Malaysian Education System

When it comes to education in Malaysia all students will start grumbling towards the system which have been practiced so far since independence.
4-6 years – kindergarten.
During this period children study fundamental education such as alphabet, words, sentence, numbers, colors, songs, phrases, coloring.

7-12 years – Primary School
During this period student learn more about language, basic mathematics, calculation, writing essays, and other co curricular activities. This 6 years will pass by very fast and finally they will end up in sitting for UPSR in the final year of primary school. These will be the deciding factor for those who want to enter into premier school or vocational schools.

13-15 years – Lower Secondary School
During his period student will be having fun and enjoyable moment of their entire life. The number of subjects they took will definetly burden them.
BM,BI, Math’s, History, Geography, Science, Moral, Arts, Kenahiran Hidup and Tamil or Chinese OR Jawi are those subjects that have to be studied during form 1 until form 3. Smart student will be scoring easier in their PMR examination in form 3 and those who not very keen in studies will having their red marks in the report book.

16-17 years – Upper Secondary School
Those who get red marks will facing hard time whether want to proceed studying or quit. But education in Malaysia don’t allow student who have bad result to stop studying. They still have the choice to continue study, but will be entering art stream. Those who score flying colors will be sitting in the science stream. The number of subjects keeps increasing to 10 or more subjects that compulsory for the SPM exam. With no other choice all form 4 student will be biting their nails to face the SPM exam in the following year end. They have less than two years to cover more than 10 subjects with a complicated syllabus. Students who are in the premature stage don’t have any choice to decide on their carrier path,
like wise in the Srilanka or even India, education system totally different from here. They have the vision in education of what they want to be in future. They have the education system that provides necessary skills and knowledge which helps them in the future. Of course it is important to include all sort of knowledge in early stage, but if this is the case Malaysian education doesn’t give much importance to IT related studies in the early stage. Do you know IT will be controlling the world in the future? What is going to be to our student in the future? Are they going to be left behind from the western countries, Japan, Singapore, India and China, Korea, Taiwan? They are very far away from us. Event we start now we can’t catch up with them in coming 50 years.
The secondary education system should be customized according to needs of the students who decide what will be their future career path. In accordance with that, the subject that they pursue must help them in the future. The system must make sure that, student are eager to develop their knowledge and skills thru the education system. By preparing for exam, student doesn’t really gaining knowledge but practicing to pass the exam by choosing short cut methods. On of the short cut methods is doing the same type of question again and again because student just want to pass the examination…that’s all their aim.
To be continued..

Selamat Hari Raya

I'm wishing all of the muslimin and muslimat around the world selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri.


People who going back ( balik Kampung) please drive safely and dont rush during your journey.


Think of the people that you love most and all the while follow the speed limitation when you are driving on highways.


I'm not able to balik kampung because all my malay colleague take leave so i have to replace them working in this days..I hope they will replace me during my festive season.

Just to share the Hari Raya open house that organized by Pak lah and his Cabinet Ministers.
I was there around 12.30 pm to enter the open house. But unfortunately i able to get into the house around 3 '0 clock. I feel so exhaust waiting and waiting and waiting because of the improper crowd managemnt by the people incharge. Ministers that shaking hands to everyone who enter the room makes the delay. It is not neccessary to shake hands to all of them at a very narrow line. It doesn't make sense at all.

thousands who queing untill outside of PWTC really pist of with the event. After all the way waiting for enter the room, because of this hand shaking deal that make to the very long queue.

I hope Next time organizers will take this into consideration and do not make the same mistake in the future.

Trash the ISA.. release those in

Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Kamarudin was sent to the Kamunting Detention Centre in Taiping, Perak, this morning to begin his two-year detention without trial under the Internal Security Act.

