Tweets 30/11/2017 收垃圾承包商不处理 大型家俱勿弃门口

Tweets 30/11/2017

又是接近年尾大小扫除的时候。“收垃圾承包商不处理 大型家俱勿弃门口”市议主席张泰卿呼。。诗巫民众不要这么做。 每年，市议主席张泰卿呼。。诗巫民众不要这么做。 每年诗巫民众都很无奈的这么做。 请问收垃圾承包商不处理大型家具垃圾，那该由谁来处理？ 为什么收垃圾承包商不处理大型家具垃圾？ 为什么市议主席张泰卿都没有好好思考一下？ 如果专业收垃圾承包商不处理大型家具垃圾，那么小市民，怎能处理大型家具垃圾？  这市议会到底做什么？

非民选的市议会原来就是这么样。 权力这么大！ 完全没有为人民着想。

It is again the time for big and small general cleaning to take place in every household in Sibu.  Again Chairman of Sibu Municipal Council insensibly and illogically pleads the public not to dispose the large sized old furniture outside their gates.  He says the rubbish collecting contractor refuses to deal with big sized old furniture.   Every year, this same old Chairman repeats the same insensible and irrational plea but Sibuans repeat the same habits by discarding the big sized, old furniture outside their gates. 

And every year, I get enraged to see the same insensible and irrational plea asking Sibuans not to do that.  If the professional rubbish collecting contractor is not able to collect the large sized old furniture, how can the non-professional public who have no big lorry nor manpoweeeeeer  to discard the large sized old furniture do that?   I hope that he will come to his right sense soon or he should be prepared to step down for good like Robert Mugabe.

人應是教育的目的   黄集初

教育簡單來說，就是人的培養。但現在的教育體系，卻往往忽略了人的存在，以致去人性化。
究其原因，有內部的因素，也有外部的因素。內部因素有很多，其中一個普遍的因素，我們稱之為「目標錯置」（Displacement of goals）。其意是指法規本是組織為了達成目標的工具，結果卻因過于重視法規，導致工作人員把嚴守法規當成是目標，而不是把辦好事情當成目標。這在官僚體系中是一種普遍的現象，甚至可說是結構中的一部份，無法避免。所以，法規越訂越多，問題就越趨嚴重。

自由空間受擠縮
國家教育行政體系本身就是官僚體系，這種目標錯置的現象自然也比比皆是。一般本來上有政策，下有對策。在過往，所謂天高皇帝遠，校長、教師及學生還有自由的空間，有心人還能在這樣自由的空間中推行符合人性化的教育。但自從ISO及KPI盛行，加上信息化，中央對學校的管制力越來越強，這種自由的空間就受到極大的擠縮。
理論上，目標錯置如果是不可避免的現象，那改革的方向就是削減繁文縟節，減少對教師和學生的干憂。但我國教改的措施反而是增加了更多的繁文縟節，以致教育過程中去人性化的現象越來越嚴重。

比如校本評估，本應配合校本管理，讓學校及教師有更大的自主權，這樣子才能充分發揮校本評估原本的用意，幫助教師更好地教學及學生更好地學習。但我國推行校本評估過程，仍然維持中央集權的方式，心態上仍然不信任教師，也不信任校長，因此，制訂更多的規則，層層監管，層層上報，導致教師疲憊不堪，學生也不知所以的配合地「抄」標準答案，大失校本評估的原意。

功利性的思維
至于外部因素，可以概括為功利性的思維。比如小學的作業負擔，不需要有什麼教育專業知識，憑常識就知道這是違背教育的不正常現象。可是多年下來，一籌莫展，反而變本加厲。好不容易教育部下令每科只限一本課外作業，本以為就算不能徹底決問題，也至少能減輕學生的負擔；結果，出版商把三本作業薄合併成一本，以符合通令文字上的要求，以致實際上數量減了，總重量卻不變。當教育成為一門生意時，與教育相關的各方人士中，有多少人還把學生放在心上呢？

