2023年7月15日星期六
老师们愿意留下来补习吗？华小只要不是有上下午班，几乎都有补习班、进修班、精进班等等。对于这个话题，我以前处于在全日制的学校，确实有话要说。首先不能说全部老师都不愿意留下来补习，因为有些济困难的老师经都是愿意多花时间赚取一些津贴的，只是这津贴是少得可怜。然后还需要承担其他问题，例如作业。这个进修班是校长光明正大买作业的办法之一，正课有作业，进修班有作业，几乎批改到眼睛都快脱窗。接着说一说着津贴，其实一个学生补习费交50元，一班学生有40位，补习费就有2000。那么老师得到多少津贴呢？一小时40元，可能有的学校给得更多一点。那老师为什么不自己在家教补习啊？教五个学生，一小时40元，都有两百了。学校根本不可能给老师一小时200元的津贴，所以说真的没有几个老师愿意留在学校教补习的。以前年轻没有家庭负担，确实教教学校的补习还不是什么大问题，可是结婚后有了孩子就发现时间不够用。我们虽然是老师的身份，但是我们也是为人子女的角色，也是孩子的母亲，要全面照顾多方面真的会心累。工作之余的时间，我觉得老师们是希望可以多照顾家人和孩子，可以回家准备一顿丰盛的晚餐给家人，可以好好跟孩子温习功课。哪怕只是给自己独处的时间，享受一下下午茶，阅读一些刊物来放松自己都好啊！学校的工作本来就繁重，还要在放学后留下来继续虐待自己，这钱真的没有几个赚得来的。那么为什么还有老师留下来教补习啊？那当然是行政逼迫的咯，各式各样的理由！表现分给低分、不批准任何事物的申请、刻意为难已经做好的文件等等，应有尽有！有时候我会很好奇，他们没有家人的吗？那当然有些老师不能强迫的，就利诱了，例如教好班、精英班，prestasi给cemerlang等等。尤其是校长的宠儿，更是随心所欲，甚至做错了还有校长帮忙补救。没记错，进修班也是有考试的哦，为了赶到考试的范围，有一位有光环的老师鞭打了没有一次过做10页的学生被投诉，校长处理好这事，还在会议上说课程不要赶，教到哪一课就考到哪一课。结果有一个没有光环的老师傻傻的相信了，可是却被校长骂到狗血淋头，他不应该让全部的班级等他一个人，而且补习班是收费的，收了钱就要做事。当校长的宠儿甚至还可以减节，在很多大型学校，行政的宠儿只有20节，其他老师就帮忙负担他们被减少的节，甚至无辜的辅导老师。政府文明规定。白纸黑字写明了，辅导老师是不需要上课，还是无情地增节。一间学校，1位辅导老师需要辅导500为学生，都已经时间不够用，还被行政害到“不务正业”！再来讨论这个进修班对学生有好处吗？我只是想说乖的学生不管是正课还是补习班当然是都是有好处啊！只是家长是不会反对的哦，第一教补习当然是学校的老师最好啦，因为学校的老师才知道考试的范围啊！所以现在的校长非常不爽自己开补习班的老师！第二、学校的补习费肯定比托儿所、安亲班或是外面的补习班便宜啊！这个补习班成了另类的托儿所。只是这样做真的扼杀了孩子的童年。小朋友回到家可以去学跳舞、学钢琴、学游泳等等，为什么要永无止境地在学校一直做练习？不会的还是不会、会的就机械式的一直重复做类似的练习，为什么要孩子度过这样的童年？有位同事把孩子放去homeschool，虽然学费很贵但是他觉得很值得。小朋友正课只需要学到中午12时，1时接下来就是学习乐器、跳舞、烘培课等等。他的孩子本来在华小，但是后来受不了这样的补习就换去homeschool了，这当然需要家长能负担昂贵的学费咯！再说，老师和学生那么早起床到学校教课学习，放学后能好好补觉会更有益身心啦！要知道科学家是研究过，小朋友的大脑发育是需要足够的睡眠的！这个大家上网随便一查就可以看到很多资讯。虽然全日制的补习班导致老师患上忧郁症的很少，但是确实有发生啊！我认识的一位正在进修硕士的老师，她的同学本来跟她一起读硕士，但是全日制的学校要留校补习，工作量很多，校长很严厉，施压到她同学半途而废放弃了硕士课程。甚至还要去看心理医生。最后就是真的有效果吗？华小这样补习这么多年真的有效果吗？其实华小在之前UPSR的学术水准每年都在退步，这个还是有数据的哦，没有乱说的。反之没有补习的国小是每年都有在进步，这是一位高官炫耀的时候说出来的。其实这补习班如果用来协助学习差的小朋友，利用来指导他们的功课，不需要额外买作业，其实是挺好的。哪怕一小时都用来唱善歌或学弟子规也是获益良多啊！只是想大胆地问一句学校，有本事就不要收费啊，免费教育才是真爱啊！
2023年7月12日星期三
2023年7月11日星期二
Happy birthday to TDM July 7 July 7th 2023Happy Birthday Sir, but ALL truths do matter!Dear TDM,You will be 97 years old next week. My Dad, and your personal friend, lived to be 96 and eleven months; and, moved on to meet his maker! You must have lived healthier! Sir, I speak from my heart, as would my Dad in any conversation with me about you! I have always admired you for most of my life while in Public Services, but truthfully for the first time in my life I am having sincere doubts about what your real AGENDA is. I think I hinted this to you when we last met in your Albukhary Office! My fear however is you are trying to finally become a ‘Malay Warrior,’ now, almost by default and by the end of your life. But with your rich Malabari heritage you will always be an Indian Muslim, and never a Malay, in a very popular sense! Regardless of all the many manipulations!I remember your poem about “the Perjuangan Yang Belum Selesai?” I also recall you breaking down and crying after you announced your own retirement, even after Rafidah forbid or appealed with you not to step down?Was that all merely pure drama; live on National TV; as much as it happens on CNN also; all just drama for popular effects? But, I still have many questions Sir! Why then did you could not get along with Lee Kuan Yew; while he has left us and gone to meet his maker, and now Singapore is still a much better place than he found it? Just look at our exchange rates today and reserve holdings!The latest reserves figure puts Singapore’s holdings at