MCPX
Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar last night signed the detention order for the blogger to be held under section 8(1) of the tough security law. Under the Act, the initial two-year detention period can be renewed indefinitely.According to journalists stationed outside the Kamunting detention camp, Raja Petra arrived at 11.50am in a white van with heavily-tinted windows.
"The act by the minister to sign the section 8 order yesterday is completely unacceptable," said Raja Petra's lead lawyer Malik Imtiaz. The legal team believes the minister’s decision was linked to a habeas corpus hearing in the Kuala Lumpur High Court this morning, which had been filed by Raja Petra's lawyers to secure his release.A writ of habeas corpus orders the authorities to produce detainees before a judge to determine whether the government has the right to continue holding them.
Speaking to reporters later, Malik (left) argued that “the arrest was issued last night to avoid the consequences of this habeas corpus”.
Amarjit Sidhu, another of Raja Petra's lawyers, said the government had pulled a "mean, dirty trick" by issuing the detention order last night.
"The government can now hide behind a veil of secrecy because they do not have to disclose reasons for detaining him," he said.
Senior federal counsel Abdul Wahab Mohamad in his preliminary objection argued that the hearing was rendered academic as the clause under which Raja Petra is now detained supercedes section 73(1) of the ISA, under which he was initially held.However, Malik countered: “Section 73(1) detention was without basis, unconstitutional and in bad faith… so the minister’s order could only have been the result of enquiry by the police, meaning that the section 73(1) order flows into the minister’s (present) order. “Because it flows, what we say is that the question of whether this section 73(1) detention was lawful is a matter which is relevant for the challenge on the section 8 order.”Malik pointed out that, if the matter is argued under the section 73(1) order, the court can review the matter objectively and look into the basis of detention.Still, the legal team will file another suit to challenge the section 8 order - even if the court’s jurisdiction is limited to weighing the procedure only.Malik said the basis of detention under section 73(1) and section 8(1) is the same. “(Section 8) is relevant to section 73(1). So if we declare this to be unlawful, we can have a basis to argue that the minister’s detention is not just irregular for procedure - therefore showing the minister has no power to make the order. And that would give a wider basis to argue,” he said.Judge Suraya Othman told lawyers to make their submissions on Oct 28. Ex-minister attends hearing Also making a surprising appearance in the courtroom was former de facto law minister Zaid Ibrahim, who sat next to Marina. “He (Raja Petra) writes well, he speaks his mind and we need more people like him," said Zaid (left in photo), who had resigned to protest the use of the ISA to detain Raja Petra and two others on Sept 12.Zaid said he attended the hearing to show support for the wives of many others being held under the restrictive law. “We should encourage people to speak out. If (those detained) have done wrong (then) we (should) charge them (in court),” he said.Zaid also said that freedom of expression and of speech are important values and that “we cannot intimidate with fear”.Earlier this morning, Raja Petra's wife Marina Lee Abdullah had confirmed the continued detention of her husband.“(Police) said my husband had been sent to Kamunting this morning and that he will remain there for two years with no trial.
"This is the worst news I can receive but we will keep fighting for his release,” she told AFP, holding back tears.“This is very unfair… we have filed our affidavit, they don’t reply to our affidavit for five days… this is ridiculous. This is a political move, it is very clear… he is not a threat to national security - it is bullshit.“This is dirty foul play by the government as they know that we are in the process of fighting for his release in the court, but I was expecting this.”Raja Petra, 58, has been under police custody in an unknown location since his arrest.Fellow-detainees Sin Chew Daily senior journalist Tan Hoon Cheng, 33, was freed 18 hours after being arrested, while Selangor senior executive councillor and Seputeh parliamentarian Teresa Kok, 43 was released after seven days. According to his lawyer J Chandra, Raja Petra was arrested for publishing articles on his news portal which allegedly tarnished the leadership of the country and insulted the sanctity of Islam.The former newspaper columnist had earlier been charged with sedition and defamation after linking Deputy Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and his wife to the sensational murder of a Mongolian woman.
Minister confirms detention
Meanwhile minister Syed Hamid confirmed Raja Petra's detention under the ISA, stating that he was satisfied with the reasons given by the police for the blogger's detention."The detention is due to Raja Petra's articles that ridiculed Islam which could arouse anger among Muslims."The police had recommended his detention and after going through the papers, we are satisfied that there are strong grounds for him to be further detained for two years (in Kamunting)," he said. This is second time that Raja Petra has been arrested under the ISA.
He was detained under the draconian law in 2001, at the height of the reformasi movement triggered by the sacking and jailing of former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim, who is now opposition leader.However, he was released by the police after 53 days without being sent to Kamunting detention centre.

