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Welcome to my virtual home. This is a little private space for me to put my thoughts and share my feelings since 2005. Due to my wide range of interests, there are perhaps too many tags. I would explain some of the less obvious tags:

"About Life" is really about how I have been pondering about life and what enlightenments and paradigm shifts I had experienced.

"About Psi" contains most topics about happiness, optimism vs pessimism,
confidence, comparison, pride and prejudice and other psychological aspects.

"About Logical Thinking" is about my own way of interpretating and explaining
certain issues, aiming to debunk (or create?) superficialness of them.

"About Ideology" is about my thoughts on big concepts like freedom, justice,
fairness in society and religion.

"About Society" is more about my observations about the society, often through interactions with different peoples.

"My Country" reveals my frustration, critics and hope
on my homeland - Malaysia.

"My Little Pieces" has more short posts though mostly are written in Mandarin.

While I do have some posts on book reviews and business, I am planning to
separate them into author-specific and content-specific blogs. Stay tuned.

Enjoy your reading!

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

STPM

STPM,如果你还记得,是个难熬的岁月,更是难忘的时光。

STPM,按照以前普遍的说法,据说是世界上第三难考的A level,因为课程太广,太多东西需要读。我们都曾经熬过STPM,我们都曾经度过那难忘的两年中六生活。可是,现在的STPM,似乎更难熬,更难考了。
 
三德师生们一群八十人浩浩荡荡来到NTU和新加坡参加游玩,而我有幸遇回了以前最敬重的数学老师。从她口中获知,STPM考试的难度已经逐年在增加,今年的考试几乎张张都是killer paper。好不容易辛辛苦苦读了年半,最终的考试却尽出冷门偏门的题目。这个考试,已不是为了测验学生的能力。
 
原因?无它:根深蒂固的腐败观念在作祟。教育,不是教育,而是政客捞取本钱的手段。出怪的,出偏的,让考生考得不理想,自然就有借口不把大学名额分配给我们。出正常的,让优秀的考生考得优秀成绩,自然就会因为没有分配给我们应得的名额而惹得满城风雨。
 
有了堂而皇之的扶弱政策,选人为才成了教育者心中无关痛痒的理念。有了根深蒂固的固打制度,公平竞争成了优秀者心中至为无奈的刺痛。2003年的STPM考生,是历史的,创纪录全国超过700名全A生。但是,这一些,并不是因为我们这一届考生特别的优秀,特别的表青……只不过,大选要近了,成绩表现就成了安抚民心最好的良药,最好的糖果。
 
懊恼、生气、无奈、叹息,都于事无补。。。因为我们的命运几乎不掌握在我们自己的手里。。。要等到改变,除非两种可能:要么政客全都消失,要么国力急转直下……或许,我们出生在错误的年代,错误的环境……
 
最近马来西亚掀起无数风波,先是马大排名急降,从全球前一百降至前二百(其实都不知道是不是降落,可能原来的水准就已这么差……升上前一百其实是因为Times计算有问题,居然把华裔和印裔学生当成国际学生,从而拉高了马大整体水准……),其实早已足以令人蒙羞。更难堪的是副校长居然还为这丑事引以为荣……可能到了排名全球最后第二还有人会自豪的说:看,我们还领先一间大学呢!……真是不要脸的小丑!
 
还有我们尊贵的警察先生滥用暴力对待被抓中国的女劳工……哇,为什么这些无耻的人可以一边空喊爱国的口号却在另一边作出一些让国人抬不起头蒙羞的事情?为什么这些愚昧的人要把我们的国家弄得乌烟瘴气?
 
我爱马来西亚但我恨小丑!小丑请不要以爱国使者自居!小丑请不要伤害我们对祖国的热爱!
 
其实……我们的前景一点也不光明; 其实……我们的未来一点也不好过;我们需要的是更多的忧患意识……来慰籍心灵上无可奈何的悲哀。

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