Showing posts with label Opinion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Opinion. Show all posts

Hulu Selangor By-Election Eve

3:18 PM ~YaNg YanG~
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Disclaimer: below is the author's opinion on political issue.

Oh yeah, tomorrow is the Hulu Selangor by-election which is so near Tanjong Malim. As everyone knows, this by-election is to find a candidate to replace PKR MP Zainal Abidin, who died last month. This is going to be an interesting battle-Barisan Nasional versus Pakatan Rakyat. P. Kamalanathan, 44, MIC information chief, will be representing BN while Datuk Zaid Ibrahim, 59, former minister in the Prime Minister's Department, will be representing PR. These two candidates themselves are of special ones. Kamalanathan was described as the epitome of 1Malaysia as his name consists of the three main ethnics in Malaysia-Kamal is Malay name, than is similar to tan which is the surname of chinese families, and nathan is indian name. On the other hand, Datuk Zaid Ibrahim is a lawyer graduate. We can use some of his eloquence in speaking for the people in the parliament. His wealthiness was debated because the opposition thought that rich people cannot understand the poorer ones. Nonetheless, who cares? As long as he serve people whole-heartedly, he will be accepted. I have to admit that both of the parties chose good candidates for themselves. If only the parties are as wise in making their decisions and taking their actions for every other matter...

Okay, I know I am not eligible to vote yet and I will not make my stand on any parties but political fights are alway interesting: you can see how the candidates and parties go around having their campaigns to boast about their "goodness", brag about how they are going to change the place if they mandate and stab the back of the other parties and candidates. They can be so free to visit the whole Hulu Selangor before the election, pretending to care about the people's welfare to pull votes for themselves. However, after the election, their visits will usually be once in a blue moon or sometimes, none at all. Oh yeah, you can say they might be very busy but occasional visits are necessary to understand what people need. Papers don't talk, humans do. A few years back from now, I was perplexed when they said our country consists of political clowns. Now, I finally understood what they meant.

So much with asking the citizens to go green, save the environment, stop global warming so on and so forth, when the parties just go around and paste the picture of their candidates, logos of their parties at almost every where. You can spot their "advertisements" at every corner, wall, street lamps, wires and any place that they can put on to publicise themselves. Did they think they are that handsome to post their pictures every where to remind others about it? Or did they thought we came out from jungles to vote? Its not that we are foreigners that don't read newspaper or don't know what is the white-scale-with-blue-background logo belongs to which party. After the election, do they collect back those papers to recycle them? Hell yeah if I would not believe them, not even the slightest bit, even if they say they will because they are famous for their empty promises.

What do I like about having an election? Well, we can ask for money. And when I said ask for money, I meant a prodigious amount of money. The parties are very kind and generous during these times. You can hear them saying hundreds of thousands for this project, another hundreds of thousands for primary and secondary schools. How can we not admit they are generous? Every project will have extra budget, schools can be renovated, and you can have a chance to meet with all the Menteri Besar, and in this case, our Prime Minister. Oh yeah, our Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib visited Tanjong Malim today. Tomorrow, I might appear on the newspaper headline, so check it out! I don't mean to be so sarcastic but thats the truth. Everyone knows it and I am sure you have your own thought for this matter.

Well, thats all for now. Who do you think will win: the BN with Najib as its leader together with his so-called-1Malaysia or the PR with their we-will-do-what-BN-failed-to-do? We will see when the time comes. Cheers. =D
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What's Behind Excellence

10:23 AM ~YaNg YanG~
Saturday, April 10, 2010
I had came across many people that judged excellent students by the number of As in their examination, particularly SPM. Did it ever occur to you, people from your neighbourhood, relatives or just about anyone else you meet in a mamak stall that ask how many As you got for your examination, and if you got strings of As, they will praise you and speak you highly as if you are a God; Otherwise, they will look contemptuous and turn their heads away as if you are a just another failure which can be found hanging out at pubs, cyber cafes and other interpretation thereof? I am sure that most of us experienced that.

I am not saying that students that passed their examinations with flying colours are surely not excellent students. Neither am I saying that students that failed every subjects in their examinations are excellent students. An excellent student, to me, is a student that can balance his or her life well between all aspects of life and the attitude and personality of a person plays the vital role in determining whether one can excel or not.

Many students think that if they cannot do well in their studies, then it will be pointless to talk about other aspects in their lives. Therefore they only strive to do well in their examinations. Here comes the real thing: You do well in your examination. You score straight A+ in your SPM. However, have you ever thought about the fact that you are not the only one that got straight As in this examination? There might be thousands of students all over Malaysia that got the same result as you. What is the thing that differentiate you from the others? How do you want to outshine the others while you yourself only concentrate on your studies and neglected other aspects in your life? This is a question that many should ponder.

