Testimony (EDUCATION): Amusing E.system

From The Star 26/6/2011
http://thestar.com.my/education/story.asp?file=%2F2011%2F6%2F26%2Feducation%2F8937700&sec=education

OMG..............How humiliating.....tsk tsk......

"     I am sorry to say this, but I think the teachers at my brother’s school are incompetent.

When reading his Year Two Science exam paper, it is baffling how a question — prepared by a Science teacher, checked by the Science panel, and verified by the school’s senior assistant — could still read as follows:

Study the pictures (animal pictures). Fill in the blanks.

A. A bird can...

B. A monkey can...

C. A snake can...

D. A frog can...

The answers that were given: jumping, gliding, climbing and fliying.

Yes, fliying.

As if the grammar mistake isn’t bad enough, they had to have a spelling mistake as well. Three teachers involved, and “a monkey can climbing”?

Another question features a picture of nine different foods, namely fish, a slice of meat, a papaya, a glass of milk, a slice of watermelon, some cabbage, a bowl of rice, some noodles and a slice of bread.

The question asks the students to group the foods into three categories, namely foods that “help us grow”, “help us stay healthy”, and “gives us energy”.

Honestly, all the foods listed above fit into all three categories, albeit to varying degrees. I am not satisfied with this question — it’s not specific or clear cut.

On another question, there was a picture of a cat eating a fish. Pupils had to complete the sentence “A cat eats...” with the following choices:

A. fish

B. fish and rice

My brother answered fish, and was marked wrong.

Yes, some pet cats would eat rice provided the fish is there, but generally a cat would choose “A” over “B”. And there was not a single grain of rice in the picture.

CONCERNED BROTHER

Via e-mail             "

Testimony (ENTERTAINMENT+LIFE): Part 2: Lyrics for Raise Your Glass

Right right, turn off the lights,
we're gonna lose our minds tonight,
what's the dealio?

I love when it's all too much, 
5am turn the radio up
where's the rock and roll?

Party Crasher,
Penny Snatcher,
Call me up if you want gangsta
Don't be fancy, just get dancey
Why so serious?

So raise your glass if you are wrong,
in all the right ways,
all my underdogs,
we will never be never be anything but loud
and nitty gritty dirty little freaks
won't you come on and come on and raise your glass,
just come on and come on and raise your glass

Slam slam, oh hot damn
what part of party don't you understand,
wish you'd just freak out (freak out already)
can't stop, coming in hot, 
I should be locked up right on the spot
it's so on right now (so fuckin on right now)

Party Crasher,
Penny Snatcher,
Call me up if you want gangsta
Don't be fancy, just get dancey
Why so serious?

So raise your glass if you are wrong,
in all the right ways,
http://www.elyricsworld.com/raise_your_glass_lyrics_pink.html
all my underdogs,
we will never be never be anything but loud
and nitty gritty dirty little freaks
won't you come on and come on and raise your glass,
just come on and come on and raise your glass
won't you come on and come on and raise your glass,
just come on and come on and raise your glass

(oh shit my glass is empty, that sucks) 

So if you're too school for cool,
and you're treated like a fool,
you can choose to let it go
we can always, we can always, 
party on our own

(so raise your) So raise your glass if you are wrong,
in all the right ways,
all my underdogs,
we will never be never be anything but loud
and nitty gritty, dirty little freaks
So raise your glass if you are wrong,
in all the right ways,
all my underdogs,
we will never be never be anything but loud
and nitty gritty, dirty little freaks
won't you come on and come on and raise your glass,
just come on and come on and raise your glass
won't you come on and come on and raise your glass,(for me)
just come on and come on and raise your glass (for me)

Testimony (ENTERTAINMENT+LIFE) : Part 1: Raise Your Glass

Who is willing to Raise Your Glass for those nerds, geeks, underdogs and all those the ‘uncool people’ in the society? Who is willing to speak on behalf of them, voicing out what they felt when people treat them like dick shit ! P!nk is the artist who is willing to do it !

