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When local universities make our children stupid

Richard — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 16:32:05 +0800

when local universities make our children stupid..

Tweeting from the account @IIUMsterdam, the student glibly stated: "semua words english diambil dari bahasa Arab. English takda sejarah" (All English words are taken from Arabic. English has no history)

When pressed for a source, said student replied it was from the book Malayonesia written by Mat Rofa Ismail. Upon being asked why Mat Rofa, a math professor, would be writing about linguistics history, the student said that Mat Rofa was "strong in metaphysics."

I might sound like an old person but the question must be asked: "What are they teaching kids in school these days?"

One thing academics has in common with journalism is the discipline of verification. A single source is not enough, and said source must be vetted.

People with linguistics qualifications laughed a lot at this one.

Unfortunately after peering into Mat Rofa's activities and publications, I am of the firm opinion that he not be allowed to talk about anything not related to maths. There is no evidence he is qualified to write about history, anthropology, linguistics or whatever else he seems to be going around sharing his opinions about.

A quote of his particularly disturbs me: "Sejarah yang rasmi tidak semestinya benar, dan sejarah yang benar tidak semestinya rasmi.” (Official history might not be truth, and true history might not necessarily be official."

You know who else says things like that? Holocaust deniers.

In this information age, it becomes even more important for our youngsters to be able to make sense of it all; to be able to properly tell the difference between made-up nonsense and actual plain facts.

Apart from spreading non-facts about language, this unofficial UIA Twitter account seems to be rather anti-English, even Tweeting about how it was nothing to be proud of to be fluent in English. It wasn't just the Tweet but other people's reactions that bothered me -- one girl even thanking the account for the Tweet.

This anti-English stance is still alive and well, it seems.

I will say this a thousand times: English matters. If it didn't, other countries wouldn't bother making it a part of their curriculum. The most popular pop culture phenomenons wouldn't be in English and neither would most tech. English is the first or base language for most popular software applications.

To have university students openly championing ignorance is a terrible thing. It is time that we start questioning universities when they begin peddling not pure knowledge but religion as well.

Like politics, religion has no place interfering in places of learning. Pardon me, but why is this trend of adding religious spice to everything only getting worse? It's certainly not improving our standards.

Only thing I can say is, to wannabe metaphysics professors, please stay in your lanes. And to language-rejecting students: don't blame the English-speaking competition who will get hired over you.

- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/opinion/...h.IG7Ca3NR.dpuf

* This is the personal opinion of the columnist.

Complaint against DAViS

Richard — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 00:34:42 +0800

Forumer you are complaining against: DAViS

Item being sold/bought: Philips SHM2100 PC Headset

Original thread link: https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=202749&hl

Status: Successful
Reference number: 1936122647
Transaction date: 02 Jan 2014 02:05:30

From Account: xxxxxxxxxxxxx SA

Details of the complaint : Paid for Philips SHM2100 PC Headset inclusive courier delivery to my residential address..
As of today the item is still not delivered.

- Responses from the seller after I paid and requested for bank in confirmation and postal delivery confirmation via Lowyat forum private message (PM).
from seller "Whoever like to raise dispute, I will ban them forever." and then
from seller "Don't be same like another guy never check e-mail one, then become drama king raise dispute later he himself slapped him on face. I hope you check your e-mail."

- So I checked my gmail.
from seller " SkyNet 230 03411 894 3. Next week arrives. Thank you. Regards, Davis"

- After 6 days I tried checking to SkyNet 230 03411 894 3 at www.skynet.com.my. This AWB No does not exist. I email seller for assistance
From seller "Hi, The number is correct, let us check first. Thank you. Regards, Davis

- After 8 days and no response from seller. I asked for proof of delivery otherwise I would raise a dispute to this forum.
From seller "You asking help from us to track your parcel and you are threatening us?
Why not make it simple, you log the police case and file the tribunal then I stop helping you.

If we found out the parcel successfully delivered then we counter sue you back? And file for defamation too is that what you want to experience?
This is not the first time, recent case happened to one customer before. His family member/neighbour received it then he made hell a lot noise because somehow the number not appears, until he found out then he has no choice but public apologized to us.
Rude and poor customer service only propagating by rude customer, not us. Is only happened to few id and they spreading rumours. When they found out they are wrong then they locked their thread, never say sorry to us.
If we are so bad, lowyat boss won’t asked our help to stream lining their garage sales section.

I hope anyone reading can contribute so I can get my item delivered to my address. Please advice if I should also prepare a filing to Tribunal Tuntutan Pengguna Malaysia http://ttpm.kpdnkk.gov.my to record my case against this seller.

Streamyx using ADSL2+ now?

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 07:30:00 +0800

Streamyx using ADSL2+ now?

Richard — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:10:46 +0800

Just wanna get some feedback from you guys..

Anyone can confirm wheteher Streamyx has started ADSL2+ now?

I'm getting that modulation value on my Linksys but not sure if that's for real..

Have a look...

Also anyone experience having a slightly lower bandwidth than your subscribed rate?

Both the Paradyne 6211 and the Linksys shows a lower figure but Dlink's showing the subscribed rate so it's probably right..

Note: all the above screenies taken using the same account

Update:

Just checked my speed again:
My rm66 512/256 just got upgraded and my speed is almost full 512/256..
hahaha..