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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!
Thursday, November 30, 2006
结束(三):从社会学看大众媒体
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Labels: University | 学云彩絮
结束(二):韩语上课记
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Labels: About Language | 语文天地
结束(一):普通话教学记
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Labels: About Language | 语文天地
Monday, November 27, 2006
无
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Labels: About Life | 寻梦之路, My Little Pieces | 心路文影
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
“省”觉
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Labels: About Life | 寻梦之路
Saturday, November 18, 2006
虚?实?(5)
经济模式决定上层建筑。解决贫穷问题是社会首要的目的,到底用倾向左的社会福利和保障制度,还是用倾向右的利益为上的制度,一直为经济学家争论不休的课题。
今年的诺贝尔和平得奖者是穆罕默德-尤纳斯,一位在孟加拉发展乡村银行的经济学家。他所取得的成就令人瞩目,而他所坚持的信念可以作为一个很好的启发和参考。谁都知道孟加拉这个国家有多贫穷,在东南亚工作的孟加拉外劳多不胜数。就是在这样的背景下,尤纳斯的微型贷款计划通过波浪效应给了穷人一个又一个的希望,着实令人叫好。穷人需要的不是于事无补的援助,而是机会和尊严。
社会福利普遍上养成人类的惰性,但竞争过于激烈无视他人利益的制度也会削弱人类的善性……这个问题其实很难找到清晰的答案。但无论如何,过分甚至没有必要的援助其实在制造邪恶。 由此可见,马来人的“拐杖”政策,其实究竟在帮助他们还是在毁灭他们,还存有很大的争议。生下来什么都不缺,明明可以健康成长独立走路,却硬要给个拐杖他走,不是在栽培阿斗是什么?即便再穷也可以获得政府关照,不愁衣食住行,哪里还有为幸福奋斗的动力?读书不行,没关系,保送进大学;能力不行,没关系,保证你受雇佣;再不行,送你块田回乡下耕;马来人积弱,到底是民族的特性还是政策的塑造,不言而喻。
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Labels: About Ideology | 理念思考, My Country | 国楼愁雾
虚?实?(4)
毫无疑问我是在所谓的中华文化“优良”文化熏陶下成长的小孩,曾几何时也以此稍微得意,对于那些应该属于“华人”却不懂华文的人略带鄙视。
但是当小孩长大后,发觉中华文化尽管再博大精深,若自己一头都栽进去总会有局限性。对属于自己的总是充满不切实际的自豪其实正是走向危险的第一步。实际上,尽管自诩保留着传统的“以礼待人”,“韬光养晦”,我也同时坚定地信任“自主独立”、“自由平等” 等西方价值。所以,我的文化认同是什么?中华文明?西方文明?还是……
实际上,究竟一个人的民族身份和文化认同有什么重要?华人就是好的么?日本人就是阴深莫测的么?阿拉伯人就是邪恶的么?西方人就是自傲的么?马来人就是懒惰的么?根本不能一概而论。就算是不懂华语的华人又怎么样?移民的后代自然要适应于当地的生活,有错么?
抛弃一切累赘的民族优越感和文化优越感,是走向人与人之间的平等对待的第一步,因为,每个人都是特殊的。
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Labels: About Ideology | 理念思考
复杂的种族课题(1)- 马来西亚华人的生存
移民第一代(公公这一辈或更早)
这一代的生存方式并不难猜想,实际生活和现在的外劳的遭遇差不多,只不多时光要倒退一个世纪。他们的祖国是中国或印度或其他国家,离乡者贱,所以都期待涛够金后回乡享福。