Debuting as the lead single for her Greatest Hit… So Far!!!! album, Raise your Glass aims to promote social, gender, sexual orientation and animals rights. According to Pink, the song is dedicated to those who felt they were not a part of the popular crowd. She speaks out for those who are neglected and despised by people beside them. I personally felt that this is a rousing and uplifting song as her songs resemble her perception towards the modern life issues and she stands firm to what she believes in like her previous song – Dear Mr. President, which shares the same concept as Raise your Glass.

The music video brings a deep meaning to what she wishes to convey. First, on animals rights. She introduces a human farm, which is rather awkward. A cow is portrayed drinking milk extracted from a few females which emphasise the need of animals to receive equal important treatment on some basic necessities. The black clothes people are actually the representative from the Animal Liberation Front, an active international underground group which aims to save and liberate animals from abuse and atrocities committed by humans. She is even shown punishing a matador to free the cow from the captivity.

Human Farm

P!nk's kicking some ass

On the GLBT rights, she was shown performing on stage in a gay marriage and P!nk expressing her views that people should not feel any differently towards gay marriage than straight marriage. In fact, people are strongly bonded by the mindset from religious teaching that they taunt, bully, loathe and abominate those GLBT, treating them like dangerous aliens. GLBT are also normal human being and they do not deserve this kind of treatment. They’re a lot of GLBT who did a lot contribution to the community, most notably Clay Aiken, the ambassador if UNICEF.

P!nk performing in a gay marriage

                                                              

Dont feel like with him...ar....

Thats better

P!nk also acts as a nerd too, showing herself alone and deter by everyone in a ballroom event. It depicts how dreadful people can be when they are comfortable and engrossing themselves in happiness and luxury, they don’t even care anything happens around them. Those people in comfort zone wearing in luxurious suits ties and appealing dress don’t even care for a lonely nerd like P!nk. However, she manages to find herself a nerd partner too and they enjoy themselves with freaking hilarious dances to entertain themselves. In the lyrics, she said

“So if you're too school for cool,
and you're treated like a fool,
you can choose to let it go
we can always, we can always,
party on our own “

P!nk in a blue skirt, alone, lonely...:(

P!nk and her partner enjoying a nerdy dance

The most eye catching roles she acts is as the Rosie the Riveter, a prominent cultural icon among the women in the USA. It symbolizes the power of women during the time in the World War 2, when women took the jobs in the factories and plants to replace the men in the war. Throughout the video, some scenes of woman performing acrobatics on stages and a woman graduate from universities are shown to promote gender equality that woman can be successful in their own ways.

P!nk: You can do it !!

We can Do It !!

At the end of the video, P!nk hopes that her message can be heard as she sends many cardboard lantern to the sky and a graduate women cries which implies P!nk manage to spread her message to her fans after years in the music industry.

P!nk is indeed an artist worth praising. She relates her life with her song and her music gives an insight of what is happening to the teenager’s life, social ills and suffering of people happening in the current world! Gambateh P!nk !!

So c'mon c'mon

RAISE YOU GLASS !!!

Be thankful and gratful :)

Quote from P!nk regarding her single:

“I had been on the road for two years and I hadn't written anything and I wanted to write a song about underdogs. Instead of going and becoming a cover girl, I kind of just hit the road and pounded the pavement ... and became a touring artist. You don't have to be popular when you're a touring artist, you just have to be good, and this is a thank you for the fans".XD

 

Copyright C 2012 Shino Aaron

Testimony (LIFE): Soaring the Eagle

Soaring The Eagle is a COMPULSORY for ALL Petronas Scholars !!!! Argh…. Why am I denied the chance of going back home. Miss my hometown, family and the food…a lot !! TREMENDOUSLY !!!! My chance to fly back to Sarawak was halted that moment.

STE File

It is going to be torturous, I’m so homesick !! at least that’s what I thought……. but I was totally stunned by the amazing activities held during the whole week in Port Dickson…

  Woah……. Just look at the beautiful dawn…Something you don’t see everyday

It had been a momentous week I enjoyed it so much that I reduced the level of my “homesick ailment” that had been plaguing me… I’ve met a NEW FRIEND

Stephen from Sibu, Sarawak.

