Telephone

I think I really have to thank Alexander Graham Bell for inventing telephone not very long ago and Fredrik Idestam for founding Nokia company which produces my faithful communication companion,my Nokia 3315(blue dinosaur model)It is really durable.I can toss it across the room onto the bed and this little beeping dinosaur won't break apart.Even if it does,which rarely occurs,the blue dinosaur will just undergo a moulting process and shed off its blue skin.However it doesn't have a new skin underneath so I have to manually help it to undergo skin grafting.Okay,that's all crap for my my blue dinosaur Nokia 3315 phone. I almost forgot the reason I thanked the late Mr.AlexAndDer GreatHam BallzAlexander Graham Bell and (Don't know whether he is still an early one or late one) Mr Fredrik Hindustan Idestam. What is my phone for?To receive calls of course.Primary function.Secondary function is to SMS hot chicks,not cold turkey like SC.And EMERGENCY function is to make a phone call.Oh man,I am losing sanity.I know SC is going to say "How you're going to lose it when you don't have it in the first place?."I just thought of a reply,"I didn't baboons speak until you do."Muahahaha.....*Laughing to myself* Anyway,I just want to express my gratitude here for some routines that is so trivial until suddenly it strikes me.How do my parents keep me in check(not to say they need to since I am such a good son)?My Dad call me everyday,and I mean EVERYDAY since I left my hometown JB to study in KL in January 2002 just to ask me how's my day,have I eaten and all.Guess the Telekom been quite happy with my Dad's bill since then.Some people might think this is irritating but sometimes,this is the type of things in life one will normally take it for granted.The day isn't quite complete without a call from my home at the end of day.Do you believe I can hear something on the phone that I can't get it here?Crickets!!!!Ahh,my home.Nothing beats home.Nothing will. My hand phone is ringing.*Read "Home"*Guess that's all for now.Sayonara and kiwotsukete

Here We Go Again

Before you proceed beyond this line,please verify that you are 18 years old and above and sanely able to criticise and criticise constructively(unlike me) and most importantly not a law enforcer of any kind.Below is a very sensitive and highly controversial yet nothing-changed-much-since-the-past-few-years topic. Something that just reached my mailbox: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the perfect example of Malaysia's fucked up education system and ministry. Its error and flaw lies in the centralising of public universities application. It is screwed up, messed up and its own staff are even confused by it. This thing has been going on and on for years. It only hit me now because a few friends related to me had to suffer the consequences of our country's incompetence in providing at least a fair and reliable ground for them to pursue their studies. What is the point of filling out 10 choices of universities in the IPTA form when you are offered one that is not in it nor one you heard or know of (provided you meet the CGPAs of the courses)? And I assure you, there are a large number of students who did meet the requirements. What is the point of working your ass off to get a perfect 4A's or 5A's only to be informed by the education ministry that there isn't enough place for you because "our country has a quota system"? If that is the case, there is no point in doing your best, there is no difference in getting 5 or 4 or 3A's if you are just going to be rejected as well in the end. Where is the point in telling the public you have 2 weeks to make your appeal when they and us (the public) know that an appeal will take a long time to process and consider? They have 5 freaking months of working days to release the university application results earlier in order for the "misfortunate ones" to do their appeal. If they know so well about the "integrity" of their system, I'm sure they would have the brains and logic to know well enough that there will be always cases like the ones mentioned in the article below every year, in order for them to release the results earlier so that the ministry have ample time to "clean up their own trash". Please forward this mail if you agree partly with or wholly with me to all your friends. If you don't, just delete this mail and have a nice day!

