This is in response to English: Education Ministry Opens Line For Suggestions.
The following is the letter I wrote to the Education Ministry:
Dear Sir/Ms,
I have a suggestion for English. Let us have two different standards for English Course. We can have (1) English and (2) Further English. Schools have the option to choose either course. Those in elementary level shall take English. Others in higher level shall take Further English.
We can also do the same for the Teaching of Science and Mathematics. We can have a bilingual system. Schools have the option to choose teaching-learning Science and Mathematics in English or in mother tongue (Bahasa Malaysia or Chinese or Tamil).
Malaysia is the melting pot of cultures, we should embrace multivulturism!
Regards,
Poh Swee Hiang
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Ferry My Favourite
I have to salute my Chief Minister, though I am from Penang now in PJ, and he is from Melaka now ruling my home-state!
Why? He has a good idea! Let the State run the Ferry! Here and Here.
Penang Ferry was the issue I blogged on May 4, 2008. Here. That was my 2nd posting in this blog.
On May 20, 2008, I carried a related news. Here.
Personally, we can improve the ferry service, cut down the wait time, enhance the environment, the natural breeze will do the rest!
If there is a political will, we can make it a profitable venture!
My dear CM, you can do it! Only the pessimists say "tidak Boleh!". They have been saying "Tidak Boleh" for decades, that is why nothing has been changed since.
Dear Datuk Transport Minister, give the challenge to "Penang Boleh", if LGE fails, he will have to face the Penangites!
Fair and Square!
Why? He has a good idea! Let the State run the Ferry! Here and Here.
Penang Ferry was the issue I blogged on May 4, 2008. Here. That was my 2nd posting in this blog.
On May 20, 2008, I carried a related news. Here.
Personally, we can improve the ferry service, cut down the wait time, enhance the environment, the natural breeze will do the rest!
If there is a political will, we can make it a profitable venture!
My dear CM, you can do it! Only the pessimists say "tidak Boleh!". They have been saying "Tidak Boleh" for decades, that is why nothing has been changed since.
Dear Datuk Transport Minister, give the challenge to "Penang Boleh", if LGE fails, he will have to face the Penangites!
Fair and Square!
Friday, May 1, 2009
May Day again!
May Day again today, and I am in Bukit Mertajam visitinf friends, close relatives and Mom!
One year since I started blogging, though lazing away the last few months!
Many changes happened: the BIGGEST being I am going to lose my job in the publisher I helped to start!
I am more experienced now - I helped started it and I am helping to close it!
If there is a single experience worth mentioning in the past year, it is the additional skill of closing a business, an experience I treasure as I think not many people have the chance of winding-up a business.....
The Future fro me is challenging and promising!
Till the new development in term of career, gambateh!
One year since I started blogging, though lazing away the last few months!
Many changes happened: the BIGGEST being I am going to lose my job in the publisher I helped to start!
I am more experienced now - I helped started it and I am helping to close it!
If there is a single experience worth mentioning in the past year, it is the additional skill of closing a business, an experience I treasure as I think not many people have the chance of winding-up a business.....
The Future fro me is challenging and promising!
Till the new development in term of career, gambateh!
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Squidoo Here I Come!
Thanks to KC Lau, whose book I review in my alternate blog, http://wealthwellnessnetwork.blogspot.com.
I have started to write my page on Self Traveling,
http://www.squidoo.com/Travel-on-your-own?mb=lens_publish.
I have signed up "Lens of the Day newsletter" at
http://blogs.squidoo.com/lensoftheday/ ,
as well as received the official Squidoo recipe book,
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/changethis/files/TheJoyofSquidoo.pdf.
I will update with more pages.
I have started to write my page on Self Traveling,
http://www.squidoo.com/Travel-on-your-own?mb=lens_publish.
I have signed up "Lens of the Day newsletter" at
http://blogs.squidoo.com/
as well as received the official Squidoo recipe book,
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/changethis/files/TheJoyofSquidoo.pdf.
I will update with more pages.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Padi Museum
Fancy taking a bus trip up North to visit the magnificent Padi Museum? That was what I did over the weekend, 22 & 23 November 2008, with my community friends, most of them are my taichi-mates!
