Mentality problem, or just a case of ignorance?

I start my post today after talking to one of my friends. He stated that sejarah in school favored Muslims/Malays, so here's my thoughts on it. Mind you, this is not a racist post and is only aimed at people that just don't get 'it'. Well, he claimed that the Islamic chapters favored the Malay students but here's the thing; we also learned about the reformation of the Church of England and the birth of Protestants and Martin Luther the Protestant movement around Europe. These topics might have little or no connection to me as a Malay and a Muslim but I find it interesting to learn so I find it highly disappointing when non-Malays blame their lack of wanting to know history on the Muslim related chapters in sejarah. Not to mention during highchool, some of my non-Malay blew my results away with what they got showing that it wasn't the chapters but the interest in sejarah. It justs annoys me how things like this show how divided we really are in this country, I taught some of my Chinese friends about the Ottoman Empire and Islam's arrival in South East Asia and they appreciated the knowledge but there are fools out there who reject this and say that this country only focuses on the Malays even when its a trivial matter such as the sejarah subject. Pooh. Same goes to the people who want to increase the subjects learnt in English, there's already maths, add maths, physics, chemistry, bio, please don't tell me that's not enough. Think about it, if we change EVERYTHING to English where would our Bahasa go? We'd be no better than Singaporeans trying to be more Western than Westerners. Using English for almost everything and forgetting their roots as if it was last week's leftovers in the fridge. I'm not saying that Cantonese, Mandarin, Tamil, etc should be undermined in this country but please have the courtesy as a MALAYSIAN to atleast KNOW and UNDERSTAND the  national language and respect certain things. Capiche?

Full of life or just full of it.

I now its been ages since I last blogged and for that i apologize. I felt that I had nothing really relevant to share with you people but maybe I do now.. I think. Welllllllllll, I guess life has been treating me fairly these days, nothing shitty has come my way except the fact that I recently screwed up 2 easy tests but I guess its not so bad, by the way, make that one since my lovely engineering maths lecturer allowed the ones who did 'bad' to redo the test. Yeay! Although she limited the maximum marks for the retest to 80% I'm not complaining at all.

Now, we're heading to the last phase of the sem. Scary as hell. Feels like everything is going to wind up, 2 weeks break and after that we're going to be at it again. Sigh. I'm not saying life is predictable but in this sense it is. I just hope I don't stumble again and have to repeat a subject. GAH! If all goes well and ends well I'll have a diploma in mech engineering by mid 2011 *gives a far away look*. Then, I guess, the real battle begins. I haven't even put a finger on where I plan to go after this. Overseas looks too surreal and to do my degree here.. well, I just don't know where to go. I guess I'll just go to an edu fair and find out, LOL.

Anyway, I think i'm going to wrap up my ramblings with a series of pictures from what I've been doing lately, till then, toodles!

College trip to the Nissan factory!

Colllege!

More College!

And.. College! (see how I am loved)