Okays..sorry laR pao and heng..blog a bit rotten. lolz
yes, finally passed up my FYP 1st draft..this semester we just have to complete abt, 30% of it..since its just two credit hours..next sem its 4 credit hours. passed up on 21st oct..now its 25th d..hehehe wat have i been doing since?
ewwww...am watching House as I type..season 2..yucks..the docs put maggots on the patient to eat the dead flesh.grimy..
back to my topic..FYP (here in utm its known as PSM-Projek Sarjana Muda)..i never told abt my title before right? Mine is "Effectiveness of plant species to reduce crosswind on highway vehicles". hehe u guys might think, "wat's that got to do with aeronautical engineering?"..hmmm. nt sure. haha well got lar..basically mine is of wind engineering...ever wondered abt the "bahaya kawasan angin lintang" signs along our highways? North-south Expressway around Ayer Keroh are one of the locations. what are the measures taken to tackle that problem? it is quite dangerous ma..anyway, im doing a research on by planting some trees at that area, how much can the crosswind be reduced. im not goin to do it experimentally..that'd take up too much time..so im doing simulation (CAE--computer aided engineering) to simulate the real situation. will be using CFD (computational fluid dynamics) to simulate the wind flow at the 'trees', and the best tree species to be used. been experimenting with GAMBIT and FLUENT...well it may seem tat im talking gibberish now..haha i also didn't know what it was about till a few weeks ago..but everything is going good, the presentation is next week. =) hopefully can do well lar..as long as I dont compete with other coursemates...
my draft is supposed to be 3 chapters nia--introduction, lit review, methodology..i thought my 40pages is pretty good d..and standard lar...fuuuh, perosak ekonomi all datang mencurah-curah. haha i think my choice of malay words is wrong, but..never mind..my coursemates under the same lecturer as mine--60pages--70 pages--almost 90pages..crazy..sigh, there's this regulation in our faculty that for bachelor's degree, the total pages cannot exceed 100 pages for the whole thesis. and that includes next sem. so means my coursemates dont have to do d next sem. hehes. chisin wan..got another batch of students (my coursemates as well) that is under another lecturer that tengah saling mendera each other trying to compete for the "most pages award"..heard that one has already exceeded 200 pages (for PSM I nia!!!)..cos their lecturer extended their due date to 27th.. (ours is 21st, and we only had 3days to do after our berlambak tests and assignments ) so 40pages was the best i could muster up..actually could do more, but didnt feel like it d..hehe so these ppl are going to slaughter themselves to death competiting.
next..after that..been watching anime anime anime..watch Blood+!! watch watch watch!! the storyline is pretty good. its about this sorta vampire slayer thing, the girl's name is Saya and there are 3 to die for characters- Hagi, Kai and Solomon..only 50 eps =) of course im still following Naruto and Bleach religiously..but the fillers are really starting to be super getting on my nerves and sien d... thus now i'm reading the mangas =) Good!! when is naruto getting back to the mangas? arghhh..pekchek nia..oh can I recommend Black Blood Brothers also? =)
and..for 3 days..finally i succumbed to it. MAPLESEA (heng, alicia, justin should know..since they are rehabs =P) i started playing after i passed up my draft. hehe. this CANNOT continue!!! level up to 20 in just 3 days!! playing til 7am in the morning for 3days d..then waking up at 4pm. chammmmm..tonite kenot like tat d..i've two coursemates teman me play..they're at levels 30++ d..oh im miniSyzygium by the way (Syzygium is the plant species i picked for my PSM). hehe..
oh..im watchin House also. =)
19 comments:
Wow...ur assignment vy "yeng" it seems *wink* work hard ya!
And also I was asking u abt the tattoo artist's no. and u didn't reply me oso :/
Can go there by not making appointment ka?
lol all the best in your draft..hey i caught up tp the latest episode of Prison Break,lost n desperate housewives liao!!! man i cant get enough of scofield =DDD
Jan (im using mariposa here)
ahh, good that you are busy with lotsa things, remember time well spend is time rewarded. Cheers!
