Robert Raymer’s thoughts on teaching of Science and Maths in BM/English

Long, long time ago, when Robert Raymer was working in some office in Jalan Bawasah (the road behind FIMA?) and I was working in Jalan Larut, I used to bump into him during lunch hours. He wrote for The Star and also wrote a book, title of which I can’t recall now. I lurveeeee his [...]

Use your blainss…

WTF? I made a mistake. You mean the Minister of Education, our very honourable DPM is actually proposing… Explaining the mechanism, Muhyiddin said reversion to the Malay-language policy will be carried out in stages in Year One and Year Four in primary schools and Form One and Form Four in secondary schools beginning 2012. (malaysiakini) [...]

English, BM or mother’s tongue – Do I even care anymore?

During our citizen journalism class back in January, I chose this topic as my writing assignment. I am all for studying Maths and Science in English because these are international subjects and it will be silly for our children to translate to and fro if we study them in our own language. I know because [...]

Kampung Buah Pala – The questions I never ask

*links in red lead to Youtube videos I made on Kampung Buah Pala* I am a citizen journalist. I am not quite the journalists from the mainstream media. Yet, I am not the meek or disinterested bystander. It started one hot afternoon on 6th June 2009. Citizen journalist Jimmy Leow and I were alerted to [...]

Al-banjiri

Did I tell you my place almost flood just now? Well, by the time I made this video and threatened to post on Youtube, the rain stopped. See? Even the rain and storm are afraid of me. You know lah…like how Jesus calmed the storm by telling it to stop. All I need is to [...]

Penang CM announced 7th July as a public holiday in Penang (from 2010)

CM Lim Guan Eng announced 7th July as a public holiday to celebrate Penang’s status as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Well…from next year onwards…Not today, ok? So, I went to the event at Dewan Bandaraya. Being the noob that I am, I thought it is some event out in the field on a hot [...]

I miss my bolster..

I miss my baby I miss Penang foods, especially koay teow th’ng I miss my bolster I miss my bathroom I miss my pillow and in my haste of getting back to the things I missed, I accidentally left a bag of clothes in Jimmy’s car. Doh…. Just got back at 1.30 am because Jimmy [...]

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