Hiatus

This blog will be on a hiatus. In other words, hibernate, for an unknown amount of time due to unforseen cinrcumstances.

I'm completely devastated today... I'll leave this post with something I wanna say to someone.

Who is the one who is there for you when you have relationship problems last time?
Who is the one who accompanied you when you are bored?
Who is the listener to your complains?
Who is the one who stayed on your side and give advices during your hard times?
Who is the one you called 'kor kor'?
I never forget what you did for me.
You are my loyal friend, my perfect listener.
My 'mei mei'...
I'm sorry for hurting you seven months ago.
Please think about it...

To my readers,
I'm sure that the someone the above words is aimed for won't see this.
But don't leave comments asking me questions of what happened.
Comments to show support will be appreciated.
I'm completely devastated...

Life sucks!
My luck sucks!
I don't blame that someone for putting me in misery.
I blame GOD for giving me such fate!

Big game player?

It's 2:30am and I'm blogging here. Just finished watching 3 football matches in a row. Phew! It's been a while since I did that.

This morning, or should I say yesterday morning (Saturday morning), I went to play football at Acmar field. Planned to go Kwang Hua but the guard won't even let current students in, let alone former students. Heard that the principal don't want too much of co-curiculum for his students wor... -_-"

This is the first time in almost 2 months that I've played football on a real field. Since that day I said wanna take a break from football, I've only played futsal, and once in a while played 'mini-football' on the basketball court opposite my house. Really long time don't have that 'grassy' feeling under my legs already. lol

One thing, the condition of the Acmar field sucks! The side of the field near to the Acmar Kindergarden is okay, but the other side nearer to the road is almost not a football field. Aiks. I surveyed that part before the game and I knew I won't step onto that side of the pitch.

For the first half, we attacked towards the better side of the field. So yeah! I've only attacked and never defend at all for the first half. Our opponents, from what I heard, are one of the best set of players in Form 4 this year. We led 5-0 after the first half... Not quite sure of that, maybe they just had an off day, or maybe they are attacking on the bad side of the field. But really, we exploited some of their weaknesses.

I didn't play the second half, coz its kinda hot already, and I started to feel a bit of 'lagness'. Long time no play football, sure will lag a bit lar, get tired fast. So it's their turn to attack on the good side of the field while we get the opposite. The game ended 9-2...

Okay, pro people won't get so many goals in football matches but that's what we are, always lots of goals.

I scored a goal! A fluke goal by the way, but it's still a goal! I wanted to cross the ball. None of my teammates gets to it. I heard their defenders told their goalie to let go of the ball for a goal kick. So everyone just stood there and look at the ball. But wait... It didn't go out. It went in! Goal!!! I don't how to react at first. Kinda don't believe that their goalkeeper just let my poor cross went into the goal.

Haha! Once again I scored in a big match. Hmm... I not sure lar, but I find my record in big matches (where there are 2 teams playing a 'competitive' match with first half and second half) pretty good. When I just play in those 'cincai-cincai' matches, I don't always score goals. But when it comes to big matches, I will play better, sometimes even score goals! Maybe it's the motivation, but surely there's quite a lot of luck in there too. xD

Then again, I played significantly less football these days. Those 'cincai-cincai' matches doesn't appeal me anymore. Not 'hang price', just lazy to play. I will only play in those odd 'big' matches that occur once in a while. Looking forward to challenge today's opponents again.

Hehe... I've changed from that regular football player, to the occasional football player. No longer a football fanatic or football crazy. That's my image to some over the past few years. Haiz... Just looking to shred of that tag. I am not a football crazy! :)

2011

Yeah! I mean 2011. Please don't thought that I wanted to mean '2012' the movie and that I've mis-typed my title. But why 2011???

Flip the papers today (or for some, you don't even need to flip coz it's on the first page), you will see something like this: Science and Maths in BM from 2011 onwards. In July this year, the Education Ministry said this plan will be from 2012 onwards. Now it's carried forward for a year. Quite a significant amount of people disagreed about this plan at first place. Carried forward a year? Oh well...

I decided to interview a person who is one of the many people who disagreed with this plan in order to get an in-depth view of this issue. And the person is......

