It´s all about respecting one another

It´s been a while since I last posted in here. Life has been kinda hectic. However, upon stumbling upon this article, I felt it a need to save it in here. 

There´s been so many issues going on all around lately. From the worsening politics in Malaysia to the ISIS and etc. This article - as you can read later - is about the Muslim students thinking and wanting issues bent completely to fully accommodate them alone. Upon the rejection, everyone cries discrimination and racism.

I wonder if they ever stop to ponder....... you are a "visitor" in a foreign land. It´s kinda like... someone invites you to their home, but you turn around and try to "enforce" your own rules and upbringing into their home, and then when the host denies you, you cry foul! So who is the one who is lacking of "brains" and "thinking mentality" at the moment? To think that you students have managed to go all the way to University level of education, I would expect that maybe to an extent you have a sense of logic within you.

Happy reading.

Original Article Link : Muslim Students Demand Special Treatment, University Offers 8 Epic Word

Muslim Students Demand Special Treatment, University Offers 8 Epic Words

Posted on March 17, 2016 by Dom the Conservative

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Along with two other colleges, the Technical University of Berlin has refuted Muslim students’ unreasonable demands.

After a group of Muslim college students began taking over a university’s “multi-faith” room, establishing gender segregation and allowing in only Muslims, the school decided to show that they wouldn’t be bullied by political correctness, issuing the perfect 8-word response in an official letter to the Islamic supremacists.

After abuse by Muslim students, campus prayer rooms which were meant for all faiths at the Technical University of Berlin have been shut down, along with prayer rooms at two other universities, the Technical University of Dortmund and the university of Essen Duisburg, prompting the Islamic community to cry “racism.” However, instead of cowering to the minority’s demands, the schools are standing their ground — and with good reason.

When confronted with accusations of discrimination and Islamophobia, TU Berlin President Christian Thompsen simply responded that “higher education and religion should be kept separate,” according to the Norwegian Defence League.

“It boiled down to the fundamental question — do we want religious facilities at our universities? I think higher education and religion should be kept separate,” Thompsen said. “Previously Muslims didn’t have much opportunity to practise their religion in Berlin. But now there are enough prayer rooms the students can use – perhaps not within walking distance, but a few stops away by bus. A prayer room at the university is no longer necessary.”

The decision came after Muslim men began driving out women and non-Muslims from one of the inter-faith prayer room, proving their tendency to abuse the tolerance so graciously afforded them in Western countries.

“The room was created in a time where the Muslim students had no place nearby to go for prayers,” Thomsen said to Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ). “The next places for Muslim students to pray may be not in walking distance, but with a bus it’s just two or three stations away.”

The universities also cited fairness, reminding that it would be bias to offer Muslims special treatment. Since it’s impossible to accommodate all beliefs, everyone will equally have no designated area specifically for religious worship.

“With more than 130 nations at our university, we can’t offer a room for every religion or culture,” the university added. “The room was installed in a time in which there were no places for Muslims to go nearby. This has changed in the past two decades.”

Of course, many of the Muslim students are dissatisfied with equality and demand tolerance while subsequently being intolerant of other faiths. Muslims had driven out other faiths and established Sharia gender apartheid, as is legislated in Islamic countries. However, they proceeded to complain that they were being discriminated against when the rooms, which couldn’t be used by anyone but them, were shut down.

The West needs to adopt the “abuse it, lose it” policy towards foreign cultures and faiths. If you cannot reciprocate the tolerance given to you, you are not worthy of tolerating. If you cannot respect those who’ve offered you respect, your demands will be refuted.

Muslims have proven in every country where they become a large minority that they are incapable of both practicing their religion and respecting other faiths, cultures, and laws. It is time for us to realize this incompatibility, not as a deficiency in our own democracy, but as their own unwillingness to coexist with us.

H/T [The Local]
Photo Credit [Daily Caller, TU Berlin]

Are your kids abroad because the education system ‘sucks’?

Indeed.... a very good point to ponder on.

How many of the ministers and political leaders of Malaysia have their children actually in the local public schools instead of International and Private schools - abroad or locally? And why are they supporting these International schools instead of the local government schools? Proof that they know the Malaysian education system is screwed?

What would you think? 
Original Post : Are your kids abroad because our education system "Sucks"?

MALAYSIA

Are your kids abroad because our education system ‘sucks’? Kit Siang asks Cabinet

PUBLISHED: NOVEMBER 19, 2014 11:09:38 AM

Lim Kit Siang asked incumbent Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak if he would tell all ministers in his Cabinet to resign if they send their children to private or international schools, whether local or foreign. — Picture by Yusof Mat IsaKUALA LUMPUR, Nov 19 — In continuing his tirade against federal government leaders for lacking faith in the national education system, Lim Kit Siang questioned today their rationale for enrolling their children in international schools.

