Latihan Industri Minggu 1, hari 1

Today is the first day of industrial training and strangely i fell asleep during the working hours several times. This has been attributed to a lack of sleep that has snowballed since the night before i came to KL up till now. Another factor is the lack of mental stimulation during the training.

I got there half an hour early at 7 am (yes my working hours starts at 7.30 am) and signed in at the guard house. After waiting on the bench and getting sized up by the steady stream of managers and engineers signing parking and flashing their ID cards at the guard house, the HR manager finally reached the factory and she asked me to follow her to the meeting room where i waited some more.

There i was briefed on some pertinent issues and then assigned to an engineer which i would be sticking to throught the 10 weeks of training. The engineer is called Azril and he just started working for about 6 months.

He brought me around the factory for a bit, asked me about what I intended to do for training and then the senior engineer asked me to help her on her powerpoint presentation which i did as it was the first "real" work that i got for the whole day. Thanks to that i didnt dozed off.

2 meal breaks during working periods sounds good but the food at the canteen is so teruk that i dont really feel like eating hence i just scooped a bit here and there to tahan lapar a little.... Which made realized. Thats y Arzil didnt want to go for lunch.... He might hate the food there too.... Swt at least i will just have to endure it for at least 10 working weeks lar...

10 working weeks aint that long thanks to the economic slowdown, people arent buying that many volvos and the factory had to reduce production by putting in to place some "lay-off" days where i wont need to go to work on alternate fridays. I sure hope they add more of those in the near future after i know my way around KL more... Would like to lepak at One-Utama or MidValley or the Pavillion lar....

Overall, today was a boring and unproductive day. In fact i felt even more productive if i woke up at 12 pm and read MalaysiaToday, friend's blogs, checked my mail, eat lunch and watch anime during for the rest of the day during my study break. Did i really get in to the right place for latihan industry?

The Do Re Mi of my Rectum

When my room mate fell quite heavily sick i brought him to see the doctor twice in a week and that whole week he was really unenergetic, lying on the bed as like a terminal disease patient waiting to expire but of course he didn't expire as his illness wasn't terminal. The interesting thing though is the poster that i came across at the clinic.



At first glance it looked as though a children's chart teaching them to read ABC or to identify objects but upon closer examination it turned out to be a poster of the manure hardness scale so i took a picture of it so that i could blog about it someday and that day wasn't that far off apparently as i suffered from a stomach wrenching pain early last friday morning woke me up from bed at around 7 am in the morning despite the fact that i have only started sleeping at 5 am. It felt as though my intestines were about to rupture as it tries to force bowel movement with some violent peristalsis that seem to just increase the internal pressure of my intestines.

I made haste to the toilet where I tried hard to empty my bowels to no avail. Apparently i had some low fiber meal some time ago and the solid low fiber content shit caused a traffic back lock where the higher fiber content shit had difficulty moving forward. This traffic back lock has caused me to become shitless (as in restless but this applies to shitting) for the whole 5 days that i have been here in USM. In the ever intensifying pain, I tried to push hard in an attempt to get the slow moving shit to travel faster but after squatting there for more than 15 minutes only a few marble sized pieces of shit got out. The pain subsided a little but a new pain has already manifested.

My knees are just aching from squatting so i washed my butt hole with the but hole washing pipe and limped back to the comfort of my bed to resume sleepy... for a while before the next wave of pain arrives.

After 15 minutes of nursing my aching kneed and back, the painful feeling as my rectum pressurizes itself starts again hence making me rush to the toilet again to open my rectum overpressure release valve. This time i noticed a reduction in shit hardness and a perceivable overall increase in shitability of the shit. This endless cycle continued until i finally got to shit hardness number 5 (refer figure 1 above) which was the easy part as all the shit started flowing and the hardness subsided from 5 to 6. After that my woes are solved and i washed up and went back to bed at 12 pm after more than 4 hours of toilet patrol.

