are ya gonna go my way?
well i sorted out the internet issue. i dont have to pay :P all's well again, railway's not such a bad place to live in (again) and maybe, just maybe, i can buy the nono doll :) its one of the dolls in the los deglingos collection. google it. those toys are cute. i think i have a thing for these strange looking animals.
i read on yahoo about this lady who's documenting every death that's happened in downtown LA. and she found 700 so far. most of these deaths were young men, i saw a few that were kids - they were just 14 even. one or two were mistaken identities, some of them wanted out of the life on the streets when they were killed. some of them were fathers, and had young children when they died. (young like an 8 month old baby for one guy)
i guess its a good move on the journalist's part, putting these deaths into some sort of memorial that otherwise would just be neglected.
i dont know what i'd do if i were to lose iain that way.
these were such young men, some of them, and thats what has gotten me most. they were in their early 20's, some were teenagers...i cant imagine the grief their loved ones went through, and are still having to go through.
well..america and her guns policy i suppose.
its such a violent...god i cant even find the word for it. its a neighbourhood where killings like that happen so often they dont even make the news. what is that? someone died. and nobody needs to know about it?
google it if you're interested - the homicide blog.
oh yes...there was something on nst online about excellence schools having links to universities. hurrah for those schools. but does anyone else pick up on the flaws of such an idea?
would such a move obstruct other students from other schools wanting to enter uni? is it just me, or do you get this feeling that these schools would be from the urban areas? do you see who could be kept out of uni here? there is already a priority list created. (i should know, i'm on one)
secondly, lets face it - who, in the malaysian education system, fresh out of form 5 (i count form 6 as pre-u here) can leap to tertiary education? the interface (finally some of that education lingo becomes useful) between secondary and tertiary education in malaysia is such that people still need to go through pre-u of some sort before jumping in to their degree. YES, JUMPING IN.
would it be good for malaysian youths if they were allowed to take a gap year of some sort? i mean, a break from all that bookworming. i know i appreciated the 6 month gap between my a-level and first year of uni.
after all that bookworming, you get a piece of paper that says you've now studied enough (for now) and you go work. when's the break?
depressing entry over now.