math and science back to bahasa malaysia

PUTRAJAYA: The Government has decided to reverse the Teaching of Mathematics and Science in English policy and revert to Bahasa Malaysia in national schools and Chinese and Tamil in vernacular schools.

More emphasis would also be placed on English, including the hiring of retired teachers, assistant teachers for bigger classes and having additional periods.

reverting math and science back to bahasa malaysia? in my opinion, i think it's not a good move. it's not that i don't support our national language. it's just that how are we going to compete with others in years to come?

the kids don't do good in school because they can't grasp english. imagine when they are older, it's even worst. better that they get to improve now that having trouble later.

everything is in english in for private tertiary education, not all for public tertiary education though. so, we may have the qualification but if we still can't deal with english in life, we are not going anywhere!

having additional periods in school?! that's madness. i think kids from smk aminuddin baki is going to say NO to this. i was from there. i'm proud to be from there. however, we finished classes at 2pm. with activities from 2.30pm so if the additional periods does exists, what time left do we have for homework? it's total madness!

if many of you are happy that it's all back to bahasa malaysia now, think again. think maybe a few years down the road. or maybe even more.

if you don't get a job, should you be blaming the government as they reverted things back to bahasa malaysia or should you be blaming yourself for wanting the change which the government did for your benefit at that point of time.

i still feel it's better in english. at least you won't have to do double work to re-study the same thing all over again in english when you are in college/university.

hmmm... might as well teach english in bahasa malaysia then. isn't that what you all wanted?

thai pantene ad

it's a pantene advertisement from the thai counterpart.
very touching that i played it several times.
it's about a deaf girl learning how to play the violin.

at the office

• doing work
• tired
• wants to go home
• f*ck work!
  

end of june

madness!
it's already the last day of june! and i haven't done much for june!

this can't be happening. i've been so busy i lost track of dates and days. i've just wasted my month of june. this shucks!

speakeasy 2009

wow, just realised that i've been really naughty for not blogging much this month.

so much came up. 2 events for clients which means 2 weeks i'm burnt and exhausted and it continues this week for another one as well.

organising speakeasy with aadila was great. as it is my first time, aadila pretty much got my ass covered, so volunteering to present by my boss is somthing that i can do in return for her kindness and help.

i presented on sign language. things that i know only. what is sign language - whether it is a tool of communication or a language, what's the difference between the deaf world and the hearing world, ten reason for learning sign language and i ended it with fingerspelling from A-Z and also numbers. luckily i remembered to make some copies to be distributed out.

seet presented on lomography whereas fairuz did on his trip to laos at some place where i can't even pronounce its name. sorry to the place wherever it is!

though we expected 30 people to attend, only 15 appeared. thanks to you 15 people who are so supportive. we also expected at least a minimum of 5 presenters but there was only 3 of us. the best part is NO BOSSES from any of the consultancies were there! wooooohoooots!!!!

it was a very young affair i would say. we threw formalities aside, we had much more courage to ask questions. no worries about bring wrong or making errors, it was a great time!

and i got to know more people! hah.. speaking of communication from a shy girl like me who takes time to warm up before really getting into the topic.

oh well, i'll be at urbanscapes thanks to the free tickets i won from 24hourkl. so see you all there if you are there!

the belated birthday post

thanks everyone for all the wishes!! had great pleasure replying each and every wish on facebook.

thanks also to the office for the nice coffee chocolate cake (we celebrate birthday's every month at the office).

thanks mom for her cheese cake.

thanks cindy for the pair of earrings.

thanks hwei and mary for the blue and purple pallette.

thanks melinda for the cute thumbdrive.

and most of all... thanks dad for the CPL and the infrared remote control! you're the man, dad!

here's it all!! (except for the pictures of the cakes)

international seminar on sign language research

phew! 2 days of not sitting in front of the pc. didn't miss much have i? i hope not.

i just attended an international seminar on sign language research over the weekend held at universiti malaya (UM). it was a great seminar though i rarely understand sign language (SL). no worries, the seminar was conducted in both spoken and in SL as there were hearing and deaf participants from the asia pacific (AP) region.

there were 8 abstracts presented over those 2 days. the abstracts are as follows

1. deaf empowerement through sign language research : malaysian persepctives (dr zubaidah ibrahim-bell & ms. ho koon wei)
2. sign language research and development in hong kong (dr felix sze)
3. sign language research for and by the deaf - overcoming challenges on the philippines (dr liza b. martinez)
4. recognising language of the deaf community: the concepts of communication, language, speech, signing and their relationship with the means of communication used by the deaf people (drabdullah yusoff & che rabiaah mohamed)
5. linguistics and sign language interpreting (roger t bell)
6. deaf pride (ms. jessica mak)
7. development of sign languag and the deaf community in cambodia (rev. charles dittmeier)
8. dictionary of malaysian sign language: a preliminary study (dr ibrahim ahmad & mr bdul rahim mat yassim)

all of the presenters are hearing people EXCEPT for ms ho koon wei and ms jessica mak.