Observing my shit hardness gradually reduce per dumping session, i guess my stomach really was kinda doing a vocal test like in an ochestra where the singers start with the low notes first and gradually progress to the higher notes like the picture below:




It is a waste though that the 8th note, "To" is not able to fit in the shit hardness index but upon further analysis i believe the missing note from this chart is actually FART. Yes the methane rich stinking gaseous form of excrement evolved from feces. So when you take a dump some time soon you can see your rectum singing in perfect harmony with the toilet bowl as it releases different notes and pitches in tandem with your fiber and water intake that corresponds to it. Kinda think of it, its also like the ice samples drilled from the polar ice caps that tells scientists the situation of the earth, tens of thousands of years ago just that this happens in time scale of a few days.

On Full Moon's Day...

5 thousand years of chinese astrology couldn't go wrong... the full moon on the 8th lunar month will always be the brightest full moon of the year. Chinese culture has traditionally been closely related to the moon as the Chinese calendar IS based on the cycles of the moon. For generations, the Chinese people have been farming and holding their annual festivals based on the lunar calendar and it has not let us down.

Tonight is especially special as the full moon is at its best. So bright, so serene yet it reflects upon us a sense of sorrow and melancholy. I do not know about you but I am certainly feeling a little melancholiac right now.

I was about to download the attachment on my email which is a copy of the assignment that we are suppose to hand up today and i was in charge of doing the final editing. Unfortunately, before i clicked on the link to download the file, as though the moon beckons people to get out of their dorms and get a break from their busy lives to experience its magnificence, the whole campus suffered from a blackout. Only the emergency lights that were fully charged all this while kicked in to action and dimly illuminated the corridors, the staircase and the toilets.

Annoyed i packed up my notebook as i was in my friends room and i asked them whether they want to go out for mamak or just to have a stroll around the hostel area to soak up the atmosphere of this special night. Their answer was a resounding NO as they prepared their beds and bunked in. I can barely tell what they were doing on their beds with the dim moonlight coming in from the windows that were now opened wide to let the cool breeze of the night come in.

Feeling a little let down, i climbed up the stairs to my room to keep my notebook and lock it up in the closet just in case of theft as the incidents of theft are really high in the past month. I took along only my room keys that were attached to the bicycle lock keys and my handphone and off i went down again to get a bike ride and soak up the view of the full moon just like what i have always done without fail as a little kid. Back then i went out of the house with a lantern of course but since i do not have one with me at the time, my bicycle would suffice. I cycled around at a relaxed pace feeling the breeze blowing on my face and taking deep breaths of this cool and refreshing air while making phone calls at the same time. Number after number i dialed and all of them refused to join me in my 'cycle as you enjoy the night'.

This lack of friends during such a great time to kick back and chat makes me feel the emptiness of this place again all of a sudden. Just as the moon's serene light shines upon my gaze, i feel the serene melancholy of being without friends that would join me to do something crazy just to feel young and alive again. The human atmosphere here is almost as though every person for him/herself. As i cycle past other people who are taking walks because they couldn't sleep like me, i gazed at them trying to make out who they were, looking at their blurred out faces in the dark. It was as though i was dead and all i could see were faceless people walking around. The only thing that reaffirms that i wasn't dead was the fact that the other people also looked back at me trying to make out who i was just as i was doing the same to them.

The fun of cycling alone in the darkness only illuminated by the moonlight quickly fizzled as there were no one to share the joy with. So is my main reason of feeling sorrow in this place where not only god, but men forsake.

I locked back my bike at its place and i ascended the same stairs tat greet me every week and every day as i come back to this place of grief, sorrow, frustration and bitterness. Although life's experiences are suppose to make us better and not bitter, how can i be better when everyone else here is bitter?

Blog Taggers

It seems tagging is quite rampart or should i say, widespread in the blogging scene these days. I guess the term "Tag" came from the children's playground game of "Tag" where you chase down someone and touch him/her and say "TAG!! You're it!" and run off to avoid being chased down by the "Tagged" person to be tagged again to be "it". Thus the idea of tagging stems from. But i don't quite get the idea of "Tagging" your blogger friends as they can't run off somewhere to avoid getting tagged and you don't get the adrenaline rush of hunting down your prey to "tag" him/her so that he/she can be "it".

This children's game is especially good to build muscles, balance, stamina , hand eye coordination, judgement of distance and the hunters instinct but tagging bloggers who cant run away from you takes away the fun of sharpening that hunters instinct and getting the adrenaline rush.

