Early exam sitting causes chaos By Waleed PD Mahdini
Concerned parents have voiced their displeasure over an early unscheduled sitting for an 'O' Level Chemistry examination on Thursday afternoon by a local private school that led to other students receiving the questions via phone and SMS.
The scheduled time for the nationwide one and a half-hour long 'O' Level Chemistry examination was set at half past four on Thursday afternoon. However, this timetable was not followed at one of the private schools, which decided to start the examination earlier than schedule.
This resulted in the students sitting for the Chemistry examination at this school to finish ahead of students in other schools. For some enterprising or loyal friends, they took this advantage to communicate with their friends and share with them the questions of the examination.
Upon learning of the mix-up, some parents have informed the Weekend Bulletin about the situation asking the authorities to investigate the matter and consider a re-sitting of the examination.
"How can the school allow this to happen? Aren't they supposed to follow a schedule that has been set down by the Ministry of Education? This is outright cheating," remarked one clearly outraged parent, who wished to remain anonymous, when he explained the matter to the Weekend Bulletin.
"I think the Ministry of Education should seriously look into the matter and I hope that they will also do something about the confusion that has been caused," said a woman whose daughter sat for the Thursday examination, adding the question: "I think the school should have at least quarantined the students until the rest of the students sitting for the examination finished theirs. I find this completely irresponsible of them. They should have been aware of this situation."
Most of the parents that were approached by the Bulletin agreed that they intend to take the matter up with the authorities of the school in question to demand an explanation for their oversight.
"I wouldn't blame the students. Of course, as a parent, I would half expect them to do that. What disappoints me is the carelessness of the school authorities. Why should other students benefit from this time rearrangement?" observed another parent.
The Ministry of Education could not be contacted for comments.
Source: Borneo Bulletin Weekend, Local News 10232010
I intend to blog about Jake Gyllenhaal first thing in the morning, but I woke up and my tweet count went from 3,600 to 938. Not a good start to any day. I was followed by a spammer too. I said "was", because I hate being followed by spammers and fanatic Justin Beiber fans (IDK if I got the spelling of his name wrong, CURSE HIM) and I blocked them from following me. I'm usually a good-natured person, but Twitter always have the ability to cast a bad cloud over me.
"So why are you still using Twitter?", you ask. Well, I'm just plain addicted. Plus, I can't just abandon my 300 followers, who are just simply wonderful people. I get to know what happens around the world too; just moments ago @BruneiTweet informed me Gadong is raining. So that's how it is.
I do have to admit the Fail Whale is really starting to get on my nerves. The constant problems are getting on my nerves too but what is Twitter doing? Acquiring companies left and right! The troubleshooters at Twitter, in my opinion, has one of the worst jobs in the world. I feel sorry for them. There are just too many errors to fix, it is waiting to self-destruct.
I think I will blog about Jake Gyllenhaal sometime in next few days. I just have to let my steam out first.
So last week I bumped into Mrs Nicholls and she told me in a grave tone:
Jolene, I'm sorry to say this but your story didn't get through.
My response was a disappointed "oh".
She then told me there are apparently over 2000 entries this year and that's why my darkish story was left on the shelf.
Pondering this later, I decided (to make myself feel better) the judges must have found my story too awesome to be given a prize. Haha.
PayPal not only mess it up, but mess it up big time. So if you are a kind soul who read my blog and love it and try to donate, you'll just be freaking directed to the PayPal website.
So in one just swift motion they are
depriving me of unstable income,
preventing any kind soul from donating and
freaking happy at their 'achievement'
So I decided to agree with whoever saying PayPal is the worst, ever.
So me and Ann have this problem rooming together, and deciding to take drastic action as usual, I was literally kicked out of my own room.
(OK, so it wasn't really that drastic and I wasn't kicked out, but voluntarily move out.)
My new room is small but relatively warm and is potentially the best place in Jerred House for breeding butterflies in the stomach.
Only problem now is I don't want to move back to my old room, because I love the idea of having butterflies in my stomach. Haha.
