Tuesday, November 27, 2007
The things that happen in Malaysia, after exactly 50 years of independance, remains as it is; interesting.
I cannot say more as there are laws preventing free speech even in online blogs. Interesting, as I have already said.
http://news.my.msn.com/regional/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1115051
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wee_Meng_Chee
Well, at least Wee Meng Chee got his name on Wikipedia.
It suddenly seems so real that I'm going to Singapore to study once I've actually seen the boarding school and school. I guess the point never really hit home until I actually set foot on Singapore ground.
I'll talk about the school later...
And I bought about nine of my text books!! I'm delirious with happiness. The Science books, Chemistry, Biology and Physics look like encyclopedias with fully coloured pages and photographs on every other page! The papers used were also the high quality that what somewhat photo-paper-ish, if you know what I mean. The syllabus isn't boring either.
I have no idea why some people that Singapore is too exam orientated and does not promote thinking out of the box. I, for one; find it ridiculously creative (in a good way) in it's way of teaching. I even understand some parts of the Add Maths already. If that isn't a miracle, God knows what is.
All the subjects seem bright and lively, despite the fact that bright and lively can be hardly used to describe anything remotely related to studying. I was so attracted by the text books that it almost justifies anything that I find difficult to put up with in Singapore. The lack of library in my boarding school continues to gnaw at me, though. The literature text book what really interesting, although I still find it hard to interpret some of the poems.
The Additional Maths was a pain, as it was so complex that most of the questions made my head reel. I really do hate Mathematics. The Modern M3 wasn't that difficult although I might change my mind when I touch later chapters. I didn't get any English text books because the load was too heavy for me to carry all the way through Orchard Road.
And I have to take Civics, Geography and Social Studies. Geography and Social Studies are okay, probably because of the influence of their cool text books on me. Civics, I have no idea; no text book either. I didn't buy any of the Malay language books as well. It was first somewhat stressful when I found out that I had to take more subjects than I had intended to. If Biology, Chemistry and Physics were separate subjects, I would be taking a grand total of eleven subjects. I have no idea what the actual scheme is yet.
12:20 PM