The DAP veteran asked if it was because “Malaysia’s education system sucks” and that Malaysian schools have continued to trail behind in the bottom third of countries surveyed in a number of international assessments.

“I have been informed that one of the first things a minister of the Najib Cabinet did on his appointment was to transfer one of his children to an international school,” Lim claimed in a statement.

“Why?” the Gelang Patah MP asked, before continuing, “Is this because Malaysia’s education system sucks?”

Yesterday, Lim demanded that all federal ministers and their deputies come clean on whether they send their children and grandchildren to public schools, claiming that there is no evidence to show that top BN leaders actually support the national education system.

The senior DAP leader said it was quite a boast for deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, to claim that the Malaysian education system was better than that of the United States, Britain and Germany, when he has not even asked the Umno General Assembly to endorse his claim.

Citing his old rival and former Prime Minister, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Lim said it was an open secret that Cabinet ministers have for a long time sent their children to private and international schools where English is the teaching medium.

Today, Lim asked incumbent Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak if he would tell all ministers in his Cabinet to resign if they send their children to private or international schools, whether local or foreign.

He pointed out that by sending their children to these schools, it reflects their lack of confidence in an education system built by the BN leadership.

Lim noted that recent world university rankings showed a power shift from the West to the East, with Asian universities now proving their mettle by shooting up the ladder to surpass their western counterparts.

For example, he said, 24 Asian universities listed in the top 200 universities in the 2014 Times Higher Education World University Rankings compared with 20 a year earlier—led by Tokyo University and National University of Singapore in the top 25.

“But this seismic shift in the continuing erosion of United States and United Kingdom domination of global higher education and the inexorable rise of Asian universities seemed to have completely by-passed Malaysia, despite our annual massive expenditures on education,” Lim pointed out.

The same trend was shown in the US News and World Report’s 500 Best Global Universities Ranking 2015 last month, where Malaysia’s premier university, the University of Malaya was the only university listed in the very “lowly” position of 423, he said.

In the 100 Best Global Universities survey for 21 subjects, Malaysia was only placed in two of the 2,100 slots in its ranking, with Universiti Putra Malaysia taking 54th place for agricultural science and Universiti Sains Malaysia taking 87th place for engineering.

“It is scandalous and shameful that out of the 2,100 slots, Malaysia’s 21 public universities which have a total of over 200 schools for different disciplines, could only manage to be placed in slots for two subjects,” Lim lamented.

Singapore, on the other hand, won 20 slots, while even Thailand took two spots.

“But Umno/BN ministers and leaders are not really concerned about the deteriorating standards of education and higher education in Malaysia,” the DAP lawmaker said.

This, he said, is because they have ensured even their own kids are out of the national school system.

“How many Umno/BN Ministers and leaders dare to declare that they do not send their children to private or international schools, local or foreign?” he asked.

BN and UMNO getting more and more racists.... Why should Malaysians then vote for you?

Feeling extremely angry and pissed. Went online and saw many people debating and posting this article entitled  : ‘Go to India’, Umno woman tells Bawani

After reading that article, it really makes me wonder..... why would any non Muslim (aka Chinese, Indians, Christians etc) would ever want to vote for them? I wonder do they even know that.... majority countries are actually having free education and not only just Argentina, Cuba or even India.... Actually, I am amused that Malaysia, boasting of being such a modernize country etc doesn´t even have such a basic necessity like free education. And yet you want everyone to "kau tao" and worship the floors you walk on?! 

We are moving towards and onwards from the 21st Century, but yet, somehow Malaysia seems to be going backwards instead of forward. How can that be? Isn´t it something for the citizens and the authorities to ponder upon? Stop pointing fingers and putting the blame that other people, especially the western world, are people who are heartless and cruel and not from tradition? I think, personally, after touring around Europe and staying in Europe myself, that the western world - Europe - actually soaks up and has more culture, tradition and history compared to Malaysia. They also know the value of appreciating people. So wonder who is the backwards one?

Stop tarnishing the western world or any part of the world other than Malaysia with our "Malaysian beliefs", especially when you haven´t even seen the world. Open your eyes and see the world and stop being a racist.

Enjoy reading the article ....... 

‘Go to India’, Umno woman tells Bawani

K Pragalath

 | January 16, 2013

Norhayati Saiddin claims that Indians are demanding too much even though they did not know the existence of toilets while living in the estates.

