Arts Stream vs. Science Stream

I just read this article from Education in Malaysia. The author questions that
whether someone should choose a certain stream or subjects to study just because it is easier to ’score’ in those subjects. In the Malaysian context, this usually manifest itself in the good students going predominantly to the Science stream and the poor students [...]

Attachment Theory

I just had a chat with an old friend, and he shared some thoughts on Attachment Theory with me and how it affects today’s society.
(Trying out blogging in point form, like chedet.com)
1) According to Attachment Theory, the first 18 months of relationship built between the infant and his/her caregiver have a serious impact on later [...]

Re-visiting Forest Gump

The classic – “Life is like a box of chocolates, You never know what you gonna get!”

Even though I have watched this movie a few times, I cant help but to watch it again on TV today. There is something very captivating of this movie. The story of a “mentally disabled” man – how he [...]

Are we like this?

comic taken from http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php 
 

Cloning Erich von Manstein’s Hardworking Idiots

 

The German World War II general Erich von Manstein is said to have categorized his officers into four types. The first type, he said, is lazy and stupid. His advice was to leave them alone because they don’t do any harm. The second type is hard-working and clever. He said that they make great officers [...]

The Lower Class has no hope, the Middle Class hopes, and the Upper Class is the Hope

Something that I read from Thomas Friedman’s The World Is Flat that really struck me:
“Middle Class is a State of Mind, not a state of income.”
“Middle Class is another way of describing people who believe that they have a pathway out of poverty or lower-income status toward a higher standard of living and a better [...]

“I’d like to start a religion. That’s where the money is!”

Those were the words of L. Ron Hubbard, who wrote Dianetics and founded the religion – Scientology.
Lets talk about making money. Since the Chinese started using papermoney as a form of currency, money became a medium of exchange for goods and services that people need. Here are 2 examples: When the Intel 8088 microprocessor needed an operating [...]

Students PAID to come to class!

I believe in Education – It determines who you are & what you are going to do in life. On a larger scale, the country’s Education system determines the future of the country.
But, to the extent of paying students to come for classes, *WOW*, this really blows me away.
Two schools in Georgia USA are running a 15 week pilot program – [...]

Counting 1 to 100. How were you, and how will you be?

Just saw this interesting video (though it was uploaded about 5 months ago in youtube already). It shows people banging drums in the order of their age from 1 to 100.

The first 25 drums kinda reminds me that those days have already passed me. And *wow* time really flies. For some reasons, when [...]

Bill’s Last Day at Microsoft

Bill Gates has been quite a topic the past few days. Not for the billions of dollars he is still making, but more about his last day in Microsoft. He is leaving his office to work full time for his charity foundation. Here is the story.

  
I especially like the part when he said [...]