Inspired by a fake story
I am sure most of you attended at least 1 tuition class in your life cycle. Surprisingly, a lazy chap like myself also attended tuition classes. I attended BM, Math, Sejarah, Sains, Geographer ehhh I mean Geography and Pendidikan Moral (believe it) tuition. Now how on earth did I attend a Moral classes? I guess I’m deprived of Morality values last time. I’m your orang-yang-tidak-bermoral guy. Basically I think Pendidikan Moral is a waste of time but attending my moral teacher’s class is fun. Why I do even say it’s fun when I think Moral is bullshit?
Well that’s because it’s the only class where we can eat our tah pao nasi lemak while the lesson is ongoing. You think that’s extreme? Wait till you hear this. We even had bak kut teh in the class room with the damn moral teacher around. He thinks we are transparent to him because he enjoys transparency. But since eating pork in the class room is forbidden because we have muslim friends around so we decided to switch the main ingredient to ciken instead.
Although it lacks the kick but at least there is juicy meat for us to consume. You don’t believe we ate bak kut teh with the claypot in the classroom? Well that’s fine with me because I don’t really believe it myself either. But it happened anyway, with the collaboration of a useless teacher who don’t give a fucking damn about anything else except his cigarettes, share market and tea break.
Anyway, the special delicacy we made was known as Chick Kut Teh ever since. How did we ever by pass the school security with the bak kut teh pot? Well we did told them it’s a project for the Kemahiran Hidup classes and the guards bought it. Those days are fun, at least you now know why I love moral classes although I detest the subject at the same time.
Speaking of detest, there are a lot of reason for us to despise this useless subject that plays an important role in shaping our mentality. There are a lot of stories I wanted to share about Pendidikan Moral but if I were to tell everything I can talk until the cock starts singing in the morning, so I’ll start off with few stories.
First of all I would like to start off with it’s ridiculous spelling code and you need to follow the exact spelling in the text book. For example, one of the nilai such as “timbang rasa” need to be spelled as timbang rasa. You can’t put it as “bertimbang rasa” because if you do, they will paint a big X in your answer paper as your reward. Because of this ruling, many people failed in the Pendidikan Moral paper during the first year of its implementation.
My elder cousin is one of the victim and I can still hear he’s still cussing his beautiful F9 in his almost straight A result slip although he took the SPM exam some 15 years ago (that was in 1992). He’s already a father of 3 and he’s still cussing the unlucky examiner to be infertile until this day (ironically my cousin is extremely fertile). Scoring even 4 A(s) used to be a big thing during those days. It’s almost as big as striking a lottery. Hey I remember we even held parties for my uncles and my other elder cousins who scored all credits but no A(s) in their SPM.
So I can understand my cousin’s frustration when he missed out the opportunity to score straight A(s), and if he really did, he’ll get a hero welcome as if he won the world cup from our small pekan. Now that he’s a father, I am very certain he’s going to pass down this unfortunate story to his children and they are going to do the same to their next descendants until it’s inscribe into a memorial service.
Speaking about A(s), I would like to touch a lil topic about them. Scoring A(s) nowadays has become a platform to score as many A(s) as possible because they are not content with having 12A(s) so they want more. The craze of scoring many many A(s) started 4 years ago when a chinese girl first broke the old record by scoring 15A(s) (or was it 16?)
In the next subsequent year, the record was broken again. So every year records were broken until the amount of A(s) reach as high as 18A(s). Nobody gives a damn about 5A(s), 6A(s), 7A(s) anymore or 12A(s). Time has changed, 19 A(s) rules. Oh wait, we have a newspaper who said this person ONLY gets 18 A(s). Taking SPM is like participating in Olympics. If there are A’s scoring event in Olympics Beijing 2008, our country is so going to dominate that event.
Who knows there might be some insane people would even consider hitting the 30A(s) milestone.Thank goodness the MOE (ministry of education) had decided to limit the amount of subjects a student should take in SPM to 12, so from now on we can only see 12 straight A(s) and the record will forever remained as 18 or else we are going read news about students who committed suicide because they failed to break their world Guinness of record in scoring the most A(s) in the whole universe. Yay!
I’m not against people who scored ridiculous number of A(s). I’m just sad to see that the value of straight A(s) has become inflated like money. Scoring quality A(s) are not longer their priorities. But if they do scored straight A(s) at first hand, I’ll be the first to congratulate them. Congratulation for scoring 24 A1, dude! Okay let’s get back to Moral. Another stupid thing about Moral is it’s generic answer marking scheme.
What answer scheme? Okay let’s say the question sounds like this “Pada suatu hari, kamu merayau merata tempat dengan memandu sebuah kereta sambil itu kamu telah memasuki sebuah kampung. Anda memandu dengan laju sekali. Di dalam split second, seekor babi tanah meluru keluar secara tiba tiba menyebabkan anda merempuh sang babi tanah itu sampai kemek dan kojol. Apa yang anda harus lakukan?”
Of course the typical stupid answer we need to put in order to score high marks might be something like “Kita harus cari pemilik sang babi itu dengan secepat mungkin dan membayar ganti rugi yang setimpal” crap shit. But there was a time I am pretty frustrated with lying my way through in order to score illegitimate marks so I decided to put this in my answer sheet “Saya akan dengan segeranya melarikan diri seperti lipas kudung kerana pemilik babi tanah tersebut akan mengambil kesempatan ini dengan memanggil geng nya untuk membelasah saya“. Of course I did not put that kinda answer when I finally sat for my SPM in 1997 lah. I did not pay my exam fees to score F9 k?
So what is the point of preaching bersikap jujur in Pendidikan Moral while the marking scheme encourage us otherwise? Anyway I got a straight zero in my trials for my more than ‘honest’ answer, which I expected. All I did was being honest in my answers and I got penalized for it LOL. Didn’t Pendidikan Moral encourage us to be honest? So why penalized me for being honest?
Man, Pendidikan Moral is such a contradicting syllabus.
PS:- Special thanks to Lili’s blog for enlightening me with the sien-sation word.
I quote and unquote.