The Grand Finale

sOUTH AUStralian mATRICULAtion is coming to end. One month for know , i shall be sitting down in my comforts of my home and do not need to worry about homework. waiting eager for that moment.

will i ever miss SAM ??? No !!! Not in this lifetime .

Will i miss taylorz?? Yes!!
Taylors University College , Main Campus was great experiance. It was like a dream come true to be here. being part of the middle upper class of K-Hell. the Social experiance was great....pity my friends whom never bother to mix around.
And not to mention ...those preety gurlz who lurk every corner of taylorz. Pity the juniors whom could not get to know me!! especially the gurlz. only god knows wat they have missed!!
at this point , i would like highlight a saying , " do not judge the book by its cover ".

Back to REALITY !!
latest news :
Got my Forecast to day . Got 2 A's and 3 B's. Got B's in accounting , economics and english. suprisingly got A for spec maths and maths studies. for accounts and econs , counting on highest level of divine intervention so that i could get 'A' ( esp for accounts) and econs. English...aisshhh...i got no comment....the fault was mine...ignorant. but then again SAM english is not language , it was about analyze information. To my mum....please, do nt quit ur job ( for the info : my mum teach English).
Regardless , will do my best in finals ( no other option ). Juz want that TER and land my butt in one of the group of eight in australia. therefore , need to fix my shattered ego ASAP , need all the confidence i can get. Warning : anyone whom try to demoralize me.....juz watch out .....u buggers get a piece of my mind.

Frankly , my trials and forecast was not that bad ( an attempt to fix my shattered ego) . Did get above average for all the subject except English(out of all the subject: why english???? my mum have a concreate reason to disown me.) Will boost ESL. tactical plan : will play safe this time , no elements of being radical. Simple language , short sentence , cut and dry! no more showing off with my vocabulary.

Econs. was a giant leap for C in mid year to a solid B for trials. Thankz to my cousin. And suprise ...suprise ....my econs lecture wrote this on the paper , " Was expecting more than this ". Not bad , she actually had high expectation. No wander coz minus all the unneccasry mistake , i would easily got 75% above. back to the expectation part , was quite suprise with that remark. that shows that i got potential . Lesson learn : read the question carefully , disect the essay question and draft before answering. Also must increase speed in part A , to buy time for my essays.

Maths ....should have did all those past years...regardless was well done....
spec maths and accounts , could have did much better

Lastly , wanna take this oppurtunity to wish all Happy DEEPAVALI !! May the light of diwali guide me towards all the right answers in all the subjects in SAM finals

regards ,
Mr. Amazing of J6
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SAM cohort July 07/08

WE MUST BE THE CHANGE WE WANT TO SEE!

WE MUST BE THE CHANGE WE WANT TO SEE......mAhATma Gandhi!

We are not addressing the fundamental cause for the cause of the indian being backward..

SPEED IS IRRELEVANT WHEN WE ARE THE GOING THE WRONG DIRECTION
......mahatma gandhi

the quote above...the best way to describe what i and a lot of my indian friends have always thoought. we , indian are going the wrong direction. worst , the attention have been diverted , we know reach the level whereby we have convince ourself that we are heading the right direction.
We need to emphasize on the providing every indian the best available access to education. we should improve our education fundamentals before harping on equal rights...etc.. I firm beliver that equal rights the least important.

Our so called representative(political entities) not addressing this issue of education. Building an university which later charge market rate fees does not justify anything. Same goes when an indian scholar sent to UK or australia at the expense of another 3 indian which would have able to enrol in medicine locally using the same amount. the list goes on and on...

Its is important also to know tht every indian has a part to play. We must blame ourselves. We elect our repsentive. We let them use the ' championing indian rights'motto for no better reason. Whenever an inteclectual indian stand up and voice out , we make a mockery out of him....worst we dismissed him/her.
Instead we opt for the more atriculate to stand up . Even thought we are clearly aware that tht person has his own personal agenda.
As time flies , another indian is born into these country witout the financial gurantee that she or he able to attend university and pursue her/his interest.

Lets us examine the facts....those facts supposed to be so obvious but now he remains as an subtle and ambigous element in our life.!!

1. Why we need 1700 temples for only 3 million Indians in Malaysia?Its does not makes sense, but we still continue build temple and fight for it.