ME!

Oh... Not again!!! (For those who don't know what I mean by 'not again', please check back my final post in September)





Q: You disagree with teaching Science and Maths in BM?
A: Erm... There's always good and bad in everything... And I think...

Q: One word, yes or no?
A: Please allow me to finish my sentence lar...

Q: I said, in one word, yes or no?
A: Okay... Yes. I disagree.

Q: That's 4 words.
A: Oh whatever...

Q: Why disagree?
A: First of all, English is an international language. Learning Science and Maths in English will benefit students in the long run. Especially for those ambitious ones, if they work overseas, of course must speak English lar! Imagine in a overseas conference, a Malaysian scientist goes on stage and says 'Tabung Uji'. Oh my god, how do you expect everyone to understand that? Of course must say 'Test Tube'. Right? Science and Maths in English was introduced with the point of improving the standard of English. And now they say they will revert back to Science and Maths in BM and will continue to improve the standard of English? Ain't that like slapping own face?

Q: But results in the past few years has shown that the standard of English has not improved, and in fact students' performance in Science and Maths has dropped.
A: That, I think, has got something to do with the teachers. Teachers need time to adjust to teaching these 2 subjects in English. And it takes time. They started teaching these 2 subjects in English in 2003, and so happened that I went into form 1 in 2003, so I'm in the first batch of students under this plan. Honestly, I can see that some teachers are still not up to the standard of teaching these 2 subjects in English yet. Just when teachers might be starting to get used to this plan, the Education Ministry has decided to revert back to the old formula again.

Q: It is also known that the cost of teaching Science and Maths in English over the years doesn't produce equivalent results in students' performances. That's also a reason why the plan is reverted.
A: But now that the plan is reverted. Ain't that requires a high cost as well? Textbooks has to be re-written, teachers need to be retrained. And try to think from a teacher's perspective. Aren't they gonna feel that its a waste for them for training to teach in English? For some who just started teacher training in the past few years, they might have to throw away what they have learnt in English and start all over again in BM. And let's not forget the time and cost of re-training.

Q: Bahasa Malaysia is our official language. Are you forgetting that?
A: I didn't say it should be neglected. We have Sejarah and Geografi in BM. That is reasonable as in those 2 subjects, basically we learn about our own country. But for Science and Maths, it's an international knowledge.

Q: At the start of the interview, you said something about there's good and bad in everything... Does that mean you actually feel that this new plan has it's good point as well? Can you explain that?
A: Hah! Now you want me to explain!

Q: Well then just do so! Okay... My bad...
A: The thing I find good about this plan is that Science and Maths in primary schools will be fully taught in mother language. Primary students will now need not learn these 2 subjects in 2 languages. This is something I would agree.

Q: So can you tell me, in your mind, what is the perfect plan for teaching these 2 subjects?
A: Ever since the first day, my opinion is that Science and Maths being teached in the mother language in primary schools, and English in secondary schools. This would enable students to have a basic about these subjects in their familiar language, and then build on from there with an international language.

Q: In other words, are you saying that you have been studying in your so called 'perfect formula'?
A: Absolutely, I studied these 2 subjects in my mother tongue for primary school, and then in English in secondary school. And I'm proud of it, as I will now go into the history books of Malaysia for being 1 of only 10 batches of students to ever being in this 'perfect formula'! Haha! ^^

Q: ......





(The opinions in this post are solely the writer's.)

My Kwang Hua Journey (Part 2)

Its time to rewind again. My high school memories. Coming next in my personal best memories, it has got to be FOOTBALL!!!

4th: GOOOAAALLL!!!

The year was 2005, when I was in form3, we held a football tournament between classes, and my class happens to be the organizer for that year's event.

It was my class' first match, I'm playing on the left-wing, kind of forgotten what happened, but I know it was chaotic in front of our opponent's goal, so many players in there, I was there, and I saw my team-mate had a shot, and I saw their goalkeeper punched the ball away, away to where??? Towards me!!! The goal was just around 2 meters away from me, without second thoughts, more like a reflex action, I put out my left leg, kicked the ball, and it went into the net... well, no nets, just a goal-frame. Its the first goal of the match.

