On Eagles' Wings

I am seriously disappointed with the Ministry of Education, Malaysia. Yes, you. MOE. Hello! I hope you read this. Well, allow me to explain why  I am so utterly disappointed with them! Let's just put aside the fact that our silly Minister of Education Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin they change their mind on national policies as if it were simply changing the channels on the TV. I'm referring to the learning of Maths and Science in the medium of English. First they're for it, then they're completely against it, citing a drop in achievement in those subjects in the latest public examinations as the reason they're reverting back to BM. Well, it's either they are seriously naive in expecting that such a radical educational change across the nation's schools will yield instant results, or they're proving to the rakyat  that they have no stand whatsoever and are willing to do whatever it takes to appease and buy voters for the upcoming elections. Let...

My country is 54 years old today. Another year and she'll join the "senior" category. :P In human years, our country is no baby. She's old enough to be a grandma, if you know what I mean. Yet, somehow I have a feeling that we're reverting back to our chaotic adolescent years. We are still quarreling and squabbling amongst ourselves over petty things. We're still making mountains  out  of molehills. (It's like we're still undergoing puberty. @.@) There is a lot of dissatisfaction, disenchantment, disagreements, disillusionment. Prejudice, biasness, injustice, discrimination. Until today, I still get long wordy emails giving me some alternate history lesson that I never learned in school about the origins of our country. Emails that claim a certain race are not really the bumiputeras  (natives) of this country. Emails that urge you to forward to others, to let them know the injustice that prevails because this fact is overlooked. Know what...

Please do ignore the teeny weeny hint of skepticism in the title. xD I was never a fan of football.  But since this year's World Cup, I've become a reformed football-hater :) After the World Cup fever died down though, there were no more matches that I could get excited about. I mean, for a person without Astro, I was certainly left with few (to zip) options. There weren't many games aired on terrestrial TV was there? >.< Anyhow, I was just on FB, and the Facebook-sphere is abuzz again, this time, with the news that our very own Malaysian football team has just won the AFF-Suzuki Cup in the match against Indonesia with a score of 2-1; the win secured by Muhammad Ridwan's goal in the breath-catching 87th minute ! (I didn't watch the game. This is what I had gathered from an in-depth scrutiny of all the FB statuses of friends ! haha :P) You know what I noticed? Suddenly everyone's  proud to be a Malaysian. Funny, since n...