Looking at the Flooding Woes from a distance

Tweets Looking at the Flooding Woes from a distance             20/11/2017

It is idiotic, ridiculous and disgusting to blame the extreme weathers for the devastating floods all the time when these political scoundrels have tried to hide their plundering ways of development extending everywhere without care.  Whenever the devastating floods occurs, they are panicked and always try to shirk their responsibilities and put the blames on other factors to shield off their incapabilities and weaknesses. 

The recent devastating floods in Penang and years ago in Johore or elsewhere in the Peninsular Malaysia and my homeland, Sarawak and our neighbour, Sabah were the curses of plundering wasys of development in carefree ways. 

The Malayan government has been independent for 60 years.  The Penang government has been in non-UMNO-BN’s hand for 8 years, so it is 8:52 years, I wonder what has been done to the drainage system since the independent day 8:52 of Malayan government.

Penang by map reading is a very very very…… small state.  It is said to be a little smaller than Singapore.  Ng……that means that it is smaller than our Sarawak Bakun Dam.  Ng……it is indeed so small. 

Since Penang  is connected to the other adjacent states.  Hee………… I wonder if Kedah and other adjacent states had become so deluged at that time and if the sea were also so swollen.  If Kedah also received an extreme amount of rainwater and all the dams were in need of urgent discharge to relieve the holding capacity , the authorities concerned could only pray for God’s mercy but released all they had to save their skin.  What would happen to others were beyond their control.  That meant poor Penang had to face the attack of water from every corner. 

        When abnormal weather conditions have become normal and when all these political scoundrels still play-play and are lackadaisical minded, it is normal that flash floods, frequent floods and devastating floods occur so often.  These phenomena are universal.   Please do not take these phenomena everywhere in the globe to justify your incapacabilities and weaknesses to deal with these normalised conditions in your areas. 

        Check if you have built enough tube wells or reservoirs to take in excess water no matter how many times more than usual.  Our small-sized neighbour, Sinagapore should serve as the best example to all to find out how they tackle the problems of floods of whatever kind and how they make good use of the excess water.  These political scoundrels should learn to feel ashamed of themselves and be more responsible in face of floods and droughts. 

        If these political soundrels focused their minds on dealing with floods and solutions to tackle them, there would not be shortage of water during the months of drought.  When there are not enough reservoirs to take in excess water, so houses, shophouses, farms, plantations, factories, fish ponds and so on serve as reservoirs for excess water during devastating floods as we have witnessed everywhere in the world.  It is nothing surprising at all after seeing the occurrences everywhere in the globe.  This is law of Nature. 

        When plundering ways of development take place everywhere, so are the floods of whatever kinds that occur everywhere.  That’s it.  Gain = Lose when development takes place at the expense of our environment.

19/Nov/2017

It is idiotic and ridiculous and disgusting to use the psychometric test to qualify or disqualify those who desire to be teachers when the testers themselves are not subjected to any of the psychometric test  to decide whether they are suitable for the posts.  Our Sarawakian teachers really do not need this test or this ploy will be used to discriminate teachers in Sarawak.  And the target to employ 90% or more of Sarawakian teachers will never be attainable. 

We, Sarawakians should fight for our education autonomy.  We should have our criteria to decide whom to be employed to fill up the vacant teaching posts.  These 75 temporary teachers are all qualified in my eye to be permanent teachers. 

We must understand that there are too many unemployed trained teachers in Peninsular Malaya waiting for posting.   The Sarawak government must stamp their feet to say “No!” to the Malayan teachers coming here to ‘snatch the bowls of food’ from our Sarawak teachers. 

        Or we Sarawakians should be prepared to flush out UMNO-BNised political scoundrels here for good.  I hope all Sarawakians are united in one heart and mind / sehati-sejiwa in fighting for the autonomy of Sarawak.  We should decide what is best for ourselves.  We should learn to hit back and reject what the Malayan government decide what is best for us.  We really do not need the Malayan government in the name of Malaysia to decide what is best for us. 

        We, Sarawakians, like Singaporean, decide what is best for us.  We really do not need the Malayan government in the name of Malaysia (the name of which means curses to us Sarawakians and Sabahans).  They are like an octopus always extending its eight long legs to snatch whatever they want for themselves.  

       

Stop that psychometric test on Sarawakian teachers

Tweets 19/Nov/2017 Stop that psychometric test on Sarawakian teachers

It is idiotic and ridiculous and disgusting to use the psychometric test to qualify or disqualify those who desire to be teachers when the testers themselves are not subjected to any of the psychometric test  to decide whether they are suitable for the posts.  Our Sarawakian teachers really do not need this test or this ploy will be used to discriminate teachers in Sarawak.  And the target to employ 90% or more of Sarawakian teachers will never be attainable. 

We, Sarawakians should fight for our education autonomy.  We should have our criteria to decide whom to be employed to fill up the vacant teaching posts.  These 75 temporary teachers are all qualified in my eye to be permanent teachers. 

We must understand that there are too many unemployed trained teachers in Peninsular Malaya waiting for posting.   The Sarawak government must stamp their feet to say “No!” to the Malayan teachers coming here to ‘snatch the bowls of food’ from our Sarawak teachers. 

