I’ll have to confess that I do have interesting conversations with my mum during the mornings, despite the fact that she’s usually a complete klutz and resorts to hare-brained ideas to get through the simplest situations. But, I digress.
She was telling me how pissed my brother (who is currently pursuing MUFY, the crash course version, March intake, for god knows why) was because during his mid-term break, which was supposed to be a month long, has been reduced to mere cinders. 1 week. 4 weeks to 1 week. If it was CIMP, I’d be like, fuck yes. But MUFY, damn… as of now, a gross and graphic comparison fails to jump out of my head so I’ll leave you ex-CIMP-ians to mock the other pre-u/foundation programmes for being, well, themselves. Lame.
NGYAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
*cough* *cough*
Damn haze…
Anyways, the reason he’s staying back is because of the LAN classes. Or the Sejarah classes. History, for the non Malay-educated. 3 weeks of that bull. Damn man… and then the conversation veered into the interesting part. I made a statement that would land me right next to the HINDRAF leaders if I wrote this down here. But let me just give that little spark to your mind to ignite the idea. The majority of what we learnt in Sejarah. SEJARAH, the subject, not HISTORY. Remember? In the middle of it all. The long-winded articles… Oh god. I can’t bear the brunt of that again.
*ahem*
Anyways, it’s like this. How did Sejarah mess up History? Was it the content? Maybe, you tell me. I’ve heard the same stories from Shakir, Rushdi and Taqi and it doesn’t sound like baloney. Was it the presentation? Fuck yeah.
A HUMONGOUS FUCK YEAH
See here… give me a tome of things that would be remotely interesting, I’d have used it to whack all the teeth outta your mouth and feed them to your mum. Give me a movie, or even a well-written story about those things in the tome and I’ll kiss you on the forehead. But not your mum. I don’t love your mum that much.
POINT IN CASE! I MEAN, CASE IN POINT!
Sistine Chapel? The Vatican? Who the hell is that? Is that a new Halo expansion? Noo… Those things are one of the most important things to Christians. I think. Spare thee if thou art wrongeth. Anyways, it’s something like that la. How did I learn this? How did people even start noticing without watching National Geographic or the Discovery Channel? Dan Brown. The Da Vinci Code. Angels and Demons. Two tomes of facts and incredible story-telling rolled into one. People started getting interested. People started LEARNING, motherfucker!
See?! It works! Now, that was a case of putting something BORING into an INTERESTING media. How about putting something INTERESTING into a form of BORING media? What would be a good example… maybe, a text book? No colours, no pictures, no little pop-ups. I doubt there’s such a thing out there but imagine, your favourite superhero, saayy… Batman. Okay, that’s the DC side. Umm, Spiderman, from the Marvel side. Superman doesn’t count ‘cause he’s a cunt. And so is Tom Welling. There, I said it. Hit me.
Alright, let’s put aside the insults. Say, the history and fictional biographies of these characters were put into text books. Paragraphed, in point form and graphs. Jesus, mate. That’s like a nightmare, innit?
So, my point is that… No, not that boring things can be interesting if represented in an exciting way. Wait, that IS a good point. Okay, take that one. But the ONE point I was trying to get across is that the Malaysian education (or any other country’s, for that matter) need to ante up their game and start making learning fun! Alright, that sounded clichéd. Do keep in mind, I’m trying to stay out of jail so just imagine all those words coming outta my mouth in all my swearing glory. There you go. Wasn’t that hard now, was it?
Thanks for reaching this point. =D
On other matters, the post-Cultural Night event update that I promised will have to be cancelled. Seems that one must be discreet when in possession of such knowledge. So, whatever that may come next on Beneath the Thorns will probably the same old rantings and a dash of Cabal, as always.
Peace out y’all!
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