不知道为什么最近总是能够接触到一些很感人的故事(其实也不很多,或许最近生活很平静吧),前两天吧看了一部很感人的电影,而今天则看到朋友介绍一则小故事。这位朋友,虽然只有一面之缘,但是总能够在他每次写的文章感受到他细腻的心思。阅读他的文章,往往能够让读者从他的文章延伸出无尽的感想。今天下午,本来是想开电脑播一些音乐听听的,却在我的blog aggregator不小心看到了他的这篇文章,好奇之下,就点了原文来看。原文是三毛小姐的“哑奴”,收录在《哭泣的骆驼》这本应该叫做散文集吧(后来鸡婆去找了找,原来我妈有这本书,准确点来说,应该是我舅舅的藏书,但是前几年他把书送出去的时候,我妈捡了回来,我也捡了一堆卫斯理金庸回来)。
Slum,基本上大概是指一些比较次都市的人口集聚地吧(我想),而Slumdog,据朋友之前说过当两个名次不当的组织在一起,那么应该都不是什么好东西。我不晓得这部电影中文被糟蹋成什么片名,所以此篇的title就随便凑一个。基本上当这部电影差不多结束的时候,我是差点快要整个决堤崩溃的。我不晓得是年级越来越大的关系而造成自己越渐眼浅还是什么的,可是看到他幸运获得终极奖金,从整个电影不断拱上来的氛围,这一切都非常具有煽动情绪的因素。
Few days ago, I posted up my response on the e-learning issue as requested by my lecturer. I was quite shocked after found out that not more than 5 people posted their response. Is this a sign showing that even though we are studying computer science, but we still do not appreciate and utilize the internet connection wisely? Or this shows that our e-learning system has some problem because it doesn’t help attracting students to login (in other word, it sucks)?
But then, I am quite impressed that there are people who rely on the internet resources in studying in my course. This is because in my college, we are rely on the lecturer for notes. If a lecturer does not provide notes for photocopying, then he/she will be in trouble when students evaluate him/her during the end of semester. Not many who are really interested finding out more on the subject somewhere else and this is probably why not many logged into the BlackBoard and post their response.
In my response, I pointed out that constant electrical supply is a main factor in order to make e-learning a success. It is quite insulting when we are already used to electricity black-outs even in this so-called “Advanced State”. Besides that, decent broadband coverage is also another important factor because not many residents in Malaysia are able to surf online with the help of broadband. Even one can surf using broadband, if he/she is using Streamyx’s service, then he/she will probably suffer from the constantly service down. Even though there are other ISPs providing broadband connection but they cant provide low cost connection. This is because wired connection that is generally cheaper is already monopolized by Telekom. In order to use other ISPs’ services, we will need to pay more for the hardware because they use wireless technology to deliver broadband connection.
If these problems are left unbothered, then I do not expect E-learning will become a trend in Malaysia.
忍一時,但還能風平浪靜多久?
(more…)因为上次在槟城无缘见面,所以这次趁着紫雨下来展览之便一定要去见他一见。话说星期五下午的时候紫雨无端端来了个电话要约我去PWTC见个面,因为自己不是很想出去所以就推辞了然后约在今天。意料中的,我仍然还是比较慢热的那个(和上次Emily见面也是一样,Emily事后说我很静),本来以为我们俩会大眼瞪小眼的,但是这一切却被紫雨不间断的说话打破了。