PPSMI is abolised! I feel happy!
Oh yeah, the ridiculous PPSMI policy (abbreviation of “Teaching of Science and Mathematics in English”) is finally abolished. The only catch is that it will only be discontinued in 2012….but I guess that is nothing compared to the destruction that this policy could do if it remains in force.
I am overjoyed (and that is probably an understatement) at the news. It doesn’t mean that I will support BN because of this, but finally someone up there got some sense knocked into his head. I have always maintained in the past and until today that to improve one’s command of English, the only way to do so is to encourage reading and a mass overhaul of that dreadful English syllabus that I went through in KBSR and KBSM.
Anyway, to celebrate this momentous occassion, I am off to do the moonwalk. Watch me!
You seem to have forgotten that in the first place, the reason for the implementation of PPSMI is NOT to improve one’s command of the English language but rather to equip a student with the the ability to read anything related to science and technology, be it scientific journals or work manuals without the need for interpreters.
[MENJ: WRONG. The main reason for its implementation, according to circular Ikhtisas 11/2002, was to strengthen a student's command of the English language (Source). Who are you trying to fool?]
Comment by ifomoe — July 9, 2009 @ 12:23 am
Michael Jackson lived his whole life surrounded by vipers. They would set him up in compromising positions, have a series of families of “victims” sue him, portray him in the mass media as a serial pedophile thus denying him any defense (of course, even with all the negative publicity, the families kept sending the children over), force him to settle the lawsuits, and then lend him the money to pay them, all on the security of his once considerable assets.
This process of stealing his money went on for years, until there was nothing left to steal. The Jews then came up with the idea of having the frail Jackson pay everything off with a huge concert tour, one that neither they nor Jackson thought he could physically survive. If he didn’t do it, they would seize all his assets and ruin him. Essentially, they decided to go for the age-old solution, the pound of flesh. Jackson would pay them off with his life.
Due to his many health scares, it became impossible to insure Jackson for the tour, particularly when the kosher shysters got greedy and vastly extended the tour, so the promoters had to “self-insure’, meaning they would take all the risk if Jackson in fact couldn’t finish the tour. As everybody knew he wouldn’t be able to survive the tour, this was unacceptable, and Jackson became more valuable dead than alive. Alive, he would just create more debt to be shared amongst the creditors, with no more assets to pay them off. Dead before the tour, the banksters could divvy up his tangible assets and use his preexisting insurance to cover the rest (they almost certainly had insurance on his life as security for their loans.)
Jackson, no dummy, was completely hip to what was going on, and who was stealing from him. “Jew me, Sue me” and “Kick me, Kike me.”
Is Michael Jackson a hardcore, Mel Gibson-style anti-Semite, or is this just another case of the Jew-run media trying to make a brother look bad? If you haven’t already heard, tapes have recently been released to the media of Wacko Jackson accusing Jewish people of trying to suck his blood. To wit:
In phone messages obtained by ABC News, the apparently prejudiced pop star likens them to “leeches” and claims they conspired to leave him penniless. “They suck…they’re like leeches…I’m so tired of it,” Jackson tells former adviser Dieter Wiesner in one of them. “The Jews do it on purpose.” The ugly message, which was made two years ago and aired yesterday on Good Morning America, was one of several provided by Wiesner’s lawyer, Howard King.
One can presume that these phone messages were leaked to their cousins in the media by this Wiesner fellow and another fellow named Marc Schaffel, who are currently suing Michael Jackson for money they say he owes them. Sounds like some pretty shysty (sic) business, if you ask me. Then check out how they try to play Jacko, bringing up old shit from 10 years ago and also the fact that he recently relocated to a Jew-hater country out in the Middle East, as if that has to do with anything.
Jackson had to apologize to Jewish groups a decade ago after he included lyrics like “Jew me/Sue me/Everybody do me/Kick me/Kike me” on the song They Don’t Care About Us. Jackson, who relocated to Bahrain after he was acquitted of child molesting charges, did not respond to the revelations. You know they did that shit on purpose.
