Sybreon Ones Nought

According to MalaysiaKini, Wee Meng Chee (aka NameWee) is once again embroiled in another stupid saga. However, I personally think that he is acting like an idiot now. I think that his touch with fame has gone to his head and he is now attention hungry. It speaks volumes of his musical talents if he has to resort to constant controversy in order to sell his music. According to ...

I just read this article in TheStar today, where our DPM (and soon to be PM) openly questioned the quality of the Malaysian education system. Quoting the article, our DPM said that: "Our education system must change. Our children are just not curious enough. They must be curious about the world. They must ask questions." This brought back memories of the time when I was training to be a ...

/>My nephew celebrated his seventh birthday a few days ago. For his birthday gift I decided to buy him a chess set. I felt that it was a good time to learn how to play. On my part, this is a fairly long term commitment because I was the only one in my family who plays chess. So, it would be up to me to teach him ...

It seems that the government may just end up reverting the teaching of science and mathematics back to the mother tongues, instead of the present system of teaching it in English. The logic and evidence behind this decision is also highly flawed. Personally, I do not think that it is a good idea. Educational policy should never be dictated by the electorate. Parents do not know what is good ...

I've recently been receiving a lot of email from the department with regards to my teaching work. At this time of the year, all teaching assistants are drafted in for marking work. There are a number of other things that we have to do but the bulk of the work essentially involves checking and verifying marks after the exam scripts have been marked by the principal assessors. One of ...

I would like to think of myself as a technopreneur with a penchant for designing microprocessors and programming software. My work involves a lot of swimming and drowning at the hardware-software surface. I am currently a doctoral researcher and teaching assistant at the University of Cambridge, working on a hardware accelerator design. I really like my work even if I do sometimes question it's value. I would like to thank ...