Stirling engine

this is quite cool. it requires no combustion. the gas does not leave the pipes as exhaust. meaning there is probably no need for any maintenance!

yeah. how kool is that!

to know more abt it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_engine

http://www.howstuffworks.com/stirling-engine.htm

go look it up in google images. i'm pretie sure u'll learn something new today

placebo

placebo effect-" the tendency of any medication or treatment, even an inert or ineffective one, to exhibit results simply because the recipient believes that it will work." -wiki

there is much less development in the field of drugs nowadays. why cause they got no new disease to go against. so what? we come up with some new random unknown disease so that we can sell drugs.

like. this vitamin is good for you. take this supplement that cost 5k. =D have a nice day, cause i know i will.

and so you see.. placebo.. believing. the human mind is capable in achieving many things as long as you just believe. (some how, either by deception or something else that convinces you). it is so strong that if you can think of a burning sensation to be real enough, it might affect you hormones and chemistry in you body somehow so that blisters would appear! yes thats how powerful believing can be.

people who have cancer. will keep on trying ways to cure it. like drinking turtle shell soup, or visiting a china doctor. and do all sorts of stuff.. cause it gives them hope. well yeah, sure it cost a bomb. but statistics show that people with  4th stage cancer have healed. hope.

and there was this dude in some hidden land... where there were shamans. well this guy wanted to show that the hokey-pokey of the shamans were all fake stuff and they were bluffing. so he got a sifu bomoh to teach him the "tricks of the trade" which were meant to be a secret from everyone. and this was it: they would bite themselves in the lip or tongue, soak the blood in a some cotton wool so that it looks like some kinda tumor... then transfer it to their hand and "pull" it out from the patient. something like a magician pulling a coin from your ear.... and lo and behold by placebo, the person would believe he has been healed... and by believing he does get better!

and so now he knew the trick, he was gonna expose it, but just as he was about to do so... a woman came up to him and ask him to heal her sick father... she pleaded to him. so he went. then he did his hokey-pokey .. pulled out the tumor and tadaa.. a few weeks later her father started getting better...

he decided to keep the shaman's secret.

so then moving on from that story, you have stuff about magnetic therapy and blablabla magic stone... et cetera

these demo people who sell this stuff sure make alotta money.
well they did some experiments about it, one of it was making this sick guy get treated by two bars of magnets.. so on the first session he felt a 20% increase in health..... then for the next few sessions they substituted the magnets with two plain planks of wood but painted so that they look exactly like the magnets.... and the guy continued his treatment without knowing they swapped it..... and he always said he feels better than before...

noob

its all in the head yo. taking four fake panadols is better than two fake panadols.. both are made of flour.. but because they guy believes that by taking panadol his body will get better. and if 2 pills take away half a head-ace so double the dose would take it all away.

its gotta do with stuff like hormones and your bodies biology and stuff like that la

next up to: too scared to be different?

A's

more stuff about our school system

our A's are.. erm.... too general

lets say there is this Subject M which requires you to study for 30 minutes to score an A in it
and then theres subject B which requires you to study for 5 hours to score an A in it

get what i mean? so there might be this dude who chooses all the noob easy subjects, and gets many A's

and guess what? our scholarship depends on the number of A's you get!

hey! so you see, some sorta quality should be given to the A, according to how hard it is to achieve it
so that it can be recognized

my head... why do you ache?

phew.. i was supposed to have add maths test on chapter 3: integration yesterday (monday)

but i knew nuts about it! like absolute zero. so thank mr. amara for chnging it to tuesday

on monday night, thank you waiyan for teaching me about integration, yes i know i don't know nuts about differentiation either but... i could do some questions in the test =P

alright more point on school:

-we start wayyy wayy to early. didn't you know what kids now adays are nocturnal? staying up until 1 am atnight... is is so hard as to make school start later? like maybe 9am? why? why is is so hard?? just start two hours later! teachers should not be teaching a class thats half/full of sleepy students. and the worst part, we can eat or even bring sweets to school to keep us awake.

