昨天在友人的部落格里看到一篇针对董教总要求继续使用华文来当数理科教学媒介语的文章
一开头就用了很不文雅的“WTF”..
看得我一肚子火。。不是火他不懂华文看扁华文，而是燃起了一把想要为华教做一些什么的火。
他在文里说到，早点让孩子用英文来学数理，好过学了华文的数理后才在接受更高深教育时用英文数理，这样的转变让很无所适从。他也说到反正在国际上发表的数理研究都是用英文的，越早用不是越好吗？
我承认或许在刚转换媒介语的时候会碰上一些钉子，但是以我的经验，和我的亲戚朋友的经验看来，这些不适应是短暂的。反倒是我仍然清楚地记得，当初还好我已开始学华文和数学的时候都是用我熟悉的华文，不是一些我连基本词语都感到陌生的语言来教导的。因为熟悉语言，了解和掌握得快，自然觉得学习充满了乐趣。我难以想象如果当初老师和我是鸡同鸭讲，用着我听不同的语言来解释我根本没听过的数理科。或许早在小一我就告诉自己数理科真讨人厌！
我倒是赞成在中学实行用英文教数理科，毕竟中学程度的英文（即使是乡村小学毕业）也足够让学生了解新的数理概念了。尤其是像我一样的华小毕业生，在中学使用马来文学数理真的是多此一举。Min=mean, buret=burette,还我再上新加坡初院的时候一直给朋友笑我不会spelling...倒不如直接跳过马来文，在中学用英文！
身边有不少不会讲华文的华人朋友，但是还好他们都还蛮“清醒”的，曾经看过有华人因为不会讲华语只讲英文而感到光荣，我却为他们感到羞耻。。。
不会华文的朋友，只要你有心要学，我一定教！
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Monday, December 15, 2008
1st Sem is over!!
Hoho~!!I survived the 1st sem in Uni!
I remember i was telling my frens that nah i m not going to take biotech cos i dun want to b doing lotsa lab works.. Tadah! I m still doing many lab reports when i m pharmacist student! Now i wanna share something interesting i learn in sem 1.
The most interesting module is Practical Dispensing, where I got to manufacture drugs in different dosage form. The most challenging product is SUPPOSITORIES! The temperature must be just right when you pour it into the mould, if not you will be giving your patient something that doesn't "appealing" to their buttock! I mean it! The suppository is supposed to look like a bullet, but some of my peers' products.. haha.. maybe the patient would rather be sick~~
A suppository
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eucalyptol_suppository.jpg
For my dear friends who may be using suppositories one day, these are my advise:
1. Remember to remove the wrapper- dont laugh, there are instances where the patients insert the suppository into their buttock with the plastic wrapper~ or worst, foil!
2. Not all drugs that look like capsules are meant of oral consumption- if you are not sure whether u r supposed to stuck it into ur mouth or buttock, ask! There were patients that swallow the oily suppository and tell the doctor "yucks the taste of the capsule is disgusting!"
3. Don't act clever, when the pharmacist or doctor give you something and tell you that it s for your buttock.. Instead of a suppository, sometimes it s a pump with liquid inside, all u need to do is to pump liquid into ur anus, and TAKE OUT THE PLASTIC PUMP! A pharmacist told me that his patient actually stuck the whole pump into his anus, n claimed that his constipation doesnt improve! Come on, when u put a cork to a bottle, how do u expect wine to come out? Moreover ur faeces is not so "pourable"!!
I remember i was telling my frens that nah i m not going to take biotech cos i dun want to b doing lotsa lab works.. Tadah! I m still doing many lab reports when i m pharmacist student! Now i wanna share something interesting i learn in sem 1.
The most interesting module is Practical Dispensing, where I got to manufacture drugs in different dosage form. The most challenging product is SUPPOSITORIES! The temperature must be just right when you pour it into the mould, if not you will be giving your patient something that doesn't "appealing" to their buttock! I mean it! The suppository is supposed to look like a bullet, but some of my peers' products.. haha.. maybe the patient would rather be sick~~
A suppository
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eucalyptol_suppository.jpg
For my dear friends who may be using suppositories one day, these are my advise:
1. Remember to remove the wrapper- dont laugh, there are instances where the patients insert the suppository into their buttock with the plastic wrapper~ or worst, foil!