During my visit to Majlis Bandaraya Ipoh for my JPA interview, I met with many students which scored straight As. They are neither geeks that shut themselves up in a room to study nor they are bookworms that only read text books and do homeworks in school. How do I know, you may ask? A word from their mouth and you will know it straightaway. What comes out of their mouth is not any political issues or facts in the textbooks. They talked about games, sports, and even joked among strangers. They are people of strong personality and attitude - charismatic, great sense of humour, good communicating skills, friendly, sociable and of course knowledgeable, not to mention that all of them had great achievements in their co-curriculum. Inside the interview room, they are serious enough to handle the questions bombarded by the interviewers and they can answer well in almost every general questions - hot topics that were discussed recently in Malaysia as well as international news - asked by the interviewers. Their vast knowledge and eloquence in pouring out their opinions on these issues amazed me before making me realize what teenagers or even young adults nowadays lack of - knowledge of current news.

Well, maybe it is not that all of them are of that kind as I only know those that are in the same panel as me. Nevertheless, these people are those that I choose to believe as excellent students. That being said, it does not means that those that fail to excel in their studies have absolutely no chance to being excellent. There are some people in Malaysia that stigmatize those that failed to excel academically, without realizing the fact that they are also people that experienced failure before they succeeded. For this very reason, I find those that brand others without second thought utterly disgraceful.

Failing one time does not make that person a total failure for nothing remains permanent. One might fail today, but become a successful person tomorrow. Who knows? As long as a person try his or her very best in every thing he or she do, I am sure that he or she can excel and success will just be a few steps ahead of him or her.

Thats all for now. Meeting with those bunch of great guys during my JPA interview really inspired me to change for the better! =D
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My Former School's Sports Day

5:17 PM ~YaNg YanG~
Friday, March 5, 2010
Yesterday was my former school's sports day. My friends and I decided to pay a visit to our former school to watch how our juniors are doing in their marching competition and also meet up with the teachers. Since I was a bit late, I missed the chance to see how the marching competition progressed. After I reached the school, I realized that this year's sports day was not as grandeur and packed as last year. Decorations were rarely seen around the school. In fact, I saw only a few balloons and banners only. There were also lesser rules that restrict students from going out of the school while the events were still going on, which I think, was the major reason the field was less crowded.

The result of the marching competition was anticipated. For the uniforms, KRS, as usual, won the marching competition. Meanwhile, the prefects won the other group. The only unexpected event was the librarian won the salute part of the whole marching competition which was usually won by prefects. So, I will congratulate all librarians that worked so hard in their training. Well done! At the end of sports day, the present KRS leader announced a jaw-dropping news - those that participated in the marching competition will be promoted to corporal. I couldn't understand the purpose behind his action and I find this notion distasteful. It was unfair to those that earned their rank through hard work. Anyway, its not my decision to make. So, I'll just leave it for them to decide. An advice from me, think wisely before you act.

Well, thats all for now. 5 more days only until I get my SPM result!!
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Educational Talk

8:39 PM ~YaNg YanG~
Monday, March 1, 2010
An educational talk was held at my place yesterday afternoon. It was organized by Universal Studyline. I decided to attend it since I was so bored at home and also to see what's up their sleeve. The talk was way shorter than I anticipated. The supposed-to-be-four-hour-talk was done in less than one hour and another hour was spent for personal discussion with those that attended the talk. Yeah, you can already guess that this talk is utterly pointless. Fortunately, the guy giving the talk prepared a list of loans and a little information about scholarships for us which make this excursion a little fruitful. Well, its not quite useful for me since I knew most of the organizations offering these loans and scholarships but I think it's a great effort. Other than that, what he talked about was all crap.

Disclaimer: What's written below is just my opinion. Don't read it if you don't like it. :)

After attending this talk, I really felt that there are many more effort to be done to make the educational talk to be effective in terms of giving information. I think the person presenting the talk should prepare more information us, the students and also, in most cases, the parents. When I say "more information", I meant their advices and maybe even their own experience regarding the scholarships, loans and also what people expect to face if they take the course that they can share with us so that it will be a more fruitful talk rather than the infos which can be obtained through online means such as the CGPA marks needed to take the course, the entry requirements and so on. I know these informations are basic and should be included in the talks but what is the whole point of having this talk if all that the person ever told us in the talk was only these informations? I already knew that taking medicine require an extremely stupendous result and even students with straight As might not get a place in public universities especially for non-bumis. So, there's no point for them to point it out again and again and reiterate every now and then in their talk as if students went there with zilch knowledge about it. I mean, come on!! Students all over Malaysia are attending the talk after doing some research and know all the minimum requirements for them to take the course and they know very well what they want or interested to do. That's why they attend a talk to get a more detailed infos which cannot or are hard to be obtained through online means, which is real life experience. One more point to note, the atmosphere of talk should be livelier than just sitting there for hours listening to the facts. I find it quite sleepy when I listen to people in the talk saying out whats written on the screen without any additional information with a hypnotizing voice! Maybe the organiser should invite lecturers with a loud and clear voice and also some sense of humour to make us less sleepy. Hahaha. :)