I can't translate the titles so you just have to take my word for it. Haha.
So I was just surfing happily and then I received an email. Its subject line sent me to hell, back again, and to hell once more.
Important: Changes to Blogger FTP Service
Please don't tell me it's what I'm thinking. Please don't tell me it's what I'm thinking. Please don't tell me–
MY NIGHTMARE HAS CAME TRUE.
Read for yourself the damned email from Blogger.
Dear FTP user:
You are receiving this e-mail because one or more of your blogs at Blogger.com are set up to publish via FTP. We recently announced a planned shut-down of FTP support on Blogger Buzz (the official Blogger blog), and wanted to make sure you saw the announcement. We will be following up with more information via e-mail in the weeks ahead, and regularly updating a blog dedicated to this service shut-down here: http://blogger-ftp.blogspot.com/.
The full text of the announcement at Blogger Buzz follows. Last May, we discussed a number of challenges facing Blogger users who relied on FTP to publish their blogs. FTP remains a significant drain on our ability to improve Blogger: only .5% of active blogs are published via FTP – yet the percentage of our engineering resources devoted to supporting FTP vastly exceeds that. On top of this, critical infrastructure that our FTP support relies on at Google will soon become unavailable, which would require that we completely rewrite the code that handles our FTP processing.
Three years ago we launched Custom Domains to give users the simplicity of Blogger, the scalability of Google hosting, and the flexibility of hosting your blog at your own URL. Last year's post discussed the advantages of custom domains over FTP and addressed a number of reasons users have continued to use FTP publishing. (If you're interested in reading more about Custom Domains, our Help Center has a good overview of how to use them on your blog.) In evaluating the investment needed to continue supporting FTP, we have decided that we could not justify diverting further engineering resources away from building new features for all users.
For that reason, we are announcing today that we will no longer support FTP publishing in Blogger after March 26, 2010. We realize that this will not necessarily be welcome news for some users, and we are committed to making the transition as seamless as possible. To that end:
We are building a migration tool that will walk users through a migration from their current URL to a Blogger-managed URL (either a Custom Domain or a Blogspot URL) that will be available to all users the week of February 22. This tool will handle redirecting traffic from the old URL to the new URL, and will handle the vast majority of situations.
We will be providing a dedicated blog and help documentation
Blogger team members will also be available to answer questions on the forum, comments on the blog, and in a few scheduled conference calls once the tool is released
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We have a number of big releases planned in 2010. While we recognize that this decision will frustrate some users, we look forward to showing you the many great things on the way. Thanks for using Blogger.
Regards, Rick Klau Blogger Product Manager Google 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043
This e-mail is being sent to notify you of important changes to your Blogger account.
Worst news I ever received on the www world, ever. (and how ironic is this – I am publishing this post via FTP)
I don't want to try Custom Domain because it totally mess up my blog the last time I tried. DNS is not something you can mess with just like that. And my blog was down for one whole week! So desperate at that time, I thought I have lost my blog forever. I also forced my Malaysian online friend to keep checking for me. IT'S A NIGHTMARISH EXPERIENCE.
But who am I to go against a giant like Google?
So I'm going to try this migration tool when it came out, and if I'm not happy or just mad desperate I'll move everything out. Only problem is, where to?
Can't I use the brownie points I score with Google to stay with FTP...?
OK, I know I haven't been a blogger for that long, only for 3 years but still, it's three years! And I have tried like other blogging platforms but I just can't think of using them because I (i) am stubborn; (ii) devoted to Google and (iii) think other blogging platform SUCKS.
TOPIC 01: SNOW!!! I woke up and went about my business without realising it has SNOWED until I went down for breakfast. I was wearing slippers. How how how suitable for walking in the snow. It was a miracle I didn't fall over at all.
Actually I want to say I am possibly the most stable person when it comes to walking in snow. Haha. More about this in a bit.
So when I got back from breakfast, it was still snowing. Bless the whatever factors that make this weather condition possible. I forgot what the factors are.
