matter how horrible your results are, remember: our aim is SPM, not mid-year exam. The result of our SPM is the pivotal turning point of our lives. If we get good results, good future awaits us; If we get bad results, our future ends with 2012.

Anyway, I'll update my blog as usual beginning May 13, if nothing untowards occur.

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!!!