Friday May 28, 2004 5As and not eligible for medicine BY S. INDRAMALAR AND JOANNE LIM PETALING JAYA: Murrali Silvarajoo found out the hard way that getting straight As in the Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia examination does not guarantee a place in a course or university of choice. He was devastated to discover yesterday that he did not qualify to do medicine at a public university despite scoring 5As and getting a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 4.0. Instead, Murrali was offered a place to study chemical engineering at Universiti Malaya (UM), his sixth choice. “I cannot believe it. I'm really shocked and disappointed. I'm going to appeal but have not thought about what I'll do if my appeal does not go through.” Former Malacca High School student Jennifer Kua did not get any of the eight courses she applied for. Instead, she got one she knew nothing about. “I scored 3As and 1A, and obtained a CGPA of 3.92. I applied for medicine, pharmacy and dentistry but was offered some course called Pemulihan Biodiversiti (Biodiversity Rehabilitation) at Kolej Universiti Sains dan Teknologi Malaysia in Terengganu. I have not even heard of this place.” Ratna Dewi Lim's efforts to check on the status of her application proved futile. “The system is messed up. I tried checking my status through the SMS, the ministry website and the hotline but each time I got the message Tiada maklumat. Sila hubungi bahagian pengurusan kemasukan pelajar IPT (No information. Please contact the division for admission to institutions of higher learning),” said the former student of SMK Victoria, Kuala Lumpur. Ratna, who scored 1A, 2Bs and 1C, hopes to study political science at either Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia or the International Islamic University. To date, some 3,000 students have submitted their appeals either at the ministry’s higher education department or via telephone. The department has stationed seven officers at the counters to record appeals, counsel students and man the telephone lines. “The phones have been ringing non-stop. Many of the callers were upset as they had not been offered courses they applied for,” said an officer. Among the students who came to the department to lodge complaints was Shazwani Shafie, who was so upset with her offer that she came all the way from Tanjong Malim, Perak, with her parents to enquire why she was not offered any of her eight choices. “I was given a place at Kolej Universiti Islam Malaysia to study Pentadbiran Muamalat (Islamic Banking Administration). I have no idea what the course is all about. I have always wanted to do an education in accounting or information technology course,” said the former matriculation student, who has a CGPA of 3.47. Kew Khoy Yu from Kuala Lumpur was not offered a place because of an error made by the Examination Council. “There was an ‘X’ for the General Paper in my results slip, signifying that I was absent. It was a mistake as I actually got an A. “And so, I was really shocked when I checked the website this morning and found that my application was not successful. I was also shocked to discover that Unit Pusat Universiti had not received my updated results on time,” added Kew, who obtained a 3.25 CGPA and hoped to do the Bachelor of Actuarial Science programme at UKM. Also unsuccessful was Jivalatha Panierselvam, from Kuala Lumpur, who had made a mistake filling up the application – she forgot to shade the final digit of her identity card number in the form. “I feel really sad. As it is, getting into a public university is so difficult and I had to mess it up,” said Jivalatha, who obtained 1B and 2Cs and applied for the Bachelor of Communication programme at Universiti Putra Malaysia.

