Category: Paul-琮政 Life

After 1 month+ of using it, I decided to write why I bought IBM X40, as my colleague always said I bought X40 to “lansi”/Proud/Action :p. LoL, pay so much money to lansi you guys, am I so stupid?

Haha.. Coming soon……

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Edited on 7th Oct 2008: Some reader has reading problem, so I have to put on the disclaimer.

The article below was extracted from a forwarded email, below content is not represent my view, stand point or what so ever.
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After reading twinmum wrote about the education system in our country. I read about this from a forwarded email.

How do you explain the fact that 87% of the students passed the examinations of the Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia (STPM) recently? When during your grandfather’s time only 10% would have passed? Are students getting smarter? Or are STPM questions getting easier? Let me put things in their proper perspective.

During your grandfather’s time, they would ask exam questions like:
In what year did Parameswara founded the kingdomof Melaka?

The correct answer was “1402”, and they found that only 10% of the students managed to answer the question correctly. This didn’t go down too well with the authorities, because the objective of the exams was to
pass people.

I mean, what’s the point of having exams if people fail?

So later, they found another way to ask the same question:
Parameswara founded the kingdom of Melaka in the year:
(a) 2001
(b) 2004
(c) 1986
(d) 1975
(e) 1402
Tick the correct answer.

The results were better in that 20% of the students passed. But it was still not good enough, so the authorities tried a different tactic a few years later.

Parameswara founded the kingdom of Melaka in the year1402.
true or false?

Well, half of the students guessed “True” and the other half guessed “False”. Fully 50% passed. The results were getting pretty acceptable by now.

Most other countries would be satisfied with a 50% passing rate, but not us. We are a better country, because we are a boleh country the authorities then cracked their heads and then came out with this one:

Read the following sentence carefully.
“Parameswara, the cousin of Proton-Iswara, founded the kingdom of Melaka in the year 1402”.
Underline the name of the person who founded Melaka.

60% underlined “Parameswara”, 30% underlined “Proton-Iswara” and 10% underlined “1402”. Hooiyoh……60% managed to pass! So krever!

But for some reason, the authorities were still not contented. So last year, they came out with this gem:

One day in the year 1402, Parameswara founded the kingdom of Melaka. Then he went home to have dinner. What did he eat? 13% handed in blank answers, 57% wrote “Maggi Mee”, and 10% wrote “Kentucky Fried Chicken”, and 20% wrote “Tree bark”.

The official answer was “Food” of course!

After the marking was over, it was found that 87% of the students had passed. 87%….. now that’s pretty impressive! So it’s true. The students are indeed getting smarter.

Is it true? I hope it’s not. I took my SPM in year 2000, pathetically I failed 5 subjects out of 9;

Failed
Add Math
Chemical
History
Morale
Physic
Passed
Bahasa Malaysia
English
Account
Math

When I obtain the result, my dad didn’t ask about my SPM result, normaly family will ngi ngam ngam and scold their kid How dare you come home! My dad asked “So? Study computer next?”, then I said “No, I am interested doing direct sales now, let me gain 1 year experience I will further my study”
(direct sale really not for me, please don’t convince me to join elken, cosway, amway, noway or lamp “burger”, because I really suck on sale product I am not interested, not I want to work in MLM, but dad was in bankcruptcy during that time, that was the easy way out to get a “job”)

I told my dad I am not interested what I was studying in secondary school, I have informed him to be prepared see me fail all SPM subjects, haha :). To be honest, I enjoy my time when i was in Form 4 & Form 5, it was the greatest honeymoon years. I start web designing + computing while I was in Form3, and into music band with friend. The only stuff I am interested is computing. So F4 and F5 is enjoying…

Until I went to college, THAT IS WHATI WANT! Programming… I doing quiet well in college, even got a scholarship from Deakin University, Aus(I can’t go there, can’t afford the expenses there :()

Well, I think Malaysia Education is not that bad, but seriouly, depend on parent. If your children doesn’t like what they want, don’t force them. Some of my friend, force by their parent to study computer science/computing, which the field they doesn’t like. How to force them to do programming if they don’t like(my friend is talented in design!) How are they going to work in the future, which they don’t like what they are doing???

