Of Language And Weirdness

There was a time. Where the education system changed their English Language way of educating people to the standardized Malay. When was is ? During Anwar's reign. Did it work ? NO.

Educating people in Malay just doesn't help. In any institution, English is the main language. If you are not proficient in English, tell me how do we survive ? Malaysians don't realize that our community needs to be developed. The nation needs development. And tell me how do we get the development we want if we cannot speak the international language ?

We think that by bringing back Malay into the education system, all of us will be united, every race.
But i do see that nowadays, every race tends to use their own language, they don't have a standardized language.
How many subjects are there in English ? Only Maths And Science. Why are they making such a big fuss about it ?

Okay, maybe half of the subjects taken in SPM are in English. I can guarantee that these students will be thankful when they go overseas and study. Not only overseas, even locally, they use English as their medium to communicate. They should be thankful that the government changed the Malay Language of Maths and Science to English !
Why are they complaining ? Because the Exam results are not good in both of the subjects ? Who is to blame ?
The teachers or the Parents ? Think about it.

The teachers can't speak proper English. The parents meanwhile have been taking English lightly and educating their children with Malay. I didn't say it was wrong. I was brought up being taught both languages. I can speak and write both coherently.

Not to brag, but i feel that every citizen should learn the language and be good at it. For once i think the government did something right and now they are scraping it back. They feel that English is used by the British and it is a form of aother colonization by them, but then put that mindset away Malaysians ! We should progress. We are a bigger nation than anyone in SEA. We must develop ourselves, our mentality, the desire and knowledge. Come on people. Get United and be as strong as ever !
As what pepatah Melayu says, "bersatu teguh, bercerai roboh" !


The Hamster.

Compassion and death camps

I was completely and utterly disgusted by the NS authorities stating that the death of Ricky Lim was not a valid reason to extempt Lim Geok Kim and Lim Meng Yeok's daughter, Jane from attending the NS camp.

If a death of a relative, a brother no less, is not a valid reason, I don't know what is.

Have the authorities lost all sense of compassion? How would they, nay, how would we all feel if we lost a friend and family member after they attended something that MAY have contributed to their death? Would you want to allow another person who is precious to you go to that same "something"??

This I have to see, will the authorities arrest the Lims for trying to protect their daughter? Will the authorities drag Jane to the "National Service" camp? Or will they find some shred of compassion in their darkening hearts to allow this family to keep their daughter close?

To the Lim family, UMP is behind you all the way.

To the "certain authorities"....try to remember what its like to be human....

-The Stag-

Unity, Tolerance and all the sort...Is it real? Is it a myth?

Malaysia is multiracial country.

Malaysia is the melting pot of different cultures.

Malaysia's diversity is its greatest strengths.

Malaysia Truly Asia. (can't help it)

ARE ALL THE ABOVE TRUE???

...............

I'm going to tell you all several stories. It is based on personal experience.

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One morning, my friends and I took an early LRT ride to KLCC. At first, it was empty, but as we went from station to station, people began to board.

I noticed something odd.

Malays sat on one side of the LRT. Chinese sat on the other side and so did the Indians but they were separated from the Chinese by two seats.

I thought to myself: "What the hell is going on??"

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My friends and I went to a basketball court one evening. There were a lot of people playing, mainly Chinese.

Excuse me, they were all Chinese.

I asked them if we could play with them.

They pretended I wasn't even there.

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I was in a school cafeteria (did I spell that right?).

I was eating my meal with my friends (Chinese, Malays and Indians). I looked around.

This is what I saw:

1. Malays were sitting in one part of the cafeteria.

2. Chinese sat away in another.

3. Indians sat at another.

There were few tables, including my own, where there were different races sitting together.

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I surfed around online and surfed Youtube, blogs and forums and such.

I saw hatred everywhere.

I read about Chinese calling Malays lazy pigs. I read about Malays calling Chinese dirty and so on. I see videos where people insulted another ethnic group.

You get the picture.

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So what do the stories above tell you?

Are we truly united?

Do we truly tolerate each other?

Personally, I don't think so. We are so caught up with the "my people, your people" idea, that we fail to see ourselves as ONE ENTIRE PEOPLE.

We live on the same land, we breathe the same air and above all, we all share the name "Malaysians".

I will not point fingers at whose fault this is...but....

THERACIALPOLITICSTHATOURPOLITICIANSKEEPPLAYINGISTHEMAINCAUSE....

its just one of the few though....

its time that we stop seeing MALAY, INDIAN, CHINESE, SIKH and so on..

its time to see only one race, one people.....