It turns out to be our last as well. We went on and lose the match 2-1. But we went on and on in the tournament, all the way until the final, and we got beaten in the final. And me, I got a runner-up's trophy. Here's the picture of the trophy...
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Err... No need lar... Just a small piece of silver-coloured plastic trophy anyway.

Why is the goal so memorable for me? Well... I've played football since primary 6, I scored goals too. But up until then, I have never participated in competitions of any form. Yeah alright, this is just a very small form3 inter-class competition. Nevertheless, its still my first competition! Furthermore, I scored the first goal in my first ever competitive match! Woohoo. ^^

Coming soon: My 3rd favourite moment of my high school life.

Weekend of Mine

Lots of things to blog about this weekend. Can't choose which 1 to blog about, so I blog it all! It will take me hours to write if I decided to write it all in detail, so below are things that I feel blog-worthy over my weekend, compiled, compressed, and straight to the point. And it shows multiple sides of my life!


Chapter 1: Movie-goer


Yesterday I went to BBK Jusco to watch 'Sorority Row'. Hot girls in a thriller story, it's movie at its best! Haha.


From usual people point of view: The killer must be crazy. Such a good student, destroyed his future by killing so many people cruely for his girlfriend who didn't even tell him to do so.


From my point of view: Although he is cruel for killing so many people, putting his seemingly bright future on the line, but think about it, he did it because he loved his girlfriend a lot and don't want anybody other than the 2 of them to know her dark secret. Okay, I'm not saying guys must murder people to show his love for his girlfriend. Lolz. But to girls, think about it, that's how much a guy can love a girl. (I'm saying this for all the guys out there!!!)


Chapter 2: Politcal Awareness


Do you think that MCA is making chinese angry? (try figuring out something in the question.) Ooops... But finally, the power struggle between Ong and Chua has come to an end, or at least, that's my hope.


Based on yesterday's voting results, both of them are to leave their respective posts. Giving a chance for a new leadership. Both of them are capable, both of them are worthy of their previous posts, it's a waste that both of them had to leave, but it's also a fact that both of them can't work together anymore, and if either 1 were to stay, there will be a group of party members who will be against him.


And so the best, although harsh, solution for this whole problem, is for both of them to step down. This is to prevent further cracks in the party.


Soon a new leader will be decided. Not sure how it will be decided. Not sure who will be the leader. But for sure the foremost important job for this new leader will be to unite the party, and earn back the Chinese's support for MCA.

Chapter 3: Sportsman

This morning I went to a 6km run organised by Centro Mall. My first, and perhaps, only official run this year.

Last month we had a mini-run as well, along the same route. I used that as a benchmark for today. Last time around, I finished it in 40 minutes. I've set my target to finish in 30 minutes this time.

Tough one... Anyway, did I achieve my target......?

The answer is...

Sadly, no. Still some way off. My time today is 38 minutes. Got improvement though. So nvm lar... Run for fun only mar. Some more got a certificate, not bad already lar... Hehe.

Just train 2 times over the past week, yet already I managed to slash my time by 2 minutes. What if I train regularly??? Man I got potential!!! xD

But no matter how, it's still no match for the elite runners. In fact, nowhere near them. The champion for my open category finished the race in merely 17 minutes! Less than half of my time. Soon after, got lucky draw. Okay, end of story for this. You know what I mean...

Chapter 4: Food-aholic

Who says skinny people don't like to eat? I enjoy food and I eat a lot of them! But I only enjoy food that I enjoy. Man what am I saying?

Okay... I don't enjoy pork. Fact or fiction? Fact! Not only me, my parents too doesn't enjoy too much of pork. Bah Kut Teh... Usually we eat it without pork. (Shoot me if you want here) Today, we ate it with pork. More importantly, I ate pork, lots of them!!!

Maybe some might still be unimpressed. Cheh! I'm Chinese mar, some more I'm from Klang, the origin of Bah Kut Teh, eat Bak Kut Teh very suprising meh?

