1st of all, thanks for leaving comments although i didn't use them at last.
How's my look that day?
I don't have the photos yet, and i took very few photos, by the way.
Anyway, i didn't enjoy the night.
I enjoyed doing girl's stuff in my friend's house in the afternoon that day =)
So, what did our dear G do?Maths & Science in English, Malay or Mother Tongue??Few years back, well, while i was in standard 4 or 5, when the G announced that maths and science would be taught in english, i was happy enough to be one of them.
Why? Simply because i know the fact that the maths and science terms are all translated from english to malay. So, why study the translated one where you know the original language of the terms and they are more accurate in their original language.
Fair enough, primary schools could continue to use their mother tongue to teach them, but they still need to study them in English, which means to add on the poor primary kids burden. However, think about those who are weak in English, for example the people in rural areas and deep inside the jungles somewhere in Malaysia, i bet they said "OH MY GOD!" or they don't even know this phrase. So, how the hack can they do? Protest. Say NO. And, it failed for all these years... until recently, the G actually finally agrees with the people that say NO.
My words? I definitely think that this is stupid. Why? This is simply because i've been through this and i definitely think that it works, not in the improving language sense, but more effective way of passing on the knowledge. You would argue that "that's because your BM is bad, doesn't mean that the others' English is good." Well, i can write, speak and understand BM which is good enough. However, if you want me to say "oksida" instead of "oxide", or "asimilasi" instead of "assimilation"... er, can i say NO this time?
OK, back to the main objective of taking this step, to improve English (is this the objective?). Well, i agree with what the people suggested in the papers, like increase English lessons. I definitely agree that primary education, which is the basic is really important. I remember i had 3 periods, which is less than 3hours per week of English lesson. Do you think that's enough? Hence, i think that this can solve the problem that rural areas students cannot speak and understand English. If they don't learn since young, how are they going to study in the future? Don't tell me all of them are going to take Degree in BM, Malay Lit and whatever related to BM. Are they that semangat towards BM? I doubt.
So, what i think is the G should actually ask not only the opinions of the professions (so called), but also the students that are taught in English themselves. Their comments and opinions are definitely much more accurate. Now? Too late. It will take them another decade to change this policy again. Poor students.
Oh ya, not to mention, the money that the G spend to subsidise our dear teachers that are teaching the students Maths and Science in English, i personally think that they're unnecessary. I don't see the point of doing it. Whether the G is subsidising them or not, it's their responsibility to teach in English, to improve their English ages ago in University and their need to improve their English. Sorry if i offense them but it's the truth. (I don't see some of them teaching in English nor make the students understand with their so called English, too.)
OK, perhaps i may be not so right with my opinions. THIS IS A FREE COUNTRY. I'm just saying for the sake of doing so.
Road BlocksI know, protest, NO ISA. Then? Did road blocks stop the protest? Did road blocks reduce the number of people attending the protest (well, perhaps yeah...)?
So, last Friday morning, we're stuck for half an hour while trying to drive through not-more-than-5-minutes-drive distance. We saw P standing there nicely dressed up, holding a gun somemore, but doing some stupid action like 'jalan' sign.
Hello, it's a Friday MORNING. Everyone needs to go to work and school. Then why do you think that the protest was on a Saturday? They wanna work, too. So do you think having roadblocks on the nice fine Friday morning help? This makes people moan and complain about the P and G. "They aren't that efficient when there's a robbery happening around." "Eat finish nothing to do"(direct translate from Cantonese) "Nerves not working well"(tried to translate from Cantonese) and so on...
Saturday, i couldn't go to college by car just because of roadblocks. I ended up taking STAR (which i didn't wait for long to go in) and Monorail (which i waited for around 10minutes). I was just on time when i entered the class. So, normal people like me, started to complain about the roadblocks again. Nice enough, after i finished my class, i saw the river next to my college, Klang River, running smoothly as usual. Next to the river... Huh?? "What happened to that road?" That's the Federal Highway, and the way to KL city centre is TOTALLY CLEAR. Not even a single car or motorcycle was there. Can you imagine a highway with no vehicles on it on a weekend morning?
At night, i watched the news. Nice enough again, i saw people protesting, P controlling the situation and so on. So, it's not working after all. Hello, there's something call LRT. The G themselves develop it kind of good enough for people to use it. Waste the tax payers' money, the car owners' petrol, time, losses for businesses that were affected that day. Is that all the G can do to stop the protest? Oh ya, the best part, "If they wanna protest, they can do it in places such as stadium. Jeritlah sepuas-puas hati yang mereka nak."
This is, the G.