MALAYSIANS.

We see in the news stating that Malaysians are united and so on....

Bullshit.

We still have a long way to go.

If our mindset doesn't change, if we do not tolerate and respect each others differences, Unity is just a myth.

Stop demolishing the temples of the Indians.

Stop blaming everything on the Chinese people's economical success.

Stop attacking the bumiputras' rights.

Stop making fun of the Malays' religion, Islam.

Stop forcing the Sikh students to cut their hair.

STOP BEING NARROW MINDED.....

......

I was bored...so I wrote this....

-The Stag-

Selamat Hari Raya.

I took this clip from youtube. Rather a last year's advert but this advert really did touch my internal feelings and tears plunge rather easily. I don’t know why. The camera angles, the scripts and the storyline are so emotive that Hamster could not control his ego-ness of a man for this particular moment. Petronas seems to have a good idea and creativity for their ads. They are awesome !

The storyline goes as how a father tolerates his son although how annoying it was. A parent can bear the attitude of their children but obviously, these days, children don’t tend to care about their old folks anymore. They take care of their parents as though they are some kind of an annoying creature that don’t deserve to be loved in this world.

I learn a lot from this ad. It teaches me not to forget whatever my parents gave , when I grow to be the person I am now, a young adolescent maturing with their guidance and support. I suddenly feel that we forget those who gave us luxury when we don't need them in our personal life anymore.

When someone gives their support, in any way, we are thankful, but maybe on that particular hour or moment. We are likely to forget their contributions soon after they are deemed not important anymore. Parents are something important to me, well, family is the most important part of my life. They are the stepping stone towards your success in anything you want to be.

They are the ones whom you can trust, who give moral support when u need it, when u are in any sort of problem, we turn to our family, especially our parents for guidance. To disrespect our parents are unacceptable in any sort. These people don’t deserve to be called a person.

We should reflect and think that whatever or how you hate your parents, or whatever they did to you, they are still your parents. Who care and love you. I love you so much Daddy and Mama. And the same goes to my siblings.

Love, The Hamster.

UMP LOST IN PJ

Yesterday, UMP needed to get JPN so that the Craziest can get his IC...yup that's right...

Only three went, Hamster had to go shopping (topshop/topman sale 20% dooo)...haiz...

The rest of them, that being the Craziest, the Stag and Emoshit went. Stag was the driver, Emoshit navigator, Craziest the petrol money provider...haha....

At first, things went well, Stag got to refuel his car and got on the road. but then, under the bridge in front of LCS, Emoshit made Stag take an illegal turn and off they went, unnoticed by the old policeman who was under the bridge as well.

Emoshit got mixed up in his directions and led Stag to drive to his house, making Stag take another illegal route as he did. Emoshit called daddy, and asked for directions. He led Stag to drive back towards the bridge, and would have forced Stag to make an illegal turning again but the policeman was watching this time, forcing Stag to turn towards Shah Alam.

Emoshit was swearing at his dad over the phone by then. I repeat, swearing at his dad !

After pointing Stag back in the right direction, they took the correct route, only to get lost again, but by some twist of luck, managed to get on the right road, only to miss the entrance to JPN, forcing Stag to park behind the building.

it was raining by then and Stag was in a very very foul mood.

Craziest got his IC and UMP made their way home uneventfully.

What they got out of this:

1. Craziest's IC

2. Stag used up one bar of petrol(1 litre=RM2.55)

3. Stag was forced to make 2 illegal turns

4. UMP nearly got run over by a garbage truck

5. Stag nearly kena fined by the police

6. NOTE : Emoshit sweared a lot

It's all because of Emoshit...that's all...

-The Stag-

Sarawak Independence Day

Happy 45th Independence day.


Sarawak Flag

Coat of Arms of Sarawak

Profile

Independence Day: 16th SEPTEMBER 1963

Sarawak is divided into 11 Divisions:
Betong Division
Bintulu Division
Kapit Division
Kuching Division
Limbang Division
Miri Division
Mukah Division
Samarahan Division
Sarikei Division
Sibu Division
Sri Aman Division

Ethnic Groups:
Dayak Iban
Chinese
Malay
Melanau
Dayak Bidayuh
Dayak Orang Ulu
Dayak Kayan
Dayak Kelabit
Dayak Kenyah
Dayak Penan
Sebob/Chebob




ABOUT MIRI

Miri View

Miri is the first MALAYSIA'S PETROLEUM industry. Oil well firstly drilled by Shell on 1910. Now it known as state monument and become Miri tourist attractions
(GRAND OLD LADY on Canadian Hill).