-----------------------------------End of Mail------------------------------------------- Well,this year seems to be an exceptional year.This is due to the fact there are just too many "top scorers" in our country's very own STPM this year.This is not the first time this issue has popped out.I was an avid follower of this highly controversial issue regarding our Malaysia Education System but somehow sometime in the the past someone up there just knocked some sense into me.One of the reasons I can't be a good debater is I (honestly) admit that I have no substance or whatsoever.I wonder if I have any style but that's not the main issue here.Our focus here is the Malaysian Education System. This time round,this problem seems to be going to be a bit more serious due to the high number of high scorers.I noticed that just like taxes,our top scorer numbers seem to be going in one direction in the past decade and that's up.Maybe it is just a way to prove that the Garmen is doing a great job in education.However,I really think and believe (though with not much evidence) that the standard is really dropping.It has been highlighted in the newspaper a few times that why is it there are so many A's compared to last time when people who can score 3 or even 4 A's are hailed as a hero and become the talk of the whole town(maybe a bit exagerating here)Are the people any "smarter" or "better" than last time? Education,is held in a very high priority by a Chinese traditional family,like mine.There's a saying commonly applied to a Chinese family,I came across, "Starve,You starve for the children,Save,you save for their education."This define very well the place education held in the Chinese eyes.I was brought up in the one of the strictest way you can imagine.My family is not well educated but my Dad is a far sighted man,just unable to continue his study due to financial problem.My Dad caned and literally whipped me into shape,constantly caning me disciplining me to do my homework and the English books he bought.You don't want to see my homework.There are smeared blots of inks everywhere.Those are my tears mixed with teacher's red pen.Something like a blood smear.Okay,I am crapping.But That explains why I can speak quite well in Mandarin and adequately proficent in English.When I got my SPM result,I was surprised that we have two results for the English subject.One is a GCE O level grading and the other one is the SPM.Why the double standard?I got A1 for both the result but there are people who got a few grades lower in the GCE O Level result yet still score an A in the SPM.I wonder what's the A score for SPM?At least,the GCE O Level slip didn't make me feel shortchanged.Maybe that's the purpose of its existence.Maybe someone can enlighten me in this field. Back to current STPM,as far as I know, entry into the medicine course of UM is the epitome of academic achievement in our Education System.I know of 2 friends who scored 13 A's in all component papers.They took five subjects.One of them got into UM and another into USM.I know,in the presence of current shortage of places,there is no place for such complaint.I just wonder are there that many scorer of 13 A's in all component papers that one of my friends is overlooked(I was told there are only 24 scorer with perfect 13 A's).I really wonder sometimes,what the criterias for entry are.Talk about transparency.Yet there are people who say that the meritocracy system is the one behind the allocation of places.Then there are matrics students who are put into the same pool as those who took STPM.How to judge them fairly when both the systems are quite different?I will consider it as a working meritocracy if they are judged on a common ground.I heard someone proposed entry exam but that's as far as the idea goes....... I am a very opinionated,biased and stubborn person due to the environment I was schooled in and as but there's no pun intended in this entry.

No wonder some ppl just can't get his/her love

"Love may be beautiful, love may be bliss But I only slept with you because I was pissed." "I thought that I could love no other, Until, that is, I met your brother." "Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you. But the roses are wilting, the violets are dead, the sugar bowl's empty and so is your head." "Of loving beauty you float with grace If only you could hide your face" "Kind, intelligent, loving and hot; This describes everything you are not" "I want to feel your sweet embrace But don't take that paper bag off of your face" "I love your smile, your face, and your eyes - Damn, I'm good at telling lies!" "My darling, my lover, my beautiful wife: Marrying you screwed up my life" "I see your face when I am dreaming. That's why I always wake up screaming" "My love, you take my breath away. What have you stepped in to smell this way" "My feelings for you no words can tell, Except for maybe "go to hell" "What inspired this amorous rhyme? Two parts vodka, one part lime" Adopted from the net

Something from the past

The wind blows and carries, Once here,our joy and merry, The Alumni now lies deserted, not for this that this is created, A place where once we all commune and gossip, Now here seems to me like another lake of acid, Place where once busy and noisy talks live, Silence as dead now is kinda hard to believe, Maybe we each busy with our lives, Exams,dates,sports or even drives Mind you,this maybe is just the foreboding, On how our friendship is becoming, Stale,isolated and maybe not forgotten, If nothing done,the worst is waiting to happen, All we can do is to keep this alumni alive and updated, 10 minutes of your life here is surely won't be wasted. If that ten can't even be spared for a reason or another, We shall kiss goodbye then to "friends forever" Something I wrote for my last alumni for my secondary. One of the few latest post there.It was posted on 3rd Sept 2003

Where's my life By Ang Tau Bee(Red bean in hokkien)

What's going with my world,Lou ma,
Medic students have no fun in life,Mama,
I think soon I will be going into coma,
Thanks to med study I am having lack of drama,
Over here,we try to stop our sadism,
But we got patients here bleeding,
In the CSU,almost into ICU,
The Profs and the craps all in IMU.