i've attended several conferences, seminars etc BUT this is the only seminar that i attended where we have SL interpreters and also speaking interpreters

my eyes were glued on the SL interpreter when the paper was presented with my ears listening to the presenter. oh well, half of the time i wasn't really listening. was just observing the signs that are signed by the interpreter.

the hall was divided into two parts (the hearing and the deaf - so that it's easier for the SL interpreter) but when we were at the dining hall i really couldn't tell if he/she is deaf or not unless he/she decided to open his/her mouth to utter words.

signs were thrown all over. you could be sitting at the end of the room and you could be signing to your friend sitting at the other end of the room provided you can see him and he's not too far (the dining hall was slightly bigger than the size of 2 classrooms joined together.

i read slow. i sign slow. so you can actually see my head turning left and right observing what they are talking. even their finger spelling is so fast! it's as fast as ERL. i finger spell as fast as the trishaw goes.

it was a great time. i may not get to know every single deaf person there but the experience was really awesome!

sign language level 1

lesson 1 of sign language level 1...

it's so tough!!!

let's just hope i don't fail this level or else it'll be waste my money. *crosses fingers AND toes*

malaysia's 1st photography reality show

*gasp* i can't believe i have this entry in my draft. darn!

*edits entry* bringing you malaysia's first ever photography reality show - double exposure!! brought to you by Sony

it was supposed to be webisodes aired on their website but now it is available on tv! so for those who didn't get to stream those webisodes (which really did take forever), you can now watch it on tv. (that's if i get home on time!)

airing on NTV7 at 7.30pm starting 22 May.


so mark your calendar every friday for these weekly episodes. catch 30 contestants trying their best to win great prizes - sony a900, sony bravia lcd, studio lights, lenses, etc...

*hint hint : time to watch my 30 minutes of shame and fame every week*

my first accident

yes, as the title suggests, i had my first accident. wait, i'm not the one who hit the other person BUT i was hit by someone else from the rear. ish! geram!

i was on my way to meet my client for a shoot on saturday morning when there was this slow traffic at the road heading towards IOI mall. cars were going really slow.

out of nowhere, this thambi hit me real hard on my rear! i felt the impact like he hit me twice!

with such a slow crawl, i don't expect the damage to be a big one. however, it was otherwise.

knowing the tough body of the kembara, that bang broke my spare tyre's cover, broke both my reverse lights, broke my bumper, plat number shattered into pieces, broke that thingy above the tyres curves on both sides and finally my bonet couldn't close tightly.

as for the thambi's car, his front portion is a goner.

YES, for a bumper to bumper crawl, how can the damage be so serious?

my conclusion? he was f*cking SLEEPY!!

why do i say so?

1. right after the bang, he stopped his car at the corner, got down and pee first before walking towards me to check my damages that he made.

2. he left by saying this to me: "i give you my number, you call me later cos i want to go back and sleep first"

AH-HA!! CAUGHT-YA SLEEPYHEAD!!!

oh ya, he even had the guts to ask me in a rude way, "nape awak berhenti?"

and i replied in a rude way, "kereta depan berhenti, saya berhenti la! yang awak pergi langgar saya kenapa?" i put my really gangster face and voice for this because i was afraid he will bully me.

and he said, "okok.. tidak perlu marah"

ish, look who's talking...

he told me that he'll report the matter thus that same evening (i got hit in the morning), i went to do a police report. the sergeant made me call thambi to make sure that he hasn't report the case elsewhere so that he'll be able to do it at where i did mine (kl police station). no answer. so i left him a voice message and a text message (he doesn't have my number).

he had the guts to later call me and said this to me:

"Why you go report? I told you to let me sleep first then we talk about it. That's why I give you my number. I want to settle only. Your car not so serious, my car is even serious."

to which i replied:

"You are the one who said you WANT to report. I'm only free today so I go today la!"

he really did piss me off in a way.

so, was he really sleepy or not when he hit me?

here's some pictures to entertain you. i think i took better pictures than the officer.

playing with wedding photography

given a great opportunity by my blog buddy, fiq to shoot his aunt, sue's engagement. no prior meetups before the big day. first time meeting up with fiq and sue on the day itself.

managed to get abang zul and zaidi to help, guide and accompany me. yes, i'm the only one with ZERO experience. thank god for both of them or else i'm sure i would have panic even more.

here are some pictures that can be "seen". have to go crash other people's weddings to practice.




pictures can also be seen @ my flickr