內部的官僚化，外部的功利化，導致教育過程日趨去人性化，離本來的目的越來越遠。所謂積重難返，今天如要解決這兩大問題，不是易事，更不是完全在教育體系內可以解決的。官僚化是國家行政機構的通病，解決之道是權力下放，這需要聯邦政府大刀闊斧地對組織結構進行根本性的改革。功利化本質是社會問題，各方利益盤根錯結，政府不正視、不介入，難以期望會有根本性的解決。

不過，我國畢竟還是民主體制的國家，所謂什麼樣的人民就會選出什麼樣的政府。如果我們對政府的期望只是撥款又撥款，那就算有足夠的壓力迫使政府要有所作為，政府也只是撥款又撥款。所以，人民的覺醒，特別是家長，是解決問題，讓教育回到正軌上的關鍵中的關鍵。

Language and Music to me 24/11/2017

Language and Music to me  24/11/2017

        I must admit that my LIQ/language intelligent quotient /ˈkwəʊʃənt/ is not high if not too low as I often fail to express myself in such a way that I can …..when I compare my utterances with my siblings, cousins,  friends and so on.  I have discovered that there is something that I must do to improve.  I believe in improvement and progress through practice in the process. 

After all, language has a system and we repeat the same patterns all the time like a musical piece though language is in many ways more complicated, especially the spoken one which you have to think and retrieve information fast and accurate.  This demand is a bit tough for me as a pensive person, so I cannot speak without so much thought, consideration, hesitation and… especially impromptu ones.  My language on call can often be so crude and quite rude as well.  Nowadays, we can record speeches on Wechat to be listened again and again. 

        I picked up my mother tongue consciously, subconsciously and unconsciously.  I also learnt the written form of the standard Chinese in the same manner.  I think I learnt the standard English language in more or less the same way and some deliberate effort especially when I studied the English course and gave tuition after class.

I engage in the English language whenever I should and now I could because it is my belief through practice that I can improve all the time.  I need the set up or the speech records or language registers in my mind to ready myself to speak on call.  If it is my first time talking about certain things, I have problem to put my thoughts in words in speaking, be it Foochow, Chinese or English.  I discovered that I always improve through trials and errors.  Yes, I can refine my language through practice just like how I improve the piano playing the songs through practising the songs many and many and many…… times.

Language  unlike music is indispensable.  Music to me is dispensable and I only play the songs when I am free enough.  I learnt it for two years at two different centres at two different towns.  When my son refused to learn the piano anymore, I stopped going as well as …

However, I carried on at home for quite some time when I was not seriously engaged in any business.  I played on, hoping that I could become a professional pianist or at least …

When I started my work again, I stopped as I have said music to me is dispensable.  Lately, I have started playing my favourite or challenging songs again.  I realised that again I had the initial hiccups when I first started playing those three songs which I believed that I had played at least 100 + times to become quite automatic or spontaneous.   After practising for a few more times, the old memories of the song patterns and which keys and which fingers on the right and left hand to press to play the song have come back.

I can play the music  “Can Can Dance” from memory again now. I only passed it  after five weeks of practising.  This experience is invaluable.  The first book is Step by Step Piano Course; the second and third book is Piano Lesson Made Easy Level 2 and Level 3  by Lina Ng and the fourth book is Lesson Book-Level 4 by Willard A. Palmer … Level 4, we only had a few more  songs to go to complete the book.  We learnt the piano for fun, not for test.  We did not want to be bothered by tests, so it was easy for us and the teachers. 

But I still need some more time to pick up the songs, “Little Buttercup” and “Mor Li Hua”.  The knowledge of musical note/chords like English grammar helps a person to start, continue and … again.  It is the knowledge of musical notes /chords and the memory records of the songs that help me to pick up the songs gleefully again.  

If I don’t know how to play the song, I need to refer to the notes all the time.  Once I can play from memory or spontaneously, the musical notes are meaningless or unimportant in the play.  Of course at this stage, I can enjoy playing the songs so much and proudly when I can play from memory.