Here's something special. This Bak Kut Teh is called 'String-tied Bah Kut Teh' (宝香绑线肉骨茶). Got strings 1 ler... clap clap*

The location is inside Centro Mall. Yeah, me and my dad went back home after the run and then go back there again. The boss turns out to be my mom's cousin brother. Its special because of the 'strings'. What are the strings for? I'm not sure. I didn't get to see the strings coz they cut it before serving. Maybe because today there's too many customers, so they too busy to cut it after serving onto our table. But my dad saw the 'strings' before. Lolz.

Well... I judge Bah Kut Teh by its soup. And I can say this is good! If not tasty then won't open another few more shops lar... (There's one in Berkeley, and another in Puchong I think...)

Worth a try! But got service charge ya!!! Because got air-cond mar, you know...

Freedom

Freedom!!!

I'm done with my one and only mid-term paper. Well... basically it seems like freedom for me everyday coz I never ever get tensed up before even the major final exams, let alone a mid-term paper. I'm always on relax mode. Doing last minute studying... Hey I don't call myself 'Last Minute King' for nothing ok? Not trying to brag here lar... But really, its not that I don't wanna get serious, the fact is that I have an inability to get serious! You ask me to get all bumped up for an exam, reading this... memorizing that... I can't do it. Some say I very 'geng' because everytime I don't seem to study much but yet I still pass all my subjects, but I see that as to why I merely passed my exams everytime and not achieving better. Anyway... Pass is good enough for me. The higher the hopes, the bigger the chance for an upset. :)

Time to chill...

And for once I've changed the song on my playlist. Err... 'Diary of Jane' seems a bit too hard for my mood now. Lolz. So I share my mood with a song in which the chorus is the easiest chorus to get stuck in ones head. xD

'Shawty's like a melody in my head
that I can't keep out
got me singing like
na na na na everyday
it's like my iPod's stuck replay, replay-ay-ay-ay......'

Formula One Merry-Go-Round

Alright! The so-called 'worst-kept secret' of Formula One is not a secret anymore. My favourite F1 driver Fernando Alonso is going to Ferrari next year. This sparked the start of a driver 'merry-go-round' among the F1 teams for next season.

Today, the man to replace Alonso at Renault has also been revealed. He's Robert Kubica, who was forced to look for a new team after his current team, BMW, decided to pull out of F1 after this season.

Fernando Alonso

Robert Kubica

And those are two confirmed moves to date. But all the signs point to Ferarri's Kimi Raikkonen is moving to McLaren to partner Lewis Hamilton.

Wow! If that turns out to be true, then next year will surely be a blockbuster year for F1. We will have the top 4 drivers (in terms of driving skills) driving for the top 2 teams! The 4 drivers I mean here are Alonso (Ferarri), Fillipe Massa (Ferarri), Hamilton (McLaren), and Raikkonen (McLaren). F1's biggest rivals Alonso and Hamilton can once again have a 'bloody' fight for the driver's championship. Haha! Also let's not forget the 2 drivers that has turned F1 around this season: Jenson Button (Brawn GP) and Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull Racing). For sure they will also be in the hunt for the driver's championship.

Jenson Button

Don't forget, next year we will also have our own Malaysian team in F1, called Lotus 1Malaysia F1 Team. Okay... No matter how many tax-payers out there grumbling about the government burning their money in this sport, I'm fully behind the government's decision to join this sport. Simply because I will finally have a team to cheer for next season! Hehe... Perhaps I'm saying this because I don't have to pay any tax right now. But hey... who cares? Since I ain't paying any tax, so just enjoy watching a Malaysian team in F1 lar! From the viewpoint of an F1 fan, this is just gonna be exciting. >.<

Haha! Although this season hasn't ended, I'm already looking forward to next season.

Anyway, here are some of my blind predictions for next season's F1:

~ Alonso to pip his deadly rival Hamilton to the world title.

~ Raikkonen once again had a bad year and loses his passion for F1, then walk away from the sport to join rally racing

~ Lotus 1MF1 to finish ahead of other 3 new teams.

~ Fairuz Fauzy to drive for Lotus 1MF1.

~ And his partner, one of the three drivers below:

Alex Wurz

Christian Klien

Anthony Davidson

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Aiks... Leg pain now. Why??? Bcoz I went jogging yesterday. What??? Yeah, jogging...