Thus I personally do not see the point of tagging people besides being something like e-mail spam such as friendship messages, sad imaginary sobers who will get a cent for every email forwarded, or some ghastly story that ends with a threat of death, impotency or something lame like that to get people to feel that it will not hurt to forward these spam mails. Tags are about the same. Spam email is the worlds no. 1 loss of internet productivity. NOT viruses or malicious worms. The people who forward spam themselves are as terrible as a virus in your Windows. I believe tags are just going to be the no. 1 loss of productivity for bloggers pretty soon.

Since Huay Phing INSISTED that I do her tag, then i shall right here, right now. Initially i just planned to ignore those wee wang wang that she told me yesterday night but just now I saw a 1.5 m long biawak which reminded me of the old days where some one used to call some one biawak or was it cicak... Eh?? I'm not really sure about that la... But nevermind lets get down to business.

Tag : 5 things.....

5 Things In My Bag

1. Notes

2. File

3. Pencil Case that i have been using since form 2

4. Panadol

5. Drifting VCD tat my coursemate just returned me

5 Things in My Head

1. Lab Report

2. I wanna bathe...

3. Stop the loss of internet productivity

4. The weather is so hot! I wanna eat a whole tub of ice cream!!

5. Assignments

5 Words That I Frequently Use

1. Shit!

2. Fuck!

3. Nani?/Teme!/Kisama!

4. Pang Sai/Pui

5. Huh?

5 Recent SMSes Received

1. Chee Hou

2. Way Fern

3. Kelvin

4. Wai Yung

5. Phei Hwa

5 Recent Things I Just Did

1. Went for class

2. Ate Lunch

3. Help Kelvin pass up lab report

4. Pang Sai

5. Drink Water

5 Things In My Wardrobe

1. T-Shirts

2. Pants/Shorts & Briefs

3. Medicine & Band Aid

4. FOOD!!!! e.g Instant Mee (Maggi+Indomee+Ibumee) Milo, Old Town White Coffee

5. Bed Sheet

5 Things I Just Ate

1. Rice

2. Heh Koh Bak (mantis prawn in Hokkien)

3. Chicken

4. Kah Nah Chai (some name of vege in Hokkien)

5. Chai Poh Fried Egg (Fried egg with preserved Vege Hokkien style)

5 People I'm Tagging

NONE!!! If I tag more people, it will cause even more people to lose productivity. Let this thread END HERE. 

The Evils of Education

Education is a never ending and continuous process to equip the subject with knowledge in certain fields and to imbue the subject with living skills, morals and culture in order to produce a person whom is not only learned but also well behaved. In short, education produces people complete with knowledge and virtue. In today's social topography, education is said to be the very driving force for a nation's human resource development. Without a proper education system, a country will not make it as a developed country in the foreseeable future. Education gives the subject a better chance at life in his/her future whether its to land him/her the perfect dream job or to improve competitiveness in climbing the corporate ladder or just simply to meet ones own means. Education is also the core of social development as it grooms young leaders to succeed the current the leaders of today and to lead the country to further heights. Education is so essential to youth these days, parents are willing to fork out a lot of money just to send their children overseas in their search of higher standards of education.

So i believe that everybody should be convinced that education is the very embodiment of all that is good, the training grounds for the saviours of the needy, the candle for the young to light their path to realise their future, and the vanquisher of all evils right?

It is true as long as the whole concept of education is practiced and carried out in a proper balance between academic excellence and human development. As religions, nations and leaders had strayed from their original path blinded by various side distractions, so did education itself. The education system of today places tremendous emphasis on academic excellence that the basic meaning behind the whole concept of education has been lost.

The students go to school day in and day out only to find themselves in tuition centers later the very same day just to make sure that they do not miss out on what is included in the syllabus that has been released by the Education Ministry. They spend more time at school and in tuition centers than with their family. Their whole aim in their education is to succeed to score fantastic results in their final exams no matter what the cost. This is partly because of the examination orientated system that is practised in this country and partly because of the crumbling societal values.

Gone are the days where neighbours were nice to each other and even give each other food occasionally. These days neighbours do not even know each other. They just get back home and lock the gate and doors behind them, clambering in the safe heaven that they created for themselves which is their house. I say their house is their safe heaven and not their homes because to make a home, you also need strong family ties besides a house. Families today are also not as "family" as it used to be in the good old days. Kids have their own room which they lock themselves in and retreat from the need to interact with their own family. Parents on the other hand are just too busy leveling up in the make or break game called their "career".