Ur cm betul betul gila mia,last time my draft only 30 pages nia, or 20??kekeke, oso can pass ma, hehe!
Wah... Your FYP concept not bad wer.... Brilliant!
Malaysia and Singapore used to be one body. Both started on par in many things, including their universities.
Now, 40 years later, Malaysia and Singapore are different. A tale of two nations. One is declining or stuck and the other is moving forward.
Why the stark difference? One obvious reason is the way human resources are used in Malaysia and Singapore. Another reason is accountability and transparency. Yet another reason is corruption.
The government of one nation has tunneled vision under a coconut shell while the other has good mission and vision. One is concerned with one dominant race and the other is race-blind.
Furthermore, one practices an officially approved apartheid policy while pretending to be a fair government that does not marginalise its citizens of certain ethnic groups. One is pretends to be global while the other is truly global.
Malaysia and Singapore: excellent examples for historical and social analyses and studies. Also, excellent case studies in evolution: survival of the fittest.
I am going to graduate from the oversea university this year. All these years that I had been spent in overseas, I have been thinking of should I go back to apply all the knowledge that I have learnt in overseas and contribute back to my country!
But I was attracted by the opportunity and the pay that they can give me. The main thing in oversea we all have equal opportunity. As long as you are hardworking you will have the chance to succeed.
This is different in Malaysia. Hardworking does not promise any good future. However, I choose to go back because I miss my family back home but I know after a few years time, if I have the chance, I will leave Malaysia to work overseas.
I will try to bring my family along. I know is hard for my parents to adapt the new place but I think it would be a best place to retire.
Does the government even do a survey on how many skilled people or students, they had lost in all these years either through emigration or students study in overseas and reluctant to go back!
How the country can transform into an advance country to compete with Australia, Canada and UK if the education is not up to the international level. One thing I can be sure is that Malaysian students are not stupid, we are just as smart as they do.
Come on, graduates defaulting on study loans and not returning home is a universal problem, not unique to Malaysia. One's loyalty is to oneself and family first. Look at Australia - every graduate from its universities has an open invitation to be a permanent citizen.
It is better to ask why Malaysia is not attractive to some graduates. Graduates of foreign varsities have the chance to experience a different lifestyle, one that perhaps, make them feel that is where they should grow new roots.
It has nothing to do with turning "against the country". Most of these graduates have the full support of their family for emigrating. If we go along that line of though, does it mean expiates working in Malaysia are not serving their country of origin?
People who decide to emigrate are not traitors. Traitors are those people who perpetuate a system of corruption and cronyism that destroy the nation cohesion and integrity.
Migrating is a personal choice but people who choose to stay behind to fight the system is the visionary. I hope there will be more Malaysians who can appreciate the essence of Bangsa Malaysia.
Let us vote in a government that will give a better life for all. For a start, we must give the opposition the chance to run two or three states so that they can prove their capability.
The bumis policy has bred a group of aborigines who are not competitive enough in the local open markets, that depend on scholarship for education, contract for business.
Indirectly, they are in a way victimised by corrupted cronies, who take the biggest pie under this policy. These have become the liability of nation. Barisan nuts - Get rid of it!
They always like to comfort rather than compete. But when they ready (force more like it) to compete, they will compete with the worst rather than the best.
Only who can save Malaysia? Well……….I think only God!
UMNO = Untuk Makan Nasi Orang
This is a new generation of lazy malays who evolved from their lazy ancestors. Not surprising la! Wait for the next generation of lazy malays at the future with better parasitic economic policies.
Malaysia has never been in any education race, in the sense of fair and free race, not even locally, let alone globally. The institutions of higher learning served to issue "certificates of fitness" for employment and not to provide education per se.
It is all in a dream or in playing a role in movie until globalisation sets in. The day of reckoning is near. It is unfair that the person who brought the dilemma to his followers enjoyed the image of the saviour without impunity, and yet he claimed that the government of the day was wrong to change the course he had set.
