Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Mareva injunction

Few days ago, read a judgement of " The Board of Trustees of the Sabah Foundation, SINSURAN SDN BHD and SERANUM SDN BHD v DATUK SYED KECHIK BIN SYED MOHAMED and Zara Sdn Bhd".

From the judgement by Kota Kinabalu High Court Judge DATO’ ABDUL RAHMAN SEBLI, I notice that plantiffs applied for and obtained a " Mareva injunction".

What is actually this Mareva injunction, it is something like a freezing order.

Although plantiff at last lost the case in apex court and cost it more later, but at least a good try. Hehe...

That day learn something like mareva injuction. Hope write in this blog to refer in the future.

Friday, November 4, 2011

PPSMI (Teaching of Science and Mathematics in English policy) or (PENGAJARAN DAN PEMBELAJARAN SAINS DAN MATEMATIK DALAM BAHASA INGGERIS)

Our Deputy Prime Minister on 4th Nov 2011, so suprise that make a decision that to continue PPSMI until 2016.

[Previously what our DPM said "KUALA LUMPUR: Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said today that the government’s decision to abolish the teaching and learning of Science and Mathematics in English (PPSMI) is final.

“The matter is closed. I can say that as of this year, PPSMI is not here anymore; we have started a new policy. Maybe people have misunderstood, we’re now actually looking at the beginning of the soft-landing of the MBMMBI (Upholding the Malay Language, Strengthening the English Language) policy,” he said.]

[Asked if it was still too late to reconsider, Muhyiddin said: “It has already been decided in 2009. Maybe like (former prime minister) Dr Mahathir Mohamad said, ‘Malaysians mudah lupa (easily forget)’. It was tabled and passed two years ago to abolish PPSMI. I don’t know why it is being brought up now again.]

But yesterday mentioned that abolish PPSMI will postpone to 2016. Maybe Malaysian really "mudah lupa". And said that the decision is the best interest for 5million students. How about previous decision? Is that not the best interest for the students?

I support the views of our former Prime Minister Tun Mahathir as below:

[Kita harus ingat bahawa pelajaran bukan semata-mata untuk memaju atau mengembangkan bahasa. Pelajaran adalah untuk penguasaan ilmu, pelbagai jenis ilmu.

Yang boleh meningkatkan taraf dan kemajuan bahasa ialah matapelajaran bahasa itu sendiri dan diperingkat yang lebih tinggi mata pelajaran sastera.

Sains dan matematik tidak mungkin menolong kemajuan bahasa, khususnya bahasa Melayu.]

In order to be fair and reasonable, why don't the government conduct a Referendum. Pre before the referendum, give both support and unsupport parties a opportunity to debate.



References:

1) http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com

2) http://chedet.cc