The crumbling societal norms has paralyzed the very process of education in which the role of family is completely nullified. Without the values imparted from the family unit itself, discipline has become rampart in schools. Parents blame the teachers for not teaching their children properly without realizing that they themselves were in the wrong when they neglected their own role in the education process of their own children. Parents who are so engrossed in the highly addictive MMRPG (not MMORPG cos its not played online) called "career" are so used to seeing their results in terms of figures that they deem the subjective elements of education unimportant because they cannot be put in to a table of figures and values. The only measurable part of education which is academics assessed by examination performance is thus seen as the only thing to the process of education.

This makes parents push their children to achieve better results in their examinations as they see it as the how well educated their child is. They will continuously push their children to chase and hunt down the most coveted prize for their hardwork academically called an "A". They will not only push for just one of these "A"s. In fact they will would be pleased if their kid brings back a document telling them that their child got a whole load of "A"s. Wanting to make their parents happy, innocent children is thus caught in this endless pursuit of "A"s by going through a regime of endless tuition classes.

Even other forms of measurable success are throughly exploited by these unscrupulous people so that they can show off to their neighbours. This competitive spirit of wanting to out do each other is best embodied by the chinese schools up here in the Northern Region of Malaysia i.e. Chung Ling, Keat Hwa, Jit Sin, Ping Hwa etc etc. Students in these educational institutions, power houses that churn out hordes of Straight As students every major examination without fail, grow up in an environment where helping each other out in studies are almost unheard of and they all look at opportunities to cause their peers results to drop to be the alpha student in the school. These school teachers teach by training the students to memorize whole volumes of revision books word by word and then regurgitating the memorized texts later during the exams. Conditions like these cause the youths sent there to grow up in a dog eat dog world out there and they end up as untruthful, scheming and devious individuals that have retarded creativity and lack of understanding of what they have scored an "A" for and also the meaning of life itself. These institutions are almost like factories mass producing stereotypical Chinese nerds (i.e. good with numbers and low on EQ) by the thousands every year and still parents doom their children in to such an unforgivable spiral down from being a person to a mass produced "product".

I really am not against education because education can help close the gap between the elite class and the lower classes. Education has helped eradicate poverty and freed the poor from the vicious cycle of being oppressed by their employers who subject them to hard labour. Without education, the poor will remain poor and the rich will become richer. But what is being done here is the artificial augmentation of examination results. These unscrupulous education institutions exploit the loop holes in the current education system and produce an end "product" purpose built to excel in the education system in this country without thinking about what happens afterwards. Sure, most of their "products" will end up in professional courses in our universities. But what happens after they graduate? They will bring that unforgivable culture of dog eat dog out to their workplace and make the people around them unhappy to collaborate with them. But this has became an inescapable crisis that this country
has fallen head over heels into. All over the workforce, the professionals are mostly that kind of a "product".

This is no longer a matter of creating opportunity for the poor to climb up the classes. This is the very precursor to the crumbling of social order. Now the riches and authority will fall to people whom were not imparted with societal values from a young age. Women who naturally choose men with higher social status will end up marrying these "products" and thus the normal people (whom i believe are better people than the aforementioned "products") wont get the women. This not only causes the crumble of societal order, it threatens the very process of natural selection itself!! Mankind is at risk here!!

If you do not have passion to do something (e.g. EE engineering or Chemical engineering), just don't do it because everybody else does it. What about young aspiring Malaysians who are talented in those fields but lose out in academic results? The Malaysian government is constantly blaming Singapore and other countries for the brain drain of the country but what about the wasted brains from the ineffectiveness of the education system itself?



As an example to put into context what i am saying all this while, this is an article that i took a picture of from The Star. This nerd has claimed the gold prize in Program NILAM by "reading" 558 books in 15 months. Thats 37.2 books per month!! Thats more than a book a day!! Which normal human does it? I would instantly distance myself from such such a lifeless kiasu knowing that he might sell me off for his own gains. All in all this skewered education is steering the countries youth in to a collision course with devastating effects that will be felt for generations to come unless something drastic is done to stem this problem at the root.