The Padi Museum is situated at the foot of Gunung Keriang, 8 km North of Alor Star. Gunung Keriang, locally known as Crystal Mountain, is an outcrop of crystallised stones, harvested by locals for sales just below the hill!
The Padi Museum was constructed in 2000 with six (or five?) cylindrical structures resembling padi stalks. The main structure high in the middle is where the attraction is.
Walking up the staircase, there is a circular movable platform for you to sit and view the beautiful 3-D painting on the wall facing you. The painting runs continuously as a cylindrical piece!
This circular mural measures 103 metres in circumference and 8 metres in height. It was drawn by 50 artists from North Korea.
The following shots were taken. A scene of a kampung community.
The padi field, may not believe that it is a painting indeed.
Note that the plants at the foreground are actually preserved realia.
A scene beside the Crystal Mountain. Again, objects at the foreground are realia.
The beautiful rainbow, this is most likable part of the painting.
One has to pay RM2 to bring in a camera. You will be given a small card with a rubber band to tie around your camera. There is this hard-working officer checking if your camera, particularly hand-phone with a camera function, is smuggled in without making any payment. She would stop you from taking photographs. This photo shows a person sitting on the revolving platform, while the officer stands on the permanent inner platform. Over her back, a group of spectators are viewing the painting facing the opposite side. The roof shows its circular structure.
There are four or five circular halls with fixed paintings at the middle level of the building. These paintings include of the history of padi cultivation and various scenes of padi field.
At the lowest level, there is a souvenir shop and a wide area of exhibition on anything related to padi, padi farming and rice, The "Tikus Bodoh" is the most attractive exhibit of all, a mouse trap!
It is educational, yet it is so cheap to visit as the entrance fee is only RM3 for adult and RM1 for children and student.
There is a canteen at the periphery of the Padi Museum compound, serving good local food and drink! The canteen operator's school-going children speak perfect English!
The Padi Museum is situated at the foot of Gunung Keriang, 8 km North of Alor Star. Gunung Keriang, locally known as Crystal Mountain, is an outcrop of crystallised stones, harvested by locals for sales just below the hill!
The Padi Museum was constructed in 2000 with six (or five?) cylindrical structures resembling padi stalks. The main structure high in the middle is where the attraction is.
Walking up the staircase, there is a circular movable platform for you to sit and view the beautiful 3-D painting on the wall facing you. The painting runs continuously as a cylindrical piece!
This circular mural measures 103 metres in circumference and 8 metres in height. It was drawn by 50 artists from North Korea.
The following shots were taken. A scene of a kampung community.
The padi field, may not believe that it is a painting indeed.
Note that the plants at the foreground are actually preserved realia.
A scene beside the Crystal Mountain. Again, objects at the foreground are realia.
The beautiful rainbow, this is most likable part of the painting.
One has to pay RM2 to bring in a camera. You will be given a small card with a rubber band to tie around your camera. There is this hard-working officer checking if your camera, particularly hand-phone with a camera function, is smuggled in without making any payment. She would stop you from taking photographs. This photo shows a person sitting on the revolving platform, while the officer stands on the permanent inner platform. Over her back, a group of spectators are viewing the painting facing the opposite side. The roof shows its circular structure.
There are four or five circular halls with fixed paintings at the middle level of the building. These paintings include of the history of padi cultivation and various scenes of padi field.
At the lowest level, there is a souvenir shop and a wide area of exhibition on anything related to padi, padi farming and rice, The "Tikus Bodoh" is the most attractive exhibit of all, a mouse trap!
It is educational, yet it is so cheap to visit as the entrance fee is only RM3 for adult and RM1 for children and student.
There is a canteen at the periphery of the Padi Museum compound, serving good local food and drink! The canteen operator's school-going children speak perfect English!
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Bang Goes the MCA?
I have never been an admirer of MCA since the day I was introduced to politics by my late Father!
I could remember the day I was in USM arguing with the Chinese Language Society office bearers that Chinese Malaysians need a multiracial party to protect their rights. They did not agree. I further stated that Chinese Malaysians could only claim their rights once the Malay Malaysians are split into two major parties. They, of course, thought that I was day-dreaming! UMNO had seriously broke twice, if we do not consider PAS as a split. Once with Kuli's 46 and now with Keadilan's Anwar Ibrahim!
