Seriously, Malay for Math and English?

"Governments should realize that it is not they that control the people, but is it the people that controls the government."

What. The. Hell?!

I'm sure that most to all Malaysians already know this, but to any international readers, I'm gonna fill you in. The "brilliant" government (note my sarcasm) has decided to change Math and Science, which previously was taught in English, to be taught in Malay. Why the Hell would they even consider that?! English is a language of the world, the lingua franca, if you will, and if we learn important international subjects in Malay, how are we, the future generation, going to be able to cope? After learning in Malay, when we go to college, we'll still need to learn it in English again. Don't you think that it's a big hassle? Our future is at risk, here!

Okay, so maybe I wrote this post a little too late, but meh. It's my blog!

*Ahem* Anyways, I created a petition for those that want to keep it in English. Sadly, though, there's only like, 43 signatures. (To all Malaysian students, I urge you to sign it, and to spread the word of it. There's a link on the top right of my page, above the visitor counter; click on that)

Oh, I forgot to mention, the Math and Science in Malay thing won't be implemented until 2012. Sure, sure, my batch won't get the problem of learning it in Malay. Neither will most students now, if you think about it. But do you really think it wise to put the future of Malaysia (via the newer generation) at risk all because of politics? Politics and education should be separated, for God's sake!

Yes, you read right. It's all about the politics. Every 4 or 5 years or so, when someone new steps in, the education system will change. The most annoying part is that Malay, our mother tongue, will change as well. It gets so confusing, that even teachers get confused about what they're teaching!

Right, in other news, did I mention that I got a new computer? Yeah, I did. It's so fast, and I love it! As you might not know, I'm a player of RuneScape, and on this computer, I can finally use high detail. You have no idea how beautiful it is. (By the way, I got this computer quite a while ago; just decided to blog about it now. Heh)

Hm, I actually don't know what to type about. Maybe it's because it's 12:38 AM, and I have school tomorrow. Nah, I've stayed up later than that and still could type more things. Maybe I'm just not used to blogging again yet. Yeah, yeah, that's probably it...

School. Time to talk about school.

Since we're already on our second semester of the year, the teachers decided that we had to rearrange our schedules. Why? Don't ask, because I don't know, either. I thought the old schedule worked quite well, but meh, I'm not a teacher so I guess there's something I don't know about. Hey, remember I mentioned something about TrEES in my last post? Well, a few of us went to this workshop thing a few days ago, and we got a crash course on how to run the campaign to promote the Selangor State Park. One of the girls from Sri Aman that was there was kinda cute, but, like most Sri Aman girls, she was too gedik (a Malay word that loosely translates to "so girly girl-like that it's nauseating") for my liking.

We've got loads of ideas on what to do, but I can't be bothered to type them up now. I guess it'll just have to wait until tomorrow. Or whenever else I'm going to blog next.

Right.

I want to type more, but bed is calling me.

Salut,

~Joshy~

P.S. I might be starting the next semester of my French class this or next week.

A blogger's return

"Sometimes, the thing we're looking for is exactly what we didn't want."

Well. That's been an experience. I never knew you all missed me so much, I'm so touched! *Sniff sniff*

Haha, okay, I know I haven't been blogging in a long time. But in my defence, I completely forgot my password. Before you tell me that I could reset it (like what I just did a few seconds ago), I have another defence too; I'm lazy. Haha.

But man, I don't have much to blog about. Since February until July. Nothing to blog about. That's like, 6 months. In 6 months, nothing interesting or monumental happened in my life. At all. Man, that's sad. Right, but since I'm me, you're going to get anything and everything I decide to write. Yes, that's right, total randomness.

Don't feel bad if I bore you too much; that's the point of this blog. Haha.

You know, this is interesting, though. Lately I've been going on FaceBook, MySpace and even FriendSter. I don't know why, really. Maybe I'm starting to socialize. God no, I don't want to be doing that! Then I'll be like everyone else! And that's just weird. Weird bad, not weird good.