Haha. Went to stadium to jog yesterday. Wanna prepare for this Sunday's Centro 6km run. Well... Long time no exercise already. That's why leg will pain after jogging. lol

Luckily today and tomorrow no class...

But Friday exam!!! Haven't prepare also... Dunno what to read ler...

My Kwang Hua Journey (Part 1)

Hello! This is the first of a series of posts about my secondary school (SMJK Kwang Hua) life. Fisrt of all, why am I doing this? Haha. Because this coming 31st of October, I would have graduated from secondary school for a full 2 years! It just seems like I graduated yesterday by the way. Time flies... No no, time teleports, coz it happened in a blink of an eye. xD

No doubts about it, looking back, I had lots of memories in Kwang Hua, good ones and bad ones, everybody does.

I took time out to think about it, and share with you guys here, my top five memories of my 5-year journey in Kwang Hua.

5th: Skipping My Add Maths Exam.

Throughout the final 2 years of secondary school, the subject 'Add Maths' has been my worst nightmare. Studying in Science class, I had no interest in that subject whatsoever. During Add Maths lesson, I don't listen to what the teacher teaches, neither do I ever did his homework. And also, my Add Maths teacher happened to be my form teacher. (Paiseh ya, Mr. Lim. Hehe.)

I tried to catch up with the subject, once, and it was totally against my will. But somehow in the end, my instinct ruled. I can't understand this subject, and I told myself: 'Oh come on! This is not my subject. It never was, it never will be.'

I quit Add Maths. I decided to drop that subject for SPM.

In form 4, I sat for the mid-year and year-end exams as I can't drop the subject at that time. My marks for that two exams are 2% and 1% respectively. Don't get shocked here, the percentages are really out of 100%. Phew! Luckily I don't have to live that nightmare all over again in form 5, coz I managed to drop the subject.

One memorable thing for me that happened during this whole 'Add Maths Nightmare' was that I skipped an Add Maths exam while I was in form 4! I remember that day, there's a government trial exam for the subject. The day before, me and one of my buddy, Sern Tat, had planned to skip that exam. Early in the morning, I reached school before him. I waited for him at the pondok, and then we sneaked out! Hehe. We went for breakfast at a nearby mamak, changed our clothes, then go to a cyber cafe, then walked to Klang Parade to kill some time. We even planned our route carefully to avoid meeting some 'obstacles'. Lolz!

Both of us did a silly thing. Guess what, we changed back our clothes in an open garden before we went back to school! Anyway, it's an empty garden and basically no one saw us changing.

After that, when school dismissal time is up, we walked back to school. My transport came to pick me as if I just had another day in school! Shhh... xD

By the way, I'm a good boy. This is one of just very very very few times that I've ponteng sekolah, and my only time ponteng exam. I know I'm wrong, but...... okay... >.<

Haha! That's my number five secondary school memory. There's more to come and more posts to follow! ^^

(Note to my buddy Sern Tat: If you see this, sorry fo mentioning your name up there. lol Don't mind rite? Hehe. Nice experience mar, share share lar.)

Happy Mooncake Festival!

Happy mooncake festival, or lantern festival, or whatever you call it... By the way, it should be Mid-Autumn festival. -_-"

Okay... Now I gonna switch to 'emo' mode...

Traditional mooncakes, lanterns, candles... Gone are those days.

Nowadays,

Traditional 'lotus-paste' mooncakes have been slowly replace by fancy variety flavoured mooncakes.

Sitting in the house compound under the full moonlight drinking tea has been replaced by BBQ parties drinking colas.

And the lanterns... and candles... I've seen them... I've played them... When I was young...

From paper lanterns, to plastic lanterns, then battery-operated lanterns, and now...

No lanterns...

From children holding lanterns in their house compound during lantern festival last time, to holding play-station consoles in their room during lantern festival these days, just like any other day.

Where is the traditional value of Lantern/Mooncake/Mid-Autumn festival these days???

Half past 19

The guy in the above picture is half past 19... He's in his final 6 months before stepping into his twenties... And he's terrified just by the thought of it...