Change is imminent... and overdue...

I look back at my school life and realise I really want to do it all again, minus the crap education system which incidetally is about as preparing as getting a snowmobile to speed along the beaches of Bora Bora. Not in anyway helpful. See schools are great at socially opening up a person. Say you are the equivalent of a scarecrow. I draw this distinction because I associate scarecrows with having mouths sewn on them. I dont really know where this came about but anyway. Where was I going with this? Oh yes, socially opening. Really, it is impossible to write something properly when your mind gets trailed off very easily. Like a ship that has a bad navigator. Or a bird riding a moped. See what I mean?

So yeah. Um,scarecrows and socialites. See, when you are in school and at the age that we enter it, there are groups of people that will slowly evolve into a classroom community. If a person who is shy and quiet starts in a classroom of say 30 people at the age of 6 or 7 then there is bound to be someone there that will walk up to him and start a conversation. Childlike innocence prevents people from segregating others based on class or race and friendships that will last will be forged at that moment. That is what I want to do again. Get friends that last a lifetime. Not the education system. Thats just murder. All the pressure they put us through to do the blasted UPSR, PMR and SPM and then to tell us when we are done with school that "Sorry kids, we just wasted 11 years of your life preparing you for exams that really aren't any good to you. We're not sorry to have wasted your time."

I think people have misunderstood the meaning of education in this country. In school, we are trained to learn by heart. That's it no question's asked. For eleven bloody years, we have been encouraged to learn by heart because thing's don't change. That is a perception that we carry forward to the real world. Life is simple and straight forward and everything always remains the same. WRONG! Malaysians are people that never really learn to utilize their brains properly until the day we reach college and it's like jerking a rug from under our feet. Most of us can't cope, and the ones that do, take a long time to actually get to that stage. It's sad. A brain is mans greatest asset.

I think we don't singularly promote the strengths in a student. Let me make an example. Say one person is better than the other in Maths, while the other is better in Engineering stuff and you know. My point is, save the language classes, why is it we don't segregate the students based on what they WANT to learn rather that piling them all in the same classroom and teaching them the same things. Obviously some will fail in some subjects and vice versa. It's natural that people will fail in something they have no interest in. You might notice that this is the education system that is used in the USA. So what? Copy it if its effective. I don't think the US government has put a patent on their education system. It'll be better for Malaysians. Currently, our system's like putting a lion, tiger and an elephant in the same enclosure and tossing vegetarian pizzas at them. Not one of them is going to eat it. Come back in a week and you'll find the tiger and elephant having a drink together while the lion, well, he's a bit standoffish.

I really think that we need to change the whole education system, and while its been announced that it had, just how effective will it be? Only time will tell.

Unbalanced

Says who pregnant women are subjected to odd mood swings that drive men mad. That's bloody stereotyping that is. Look for example at the classic case of my writing timeline. I find that in order for me to be satisfied with what I put down in virtual paper, I need to be in a humourous mood to write something that make's me laugh. Possibly this might strike you as slightly self absorbed. It is. I don't intend to please people out there with the way I write. Why? because there are too many of them. Each person is as fickle as the other and in the end I might just be better off sitting in a corner and smashing my head against a wall screaming about why elephants cant jump. Which incidentally is a unanswered question. Maybe they are too heavy.

A persons mood very well dictates what he/ she is inclined to do next. An angry person may stab you, a sad person will cry, and then will stab you and a happy person will tell you a great joke about muesli and then stab you. Only the way those stabs are stabbed are miles apart in distinction. The angry man will stab you and you will die. The crying man will stab you with his sorrow and you will cry too and the happy man will stab you with his finger in the gut and go "aha, got cha!"

Let me take a moment to think why I pursued this topic in the first place.... Ah yes. Sherlock Holmes. Ah, didn't think I would go there will you? Why this man you ask? Well, why not? Its a common fact for all Holmes readers to realise that he is a man of terrible mood swings. He can be comatose at one point and then full of energy the next. I've taken a fascination to this man. His methods of deduction are to the common man a power. But it isn't. As he (or rather Conan Dolye puts it) states, the most complicated deductions are formed from noticing the most simplest details.

What is the conclusion? Look. Think. Act. I've been watching too much of Holmes lately. It has reached a  point where Jeremy Brett who played him in the Granada series, has his voice stuck in my head. That is true acting on his part. The only person capable of playing Holmes that well is certainly Benedict Cumberbatch from the new BBC program.

Oh yes. Just to point out. Holmes never said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."
What he did say was this.


When you have eliminated all the impossible, the remaining, however improbable must be the truth...