PETALING JAYA: The critical comments of a Wanita Umno member regarding law student KS Bawani is causing a stir.

In her Facebook posting, Norhayati Saiddin wrote: “Deii Bawani.. kalau mau pendidikan percuma tanggechi pergi ler belajar sana India… you mother land.. sana tanggechi boleh dapat pree… ammakk!!” (Bawani… if you want free education, go and study in India, your motherland. There you can get free…)

“Untung lorrr… dulu India banyak duduk estet… itu jamban pun lu orang tarak tau… sekarang India org banyak mahu sebab itu BN ada perintah ini negeri.” (It’s a privilege.. before Indians mostly lived in estates. They didn’t even know toilets. Now Indians have a lot of demands that is why BN rules this country.)

Norhayati’s Facebook also had a photograph of her posing with three other Wanita Umno members at a function.

Some people who found her comments offensive took a screen capture of the statement and Facebook and tagged her to the photo.

One Facebook user Tajol Ariffin Omar questioned the need for Indians to vote for Umno candidates following such offensive comments.

“It is Umno members’ mentality. Indian voters do you still want to vote for Umno?” Tajol wrote and posted a photo which read: “Umno then, now and forever racist”

The photo was also shared in various Facebook group pages such as “1,000,000 Chinese don’t want MCA to represent the Chinese.”

Bawani had become an overnight sensation went a video of her being reprimanded by a pro-government NGO leader went viral on the Internet.

Becoming a laughing stock of the world! Malaysia seriously need to grow up... or at least the ministers.....

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So, the guidelines that was released by the Malaysia Government regarding how to identify the Gays and the Lesbians has indeed sparked amusement and critics from everywhere around the world. Malaysia now has, if not directly, indirectly become the laughing stock of the entire world with their narrow mindedness of the topic.

Surfing more on this topic, I found on the Malaysia Kini Website an article titled Guidelines to identify gay and lesbian symptoms (link can be clicked to be directed to website) published there. So.... makes me wonder.... since when did those crazy crackpot ministers there make themselves a pro in identifying the gays and the lesbians?!  Another article entitled Govt endorses guide on how to spot gays (Link is clickable) by the Free Malaysia today website also shows more startling proof about what the Education Ministry and the ministries in Malaysia spend their quality time on. I am amused.... if you all have so much time, why are you guys wasting your time trying to identify gays and lesbians instead of making and improving the country? 

In my opinion, what they are doing is wrong.

Ladies / gals are not allowed to be seen hanging out too closely with their girlfriends anymore because they can be lesbians.... so means you are encouraging them to always hang out with the opposite sex? So what happens when the crime rates of rape increases? It is then the ladies' fault because she doesn´t know how to protect herself and is always clinging onto the men?!

An article from Malaysian Insider entitled Homosexual guidelines may lead to discrimination, says experts is a very good article to read and ponder, digest and understand. The Malaysian government is seriously creating more stress for the younger generations with all those stupid and not logic guidelines.

Bravo, you all just made Malaysia the laughing stock of the entire world!

Go google up the Malaysia guidelines to Gay and Lesbian... then you know the damage you have made with your shallow mindedness.

He did it his way

I found this article that is very meaningful and very inspiring. If you happened to stumble on this post, read the post till it´s end.
It´s a sad story, with a sad ending.... but then again, it teaches us many things about life.

Sunday September 11, 2011

He did it his way

By NG ZHU HANN

A young man who placed family first showed that nothing is impossible when your heart is in it.

MY best friend Terrence Phang Ying Choy was from SMK Bandar Utama, Selangor. I had known him for 12 years, since primary school. I literally grew up with him and he was like a brother to me.

Ying Choy came from a poor background. His father is a contractor and his mother, a housewife. He had two younger siblings and they live in a rented apartment.

Like most Chinese-educated students, his command of English was comparatively weaker than that of his peers. He was also an ordinary student with no special talent in sports or music.

However, Ying Choy worked twice as hard as his peers and did really well in school. He scored 6As and 1B in his UPSR, 8As in his PMR and 9A1s and 2As in his SPM.

Beloved son, brother and friend: Terrence Phang Ying Choy.

Despite his good results he failed to secure any scholarship after Form Five. Because his father’s construction jobs are seasonal, he decided to work to supplement the family’s income and support his younger brothers, instead of furthering his studies. He did sales and marketing for his uncle’s firm, worked on a construction site and gave tuition four times a week for one full year. In fact, he was the sole breadwinner during the economic downturn in 2007.

When his father’s income became more stable as the property market picked up again, Ying Choy decided to go back to his studies. He felt manual labour was not enough to help the family.