Brothel-owner Wiesner’s suit was dismissed, although it appears there may have been some kind of settlement. Marc Schaffel, whose job before hooking onto Jackson was a gay porn producer/director, only won a small amount of what he originally claimed, and Jackson’s countersuit was successful (it is clear that Schaffel was the direct target of Jackson’s rant to Wiesner.) Jackson lost his ownership of the Beatles catalogue to Sony, run at the time by Tommy Mottola, described by Jackson as the devil.
I think we can assume that Jackson’s increasing connections to the Muslim Middle East, and his probable conversion to Islam – after being forced (?) to pick a surrogate Jewish mother for his children (more access to his money) – was partly an attempt to escape the shysters.
The greed of the Jewish shysters extended the tour to the point where it was uninsurable. Either the stress of the impossible tour killed him, or they arranged for him to be given a “hot shot” – a mix of whatever was supposed to be in the shot with heart-attack inducing, and completely undetectable, potassium chloride – to finish him off (note how the mainstream press is suddenly filled with stories of his drug addictions.)
Either way, they got their pound of flesh.
Comment by kuku man — July 10, 2009 @ 5:39 am
Politicians are never really honest and neither do they care what the people want for the education of their children. Any reason they will use to justify what they do!
Because where do you think the ministers and the well-to-do UMNO politicians and government department head educate their children?
So you are happy if PPMSI is abolished OK lah!
But other people knows the implication especially if education is all they have for their children to do better than they! That’s why they fret!
Comment by matteo — July 15, 2009 @ 3:50 pm
Salam
Please consider this for your critically and brutally honest thought, i got it from my friend…
Why Malaysian Government insists on using English for Math, Sc and ICT? The world is using the language and imagines how dangerous it is if we try to translate it in Malay, especially in school:
Hardware= Barang Keras
Software= Barang Lembut
Joystick- Batang Gembira
Plug & Play= Cucuk and main
Port= Lubang
Server= Pelayan
Client= Pelanggan
Try & translate then:
ENG: That server gives a plug & play service to the client using either hardware or software joystick. The joystick goes into the port of the client.
MALAY: Pelayan itu memberi pelanggannya layanan cucuk dan main dengan menggunakan batang gembira jenis keras atau lembut. Batang gembira itu akan dimasukkan ke dalam lubang pelanggan.
So, what is your comment on our future generation with due respect of PPSMI policy reversal by the govt?
[MENJ: This is an old e-mail joke that has been circulating for ages, it plays on puns and has nothing to do with the correct terms in Bahasa Melayu. "Joystick" in its correct BM equivalent, for example, is "kayu ria", not "batang gembira". The same can be said for the other terms.]
Comment by kemaseh — July 16, 2009 @ 2:34 pm
Bolehkah kita mempelajari nahu Bahasa Inggeris atau Bahasa Melayu menerusi pengajaran subjek Sains dan Matematik. Adakah memadai mempelajari suatu bahasa hanya di sekolah, iaitu suatu pembelajaran terhenti atau tidak berterusan hingga ke tua? Ikuti pandangan YM. Profesor Diraja Ungku Abdul Aziz bin Ungku Abdul Hamid di YouTube (klik di sini)
Yang mana kita perlukan Resolusi Bahasa atau Revolusi Bahasa? Revolusi Bahasa adalah satu ideologi, cadangan dan juga desakan oleh seorang bekas hakim bernama Mokhtar Hj. Mansor menerusi suratnya kepada PM dan menteri-menteri sekitar tahun 1990 yang mendesak supaya pelajaran subjek Sains dan Matematik diajarkan dalam Bahasa Inggeris. Dakwaannya bahawa pengajaran subjek Sains dan Matematik dalam Bahasa Inggeris dapat melonjakkan prestasi pelajar dalam kedua-dua subjek ini mula mendapat perhatian umum terutama menteri-menteri menerusi bukunya “Revolusi Bahasa Bahasa Revolusi” (Utusan Malaysia 17 hb Julai 1991).
Sedikit mengenai pembohongan Mokhtar Hj Mansor, sila layari blog ini : http://mokhtarmansor.blogspot.com/.
Comment by 508xrebel — May 4, 2010 @ 5:21 pm