Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Think Out of The Box

Short Talk:
I saw a Ford saloon with driver's seat on the left when I had my lunch just now, is that legal in Malaysia?

Believe it or not, education especially Malaysian education system puts a very big constraint upon the students' mind. Students just cannot think out of the box, or have a different angles of views towards a particular topic; if you were the one who asked this and that for a particular topic, your teacher/lecturer would surely get pissed off and you'd deserve your consequence in the final exam or assignments. Believe me, many teachers/lecturers just don't like to be challenged as they received the pathetic Malaysian education. I've just seen too many to be counted. What the pathetic student and educator! Who to be blamed? I would say the ones who execute the system.

Those who have the so-called very high and prestigious education are just working for illiterate bosses. Yes, it's undeniable they get a secure and handsome pay every month, but their income will never be a quarter of the boss'.

Anyway, what makes me arise this topic here?

Two things: convex mirror at the side mirror of our cars and lift built outside the building.

First, the convex mirror which makes us have a wider view of our surrounding and blind spots was invented by a form-five-student. And amazingly he is a Malaysian which we must be really proud of. With the mere form five physics, the convex mirror made him gulped down a seven-figure pay for pattern right from a American businessman. How many of us will actually utilize and have a very deep and mature views of that one chapter called "optic"?! What we did is just read it over and over, do as many exercises as possible (for the hardworking ones), to just get an excellent result in that paper. An A can't make you gulp down seven-figure amount of money at once, can it?

We'd be able to see the vehicles at the blind spot
which is trying to cut us, or whatsoever


Normally this is placed at dangerous corner

Second, lift built outside skyscrapers. The story goes like this: once there was a tall building where the lift broke down. And the engineer demanded to stop operation for one or two days for repair. And came this very nobody-pay-attention janitor, she suggested, "why don't have the lift outside, if there is break down in the system, everyone can still be working unaffected (using staircase for the time being =.=)?" This is not something which will rack engineers' brain, neither it's something beyond engineers' ability. However the idea comes from a mere tiny janitor (in many others' eyes). What else can we, the one who is striving for higher and higher education defend?

//no picture for this, there are quite a few in Bukit Bintang area, go see if you wonder what is lift built outside building =.=

Nah, I'm not condemning Malaysian education system. Pardon my pun? *cheers*

7 comments:

~K£cќ~ said...

I dont get the lift storey =.= why must stop operation in order to fix the lift? Just do it la?

Another thing, i tot lift on the outside is just for design and maybe to look at scenery =.=""

nostalgia.jesskang said...

Perhaps a big repair was needed... No clear explanation when I read it....

I think the story did explain to your assumption?

~K£cќ~ said...

@.@ got meh?

Shane said...

I oso dun get it too..=.=

nostalgia.jesskang said...

haha... Forgot about it then... Maybe I'm not good in explaining it...

nostalgia.jesskang said...

Building the lift outside the building is not hard at all... But what engineers learned is to build it in a building... And they never really ponder over the problems... And that janitor though who has no high education is observant enough, she suggested something which could really solve the problem... Unlike the janitor, the engineer just applied what he had learned...

My message here is perhaps education has restrict most of our imaginary space and we just can't think out of the box...

Shane said...

Get it.. Thx.. Hahahaha...