2. We only have 450 Tamil schools in Malaysia and its getting lesser.

3. Every Fridays, temples in the cities earn minimum of $500 ($2000 per month), no electricity bill, and no water bill.

4. Tamil school - $50 per child per year, electricity bill, water bill, teacher's salary and maintenances every month.

5. Most temples in cities are renovated, air conditioned, and own a beautiful wedding hall.

6. Tamil school was build in 1970's still the same, with broken table and chairs, spoiled fan and lights, buku pinaman torned, bad environment for student and teachers. I have not seen 1 Tamil school with air conditioned except the HM room, if you know 1 please let me know. I will salute the person who builds it.

7. $2 million Batu Caves Lord Muruga Statue build by Indians with donation money by Indian people, $10 million minimum was spend every year for praying on Thaipusam by devotes (this is the reason i say the Devotees are worse ignorant person).

8. Why blame government for not allocation fund for Tamil school (is it logic), why can't we just pay $1 for praying and $9 for Tamil School?

9. $200 minimum spend by Indian Alcoholicans on every weekend for clubbing and entertainment.

10. Run away or ignore when ask for donation of $5 for Tamil School.

11. In every Indian house there will be TV, HI-FI Radio, CD/DVD player and the classic Astro. They have watched the all the latest Tamil movie even it's not out in theater yet.

12. Their children will be in buku pinjaman, no revision book, never or maybe once been to bookstore, never encourage for piano class, violin class, swimming, even language class other than those offered in school. And no computer with reason can't afford to have

1.These are some of the issue that we ignore and still doing it. As some of you have considered Tamil Education is a waste of time, for the rest of Indians; are we still going to ignore it or make a change?
Please don't forget that in the 80's, Chinese schools and Tamil Schools was in same level as Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan. There were more students in Tamil School and the infrastructure was the same.But today, look at Chinese Schools and compare it with out Tamil Schools, (sigh). Please take note that Chinese Schools most of it are 100% non-government support. As we all already know our government trying to the level best to abolish these 2 schools, they dream are coming true for Tamil Schools but not for Chinese Schools.

If you really really have 2 minutes, just have a look at 1 of Chinese Schools near by your house in the morning or after school.You can see their parents will be waiting in their Mercedes, BMW, Toyota , Honda and even motorbike to pick their kids from school back home.

I have never ever seen any Indian parents with their Mercedes or Toyota waiting for their kids outside Tamil School . Maybe there is as we can't see them

Lastly , Ignorance is NOT a BLISS!!!

This is social awareness message by the Gajan Global Initiative!!

To InfernitY and BeYond

yeah...its the much aticipated Raya break. to all fellows out there selamat hari raya!!! To illi , jehan , fara ....have a blast !!

and the break also mark the end of trials. it was a week long painstaking trials week....godness its over. but it was doable at least , anticipated much much harder question ( too much hype about trials being very hard).handle the stress by terrozing illi and the geng ....yeah also blasting off music on my ears whenever i feel anxious(kan cheong) or pulpitation! But for spec maths , had to forgo some question. regardless , final will be after one month( after the break)...finals will be from Nov 3 to 18(itz kinda spread out). Prom nite would on the nite of 18th.the last subject , accounts also on 18th. then ,

After Nov 18th , it will be a long break....would be a stressfull one as patiently await final TER result. hopefully , it will give boost on my current all time low status quo...haisshh..who thought accoutancy and humanities would be that difficult. took up this becoz of the scholarship....employment....well , even the best plans can go wronng. Nevertheless, will not give up..keeping momentum high. and tactical plan have changed....its is war!!! for those who think they making a mark in my life....for the wrong reason..watch out!!! IT IS payback time... no matter how ridiculous cum idiot cum blur i look , i am the most resillient person...man of steel heart.

