831或916值得欢庆吗？ S4S促砂人反思

2016年9月6日 北砂

（本报美里6日讯）砂拉越人的砂拉越（S4S）促请各造反思，为何要庆祝916，以及呼吁修宪停止举办831庆典活动。

S4S中央文宣梁传宏今日发文告指出，砂拉越参组建国，迄今已经落后马来亚50年，为何还要庆祝831和916呢？

文告称，砂拉越首长阿迪南曾经多次在公开场合讲过，砂拉越落后马来亚50年，他感到非常厌倦。他也说过，马来亚有的，砂拉越也要有！

所以，S4S促请人民反思，为何我们砂拉越人还要去庆祝916? 去庆祝一个剥夺我们53年的贪婪马来西亚联邦呢？

该团队也希望朝野政党可以一致的向联邦政府反映，831不适合在砂拉越进行任何的庆祝活动。请联邦政府修改行政指令，让砂拉越不需要继续参与831任何活动。

文告指出，砂拉越人民应该反思，并不是砂拉越人不爱马来西亚联邦，而是联邦一直欺骗和剥夺砂拉越人的财富。

自 1963年7月22日砂拉越国独立后，916那天砂拉越，马来亚，新加坡和沙巴一起组成马来西亚。50多年后，砂拉越并没有因为组成后带来的繁荣，反而落 后马来亚50年，反观新加坡不因着离开联邦而变得堕落，所以，即将来临的916，S4S团队认为916都不是值得庆祝的日子，这是让砂拉越人民反思的日 子。

S4S团队呼吁，来临的916马来西亚日，不用庆祝狂欢。我们应当反思，我们遇到的瓶颈是否需要使用另外的方式来突破。我们是否要继续 奉承联邦政府种种不公的政策？我们的国家未来掌握在你我手中，唯有站起来宣示我们的主权，才能够让砂拉越摆脱被殖民和奴隶的日子。也只有让砂拉越更加繁荣 发达，才能够稳定联邦的和谐。

促还原历史真相
文告续指出，S4S推动的砂拉越精神已经成 功的唤醒绝大部份砂拉越对于历史真相的认知。2016年的8月31日是53年以来最冷的，同时也是最热闹的‘国庆日’。人民视若无睹的日常生活，还有网络 社交媒体的热烈讨论，成为度过831的主流方式。S4S对于政府的态度，政党的态度还是相当感冒，因为发言的立场始终还是为了政治利益而不是为了人民。目 前对于831的处理手法，S4S认为这还不是最好的方式。
相信相当多砂拉越人已经觉醒1957年8月31日的独立日，是马来亚的独立日。而 1963年8月31日则是北婆罗洲（沙巴）的独立日。在砂拉越

历史上，8月31日从来没发生过什么特别的大事。但是由于联邦政府的殖民主义，强迫砂拉越人 去庆祝一个不属于砂拉越人的日子，而且还刻意掩饰了722的存在。这是相当难以接受的，等同欺骗。如果连国家的庆祝节日都可以欺骗，也难怪砂拉越的水域， 石油天然气被骗了几十年。

2016年砂拉越政府在斯里阿曼的831庆典活动上，首长阿迪南无奈的在庆典上如同怨妇般埋怨，甚至在得不到联邦 政府的拨款，还要自掏腰包为基建特别拨款。S4S团队明白作为全联邦法定的831庆典，砂拉越政府必须接受和遵从去浪费税金庆祝这个毫无意义的庆典。同时 首长发泄的哀怨也是砂拉越人积蓄已久的计时炸弹，但光是埋怨不能对砂拉越的困境有任何的帮助。砂拉越人需要更强硬的态度去告诉联邦政府：我们不要831， 请还原历史真相！

对于831庆祝的处理，首长阿迪南有必要明白，人民是很清楚和之接受9月16日成为马来西亚联邦的‘国庆日’。没有必要为 联邦政府狡辩，认为把独立日改为国庆日足以敷衍砂拉越人。831在历史上的定位，永远局限于马来亚和北婆罗洲，唯有916才是全联邦共同的国庆日。首长有 必个要以平等伙伴的身份地位，还有联邦国会议员的力量，向联邦政府要求把916定位为真正的国庆日；831应该重新回归到

独立日的地位。
朝野应团结对外
S4S团队认为行动党终于有一个像样的主张，指在砂拉越进行官方庆祝831的庆典的确是浪费纳税人的钱，不但没有意义还在散播不实的历史，误导我们国家未来的栋梁。