-and we want to change english back to bm. zzz? erm.. ok do i still need to elaborate on the point? yeah i heard a story that when they first changed bm to english, the university students we're writing lines that the lecturers couldn't make any sense off. but as time passed, the lecturer could see the improving more and more as the next batch came in. so were doing good! why the !@#$%^&* do you want to change english back into BM?!?!?!?!?!?! its like, advancing and then taking a step leaping backwards.

i was sick on sunday night. my body was feeling hot, and my bones were aching like, seriosly pain, like a thousand needles were poking into my ulna and tibia .. took two panadols, gosh i haven't taken these for a long time... and slept under a cozy comforter.. ah the joy of rest

ah and it rained really heavy today.(tuesday) got stuck in school. one moment the sky is dark, i was thinking should i make a run for it? take my chances to go back home? or stay back until the meeting is over? well i took the latter choice and i ended up stranded in the R&R. the worst part, i had tuition at 5.15! so guess what? my loving mom read my mind and came to pick me up =D (yeap my bike is currently at school, i hope its still there =P)

uleung-head.....aches
and salute to whoever read my previous post =P

interclass debate

yeap, today, the interclass debate for form 5's in smk taman sea, has come to an end.

congratz to 5A, you deserved your win, good job honson and wei yuen, and to shannen, i too truly believed you were the best speaker too.

and to my fellow 5BR team, sorry i wasn't really cheering for you guys, i guess when a person looses to any team (its just this psychological thingy ya kno'), that person will cheer for the rivals in the next round of the team they just lost too. well, generally la.(call it 'unsport-manship' or whateverlah) but notice i said i wasn't 'really' cheering.... means i did give my support to you guys, just that i wasn't shouting =P heyy... who doesn't want their own class to win huh? i wasn't really cheering for either team anyway..

5Br, you were the government of the topic "this house believes that the school system should be abolished" ... it is like a du-uhh "who ever is the govn of this topic sure win" just like what i thought for the semi finals topic "teenagers should be allowed to vote" (oh jia wen, you were recording it with a camcorder rite? can you please post it up on you-tube or something, thanks!) ... i was like, sure the opposition will win it.

but i guess you guys proved me wrong the first time. it really depends on how well you elaborate and tell you ideas to the class... wait no, who cares about what the public thinks? it all depends on how well you can present you idea to the judge. and boy, no human is ever di atas pagar. sure the judge will be leaning to one team... life's like that, nothings fair. and different teachers (judges) have different preferences.. some like it when your aggressive and give low marks if your too soft-spoken (wow, wei yuen... you proved me wrong too) or well, it could be that the judge was different. so how do we solve this problem? have more judges!

(which they did in the finals, instead of having the normal number: one judge they had two) but i say, you should have ALL the judges of all the previous debates that was going on for the period of this event (understand what i just said? =P)

owh well, alls ended and we should not look back and regret/dwell over it. BUT i sill haven't finished my post yet... i am yet to talk abt the two topics i have just mentioned. on how strongly i believe that teenagers should not vote and the school system should be abolished

1. teenagers should not vote

sigh, all my points were already in the debate on that day. but just to list a few important ones:

we are not saying that we are preventing individuals from voting

all i'm saying is that 'there is a time for everything'

and that giving the power to such a great number of people to vote when they are not ready, could end up in a permanent consequence that is irreversible.

(well i didn't say this in my debate, but now i've thought/remembered about it) here it is:

  'Just like how a loving father would not give a sharp sword to this 3 year old young son to play with, therefore the government cannot afford to make this mistake even once, of allowing teenagers to vote. As in doing this, you might not only end up hurting yourself, but also your love ones, including our beloved malaysia'

blah, can you believe we lost! to me i think its all because the other team was aggressive. owh well, i'm not saying our judge was buyers (she just preferred a different style). and you (yes you reader, reading my blog now) have not heard the other points of the other team yet.

of cause this is another psychological thing, that because you as an individual believe in what you think is right to you, you only see the good points that are to the favor of that you believe in, while shutting out and rebutting every other point that doesn't not go in accordance to/against it.

owh well, i guess thats why they always ask you to see both sides of the leaf, and find out the other side of the story. but hey, humans.. buyers, favoritism is not uncommon among our species.