S2.2trillion or USD1.64 trillion while ours is only USD113.0 billion! Sir, these are categorical differences! Let readers understand the glaring differences!That by itself was not enough! Why then did you also pick a fight with the Tunku? Then, although you did finally make peace with him; did he not also leave a better Malaya than when he found it?Now, with two other leader-elders, or with both Tun Musa and Tan Sri Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, let me ask while they are still alive: Did they not get along with you too! Or, was it the other way around?Why huh? Now, you have chosen to fight your final one with PMX! But that truly intrigues me. Why cannot you accept him as the 10th PM, when even I can? He already is the 10th PM and with his term of Office sealed within party allegiance rules! And his movie, I hear is better one than yours and already being streamed by Astro! Am I wrong?Surely you do not think the other two of them were lesser than you, and would have left a better Malaysia than you can or will?Sir, it is time you speak ALL TRUTHS to us! You owe us that much, and you do not have forever, in human terms of life! At least you owe that much to this one ex PTD Officer!Documentary Evidence of ‘Bangsa Malaysia thinking’Sir, I am sure you remember the “Foreword” you wrote to our Dad’s 90th Birthday Anniversary Book. Yes, it was printed and we distributed almost 500 copies to our friends and family. I did give one copy to your daughter, after it was printed!In it we wrote about your 12 years of a business relationship between Maha Clinic of Alor Star and Kedah Medical Hall of Sungai Petani. Yes, every weekend for 12 years, you would stop at Sungai Petani, at shop No 4 Jalan Ibrahim, and place your orders for pharmaceutical supplies, and go off to Penang for the weekend. On your way back you would pick up your supplies and return to Alor Star, only for the same routine to be repeated the following week! You did that for 12 long years!One day though, after a dozen years of doing business with our Dad, you declared that you would be opening your own pharmacy in Alor Star to serve the areas north of Bedong and to meet the needs of Northern Kedah and Perlis. My Dad, out of pure curiosity, enquired as to what the name of your own Pharmacy would be, and you confirmed it would be called MICO Pharmacy! Now, MICO stood for Malays, Indians, Chinese and Others. Is that not correct?We recorded the same in our 90th Birthday Book about Dad and in your now-to-be-famous foreword; you did confirm the same with your signature expressed with your words of congratulations to him and all of us!Therefore, my ONLY remaining question to you is: “How can you now claim that your personal AGENDA is to only see a Melayu Malaysia?” What happened to MICO Malaysia? Why do you ignore the heritage of your own Dad and your grand dad? Do you disagree with Madani Malaysia?I need to know the answer, Sir! Is that not also why you called your party BERSATU and used the word “Pribumi” instead? Is that not also why EPU in 2010 began relabelling Malaysian Mainstream Ethnicity as “Bumiputra, Chinese and Indians?” Was not ALL these meant to be races; as opposed to defining different ethnicities?But where is the word Bumiputra found in our Federal Constitution, Sir? Is it not a concept evolved by the Deep State, to support the NEP in new and different ways; post 1970? That is fine t