        Or we Sarawakians should be prepared to flush out UMNO-BNised political scoundrels here for good.  I hope all Sarawakians are united in one heart and mind / sehati-sejiwa in fighting for the autonomy of Sarawak.  We should decide what is best for ourselves.  We should learn to hit back and reject what the Malayan government decide what is best for us.  We really do not need the Malayan government in the name of Malaysia to decide what is best for us. 

        We, Sarawakians, like Singaporean, decide what is best for us.  We really do not need the Malayan government in the name of Malaysia (the name of which means curses to us Sarawakians and Sabahans).  They are like an octopus always extending its eight legs to snatch whatever they want for themselves.  

Sarawak education autonomy

Tweets 12/Nov/2017

In Sarawak, we really…………don’t need psychometric test to decide who is fit to be a teacher.  In the past, 100% of our teachers were not tested but they were devoted and good.  So as long as our Sarawak teachers are qualified academically and they have strong desire to be teachers.  They have good habits and character.  That’s it. 

So, our Sarawak government and education department should stomp their feet to say, “No!” to those political scoundrels who think they know best and who always have ulterior motives to discriminate and belittle us, Sarawakians.  So, exercise our education autonomy or be prepared to secede for good. 

I hope Abang Johari and his team will do something to stop the aggressiveness and domeering power of the Peninsular Malaya government in the name of federation of Malaysia.

I am enraged to see that 75 Sarawak teachers whose posts are frozen, I believe in favour of teachers who may score A in psychometric test from Malaya.  But we really………………….don’t need teachers from Malaya to staff here.   The Malayan government do not have to worry about the Sarawak teachers who have failed the psychometric tests as long as we Sarawakians have the confidence in them. 

British or American Version of English 3/11/2017

British or American Version of English  3/11/2017

        In my homeland, Sarawak or elsewhere in the Federation of Malaysia, the first question I think everybody should ask everybody is that which version of English we are studying.  It is said that we follow the British system of English.  However,  batches and batches of American English teaching assistants have been sent to us under the Fulbright programme.  What are our political scoundrels doing?

        Which system to follow, I think, is very important for our students who needs the set forms and rules to follow first before exposing them to other variations of English.  Otherwise, they will be so much confusion and frustration.   It is so important for our students to learn the forms and their functions firmly in one system first.  For example, the words:

                British Forms              American Forms

                centre                       center

                fibre                          fiber

                litre                           liter

                theatre                      theater

                colour                        color

                flavour                      flavour

                humour                     humor

                labour                       labor

                humour                     humor

                neighour                    neighbor

                apologise                   apologize

                organise                    organize

                recognise                   recognize

                analyse                     analyze

                paralyse                    paralyze

                travel                                travel

                travelling                   traveling

                travelled                    travelled

                traveller                     travelled

                quarrel                      quarrel

                quarrelling                 quarrelling

                quarrelled                  quarrelled

                fuel                           fuel

                fuelling                      fueling

                fuelled                       fuelled

(https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/spelling/british-and-spelling)

        American English is ubiquitous and our computer, I think, also has both the American hardware and software.  Thus, the British English words are changed into the American version automatically.  I often have to change  it back to the British version whenever I am aware of it.  It is terrible! 

       

The theory of Input & Output of the English language 3/11/2017

The theory of Input & Output of the English language   3/11/2017

        English in my homeland, Sarawak has been crippled by egoistic and megamanaic UMNO-BN political scoundrels.  It has declined to such an appalling state that many people speak English in words and phrases like terrible 2-year-olds of native speakers.  Now Sarawak Ministers led by Abang Johari are planning to upgrade it.  I wonder how he will do it.  He has organised a symposium on a really huge scale with a constellation of expects from different fields to discuss about it.  I wonder if they have come to a conclusion how to input or programme up our students with different learning materials in texts reading and listening to prepare them for the output in speaking and writing.

        From nurseries to Form Five, our learners have gone through at least 15 years of schooling.  If there is enough proper input in school and after school, I believe that at least 70% can speak and write quite accurately.  At least they know how to construct simple, compound and complex sentences to express themselves to fulfil the daily needs. 

        They know where to refer to to repair the ‘sore spots’ of their language if they have gone through the English language parts to know how to fix them by themselves.  I wonder if Sarawak ministry of education will moot the learning of grammar item by item like a mechanic or technician.  And there are 30 marks allocated to test them to coerce or woo them to learn English grammar seriously. 

        With the proper input of texts reading and listening to build up the stock of vocabulary, reinforce language structures in context and gain general or specific knowledge, are our learners not paved to the platform to produce the language creatively and innovatively.

        With the proper preparation of our students since small, do they need to be recalled after college or university to be retrained again to use the language properly? 

        I am not an expect but I have a very strong belief in this theory of input and output in the process of learning the English language as I have experienced it this way.   Bear in mind that the skills of creativity and innovation just cannot be taught.  They only happen when you have enough knowledge of your skills.  For example, in cake making, you can only be taught how to make a cake but how creatively that you can make it depends on your innate ability, disposition and mentality.