so what i'm try to say is that: what ever you read on my blog, is a tilted version to what i believe it. i admit it is had to be completely neutral and transparent and view things from a perfect view (which is out Creator's) ... although we are always striving to be like Him. life is hard, but nothing is impossible.... not for our God

and so, coming back to the post topic: debate. yeah do know that sometimes a person might believe in supporting the point given with all his heart. but because he is set on the opposing team, he must change his mind to crank up ideas and isi kandungan's to help his team win the debate. but deep down inside him, we knows whose rite (or well at-least he thinks he knows whose right, according to his perspective)

but i don't think it happens much. must people don't care about thinking so much. they just go along with life, and when the topic is thrown at them, they support whose ever side their give.. just like the saying: "when life gives you a lemon, make lemon-aid~" ... they don't bother going to the fridge and getting one themselves, they wait till it is thrown at them. well, i'll like love to see the world and you, prove me that i am horribly wrong!

 like what newground says and i quote:  The problems of the future today

think more.

and then this post goes on from what i think abt the topics to some psyco stuff.. i hope that no one is reading up to now, cause whatever i'm gonna write next... is a.. tinny winny lil ..... erm.. sensitive.

i can't believe that 5Br fought with 5Br in the semi-finals! whats more 5A got to by pass two rounds!! what the ........ bleeepppp... do you know how rare it is to draw lots and be-able to ge a bypass, TWO times.. in a ROW! .. (ok so i'm lazy to do some simple calculation and find out the percentage of getting it) .. so you drew lots, and it looks quite fair. you 5A should not be given two bypasses. yes they got one, so take their paper out the next time.. monkey......

when you have power you can do whatever you want. pull as many cables as u wish. twist facts to suit you.

and its all politics i tell you!!! yeah it was great to watch sivesh's team vs hon son's team. cause they two are like the... du-uhh bombs in smkts debate team. and it was like destined that this two teams would meet each other in the finals. DO NOT READ THE COSSEDOUT LINE cause they have to jaga their muka. ( hmm that didn't really work out well now did it?) if 'some' ppl were to read it, they'll get reallly really reallllly upset and angry with me. owh well... i told you this was sensitive didn't i? (haha its like i'm asking for trouble) but yala, ppl got to be more mature abit this kinda mattes rite? (mature as in don't even talk about it to keep in good terms, not vice versa) or is it the other way around... being mature as in brave to speak it out publicly?
(or is that being immature?)

5A should have fought 5Br two times lahhhhhh. scared ah? let the people fight among themselves then when they week only you come in and tapau whats left. (heh this is a RTS war strategy. if there is more then 2 players, you let all the players fight among themselves, while you built up forces (ok you can't do this in debate) and then when the other two opponent's are week from the fight, you make your appearance and sweep them of their weekend feet! FTW) then gg.

and an angelic voice said: "but gosh, uleung, i gotta say your one small kid, just because you lost, doesn't mean you should rant and rant and rant about how unfair life is lah. just admit it, you lost. fair and square (oh really?(haha still having third thoughts)). so accepted like a real man and move on with life. don't screw your life up with one stupid post that hurts peoples feelings"

gosh... was that what ppl will say to me?

a demonic voice says: "hahaha feels good doesn't it? doesn't it feel soooo good to type with out knowing your limits! yes, let it all out! let the whole world know! what you feel!"

angel: "yes, true you should not keep it inside you. we HAVE to let our feelings out. what the devil wants us to do is to keep all our feelings inside us to ourself and isolate us..."

uh-huh.. yeah we should let out our.. erm.. 'opinions' (thats complains to you in a nicer word) to certain specific people who are close to you. like a best friend or something. so that you can slowly overcome things..  you would not do anything drastic which as too steep a gradient but will eventually overcome the same problem over time with the help and advice you receive from your Best Friend.

gosh, how contradicting, to post or not to post, that is the question
 its like i have 3 personalities inside me. so if you want to hate me, hate 1/3 part of me =P
haha jkk... i know i can change for the better...