移民第二代(爸妈这一代)
这一代的生存方式实际上有点复杂,因为涉及混乱的战前战后时期、到见证独立建国、马新分家;到经济重建和腾飞,土生土长的他们见证了至少大半个世纪的动荡和变迁。虽说建国后华人掌控了主要的经济权,但那主要指少部分的富人,很多华人百姓的生活其实还是很贫困的。一般来说他们由于受教育的机会不多,所以识字不多,但通常能操一口流利的bahasa pasar。
但随着经济重建计划的推行,很多华人逐渐摆脱了贫困,进入中层阶级。他们并不是从计划中受惠(重建计划的帮助对象是占穷人大部分的马来人),而是利用了华人传统的特点。第一:刻苦耐劳。有很多马来人不愿意做或懒得接的工作或工程,他们做。第二:擅钻空子。利用社会尚未健全的许多制度,抑或善于和官打交道,寻找机会制造财富。第三,善于经商。如果不是因为赌博的传统恶习,可能进入小康之家的家庭会翻倍。税务局的官员说:华人是很会“找钱”的,只是常被赌博所累。
移民第三代(我这一代)
在七八十年代出生的这一代正好处于国家经济正在腾飞的年代,一般生活水准还算过得去,但普遍缺乏对于国家历史的认识。从一开始被动接受教科书上的“民族和谐,繁荣盛世”的灌输,到后来接触到社会现实的复杂和不完美,逐渐意识到自己所处于的“特殊情况”。
同样接受教育,华人或印度人的成绩却通常比马来人优秀,其实并不归功于“天资”或“天赋”,而是环境使然。一者不努力就可能前途灰暗,一者不努力都可以照样生存,这当中的苦衷和吊诡并不易被发觉。自小进入华校的巫裔肯定不会比华人“笨”,自小进入国校的华裔可能就会比其他华人差很多。天差地远的学习动力,再加上政府在教育制度上有意无意的偏差,自然使华裔或印裔在能力上较为优胜。从华校转去国校读的华裔一定会排第一,这一说法没有多少人会反对。
但素质比较好在人一个并非用人唯才的社会里不见得有什么好处,更多的换来是怀才不遇的感慨和对不平待遇的不忿。于是走得走,散得散,留学海外的不胜其数,移民定居的也不少。没人懂我们在马来西亚之后的遭遇会是什么,但很少人会奢望开放的天空。
尽管所谓的数据显示马来同胞们仍有很多处于贫穷的困境,但我们仍有很多的抱怨,因为现实的反差一次又一次刺激我们的感想,挑战我们的逻辑。对于依靠经济重建政策获得财富的少数马来同胞,有时不是我们不想敬重他们,而是他们反过来对我们炫耀财富,令人呕吐。政府部门职员开会屡有tea break,食物多不可数,让人摇头。虽然信奉宗教,但是吸毒的、飚车的、颓废的、懒惰的马来青年屡见不鲜。许多不懂经商之道,依靠政府资助开店的马来商家只会把装潢弄得豪华奢侈,只为作那一点生意,令人着实不爽。即便是普通的职员或服务员,手脚特别慢,服务特别差的大多数是马来人,真让人怀疑他们是不是从另一个不同速度的星球来的。可怜那些老板,不得不请他们,又不可以大声斥责他们,真是左右为难。
你看,自小就接受“正规良好教育”的我其实并不想变成狭窄的种族主义者,可是现实提供了另一套更可信的理论。
我记得在看完了李光耀的回忆录之后,曾经慨叹为什么他不一并把这里的华人也带走,至少如果这样我们现在的情况将会好一些,也不用他在最近发表“东南亚的华人正在被边缘化”一论招致又一轮政治把戏。但,即然生于斯,长于斯,我还是得接受我是马来西亚华人。这一些一生下来就被定下来的命运不能被改变。
乐观一点说,其实每个国家都会自己难念的经,不只是马来西亚而已。所以我还会自豪地说自己是马来西亚华人,然后期待有一天可以改变一点什么……就算不能,至少也证明了我曾经尝试。
***以上纯属笔者个人意见,许多社会现象的描述也纯属“理所当然”的认为,并未经过严谨的科学考察,如有引起任何人不愉快的阅读经验,谨此万二分歉意,还望海涵。
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Labels: My Country | 国楼愁雾
虚?实?(3)
或许都市里繁忙的生活节奏会让人觉得内心空虚,但这一些空虚与移民因为异地冲击和乡愁亲思造成的空虚比较起来,还是小巫见大巫。现在在全球各大城市,尤其是用劳力换取金钱的外劳,内心的空虚和苦闷是最深的。一来地位不太受尊重,与当地社会格格不入;二来未来充满变数,缺乏保障和安全感;三来和自己熟悉的文化、家庭、朋友相隔,情绪难以抒发。
这些人大部分都没打算会在工作当地定居,都想涛够金后回乡建筑一个美好的天伦。如果不幸走不了,就只好在当地和同乡组成一个互助的小社群,尽量拓展生存空间。如果有幸的他们的后代仍继续在这生存,作为少数民族的它们通常免不了会遭受同化的命运。