source by http://www.malaysiakini.com/

Mahathirs concern regarding UMNO and PM

Dr M: Don't repeat my 'mistake'
Jul 26, 08 5:51pm
Dr Mahathir Mohamad has urged Umno members not to repeat his ‘mistake’ in backing Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to be prime minister.
MCPX“I admit I wronged in choosing Abdullah as my successor. Now I regret because I didn’t think that ‘Mr Clean’ would not be that clean.“I believe that Umno members and leaders at all levels who are angry with me (for anointing Abdullah) surely does not want to make the same mistake,” said Mahathir. The former premier said this in his post on his blog - chedet.com - yesterday, which was aimed at urging Umno members at divisional levels not to nominate Abdullah as Umno president. Despite dissatisfaction within Umno on his leadership, Abdullah has announced that he would defend his party presidency during party polls in December. Explaining how Abdullah was hand-picked as his successor, Mahathir said that he was influenced by people who called the former 'Mr Clean'.No one asked Pak Lah to stayMahathir added that Abdullah was also older than Najib Abdul Razak and no one objected to the succession plan at that time. “(Following this) the Umno general assembly officiated (my choice) of Abdullah as deputy party president during the party elections. “Thus, I assumed that the succession plan to Abdullah was not something that was not wanted by Umno. No one objected,” added Mahathir. However, he notes that when Abdullah announced that he would step down as prime minister in 2010, it was well-received by all - Malays and non-Malays alike. “No one pleaded for him to stay on. It is clear that everyone wanted him to step down,” he said.‘Blame yourself’Mahathir argued that the 2010 time frame was too long and Abdullah should be made to resign immediately in order for Umno and Barisan Nasional to invigorate itself. “If the divisions and branches allow Abdullah to continue as party president, the blame would be on Umno members.
"They would be held responsible for the destruction of Umno and the disaster that will strike the Malays and Malaysia. Component parties would also be destroyed,” he said. Mahathir, who quit Umno in protest of Abdullah’s leadership, has been going on a campaign to unseat Abdullah who he blames for Barisan’s electoral setbacks in March.He has previously backed Najib for the post of Umno president and recently hinted that current Umno vice-president Muhyiddin Yassin was better candidate.

sorce by malaysiakini.

Karpal's view on US

We criticise US, they too can critcise us: Karpal
Ahti Veeranggan Jul 26, 08 6:08pm
If one is ever ready to criticise others on their application of rule of law, one should be prepared to accept similar criticisms against its own system, Bukit Gelugor MP Karpal Singh said today.
MCPXIn a statement, the DAP veteran ticked the government off for rejecting Washington's concern on the application of rule of law in PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim's sodomy charges.“As such Washington's call for fair and just investigation on Anwar's case was necessary and understandable.“Instead, as sovereign nation, Malaysia should make every effort to be consistent in ensuring justice via application of universal rule of law,” he said.Yesterday, Foreign Minister Rais Yatim demanded that the United States stop “interfering” in an investigation into sodomy allegations against Anwar lodged by a former aide Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan.He was responding to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice statement on Thursday urging Malaysia to ensure a “transparent” investigation into the sexual misconduct allegations against Anwar.Karpal said the Putrajaya administration should not accuse the US of meddling in the country's internal affairs when Malaysia itself was guilty of doing the same on Washington in many instances.
Not meddling in internal affairsHe cited the government's criticisms against the US on its application of the rule of law on its own citizens, especially on the high-handed action by law enforcers against blacks, and the treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay as fine examples of interference.He also noted that the Malaysian government under former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad was among the first government to criticise the treatment of Bosnian Muslims by the Serbs in 1990s.“In a world of rapid globalisation, any country which criticises another on application of the rule of law cannot be deemed as meddling into the domestic affairs of the country.“No country can deem itself as immune from criticism when the rule of law was defied and, rendered ineffective and impotent,” he stated.“Therefore Malaysia should not suffer from a phobia over criticism by the US in regards to Anwar's case,” he added.In light of the growing criticisms from abroad condemning the apparent high handedness in the way Anwar was arrested from his house last week, Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar recently briefed more than 90 envoys on this issue.Karpal deemed the government’s move as “Putrajaya's lack of confidence in our very own legal system.”“The government need not be apologetic by ensuring envoys that Anwar would be given a fair trial,” he said.He said the government should not have briefed envoys if it was confident that Malaysia legal system upholds the rule of law and was beyond reproach.

