Ok maybe I’m slow, but I just found out there’s such a wonderful quote:

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
Albert Einstein

Those who know me well should know what I’m trying to relate and infer with. Cheers! :D

Malaysian Students are getting smarter.

What is the main objective of the STPM; is it just to pass people?

How do you explain the fact that 87% of the students passed the
examinations of the Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia (STPM) recently?

When during your grandfather's time only 10% would have passed?
Are students getting smarter? Or are STPM questions getting easier?

Let me put things in their proper perspective.

During your grandfather's time, they would ask exam questions like:
In what year did Parameswara founded the kingdom of Melaka ?
The correct answer was "1402", and they found that only 10% of the students managed to answer the question correctly. This didn't go down too well with the authorities, because the o bjective of the exams was to pass people.
I mean, what's the point of having exams if people fail?

So later, they found another way to ask the same question:
Parameswara founded the kingdom of Melaka in the year:
(a) 2001
(b) 2004
(c) 1986
(d) 1975
(e) 1402
Tick the correct answer.

The results were better in that 20% of the students passed. But it was still not good enough, so the authorities tried a different tact a few years later.

Parameswara founded the kingdom of Melaka in the year1402. True or false?

Well, half of the students guessed "True" and the other half guessed
"False".
Fully 50% passed. The results were getting pretty acceptable by now.

Most other countries would be satisfied with a 50% passing rate, but not us.We are a better country, because we are a 'Boleh' country.

The authorities then cracked their heads and then came out with this one:
Read the following sentence carefully.

"Parameswara, the cousin of Proton-Iswara, founded the kingdom of
Melaka in the year 1402."
Underline the name of the person who founded Melaka.
60% underlined "Parameswara", 30% u nderlined "Proton-Iswara" and 10% underlined "1402". Hooiyoh......60% managed to pass! So krever!

But for some reason, the authorities were still not contented. So last year, they came out with this :

One day in the year 1402, Parameswara founded the kingdom of Melaka .
Then he went home to have dinner. What did he eat?

13% handed in blank answers, 57% wrote "Maggi Mee", and 10% wrote
"Kentucky Fried Chicken", and 20% wrote "Tree bark".

The official answer was "Food" of course!

Upon marking completion, it was found that 87% of the students had passed.

87%............now that's pretty impressive!

So it's true. The students are indeed getting smarter.




SAD huh =(

AMAZING O.O

Mysterious blue shirt guy

Guess who is him.............

He is one of our el-ninos player...

President of a badan beruniform...

No else than...

Mr. Foo Siang Seng

STUN GEI??

SO DID I O.O

Mending a broken heart

Teenager now living a healthy life after doctors remove donor organ

LONDON: A British girl who had a donor heart grafted onto her own after suffering cardiac failure as a baby has had the transplant removed and is living a healthy life with her own heart, doctors said yesterday.

The case of Hannah Clark is thought to be the only one in the world where a child’s failing heart recovered enough for the donor organ to be removed, the British surgeons told reporters ahead of their report in The Lancet journal.

Remarkable recovery: Clark posing for photographs in London on Monday. The courageous girl never gave up. – AFP

“The possibility of recovery of the heart is just like magic,” said Professor Magdi Yacoub of Imperial College London, who treated Hannah from the beginning and co-authored the journal paper.

“A heart which has not contracting at all at the time we put the new heart to be pumping next to it and take its work, now is functioning normally.”

Hannah, now 16, suffered as a baby from severe heart failure due to cardiomyopathy, a problem with the muscle of heart, and in July 1995, when she was two years’ old, doctors transplanted a donor heart next to hers.

The new organ soon took over much of the functioning of her own heart and Hannah, from near Cardiff in Wales, began to recover.

However, she suffered from a type of cancer known as EBV PTLD, a common side effect of the drugs given to transplant patients to stop their immune systems rejecting new organs.

She was treated with chemotherapy and other drugs but the cancer kept returning. Doctors reduced her dosage of immuno-suppression drugs to stem the disease, but as a result, her transplanted heart began to fail.

In contrast however, her own heart recovered and began functioning normally.

In February 2006, the team decided to remove the donor organ so the immuno-suppression could be stopped – something that had never been done before.

Thirty-nine months later, Hannah has completely recovered from the cancer and her heart is functioning normally.

Yacoub and the team responsible for her remarkable treatment said her case offers vital clues to the study of transplantation, heart recovery and malignant disease.

The report’s co-author Victor Tsang, a consultant at Great Ormond Street children’s hospital in London, noted the research was also useful in the development of temporary artificial hearts for children suffering from cardiomyopathy.

“It is possible for the patient’s own heart to make a full recovery if it is given adequate support to do so,” he said.

“This is an important piece of knowledge as we are now gaining more experience with mechanical support for the failing heart in children.”

Hannah has just completed her GCSE exams and is heading into the final two years of high school where she plans to study childcare. She goes out with friends, plays sport and has a part-time job working with animals.

“I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for any of this,” she told reporters.

Hannah had to take about seven tablets morning and night for the immuno-suppression treatment, went through several rounds of cancer treatment, suffered kidney failure and at one point was left barely able to breathe.

At one point her family was told she would not survive the next 12 hours, and Yacoub praised her courage and that of her family, saying: “The lesson is – don’t give up.”

Her father Paul told reporters: “It was very worrying and stressful, but we kept on, saying ‘come on Hannah, you can’t give up, you’ve got to keep going.’”

Her mother Liz thanked the donor family, whose five-month old baby daughter provided the transplant heart, saying: “They lost a child, we’ve gained our child – how can I ever thank them?” – AFP


Star World
Wednesday, 15 July 2009

A touching and meaningful article =)

Leech
A selfish organism
Irreversible blood transfusion
Survived through endless invasion
Like a parasite
A disease
Causing grievances
Leading the wrong path
Such perfect trails are invincible
Till the damage is done

I am helpless
Over your selflessness
Of sacrificing
To let it consume over you

Please wake up
From this hypnosis
Before your last breath
Through your last drop of blood

Another continuous busy weekends ahead, Saturdays especially…
Here goes:

27th June – School day
4th July – Study trip to Inti College (applied science)
11th July – Taylors-Inti Ultimate Open
18th July – Taekwondo camp
25th July – Inter form six soccer match + band concert
26th July – ‘Pimp My Hat’ Hat Ultimate Tournament
31st July, 1st & 2nd August - El-Ninos Trip
8th & 9th August – Singapore Ultimate Open

Then Bryan gonna leave us on 14th August =(=(=(
Follow by Guan Huan, then Samantha
And somehow someway we have to try to cope, among the 17 of us, without the pros
That alone, is enough for another few more miserable weeks………………

*Sorry for typing the wrong month earlier, let huan and js shocked dao lol. And thanks for the reminder -.-