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Desi's Post-GE13 FATIGUE _ I promised ye d REASONS. Yes!

Post BN's return to govern Putrajaya for another five-year term, I still read the English media -- both PRINT and ONLINE -- almost daily unlesss cerain days caught Desi poor as the churchmouse not affording even that 30sen for theSUN, and I had to run after that bus providing free Internet access beacuse my home line was just disconnected. Okay, writers aligned to Reformasi are prone to exaggerating a byte...you can take it wit' a pinch of salt eh!? That ? mark -- you no need to answer OK, it's what is termed RHETORICAL question. Hey, if you no understand what rhetoric means, try googling dictionary.com, cun? I ain'y no slave of yours, Maosit or Demokrazy!


Anyway, thanks for bearing with Desi's DIgRESS -- I won't resort to AGGRESSION as long you remain ESTEEMED in my I=I -- and if you should spot TYPOS and sperring miss takes, blame it on one month's rustinurse! If you still complain about me gifting lame excuses, brudder, siadar, get the here out of Hell!

Okay, back to the topic -- MY REASONS FOR FAIGUE afrer 505, 2013.  1. It's the same antics by the BN animals callling themselves wakil rakyat at Parlaiment, and BN=controlled State Assemblies. Yes, I'm a PRO-Pakatan Rakyat (being a PKR member of cabang Seremban which means STONES,you know dat?) blogger, and I offer no apologies to PM Najib and his gaggle of clowns.

For starters, jest name the one act that maketh Malaysia the laughing stock in the www -- for the whole wide world or worldwide web:) Some Singaporeans would assert its astands for THE WILD, WILD WEST, and does Desi protest?

WAN ACT: After one "sheepish" court decreed that the word "Allah" is exclusive to use by the Muslims, the UMNO herd said it does not apply to Sabahans and Sarawakians. This confuses --cuntfuse is aMore likely! since they are famous for speaking from their a'seholes -- HEY, DOES THAT MEAN SABAH/SARAWAK are NOT part of a nation called MALYSIA? EVEN THE UNITED NATIONS DEEMED IT FIT TO PRONOUNCE THAT THE WORD "ALLAH" IS "NOT" EXCLUSIVE PROPERTY TO ANY COUNTRY OR RACE!

An aise or digression, cun? >>>>>>>This lends great weight to those East Malaysians who are leaning towards taking Sabah and Sarawak out of their unionised pardners from 1963. Hey, that momentous event in 1967 when a country named Singapore -- who joined the Union alongside with Sabah and Sarawak -- could be unceremoniously KICKED OUT of the nation called Malaysia. SIMPLE LOGIC ISN'T IT -- If three newly recruited members could see one of the new members being asked politely to leave or forced to leave, the other two remaining members CAN EXERCISE THAT DIPLOMATIC ACTION OF SELF APPLICATION TO LEAVE, YES! WHY wait until suddenly some UMNO leaders has an attack called "period" (if the speciaes was female) and acting on whim and fancy, undblomatically kick Sabah or/ and Sarawak to get out?

TO BE CONTINUED, If Desi can wake up to see sun rise tomorrow (and the nightmar of cancerous "c" does not recur like the UMNO wankind can determine if Desi can think only UMNO kind of thoughts), InsyaAllah...May God save me from these George Orwelliah 'creatures" from out of "ANIMAL FARM"~~ Amen/Awoeman/Amin

Help me overcome nightmare of RECURRING "c"...

This morning I tried to update Yesterday's psot, but my effort became a nightmare -- any rewrite became a non-stop recurring train of recurring "c" thus ccccccc...........cccccccc ad nauseum.

Any techie here/hear who knows how Desi can fix the prob premanently? LUCK was with me as I rested about 30minutes, came back and hey! I COULD UPLOAD THIS SOS!:)

Cheers, YL, Desi

PS: I will now-republish the corrupted post from yesterday, when AWE MY TROUBLES SEEM'D TO ENJOY D BEATLES' HEYDAY -- so far away!:)

DESIDERARA Re-VISITED...c

Desi has suffered post-GE13 fatigue and following Home minister Zahid Hamidi's advice, and I was one of those Malaysians who don't like the electoral system here, so I migrated. To HIBER-nation. I spent time meeting up with new kakis at tehtarik stall, made a few ccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc

Thursday, March 17, 2005

desiderata -- the ORIGINAL!

The poem by Max Ehrmann was written in 1927, but often unsuspecting readers have come across an attribution that the poem was "found in St. Paul's Church in 1692"!

I first became acquianted with this poem that opens with "Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence," in my secondary schooldays, and I became besotted with Max Ehrmann (. School children might have been introduced to poets like Robert Frost (The Road Not Taken), Emily Dickinson (Hope Is the Thing with Feathers), and of course, the compulsory reading for students of English literature, William Shakespeare; but Max who? would by on the lips of many, what more correctly guess the meaning of Desiderata. But to many of the activists demonstrating against the Vietnam War in the 1960s, this poem was adopted as some sort of their anthem, especially with the hippie generation generally referred to as the flower children.