2. Not all drugs that look like capsules are meant of oral consumption- if you are not sure whether u r supposed to stuck it into ur mouth or buttock, ask! There were patients that swallow the oily suppository and tell the doctor "yucks the taste of the capsule is disgusting!"
3. Don't act clever, when the pharmacist or doctor give you something and tell you that it s for your buttock.. Instead of a suppository, sometimes it s a pump with liquid inside, all u need to do is to pump liquid into ur anus, and TAKE OUT THE PLASTIC PUMP! A pharmacist told me that his patient actually stuck the whole pump into his anus, n claimed that his constipation doesnt improve! Come on, when u put a cork to a bottle, how do u expect wine to come out? Moreover ur faeces is not so "pourable"!!
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Thursday, December 11, 2008
如果。。
如果电话费非常非常便宜的话，
如果我们都非常非常得空的话，
我不介意你每天和我聊几小时。
可是电话费贵，我们都不得空，
所以~~
如果我怎样吃都吃不肥的话，
如果乱吃不会影响健康的话，
我不介意每天都吃很多食物。
可是我一吃多就肥，
胆固醇高血压听起来很恐怖，
所以~~
只好这样啦~~~
如果我们都非常非常得空的话，
我不介意你每天和我聊几小时。
可是电话费贵，我们都不得空，
所以~~
如果我怎样吃都吃不肥的话，
如果乱吃不会影响健康的话，
我不介意每天都吃很多食物。
可是我一吃多就肥，
胆固醇高血压听起来很恐怖，
所以~~
只好这样啦~~~
Thursday, December 04, 2008
Monday, December 01, 2008
No longer a teen!
I am no longer a teenager now! Happy? Sad? I dunno, anyway time flies! I still remember what i wrote in my diary when i was 12-- teenage, full of unknowns, excitement, and the most beautiful and enjoyable years in my life! Oh my god now i definitely hope that teenage is not the best, cos it s over and my age is no longer started with 1!!
My 20th birthday was a good one. I was so so so busy on the eve for Viva La Vida Night, a food bazaar for Cancer Awareness Week. Before that i was telling my frens that most likely i will be spending my last few hours of teen cleaning up the venue, counting down to my birthday while i count the rubbish bags i collected~ Urgh.. Oh well, i did spend my time picking up rubbish, but my lovely coursemates gave me a pleasant surprise!! I was coming out from the toilet, going to get some toilet roll to clean up the ice-cream mess in the Great Hall, i realised all the lights were off. I was thinking: what? so stingy? the event is just over and the lights are already off? Haha.. no no no.. All my frens were standing in the middle of the hall, with a cake!! OMG!! I never expect it at all! I thought the most they will do is to celebrate it after pharmacy visit on the day! Wow..! After singing n blowing out the candles, we din hv time to eat the cake, so the poor cake had to wait for me to send it back home, to b shared v my frens only on the next day.
After cleaning up, it was already 1145pm. Dragging my tired body to Sen Loong's car, i was told that WIng Teck wanna tumpang some stuff to EduSquare. So Sen Loong n i waited patiently in the car.. Meanwhile, phone calls started to flood in~ Calls followed v calls.. Calls from Australia, Muar, Indonesia, bla bla bla~ HAHAHA.. As i was chatting away, i realised it s 12am dy.. hoho.. Suddenly, i saw my Cari Forum gang walking towards me!! OMG OMG!! This s certainly another surprise!! Wahaha.. they bought me Secret Recipe Tiramisu Cake! So damn damn damn happy! But then on the cake it was written happy birthday Za Bo Yee.. zha dao~~
This is the Tiramisu Cake!!
They celebrated my birthday for me by the lake in my uni campus, quite romantic.. They also gave me a useful and pretty bag, haha.. really suitable and in time, since my bag s already quite cacat, and it s a free gift from Anna Sui somemore~
After all those celebration, i reached home at 2am. Urgh, hv to report to sch at 715am! As i was tidying up my stuff, my phone rang again~ talk talk talk till around 4am.. wahaha.. crazy!!