The talk I went yesterday was a total failure. The person did not even made enough preparation and he didn't even have sufficient information and knowledge to give a talk. When me and my friends went for the personal Q & A session, we asked him about the public universities regarding which courses is best studied at which public universities and the person just kept on changing the topic to the oversea universities. He talked as if studying oversea costs a mere trifle. Eventually, we all got annoyed since we all came from medium income family and we do not have the means to go overseas with our parents supporting us financially. It will be a huge burden for our parents to do so. I sincerely hope that in that person's next few talk, he will prepare more information so that the same thing won't happen again to other people but I think my hope will be bleak. After all, the person had already gave the same talk to 2 other places before coming to my place. Another suggestion of mine to whoever hired him for the talk: get him fired for the sake of all students!!

Generally, not all educational talk are useless. There're also some good educational talks being held all over Malaysia together with the education fairs and I really appreciate these talks. Anyway, much efforts are still needed to reach the whole purpose of the talk.

Well, thats all for now. I just wanted to wish everyone a happy belated chinese valentines day or also known as chap goh mei to all chinese couples. Its March now!! Cheers~ :)
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SPM Result, Feb Or March?

12:31 AM ~YaNg YanG~
Sunday, February 21, 2010
There's been rumours about the date in which spm real result will be announced. Some say it will be announced in late february whilst some say it will be in mid march. Actually, I believe the real one will be in march rather than late february because it seems to be more logical to think that the result will be announced when all first batch NS trainees finish their training. Anyway, I don't really care about the date in which our result will be officially announced. Of course I prefer it to be earlier but our destiny had already been set the moment we finished spm or even earlier-when we finished answering the question papers. So, its just the matter of time for us to reveal it. When the time comes, I think every student will wish to get it another day later as it'll be nerve wrecking!! I even started to feel nervous every now and then. Haha, I hope I won't faint on the spot where I will receive my result due to nervousness. To think back, I was actually quite nervous when I saw my friends received their pmr result. The first few of my friends missed straight As because they scored B in BM or Geography. That even made me more nervous! Haha, luckily I didn't black out when I got my result. The waiting is filled with various feelings and high hope but its all worth it when I got my result. So, I wish for the same when I get my spm result in about 3 weeks time. It may not be straight 1As but I hope it will be a satisfying result. I'm prepared for any result thats worse than what I anticipated. (But no Cs!! That's my principle, hahaha :D)

Well, thats all for now. Any update on the real date will be announced in the newspaper as well as the news. I will also post it on my blog when the time comes. For the meantime, lets just wait patiently, enjoy our free lives and of course pray hard.
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Digging Up Old Unposted Article

6:37 PM ~YaNg YanG~
Friday, February 12, 2010
Its been long since I've been active to update my blog. Now, I'll post a series of updates on my life and the big days coming really soon. Here's the post I typed quite a long time ago but forgot to post it. After some digging up, I accidentally found it and so here I am, posting this article to share with everyone else.

In our lives, we will come to a point when we will have to make decisions on what we want to do in our future. Its crucial for one to make this decision correctly because if this matter is taken lightly, one might regret the choice he/she made later in future and for the rest of his/her lives. Did I sound too serious? Well, it should be. Unfortunately, this decision has to be made while we are still teenagers, which is why this matter is a headache to many students in Malaysia. Although there are some minorities that actually knows what they want to do, there are actually many that do not know what they actually want to do in future despite some of them knowing the subjects they liked the most while others have absolutely no idea what they liked and what they want to pursue in their future endeavour.

Well, if you ask me, among all the subjects I took and studied for spm, my favorite will be additional mathematics, physics and chemistry. So, automatically my choice of career will be engineering. After doing some research on engineering, I found out that many people say engineering courses are for people that like to solve problems. However, I am not sure whether I like to solve problems or not but I'd prefer engineering over medicine, art, agriculture etc which leaves me no choice other than engineering. So, I guess this is it. This will be my choice and no regrets!