(hmm i should make 3 ICs) heh heh

but NO sorry angel, but this time, i have to let the world know! what i feel. and i am SORRY, and plead and beg for your forgiveness ...*certain people* ... who i hope will not keep any grudge or bad memories about me in their hearts.

duuhh: "yeah, instead just read this post that is so sensitive and just forget about it when you click the 'close' button rite? haha so easy..... not everyone has this.. erm.. nilai moral 'toleransi' like a stone-hearted human"

=P
"well grow up, shaddap and be more mature quietly, the whold world doesn't need to know u think."

now where was i? ah yes... politics i tell you! 5A fought only one team to get into fianls.. can you belive it.. ONE .. (i think or was it two?) which was against 5C (yes respect to 5C's team, they are a team to be feared too) blah. well yeah thanks for letting 5Br send in two teams while all the other form 5 classes sent in one team only. hey, hon said we could do it.. "first come first serve" and as soon as he stepped out the door i gave him the list of our two teams.

thank God the ppl who set the league did not stick to the idea that 5Br fighting 5Br would be a very interesting debate to watch. they DID HAVE the idea. but they changed their (wat i'm not even sure if its plural or just one single person) mind(s) in the end.
and thanks wei yuen for not setting 5Br against 5Br in the quAtEr-finals.... that whould really really have s***ed ... thank u thank u thank u thank u thank u.

"in life sometimes we have to make the choices that make friends happy." walau wei! i tell you... even i want to say this encouraging thing also i kena tapau by ppl saying i say things that make ppl cry. mon..ke.y...

-FLIP-

yeah it was totally fair that 5Br fought against 5Br in the semi-finals. i mean, all other classes sent in one team only, so what makes us so special as to send two teams? 5Br against 5Br in the finals would sooooo totally be downright unfair. sometimes there are limits for a reason. and if you have reached the limit, you've gotta find away to cut down you numbers so that you fall back bellow the legal line that everyone else is following. your not so special.

there was this time. i went for a briefing in taylor's lakeside, (owh man that place is serene) abt some CO2 car competition that is about to happen. see each school was only allowed to send two teams, max. and there was this school, DU that send like 12 people (thats like three teams worth) and wow! i met a friend there! yi jean! hihihihi! so i asked her what was this all about and she said something like this "my school has three teams, so we're gonna compete among each other in school, and the best two get to go for the competition"

hey makes total sense. they did not say there was a limit for the teams coming for briefing. only a limit when you write thier names on the form (legally send in the teams) ah. kool. all the best in pwning the other teams! i hope to see you at the comp!

we smkts had no inter-school competition to worry about... cause we only sent in one team. amir: the manager. xing yao: the chemist. jan yi: the.. erm.. motivator?/entertainer/cheerleader?. and i

so yeah, going back to debate's semifinals
its so just and fair that Br went against Br.
and the best of us (or so i would like to think. mauahahahhahahahahahahaha) fought against Angsana

zzz

oh right, so i only said my views on the first topic. now time for the second one (wakaka, i know): the school's system should be abolished.

well some of you might be wondering why i kept this to the last part, while there is a whole lot of junk inserted in the middle of them. well see, i hope ppl get bored of my post cause its so long and just read the top part and bottom part of it. the end. while skipping the middle. (you know why if you have read it) welll... that's IF they don't read this paragraph la. and if you have read this whole post. salute to you.

and so.... the school system should be abolished becauzzzzzzzzzz
i still cant spell right  even after 11 years of skool. =P (i've been using auto-spell check alot for this post ya know) ... nah this was just a joke. and i think i've had a post on how dumb (in other words stewpid) the government education is. referring to the post individual liberalism . (hmmm i just read it and man i did miss out alot of crucial points)

let me sum it up in some points (and extra points):
-One size does not fit all. you try to generalize the education system hoping that everyone can go through the same kind of method. (yeah we've got different streams and you can choose what subject your taking for spm) but i'm not just implying this statement on that one filed only. yeah its good that every one has basics in the 3M, mengira, membaca and menulis. its not about the subjects. its about the WAY, the method the subjects are though