Of course, Pingu is the happiest at the snowing!
Pingu: You! Yes, you. Howcome you didn't tell me it's snowing outside one hah? I want you to take a picture of me at the window! Now!
So rude one ah this stuffed penguin? I had half a mind to open a window and throw it out. Not surprisingly, she demanded I told no one the above picture was taken at the window. She didn't even want to be let out into her native weather conditions. Such a hypocrite.
Some shots of how winterly my school suddenly looked:
After school Ann and I went to town. Our first stop was the Salisbury Cathedral. It was my idea OK. I thought the cathedral might look magical covered in snow or something, but was a bit disappointed. On the way to town:
Pictures of the cathedral on a snow day's glory:
TOPIC 02: G-DRAGON IS NOT GOING TO JAIL Help me. AllKPop had confirmed my worst worst WORST fear. My hubbie is possibly going to JAIL for doing something tons of singers had done before.
I suddenly hold a grudge against J.Y. Park. Forget he was Rain's producer and Rain has a lot of respect for him bla-bla-bla. J.Y. Park did NOT go to jail for what he did, which was similar to what my hubbie did. SO TO HELL ALL HATERS, G-DRAGON IS NOT GOING TO JAIL.
TOPIC 03: YUI'S ⌈Muffler⌋ IS A GREAT 'CONCENTRATION MUSIC' YUI is a goddess. Her new single ⌈GLORIA⌋, due out this coming 20th, is packed full of everything inspirational. If GLORIA is motivating, Muffler is concentrating.
Unlike what most YUILovers suspect at first, Muffler does not sound sad but instead sound calming. Great as background music for studying and driving (as another YUILover stated).
If you haven't listen to Muffler yet, fret not. The song playing when you arrived on this page is - yes - none other than Muffler. I love this song to bits. You might also want to check out this post for the lyrics and the download links.
TOPIC 04: GET A CHANCE TO WIN ⌈GLORIA⌋ MUGS... ...when you buy the first-press limited edition of ⌈GLORIA⌋.
These ⌈GLORIA⌋ mugs are adorable and unveiled on the YUI Staff Diary today. Even though I am famous for openly hating the oh-so-girly-I-am-blinded PINK colour (plus it clashes with my new layout), it looks great on the ⌈GLORIA⌋ mug!
I want the blue one! ^^ More details about the ⌈GLORIA⌋ mugs and how to win them on YUI-Lover.
TOPIC 05: G-DRAGON SHINE A LIGHT CONCERT MERCS I totally recommend buying from either Korean eBay seller smile-spoon or DVDheaven. Here are the links to smile-spoon's eBay shop and DVDheaven so what are you G-Dragon fangirls waiting for?
When mine arrived (yes I've already preorder them) I will wear the I ♥ GD badge all the time to show my support for hubbie. And on a last note...
...G-DRAGON IS NOT GOING TO JAIL (TOPIC 06) He is totally NOT going to jail. If he really is going to jail then I am going to set up an anti-JYP club. Even though I love Wonder Girls. I am serious.
07.01.2010 - still not a good day
TOPIC 01: NOT SNOWING It didn't snow today, and the snow from yesterday had turned into rock. Hard. Ice. Overnight. It's wet and slushy everywhere. I want it to snow more. Was taking more pictures of the snow-topped buildings when I noticed something at the first floor window of the science block.
A Bunsen burner was on and burning with NO ONE IN SIGHT. The lab in question is Mr Brown's. What the gdlmdsfrbitrmj is dearest Mr Brown thinking?! He's not going soft in the head, right?
TOPIC 02: G-DRAGON IS NOT GOING TO JAIL
TOPIC 03: G-DRAGON IS NOT GOING TO JAIL
TOPIC 04: G-DRAGON IS NOT GOING TO JAIL
(she is totally convinced if she post this sentence up 20 times in 5 days he will not go to jail)
TOPIC 05: G-DRAGON DID NOT DRY-HUMP AIMEE LUCAS My hubbie is not an irresponsible person. He will never cheat on me. Therefore, he DID NOT dry-hump Aimee Lucas. Although that's what haters and netizens like to think. He was just holding her OK!
