Reality In Education

Books are great partner in life
But books isn't everything
From what I see and hear
Lousy students earn more money than scholars.

Tuition classes are crowded with students
Even supermarkets had to step a pace behind
These classes suppose to help weak students
How come genius-grade A students are also here?

Piano's voices are a grace to the mind
Smiling angels playing musics and sang a song
But I didn't saw that through the glass window
Only a girl crying while playing piano.

Teachers are no more like granddaddy's generation
They enrich their heart with patient and soft voice to share
"Little boy, you should do your homework last night"
"You be careful! my daddy will complaint you to the education department".

Philosophy says:"develop individual's potential in a holistic and integrated manner"
Principal says: "I want results! I want more As! I want improvements"
District Office says:"Give me data! Show me black and white!"
Teachers... nothing to be said.

There is a head prefect chosen every year
He signify the leadership among the students
There are head prefects chosen nowadays
They signify more marks for Ko-K

Yeah! It's Friday!
Starting tomorrow is a week's semester holiday!
Wait! Said the school principal...
Year 6 will have tuition classes on next Monday to Friday...

Visit to Trauma & Emergency Centre

It's been a long time since last post. All this while I'm having busy time with works and boring time with personal life. At last today found some interesting stories to blog. We are preparing for our ambulance service during Hari Raya. So before the service started, we arranged a visit to the hospital E&T Unit for a simple briefing, which happened today.

We were introduced to a few area namely the triaging zone, green zone, yellow zone, red zone, asthma zone and treatment room. We actually are quite familiar with these places as we usually have chance to be around. What amazed me today is the Red Zone. The chance I've been into a red zone is to transfer the patient onto the bed and get lost, without even seeing the inside clearly. Tonight is a special chance to see the inside of the Red Zone. The most eye catching items in the room is a row of Laerdal Suction Units (LSU), arranged on a cupboard. The blue and yellow combination of colours is really striking. There is a cleaning room beside the room, which is a place to bath dirty patient especially those they rescues from the stinky drains.

At the waiting hall, I have the chance to dig into their trauma bags and kits. Their so-called trauma bags are more similar to a combination of resuscitation bag and IV bags. The in-charge told us that they usually store dressings and bandages inside the vehicle. They have another kit which contains all kinds of drugs, which they say they "play" with the drugs on the scene. Together with the bags is an Laerdal Heartstart AED which seems like an older model no more available in the market.

As a conclusion, i found E&T Unit very "impressive" and "expensive". Everything inside cost a big fortune. Looking forward for the coming duty.

Flying fox equipment cause death to a student

Incident

A group of scout is setting up flying fox equipments in school. The rope snapped and the roller (as big as a palm) fell down and hit on the head of a student. He is pronounced dead when ambulance arrived.

Reflection

Accident is something we can't predict. We can't take for granted that it won't happen to us. Think back of the Survival Camp 2 last time when we have meeting to decide whether we should go on with flying fox or not. The decision not to continue with it is a wise one although most students are not satisfied with the decision. If we decided to go on with the game maybe this accident happened to us and no one of us have the ability to carry the responsibility when someone is dead. "Safety first" is not a slogan, it should be a practice.

Implication

After this incident, various implication will effect the activities of student co-curricular activities in school. I believe that MOE will come out with a guideline which rule out activities that can't be done by students. I do believe that this will limit the activities and sooner or later co-cur activities will be classroom-based which are generally called "boring". However, this is a prediction and the real implication still depends on how ministry will decide on this matter.

孩子，长大了

孩子，长大了！

一瞬间样子成熟了，行为稳重了，体形也变了。用手摸摸你头顶上那乌黑的头发，心里面多了好多好多的欣慰，多了好多好多的快乐和满足。看你撒娇的那副摸样，嘴角也很自然很轻松的笑了起来，感觉眼前的一切非常的可爱。

孩子，你真的长大了！

Malaysia~~

"orang-orang" =/= "ramai orang"

Memartarbatkan Bahasa Melayu mula diwar-warkan dalam masyarakat Malaysia sejak kerajaan membuat keputusan untuk memansuhkan PPSMI. Lapisan masyarakat mula memberikan perhatian dalam usaha menjadikan Bahasa Melayu sebagai bahasa ilmu. Meskipun usaha-usaha ini nampak bersemangat dan patriotik, adalah usaha-usaha dan wang ringgit yang ditaburkan ini berbaloi?

Saya memetik situasi yang paling mudah difahami. Dalam kamus Bahasa Melayu, "orang" bermaksud seorang manusia dan "orang-orang" pula membawa maksud bahan-bahan yang diikat/ dihias seperti manusia untuk menakut-nakutkan burung-burung di sawah. Tidak diterangkan bahawa "orang-orang" membawa maksud ramai orang ataupun lebih daripada seorang manusia. Konsep ini memang difahami murid-murid tahun 4 dan ke atas di sekolah-sekolah rendah di Malaysia. Malah, soalan ini sering keluar dalam soalan-soalan UPSR untuk menguji murid-murid dalam penguasaan kata ganda.

Namun perkara yang amat membingungkan saya, konsep semudah tahap tahun 4 tidak difahami pula oleh golongan profesional. Izinkan saya membuat pembetulan, mereka bukannya tidak faham tetapi tidak mempraktikkan konsep yang tepat. Saya mengesan kesalahan ini semasa saya menghadiri kursus di kolej. 3 orang pensyarah Pengajian Melayu didapati menggunakan "orang-orang" untuk maksud lebih daripada satu orang. Bukan sahaja pensyarah, malahan dalam berita TV1 dan ucapan ahli-ahli politik, saya juga dapat mengesan kesalahan yang sama. Sememangnya saya sensitif terhadap kesalahan sebegini disebabkan keperluan tugas saya. Terdapat beberapa orang yang dikenali sebagai "sasterawan" juga dikesan dalam cerpen/novel tulisan mereka. Saya diberitahu bahawa mereka tidak terikat dengan peraturan ini atas nama kepuitisan dan gaya bahasa yang berbeza.

Golongan profesional ini adalah barisan hadapan dalam memartarbatkan Bahasa Melayu tetapi melakukan kesalahan semudah itu? Adakah ini memartabat atau memperlekehkan Bahasa Melayu? Renungkanlah...

Jerks who stick his finger into others nose

Today I'm a little pissed off with some jerks who stick his finger into other people's nose, mind other's business and real irritating.

Before i bought my car, teachers from other school start talking shit about me winning jackpot and bought a car. Yes, i bought a car but i didn't win any jackpot. Even if i win a jackpot, how does it related to you and in what business do you care about i win a jackpot or buy a car or not. This is the time i started to hate this kind of jerks. I don't know he is a "he" a "she" or "they", but for sure these people are bastards who backbite other people and spoils people's name. Kepochi, i call them.

Ok, i heard another one today from those kepochi again. Damn it, I don't know how to teach BM until result dropped. Yes, result dropped. But hey, my school result drop what is the business with you? You don't have your children here or anything else to do here. What is the purpose you start spreading things outside which are none of your business? OK, since you said I don't know how to teach and sure you are so excellent in it so why not you come over and show it to me? I don't need to explain to anyone apart from my superior and i already did that. They accepted and they understand. I never thought that someone start acting like my superior and spreading comments about me outside. I don't mind you want to argue in front of me but backbiting me, you're a jerk!

This is the type i truly hate that they attend church each week and talk about God whole day and at the end of the day backbiting people at the back.

I'm glad i had friends who trust me and pinpoint me whenever they think they should. For those backbiters, you'll bite your own tongue someday. If you need my help giving your little tongue first aid and send you to hospital, i will gladly assist you.