-school teachers are not up to standard (it took me a long time to figure how to write school teachers sux in a nice way) yeah SOME are exceptionally awesome (like pn ting=) while some.. are just.... noobs. like..... seriously....... see you wouldn't have this problem if they were tuition teachers, cause u can just fire them and hire a better one if their not up par. and so they will strive on better to teach to the best of the ability that they can. yeah i know they say, you've gotta learn how to crawl before you can run. and so newbie teacher's are expected to be noob when they just come in and gain knowledge and acquire the 'wisdom-of-teaching' over time. (yeah some newbies are naturally gifted and PRO from the start, its their talent) but it IS unfair to the students who got the teacher when she was a noob compared to the students who got her when she became a pro (thanks to the sacrifice of the students who got her when she was a noob..... anddd.... probably failed their exams and flunked not only out of school but also their lifes). then again life is never fair =D. then again some teachers who have been teaching for ages and eons and since the dinosaur age (yeah, they've thought longer than i've existed (thats 17 years if your wondering.. (you might be thinking: "like du-uhh i knew what your trying to say" but hey, i didn't understand jokes and terms last time ok?? and its also for my future-self ... when i look back at what i wrote (if blogger doesn't ban my account or some other mis-fortunate event happens to wipe out my archives and history along with it.. hmm lets say like maybe a.... earthquake or tsunami? or maybe even Armageddon or the Second Coming). i have faith in uncle google that thier servers are reliable =P .... anyways.. erm.. yeah so when i'm like 70 years old and i look back and read my 'younger days' and how immature i sound.. i'll still get my own jokes)..... heh.. what a waste of virtual space... typing all these non-sense..... who needs to know? you? why are you still even reading my blogggg????? whats wronggg with youuuuuuu (haha i'll like to thank you for being such a faithful reader, and i salute you) ...... and dude, you have alot of time....... so now where was i? oh yeah. teachers. and my existence ... some of them have been teaching for soooo long. and yet.. still are noobs... why? cause they don't bother to imporve, they don't even try.... why? cause they get a fix payment, by the government. so they can curi tulang and still get paid, rarely do they get fired.

how to fix the problem leh? 5Br said have tuitions. uh-huh. and government: give the money to the poor families so that they can find their own tuition and pay. if u ngm song they noob tuition teacher, then go cari another better one lah. if you cannot teach go fly kite, go starve. you wanna earn money do properly lah....

haha i sound so.. cold.. next time i working my boss dun give me a chance because i new, i know why. he read this post. =P jkk, i hope it doesn't happen

but no la, not all teachers are like that wan rite? some do try. and yes you can blame the students if you want. say what lah, say they noisy, say they don't want to study, say they mother got to go hospital and so on.... so how? different perspective. students fault now. hAizzz kids nowadays ar....

........dot dot dot..........when i was your age arr.... heh ehh

and so i shall skip a grandmother (wait i'm a guy) father story and say. abolish school system lah! noob la! its not perfect. one side blame the teacher, one side blame the student. so this is what we are going to do: we just taruh everyting in and make rojak system.

now also teachers cannot wack(use the cane to hit, not fist) the student with cane. so sissy meh you? wack hai mai wack (using cane ahh, not fist....) la. no need to cry to your mama to complain to the head of education about it lahhhh.. when students do wrong, let the teacher wack them la! some more got glitch the teacher ask the student to put a text book in their pants first, what teaching will that be man? (good for warning la, like "ok this first time i wack with book, nextttt time.. haha... no book" sure the kid scared to do bad things in the future wan) but if every-time is book book book, sure they student to scared lahhh...  cane, got book, then cane wack book only mah.

now teachers wack students, so mafan. must right letter and all. one cane got don't know how many forms to fill up, some-more sometimes must call parents. haiz. last time ah (okla not me, someone else.. much older) say ah: "when we kena wack in school, we scared to tell our parents, cause if they find out, we kena wack again" haha imagine you go home then you say:

boy: "mom i kena cane by teacher in school today"
mom: "WHAT!? why U so NAUGHTY!"
*then kena wack again*

thats why the boy also scared to tell the mom....
BUT kids NoWaDAYS ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.. haizzzzzzzz
i telllllllll youuuuuuuuuu arrrrrr.....
so spoiled sissy

kena wack in-front of perhimpunan: public caning.. serve as an example to all the other students.