For me, I think parent play an important role, not the school or teacher. Beside that, while student study in college, that is the best time to LEARN and do more research. Create your porfolio during your college/uni life, this will build a good path for your career after graduated. Trust me 🙂 It truly helps.

Accidentally bumped into Joe Chung’s blog, found out a real damn cool job. LoL, I want to change job, to be professional blogger! Blog about politic and current issue?.. They should try to get Jeff Ooi 🙂

Job Street – Blogger

Last time, I always see my friend doing flaming in pub/disco, it look cool, then have you seen the failuer of doing that? (more…)

Kopitiam
Lunch at one of the kopitiam in L**ky G***en this afternoon. Eric ordered a malaysian favourite Kopi “O” in that kopitiam. At first, Eric looked sipek(very in hokkien) innocent, I felt he got something to tell me, finally he shoot, “I think the kopi “o” taste some kind…”. I try to taste it, WOW! the Kopi “O” tasted like Kopi “SAI”(shit in hokkien). Ah Lin ask the “_waitress_” to change the drink, she said OKOK. Eric want to change teh ice, don’t want Kopi “SAI” anymore(human dun drink shit :p). When the teh ice safely arrive the table(color look nice, am teh ice expert, can see it :)), da lady ask Eric to pay for it! Wa lau(sometthing oh my good in Hokkien), still want him to pay! What is this! She said Eric already drink the Kopi “SAI” so cannot change other drink. Aunty, sure got drink some la, else how to know it’s a Kopi “SAI”! haihhhhhhhh… but Eric is so kind.. pay for that… for me… , i won’t pay, will fight back my RM1.40 :p

Eric enjoy his Teh Ice, after Kopi “SAI”

**PS: Eric wants to learn Hokkien, so there will be italic translation

Office Politic
Talk to my friend recently, about office politic. For me, so far I think there is no office politic here? Or I don’t realize it exist here, or may be I don’t bother about those stupid office politic, because it won’t generate income for me nor it’s not good for me(i believe karma exist!!). In mandarin, we have a word said “two snake head” – “两头蛇”/’双面人”, a person who say Ali is bad in front of Ah Chong; and say Ah Chong is bad in front of Ali. I am wondering is that this “kind” of people got nothing to do but talking cock and talk about people during tea time, lunch time or breakfast? Well, office politic exist because of benefit? I am not too sure, but if it is benefit, well.. I think the person like to talk about people is “STUPID”? because of can’t do/perform something and then only know to talk? Instead of talking about people but not use the time to do something meaningful? Haha, there is only 3 type of person in office;
– Wait thing happen -> don’t do anything, but cock/talk
– See thing happen -> want to do, but look how people do, what is the result
– Make Thing HAPPENED -> this is the person who make something works!
If in office, everybody make thing happen, I think it will be good!

Trust
Is “TRUST” / “信” exist in this world? I don’t trust Friend/Best Friend, the reason is I do not want to hurt myself when your Friend/Best Friend betray you. For me, I only “TRUST”/ “信” my family and my love one. You won’t know, sometime the friend/best friend you trust, may be the best one who betray you, because they know you trust them, and is good to cheat. Why I said this, because my friend betrayed by his good friend, and he felt hurt. Haha, this is normal, I been hurted once on TRUST 2 years ago. I always tell my friend I said “TRUST” is on my mouth, not from my heart. But which person I trust, only I can know 🙂 Not more than my right hand fingers I guess. You will think I am so bad, don’t trust friend. I just want to protect myself ma, later get hurt again, how wor? heheh…. This is WORLD, not WONDERFUL WORLD

Workout & PHP Meet Up
Haih, diarrhea this morning, didn’t go gym. sob* sob* wasted one day.