He enrolled in Form Six, studied for about three months, then dropped out. He switched to A-levels at Tunku Abdul Rahman (TAR) College, where he got a full subsidy for his course. But he dropped out after two months.

Finally, he enrolled in Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman for a foundation programme, which he completed. Once again, he stopped studying and went back to work for some months.

Ying Choy dropped out three times because he could not focus on his studies knowing that his siblings would be leaving school soon and needed money to further their education.

One day, he saw some Facebook pictures of his secondary school friends who were studying in London, on tour in the Swiss Alps. He wondered why others could do it while he could not. He realised it wasn’t because they were smarter but that they had better opportunities.

So he withdrew the RM17,000 he had saved from working and took a leap of faith – he signed up for an express A-levels programme that Sunway College had just introduced.

The gamble was that if he did well, he would get an offer from a good university, which would enable him to get a scholarship. He could then use the money to study and save some for his family.

After being away from books for almost one-and-a-half years, Ying Choy had to struggle to cope. Every day he attended college from 8am to 6pm; went home for dinner; gave tuition from 8 to 10pm, and then revised his lessons from 10.30pm to 12.30am. He did this for a whole year.

Early 2009, Ying Choy received offers from five top British universities: the London School of Economics, Imperial College London, Warwick University, University College London and University of Cambridge. He also got offers from Melbourne University and the National University of Singapore.

He was shocked and elated. He least expected to get a place in Cambridge, which many top Malaysian students had failed to get into, what more a boy whose pre-U studies was never exceptional.

Despite the good news, he still had to get the scholarship.

After being rejected by various companies and foundations, he finally received an offer from Sime Darby, one month before Cambridge’s acceptance deadline. Ying Choy had defied the odds to attain a place in the one of the best universities in the world.

That year, he stepped on an aeroplane for the first time in his life. It was his first trip abroad and the first time he had left home. He was the first in his family to go for tertiary education.

He promised them he would come back and life would be good after he graduated. He would take them to Europe and buy a new house so they need not have to rent.

Ying Choy spent wisely and saved substantially. Every month, he sent home a large portion of his allowance.

He did remarkably in his first year at Cambridge, scoring first class honours and was ranked 37 among the 160 engineering students in his batch. He did equally well in his second year.

In July, Ying Choy came home for the summer holidays. His family had been looking forward to his return and everyone had a good time with him back.

But life took a cruel twist on Sept 1. At 6am that morning, he had breathing difficulties and collapsed by the side of his bed.

My best friend died about six hours after I last saw him. He had looked perfectly healthy then. In fact, he was a basketball player and a gym rat.

He was buried on Sept 4. He was only 22.

A large portion of his savings – he had saved over RM50,000 for his siblings’ education – was used for the funeral expenses. His family, who are still in shock, now have to worry about their younger sons’ education even as they grieve for their eldest boy.

Ying Choy strongly believed in self-help. He was vehemently against using connections as the way to success. He was living proof that meritocracy still exists today.

I will always miss him.

Parents Teachers Meeting

So, today we had the first Parents Teachers Meeting with Amelia´s teacher in Kindergarten.


Was kinda amused with the way they have the Parents Teachers Meeting here in Germany. So much different from back home in Malaysia where the teachers meet the parents one by one.... here, all the parents sit together in the class room, with cookies, coffee, tea or milk or plain water while discussing about the children´s progress in class, their behaviour and etc. There is also a question and answer session whereby if the parents have any questions at all regarding to their children or the kindergarten, they are free to ask the teacher there.


Anyways........ my daughter first started kindergarten in June 2nd 2011. Right up till now, she has attended in total 3 nearly 4 months of school...... And this is the first Parents Teachers Meeting........ 


Her teacher´s name is Bianca. She´s really a cool lady.... big plump blond lady that is cheerful and smiley...... although most of the time I have a hard time talking to her as she doesn´t know much english and my german ain´t that fluent enough...... but I find her quite helpful and pleasant.


Anyways........... 