Off the Edge (OTE) Oct 08 issue carried an interesting feature as per title of this posting. Four
MCA leaders were interviewed.
Chua Jui Meng
My vote (not as the MCA Pres, but the performance of the four in the feature) goes to Chua Jui Meng. I was surprised that he gives credit to one President whom I disliked most, Ling Loing Sik! Ling set up Insap think tank with Prof Lim Teck Ghee as on of the members. To side track, I could not recall MCA defending Prof Lim openly when he was slaughtered by UMNO over calling bluff the government's statistics on the percentage of Malays equity ownership in support of the failure of NEP! Two interesting stupidities here: MCA failure to appreciate the brains who helped the party, and UMNO admitting its failure over NEP as the ruling party !
Back to Chua JM, he spoke in the Parliament for two hours before he was stopped abruptly by the Speaker over UMNO's declaration to extend NEP beyond 1990. Instead of been sacked by Dr M, the latter set up the National Economic Consultative Council (NECC) in which he was an active member. As a result, Dr M presented the National Development Policy to replace NEP, which saw the liberalisation in economy and education post 1991.
He blames the present outcome squarely on Ong Kah Ting, my inference. UMNO youth (Hishamkeris & KJ SIL), endorsed by UMNO (lame Pak Lah), post 2004 was vocal in reviving NEP instead of rewarding the Rakyat for supporting BN. MCA kept quiet; hench its downfall in 2008. It is also interesting that he talked about debating NEP with KJ in 2005 and telling him that the government statistics needed to be relooked. Khairy agreed with him for a review, but MCA never followed up on that.
Chua also talked about other illnesses such as corruptions in UMNO, negotiated tenders for government projects, ineffective ACA and the Societies Act which prevented governing political party members from having recourse of law against acts of injustice by their leaders, a case of party above the law of the nation!
Chua's conclusion: MCA must change! To the last question 'To pull out of Barisan?', Chua said, 'If it comes to the crunch and UMNO refuses to change, we cannot be pulled down by a party that refuses to change. Even an animal knows how to fight for its survival.'
Ong Tee Kiat
Though I personally think that Ong would be the best person to lead MCA now, I am disappointed with this interview. There is too much talk on the service centre the Michael Chong-style, though the OTE is of the opinion that complainants should be able to avail themselves to the services of the government itself.
Ong also mentioned briefly on his role in NECC, that MCA insisted that we must go for merits and needs, and not ethnicity. However, certain quarters (I am disappointed that he failed to name them) seem more keen to resurrect past practices of the NEP days in recent years.
On the question 'should the MCA pull out of BN', the first question of the interview, Ong replied, 'Opting out is one of the options but not the only option'.
I was hoping that Ong could have given a better overview on his refreshing view on MCA going multiracialism.
Chua Soi Lek & Fong Chan Onn
There are nothing to shout about for these two... more comments later may be.
Conclusion
MCA is at the mercy of UMNO unless one leader, preferably the President, needs to speak the language of the grassroots loud and clear, whether MCA remains in BN, be an independent or just join the Pakatan Rakyat.
I could remember the day I was in USM arguing with the Chinese Language Society office bearers that Chinese Malaysians need a multiracial party to protect their rights. They did not agree. I further stated that Chinese Malaysians could only claim their rights once the Malay Malaysians are split into two major parties. They, of course, thought that I was day-dreaming! UMNO had seriously broke twice, if we do not consider PAS as a split. Once with Kuli's 46 and now with Keadilan's Anwar Ibrahim!
Off the Edge (OTE) Oct 08 issue carried an interesting feature as per title of this posting. Four
MCA leaders were interviewed.Chua Jui Meng
My vote (not as the MCA Pres, but the performance of the four in the feature) goes to Chua Jui Meng. I was surprised that he gives credit to one President whom I disliked most, Ling Loing Sik! Ling set up Insap think tank with Prof Lim Teck Ghee as on of the members. To side track, I could not recall MCA defending Prof Lim openly when he was slaughtered by UMNO over calling bluff the government's statistics on the percentage of Malays equity ownership in support of the failure of NEP! Two interesting stupidities here: MCA failure to appreciate the brains who helped the party, and UMNO admitting its failure over NEP as the ruling party !