移民生活的沟沟坎坎非我所能体会,我只是在这假设推论。而我要假设推论的原因很简单,因为我是移民的后代—第三代。其实这个身份没有什么好宣扬的,但既然历史和事实是如此何妨直说。
我是马来西亚的华人(Malaysian Chinese),一个最准确的定义,不多也不少。乍看之下,似乎马来西亚代表国家、国籍,华人代表民族;所以我是一个国家认同和民族认同不和谐的人。但在这个牵涉到族群国家的复杂课题下,我选择把一般的国家和民族的概念混搅来说明。启发我的是日前阅读到一篇关于南韩学家写的书的书评。那本书是通过分析统一的德国来探讨南北韩统一的可能和问题。书中谈到由于意识形态的巨大差距,东西德的统一并没有带来预期中乌托邦式的幸福和谐,反而引发一系列复杂的社会问题,导致同是一个民族的后代互相埋怨。更有甚者,有些人干脆以西德人或东德人自居。从这作者得出结论,现在社会悬殊相差正十几倍的南北韩根本没有统一的社会基础。
所以,单纯从有点缥缈的民族概念来思考国家的问题并不可行。马来西亚的马来人和印尼的马来人在今日已失去了组成马来人国家的历史条件,马来西亚的华人和印度人也没有去祖辈的国家的可能。马来西亚自从一开始组成就是一个多元的社会,这一个事实每一个马来西亚人都懂,但其背后的含义呢?按照这样的逻辑推下去,其实我们可以自己另辟一个“民族”的概念,所谓的马来西亚“民族”,就是生于斯,长于斯,在传承各自先辈的文化同时也在互相交流的特殊一族。视野宽阔是我们的特点,兼容并蓄是我们的文化,包容和谐是我们的社会。我相信在这样的社会条件下产生这样的“特色民族”并非天方夜谭。
因此,当“马来西亚”和“华人”这两个概念合起来之后,其外延和内涵都会发生改变,而不仅仅是两个概念的交接处。也因为这个特殊的社会条件,仅仅用地方(马来西亚)或种族(华人)来形容自己是不足够,也反映不出真实情况。就正如马来西亚的粤语有香港人听不懂的looi(duit)、ga ga jau jau ,福建话有台湾人听不懂的suka,马来语有印尼人听不懂的angpau(红包),随着不同文化的交流,我们自身的文化也会产生不同程度的差别。但由于宗教的差异和异族通婚的不太可能,我们依然会保有各自祖辈的文化,而不会成为一个混血民族。
我自豪地宣称自己是“马来西亚的华人”,尽管我没有任何可以让我心安的现实依据。如果我宣称很满意自己处于的社会状况,那么我等于出卖了祖国的利益,视现今社会中的各种权力腐蚀、政治腐烂、贪污腐败、种族沙文、不平待遇和畸形变化为无形。一个人的力量很微小,但是我相信有一天我至少可以给社会带来少少正面的影响。
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Labels: About Ideology | 理念思考, My Country | 国楼愁雾
虚?实?(2)
或许在每个人的心中,自己的童年都是最纯朴、最快乐的。(对于我们这一代幸福的人而言)偶尔也总会感慨为什么人越大反而越不快乐?小时候什么烦恼都没有多轻松自在。于是多想让时光倒流回到去再一次感受童年。
可是在孩童心里想着的是什么呢?想着的是如何去做特别的动作吸引大人的注意,想着的是如何作弄周遭的事物,想着的是什么时候可以玩玩具。他们很快乐地玩乐,但他们的目的不是为了快乐,而是为了玩乐;尚处于懵懂的孩子们其实并不自觉自己是快乐的。可这一切看在已经操控着自己的成人的眼中,是多么的值得羡慕。
一个人可以通过幻想和重温自己童年的快乐给内心带来温暖,但不应该对自己的童年依依不舍。所谓“童年是快乐的”,更多的成分是由每次记忆的重温塑造的,而不是自个儿在孩童时期“真实”感受到的。要是一旦把它塑造成 “童年是人生里最快乐的阶段” 就糟了,在还没走完整个人生过程前,就断定不可能寻找到更好更大的快乐,不是在毁灭自己么?
童年里的迷懵的天真、无邪的灿烂,或许在人的记忆世界里真的有着不可磨灭的美好;但那应该成为我去追寻未来的美好的动源(不是唯一的,或许也不应该是主要的),而不是成为逃避现实的依赖。于是在想,到底所谓的迪斯尼乐园和动画,和日本的各种动漫画,到底是在帮助人们暂时逃避现实的残酷?还是在替人们制造依赖?有点偏了,有点远了……其实即便是我自己,也不会偏激地认为那些东西只是小孩子的玩意,我相信到八十岁那一天我还是会喜欢小叮当(因为那时我童年美好的回忆),但是我不会迷恋在其中,也不会让自己从中衍生现在不快乐的感慨。
觉得其实人是逃不了对自己的催眠的,只要我相信明天的我会比今天的我更快乐,我肯定会找寻到更快乐的自己的,对不?