*Janet Yellen's visit to China* This is how Yellen negotiated with China. She proposed to cancel the additional tariffs imposed during the Trump era, but requires China to meet the 3 following conditions:1. Buy $850 billion US treasury bonds2. Withdrawal of China's counter-sanctions (export restrictions of the two rare metals indispensable for the making of high-end chips etc)3. Pledge not to support Russia.All these conditions are unilaterally advantageous to the USA. Tariff removal will to some extent advantage China. However given 90% of the cost of the tariffs are borne by US consumers, it will mainly serve to bring down the US inflation. Secondly, Yellen wants China to forgive the BRI debts. Thus, the cash flow derived from the infrastructure projects China financed and built for developing countries will be repurposed to pay back debts of US banks and the IMF. So in the end, everything China had built for the Global South will serve as the collateral when these countries borrow from the US. Americans must be very proud of the extremely clever way their politicians has aggressively protected US interests from the position of strength. China answered - *NO*. Not surprisingly the US is nostalgic of the era of the eight allies invading China in 1900. A photo of that shameful event is still hanging on the wall of the US military headquarters and another such photo is on the wall of the US embassy. The US 'sensitivities' obviously doesn't apply to China. Imagine if on the US embassy walls were hung pictures of their ancestors' slave markets, or their early settlers giving smallpox infested blankets to the American natives. In 1900, China was as helpless as the American Indians when they were facing European invaders. The westerners had advanced weapons, forcing China into total submission within months from the start of any war with them. China subsequently were forced to sign the unequal treaties, such as the Boxer Protocol, one of the many unequal treaties that marked China's one hundred years of humiliation, having to hand over war compensation of 18,000 tons of silver to these invaders. Lands and ports were turned over as foreign concessions. The eight country alliance, (ie, the current G7 plus Russia) carved up China amongst themselves. The world has not changed, what has changed is China. China has become stronger. This is China's patriotic lesson from these westerners. The historical shame is deeply burnt into the psyche of every Chinese, including those overseas Chinese who still regard themselves as Chinese. Yellen invited a group of pro-American feminist economists to dinner. While Pro-Chinese academics in USA are under CIA/FBI surveillance and are frequently thrown in prison and charged for espionage, Yellen is free in China, she can meet anyone she pleases. As usual, Yellen told her Chinese guests that the USA government is only against the Chinese government but not against the Chinese people. She seem to suffer from an information lag. Twenty years ago, many Chinese liberals bought that. Today, Chinese people don't buy that anymore.
2023年6月28日星期三
