Thursday, July 16, 2009

Sears Tower Rename...(Willis Tower)




Sears Towers is located at Chicago Illinois in United States of America since 1973. It is a 108 stories skyscrapper and was the tallest builiding in the world before surpassed by Petronas Twin Towers in our country.




By today onwards, Sears Tower will be gone. It will be renamed as Willis Tower that introduced by a British Company called Willis Group Holding, Ltd. Sears Tower that widely known by everyone over three decades will become a history since Willis Tower was offcially renamed on July 16, 2009.




Over 90,000 people have joined the group "People Against the Sears Tower Name Change" on the social net working Web site - Facebook. We can see that how aggresive American are in protecting Sears Tower against from name change.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Chinese Dialect That I Speak (Taishanese)

Many people were asked about what kind of Chinese Dialect do I speak with my family, my answer is : "Taishan Hua or Xinning Wa (in Hokkien)". Recently, I just found it in Wikipedia and I realized that in English we call it as Taishanese. It is a bit sounds like Cantonese but it still many differents between them.

Taishan is the origin of Taishanese, it is located in Guangdong Provice of China and situated at southwest of Guangzhou. Taishanese also known as Xinning but seems that not many people speak it in Malaysia. By the way, about 70% of Chinese Americans are made up from Taishanese. That's why sometimes we heard that Chinese that migrated to America known as 'Kam San Ah Pak' (in Cantonese). Because many Taishanese were migrated to California esspecially San Francisco during the earlier stage of 20th-century. Nowadays, Taishanese is widely speak by Chinese Americans that stay in chinatowns.

Actually last time Taishanese was widely spoken in Penang too but seems when it was replaced by Hokkien. My grandpa also told me that many Chinese immigrants were Taishanese. When I viewing my Graduation Magazine, I also found that many students written there their China Province origin were Taishan. It can be conclude that there are many Taishanese in Malaysia.

Appreciate your dialect, speak it always whenever you can...Haha

Monday, July 13, 2009

I'm STEAM Today!!!

Today as usual, drive my 'mini Kancil' to school early in the morning. Actually I feel that I'm weird because every Monday wake up early sure "STEAM"! Maybe I don't have a good night sleep every Sunday night and results that I lack of spirit in the next day morning.

When on the way driving to school, I met with an accident! Haiz...it was very unlucky (or SUI in Hokkien)... When I reached to the end of the Yeap Chor Yee Road and going to turn left into Jalan Masjid Negeri (or Greenlane that known by everyone), suddenly I saw a car tried to overtake the car infront and enter my lane (left lane and I should keep at the left because there are many cars on the right lane)...(actually I'm not good in describing). I'm very "STEAM" that time and the car already knocked my 'mini Kancil' and the sound (Krak! Kark! Krak!) can be heard... OMG...then the driver got down from the car and me too...

Luckily his car was a little bit scratches while the Kangaroo Bar of my 'mini Kancil' was out of shape... Haiz... the uncle somemore said that I should stop at the junction and I also "Steam Steam" apologize... SWEAT!!! He told me: " I think it will not cost much ler...can i get your phone no.?" Actually I want to reply him this way : "No need to get your car for service also...please lah!! Like that also want me to pay for it???" These are what my mind thinking but I have no mood to 'shoot' him...Haha

Since that place is not suitable for us to stop there, so he just got my phone no. and we leaved... Luckily he didn't call me ...

Afternoon one of my friend call me and concerned about the incident... I feel surprised about that because she is not same school with me and I only tell those classmates... After she explain, just realized that she saw me dealing with the incident this morning... Haha...A bit 'sia sui'...

It was very unlucky for me today...

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Work That Not Been Done (Homework I Mean!!!)

There are a lot of homework given by the teachers in school... Haha! Esspecially the Maths T teacher - Mr. Yeap. Actually I don't mind he give a lot of exercises, perhaps I don't know to answer the questions...Haiz! Seniors said that he is good in teaching Maths and ask me should be proud taught by him...

Sometimes I feel guilty that I'm not doing well, the girls in the class complete their homework all the time. Seniors told me that: "Be like the girls!". It doesn't mean that ask we guys to be girlish...instead learn from them how to be hardworking in study. Sometimes I also feel that the girls treat the classroom like the office, so focus on their homework and didn't talk to each other at all....I really admire them in this case.

Our Chemistry teacher - Mr. Ong is a very dutiful teacher... Although he don't have much experiences in teaching lower six, he still try his best to teach and make sure all the students done the exercise that been given. Unfortunatelly...I'm the one who didn't do his homework...Haha.

International Language - English

English is the most common language that used by the worldwide since many years ago... The other word: "you cannot 'survive' if you don't know to speak in English".

Teaching Maths and Science in English had been started since 6 years ago and it was introduced by our Ex- PM - Dr. Mahatir Mohammed. He says "If we want to gain a lot of knowledge, first of all we need to master the English language!" Since many books were written in English instead of Malay, therefore if we don't master well the English language, we are not able to understand what's the information that given by the book.

Recently, the Minister of Education want to change 'it' back into mother tounge language for primary school and Malay for secondary, ('it' refer to 'teaching maths and science') In order to improve our students' English standard, our government increase the expenditure for English language subject so that to level up the quality of English lesson since people said that proper grammer had not been taught in school. (That's totally rediculous!) Is it there is no any syllabus for English language? Since many students can master well in other languages, howcome they cannot manage well in English???

There are a lot of scientific terms in both Maths and Science subjects, if the students didn't learn it in English during their lower form, they have to suffer when they enter college or University. Many terms that need to memorize and some of them only can be found in Scientific dictionary instead of English dictionary...

I have nothing to conclude about this since the Minister of Education have already made the decision.

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Special Day for Me and Those...

It's quite a special day for me and those... Some of them will be happy while some of them maybe sad because of some reason... But for me, I feel that everything will be fine after this. Every human being that come to this world sure got their own ability in doing a job and no matter what kind of job it is... Whether it will be the difficult job or an easy job, just depends on the person how to manage it... Despite you didn't get what you wish, you still need to appreciate what you have... God will not disappointed those people who had sacrifies a lot.

Different kind of job will be done in different method... Every job that be given is not an easy task. Don't think that what happened today was a final decision, there are still a lot of changes if you guys work harder... Life is not a bed of roses, don't think that you have already done a lot compare to the others.

Still the same phrase that mentioned, "God will not disappointed those people who had sacrifies a lot!!!"