source by malaysiakini

Petol pricve comparison among the petroleuum producers

Dear malaysians...Due to the recent petrol hike, most of the vehicle owners are suffering deadly.
They are not satisfied with the governemnts decision on hiking the petrol price to 41%.
1 litre of petrol is now RM 2.70 compare to RM 1.92 last thursday. The petrol price comparison is to be with the producers of petrol not among the country which does not produce petroluem.

Malaysia should compare prices with the following country that priduce petroleum.

UAE - RM1.19/litre
Eygpt - RM1.03/litre
Bahrain - RM0.87/litre
Qatar - RM0.68/litre
Kuwait - RM0.67/litre
Saudi Arabia - RM0.38/litre
Iran - RM0.35/litre
Brunei - RM1.10/litre
Nigeria - RM0.32/litre
Turkmenistan - RM0.25/litre
Venezuela - RM0.16/litre
MALAYSIA - RM2.70/litre

clearly shows that Malaysia is the most expensive petrol sellers among the rest...

Anti -fuel hike demo starts

Anti-fuel hike roadshows begin Saturday

The Coalition Against Inflation (Protes) is launching their nationwide roadshows condemning the sharp hike in fuel prices starting this Saturday in Seremban.
MCPXProtes spokespersons would be issuing a short public statement at the Terminal One shopping mall to mark the start of the campaign at 3pm. A host of NGO representatives and Pakatan Rakyat elected representatives from the federal and local level would then distribute leaflets at the shopping mall. “The climax of the launch would be the ceramah in Taman Jasmin, Senawang (near Seremban) on Saturday evening where a strong line-up of speakers will be sharing their views on the shocking hike in fuel prices,” said Badrul Hisham Shaharin, who is part of the organising committee for the Seremban roadshow.
An application for a police permit was made last Friday and a reply is expected soon. Since 2006, the Protes coalition - consisting of 57 NGO and five opposition parties - have been organising a series of activities against rises in utility, fuel and toll charges. Through a series of roadshows throughout the country, the coalition seeks to rally 100,000 people to a mass demonstration in Kuala Lumpur on July 12 against the recent hike in fuel charges.Police probeIn a related development, police have recorded statements from several Pakatan elected representatives from Negeri Sembilan yesterday over a demonstration in Seremban last Friday. Among those who have had their statements recorded included state assembly opposition leader Loke Siew Fook (Lobak), assemblypersons Wong May May (Mambau), Cha Kee Chin (Bukit Kepayang), P Gunasekaran (Senawang), Chai Tong Chai (Chuah) and PAS Negeri Sembilan chief Zulkifli Omar. According to Loke, the demonstration jointly organised by Pakatan Negeri Sembilan took place for one hour at the Seremban market involving some 100 people. “It was peaceful. We dispersed on our own after making our stand known,” he said, adding that Seremban district police were investigating a report filed by their own officers. Loke expressed surprise that he was called in for questioning and said that the police action may be a form of intimidation as the Seremban-leg of the Protes roadshow was around the corner.“This is my second term as an elected representative. Before this, I was involved in many protests before. They were all peaceful and we dispersed peacefully after that. “In all of those instances, the police had never taken statements from me before, nor had the police lodged a report against us. This is the first time my statements were taken over a peaceful assembly,” he stated.

source by malaysiakini ( www.malaysiakini.com)