In "The Desiderata of Happiness", editor Robert L. Bell rote that Max Ehrmann was 'surely one of the greatest spokesmen of the twentieth century'. Deeply concerned with social problems, he was a friend of Eugene Debs, the pioneer union founder in America, whose championing of the underdog struck a responsive chord in Ehrmann who deplored the exploitation of labour in his early twentieth century life. His poem America -- 1910 reflects this period, andComplacent Women, written in 1918, is as relevant today as it was then. (Is there within your soul no pride of life/ No whispered music, and no star of hope/ That you have no desire for human rights?)

Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, and graduated from De Pauw University, and going on to postgraduate studies in law and philiosophy at Harvard University, Ehrmann first practised law, and then joined the family business of meat-packing. He gave the family business up to devote his life to writing. Contemporaries told of him lying in the grass contemplating the sky -- an early "flower child", Bell wrote.

To me, the central attraction in Ehrmann's poetry is that he used very simple words, and yet the message makes a strong connection with the reader, touching the heart, the soul, and exercises the mind, as best exemplified by now-famousDesiderata, which follows:


GO placidly amid the noise and the haste, and
remember what peace there may be in silence. *
As far as possible, without surrender, be on good
terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and
clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull 
and ignorant; they too have their story. * Avoid loud
aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the 
spirit. * If you compare yourself with others, you
may become vain or bitter, for always there will be
greater and lesser persons than yourself. * Enjoy
your achievements as well as your plans. Keep
interested in your own career, however humble; it is
a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. *
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the 
world is full of trikcery. But let tis not blind you to
what virtue there is; many persons strive for high
ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. * Be
yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither
be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity
and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the
grass. * Take kindly the counsel of the years, 
gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture 
strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. * 
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with
yourself. * You are a child of the universe no less
than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be
here. * And whether or not it is clear to you, no
doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you
you conceive Him to be. * And whatever your labours
and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep
peace in your soul. * With all its sham, drudgery 
and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be
cheerful. Strive to be happy. *****

I support fellow Journalist's Call to "bring back English..."

HO KAY TAT via kosongcafe.blogspot.com:)~~~~~~

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Saturday, November 02, 2013

Ho Kay Tat: Bring back English medium to fix our schools

'WE HAVE spent billions on education, but have fallen very short in producing internationally competitive students and bringing young Malaysians of various races together.

That was my take from reading the three-quarter-inch-thick Education Blueprint report. The two main highlights were:

>> We have spent more on education than most countries but the quality of our students, according to two international benchmarks, is ranked in the bottom half and below that of countries that have spent less or the same as us.
>> The school system has not fostered unity among young Malaysians of various races as well as we had hoped for, and in fact, one race makes up 97% of the enrolment in our national primary schools while the others opt for vernacular schools.

Low quality education

"Malaysia's consistently high levels of expenditure on education have resulted in almost universal access to primary education. However, there remains room for improvement on the dimensions of quality," the report says.

Room for improvement is an understatement if you look at some of key findings of the report...'

"Restore English-medium schools

If we can give parents the option of sending their children to Malay, Chinese or Tamil medium primary schools, why can't we offer them a fourth option of English medium schools?  Doing so will not deprive those who want their children to learn in their mother tongue, so the champions of vernacular schools need not complain.

Restoring English-medium schools, even if only at primary school level, will help the country build a reasonably big pool of young Malaysians with a good command of the language - a vital economic asset to the country.

On top of that, these schools will bring together young Malaysians from all races and socio-economic classes who, through studying and playing together, can become the unifying force we need to build a Malaysia that is one.

That is what we had in the Sixties and Seventies. It is time to bring it back. Start with 30 to 40 schools across the country and increase the number as teaching resources improve and according to demand. Citing a lack of resources for not doing it is a lame excuse."

More:
http://www.theedgemalaysia.com/commentary/260429-opinion-ho-kay-tat-bring-back-english-medium-to-fix-our-schools.html#.UnQ6_ruRZhE.facebook

Just imagine: Malay makes up 97% of the enrolment in our national primary schools; while Chinese enrolment in SJKC increased from 92% in 2010 to 96% in 2011. In other words, only 4% of Chinese enrolled in national primary schools.

Ho's suggestion seems very practical and pragmatic to most Malaysians who are not linked to Umno. It is not that our leaders do not know the solution but are unwilling to lose their support base which they had cultivated over half a century. To turn back the clock and admit they made a big mistake in education is almost an impossibility to expect from an Umno riding high on race and religion. Their current excuse is that it may cause instability. Perhaps, by approving more private English schools and with more private funds donated by like-minded philantropists might increase the number of affordable places in such schools.
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