mamakk!!!

It has become a tradition that each year in late August we start to see PMR, SPM and STPM candidates discussing about these exams in their blogs and forums. Some candidates are so desperate that they pay RM150 to RM200 to buy the so-called ‘Tips Kena Tepat’ or 100% actual SPM tips. I believe the buyers are actually the “kiasu” parents since most candidates don’t have that much money to order the expensive tips.

I was a SPM straight-As scorers and what I am still very proud of is, I didn’t buy or rely on the so-called SPM tips. There are still two months left so make good use of your times to do revision.

Why buy when great lists of PMR, SPM and STPM 2007 exam tips are available for free?

I am utterly upset with Pak Lahs’ decision to build a sailing school. In his recent comment, he told The Star newspaper,

the proposed school would be of international standard and would churn out professional sailors

Halo boss, there’s a lot of things you can do for Terengganu with that money. You probably think that this is something like F1. And by building a sailing school, you think you can help the locals. Well you’re wrong! You’ll only introduce inflations!

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Rapeepat Jumnongjit wrote:

In Malaysia an education in computing is popular with girls and computing is considered a suitable career for women. In Norway, however only few girls choose computing as major subject. It is often said that a girl at a computer is like a fish out of water. The question that is often asked is: Is it the girls or the subject that there’s something wrong within the problem which must be addressed?, and must be changed? This has, at times become quite a politicised debate, Lagesen points out.

didn’t know this…I thought it’s still quite a male-dominated scene?

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Angelina wrote:

School text-books are downright USELESS. Parents spend like what? About 10 bucks for a single copy of them? What’s the whole point of getting text-books when they’re neither complete nor elaborate in details and information? Seriously, if they were complete in the first place, reference books wouldn’t be selling like hot cakes in the market. This is an unfair advantage to the rich and disadvantage to their counterparts. The school, as we all know, makes it as though it’s mandatory for school students to get their own set of text-books. Even if the school doesn’t exactly ‘punish’ those who did not, the lovely teachers would play heroes by humiliating them in class with sneering remarks.

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via Journal Gazette:

PITTSBURGH – In her native Malaysia, Mary Tiong developed a reputation for selling leftover computer monitors for a large manufacturer behind the industry’s best-known brands. She earned a nickname: The Monitor Queen.

From her new base in Pittsburgh, Tiong continues to move large quantities of monitors. But now, she ships thousands of discarded models with computers back to Malaysia, where they are rebuilt and sold in poor countries, mostly in Southeast Asia.

Tiong, 41, says her company, Second Life Computer Remanufacturing, has environmental and philanthropic goals: It helps stem a rising tide of electronic waste in the United States and fulfills a need for basic computer equipment in the developing world. But she hopes to expand her operations by establishing a training program to teach local students how to rebuild aging computers, which often can be used for office work, Web surfing and e-mail – and saved from the scrap heap.

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