Reaper is MIA currently here, and my comp won't let me find it, or when it does find a Reaper season 2 episode, the episode won't be able to be uploaded. How is that fair?! Imagine this: You're starving, about-to-die kind of starving, and then a guy right in front of you, just out of reach, is eating a big, juicy, filling and delicious... (Well, I dunno, really, but feel free to insert your favourite food there) How would you like that? Not only is it torture, but the guy eating it, is eating said food slowly. Very slowly. Well, that's what my computer is doing to me. Great, huh?

At least I discovered another great show: How I Met Your Mother. Haven't watched it? Bully for you, it's awesome! The chemistry between the characters is perfect; the acting is extremely believable; the separate characters themselves are likeable; and if you can watch the entire first season without at least thinking of saying stuff like "Suit up!", "Legendary!" and of course, 'It's gonna be Legend... wait for it... Dary!" (Yeah, Barney rocks)

Oh, right, now I need to talk about school. As most of you don't know, I'm a prefect in school. Every month, we'll change our duty. Now for some reason, (I suspect marijuana, crack, heroin and/or laziness) we didn't change our duty for two whole months. Two months! You don't know how boring it is, doing the same duty two months in a row. We need variety! Honestly, if I had to do the same freaking duty one more month, I'd cry. Followed by me beating up a totally random person, but yes, I'd still cry.

Thankfully, I did change duty, so no tears would've leaked, and no poor innocent guy would get beaten up (probably me, though, since people like ganging up on me...) Besides, if I had cried, I'd be in direct violation of the Bro Code. (Girls, this "Bro Code" is a made up thing, and not a real code at all. I'm just making stuff up. Guys, the Bro Code is real, and article 4 prohibits me from letting any female know of it's existence)

You know, I think that when I stopped blogging, my love life became better. Now I don't have any problems at all. Of course, this doesn't mean that I have feelings for someone and it's reciporated, but it just means that things aren't complicated anymore. Yay for me! I knew there had to be a good thing to not blogging.

Hm, what else happened? Oh, right! I somehow became a member of TrEES (Treat Every Environment Special). I don't know how or why, but suddenly I've been chosen for membership. Well. There's not much to elaborate on this point. Carrying on, then...

Before I get questions on whether I like anyone or not (I know people will ask, so I say it's better to answer them now), and my answer has to be: yes, I do like someone. But there's no way in Hell I'm telling you, or anyone else. I'm trying to take this as slow as possible. Really slow.

There's something I want to add, but I'm pretty sure I'll regret it. Meh, I'll take my chances. ***** and ******* came over a couple of weeks ago to interview my Dad about an F1 in school competition thing. They needed him as a sponsor or something like that. Anyways, after they left, my Mum and Dad started talking about *****, and then they started telling me stuff like about how to go out with her, and etc. The most annoying part of their conversation (with each ohter)?

Mum: You know, we call Sharrif Abang (it means "big brother") and *****'s family calls her Adik (it means "little brother/sister")

Dad: They do?

Mum: That makes them perfect for each other! *Starts smiling knowingly at me, and giving me a laugh*

What... The... Hell?! How in God's name does that even make a tiniest remote piece of sense?! "Oh, they belong together because their nicknames match". *Sigh* It's bad enough that technically I'm engaged. Meh, at least she's cute. (My alleged fiancée, not her)

In case you didn't know, (which I doubt you do; now that I think about it, I've never mentioned this yet) my Mum and her friend have "matched me up" with said friend's daughter, and until either one of us fall in love/choose someone else, we're [technically] engaged. *Sighs again*

Oh, well, then. I guess I got to go. I need to sleep now, since I have a TrEES workshop thingy tomorrow, and it's like, almost 1 AM (it's 12:56 AM, to be precise). Maybe just one more HIMYM episode...

Salut,

~Josh the Joshster~

P.S. I still can't believe that MJ is dead. We're losing too many legends here!

(Edit: I had to censor some stuff for certain reasons. *Sigh*)