Enjoying some picturesque scenes

 I enjoyed that every day from my room 

I had  a chance to swim everyday in the turquoise pool…!!

BACKSTROKE….

Had a great time with Seng [HAHAHAHAHA ] *I like that picture the MOST XD*

                                            

Hotel Food

The Hotel Casa Rachardo has the best food compared to any UTP’s café food. Of course, it’s hotel food. With spaghetti, mushroom food, fried rice and other scrumptious food available, people often rush to the café ASAP once the class ended. I was eating ravenously the first few days. I took and appreciated every chance I have with delicious food. It’s kinda sad because those delicious food can fill my stomach for one week only… L… Nevertheless, I was fortunate and satisfied with it XD

Hostel

It’s been 3 months since I slept in an air conditioned room. The room is SPECTACULAR, ASTOUNDING, and ABSOLUTELY PERFECT… (too bad… I didn’t have the picture). Clean bathroom and toilet, comfy bed, with THREE PILLOWS all belong to me since Seng only took one !!! wahaha… Too bad the air cond broke down the 2^nd day. Haiz… Nevertheless, there was ANOTHER air cond in the living room. Seng and I slept there for the rest of the days ! 

Activities

My group: Mach 5

STE held interesting games to motivate the participants to excel in different aspects Namely, Mind, Relationship, Academic, Finance, Body and Spiritual. It gives inspiration and lesson learnt after each game to help us become a better person physically and mentally. The most touching scene shown during the spiritual themed activities is a movie called Simon Birch. A disabled boy who was looked down by everyone but he still holds firm his belief towards God.

Overall, STE is one of the best camp I’ve attended before and if given a chance again, I want to experience that again !!
[credit to the photographer, StephenXD]

Testimony (ENTERTAINMENT): Kung Fu Panda 2

Kung Fu Panda 2 is a freaking hilarious movie favourable by people from all walks of life. My friends (Kelvin, Wind and Daphne) and i watched this movie knowing that we would blow ourselves up by the amusing and goofy Po, the PANDA !

Returning for another comical and exciting adventure, Po and the Furious 5 face a new threat in a new city and concurrently discovering his past. This astounding part of the movie is that the action pack, kung fu fighting starts immediately and ends with an emotional touching scene when Po hugs his dad, Mr. Ping, the goose. What amazed and amuse me is Po’s wide arrays of kung fu techniques combining with his clumsy footwork !!

The movie works on both parts, entertaining people with the boisterously Po and teaching the viewers the importance of accepting the present and loving your parents. It has an amazing story plot and a well done film by the Dreamworks animation studio !!

KUNG FU PANDA 2 is an indeed recommended film to be watched ! It is hinted that there might be a 3^rd film...so we’ll see...XD

Testimony 1 (LIFE): Success

News Straits Times, 5th June 2011

We all have goals and dreams. When we achieve that, we call it SUCCESS. A man who can’t even read CAN BE A BILLIONAIRE !! Woohh.... !!!!! People have their own special ability.  Mr. Andreas may not be the study type but he is the persevere type. As stated, he desperately try to prove to everyone else that he is SomeBody.. He is not a failure despite being weak in studies.

His success is measured by hard work and perseverance. It requires strenuous effort, countless of setbacks and a hell lots of determination to reach that level. No one will ever know the hardship that he went through. I’ve been studying for 13 years and that i’ve to admit that reaching this state is not easy alone. Who will understand that?... NO one but me...

Henceforth, to everyone who fails during the course of reaching success, bear in mind that there is always another way out, a path which you’re good at it which you will undertake in future. Be strong and with determination you will keep moving forward.

Testimony (EDUCATION) : Walao...!!

Source from Niamah.com

Walao Ee.... Umm...prezentin the mx wokbook of primary skool, the engrish iz so wiered lah, I oredi got Streat A in SPM le, stil cannot undastand tat..Zhe plural, singula, paz tens ant prezens tens make me confused.   :S

Blur and DUMBFOUNDED

                                              Tsk Tsk.............................................................

