Much Talked About… Streamyx and the Malaysian English Education
If you don’t like to read about people’s rant, this is where you can take the step of hitting the back button on your browser or type a new URL on the address bar or click the X at the top right corner of the browser. You have been warned.
Now, to kick off this rant, the first thing I want to touch on is Streamyx and its excellent service and internet speed. If you’re from TM and think that I’m praising you, you’d best go back to school to learn some English and understand the idea of a sarcastic remark. Oh wait…. according to the Education Ministry, our English teachers are not proficient enough to teach English.
Anyway, like MOST Malaysians out there that uses the internet from home. We rely heavily on Streamyx for our broadband connectivity which is supposed to be fast. The keyword here is FAST, Streamyx is anything but fast. Sad to say, that’s the truth. Compare it with many other ISPs from around the world and you can have an idea of how wonderfully fast our speed is. Friends from all around the world talks about how their internet speed is affecting their work. Guess what? Their connection’s even faster than what Streamyx is pumping out. Don’t even have to go far; just look across the border to the tiny island down south of Malaysia. Internet connection in Singapore is fairly reasonable and priced cheaper (if you’re a Singaporean) than Streamyx too!
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Learn English with GROs
According to this news on The Star, now you can also learn the English language when you patronize GROs at their “Entertainment” outlets. In this latest development, Guest Relations Officers (GROs) in Johor Baru are now offering two-in-one services — they not only provide sex but also English lessons.
What other service industry players offer this kind of service? As far as I know, they are the only one that could make the men happy and teach them english at the same time. A source said the GROs realized that most of their clients were not fluent in the english language and decided to add the extra service to help their clients communicate better in English. This extra service does not have a fixed price and payment was at the discretion of the client.
“After falling for the flirtatious ways of the GROs and the extra English lessons, the client usually comes back to the entertainment centre to seek their services,” the unnamed source said. This is a call to all the other service industry, time to buck up or you’re going to fall behind. These GROs will definitely win this year’s Best Service Industry Player Award, well, in my book that is. 
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Something about English
Not the people but the language.
Can you read these right the first time?
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce .
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse ..
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out. (more…)
Teachers going Mad with English?
I read with intrigue about teachers in Malaysia going mad teaching subjects in English. If you’ve been following this ‘drama’, you’d know that our teachers have been complaining about how hard it is to teach both Mathematics and Science in english. If you’ve no idea what I talked about, here’s some of the news links. The latest on in The Star, one from back in December and this is another one from Bernama of a group that wants to abolish the teaching of both subjects in english.
Now, I don’t blame them for wanting to abolish this stupidity, why? It’s making them stupid and in turn, it’s making the students learning from them stupid. It’s true, how many Malay teachers you know can speak proper english? I do not know alot of Malay school teachers but I know enough to realized that only 2 out of 10 could speak proper english but then, they are assigned to subjects that doesn’t need them to speak in english. I’m not saying that I speak fantastic english cause I don’t. If you’ve followed me long enough, you know that I’ve tons of grammatical errors in everything I said or type. Not that I’m complaining, it’s a blog anyway, not something that people use as reference. (more…)
Is China ready for the Olympics?
Olympics is 8 days away, and the major question in everyone’s mind… IS CHINA READY FOR THE OLYMPICS?
Well, let’s look at some of the following photos to judge for yourself.
If this post offends anyone, well, it’s my blog and I post what I want. Got it? For the rest, hope you guys have a good laugh at those photos.
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Broken English on Signboards in China
Received these images from an email about the english used in China. Good for laugh… not sure if these was done on purpose or that’s really how they spell those words.
