National Service

    26th December. That’s the day the first batch departed to their training place. My friend, Shook Ping, is the first batch. So, he told me about his first day of leaving his home sweet home. The trainees were required to reach Bukit Jalil an hour earlier. He got up at 2.30am, got ready and leave his home. For me, it’s like too early and being a Malaysian, I’m really sure that the flight will be delay. However, that’s my opinion. If he want to get up early, that is his wish. He went to Bukit Jalil, registered his name and went to airport by bus which was provided. By the time he reached Sabah, it’s already 11 something. So you can see how tiring was the journey. (For your information, he was not chosen for the national service, he applied for it)

    I had explained briefly about the journey most of the trainees experience. Now I’m going to talk about my honest opinions regarding this National Service.

    I think that this National Service is just a waste of time and money. Millions of ringgit are spent each year for this program. The money can be used for benefit things such as helping the poor, reduce food price, etc. It’s not worth it to waste money to buy special uniforms for the trainee and hired a group of ‘soldiers’ to handle the camp.

    Besides that, what is the aim of doing this National Service? According to the Government, they create this program to instill patriotism in teenagers. Although the Government have a good intention, but is this a way to do it? You can’t just transform teenagers into a patriotic people in just 3 months. It takes time to achieve something, not by forcing teenagers to join it and threaten them that they will go to jail if they fail to join the training. Is that the examples the Government trying to show to the citizen?

    Every time when I asked my friends who are interested to join this training, all of them answer "It’s fun! I can use the M16 for the first time!", "Holiday nothing to do. Just join lah", "I’m super active. I can’t stay still for a minute" and "I want to make new friends". None of them said they want to join because of their love to the country. So now you can see that Government can never fulfill that aim.

    The way they arrange the teenagers into 3 batches also create problem to those involved. Usually, the ‘smart’ teenagers were placed in first batch so that they could start early and leave early and start apply for higher education. However, this year, from what I had observed, the ‘smart’ students were placed in 2nd and 3rd batch whereas the ‘stupid’ students were placed in 1st batch. Why do the Government arranged them that way? I know it’s the computer that arranged them but can’t they set it to arrange the teenagers according to some criteria? Those who are in 2nd and 3rd batch had to waste their valuable time waiting for their turn. They can’t do anything else beside looking for part time job.

    There are ways for the Government to improve the program and make it enjoyable for teens. Firstly, instead of forcing the teens, if there are some teenagers who doesn’t want to join the training, he/she must find somebody else who are willing to replace their place. That way, nobody are forced to join the training and the government can expect 100% of the chosen one attend the training. Beside that, the arrangement of teenagers into 3 batch should be based on academic results. Those who are really care about their studies are put in 1st batch whereas the ‘i-don’t-care-about-my-future’ type of person are put in the 3rd batch because they don’t really care about what they should do in their free time.

   If the Government can change their way of handling this National Service, I’m sure the attendance of trainees in each camp will be 100%.

 

Visit to Kenneth’s house

    Yesterday went to Kenneth’s house cause he had invited me. I thought it’s was an open house but he said no. So I assume it’s for Christmas celebration. Before I go to his house, I charged my camera and checked if there are enough memory in it. I wanted to capture the fun with my camera. However, when I step into his house, the mood in the house was like so bitter. Everyone was busy with their own business. There was no any Christmas spirit in the air at all.

    All the people were divided into a few gang. One gang sat at one corner talking about football, other gang sat near the wall watching television and another gang sat beside me talking in cantonese.

    I wanted to take some photo but feel shy about it. It feel weird to hold a camera, interrupt them and ask them to pose for the camera. So I decided to wait for a while and hope that everyone will start socialize around. Tony, who came about 30 minutes later also noticed the ‘cold’ mood. He wanted to brighten the mood by playing the guitar but the guitar was out of tune.

    Then, we all have lunch. I can’t wait till the lunch finished so that I could take a few photo. But, like always, there’s a barrier to it. Kenneth change the tv channel to the sport channel. To be more precise, football match. So everyone were sitting around the television, watching the damn football match while eating. They were still watching that channel after eating their lunch. No talking, just watching.

    I was like, ‘What is this?! This is no Christmas celebration. All of them are glue to the tv!’. Since I don’t want to go back home without any photo taken, I kinda simply snap  photo around without them knowing.

    In the end, I went back home feeling a bit disappointed. Not all bad, though. The food prepared were really nice. That’s the only thing I enjoyed. 

     

                          Randomly snap. What is Ken Chuan doing? Got a cold?

                      Like I said, everyone were busy watching the football match. 

              

                                The Christmas tree.

 

Black Dawn

    There is this horror book which I had just finished read and it’s damn nice and scary. The title of the book is ‘Black Dawn’. My dear elder sister borrowed this book from the college library and she let me read, just to past my free time. At first when I see the book, I was like ‘Wow!’. The cover of the book is attractive and interesting.