If you only have love for your own face,
Then you really are asking to be defaced,
And when you have no face,in you people will hate,
And when they hate,then you are bound to get irate,yeah
Sadism is what I demonstrate,
On simulated patient I have learned to operate,
Friend,You gotta have balls to set things straight
Let the patients levitate to the sky,yall

Doctors working,patients dying,
Politicians crap,you hear them lying
Overworked and underpaid,
And would you please raise our pay
 Father,father,father,help us
Send me guidance from afar,
Coz people got me,got me questioning where is the love
Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love
The love, the love

 It is just so lame, some fren so "cheng"
New days unchanged,life sucks all the same
If your answers always wrong
Why are you getting marks that everyone long?
Result drops like bombs
Medical classes fillin' times of lifeless ones
With the endless piles of lectures I will die young

So ask myself is the purpose really gone
And so ask myself is being a doctor really wrong
In the life that I'm giving up, failures keep on coming in,

Writing the wrong answers, only visions of "A" is evident
Keep helping our brothers, deny those suckers
Doctors're underpaid but the patients still recover
The fun is kept away, it's swept under the rug
If you never know fun then you never know life
Where's my life, y'all, come on (There's no life)
Where's my fun, y'all, come on (There's no fun)
Where's my life, y'all

Doctors working,patients dying,
Politicians crap,you hear them lying
Overworked and underpaid,
And would you please raise our pay
 Father,father,father,help us
Send me guidance from afar,
Coz people got me,got me questioning where is my life
 Where is my life (no life)
Where is my life (no life)
Where is my life
My life,
My life

 I feel the weight of the tests on my shoulder
As tests gettin' nearer, y'all, people gets colder
Most of us only care about exam scoring
Reading notes got us remembering all the infections
Wrong info and tips always given by lin lau hyia
Negative markings is the main criteria
Killing off our marks faster than bacteria
MCQs acts like what we know as the enigma

Yo', whatever happened to the life in university
We gotta spend our life in the study of pathology
Instead of enjoying life we studying relentlessly
Lack of understanding, leading marks away from century
That's the reason why sometimes I'm having no life
That's the reason why sometimes I'm feelin' down
There's no wonder why sometimes I'm having no life
Gotta keep my faith alive till life is found

 Doctors working,patients dying,
Politicians crap,you hear them lying
Overworked and underpaid,
And would you please raise our pay
 Father,father,father,help us
Send me guidance from afar,
Coz people got me,got me questioning where is my life
 Where is my life (no life)
Where is my life (no life)
Where is my life (no life)
 Where is my life (no life)
Where is my life (no life)
Where is my life (no life)

 Adopted from "Where is the love" by Blacked Eyed Peas *Edited fully by the ever sarcastic and sadistic Xiao* This is due to living a life as a medical student.Kids,please don't try this at home. With all due respect to the original version,this is never meant to deface your work..... Try to sing it to the tune of the original 1......:)

Where is the love (revamped)

Some "weird sense of humour" suddenly strike..... What's going in the world,Lou ma, Medic students have no life,Mama, I think I am going into coma, Thanks to having lack of drama, Over here,we try to stop our sadism, But we got patients here bleeding, In the CSU,almost into ICU, The Profs,the craps all in IMU. If you only have love for your own face, Then you only asked to be defaced, And when you deface,people will hate, And when you hate,some are bound to get irate,yeah Sadism is what I demonstrate, On simulated patient I learn to operate, Friend,You gotta have balls to set things straight Let the patients levitate to the sky,yall Doctors working,patients dying, Politicians crap,you hear them lying Overworked and underpaid, And would you please raise our pay Father,father,father,help Send me guidance from afar, Coz people got me,got me questioning where is the love (To be continued) Edited by the ever sarcastic and sadistic Xiao

Resilience

What makes a failure and a success?I guess it is resilience.Today,I just got my Summative 1 result.I failed.Guess the two careless mistake I made then really made a difference today.Why I am not that dissappointed?I guess I know where I went wrong.I know what I can do and can achieve.Dean's list should not be a major problem for me.Talking about confidence......Hm....Guess better reduce it a bit and back to my lecture notes. I had failed before and had always risen to conquer it.What makes me think this time it will be different?