The true enemy for progress in Malaysia is the BN, its management and system……….nothing else. Malaysia will fall further south Singapore due to self inflicting.
Good and proper education is the foundation of a successful multi racial and religious nation. Education is not just about academic results alone. Decades of aggressive and damaging politic of race and religion had a long term and permanent consequences on the country and people.
The incompetent, narrow, selfish and shortsighted leaders had failed Malaysia and its ordinary people for far too long. It is very sad to see a promising country lead by donkeys and monkeys into battle.
We continue to churn out graduates in great numbers. Very soon we will get our name into the Guinness Book of Record for producing the most number of unemployable graduates in the world!
Some of them are now working as domestic servants, office boys, taxi drivers. Obviously something is very wrong with our education system, or is it something else more "cynical"?
No hope for Malaysia. We are slowly and surely going downhill. By year 2020 the whole economy will collapse.
On the contrary (Sorry to deliberate misunderstand one, but this is too good to pass up). Education in Malaysia is all about race. Unfortunately, it is the wrong race. The authorities are more concerned with which race you belong to - Chinese, Indian, Malay, etc. Tell them that we belong to the human race.
Our education system is in backyard. We were behind 30 years and how are we going to catch up. Just propaganda here and there will not bring us anyway. Malaysia is very busy brainwashing the students and not teaching them how to brainstorm to solve problems!
We lost it long ago and nothing left.
· Canada is a multi racial country like Malaysia.
· Canada is a relatively young country like Malaysia.
· Canada is a very progressive country.
· Canada is one of the G7 countries.
· Canada is one of the highest per capital income in the world now.
· Canada is one of the most developed countries in the world now.
· Canada allows both English and French as its official languages.
· Canada builds many 100% government subsidized French primary and secondary schools and French medium universities.
· Canada has very liberal policy in education and languages.
· Ratio of English speaking citizens vs. French speaking citizens is almost similar to malays and Chinese in Malaysia.
What is Malaysia now? Discrimination, discrimination and more discrimination!
This despite the fact that the NEP has resulted in corruption of endemic proportions, cronyism, guinea-pig experiments, mismanagement, the squandering the ill-gotten wealth, and above all, a self-denial syndrome regarding this massive wastage of public funds.
I really do not know what yardstick is being used to gauge and say that the bumis have only achieved some 19 percent capital equity ownership as opposed to the 30 percent target set by the NEP.
With all the Umno owned entities plus licences and permits dished out generously, this should have surpassed the 30 percent long ago. What happened?
I would say that many of them want to get only the money, they did not want to do the hard work and learn the ropes of the business. I think this is the real problem.
But instead, meritocracy is blamed and that after all these years of affirmative policies, the bumis have not been given the proper support to succeed and excel.
If the government is sincere in helping the bumis, it has to stop corruption. There also has to be a change in mindset and attitude towards positioning with pride and ability.
The problem with Umno politics is that no one dares to think the unthinkable. They talk, but in some matters they will never walk the talk.
I have mentioned in my posts that NEP is not constitutional and has extended its period beyond what has been planned to be necessary. 20 years has passed, but greed has set in.
Greed to benefits only a few and not the poverty stricken Malaysians. An affirmative policy that helps the poor regardless of race is needed.
I have also demonstrated that India has Muslim presidents despite being 80% Hindu. Similarly, in Australia there are Asian mayors. In America, New Zealand and many countries, top positions are for the capable not based on race or religion.
Now, let us not sweep all discussions under the carpet with the term Article 153.
Article 153 should always be interpreted together with Article 8 that all Malaysians must be dealt with fairly and treated as equal.
While the position of the malays are respected and their heritage not forgotten, they are not meant to be the guardians of toll and wealth and collectors that usurp all money, oil and some natural resources till it is left dry.
It is important we publish this, so we do not just shiver when we hear Article 153, and begin to think of greedy ways to gain from another or use it to put down another races.
(1) The quotas reserved must be reasonable and the reservation of licences and permits for malays and natives must be of such proportion as may be deemed reasonable.