THE FIRST OIL WELL


PETROLEUM MUSEUM


THE FIRST OIL WELL


PETROLEUM MUSEUM FRONT VIEW

The CRAZIEST

Stop fighting, Malay leaders told

The country’s leaders cannot alleviate the burden suffered by the people due to rising costs if they continue to fight among themselves, said Raja Muda of Perak Raja Dr Nazrin Shah.

Calling for an end to political quarrels, Raja Nazrin Shah said differences in their approaches should not lead to an irreparable split in the Muslim and Malay community.

“All efforts should be focused on easing the burden of the people,”

“Productivity must be enhanced, investors assured, new jobs established and the supply of necessities guaranteed,” he said.

He added that the country needed leaders who could take on the challenge and focus their minds and efforts on “productive work” in view of a weak global economy.

“If we fail to handle this challenge, the stability and tranquillity of the country will be affected, and everything that has been achieved after 51 years of independence will be lost.”

What he said is right and every young generation should see this and learn from every mistake our leaders now have done. They should unite the country, but instead... more chaos has been developed and now everybody is in despair with the transition of power.

The nation needs a firm leader that could do his part as the prime minister. For god's sake ! Bring some economic and political stability to this depleted country. We are a developing country, we cannot afford to slip up and give other countries a chance to get ahead of us. In order to succeed, unity is important. Learn from every mistake.

The Hamster.

17 SEPTEMBER 2008 HEADLINE

BN Kekal Teguh
http://www.bharian.com.my/Current_News/BH/
Wednesday/BeritaUtama/20080916224222/Article/index_html

Najib Takes over as Finance Minister
http://www.malaysiatoday.com/
Latest-News/najib-takes-over-as-finance-minister.html

Once again BN win.

We hope this time they know what should they do.

We should thanks SOMEONE for this drastic changes in MALAYSIA. He makes MALAYSIA a real DEMOCRACY country.

"Failing to plan is planning to fail."
- Effie Jones

The CRAZIEST.

Save Yourself from ISA

Recently the government has been using the ISA for all kinds of dubious reasons. I mean, come on!!

Using ISA to PROTECT someone??

If you want to lie, at least come up with a better story...

anyway, the government has been doing everything within their power to stop us from speaking out and organising rallies.

they've been using ISA and police roadblocks to stop us. Wasting our time on the roads and what they are doing is illegal to the law and amendments

who is at fault here??

True, Petra might have gone overboard about his remarks on Islam. But what about the journalists who were simply doing their job?? (you know who they are)

Though obviously Teresa Kok have exceeded the line when her remarks about the azan in the morning during subuh and that is something more relevant for the capture of her in the ISA.

But in regards to rallies and speaking out, the government was violating one important article when they tried to stop us.

ARTICLE 10

what is this article??

here's an overview

Article 10.

(a)every citizen has the right to freedom of speech and expression

(b)all citizens have the right to assemble peaceably and without arms;

(c)all citizens have the right to form associations.

to see the rest of it, go to http://wwttacolytes.blogspot.com/

thank you Acolyte, whoever you are for putting this up.

WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO SPEAK OUR MIND.

WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO ASSEMBLE FOR DEMONSTRATIONS AND RALLIES PEACEFULLY

the government resorted to using force in the form of ISA and the police to stop us, and they call this a democracy?? please, that is subtle tyranny.

know your right and use them.

-The Stag-

MMH Assignment

We had to do a documentary for MMH. It was pair work, so the UMP couldn't work together completely for this one. But we have another documentary for to do, and the UMP will be working together for that one. Look forward to it.

This is Raffi and my work.

Its about Tun Dr. Ismail, one of the few Malay politicians who didn't play racial politics. He fought for everyone regardless of race and religion.

There are surprisingly very little information about him on the Internet, so this is our tribute to him.

This is the youtube link to the documentary - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NjoF8poD48

Until next time.

-The Stag-

DOCUMENTARY OF MALAYSIAN INDEPENDENCE

After 51 years of independence,
Are we totally free from colonization?
What do you think?
Give your comment.

Official Launching!!!!

Entry no. 1

Soon there'll be videos and pics to accompany this budding production...

The People behind the scenes...

Roy AK

Zhi Ming

Fadzli

Raffi

Check back later...