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Labels: About Psi | 精神世界
Friday, November 17, 2006
虚?实?(1)
日前韩国老师在教数字和日期时提了提11月11日是빼빼로节(빼빼로是类似1字的巧克力棒,빼빼在韩语是干瘦的意思),并说对于这些如春笋般冒起的新节日感到有点难以适从。第一次听到的时候觉得还挺有趣的啊,毕竟巧克力棒的魅力非凡啊!
后来和韩国朋友聊天自以为有趣提起这个属于“他们”的节日时,遭到强烈的反应。这哪是什么节日嘛,不过是商家炒作的结果,而且还是从日本传过去的。原来还有胸罩节(11月8日- 把横卧的8放在11下)呢……至此我才懂这些不过是无聊的节日,都是商家宣传的手段。嗯,我记起了在日韩所谓的“白色情人节”也是70年代日本商家炒作的结果,但到现在已没有几个人懂这节日的由来。
在这个商业盛行泛滥的年代,所谓新起的节日都不过是虚无空洞的节日……背后值得让人纪念或思考的意义一点都没有。我才开始明白为什么他们的反应会如此强烈,因为商业气息太过浓郁的节日让人窒息。记得我刚到新加坡时,家人叮嘱我记得享受一下那里圣诞节的热闹;同样的,在我去香港之前,我也收到了同样的讯息。感受一下绚丽灯光、拥挤人潮的热闹,有什么不好呢?难得的佳节,轻松一下嘛……
可是,在和一些西方朋友谈话过后,我才开始感受圣诞节在他们心中带来的温馨:严冬时一家人聚集在温暖烛光的融洽和快乐。我没经历过严冬的冷酷,也不属于上帝,过什么圣诞节呢?无聊。沉浸在人潮中的狂欢不过是在享受佳节带来的轻松,而不是在欢庆这个节日。那些节日值得欢庆?属于自己原本文化的那些吧,因为只有在拥有那种文化背景才能和节日产生共鸣……其他的全都是“友族的佳节”,属于难得的假日。
所以,与其去欢庆那些不知所谓的节日,倒不如欢庆一下家人朋友的生日,抑或一些世界的重大节日,抑或对自己意义非凡的日期……至少有一点实际意义。
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Labels: About Society | 世事人情
匆匆留笔
谁都懂这是一个资本主义的社会,商业主导一切;但其中变化之复杂和影响的深远没人能看透。如果神存在,神也未必看得透。科技、教育、媒体、文化、以至于政治等各种社会现象都与这基层建筑有关。资讯和知识空前泛滥,但仍不足以解释现今社会过于复杂的变化。不同学说在不同领域对社会各个层面的现象的揭示让人一次又一次地受启发和惊讶,但惊讶过后和一个清晰的总结的距离仍是那么遥远。我们掌握的“真理”和认知的“哲理“并没有比古人少,只是古时社会变化的缓慢足以让一个相对狭窄的事实或哲理被捧上不容被质疑的神殿。但正因为我们知道的越多,我们才懂不知道的更多。知无涯,即使用尽人类可以生存的期限都不能走到尽头,因为没有尽头。其实我们也不需要这尽头,在沿途不断增加的力量(知识即力量)足以让我们持续前进。
只是,这多多少少削薄了知识的实在感。没有一套理论可以放诸四海(任何情况)皆准,在任何阶段都对。到头来可能就是只要你相信的,对你而言就是真的。或许需要摆脱对“一切绝对”的依赖。
最近有很多很多新的想法要整理探讨,但碍于功课和考试的繁忙,只能抽闲匆匆留笔,做一些空洞的概述,实际的内容还需更多的精神酝酿。(原本想要在这篇文章表达的内容和写出来的东西一点关系都没有,真是失败……)
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Labels: About Society | 世事人情
Thursday, November 16, 2006
行走
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Labels: About Life | 寻梦之路, My Little Pieces | 心路文影
Friday, November 10, 2006
念虑
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Labels: My Emotions | 情绪小室
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Professor & Students
II) Every professor would like all students to attend class and tutorials so that they can been "taught" by them. That's reasonable if their teaching skills are good. But students in general would like to have their own freedom to make their choice. To attend lectures, or to watch lecture recording in room, or to study by themselves, or even don't study.