Felt great tonight, I invited John Lim, the “man” who created ADODB to speak during PHP Meet Up tonight. John Lim’s product PHPLens is excellent, it sold to company in oversea, it can support most of the popular databases like MySQL, Ms SQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and etc. It has more than 300 properties and the application is still understand upgrading everyday! Well, what I can say … John Lim rocks! with his PHPLens. Feel free to read his blog!

California Fitness
Max – Da dino late for our schedule, our plan was meeting with Max and Eric at Bangsar LRT at 7:15am, then go to California Fitness to workout. But then my friend Max reach Bangsar LRT station around 7:35am, when the time we get to california fitness was 8:05am. We miss the breakfast session because of him. Hope he can make it earlier tomorrow morning. Haha, sound healthy for us? Wake up 6:30am in the morning get our ass to Mid Valley to workout? Heheh, hell of… my stomach/tummy is getting bigger and bigger, I just want to do some exercise, no more street soccer or futsal for me, because hard to match time, and my time is really bad, I have unfinish works all the time. So I decided go to workout in fitness center 🙂

Stupid games

Friend forwarded me some stupid games, a game to make yourself happy when you are down.
Slap the balls
Nothing to say, but play

People of the day

Lin with star war pose 😉

what’s so intersting huh? must be emoticon :p

Eric Kawaii pose

Danny’s Birthday
Wow, so many people birthday in 1 week, Kabilan, Sally and now Danny. Yeaha, old man now.. going into 30 liao Mr Danny. Wish you all the best dude.

Danny blow job

Danny wait us to sing birthday song! He is not 10 years old, but da cake house only give 1 big candle!

Dinner
Planing to bring Eric, Max, Danny to have Prawn Mee, but.. the restaurant didn’t open. Change plan, went to TTDI Penang Nasi Kandar eat satay! Well, next time Eric, am so sorry about that.

The satayssss

Left: Eric hunger for satay.
Right: Max v Eric

Macro
Took a short/macro shoot with my camera, look nice

Swatch and X40

Nerd
Just finish lunch and found out this nerd test link. No research to link with their questions. How they judge how nerd am I? Have no idea, but just to have fun before finish my working friday!

Lunch time, normal we have lunch between 1:30pm – 2:30pm. I found out we lunch earlier that last time, we use to lunch @ 2:30pm or 3pm. Beside that, it’s hard to get everybody ass up and lunch together. Now I found a good way, walk and don’t wait for them, who you think you are? wait you.. nah… hahahaha.

Today somebody FFK me, said will be stand by with me til 9pm, but he said tired wanna go back rest. Sigh! nvm, I can do research on Prado and finish up my work.

Online KaraOK?
Feel stress, Sogua invited me into Yahoo chat room sing song, to release tension. Well, I sang Beyond – 情人, Dinasour shout bad word make me laugh non stop. LoL…. Where can like that one, a lot people inside one leh. Ei, what room is that? Oppss… forgotten, because invited by Sogua!

Not today
10:35pm, still in the office with Dinasour, waiting for the office broadcast testing to end. Damn hungry! damn moody!

Today, is our Editor – Mr Kabilan birthday. How old is him? Well, not too old, not too young, in the middle stage. heheh… As usual, we will buy a cake and celebrate with da staff, this time I took the job and bought a cake from Angel cake house in Bangsar Telawi during lunch.

Mr Sogua “sipek” smart, can’t find a place in the frige, and he put it in the freeze place. Luckily din’t put so long, else wasted my effort. I think he purposely one la, because Max and Me did something to him, heheh..

Suddently interested to take SAP certified paper, but kinda expensive, around 25K for 3 months part time course. Should I invest into it? Well, I need to do more research on that, see how demanding is the market for now and in the future. Need to get more info from Julius, he got a SAP in HR.

Looking at the e-book writen by Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans(they are the god of PHP and founder of ZEND). Malaysia PHP User Group May meet up is on next week Thursday 26th May 2005, I manage to get John Lim from ADODB to give a talk on? ADODB lo. It will be interesting and Ditesh will be speak on WACT framework. If you are PHP developer, what are you waiting for? Come and join us, read www.php.org.my for more info.