Final Fantasy

90 seconds left on the clock."Prrrrrr.....Time out!!!"We were trailing by 6 points. The players came back to the bench.The team had not been shooting well today.A lot baskets that were meant to go in didn't go.Adrian was still having the fire in his eyes.Justin's ankle is hurt.Lim was limping.Our center was running a fever.If they really manage to pull it off,it would be the greatest win so for the team.I called the timeout.30 seconds was all I have to douse the fire in Adrian,tend to the walking wounded and discuss the next play.Should I substitute any of them for a 3 point shooter,like me?Justin and Teng Hong were the tall guys,strong in rebounding.Lim was solid in defending.Adrian,though with the fire raging within him,was the scorer for the day.TJ was the man to go to break their D.Where should I come in?It was 5 of them who push the Goliath to the limit.It was 5 of them who manage to get within 6 points.They had done well so far.Why can't they go further?6 points is a very small gap in basketball.Objectivity ruled.I stayed on the bench. "Prrr...!!!" The M2/03 basketball team went back into the battlefield against the M2/02 giants.Our possession.Adrian brought the ball upcourt.Time running short.The bench was silent.We were hoping for a miracle.Adrian passed the ball to TJ.TJ did his trademark double cross-over dribble.Adrian went through the back door,coming off a not so perfect double screen by Teng Hong and Justin.Adrian got the ball from TJ at high post.He pulled up and got the shot off.The ball moved gracefully over the defender's hand.The arc was not perfect.It hit the basket with a thud,yet it went in.4 points gap with more than a minute to play.Miracle was a possiblity now.The M2/02 team tried to compose themselves.Both the teams traded sucessful basket on their next possession. 30 second.....The point guard of the M2/02 brought the ball upcourt. 29 .....The 02 tried to hold onto the ball to play down the clock it seemed. 28 .....TJ was on the ballhandler at the left side of the court 27 .....26.....25....The M2/03 team was trying hard to get the ball back... 20 .....19.....Got the ball to Tsue Seng at the centre mid post.He got his shot off with Teng Hong's hand just in front of him.The ball forced its way through the air towards the basket.The shot was off. 18 .....17.....The ball rattled off the right side of the rim back into the air 16 .....Lim got good footing on Ming Yao 15 .....Lim jumped for the rebound with shearing pain in his right thigh.Ming Yao challenged him for the rebound.Lim got the ball in his right palm.The rebound looked good to be his.Elation could be felt..... With sheer physical force a pair of strong leg,with Lim having a palm on the ball in the air,Ming Yao leapt and tipped the ball off Lim's hand. 14 .....Lim leapt again to regain the ball.So did Ming Yao.Straining every bone and sinew in him,Lim tried to match Ming Yao.However,brute strength,not technique ruled this battle.Ming Yao got the ball off Lim. 13 .....With Ming Yao having the ball at the low post,Adrian closed down on him for a double team. 12 .....Ming Yao muscled his way through Adrian and leapt to get his shot off 11 .....Lim,always a fighter to the end,barring pain in his right thigh leapt,in a fruitless attempt to block his shot.He just couldn't match Ming Yao's height and jump. 10 .....Ming Yao seemed to be distracted by Lim and missed his shot 9 .....Justin with the rebound.He quickly got the ball to TJ at the centre court. 8 .....TJ dribbled quickly upcourt skinning two defenders on his way 7 .....Adrian sprinted down the right flank with Justin following on the left 6 .....The defenders are back in their court switchin to man to man D to put pressure on the shooter.Adrian was trying hard to ward off his marker. 5 .....TJ tried hard to get the ball to Adrian but his marker was relentless in making sure Adrian didn't get the ball.Justin ran off a screen by Lim through the backdoor to the left side of the court just beyond the arc. 4 .....TJ spotted him and quickly got the ball to Justin. 3 .....Justin got his shot off before the defender can close down on him. 2 .....The shot was too long,hitting the inside of the rim... 1 .....back into the air and downwards 0 .....into Tsue Seng's hand. Final score 41-37.We had fallen at the final hurdle..... *Most of it are fictitious* :)

One Small Entry for a Blogger,One Giant Load of Rubbish for the Blog

I have been thinking of moving to blogspot for quite sometimes. I am quite impressed with the layout and interface.I am wondering whether this blog should be my journal or just another place to crap.Just wanna try it out to see it for myself whether this is really user-friendly.So far looks good.Still have not decided on the template yet though.Till then,sayonara:)