AND totally no way he was kissing her, either. SHOCKIMPULSE of AllKPop, get your facts right! AND G-DRAGON IS NOT GOING TO JAIL.
TOPIC 06: G-DRAGON IS NOT NOT NOT GOING TO JAIL
TOPIC 07: G-DRAGON IS NOT NOT NOT GOING TO JAIL
TOPIC 08: G-DRAGON IS NOT NOT NOT GOING TO JAIL
TOPIC 09: 2NE1 IS LEADING THE VOTE... ...on AllKPop for Best Rookie Girl Group of 2009.
OMFG WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME MBLAQ IS RAIN'S BOY BAND. I've been missing out on showering them with a little love! I miss the hot stuff who is Rain so damn much =( He practically is god in my early teens. Full House just add to my obsession (or is it fetish) with guys possessing small eyes.
I swear, people who look at me like I am crazy when I say that are missing out on the point that GUYS WITH SMALL EYES ARE SIZZLINGLY HOT. I predict my guy friends with small eyes reading this are either feeling proud of their own good looks or freaking out because that was one of the reasons I confess to them in the first place.
No, I don't go around confessing to guys with small eyes. Only two guys and we are on pretty friendly terms. One of them even know of this obsession (fetish?) of mine. OK OK it's Caesar and Solon now get off my back. P.S. Sorry guys. I just realised both of them have pretty unique names as well! If you haven't realised it yet my hubbie G-Dragon also have small eyes.
Anyway I have been going off topic, so never argue with me about guys with small guys being hotter than guys with froggishly-big eyes because I won't let you win. Big eyes are better on girls because it's just meant to be this way. So back to the topic: MBLAQ.
This is mostly stuff I dug up at AllKPop. MBLAQ (prnounced M Black - how cool is that?), as the letter of the group implies, is made up of 5 members, Jang Goon, Park Sang Hyun (Thunder), Yang Seung Ho, Lee Joon and Bang Chul Yong (MiReu), under Rain's label, J. Tune Entertainment. They debut at Rain's 2009 Rainism concert OMFG HOW DID I MISS THAT HOW DID I MISS THAT HOW DID I MISS THAT!!!
Ahem. Anyway, their image is very Rain, don't you think? Vests, tracksuits, sunglasses and chest baring. Very Rain-ish. Or should I say, very Rainism.
Are they hot? Yes. Do they have small eyes? Err, we'll see about that.
OMFG this is freaking hot. Let's just gaze at this picture all day and forget about their horrible acronym "Music Boys Live in Absolute Quality's".
I will now read up on MBLAQ for Rain because Rain is my forever idol. I'm still a bit peeved no one told me MBLAQ is Rain's boy band, but oh well.
Us YLs (YUILovers) are so used to seeing this sign on YouTube, we even started making cynical jokes about Sony:
So a few days ago I was YouTube-ing for this new song by Super Junior called Sorry, Sorry - Answer. Then I came across a video of mine that I am 100% sure I didn't upload onto my server.
I have been hacked, again. No idea who this jobless hacker is and what is he/she's purpose, but seriously twice I have to apologize to people close to me for something I did not do on the Internet. WTF.
You see, this video is not meant to be seen by the general public yet. Meaning, it has a high chance of being released in the future, but NOT NOW. I panicked for a bit and consulted my friend as to what should be done.
Sending a message to the damn person who upload the video didn't work, so I decide to take drastic action (I feel very old using this term, but 19 is like seriously old already, so whatever).
That is, sending out a Copyright Infringement Notification via YouTube!
Half an hour later I received an email:
Yay! Removed!
I tried the link to the stolen video and this is what I saw:
I LOL-ed at the notice. This is my first copyright claim on YouTube and hopefully it will also be the last.
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