Oxymoron In The Tropics

The dreaded deadline looms once again... and I haven't learnt my lesson! But I'm going to do it a bit better this year (fingers crossed). I'm gonna do it today. I hope.

Answers given by 2nd grade school children to the following questions: Why did God make mothers? 1. She's the only one who knows where the sticky tape is. 2. Mostly to clean the house. 3. To help us out of there when we were getting born. How did God make mothers? 1. He used dirt, just like for the rest of us. 2. Magic plus super powers and a lot of stirring. 3. God made my Mum just the same like he made me. He just used bigger parts. What ingredients are mothers made of ? 1. God makes mothers out of clouds and angel hair and everything nice in the world and one dab of mean. 2. They had to get their start from men's bones. Then they mostly use string, I think. Why did God give you your mother and not some other Mum? 1. We're related. 2. God knew she likes me a lot more than other people's Mums like me. What kind of little girl was your Mum? 1. My Mum has always been my Mum and none of that other stuff 2. I don't know because I wasn't there, but my guess would be...

It's almost the middle of April and I'm huffing and puffing and trying not to get my 'house' blown down... School tests just over and we're gearing up for first term exams. I find myself sitting at my table looking helplessly at exam analyses piled 6 cms thick and the discipline master's just sent me an sms telling me some interesting things about the creativity of kids in my school. Yeah, and also in the other millions of schools all over the world... It's also time for school debates, choral speaking contests, forum remaja etc etc ad-absolutely-nauseam. I'm also the absolutely insensitive administrator pushing painful stuff like debate competitions at my English teachers. Not only do I make them sit with kids and teach 'em how to debate ... I also hound them to take part in TEACHER debate competitions. Yup, I'm absolutely mean. But don't get me started about debates. I can go on and on about how good debates are at helping people build up...

I'm sitting in front of TV and computer... I'd have the radio on but afraid I'd miss out on important details in the cacophony. Malaysian Elections 2008 is BURNING HOT! And the fact that Sungai Petani, Kedah is won by PKR (opposition) just screams out '#@$#%^' to me. I don't believe things in that town don't move without the big M's fingers in it somewhere.... Apparently Kedah's gone to the opposition and Selangor might go that way too.... I won't be able to s l e e p!

According to ancient wisdom, "When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount." However, in modern government more advanced strategies are often employed, such as: 1. Buying a stronger whip. 2. Changing riders. 3. Appointing a committee to study the horse. 4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses. 5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included. 6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired. 7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse. 8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed. 9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase dead horse's performance. 10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance. 11. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of ...

I've just returned from my PTK3 DG44 course and my first priority was sleep. But now I'm okay and ready to share info. First off, whoever tells you you don't need to memorize info for the PTK3 level of exam either has never sat for the exam or has photographic memory. I had to memorize the Twelve Pillars (Tonggak12), 16 moral values (nilai2 murni), civil servant ethics code, education ministry ethics code, steps in TQM, and ALL the govt vision aims objectives policies ... (hint: acronyms help). I only wish I'd done this BEFORE I went for the exam course. Second, the key word for this course is APPLICATION. They don't want to hear about the latest discoveries, theories or how long your bibliography pages are. They want to know how you translate govt policy into a plan of action. Third, don't take the assignment (15-25 pages) lightly. First thing to do is understand the question. Next is prepare an answer that fulfils all requirements. I'd advise you t...

Tonight I finally figured out what was wrong with my notebook. The first symptom I notice was a general slowing of the system. And to my horror, Folder Options under Tools was gone. My antivirus acted strangely and my Spybot Search and Destroy refused to update itself. Then I found a forum which described the symptoms so well. I had Brontok lurking inside my hard disk. And after searching the net forums for a solution, I found one: Brontok Washer. Thank heavens it worked. But now after such a scare, I'm backing up everything. *shiiiver...*