(2) The scope of the reservation of quotas is only with respect to positions in public service, scholarships, and other similar educational or training privileges accorded or given by the federal government.
(3) The special reservation of quotas must not affect the rights of other communities.
Apart from the provisions allowed under the abovementioned Article 153, all citizens of Malaysia must be treated as equal. This is clearly provided for under Article 8 of the Federal Constitution.
Article 8:
(1) All persons are equal before the law and entitled to the equal protection of the law.
(2) No public authority shall discriminate against any person on the ground that he is resident or carrying on business in any part of the federation outside the jurisdiction of the authority.
(3) There shall be no discrimination in favour of any person on the ground that he is a subject of the ruler of any state.
NEP: It will destroy the Malaysia.
We must demand these changes and the power is with the people. We must go against a corrupt government, a fanatic religious social structure and not accept crime rates and NEP. We need to change Malaysia and the social structures that are not relevant for Malaysia anymore.
We need to free ourselves from these chains that make our lives not worth living.
This is the politics of finding blame for own weakness or laziness.
What I hate most is when those racist and jealous malays see a well developed township populated and owned by Chinese, and start rambling that the Chinese grabbed the wealth from the malays.
The NEP was abused to enrich only a small portion of the malay population. Now, the pie is shrinking due to global factors and the political elite is looking for scapegoats - and guess what - the Chinese are always blamed, as if working hard and saving is sinful.
As a matter of fact just like Mahathir once stated the government has been giving a lot of opportunities to the malays. The other races prosper because they constantly grab opportunities and create markets for their businesses "without depending on any extra incentives by any governmental sector".
I think this country is wasting a lot of time and energy on this racial thing - actually is an income disparity syndrome, the have and have-nots regardless of race.
Last time all first world. If Malaysia was a body, malay was the bone. Today very sadly, malay is the sick appendix, if remove it, Malaysia will be healthier.
It is a tiring affair to talk of the problems of malays. The problems are too many.
We talk and talk and give resolutions to government to do, i.e. we talk but we are not doing anything about it and rely on others.
The typical discussion would be to say malay is weak in this and that. And the immediate inference is to have what is missing. Too often we are fixing symptoms and not problems.
We have tried and pump money into so many programs but we have yet to create the malay industrial and commercial class.
In any corporate strategy implementation, the key aspect lies in leadership and corporate culture.
For a change, I believe let us have an action oriented discussion. Maybe let us start to think and act independently. With a realistic appreciation of the parameters, only then we act more realistically and prudently.
In the end, we the common people must not be fooled by the political elite. We are risking our very life.
Dear friends, I have spent 10 years in Malaysia, I am a foreigner, an academe and I am going to be thrown out for University Malaya despites of excellent research activities. I understand your problems, I love Malaysia people, I care for UM and for Malaysia, three races not easy.
There are for the moment no solutions for your interracial problems. The boil will mature and explode a day. When no more cash from Petronas will support the delirium of the present deciders, it will be terrible, everything will be collapse, all will be finished. But after that you could perhaps rebuild a nation.
Meanwhile just have a drink and forget about what you see, let time do.
I speak to myself:
UM was once a good university. It has been a university up to the mid-1980s, after that it started to "sink", now it has reached the bottom. In the 1960s and 1970s, you could see well groomed lecturers and pretty clerks with well ironed dress.
How sad, why should we care? We should care for the students who are the first victims, especially the foreigners - we should care for all the good academes who, hopeless and destroyed by the "fill the form and eat noodles but never think" ideology, finally suicide, left ruined and depressed or were thrown out and replaced by spoiled losers.
They say they want to bring UM up - it is a joke. That is impossible unless you change public perception on "success"……….
Too many black magic players and fat asses are running the show there, from top to bottom. If you have any expatriate friends who tell you I am going to join UM, never ever allow him to work there, if you care for him.
