(I was forwarded a chain mail claiming that its attached pencil drawings of a Caucasian was that of Jesus. To which I responded to sender with the below)
The guy in the pictures looked like any Tom, Dick or Harry to me. But definitely not like any Ah Kow, Ah Beng, or Ah Niu. Other than that I don't know how anyone can tell he is Jesus...
Perhaps, if all humans are God's children he could make his own son look a bit like Tom here, Ah Kow there, Ali somewhere else, Siva another place? Would make it so so easy to convince idiots like me.
May be it was just a birth defect? Or may be it's the Ah Kows that are defective? Or may be it's just a case of the grass on the other side looks greener...
Thursday, June 03, 2004
Tuesday, June 01, 2004
When Idiots Play God or Think God's on Their Side
Every year a new batch of young and hopeful youths in my country has to live with decisions made by men that try to play god. Year after year for the last 30 plus years of my life, the result of the actions of these second group of idiots is either that documented in the below news report, or that I experienced first hand when I was in school.
Each year I read reports of Chinese or Indian children with top grades wondering why they cannot get into courses of their choice pleading to their respective 'politically influential saviours' (MCA or MIC) for assistance to change the fate placed upon them by their own government partly run by those same MCA/MIC idiots.
So each year, the idiots in MCA & MIC get to play nice guys to these bright young men & women pleading at their feet. It must make these idiots feel damn good for they keep retaining the problem caused by a system is blatantly fouled (see later for why). All they can suggest to those poor kids that had slogged for years to get the results they have is go plead to the same idiots that caused the problems in the first place! Otherwise, like a father in the report said, go watch a fish pond or some trees for the rest of your life.
And only dead fools fail to notice that this don't seem to be a problem with the UMNO politicians! And if you want to know why that is the case and the system is blatantly fouled, you only have to study in a government run school like me where children of all the races mix.
When I was about 16, my school had the usual annual O-level (MCE then) trial exams. When the results were published, kids like me were eagerly trying to calculate our 'scores' (like in the news report). As everyone around me was doing that, a fellow Malay classmate that played football with us every day came cycling in with a broad smile on his face.
When I asked him why he was so happy, I was shocked to hear his answer. He said he had no need to calculate his 'scores' for he only has to pass to get into university while everyone else (meaning the other non-Malay kids) had to compete with each other and score top marks. That incident hit me like a lightning and will forever remain fresh in my mind. For it made me wonder what system and parent would have given a young kid like that Malay friend of mine that idea. Before he does anything productive in his life he had already been inculcated with the notion that he did not have to work even as hard as the other kids like me!
So, it was not surprising that 20 years later Malaysia was one of the worst hit countries in the 1997 crisis (thank god they had free oil to coast on!) and PM Mahathir came out to criticise the Malay students (demonstrating against him for jailing Anwar Ibrahim) for not being grateful and more interested in scooting around the campus in bikes bought with scholarship money than in their studies! So he changed the system to be 'more meritocratic' but the problem persists (per today's report)
That was also why years ago when Mahathir came up with his Vision 2020 to bring Malaysia to developed nation status by 2020 people like me scoffed at it. How does one expect to do that if half his country’s parents (like that of my Malay friend's) believe their children don’t have to work as hard as the other kids for the latter will not be there to compete? The only way Mahathir can do that is to play god and control the university admission of all the children on earth so that his 'disadvantaged' Malay students get to all the top courses while the other kids in the world go plead at the feet of his UMNO politicians or be satisfied with watching fish ponds or trees for the rest of their lives. But then, it is nature's way that idiots that try to play god will get played out, and non-idiots will not submissively go watch fish ponds or trees. Which is why I harbour better hopes for the future.
Today, new PM Abdullah said that he will look into the matter with his cabinet. Again I am tempted to scoff at him. But in my heart and for the sake of the future of Malaysia, I hope good sense will prevail. But he will have to go against people that are damn sure it is their god given right to get to those university places. And that’s a big bunch of idiots thinking that god’s on their side - at least as long as their oil gods are around. Perhaps it is really the oil devils but it takes more than idiots to tell the difference….
xxx
Don’t despair, top scorers told
The Star, 1 June 2004
BY FOONG PEK YEE AND LEONG SHEN-LI
KUALA LUMPUR: MCA has asked top scorers to file their appeals and not to give up in despair.