行动党与砂拉越执政党，都是砂拉越人，本来就应该站在砂拉越的立场上，一致枪口对外，对抗马来亚霸权与污蔑欺骗文化。

为何要被马来亚的国阵和马来亚反对党分化砂拉越人团结的力量？到底政党重要还是砂拉越人的立场更重要呢？

无论朝野政党，应该团结一致，枪口对外，其利断金，再也没有谁可以阻止砂拉越人的崛起！

My comments:

Adenan is a lawyer and so he knows best that 831 is not the National day for Sarawak.  But he still misled Sarawakians to celebrate the day which means nothing at all but wastes taxpayers’ money only.  Besides, he should not behave like a shrew to complain behind the imperialist.  He should set the time limit to establish the autonomy for Sarawak.  First, get back what belongs to us.   Ditch out all the Federal Departments in Sarawak.   Only the terms and conditions agreed in MA63 should be upheld and any adulterations to the Agreements should be deemed as violation to the said MA63. 

 

Tweets 9/9/2016

Tweets   9/9/2016

“松华小学缺15万建费” (诗华日报Sarikei6日讯)。 又来了向华社伸手要钱。建校经费向政府要。 推动该区国阵政党部长先生，小姐和女士们去向政府要建费才是正道。 请改掉什么建校经费就向华社要捐款的坏习惯和心态。 为什么要华社去承担这种责任呢？  华社有税收 学校吗？ 为什么要如此偏帮政府呢？

几星期前，Kuching也有一小学呼吁华社捐款帮忙建校。 这是华社该做的事吗？ 我是希望华社拒绝捐献任何款项为了帮忙这些领袖们有事偷偷躲开的坏习惯。要他们实现承诺去证明[国阵政府] 不是政治老千。 是时候狠狠地教训UMNO-BN华社代表好好的去做事。 大家都不捐，看这些部长会怎样处理？ Say “No！”to any appeal for donation for the Chinese primary schools。

An exercise to enjoy

Accuracy and fluency of the English language     4Sep2016

        [To become proficient in the English language] __________      (1. mean) to become accurate and fluent in the use of the language. 

        That means, a person must have a through or good knowledge of English grammar _______ (3.), I repeat, is the foundation of the language without which everything just _________ (4. fall) quite apart..  There _________ (5.) flaws here and there in the _____________ (6. speak) and written English.  So, tell me how much each teacher __________ (6. know) about the English grammar and how _____________ (7. well-acquaint) each student is at the end of their schooling, Form Five or Form Six.

     Besides, how _________ (8. ability) they are in pronunciation of English words at __________ (9.)  If they have _________ (10.) idea or ________ (11.) doubt about the words, they can also check the standard English dictionary to find _________ (12.) what the speech sounds of the words are.  Just for example, to make _________ (13.) the pronunciation of the word “owl” whether it _______________ (pronounce) as /əʊl/ or /aʊl/, I can look ______ (14.) the word in the dictionary or Google search to confirm.  Of course, a learner or a teacher must know all the English language __________ (15.) sounds, vowel or consonant phonemes well to confirm the pronunciation of the word.

        Another component _________ (16.) is as important as grammar and pronunciation is the spelling structures which __________________ (17. relate) to the sounds and symbols.  

        These three ___________ (18.) or components of the English language __________ (19.) the hallmark to assess a person to be competent or accurate or not in the ________ (20.) of the language.  These 3 components that I always tell my learners in my language lab that I can 100% help __________ (21.) to experience the language with well-organised or not so well-organised exercises ___________ (22. practise) or enjoy.  This is  the practice of the accuracy  part of the language.

        Well, for the fluency part of the language, schools or tuition centres or language centres or my lab can only help the minimal percent.  There are more than ONE million English words up-to-date.  If you ___________ (23. not believe) just type, “ How many words are there in the English language?”,  Google websites will tell you so.  There _________  (24.) about 171,000 English words being entered in a standard English dictionary.    A native English speaker _____________

(25. say) to use about 25,000 – 30,000 words.  What words are in use depend very much ___________ (26.) a person’s interest, education and career.

        Count ________ (27.) number of English words you know and how well you can use them in tests, everyday conversations or delivery a lesson in English

        Thus I say, a person must read __________ (28.) or extensively to acquire and build ________ (29.) the vocabulary in contexts.   _________ (30.) a lot of reading, a learner can get         (32. reinforce) in their learning of grammar, pronunciation and spelling.         