Plan B ----- if all this fail or went wrong-----i will start all over again and emerge more successfull then ever. It is never game over for gAjAn....will rise from the debris of failure for the ultimate pay back. I have went through this before....and have emegere victorious...!! from a kid with learning difficulities to a scholar. it was long journey ...it also lent credence how i am capable to rise for the debris of watever failure...reach for the star furthest away!!! wanna take this oppurtunity to pay a tribute for my mom who stand behing me at all times....through thick and thin..

i have my life under control . with a plan B whenever a slightest change in any of the variables...
I have statement to make....I WILL RISE AND SHINE!! no matter what. with each failure....it will propel me to greater heights..

bty , in case anybody wandering...i have not screw up SAM yet...still hanging there.. i am nowhere near failure.. juz that expectation was too high. trials turn out to be fine. those stuff above is meant to sent out the obvious in the most subtle way to those out there....whether they have malicious intention or not.

wanna end this with a quote from Niccolo Machiavelli :

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

g A j A n AmazinglY

my two cents worth

1st of all , some 'malaysian healthcare' blog plagarize my article about privatization of malaysian healthcare....i did not know about it...untill i accidentally found it. wanna say that the person who own tht blog shld have acctually ask. kinda curious ...who own that damn blog...and whether he part of some organization or something.... got here rumours tht government will conduct a review this december to evaluate whether we wanna privatize our healhcare or not or put it on hold. but , the government would be bonkers to embark in such move especially after the rise in oil price......


anyway...lets think about this.... why not we continue subsidize our education and our healthcare fully. then we make all students in the country to sit for one pre-uni exam which is STPM. and stop sending students to overseas and sent them all to ourt own public university....we could make uni.'s malaysia top in the region at least... actually , malaysians are the smartest people in this region... ok , next we revamp the tax system. we introduce GST or goods and service tax , increase the income tax bracket and also company tax except for SMEs. coz petronas profit show that if they fail to find any petrol well to dig...malaysian become net importer of oil by 2015.....so simple solution to our woes in the country. we also shld focus our attention i selected sports like badminton , bowling , swiming and gymnastics only....yeah and skuash too....



juz thought about all of those above suddenly...even bought it up during econs class...ironically , i am the person who failed my econs recently. we study aussie econs...which good coz we know how they do their stuff...i.e manage thier economy. for these reasons , JPA continue to sponsor student to overseas( ok...i contradicting wat i said above) becoz they wanna some selected Malaysians to learn for the best(like sending me to aussie , then contribute to the country. is part of achieving vision 2020....malaysia fully developed by december 2020. its a good idea....but we running out of time. as a developed country(2020) , we also must have world class graduate and university. look at singapore , they are developed country , and they do not send students for degree to overseas , at least in bulks. anyway , if compare aussie and malaysia from economic vantage point , sure better to live in malaysia. at least , here we do nt have petrol tax , our income tax bracket also not awfully high as them. and our education ( at least primart and secondary) and our healthcare also better then them. coz every malaysian get access to cheap bt high quality healtcare. but there is always room for improvement.

the main reason for these that we had good leader like tunku , tun abdul razak , tun hussein , tun mahathir .....and also premier abdullah ( in fact he is bapa kebebasan bersuara).... juz look at zimbabwe...and its only president thus far , robert mugabe. he is worst dictactor. one thing for sure , its high time we learn some sense of being gratefull to watever we have. and kebebasan bersuara does nt mean u question stuff that can shake the fundamental of racial unity in this country . no matter what....we have coexist for 50 years already....must learn to give and take. its for the well being of all of us.and sometimes we have to reliase the fact tht ignorance is in fact a bliss...

malaysian public to be privatize??

finally ..i finish my investigative study of mine. its been almost a year since i started on it.. taylorz should made us finish it last years itself ...instead they made us cramp it this year..

it ended with a 10 minute presentation which include Q&A session and "discussion session". unfortunately my team mates who attended the presentation fail to see to importance and magnitude of my presentation...thatz so typical malaysian..so not critical minded. was too dam enthusiastic for the discussion part untill they ask qusetion so obvious and kinda lame...scholars...wat can i say about them?? they are not critical minded and does not voice up....especially the fellow jpa scholars in my class. its high time we get little bit enthusiastic in our search for knowledge. they fail to cherish every moment in taylorz college. some of them ...evan resort to do mock discussion where she/he give out question to her/his fellow team which is too be asked during the discussion. hello ??? the discusion is supposed to be impromtu!!! and did not we spend months on our investigativr study!


anyway , i need to pass SAM with flying colors and get into the cream of the crop universities...need the highest degree of divine intervention for that...god please!!