but well. yeah there are some teachers who are like crazyy and kuku in the head. super no temper. cause she is like naturally always passively angry. so its counted as not a temper but a nature.
heh heh, so yeah in-case of a situation like this.. if the teacher always bad temper, slap wack ta-pau the student (just because she can? (that is IF you change the school system la from no wacking to wacking)) then there must be something to balance mah horr? and also applies if they don't teach well

teachers don't do a good job (if they at-least try then they are exempted from it) then they students take a vedio of it. (yes we are allowed to bring camcorder to school) so got evidence right? show to principle.. then on perhimpunan: students do onto teachers what they did onto them. muahahhaa

haha, the school system now: teachers are losing their power while students are getting the better of them. with all this child abuse policy from america.
your child gonna get mental breakdown ar? go fly kite lah you!
(ok ok sorry very sorry if your child is a special case)

just because the research says kids can get a mental trauma from a certain incident (lets say wacking) that means that everyone in the world can apply it la.. but the research so happen.... to be on erm.... kid's-who-get-trauma-from-wacking .... like that i can say i did my own research and said that you should not eat chili because from what i observed from my subject.. is that it died after eating it. or another research: its ok to jump down buildings, cause the subject i did my research on, could do it. mon..key...

aiah, as a small kid u kena wack (cause u did something bad) then good la, its to teach you mah... not like the teacher hates you and purposely find a reason to wack you. (or is it?) and then when u grow up, you can bully the one's smaller than you lah!

its a cycle. you know? the circle of life

well (another grandfather story) last time when i was a scout.. the seniors always bullied us. ask us to do push up lah, ask us to do all thier dirty jobs lah.. ask us to do this and that for them.. force us to march lah.. ect. ect. that was when i was a junior/recruit scout...... then i thought to myself, when i grow up it'll be my turn to do this. shouldn't i be saying "yehoo!" but no.. thats not what my heart said... i was a combo breaker..

and i regret

then again who would march if they weren't forced to? i was so delusional that you could coo people into doing things by fun and joy and out of their own voluntary personal choice (which are affected by: number of friends, fun-ness of activities, ect). in the end, all i saw was the troop falling and crumbling underneath me... all because i was too lenient (while all this time i thought i was being nice) and not having enough ... discipline.

i do not blame any politics. i do not blame the scouters above me. i do not find excuses that i was too tied down and not given any freedom of movement (if fact i've been given ALOT of freedom). all i blame is myslef: for being too lazy.

a combo breaker. ending a 'bad' (in your perspective) sometimes isn't a very good thing. not so special, just a destroyer.

but in destruction comes hope. hope that arises from the acing hearts of the younger generation after us. the fire ignited in them to see a revival, an age of Renaissance .. a revolution. from all that has been torn down.. yeah its good that there is a revolution even if a party is going strong to make it stronger... but sometimes it just has gotta be death that is strong enough to remind us of our purpose on earth.

so yeah.. circle-of-wacking? kena wack when you a student by an older teacher, and exceptional evil teachers get wacked by students. good wort! i'll prefer that then the teacher get fired. but if the teacher get wack by students. i won't be surprised if the teacher gets fired in the end =P

its all in the choice of the judiciary.

which consist of not one person by many (then again if you have some many people there bound to be politics and fights to happen. you cant have one person either (unless he's God) cause no human (or atleast thats what i think) is perfectly neutral and not buyers and perfectly fair and just)

blah.

now where was i? oh yeah third point:
-there's too much rubbish that defiles the schools pure educational system.
and therefore prevents it from achieving its goals and true purpose (that is to teach) students properly and efficiently. what do i mean? i'm talking about PEBLE and the 3 forms you have to fill up to go for camps. and all the paper work... "teachers nowadays aren't teachers their administrators"-LSJ. true, very true (haha actually i wouldn't know, i ain't a teacher) but yeah, some teacher don't or can't do paper work, so it ends up with the teachers that can do the paper work (which are most probably good teachers) and so... so much burden is upon them. but yeah.. who cares? some teachers take up their responsibility really seriously and are glad to be a government servant. but some others just misused the fix pay they receive and sLaCK!

poor hard working teachers. i hope you get a promotion and become a principle of a school one day.

