Friday, September 10, 2004
Slowcoach
We m'sians spend 6 years in primary school and another 5 (and in some useless pathetic cases, 7) years in secondary school and another 2 more years in college. Which, in s'porean terms, is si be chia lat lah. Come on, let's face it, it is waaaay too long. Wanna know why the "malau"-sian government never really made it to the top of the economic strata? Well, let me tell you then. It's simply because they produce the oldest people to ever graduate from unis in the world. And by the time they actually do graduate and acquire some recognised degree of some sort, ohhh....it's time to settle down, make some babies, clean some diapers, chase the kids around the house like a madman, shouting "oi! eat your cereal you @#$&! "(it's fool proof, they will never figure out what you're saying, unless your kids are like some freaks from 'Baby Geniuses' or 'Looks Who's Talking' which i tell you, they make me wanna go sterile once and for all). So..there's never really much time to explore the 'yuppie' age. Never really much time to work our asses off. Never really much time to care about anything else.
At age 20 :
Singporeans - 2nd year uni
Americans - 3rd / final year
British - 3rd year
PRC-ians - 2nd / 3rd year
Indians - 2nd year
M'sians form sixers - noobs
I mean, it aint a level playing ground here. S'porean kids learn and master algebra during their primary school years. We only begun to understand our abc's in form 3. That's a massive 5 years apart! We've got like a whole lot of catching up to do and when you're getting old(er), running too fast is detrimental...to say the least.
