UEC (in short)

Pros
1. Relatively short/quick (take about 1 year)
2. Cheap ( Being only more expansive than STPM)
3. Used Chinese as study medium ( For those who like Mandarin)

Cons
1. Lots of subjects (at least 7 subjects, while A level/ AUSMAT only have around 4 at most)
2. Used Chinese as study medium ( Not everyone enjoy it)
3. Low Renown ( A lot Malaysian Chinese do not know about it)
4. World-wide recognize (Recognized, yet very very limited)
5. Only a decent scholarships available

UEC ( Just My Cents)

Despite claimed to be recognized world wide, it still has a few fault worth noticing.

First,I would have to stress that it is recognized world wide, yes... But only to a very limited degree. You will require to be the top scorer to be able to do gain a strong foothold for your enrollment in university, said like 8A to get scholarship. Although UEC is not as hard as it is rumor to be, only roughly top 3% have this chances to achieve this kind of result.

Others, who fail to do so well, will simply have to walk an alternative route. As I state it last post, Malaysia national universities don't support/ acknowledge us, This left us with very limited choices. Most of us either go for overseas study ( hard to get accepted ) or go for local private ( commercial ) collage.

Taking aside the local private collage, lets talk about world wide recognize first, we have Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan in our bucket.

For Australia, results, comparing to money, is relatively a mirror factor. You need not to have a lots of As to study in Aus, but a whole load of money. UEC canditates generally will have a very tough time getting into Singapore, because comparing to others international regconize exam (A level, AUSMAT, SAM), our requirement to get ourselves considerate seems high. Hong Kong require both the moeny and the results. Our last resoult is China and Taiwan, both is cheap and give additional benifits to overseas Chinese who study there. But only started its course around september and used Chinese as medium to study.

UEC ( As we know)

Back in the 70s, our government, through the new act of education, require all school to either convert to national ( kebangsaan ) or fly solo. Many of the Chinese high school that flourish that time accepted the conversion. Those that don't not accept the conditions, however, changed itself into private school.

Chinese society where is a big outcry when the conversion happen, they formed Dong Jiao Zhong allianance to deal with the problem. The then, only a hanful people support the school. With the school at stake and the population of the Chinese school declining, the DJZ , under the oppresing of the gouvement, create a Unified Examination Certificate, a.k.a UEC. It is said to have obtain recognisation from most countries, but ironicly, not Malaysia - its birth country...

Why the hell I go type all the things that everyone already know at the first place? Yet I feel a bit waste if I just smash the delete button, so let's keep it just the way...

Now a teacher 21/4

Just don't have time for this blog, or maybe just not enough time for myself. Couldn't even get close to weekly update so far.

Sigh, Started teaching primary school today. Arrived late because of raining and because we are almost always late. By the way, did I mention that I would be teaching in my mother's current working place, a SJCK. I will add the name later on...

Anything not within my expectation? You will get a clearer list if you ask what is within my expectation. A lot of things, challenges to pop up of nowhere into my life. The Class progression is not going as I was told. I was to go straight into teaching without any preparation. A tons of exersice are awaiting to be marked and distributed.Seems to be fine at first glance, right?

Yet, I am teaching Bahasa Melayu and Science. Bahasa Melayu, can you imagine?
" hhowt is teaching, and he is teaching Bahasa Melayu.... "

A dozens of my friends who know me a bit would laugh at this idea as soon as they hear this
Don't get me wrong, It is not that my Bahasa Melayu is very bad (But,it is just mediocre at best).
At least still enough for primary school. But my writting, my character may as well is the funny thing.

Don't get me started on the students I'm facing.
Maybe I will tell more tomorrow...

Starting...

First of all, this would be a logger.
Created just to record my dairy thought, experiences, and maybe stories as well. I expected this to be saw by on one - this was meant to be a private spaces.Else I would have used Myspace to record. I will try to write dairy, if not spontaneously, assuming I have things to write. Let's hope I would keep it as a routine, embracing it as a part of my life. Afterall, we, humans couldn't recall a lot of things that happen to ourselves in past, let alone grasping the history of others.

Let this be a mirror, logger, diary and a friends who I can share my stories with..