Back to Chua JM, he spoke in the Parliament for two hours before he was stopped abruptly by the Speaker over UMNO's declaration to extend NEP beyond 1990. Instead of been sacked by Dr M, the latter set up the National Economic Consultative Council (NECC) in which he was an active member. As a result, Dr M presented the National Development Policy to replace NEP, which saw the liberalisation in economy and education post 1991.
He blames the present outcome squarely on Ong Kah Ting, my inference. UMNO youth (Hishamkeris & KJ SIL), endorsed by UMNO (lame Pak Lah), post 2004 was vocal in reviving NEP instead of rewarding the Rakyat for supporting BN. MCA kept quiet; hench its downfall in 2008. It is also interesting that he talked about debating NEP with KJ in 2005 and telling him that the government statistics needed to be relooked. Khairy agreed with him for a review, but MCA never followed up on that.
Chua also talked about other illnesses such as corruptions in UMNO, negotiated tenders for government projects, ineffective ACA and the Societies Act which prevented governing political party members from having recourse of law against acts of injustice by their leaders, a case of party above the law of the nation!
Chua's conclusion: MCA must change! To the last question 'To pull out of Barisan?', Chua said, 'If it comes to the crunch and UMNO refuses to change, we cannot be pulled down by a party that refuses to change. Even an animal knows how to fight for its survival.'
Ong Tee Kiat
Though I personally think that Ong would be the best person to lead MCA now, I am disappointed with this interview. There is too much talk on the service centre the Michael Chong-style, though the OTE is of the opinion that complainants should be able to avail themselves to the services of the government itself.
Ong also mentioned briefly on his role in NECC, that MCA insisted that we must go for merits and needs, and not ethnicity. However, certain quarters (I am disappointed that he failed to name them) seem more keen to resurrect past practices of the NEP days in recent years.
On the question 'should the MCA pull out of BN', the first question of the interview, Ong replied, 'Opting out is one of the options but not the only option'.
I was hoping that Ong could have given a better overview on his refreshing view on MCA going multiracialism.
Chua Soi Lek & Fong Chan Onn
There are nothing to shout about for these two... more comments later may be.
Conclusion
MCA is at the mercy of UMNO unless one leader, preferably the President, needs to speak the language of the grassroots loud and clear, whether MCA remains in BN, be an independent or just join the Pakatan Rakyat.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
1MALAYSIA
Najib sets up his site today, click here.
I have written three comments to him using my REAL name, email address and mobile number, with the subject called ISA.
FIRST
PLEASE USE YOUR POWER, if you still have any, TO RELEASE RAJA PETRA & TERESA KOK.
The Malaysians have lost faith in you & the UMNO gomen.
SECOND (After I found out that the comments are not published in the site)
I have just sent you a comment on the above subject.
Are you going to publish my comment in your web site? If YES, TERIMA KASIH! If NO, I feel I was cheated!
Please comment on my comments!
THIRD
This is my third comment. I am happy that you set up a website. This is not too late, because if you lose your job as the DPM, you will be able to play with the website all days & nights, you will then know why Dr M has all the time to write web to scold people. My advice is, don't scold RAKYAT like me, but play lah some games like "counter strike"!
I have written three comments to him using my REAL name, email address and mobile number, with the subject called ISA.
FIRST
PLEASE USE YOUR POWER, if you still have any, TO RELEASE RAJA PETRA & TERESA KOK.
The Malaysians have lost faith in you & the UMNO gomen.
SECOND (After I found out that the comments are not published in the site)
I have just sent you a comment on the above subject.
Are you going to publish my comment in your web site? If YES, TERIMA KASIH! If NO, I feel I was cheated!
Please comment on my comments!
THIRD
This is my third comment. I am happy that you set up a website. This is not too late, because if you lose your job as the DPM, you will be able to play with the website all days & nights, you will then know why Dr M has all the time to write web to scold people. My advice is, don't scold RAKYAT like me, but play lah some games like "counter strike"!
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