privatization of malaysian healthcare

wanna contribute my two-cents too...

juz finish submiting my investigative study report for English , phew wat a relief . that thing have been a pain in my neck because i had my exams and i have to hand in by today..the thing is that my ESL teacher gave unsatisfactory marks for my 1st draft. so , had to do major revamp on the report....

the report looks into the viability of a privatized healthcare. THe focus question is should or should not Malaysia privatize its healthcare?? at first , i kinda agree that maybe we should privatized it because then maybe it can address all the ills of our current system..

but then , while looking through reports , studies , thesis papers ; i found that it would distratous to engage in a massive overhaul such privatization. It seems that it would be imprudent to rush into privatization because it might jeorpardize our current system. The present ills of our healthcare could simply be addressed with minor reforms and more commitment from those buggers who run the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of education(blame the Moe for poor quality of doctors).

First of all , our present public healthcare system is lauded as one of the best in the world and here is the catch , It is also one of the cheapest in the world when compared to other countries in the world. Ok , the best indicator is to measure the proportionate spending on healthcare against the GDP of the country. Based on the world health report , malaysia's proportionate spending is currently 3.8% of our GDP( 2003).it is one of the lowest in the world. Countries like India spent spent 4.9% of their GDP on healthcare , china 5.5% , Mexico 6% , USA 14% of their GDP and UK 7%. This below the level recommend by WHO which is 5% of the GDP and below world average of 7.9%!

Furthermore , government share on healthcare expenditure is 58% with the rest by private sector. Therefore , government spending on healthcare is around 2.21% ( 2003) of the total GDP.

Therefore , it can be concluded that our healthcare is seriously underfunded. But the fact remains that our healthcare is one of the best in the world . Like 90% of the population is within 3km of nearest health facility and our high mortality rate suggest that healthcare deserved all the credit it get. so , a simple solution to address all the current woes and ills our healthcare would simply increase its allocation!!!

Based on all of the above , u people must be wondering how the idea of healthcare privatization managed to surfaced... Ok it was first highlighted in the 7th Malaysian Plan ( 1996 -2000 )

“the Government will gradually reduce its role in the provision of health services and increase its regulatory and enforcement functions. A health financial scheme to meet health care costs will also be implemented. However, for the low income group, access to health services will be assured through assistance from the government” .

The government then cited reason such as exodus of government doctor to private sector and reduce government's burden of financing the public healthcare. Would like explain the latter , the government will introduce National Health Fund as part of the privatization whereby it would like extra tax but solely marked for health purpose ( contribution by all employee would be compulsory like our current EPF)and it would be single payee for all health service. The mechanism of the fund and coverage of the fund have still not being decided yet. But , this alleviate the burden of financing the healthcare from the government. OK , would like to add that USA's healthcare is also privatized , but it consumed 14% of the GDP and on top of it it deprived 500 million of access to healthcare.

The exodus of doctor to private sector could be prevented by offering better pay to doctors , specialists and nurse. Increase allocation to MOH and doctor get paid more...so simple. Instead government choose to spent billions to fund our affirmative action policy( like allocation to MARA , scholarships such as JPA , MARA ). Would like to highlight the millions gone in sending scholars to do medic in country like UK , Ireland( at cost of 1.1 million per person) who never bother to even pay back the whole sum ( or even half of it) and let alone come back to serve malaysians.

Then again , as for now government has privatized to branch of our public healthcare system such as the Hospital Support Service ( cleaners , maintanance ) and also the Government Medical Store( the one that supply drugs to hospital ) .

The privatization Government Medical Store to Remedi Pharmaseuticals ( now run 75% of distribution of drugs) for example ; shows an increase 0f 3.3 FOLD( compared to pre-privatization) in prices of drugs without any proper justification (such as inflation , increase of cost of production). this backed by a study by USM and University Sedaya. The study even question the reason of privatizing the GMS in the 1st place. since government still subsidize the system , we do nt really see the impact of this(yet). and who is paying for this,...the rakyat tax moneylah!!! also interesthing to point out that Remedi do enjoy some form of personal connection with the rulling party( cronisym again !!)

thatz for now....would come up with part two ...if i got time...
citation : and those stuff above are backed by WHO data or Government data...no making it up