这个帖子，写的真好，您看了之后会哈哈大笑。《 “光” 的感悟》。 年轻 ❗️为国❗️ 争光 老来 ❗️共度❗️ 时光 心态 ❗️务必❗️ 阳光 日子 ❗️一定❗️ 闪光想想 ❗️来时❗️ 光光 去时 ❗️一片❗️ 火光 何不 ❗️旅游❗️ 观光 换得 ❗️满面❗️ 红光眼下 ❗️不再❗️ 荣光 就让 ❗️往事❗️ 忘光 告别 ❗️昔日❗️ 风光 珍惜 ❗️当下❗️ 晨光笑迎 ❗️明日❗️ 曙光 寸金 ❗️难买❗️ 时光 享受 ❗️余下❗️ 亮光 欢度 ❗️老年❗️ 银光人生 ❗️犹如❗️ 星光 蜡烛 ❗️总要❗️ 烧光 追求 ❗️快乐❗️ 之光 绽放 ❗️晚年❗️ 余光 *当年，**以为* ：2000 年 *很遥远 ;**如今* ：2000 年 *已过去* 23年了； *曾经以为* ：2020 年 *会很遥远，*当下 *发现：** 已经到了2023年6月了！*曾经以为* ：“老去” *也是* 很遥远的事， 现在 *觉得：*“年轻” *是很久* 以前的事了 … … 时光 *太不经用，**现在* 大半生 *已经过去了。**不要说*来日方长，余生 *真的是* 难能可贵！ 好好 *珍惜* 现在，注意 *保重* 身体。乐乐呵呵 *过好* 每一天。 献给家人、老友、同学、朋友！2023年6月10日
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打从2019年后新冠疫情肆虐后就没有再到马六甲游逛了！刚好是小女儿假期，开口问我太太是否要出门走走，我也正闲着，爽快答应一起出门。
今年5月9日破舯舡（Tongkang Pechah)老同乡，居銮前文艺协会会长小双，许福昌校长送我一本文集《飞鸿雪泥》竟然是我当年2002年退休前的同一出版社。正巧我也打算再出版第四本书——《从破舯舡到四湾岛》(Dari Tongkang Pechah ke Sungai Rengit)。
我在5月份就将旧文稿整理了交由文艺服务社复印，再写作者简介与后记，再5月24日通过J&T递送到马六甲BEST PROVE SERVICES SDN BHDP排版与印刷，期盼今年可以顺利出版。
其实，我的前两本书就联系马六甲BATU BERENDAM 的PONY PRINTS(M)，可是事与愿违，没人接听电话，我只好退其次，在报界好友的介绍下找人负责排版，然后交给友春印刷厂。
来到马六甲先到印刷厂看看，出乎意料，厂址招牌从PONY PRINTS变成BEST PROVE.我用WHATSAPP联络吴老板，与他见面寒暄聊了起来。真是机缘巧合，我在工厂附件竟然看到两辆SNOW ICE的货车。货车上明显记载制冰厂就在破舯舡TONGKANG PECHAH,正是我梦寐以求的故乡，而公司的东主竟然是目前与我相同住宅区的沈木林先生，你说机遇巧不巧？
大陸高考，滿分作文出來了，震撼13億人。。。。。。當下社會現狀，被一個高中畢業生破解了：滿分作文出爐，看了感觸真深刻。800字的文章表達的如此完美：格局大、立意高，十八歲的孩子那麼懂事！能寫出如此霸氣的作文，不得不讓我們佩服！《說尺子》從100分到98分，挨一頓揍；從55分到61分，得一個吻。這看似荒誕不經的故事，卻常常發生在我們身邊，許多人看來，前者退步了挨揍是天經地義，後者進步了得吻是理所當然。我們常說，要一把尺子量到底。在現實生活中，應當說尺子是最公平的，但拿在不同人的手裡，去度量不同的人，就會出現不同的結果。我們習慣了媽媽在廚房中的忙碌，一日三餐總是準時吃到可口的飯菜，可當有一天，我們回家面對著幹鍋冷灶的時候，卻首先想到的是無飯可吃，沮喪之餘，面露慍色，甚至開口責備，完全忽略了她累了病了，撐不住了，連燒口開水的力氣也沒有了；而我們的爸爸偶爾下一次廚房，煮一碗面，卻能讓一家人感到萬分知足。慣性，使我們的尺子變得富有彈性，卻無法丈量出愛的深遠。每個單位都良莠不齊，有幹的有看的，也有搗亂的，總有一些禿子混在和尚之中濫竽充數。奇怪的是幹的永遠在幹，看的一直在看，而幹得越多失誤也越多，得到的批評也越多，而那些看客，偶爾偷機取巧做做樣子，就會名利雙收。甚至那些搗亂的，變得乖巧一些，就會讓領導和一席眾人皆大歡喜，心滿意足。惰性，使我們的尺子帶了偏見，就再也無法凝聚眾人的力量。大家還記得北方小城那位舍粥的大嫂嗎？每到冬天她就半夜起來，熬上滿滿的三鍋熱粥，免費送給寒風中瑟縮的清潔工、窮苦人和乞丐，數年如一日，不曾間斷。而當有一天，一位老漢從中吃出了一粒沙子，頓時將一碗熱粥潑在大嫂的身上，而領粥的人，也瞬間劃分為兩大陣營：有人說老漢不該撒野，也有人指責大嫂不該摻沙子。薄情，讓我們的尺子扭曲，冷了多少善良的心。 開縣一輛滿載了19名乘客的中巴，突遇險情，一頭栽進深達五米的水塘。當地村民金有樹跳進冰冷刺骨的水中，砸開車窗將19名乘客全部救出，自己卻因長時間冷水的浸泡患上肺病，舉債治療數月，告借無門，不得不離開醫院，病死家中。19名倖存者無一人去醫院探視，更無人為他送行。金有樹臨死前寫下一封信，第一句話就是：“我救了19人的命，現在誰來救我的命。”冷漠，讓我們的尺子訇然寸斷，留下無盡的遺憾。每個人心裡都有一把尺子。我們用它來衡量別人，更要時常度量自己。
2023年6月16日星期五
Why Hadi is the face of Malaysia’s future Part 3: Can Anwar save Malaysia?Dennis Ignatius - 15 Jun 2023https://tinyurl.com/484d7u3rMany – especially non-Muslims – are now looking to Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to stem the advance of political Islam and preserve Malaysia as a secular multicultural democracy. I suspect that they are going to be very disappointed.Anwar rose to national prominence as an Islamist. Along with Hadi Awang, he cut his teeth in ABIM, the Muslim youth movement, of which he was a founding member as well as its second president. Anwar was subsequently recruited by Dr Mahathir Mohamad to shore up UMNO’s Islamic credentials as a counterweight to PAS. With Dr Mahathir’s full support, Anwar set about to Islamise the government along with the education sector. His policies directly contributed to the rapid rise of political Islam in Malaysia.Since coming to power, Anwar has attempted to hunt with the hounds and run with the hares; playing up his commitment to secular multiculturalism while deepening his ties with Islamists. He has organized several large Islamic events to burnish his Islamic credentials. He has also sought to win over the Islamic bureaucracy with a range of financial incentives and support for initiatives like RUU355. As well, Anwar seems intent on expanding the role and powers of JAKIM (Department of Islamic Development) in the affairs of government. In May, it was announced that the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) would collaborate with JAKIM to censor material deemed offensive or deviant.