no red hot...boo
i'm still doing this is hunnie's room and she's taking a short nap. its about ten to midnight here. we're supposed to go down to the printing room in about an hour to get our engwrit assignments printed out.
NO RED HOT!!
BOO!! we went to the vector arena next door as volunteers for their emergency drill test, and we would be part of a lucky draw to win free tickets to watch the red hot chilli peppers (THE RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS!) in concert. i think its obvious that i didnt get the tickets. but as a consolation, i'd have vouchers to the other arena whats-it. so its not so bad i guess. there were 3 other draws as well to watch supernova perform here as well. yes, supernova as in tommy lee-supernova. apparently tommy lee and lukas were here on monday this week just to pop in to the vector arena. and the workers there got a real treat la. they were there without security and without any press surrounding them.
damnit la, why couldnt they have gone to the railway campus? its FULL of students. you'll get FAR more publicity there..unless thats what you're trying to avoid in the first place.
my biggest gripe about the night is the fact that we kept having to evacuate and leave and walk out into the rain where it was cold and wet and windy. oh well. bad chi i guess. dah la the siren sounds so retarded. ugh. at least i made a new friend :) she's nice. lots of fun.
today was the educ 116 tutorial again. i'm starting to dread that class, not because i dont understand it or because its boring but because we deal with ideas about equality and equity and race and etc. and when my ideas about how our country deals with this situation is completely at odds with other people in the class, who (in my pompous "i'm always right" opinion) have a skewed, biased, brainwashed view of the way our country manages this situation. and today, me and audrie were pointed out (as an example) that our country DOES allocate scholarships to other people. lets just say, it made my blood boil. i became a specimen, a supporting idea to someone's idea that i oppose.
she was going on and on about how the malaysian government allocates more scholarships to malays so they can catch up with other races, like the chinese, but they also give opportunities to other indigenous people of mlaysia "like allison and audrie" (use index finger to show who we are). ugh, we're talking about the concept or EQUITY here. when a certain people group are given more opportunities to better themselves through allocated scholarships or quotas in university placements etc, what is generally attempted to be done is to amend the access to power in society. because these groups have less access to power in society and because thus have less opportunities to empower themselves, the balance of power is trying to be amended in giving them chances to help themselves as a people group. here in NZ it'd be the maori and pacific island peoples.
but when we talk about the dominant group giving priority for empowerment to the dominant group while telling the public that people of the dominant group need this help because they are lagging behind compared to other ethnic groups, that is MAINTAINING THE STATUS QUO UnDER THE GUISE OF ATTEMPTED EQUITY. i cannot fully express how frustrated i am about this.
if malaysia is really taking measures to ensure equity in the malaysian society, why arent more indegenous peoples being "taken care of" ? why is it that it is only audrie and me representing malaysian-borneo? where are the orang aslis? why arent scholarships being offered to students with disabilities, if our country really practises this equity concept?
i've gone over this so many times that it tires me to talk about it again. i feel very held back to express all this in class because it'll be stepping on so many people's toes when they can reach the realisation i have on their own by shaking off everything they've been brainwashed with and looking at things with wide eyed horror :P
break out by the foo fighters makes me tyoe faster.
i think i'm done with this blog.