 

Front cover

First page

Second page

 

 

    Looking at the cover of the book, it is obvious that this story is about the devil. The story is something like this. At LA (Los Angeles), an old woman went to a church and took out a thick black book which is actually a book of black magic. While she was reading the content of the book, she cut her finger with a metal bookmark. Once her drop of blood touched the floor, the candles in the church started to burned and soon the church was burned down(the old woman died there and barbecue by the fire). The fire is not just an ordinary fire, it is the fire from hell. Every minute, the fire becomes bigger and bigger. Firemen tried to extingushed the fire with water but to no avail (fire from hell, remember?). Since this is the hell’s fire, it also emitted some kind of waves which cause electronic devices to stop functioning. For example: cars stop moving, batteries out of juice, mp3 die, planes start to crash, handphone out of power, astronauts die in space cause no electricity to supply oxygen to them, no internet, no wifi and so on. Even hospitals are affected by the waves. Operating machines stop functioning and nobody could start the ambulance. That’s the bad thing. The worst thing is the waves also affect human personality. Once a man is hit by the waves, he will lose all his moral sense, couldn’t diffentiate what is right and what is wrong, and tend to do crime. When I said everyone are affected, this include the policemen. So now you can imagine how the world will become. Policemen walking around and simply shoot people while the US navy launch rockets to attack China. The fire and the waves will keep expanding and this will lead to the end of the world. However, the character in the book managed to stop the fire and the demon but I’m not going to tell you how. If you wanna know the ending, read it yourself. Either you borrow, buy or steal the book, it doesn’t matter. Just read it. I can guarantee that you will get hook with this book after reading the first chapter.      

 

 

 

College…

   Okay, SPM year is over and now the college life is getting nearer and nearer. The thing is untill now, I still can’t figure what course should I really choose. Looking at the lists of course available, I don’t really know what I really like. Biochemical, engineering, computer, and so on. So, I try to ask other people advice. However, everytime when I asked other people’s advice on how to choose the course that suit me well, the answer I always get is ‘Choose the course that you like’. Yeah, that really help me. Not! How can I know that I like it if I haven’t try it. It’s like asking me whether is the cake nice or not eventhough I haven’t eat it yet. Get what I mean? It’s not like I don’t appreciate their help but their advice not really helping me in making my choice.

   Before the SPM exam start, I had tried to asked another friend of mine for her opinion. She told me I should see the school caunselor cause they might be able to help me. So, I went to see the ‘expert’ caunselor and do a few tests to find out about my personality. After doing the boring tests, they analysed it and explained the results to me. Yeah, they got it right about my personality but what is the connection between my personality and the course that I going to choose. It doesn’t make any sense at all. So, I just listened to what they want to say without objection, just to be polite. If I tell them what they are saying are totally rubbishs, they might lose their job. At the end of the day, after spending my precious time with the nonsense session which I could use it to revise and improve my studies, all I got is ‘So, now that you know your personality, I’m sure you can choose the course that you really LIKE’. Wahhhhhh. *anger*. Thanks a lot.

   Let this be a lesson to all of us. Never and I mean NEVER consult a caunselor when you have any problem. Trust me, it won’t help you solve your problem. It’s just a waste of time.

   Okay, now back to the original story. The TAR college open day will be on this Sunday, and unfortunately, I still haven’t make up my mind. I guess I just need take whatever course my parent recommend. Parent know what is good for their children, right?   

 

Pay It Forward

   Well, this is the first time I write a blog. So before I start, please do forgive me if I do any silly mistakes. Come on, this is the first time, I’m sure anybody will do mistakes at their first try. Anyway, I can guarantee that I’ll improve after few days or weeks or months or even years *gasp*.

   I decided to have my own blog after I had visited Zu Ken blog. His blog is quite cool though it still can improve. Try visit his blog: www.zoocan.blogspot.com.

   For starting, I would like to share with u all (i mean u) about a movie I had just watched. The title of the movie is ‘Pay It Forward’, but I’m not sure if I get the title right but it’s something like that. Maybe some of you had watched or haven’t watch, my opinion about that movie is ‘interesting, something new (unlike all those same superhero movies), but the ending is suck’. But do watch the movie for the story not the ending. It’s actually quite a good movie. Watch it then you will know why I dislike the ending. Wanna know who is the lead actor?

 

                                            

Yup, ‘The Six Sense’ little boy. I kinda impress with his acting. He can act really well which is unusual for people as young as him. Better than Lindsay Lohan (no offense to Lohan’s fan). The movie is about a kid ( Six Sense kid) who trying to change the world to a better place by doing good to other people. His ‘Sosial Studies’ teacher (what is his name already?? Man, i got amnesia) is the one who responsible for all this. He is giving an assignment to the students about changing the world, so the lead character comes out with the idea of ‘Pay It Forward’. Basically, this is how the thing works. He will randomly help 3 people and instead of paying back the deed to the boy, he ask each of them to forward the deed to other 3 people. So as you can see, the trend will keep expanding, 1:3:9:27… you do the math. From a small town, this trend somehow able to spread to Los Angeles. Imagine that! Ok, thats it.I don’t want to reveal more about this movie. Watch it yourself. Find the astro guide book and find the date the movie is show (HBO). Sorry to those without Astro. 

  After watching the movie, some how I feel inspire to help others. So don’t be suprise if you get a note saying ‘Pay It forward’, it will be from me. I honestly feel that we should practice this trend, in order to restore generousity in people’s heart. Don’t you think so? Tell me what do you think after reading this blog of mine. 

    I could explain the plot of the movie better if i could just remember the character’s name. Oh well, i guess my brain is still full with the SPM thingy.