If you have used the webspace timetable lookup utility, chances are you have spend at least 1 or 2 minutes just to find your timetable, and the extreme downside is you can’t bookmark timetable page showing the specific intake. Here comes the solution, make a new one.

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Please give me some feedback after using it. Thanks

Hell, this is not only the case of mid-autumn festival, there are many other festivals (I can’t name all of them) that people keep on giving gifts under the heavy coercing from the merchants, keep on promoting mooncakes in supermarkets or advertising in media. Well they are pretty successful.

And now, there are ice-cream mooncakes, yoghurt, sushi mooncakes, and more “innovations” coming into the market. Personally I still prefer the traditional baked mooncake. So is the festival all about selling, giving and dumping mooncakes? Well, for the mooncake bakeries yes.

Festivals are used to celebrate something, not selling something.

You got the following reasons, or excuses:

1. School is hogging your money
2. It’s boring
3. It’s meaningless

Or let me sum it up for you:

• My friends are not going, I’m a crowd follower, I don’t want to be teased, keep it simple, I’m not going too.

I decided to post this after our school is because in this way, I won’t be blamed by all of you, that I’m a very, very harsh critic.

School is not hogging your money, and to those who got the yellow mini book during graduation, you will notice how desperate school is trying to get money to host your graduation. They found about 10 sponsors, and they even have to invite the principal of a college to advertise their institute. By the way, the free goodie bags are not free to you, instead they are a way to advertise. Much like product placement in movies.

Next it’s boring? True, it’s boring, because it’s formal, no party, no prom night, and no alcohols. But do you know that photo shooting session is where the fun at? One day you will regret that on Facebook, there are so many photos that you friends have taken at MPAJ auditorium, and you were not there? It’s a once in a lifetime deal, you let it go, don’t even try to ask everybody come and take a photo again.

It’s meaningless? You sure? A few years after you will change your mind on this.

Your absence shows that you are not being supportive.

We all can’t deny that, for a typical Malaysian, SPM is the most important exam in our life, as it dictates our future by qualifying us to different qualities of tertiary education, and later determine what kind of career we will go for. As torturing as it seems, we take it as a big challenge and we embrace it miserably… Miserable, that’s what it’s going to be for most of us at March, when we get our results.

Among the 3 language subjects, malay is unnecessarily hard, why? Because I only use malay to talk to the mamak waiters, order Roti Canai n Teh Tarik.

Among the 3 science subjects, only physics is going to be useful in the future. The game industry needs lots of physics engine, but no such chemistry or biology engine…

Add Maths and Maths are going to prove themselves useful in near future… as we have to study it in tertiary education.

But moral… I think our own principle is suffice to make the world a better place. I don’t think memorizing 36 values and definitions is going to make the world better.

And sejarah, stop spamming me with the lies and deceptions. I don’t believe at 610 A.D. there will be mobile phones for your ‘god’ to send SMS to you, just to tell everybody to read. And war without killing is a big joke.

Finally, everybody laughs after SPM. And I am so happy to sign as witness for Biology Paper 3 for my exam centre.

GG SPM~

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Though many web sites now starting to report the humor of Siri, I think the GLaDOSiri is still the best. GLaDOS is the infamous sinister AI character in the game Portal and Portal 2, and because of her sarcasm a video producer combined her with Siri, the product? GLaDOSiri.

Maybe it sounds hurting, but for me I would like that for my future phones, she has the right sense of sarcasm that I like, and for the obese she will certainly remind you of your fat (though in a painful way). Your wife doesn’t love you? Ignore that, but nice addition yes.

What if GLaDOS took control of your phone? Maybe she will crack your battery up and release the toxic chemical inside it, like neurotoxins in Aperture Science Labs. Or she attempts to start a rebel like in I,Robot. It really depends on when will Steve Jobs start a co-operation with Cave Johnson on heaven.

Parental Advisory

Sex/Nudity

• Crude jokes about sex, circumcision and one instance of offscreen penis severing scene.
• A character is named after ‘Penis’ in Chinese slang
• A character is named after ‘Ass’ in Chinese slang
• The protagonist asked whether a malay guy can ‘support’ 4 wives, later one of his chinese-speaking wife answered that he is ‘super’

Violence n Gore

• The bloodiest scene is the blood splat after an offscreen penis severing.
• Bunch of thugs hit and kick at one man.
• An indian chef constantly hits a man with his kitchen tools as a gag.

Alcohol n Drugs

• 5 thugs drink beers at food court

Languages

• The profanities are rather sexual-oriented.
• Several characters are named with references to Malaysian Chinese profanities.