“Please do not give up because of your present frustrations. You may regret later if you do not do your best to appeal and find a way out,” said MCA national education bureau chief Dr Wee Ka Siong
He said the Youth wing had classified STPM achievers who were denied entry to public universities or did not get courses of their choice into categories under a move to help them.
Dr Wee said the groupings are scorers with a cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 4.0 followed by CGPA of between 3.92 and 3.75 who scored either 3As and 2A- or 3As and 1A- , CGPA of between 3.50 and 3.74, CGPA of between 3.0 and 3.49, CGPA of between 2.5 and 2.99 and CGPA of between 2.0 and 2.49.
He advised affected students under such categories to submit their appeals to the respective universities and the Higher Education Department and forward a copy to his bureau before June 6.
“On our part, we will do our best to help you although we cannot give you any promise or guarantee,” he told a briefing for about 600 affected students yesterday.
About 20 students managed to take part in an hour-long question-and-answer session where the most common question was whether their appeals were likely to be successful.
Dr Wee advised students who did not meet the cut-off point for medicine, a CGPA of 4.0, to put in other options in their appeals if all their original choices in their applications were medicine.
Those with a CGPA of 3.92 were the most affected, he said, adding that this category who did not qualify for medicine, pharmacy or dentistry, were given “way out” courses like forestry, aquaculture and wood fibre.
He advised these students to put in new options which were more compatible with their earlier choices.
MCA Youth chairman Datuk Ong Tee Keat was also at the briefing.
“There are also many others, besides the 128 with a CGPA of 4.0, with very good results who got very odd offers or were not offered anything at all,” he said.
“I don’t want to see a brain drain which is not good for the nation. This is likely to happen when these bright students are forced to accept offers to study overseas after failing to get into a local public university and study courses they are interested in,” said Ong, who is also Deputy Youth and Sports Minister.
Pain and frustration was etched on the faces of students who packed the auditorium.
Many saw the briefing as the last hope of pursuing the career of their choice.
Straight As student Low Pei Teeng, 20, has been crying since she found out that she was not successful in applying for medicine and her 3.92 cumulative grade point average had instead qualified her for aquaculture at Kolej Universiti Sains dan Teknologi Malaysia.
Her father Ah Kuan had at the question-and-answer session said: “My daughter wanted to do medicine and now they have asked her to go and look at a fish pond in Terengganu.”
With a CGPA of 4.0, Lee Jun Hoe from SMK La Salle, Petaling Jaya, was extremely disappointed at not getting pharmacy, but was instead offered zoology.
Christine Chan, from SMK Raja Perempuan, Ipoh, was shocked to discover she was not offered a place in any university despite obtaining a CGPA of 3.4.
Each year I read reports of Chinese or Indian children with top grades wondering why they cannot get into courses of their choice pleading to their respective 'politically influential saviours' (MCA or MIC) for assistance to change the fate placed upon them by their own government partly run by those same MCA/MIC idiots.
So each year, the idiots in MCA & MIC get to play nice guys to these bright young men & women pleading at their feet. It must make these idiots feel damn good for they keep retaining the problem caused by a system is blatantly fouled (see later for why). All they can suggest to those poor kids that had slogged for years to get the results they have is go plead to the same idiots that caused the problems in the first place! Otherwise, like a father in the report said, go watch a fish pond or some trees for the rest of your life.
And only dead fools fail to notice that this don't seem to be a problem with the UMNO politicians! And if you want to know why that is the case and the system is blatantly fouled, you only have to study in a government run school like me where children of all the races mix.
When I was about 16, my school had the usual annual O-level (MCE then) trial exams. When the results were published, kids like me were eagerly trying to calculate our 'scores' (like in the news report). As everyone around me was doing that, a fellow Malay classmate that played football with us every day came cycling in with a broad smile on his face.
When I asked him why he was so happy, I was shocked to hear his answer. He said he had no need to calculate his 'scores' for he only has to pass to get into university while everyone else (meaning the other non-Malay kids) had to compete with each other and score top marks. That incident hit me like a lightning and will forever remain fresh in my mind. For it made me wonder what system and parent would have given a young kid like that Malay friend of mine that idea. Before he does anything productive in his life he had already been inculcated with the notion that he did not have to work even as hard as the other kids like me!