         _________ (33.) the good knowledge of English grammar, pronunciation and spelling and proper ___________ (34. guide) in intensive reading for extensive reading, a learner can launch ________ (35.) an independent learning, i.e, reading extensively on their _______ (39.) to master the language in the _________ (40.) of time.  It is within the grasp of everybody ________ (41.) has the faculty for speech. 

In _________ (42.), if you speak your mother tongue well, for sure, you can master the English language some _________ (43.) if you care to put in enough _________ (43.) to learn the language.  Learning a language _________ (44.) like eating and drinking that you have to do it every day.  So, reading with a good foundation of the language ________ (45.) the only key to command the language.  Of course, of course, you have to use the language in speaking and writing to keep it alive or it stays dormant in your head.    

Prove me wrong ________(46.) you can. 

Notes to note:
1.  If you can score all the 46 blanks, that means you are proficient in 
     English.  That means you have good knowledge of English 
     grammar and you have enough language sense/ intuition.  I guess 
     you have enough language exposure or experience to attain this  
     level.
2.  But if you are an English teacher,  it is a must that you know how 
      to explain the answers of all of them.  You must know how to 
      analyse a sentence and you explain to your students the 
      reason why this is the answer.  Yes, I explain to my students in 
      my language clinic.  I really enjoy cracking the language code.  
      Challenge me with any sentence that you think it is impossible to 
      crack.  Yes, unless, it is an idiomatic usage and accepted to be 
      used that way though not grammatical at all.  If it is a standard 
      grammatical usage, it can be cracked by your knowledge of the  
      rule.  Language like music is rule-based and has a system.   So 
      grammar has to be learnt systematically in isolation and in 
      context.
3.  I guess my students quite enjoy this kind of  exercises.  But I give 
      them these exercises as reinforcement of their learning of 
      grammar and their language sense.   This kind of exercises is a 
     good practice of grammar in context.  It is an application of the 
     grammar knowledge in a  new situation.
4.  I never tell my students that they are tests openly but actually they 
     are tested all the time through these exercises.  It is so interesting 
     to  me.  I really do not see much meaning in formal tests and 
     marks.  I really do not want myself to be overburdened by giving 
     tests though I give marks for almost every exercise they have 
     practised.  Yes, I am 'a lone ranger' to do research and 
     investigation of English learning and teaching in my language 
     clinic/lab.   I do not have   many students and I do not charge 
     them  too much to burden them to learn calmly and in gratitude.

 5.  I emphasise a lot on independent and self-discovery learning 
      through awareness.  Awareness is an important key to learning.  I 
      have grammar and phonetic books for them to refer to on their 
      own at home or in my lab if they care and are responsible in their 
      learning.  My own compiled books are not expensive, either.  
      Look, the books are cheap and the fee is not high.  What 
      more.......?

 6.  I have even accepted three children, 8, 9 and 10 years to do 
       experiments to test that you can drill them since small the 
       systematic usage of English grammar.   They are and will be my 
       live advertisements of learning English grammar to master the 
       language.   Of course, I tell their parents one by one that they 
       must lead to their children in reading or they will face language 
       block here and there as they may not have enough vocabulary to
       understand, speak and write English.  So far, I have not much 
       idea if they really have caught my meaning and do as I say.

7.  I have told my students many many times that I cannot do much 
      to help them in vocabulary building.  What I can do now is 
       reading the passage, with no intention to explain much.  I bank 
       them to explore the meaning and knowledge on their own. With 
       the topic, they can always Google search to read the article and 
        related articles in details.  Yes, I give them newspaper articles to 
        enjoy or the story from the internet website.

8.  Like an artist, I teach English for fun and for an incentive.  Of course, I am also ambitious enough hoping one day, my grammar knowledge and presentation will also earn me a lot of money for the sale of my books and  ........

Tweets  31/8/2016

722是砂拉越独立日。 831 是马来半岛的独立日。 916日才是马来西亚日。可是霸权硬硬很霸道的，和野蛮的硬塞给砂拉越。 这是非常搞笑的日子。 我们有尊严砂拉越人对马来亚霸权所做所为已经厌恶的极点。 还好，现在有人在这一天，有发传单告知砂人831是是马来半岛的独立日。 跟我们砂拉越一点都没有关系。 有很多媒体也很搞笑的还是说这是国庆日。

所以，我真的认为这个联邦国家的关系是非常78糟的。