Update (Jun 28, 2012): This blog entry was published today in the New Straits Times newspaper. There may be talks about water rationing soon in this country, but for my family and I, our neighborhood in Selangor has already been experiencing water rationing as early as February this year. The water to our home would often…
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From June, 2012
Tanarata International School (TiS) – A school in an oil palm plantation
Update (Dec. 14, 2012): Read my review of this school after one school term. International schools in Malaysia are expected to grow, so says M. Bakri Musa in his article “The impact of growth in international schools” (The Malaysian Insider, June 4, 2012). The Malaysian government has lifted the quota on the number of local…
Homeschooling: Hacking Malaysia’s education system
The Malaysian education system is in dire straits for a long time, with little signs of improvement in the near future. Chong Wai Leng, book author of “Learning Beyond Schooling: Bringing Out Children’s True Potentials”, remarks that our school system has seen almost no improvement in the past three decades. Our education system is still…