Fellows, the brain drain in Malaysia is a normal process because the brains are not wanted, they are thrown out like dirt. A very skilled person, an intellectual will fall into depression very fast in working in a Malaysia working place, and worst if he or she is an academe in public sector.
True, Singapore does well. This is because the leaders of Singapore have implemented a public service that works: reliable, polite, fast, accurate. Singapore has very good leaders who have understood Singapore must open to the world.
Many malays don't like to admit it, but once upon a time, they were not Muslims like everyone else!
Malays were part of the migration of Polynesian peoples whose original home was Yunan in China to South East Asia in what is known as Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia……….
At that time the Orang Asli were already well settled in the malay Peninsula, so that makes them the most legitimate of the bumis.
Malays were animists then for hundreds of years until Indians crossed Bay of Bengal to South East Asia and spread Indian and Hindu culture to the peoples there.
Hence we had the great Hindu kingdoms which later also became Buddhist kingdoms of Srivijaya, Majapahit, Langkasuka - but main thing to note is that racially the peoples were malays and speak old malay language.
Islam only came to South East Asia from 1400 after foundation of Malacca by Parameswara. Again from India crossed Bay of Bengal and spread Islam to South East Asia. Malacca sultans were among the first converts and the rest is history.
Please note that the malays have been Muslims for only 600 years and have been Hindus/Buddhists very much longer - at least 2000 years. Malay culture is very much influenced by Hindu culture including Sanskrit words like the wayang kulit, raja, maharaja, etc.
Unlike Javanese, who are proud of their Hindu/Buddhist past reflected in great empires like Srivijaya and Majapahit, malays are generally ashamed to dwell on their pre-Islamic Hindu/Buddhist past.
On the contrary some malays try to be like the Arab wannabes, trying to cleanse the malays of their Hindu/Buddhist past - in this even the songs and films of P Ramlee become victimized!
If Islam had not come to South East Asia, malays would still be Hindus/Buddhists like the Balinese which is not a bad idea as Balinese are considered very peaceful people.
To tell you the truth those BN blokes brains are filled with mud! They cannot see the similarity between Khairy statement and Lee Kuan Yew statement. Both bear the same meaning. Only change the name of country and race.
Khairy said: Singapore marginalised the malays.
Lee Kuan Yew said: Malaysia marginalised the Chinese.
Pak Lah, do you need an English specialist to explain to you the differences!
I must congratulate Lee Kuan Yew who really shows our half past six government that the Chinese are marginalised here. And at the same time to tell Pak Lah that it is time to teach your son-in-law how to behave.
This is not something new. They are God and they are also the devil. They can do all they want. I don't care about their stupid speeches, blames or comments game. The only thing I care about is how they are driving this country down the drain.
BN is a virus. They come and consume the land's riches, integrity and morale. When all is gone, they spread to other areas to sustain their destructive ways. BN is a disease country cancer.
DAP is the cure. And to use this cure, we must vote them into parliament.
Please tell Pak Lah to restrain his dog Khairy. He is barking and pissing everyone off. Maybe Khairy is doing this on purpose to bring down Pak Lah and then grab the post for his own.
Our leaders are all hypocrites. It is alright for them to criticise USA, Singapore, Thailand and any country they want to. But when other country criticise us they want apology. The government is really half past six and they should all resign.
Umno is trying very hard to portray a confident and strong party. But deep inside, they are very insecure. This could be seen in the unusual behavior and conduct of their members.
tristan: haha..my title sounds yeng nia..actuali is..erm..okla..haha..ahbo u sms me lar. lost ur no d!
jan: wat kinda name is mariposa?? wah..so fast caught up d?
csy: cosmates chisin wan ma. hehz
joeC: alrite..will keep that in mind..
Ian: thanks thanks =)
the rest:...wtf??? thanks for the 'comments' though i'll keep the comments there since u guys so beria-ia want to voice out ur opinions
maplestory.. i have a priest, bowmen, sin. =) long time never play liao. playing in cass.
uhm.. just dropping by. =) utm student here also.
FYI mi amor, Mariposa means butterfly in spanish =p
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