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Labels: My Emotions | 情绪小室, University | 学云彩絮
Conflicts solved?
Dear Choon Lim, The test is only 40 minutes. Basically, it is about the same as one question in the final examination. The topics covered in test 2 include Dear Prof, I feel nothing after sending this email. I just want to convey my message clearly about the format of quiz and I wouldn't have expected any changes. But other requests from classmates had somehow finally changed something. There maybe another quiz for those who want to take it and prove themselves. Conflict solved? I think it is solved since both sides can accept the suggestion. I think neither side were right nor wrong, because it's conflict of interests. But does this show the importance of voice out, communication & compromise? :)
1. circular convolution
2. implementation of linear convolution by circular convolution
3. DFT matrix
4. Forward transform as dot product between basic vector and signal vector
These are the topics that we covered in recent 3 weeks.
The first time I taught random processes was almost twenty years ago. I started teaching DSP about ten years ago. I fully understand that both random processes and DSP are difficult. One professor equates DSP to quantum mechanics on the depth of the subjectc. On the other hand, they are the keystones of many other subjects like communications.
The major difficulty is that they are abstract. Also, some time, students do not know why the subjects are important and so they lose
motivation to learn.This difficulty is being tackled by using examples and relating the theory to objects in real life like archery, telephone lines and TV reception.
Another problem is that a student will have great difficulty at the later part of the course if he/she does not have a good understanding of the concept taught at the begining. In fact, students will have problem if they do not have a good understanding of signal and systems or they have not taken erg2030.
That is why I always stay behind after classes to answer students' questions. Also, Lawrence's revision should be useful. I heard good
comments about his tutorials.
For the last 5 years, my effort toward this course has never stopped and the effort is devoted to making this course easier to understand instead of making it more advanced.
On the other hand, I need your cooporation. Talk to me after the lectures if you have problems. Some did and I am sure they are all happy and have their problems solved.
It's weird as I was only focus on the quiz and didn't attack on him personally but he replied in so many lines to defend himselves. Well, it's good to enhances my understanding about his qualification and perseverance, and about the background of DSP. But I think he misunderstood some of my points and shifted away from the topic: quiz. Communication gap huh?
Thank you for your reply. I appreciate your efforts in past years to try to make this subject easy to understand and clear. Personally, I think your lecture notes are well-written and organized. However, I still feel that the scope of the tests should be defined clearer. Since there are two tests, i think it's good to separate one test for one major part of the course. (e.g. First quiz for random processes, second quiz for DSP) instead of stating "lecture notes covered up to what date...".
I suppose the logic of revision of some of the students (like me) goes like this: In the first quiz, only definitons of random processes are tested. Means, variance, autocorrelation & autocovariance, 2-D joint density function & 2-D joint distribution function are not tested. Hence, we would expect some part of these come out in the exam, since it's included in "materials covered up to last lecture". If there are 20-30% of the quiz is allocated for these topics, I think all of us would have no complaint at all.
And if the purpose of the test is to test "purely on" whether student have good understanding about DFT, convolution e.t.c, I think it's
better to inform all of us that the scope is from DSP's part materials. Of course there are some students solved it happily during the exam because they have prepared for that part. But that doesn't justify that these quizzes are "fair" in my opinion. A better quiz would be either of wider scope or clearer scope. I understand students and professor have different point of view and interests, but I sincerely hope you can understand where our frustation comes from.
Thank you very much.
Regards,
Choon Lim.
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Student's Response
I feel frustrated after finishing today's test2.
- the questions b,c are quite similar, but it already counts 60% of the test.
- none of the tutorial cover the content of the test.
- the examples in lecture notes are not sufficient.
- the difficulty and format are too different with test1.
I don't think it made a fair assessment on students' effort. Therefore, I suggest that this 20% test should be slightly adjusted to 10 -
15%. Thankyou very much for your kind attention.
students' abilities.
It's hard to get a good result no matter how much time you spend....
- Lect, tuto notes and ass solutions are posted late.
- Quizzes are making fool of us, and never reflect students' efforts.
- Assignments are so poorly designed that it hardly helps us to understand the most basic concepts, but to frustrate us and make us lose
- Newsgroup is left deserted. Students attend class just for the damned pop quizzes.
- The professor is always making fun of us: "It is very easy, right?" He thinks these words can make us relaxed, or boost our
- The lecture makes no sense. It just makes the simplest things in the world extremely complicated to show off his knowledge, to build
Let it go and the world is beautiful.
