Point Of View

Happy new years people. You know what sucks? After hanging out with my 'family' from my college course almost every night since last sem, I still introduce them as my 'college mates.' Not friends, not family, college mates. Don't get me wrong I adore them, their extremely fun and have been awesome to me. I just don't trust them yet. I mean, obviously I do to a certain extent but it hasn't reached the point where I can let my guard down around them.I know they trust me, but I don't. Very mean of me I know but I can't help it. It's just the way it is, the way I am I guess. I doubt they've noticed it and here's hoping they don't. Everything in due time I guess. Anywho, in other news college has restarted and so far so good.

(But there ARE the few exceptions. But you'd be shocked who.)

Anywho, yesterday I was waiting on Ramesh to pick me up for our steamboat session and he was late as usual. So I was channel surfing and stumbled pleasantly on ntv7's new show called 'Point Of View' It was actually pretty interesting. It basically takes an issue and addresses it. It's good cause you get to hear BOTH sides of the story, both opinions. Anyways, yesterday's topic was on how Mukhriz something something(Sorry, tak ingat) suggested that vernacular schools be abolished and correct me if I'm wrong but he got put into ISA(which is another issue all together but let's not get into that one shall we?) So they invited one guy who was from an organisation that supports vernacular school's and he made some interesting points. But he was lackluster. He got cut off by the host plenty of times and his opinions lacked the conviction it needed for us to listen and pay attention to what he had to say. The only thing that really stuck in my head was what he said in the end when the host asked whether he thinks Mukhriz deserved getting out into ISA for saying what he did. He said "I may be against what he said, but that doesn't mean I want him there. I'm personally against ISA but that's another matter"

Then there was the other guy(okay so I suck with names) who if I'm not mistaken is a lecturer in UM who was for the idea of having one kind of national school. He was awesome. He got his point across in a steadfast yet laid back manner. He even banged the host a few times implying she didn't really know what she was talking about. He was saying how Chinese schools are better in maths and science but so what cause at the end of the day it's just vomiting out what they memorised. It doesn't make them smart, it makes them good at memorising facts and that ain't gonna help if they want a spot in Harvard or MIT. He also gave a point that I agree with but not alot of people seem to notice. Which is, kids from Chinese schools have a very hard time adapting cause Chinese becomes their 1st language and English is second. And we have to face facts, English is the language of the world. And it's true la, take my class alone for example, you have those Chinese school ones who are having such a hard time coping and they also tend to congregate among themselves. He also said that you shouldn't stereotype Chinese and Indians as well cause you can't force a Malayalam child to learn Tamil now can you? If you say a one national school system is taking away that right, isn't this the same thing? And it's not like they won't still be learning Chinese or Tamil. That's what Wawasan schools are about. He quoted someone which stated that if you want to make change in the country, it starts within the schools(or something along those lines)

To or for the idea, what say you? Anywho, I just think this show is damn interesting and you guys should check it out. It's on NTV7 at 8.30 on Fridays. Expand you mind sikit.


Happy Chinese New Year Peeps!`