The next morning, surprisingly i was so awaked! Stood for 3.5 hours in a small community pharmacy, then lunch in SA, then had cake v my frens, then rejected a frens invitation to Times Square cos i was super tired, then dinner alone eating catered dinner. I tot my day wud b so ke sian, who knows...
MY LOVELY "TOILETMATE" PREPARED ANOTHER SURPRISE FOR ME!
At around 1210am, she came to my room, asking me if i want any food. I said, nah u want to grow fatter dun ask me along~ She asked, "really? really dun want?" ok.. i surrender, so wat do u hv? "Go to my room to c"
Wah wah wah! She drew me a lovely card, bought me a Baskin Robin Cone, and a cute, BLUE soft toy! I was nearly touched to tears dy lo.. she has been busy v her assignment, yet she still managed to get me sth!
I m so blessed that in this relatively new environment, i still hv a bunch of friends who will celebrate my birthday for me, and most importantly, thanks to my dearest mum who brought me to the world 20 years ago, brought me up, fed me educate me nurture me love me. Thank you, Mummy!
My 20th birthday was a good one. I was so so so busy on the eve for Viva La Vida Night, a food bazaar for Cancer Awareness Week. Before that i was telling my frens that most likely i will be spending my last few hours of teen cleaning up the venue, counting down to my birthday while i count the rubbish bags i collected~ Urgh.. Oh well, i did spend my time picking up rubbish, but my lovely coursemates gave me a pleasant surprise!! I was coming out from the toilet, going to get some toilet roll to clean up the ice-cream mess in the Great Hall, i realised all the lights were off. I was thinking: what? so stingy? the event is just over and the lights are already off? Haha.. no no no.. All my frens were standing in the middle of the hall, with a cake!! OMG!! I never expect it at all! I thought the most they will do is to celebrate it after pharmacy visit on the day! Wow..! After singing n blowing out the candles, we din hv time to eat the cake, so the poor cake had to wait for me to send it back home, to b shared v my frens only on the next day.
After cleaning up, it was already 1145pm. Dragging my tired body to Sen Loong's car, i was told that WIng Teck wanna tumpang some stuff to EduSquare. So Sen Loong n i waited patiently in the car.. Meanwhile, phone calls started to flood in~ Calls followed v calls.. Calls from Australia, Muar, Indonesia, bla bla bla~ HAHAHA.. As i was chatting away, i realised it s 12am dy.. hoho.. Suddenly, i saw my Cari Forum gang walking towards me!! OMG OMG!! This s certainly another surprise!! Wahaha.. they bought me Secret Recipe Tiramisu Cake! So damn damn damn happy! But then on the cake it was written happy birthday Za Bo Yee.. zha dao~~
This is the Tiramisu Cake!!
They celebrated my birthday for me by the lake in my uni campus, quite romantic.. They also gave me a useful and pretty bag, haha.. really suitable and in time, since my bag s already quite cacat, and it s a free gift from Anna Sui somemore~
After all those celebration, i reached home at 2am. Urgh, hv to report to sch at 715am! As i was tidying up my stuff, my phone rang again~ talk talk talk till around 4am.. wahaha.. crazy!!
The next morning, surprisingly i was so awaked! Stood for 3.5 hours in a small community pharmacy, then lunch in SA, then had cake v my frens, then rejected a frens invitation to Times Square cos i was super tired, then dinner alone eating catered dinner. I tot my day wud b so ke sian, who knows...
MY LOVELY "TOILETMATE" PREPARED ANOTHER SURPRISE FOR ME!
At around 1210am, she came to my room, asking me if i want any food. I said, nah u want to grow fatter dun ask me along~ She asked, "really? really dun want?" ok.. i surrender, so wat do u hv? "Go to my room to c"
Wah wah wah! She drew me a lovely card, bought me a Baskin Robin Cone, and a cute, BLUE soft toy! I was nearly touched to tears dy lo.. she has been busy v her assignment, yet she still managed to get me sth!
I m so blessed that in this relatively new environment, i still hv a bunch of friends who will celebrate my birthday for me, and most importantly, thanks to my dearest mum who brought me to the world 20 years ago, brought me up, fed me educate me nurture me love me. Thank you, Mummy!
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