[1]His latest move – inviting JAKIM to play a bigger role in policy-making, drafting the national budget and national development plans and reforming national and governmental institutions[2] – is the most ominous sign thus far of where he is headed. It will entrench the mullahs at the heart of government and put them in a position to influence the entire machinery of government and the policies that ensue from it. It might well lead to a burgeoning of the Islamic bureaucracy, perhaps even the creation of a parallel religious civil service.This is actually what PAS has been pushing for. In 2020, PAS Dewan Ulama chief Nik Zawawi called for Syariah advisers – political commissars really – to be embedded in every government agency “to ensure that Islam’s position as the national religion was upheld when carrying out policies”.[3]Anwar’s actions have effectively redefined the Federal Constitution by giving religious authorities like JAKIM powers that the framers of the constitution never intended. Many including Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah[4] and G25[5] have argued that JAKIM itself is an unconstitutional body but that has not stopped it from becoming the behemoth that it is today.It is the most significant step ever taken by a prime minister to empower the Islamic bureaucracy and should put to rest the issue of what Anwar’s priorities are. There’s a danger now that JAKIM’s influence on national policy could even eclipse that of the Malay rulers.In retrospect, one wonders whether all the talk about reformasi while he was in the wilderness and needed the support of a plurality of Malaysians was all just an elaborate public relations exercise. Tellingly, all the ‘reformasi’ stalwarts within Anwar’s multiracial party – once passionate advocates of the nation’s secular constitutional democracy – have suddenly gone silent as their president leads Malaysia further down the road to an Islamic state.In the meantime, Anwar continues to criss-cross the country preaching about respect, tolerance and inclusiveness. But it may be all just a charade, a clever move to keep non-Muslims on his side while pushing ahead with his Islamic agenda. Despite his stirring speeches on tolerance and inclusion, he has done very little by way of actual policies to advance these goals. National unity and inclusiveness, for example, cannot be sustained without a more balanced civil service; something which Anwar has already ruled out for fear of upsetting the Islamists and Malay nationalists who see the civil service as their exclusive domain. Even if Anwar genuinely wanted to rebuild Malaysia’s secular foundations, he does not appear to have the political strength, patience or the skill-set that is needed to oversee the kind of vast institutional transformation that can counter the rising tide of political Islam. Being the populist that he is, he’ll just go with the flow. Whatever it is, one thing is certain: Malaysia is quickly coming to an inflection point. Islamists have ploughed the ground well; Hadi’s version of an Islamic state will soon enough become Malaysia’s new political reality. Tengku Abdul Rahman’s “beacon of light”[6] is about to go out.
2023年6月15日星期四
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