Song of The Week !

                                      Inspirational Lyrics.. We'll be A Dream

Testimony 1 (LIFE): Introduction to Life

Time Of My Life

 

Life is all about your experience on Earth for a few years. Money and success are just lending you a few years of fame and joy. Yes, people all know that, but there is always a denial that, without money you cannot survive. Nevertheless, bear in mind that in the endeavour of pursuing any aspiration, you have to have control over yourself and don’t let it blind your eyesight over something more important – own conscious.    

            Life is complicated but as long you live the way you want it to be, you’ll have no regrets. However, there are many ways you can lead your life, for me, I have a strong hold on certain principles which I would not deviate while walking through this life. This may sound easy and the right thing to do but in actual fact this is the hardest barrier in my life in terms of practising those values in my daily life. There are people who knew that jealousy is a bad attitude but at times when he/she is tested at ardous situations, that evil seed will sprout in his heart and propel that person to commit a sin and harbour his satisfaction. It is not easy to be a good man but it is easy to turn bad. The reason is say so can be shown by this example. What happen when you throw a piece of paper to a baby, of course, he/she will squash it to smithereens. That's the nature of human being.

Life in the university, I’m subjected to different people from all walks of lives. Being susceptible to undesirable attitude, I know that I have to stand firm to my principle and be a successful person in LIFE!

Geology: Carbonate Platform

An article i wrote few months ago…

Carbonate Platforms

Remember when we were young, we used to visit exotic islands to have a holiday, having a whale of time on the pristine beach with our friends or family, little that we know that most of the beaches and islands are actually carbonate islands. One of the most astounding examples of carbonate platform is the Bahamas Island and platform on the Great Barrier Reef. So, what is so special about these islands?

These carbonate Island or carbonate platform in scientific term, is unlike a gigantic land that is created from volcanic eruption or decreasing or sea water level to from a piece of land. It is just actually a sedimentary body which possesses topographic relief, and is composed of various sea plants and dead organism (microbes) which induce carbonate precipitation through their metabolism that deposits for a long time. Nevertheless, factors such as existence of life reef building organism, light and water temperature can affect the formation of these islands.

Carbonate platform is proven to be highly effective in storing and retaining vast quantities of gases and liquids for a long time, which explains why it is a perfect place to store carbon dioxide, CO₂ . These gases are compressed and injected underground. At these depths, carbon dioxide behaves as supercritical, sharing densities similar to those liquids and viscosity similar to gases. It moves through pore spaces as though it were a gas and takes in less space, as though it were a liquid. The deeper it goes, the denser it becomes and also less space is requires. Henceforth, it is potentially effective in storing huge amount of gases.  The geological distribution of rocks forms a trap by holding these gases under a layer of impermeable cap rock combine with narrow anticlinal folds of formation.

Carbonate platform’s characteristic also is put in good use in storing liquids minerals. Half or more of the world's petroleum is stored in carbonate reservoir rocks. This is due to the suitable porosity and relative permeability. The feature of sucrose dolomite porosity is important in many oil reservoirs. In these rocks, porosity and permeability have been strongly influenced by composition of carbonate sediment and the rock has been replaced by calcite of sucrose dolomite over a period of erosion and deep water pressurised. Dolomite calcite which happens to be a natural host rock, is a sedimentary mineral carbonate rocks which is capable of storing minerals, in this case oil due to its ordered structure. Cutting edge technology even allows injection of mercury or CO₂ into the cores of the reservoir to increase the pressure to guide the oil to the surface. The method can only be applied when the volume of the mercury or CO₂ can cause enough pressure and force to displace oil from water and overcome its interfacial tension between the rocks in the pores. This method is very favourable in the United States as 50 million metric tonnes of CO₂ are injected annually in the United States into declining oil fields.

As a whole, there is strong incentive to interpret carbonate platform and its ancient carbonate environments with organism communities. Hence, it is imperative for us, human beings to understand their prudent contribution in the storage of increasing amount of carbon dioxide and also its effects on oil-reservoir properties.