 

Tweets 24/11/2017 Something not Right O-O

Tweets 24/11/2017  Something not Right  O-O

        Once suspiction set its foot in, it might lead a person to wild thoughts and imaginations.  But it also triggered a lot of anaylsing, critical thinking and reasoning.  Well, my suspicion is not without a base.  It happened when I called a friend many and many times a month or two ago, the calls just ended as soon I called.  She called me first and I told her that my handphone had an credit amount to spare and so let me call her so that she did not have to pay for her call and I had nothing to lose in anyway. 

        She is a poor, helpless woman in desperation to apply for a blue identification card for her adopted daughter who is 23 or 24 this year.  We have known each other for ten over years as her daughter was under my tutelage for English when she was seven or so years old for about …... 

        Her husband died a few years ago when he fell into the drain riding his motorcycle during a flood when he could not make out the demarcation of the small lane and the drain to his house.  He went home after work at night.  He was discovered drowned ….

        She called me yesterday asking me why I did not call her back that day.  I told her that I called her many, many, many and many times but the call just ended.  I did not tell her how I cursed behind her thinking that she refused to answer my calls, not knowing that there was either something not right with my handphone or the lines or someone dictated the said telecommunication to ….  You see all the guesses and ….

        I knew why she called yesterday immediately and I hit it.  Then we…

        Another case is when I called another one for some business, I heard the reverberation all the time.  I heard my utterances were repeated in an encore way.  I wondered if they had set their telephone that way to record in coming calls.

        What is true will always stands out one day.  How I wish that all my guesses and fears were false ones to dispel all the doubts.

Tweets 24/11/2017 Something not Right

Tweets 24/11/2017  Something not Right

        Something not right either with my handphone or the D telecommunication company.  Lately, I have discovered that when I calls, the calls ends suddenly.  Luckily, on one occasion, my friend called up again to find out as she introduced a friend to me to let me know more about a product.  She complained to my friend and my friend asked why I did not answer her phone call.  I told her the call just ended suddenly. I also wondered why she did not answer my phone call.

        A day or two ago and yesterday, I only received the messages that posted to me a few weeks ago.  I told my son about this problem.  He told me that it was due to the problem of my handphone which has too small capacity to receive anymore messages.  But I have deleted so many messages lately in order to create space for new messages.  Ya, the more I use this handphone, the more I am confused.  The more I am confused, the more I think of ....

I wonder if there is some dirty hands there to manipulate so that I would call again and spend more on my accumulated account.  Someone told that it could be true because when your call ended, you called again, you would be charged more.  I also think so.  Besides, I delete all the promotions that they send to me whether it is true or not that I can gain some benefits as I have too little trust in them to believe so.  Thus I refuse to be bothered and also have fear of being tricked and trapped to pay more eventually.  As I have witnessed it in the newspaper how someone who was tricked and trapped to pay more and he was too angry to contain his anger that he smashed the shop to vent out his anger. 

Besides, I also think that my telephone line might be controlled by someone in authority as I have written explicitly how disgusted I feel towards UMNO-BN government.  I am such an imaginative person that I also guess that there is some possibility there.  I told my family once but they brushed me off saying that I was just a small fry to cause any concern.   However, I still cling to this belief that the totalitarian and his cronies cannot tolerate any slightest disagreement, not to say condemnation. 

Since time immemorial, there have been small, small, small …..fries that uproot a dynasty.   Yes, my thoughts of association just link me to these and those possibilities and thus lead to a lot of anxieties.   Or am I too sensitive?

It has just happened in Zimbabwe that Robert Mugabe who has been in power for 44 years is outed so much to the joy and tears of Zimbabweans.  This Zimbabwean totalitarian 93 years old still refused to step down for good and so has ended up in disgrace, humiliation and shame.  And the totalitarian’s wife whom he planned to succeed him has to flee for her good and how she will end up, nobody can tell.  If one enjoys life at the expense of others all the time and how one will have to pay back, only Allah knows the secret.

Yes, I am going to port out from this D telecommunication company and opt for another telecommunication company for good, hoping that no such thing will happen.  I hope to prove that I was wrong for having such wild imagination and thoughts.  Yes, I am a small fry and I believe in peace and the change of the government.  I really believe in that the federation of Malaysia should be ruled by an alternate party in turn for good. This is the mandate for every government in the world to progress in the the process for good.