From Bianca´s observation for the past 3 - 4 months of Amelia´s schooling days in kindergarten :

"Amelia is integrating herself very well in class. She is a very helpful girl that is willingly helping anyone in need and she is picking up German extremely well. She can blend in very well and make friends easily, although occasionally she fights - especially with one particular girl (girly fights) call Lizzy. Apparently she and Lizzy are 2 girls that can´t live without each other and can´t stand each other. Hence you´d see them constantly fighting and being close to each other. Amelia is also a 101% perfectionist which sometimes makes her classmates baffled and hence the statement "Aaawww Amelia, it´s completed" or "Hurry up Amelia". She also loves eating (apparently) as she eats 2 - 3 helpings of lunch every day in school *omg*...... And most obvious factor, she loves drawing"


One good thing.....
Thank you God for Amelia blending in to our new life just fine! Shows that we have finally.... completely.... moved on! :)

Fewer school days next year

Fewer school days next year

And so, the schooling days for the children in Malaysia are getting shorter and shorter while the holidays are getting longer and longer. I seriously wonder how do they expect to finish teaching the children the year´s syllabus with such shorter and shorter time frame? Are holidays that important that they keep expanding the holidays and cutting short on the study days? How do you expect the children to cope with their syllabus and gain the sufficient knowledge in a specific year if they keep breaking off for holidays?

You know, back then when I was younger, there were people always saying, being a Malaysian is absolutely lucky... and somehow, as I am older, in a strange way it is... provided if you can overlook the fact that your children are not being educated to the maximum and they have more holidays than studying.....

Thank God my baby won´t be educated in Malaysia.... Wanting the best and the most for her education is way much better than having breaks every few weeks.....

Terrible Exams Questions

Terrible Exams Questions - Are the teachers qualified?

Today, as I was reading the Malaysian Newspaper, The Star Online, before turning in to bed.... I found a very interesting article that I just can´t help but wanna share......


It´s an email written by a concern brother to The Star Newspaper regarding the "mistakes" of teachers in his younger brother´s school... I´d say more of stupidity...... but then again, politeness is good I guess ^^


Now I am curious.......


Seriously, after reading the article, I won´t stop laughing... to see how stupid teachers in Malaysia are! It´s only Year 2 and the English is the most simplest.... but yet, as a teacher... not even able to write a simple English phrase...... without such an error! How can parents then trust the teachers to groom their children into a better person when the teachers themselves speak such broken languages? Why is the government not taking drastic actions on improving the teachers´standards? Do they really want the country to be a serious laughing stock in the eyes of the world?

Malaysian teachers say ‘no’ to sex education

Ok... I found this totally amusing and interesting article...... that was on The Star online.... Its title caught my eye....... regarding the sex education in our country.....

I wonder when are people gonna realize the importance of this sex education amongst the younger generation? Why... are we.... living in the stone ages? Where everything seems to be a big big taboo?

Published: Tuesday March 2, 2010 MYT 3:26:00 PM
Updated: Tuesday March 2, 2010 MYT 3:49:36 PM

Malaysian teachers say ‘no’ to sex education (Updated)

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian teachers are saying “no” to teaching sex education in schools.

They lack professional training in teaching the subject, National Union of Teaching Profession (NUTP) secretary-general Lok Yim Pheng said Tuesday.

She said while the union fully supported the Government’s move to provide sex education in schools, “sadly, the teachers lack formal training in the complexity and sensitivity of the subject and are not confident to teach it.”

Lok said the teachers were afraid they might be sued by the parents “if they were to make mistakes in imparting the knowledge of sex to the pupils.”

Malaysia is a multiracial, religious and cultural nation with each ethnic group having its own notion on the subject, which made the teaching more challenging, she noted.

The NUTP is the country’s biggest teachers union representing 160,000 teachers, which is approximately half the teaching profession.

Lok said the union wanted the Education Ministry to first hold discussions with stakeholders on the pros and cons of the move before making a firm decision.

Currently, the subject was taught in “bits and pieces” from the primary level to secondary level, in the absence of a proper structured course.

Of late, sex education has become a very important issue in the country, with an increasing number of unwed mothers, many of them students.

Meanwhile, a Bernama survey among students, parents and teachers showed that all groups were in favour of sex education but were unsure of the form and content of the course.

Teenage student Jayaraman said he was all for it, but was unsure what and how the teachers were going to teach because “we have more girls than boys in our class and most of our teachers are female.”

Abdul Raof Bidin, 38, who has two school-going children, felt that it was necessary to teach the subject.

“It should be handled with care as it could easily be misconstrued and do more harm than good, if wrongly imparted,” he said.

Another parent, M. Arumugam, 44, believes it was better for medical professionals like doctors and nurses to impart the subject to students.

”Maybe the Education Ministry should consult the Health Ministry and come up with some kind of arrangement for teachers to be provided with on-the-job training,” he said.

Betty Lee, who has been a teacher for 24 years, felt that the subject was best handled by “teachers who themselves are mothers and know how to handle such a complex subject.”

”With due respect, not all teachers can teach the subject, and the ministry should be very careful in selecting the right candidate for the job,” said the 50-year-old. -- Bernama