I agree with the Quizzes are not the most effective way to evaulate our knowledge on this course after taking 2 tests.
The marks of these two tests do not really reflect our ability.
We may get high mark when we fulfil either conditions
1)very very well-prepared
2)very lucky
3)always study the last chapter of the note for test
I do not think we only learnt DFT or definition of random process only in 3410.This two quizzes really "天堂與地獄", really "random".
If we study hard autocorrelation these chapters in second quiz, we still fail in the test, but the material studyed is also the core part of the
course.
以上只是身為一個學生的小小見意,亦可當作course's evaluation comment.
Thanks for consideration.
I have something to say as well. I think quiz generally shouldn't be set like this. It shouldn't include only one topic but should include few topics in all previous lectures. If this "style" is going to be continued, it would only encourage student to spot topic (latest one) instead of revising most of the topics. This quiz is not reflecting the knowledge of students, nor strengthening the understanding of students. It is destroying the self-esteem of student and driving them into the fear of failing this subject.
You could say that these are just irrational responses from a despair student, and I admit I did extremely poor on both quizzes. But this is really what I feel after 3 days of hardwork, revising on all previous materials up to random processes. I think I am stupid not to cover up all
materials but I think it's ridiculous none of the these parts are tested in a "test". I feel shocked!
I acknowledge that professor has the right to set the question paper in any style, but I guess most of us don't like this style. It's not that the question is extremely difficult and beyond our comprehension. If the topic (DFT) is told prior to exam, I think all of us can do it. If the scope is not specified, then by common sense the quiz shouldn't only include DFT. Same goes to the first quiz. I don't think the mean of around 30 marks really reflects the standard of student.
Of course nothing could be done now, but I would really hope professor and tutors take some time to think about our responses. After all, we are just students.
Regards,
Choon Lim.
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Tuesday, November 7, 2006
挑战
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Sunday, November 5, 2006
杂文重整
每个人都活在群体中,但又必须在群体当中找寻自己。不是应该自个在深山独处才能找到自己么?不是,因为没有比较。阅人无数,方能懂最适合自己的性格是什么;阅历丰富,才能更容易找到自我。无怪乎,即便圣人如孔子也要活到七十才知天命。我想,自我是分散躲藏在各种生活经验角落当中的,因为人在对不同的人、事、物上都有不同的反应,只有把这些反应集合起来做一个合理的分析,才能对自我窥知一二。
在很多情况下,本性真的很难移,即便你以为自己和以往不同了,其实也不过是换个姿势在原地踏步而已。但话说回来,如果不是极端的罪恶,为什么有必要在另一天就把自己变成另一个人呢?又不是患了人格分裂症。矛盾吧!或许我想要表达的是:往好的方向改变并不是一朝一夕的事,在瞬间的所谓“往好的改变”往往经不过时间的考验。因为,骤变含有太多的感性成分,通常都不太理性。欲速则不达,持续缓慢的前进难道不比短暂的急速冲击有效么?
与其花时间去祷告,不如花时间去思考。宗教典籍藏有非常深邃的智慧,是拿来启发思考的,不是拿来当饲料喂进每个人的口的。不肯尽信经典的人其实才是最具智慧的人。尽信书不如无书,如果智慧就是背诵一本经典这么简单,那记忆大师必然是无上的智者。可惜许多宗教就像个大钟罩,不让人四处寻找智慧,反而把人困在里面,教条般灌输其一面的“真理”,没有教导出智者,反而教育出许多偏激的笨钟人。多么伟大的反讽!你越能确信的东西,越可能让你陷入死胡同,如果你不仔细思量的话。我不认为“世界末日”的来临有多么恐怖,反倒是如果有一天全世界的人都只聆听一个“神”的声音,那将是世界的灾难。
视野啊!视野!眼睛的视野可以用人工的360度代表,心灵的视野不可能被代表。正因为大脑思维和情绪世界的复杂,世上才有数千种语言的存在,每一种语言的每一个字都有各自的内涵和外延,都是脑里某几条线的连接。语言帮助讯息的传达,也同时塑造着思维的方向。诚然弱势语言的消失让人惋惜,但我们不能不承认,根据自然法则,我们生活在一个弱肉强食的社会。当你惋惜吹捧英语削弱了普通话的影响力的时候,别忘了推行普通话的政策削弱了粤语的影响力,也别忘了粤语的强势削弱了广州内其他方言的影响力。
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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
北京游
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