or maybe even the head of education! muahahahha (nonono... i'm not sayign that our current one should be replace or anything like that... plsss ISA dun catch me) ..... what i'm saying is... yes he has his time. good. but as time pass, give others a chance.

haha, everything has its own time

"when you get into power, you can do what ever you want!!"

which is why i like LSJ saying "with no power, comes no responsibility"

hahahha, how true no? (well if you're the type that thinks tooooo much, ok fine to you its only half true)
readers: are u still reading this???

so yeah about school's system: it has been persevered. even having interclass debate too up so much time. and some teachers got... upset..

 do debate, do after school lah. now got so many rubbish programs that supposed to 'help improve' the students from different aspects.

forgetting that the real purpose of school is to study!

again i can go on about a third debate (our quater-finals) with the topic on "entrance into universities should be based on merit" haha i've got time, do you? (no actually i don't have i'm mid-term exams are close by)

ok what i'm gonna say next is quite diverged from the actual topic 'university-merit' cause i'm just focusing on certain points while leaving out others. because i'm talking about "purpose of school is to study"

lets start
see in school: the way they teach does not cater to every individual. studies show that girls score better in exams compared to boys (averagely) this is because they method is more.. erm.. girly? guys prefer more hands on and technical stuff. more on experiments and exploring new ideas.

what the school is doing now is binding the students down to the text-book system which is

study whatever is written in the text book. and vomit it out on the exam day.
how do you score in exam papers? answer: how well you can reproduce a exact replica or the text book. the more symmetrical the mirror image is, the higher marks you score.

yeah yeah... i know its about 'understanding' not memorizing. but believe me: its devour and regurgitate.

they focus so much on one path. one method. and if you stray away from this path you get a zero, or get scolding or whatever. its like, they don't provide room for creativity or randomization. everything is fixed fixed fixed and if you want to score you've got to be fixed to what has be fixed for you.

in the school: we look narrow. now i understand the true meaning of the senior scout's motto: look wide

look wide

the school system.... is rubbish. they cater only to people of a certain type. while unheard and hidden talents are suppressed and destroyed, never given the chance to grow or expand.

you wanna be creative in university? oh guess what, you cant go in cause you merit is not high enough. (haha i find that i'm using alot of this taunting lines lately .. which are quite bad.. cause it makes the person you're talking too feel ... erm.. one kind) .. haha 'one kind'- learnt this awesome word from kok hon's bro and also jia ming.... one kind =P

and you see last time in the 19 and 18's there was so much breakthroughs in the fields of chemistry and geology and physics and .. so many other things.. so many elements were being found. people were curious about the earths age, i'm not sure if this is true, i ripped if off the internet: "Isaac Newton willingly stuck a bodkin 1 into his eye socket and ... Think of it as the equivalent of jamming a modern butter knife into your eye.."

so... see.. people was so free to explore and therefore help mankind advance.

(and blablabla einstein, the bottom of his class.. ectectect..)

-FLIP-
mmhmm (wow i've not used this for a long time) - that was lAsT time .. when we (human kind) did not know anything, so now with all de advancement, we have to study it and get some basics.. yes no?

those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it- george santayana-ish ..
want more history quotes? click here

gosh i contradict myself too much. no wait. its good why? because life is never fair! there is always a pro and con to things in this world. and it depends on whose view your viewing from.

i've elaborate alot on this 3rd (quarter) debate because it was not recorded, the 1st (semi) one is, so i hope you can watch it when it comes online. and the 2nd one (finals) i'm not in it, (but it was recorded) and because i wasn't in it i have alot of points to blab about. =D
so.. see its related.. school system ....is noob.

schools.. haiz, i like going to school. to meet friends. and to study. but the system it has is, could be changed for the better. and even as now i have a big mouth, thats all i have. if i get into power to change the system, i will try my best to (but to guarantee it). =P

mhmm interclass debate. was good. thats a wrap
keep the good memories, junk the bad ones.
well. i guess thats it for now. until i find more flaws in the school system.
please lah change it
"look wide"-scouts
no human is blanced
"life is never fair", it is never just, it is never perfect. (ok la maybe not 'never' la) just like in Psalms
thats why we've got God. =D