Teacher punishing students

Lately we've been bombarded with the teacher-punishing-students-in-a-hard-way news.

First there's the news where a teacher hit her student with her high heels (ouch!), and then came the news that a warden force a whole group of students squat in a dirty pool because apparently, there was a sanitary pad found in the toilet bowl.

In my opinion, yes, the teachers are being harsh with their students. But on the other hand, I think students now are way to pampered. In our parents' time, our grandparents will ask the teacher to punish their child if they do wrong, as long as their child's bone are not broken. But nowadays, parents gives them everything. In their eyes, their children are always right. When a teacher punished a student for not doing their homework or breaking the school law, their parents will immediately come to the school and threaten to sue the school.

But sometimes, I think the teachers are trying to release their stress on their students. As we know, nowadays, teachers are not just teaching, they need to attend meetings, seminars and whatnots. So basically, they have a lot of work to do, plus with the students' attitude, it can be stressful. I know it is wrong to channel their stress to the students, but after all, we are just humans.

Will this issue can be stopped? As long as a parent continue pampering their already way-too-pampered lil munchkin, and as long as a teacher continue channeling her/his stress on their students, it can will never be stopped.

Young Malaysian

Okay I should've written about this topic last week, but I've totally forgotten which email I used to create this blog. But whatever, let's move on to the topic.

Am I proud to be a Malaysian? Hell yes. Why? Let's see, we are free from wars, we are free from natural disasters, we can live in harmony with other races, and we can eat roti canai even at 4 in the morning (allllllllll I knowww is, you got to give me everythinggggggg. Okay off topic. :P)!! Need I say more?

Well apparently yes because I need the marks for this course. Haha.

Compared ourselves with neighbouring countries, we are in the lucky zone. Our country is a developing country. We don't have to kill each other for a living. But putting all these blessings aside, what we, as a young Malaysian, can do for our country?

Not an exactly easy question to be answered isn't it?

Basically there are a lot that we can do for our country. We need to prepare ourselves with knowledge, so that no outsider can intrude us. We may not be colonized in physical form like what happened to us 50 years ago, but they might colonized us through our mind. If that happens, no one can save our country anymore.

Secondly, we need to work hand-in-hand so that we can make Malaysia more developed than now. We need to put our country on the map. Honestly, I don't think many people, especially in the Europe know where Malaysia is. Heck, if they do know, they might think we still live on trees! I have a few friends who are studying overseas. They said, whenever they mentioned that they are from Malaysia, they need to explain that our country is "in between Thailand and Singapore" in order for the people to know where in the world our country is. Do we want this to happen in 10 years time? Hopefully not.

Speaking of overseas, I think Malaysian students who are studying overseas are like the little ambassadors of Malaysia. They can promote our country and our culture to the world! Isn't that nice?

I think I will stop here. Oh before I forgets, I hope the Malaysian football team will train harder next time. If Iraq, a war country, can win the AFC Asian Cup 2007, why not us? I'm very embarassed with this fact. :P

First friggin post!

This blog is created for writing out my thoughts about the topics we discussed in my LHP459 class. It'll be in fully English, with loads of rubbish and craps. Hahaha.

Toodles.