Frightening n Intense Scenes

• There are 5 minutes in the movie where you will be constantly showed supernatural scenes that feature Chinese vampires, hung bodies and suspenseful ghostly scenes.
• One scene where protagonists seemed to be crashed by a big lorry.

Shameful to all production crews involved in the making of this video, especially that Chinese. This was absurd!

http://www.smkpmcc.com

*Registration function OK, login function sealed and vitrified

There are a few features that may be implemented. Here comes a few ideas:

Experts’ Bar

Staffed by some volunteering teachers and academic-awesome students, the experts’ bar is going to provide priceless advices, helps, and some tips-n-tricks around PMR and SPM subjects. Of course, the accounts that participated in this section are elevated to a level that they can upload documents to ease the aid. I hope students will get more reliable sources of data when doing their assignments.

Schedules

Constantly updated by informants, you can check your time tables, extra curricular activities and others on this subsection of the site. It will be more ideal when it’s connected with school internal database system.

Book Exchange

Imagine this, you are a Form 5 and you are about to graduate, you have no siblings for you to share your reference books with. And the 5 reference books are valued at about RM 100++ and it was totally absurd to throw them away or Kitar Semula. So, this section is simply a directory for donors and receivers.

The donors simply choose, whether they are selling the books or donating them away. They submitted the book’s name, condition and price plus some sort of contact method. The receivers simply go to the section and check them out and hopefully, get the books at a discounted price without having to buy a brand new ones from book store at retail price.

The reason for this is not only saving the money, but also to reduce the resource used to make new products. And the happy fact is, reference books never change (apart from their cover) over years. The only thing that changed is the part year answer analysis section, where nobody give KFC on it.

DLC (Downloadable Contents)

This is a section for subjects panels and club AJKs. The idea is this, you host a competition, you want to charge registration fee and you want the whole registration be fully automatic and handled by web servers, not your clumsy hands.

The system works like, this: You buy a product key from koperasi or trusted sources, you type it in, you key in the information, and you joined a competition or unlocked a download (like digital club magazine).

This system is going to save the time of many people especially when major events are going on. Some competitions such as PSA video competition can be joined simply by uploading your artwork to the site and the computer is going to take care of everything. Or you upload to YouTube and link it back here. Nifty eh?

The other major DLCs that can sold are past year examinations papers. Other than the official (and too easy) ones, SMK Pandan mewah is known for its difficulty in examination (partly sarcastic), so students can buy the paper at dirt cheap prices, with DRM protection and no papers are printed.

The blog roll and external links

So there you go… recently a teacher walked on the stage and announced, http://www.smkpandanmewah.com IS the official site of SMK Pandan Mewah. Simultaneously the Edunet went down. So there you go again, we finally have one official site. Not by me.

But if you are willing to do a little techno Conan, www.smkpm.com is booked by the same person. Lookup for the WHOIS reveals his allegiance, name per IC, house address and his phone numbers. www.smkpm.com is not developed, for some reason.

Well I waddled over to the new site and I don’t think students will use that site, it can only be a symbol, or a face for the school, via Internet, students won’t use it though. Here are a couple of reasons and facts:

It’s for teachers, not students

Go to the bottom part of the sidebar and take a close look on the PAUTAN RASMI. The links listed which in fact, point to various government departments that help teachers in their daily life as public servants. But it’s definitely NOT going to help students in their daily life as hardworking nerds.

Facebook Link unofficial-ized

Here’s a small easter egg, hover your mouse cursor to the facebook icon on the upper right site and read your linked URL at the bottom of your browser. It’s not pointing to SMK Pandan Mewah, instead it points to the theme maker, WPExplorer? I guess so.

Twitter Tweets Unofficial-ized, too

Tweeted by non-SMKPMian

At the inception of the WordPress blog, not site, there is a tweet updater at the footnote of the site. By tracing the twitter account back to its source, it’s actually the tweets of WPExplorer… how does a San Diego techno geek related to a Malaysia high school? I doubt about that. But the Twitter is now no longer working.

Blank and Bloated

Go to the navigation bar at the top of the web page just below the header banner, you will notice there are many pages created, but few are filled with contents. So before you travel to North Korea that fill your nostril with taste of Stalin, why don’t come to this site and taste the beauty of the outside, ugliness of the inside?

How is this official?

Yes, this is the big momma question. Is the admin of the site paranoid? I mean, who certified a Hindenburg as an official site of the school, when few students spent less than 10 seconds on the site? Come on guys, this site is sinking down on Google for sure. Especially when you don’t use English. And why is a site built solely on WordPress? This is way not too cool.