Well, Chinese New Year and Valentines day is just around the corner. I wish every chinese a happy chinese new year, every student a happy holiday and every couple a happy valentines day. Cheers. =)
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Its Just An Analysis

11:55 PM ~YaNg YanG~
Friday, February 5, 2010
Busyness, define it. What I find most interesting is that I am not that busy in these few days and yet I felt I am somehow busy. Did you ever felt the same way and wondered why? Maybe my sisters' hectic life make me felt so? Ridiculous... So, I'll just analyse it why this phenomena happens in our life here.

To make my life less boring, I always try to make it busy. The easiest way is to engage myself in house chores. Yup, I do house chores for at least 2 hours per day. Its not too long but quite tiring. Then, I also attend car driving lessons. It only last for an hour but my feet will feel numb after the lessons. I started playing guitar recently and had a hard time pressing the string as it hurts my fingers. So, had you guys and gals noticed what is common for all these activities? Its TIREDNESS! You think you are busy because you are tired. Haha, I know I got you or maybe you just realized it now after reading my conclusion?

Despite all that, I still feel boring at times as there're not many friends in town that I can visit and talk with. I guess this is the time when online friends play their role huh! Well, thats all for now.
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Pros And Cons Part I

5:35 PM ~YaNg YanG~
Friday, January 8, 2010
Everything that happens have its pros and cons. Since this topic is so wide, I'll just narrow down to a specific topic. Lets start with blogging. Blogging is becoming a very popular 'activity' that people will do when they are online in recent years and I'm one of them which are attracted to blogging last year. Being a blogger for almost 7 months, I would like to share my experience of blogging. Here are the pros of blogging:

1. Blog act as a diary which I can write anything I want and of course with some limits. It might become something with historical value in future! :D
2. It enable me to express part of myself which I couldn't express through mouth.
3. It helped me to train myself to write in English as I'm lazy to write the essays given by my former English teacher.
4. I can have fun by reading other people's blog.
5. Get to know my friends' current condition.
6. I can get chances to share my opinions and experiences here.
7. Earn money by selling things! I saw some blogs do post the pictures of things they want to sell.
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When there's pros, there'll be cons. Here are the cons of blogging:

1. Wasting too much time trying to update myself with other blogs and my blog.
2. Giving me reason to online which disturb my study time...
3. Using short-words which sometimes (very rare) affects my spelling when I'm writing essays.
4. Posting some useless posts which piss people off.
5. Might help stalker to stalk us! jkjk XD
6. Waste money as you pay for the electric bill, internet server or services in cyber cafe.
7. Causes people to be addicted to blog, proceed to affect their health and maybe even kill them because they don't want to eat and sleep to blog!! LOL :P
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Places reserved for further "elaboration". Comments please. ^^
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A New Year, 2010

10:21 AM ~YaNg YanG~
Friday, January 1, 2010
Well, today is the first day of a brand-new year, 2010. To many people, a new year means nothing more than just a change of date, the starting of school life or just another year to work in the same job in a boring field and environment. If you disagree with that statement, then you can ask yourself what are your plans for this year, what you intend to do in January, February and so on which will make you feel contented and meaningful that is worth reminiscing in years to come. Stepping into this new year, I am going to change my way of thinking. But first thing first, I will enjoy myself mostly beside learning some programming stuff, forum-ing and getting my car license.

Another valuable information to share with you guys, there will be another education fair next weekend on 9th and 10th of January at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre held by Stars from 11am to 7pm. It will be one of the biggest education fair in Malaysia. Thats all for now.
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Sombre Atmosphere

10:40 PM ~YaNg YanG~
Today is the last day in school as we will have one week holiday to prepare ourselves better for SPM trial exam and yet the atmosphere in school is not as happy as I thought... Everyone is sad about their gerak gempur exam marks and that include me (a little lar...). Emerlyn is having a bad day as many bad things happened recently and I guess it will go on for one week... My results are not good but not too bad as I did not put much efforts in it... still glad that I did not have any failed subjects ^.^ (zzz... long did not update blog also write all sad stuff... change topic..)

Tomorrow is our BBQ party! Me and my friends had planned to have this party since 2 weeks ago and I am looking forward to that... Last two days, Yee Ling our "big sister" took us to Billion Supermarket to buy things needed for the party and to our surprise we spent more money than we expected!! We are in debt =.='' still that is to ensure everyone is full at that night... Also, I only realize that there are 14 people that were borned in August until October few weeks ago!

Things come and go as time goes on. Be optimistic in facing trial and tribulations with some hard works in this holidays and you will find yourself improving much faster than you ever imagined! But for now, let's get the party started!

Happy Birthday to all passed and to-be friends (including me) and happy holidays~~
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