So, it was not surprising that 20 years later Malaysia was one of the worst hit countries in the 1997 crisis (thank god they had free oil to coast on!) and PM Mahathir came out to criticise the Malay students (demonstrating against him for jailing Anwar Ibrahim) for not being grateful and more interested in scooting around the campus in bikes bought with scholarship money than in their studies! So he changed the system to be 'more meritocratic' but the problem persists (per today's report)
That was also why years ago when Mahathir came up with his Vision 2020 to bring Malaysia to developed nation status by 2020 people like me scoffed at it. How does one expect to do that if half his country’s parents (like that of my Malay friend's) believe their children don’t have to work as hard as the other kids for the latter will not be there to compete? The only way Mahathir can do that is to play god and control the university admission of all the children on earth so that his 'disadvantaged' Malay students get to all the top courses while the other kids in the world go plead at the feet of his UMNO politicians or be satisfied with watching fish ponds or trees for the rest of their lives. But then, it is nature's way that idiots that try to play god will get played out, and non-idiots will not submissively go watch fish ponds or trees. Which is why I harbour better hopes for the future.
Today, new PM Abdullah said that he will look into the matter with his cabinet. Again I am tempted to scoff at him. But in my heart and for the sake of the future of Malaysia, I hope good sense will prevail. But he will have to go against people that are damn sure it is their god given right to get to those university places. And that’s a big bunch of idiots thinking that god’s on their side - at least as long as their oil gods are around. Perhaps it is really the oil devils but it takes more than idiots to tell the difference….
xxx
Don’t despair, top scorers told
The Star, 1 June 2004
BY FOONG PEK YEE AND LEONG SHEN-LI
KUALA LUMPUR: MCA has asked top scorers to file their appeals and not to give up in despair.
“Please do not give up because of your present frustrations. You may regret later if you do not do your best to appeal and find a way out,” said MCA national education bureau chief Dr Wee Ka Siong
He said the Youth wing had classified STPM achievers who were denied entry to public universities or did not get courses of their choice into categories under a move to help them.
Dr Wee said the groupings are scorers with a cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 4.0 followed by CGPA of between 3.92 and 3.75 who scored either 3As and 2A- or 3As and 1A- , CGPA of between 3.50 and 3.74, CGPA of between 3.0 and 3.49, CGPA of between 2.5 and 2.99 and CGPA of between 2.0 and 2.49.
He advised affected students under such categories to submit their appeals to the respective universities and the Higher Education Department and forward a copy to his bureau before June 6.
“On our part, we will do our best to help you although we cannot give you any promise or guarantee,” he told a briefing for about 600 affected students yesterday.
About 20 students managed to take part in an hour-long question-and-answer session where the most common question was whether their appeals were likely to be successful.
Dr Wee advised students who did not meet the cut-off point for medicine, a CGPA of 4.0, to put in other options in their appeals if all their original choices in their applications were medicine.
Those with a CGPA of 3.92 were the most affected, he said, adding that this category who did not qualify for medicine, pharmacy or dentistry, were given “way out” courses like forestry, aquaculture and wood fibre.
He advised these students to put in new options which were more compatible with their earlier choices.
MCA Youth chairman Datuk Ong Tee Keat was also at the briefing.
“There are also many others, besides the 128 with a CGPA of 4.0, with very good results who got very odd offers or were not offered anything at all,” he said.
“I don’t want to see a brain drain which is not good for the nation. This is likely to happen when these bright students are forced to accept offers to study overseas after failing to get into a local public university and study courses they are interested in,” said Ong, who is also Deputy Youth and Sports Minister.
Pain and frustration was etched on the faces of students who packed the auditorium.
Many saw the briefing as the last hope of pursuing the career of their choice.
Straight As student Low Pei Teeng, 20, has been crying since she found out that she was not successful in applying for medicine and her 3.92 cumulative grade point average had instead qualified her for aquaculture at Kolej Universiti Sains dan Teknologi Malaysia.
Her father Ah Kuan had at the question-and-answer session said: “My daughter wanted to do medicine and now they have asked her to go and look at a fish pond in Terengganu.”
With a CGPA of 4.0, Lee Jun Hoe from SMK La Salle, Petaling Jaya, was extremely disappointed at not getting pharmacy, but was instead offered zoology.
Christine Chan, from SMK Raja Perempuan, Ipoh, was shocked to discover she was not offered a place in any university despite obtaining a CGPA of 3.4.
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