I havent been writing much lately. Im not bored of blogging and the enthusiasm hasnt died out. Its just that I havent been able to find the time. Ive had exams! and im still having them and ill keep having them until the end of March... so the initial frequency is gonna drop down big time!
You know of that excitment, fear and enthusiasm that you have during exams? Well... Ive written so many exams lately that Its all died out. Ive become fearless, bored and uninterested.
Exams, I personally think are useless, especially the ones conducted by CBSE. They simply encourage you to cram stuff up in your head for a day, spit it out the next day. I dont think we should have exams at all.
Did you know: Did you know that CBSE charges money to examine you? Yes! you have to pay them to get tested. WTF?
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Monday, January 26, 2009
speling erors
Wel, Sory bout ol de speling erors in de previus posts. I'v allwaes had a problim wid speling. De mane reesun beeing that ther aar soooooooooooooooooooo meny waes too spel wurds in de Inglish languwaje and so meny similer sownding wurds dat i get cunfused!!
Sunday, January 25, 2009
The evils of CBSE
For the Record CBSE stands for Central Board of Secondary Education and it truly SUCKS! Its the education board I study in.
The fact that it sucks doesnt mean that it leaves me illiterate but it means that it stresses on teaching me just about every thing I don't need to know. Things that are irrelevant, unimportant, ancient, unpleasant and not cool. Of course, once in a while they do teach something that is vital to man but the stuff that precedes it is the ultimate SHIT!
If they teach you about the modern peiodic table..theyll first tell you about three failures, theyll tell you how its not done and then get to the real thing. If you ask me i'd rather just do a detailed study on the modern one.
The ultimate problem is not that they teach the history of all the modern science and maths(because it can help you get an idea of what youre going to do and why). The worst thing is that they ask this history in exams!! Informing is one thing...Making you waste your precious time and energy doing things that have been long surpassed by modernity is definitely another.
Another disparity is rote. In the preface of every text book these words are present- 'we attempt to discourage rote' -Gimme an effing break. That is smashing the limit of guilt conscience. Its the same as a madman saying ' I'm not mad '. Even the maths they teach involves rote.They strive to tell you that 'it happens' rather than why it happens, and when you ask why it happens, they say 'It just happens'.They think that by doing it again and again we can get it over with. But we can get it over with the moment we start it if yuo tell us whay it happens!! Whats the end result? They produce mindless and idiotic memorizers who have lost(or rather, never developed) their capacity to understand and their desire to know whats outside that text book.
Then of course there is the board's ruthless, unorganized and unpredictable behaviour. They do everything possible to make the lives of the students miserable. They think that by making our lives miserable, they can make us better indivisuals. 'Well..BZZZZ....wake up! when in the history that you have been making us memorize have you heard of people who earn success from torture?' They try to create regulations for the betterment of the system but their timing is bizzarre,cruel and unfair.
Just last year, at the time my batch was beginning 10th grade and the previous batch was going to give their board exams, their externals, their so-called life deciding exams....the board conveniently decided to ruin it for them and announced officially that the questions that year in all papers were going to consist of 'HOTS'(High Order Thinking Skills questions).Not that anyone was scared at first but the hype they created would have been enought to blow your mind!! What happened next? A scuicide! 'Congrats CBSE... you murdered an adolecent. Woohoo!'
Before trying to teach, why dont you try to learn?
According to me, What CBSE imparts isnt education, Its the Art of Cramming
P.S. This isnt over!
The fact that it sucks doesnt mean that it leaves me illiterate but it means that it stresses on teaching me just about every thing I don't need to know. Things that are irrelevant, unimportant, ancient, unpleasant and not cool. Of course, once in a while they do teach something that is vital to man but the stuff that precedes it is the ultimate SHIT!
If they teach you about the modern peiodic table..theyll first tell you about three failures, theyll tell you how its not done and then get to the real thing. If you ask me i'd rather just do a detailed study on the modern one.
The ultimate problem is not that they teach the history of all the modern science and maths(because it can help you get an idea of what youre going to do and why). The worst thing is that they ask this history in exams!! Informing is one thing...Making you waste your precious time and energy doing things that have been long surpassed by modernity is definitely another.
Another disparity is rote. In the preface of every text book these words are present- 'we attempt to discourage rote' -Gimme an effing break. That is smashing the limit of guilt conscience. Its the same as a madman saying ' I'm not mad '. Even the maths they teach involves rote.They strive to tell you that 'it happens' rather than why it happens, and when you ask why it happens, they say 'It just happens'.They think that by doing it again and again we can get it over with. But we can get it over with the moment we start it if yuo tell us whay it happens!! Whats the end result? They produce mindless and idiotic memorizers who have lost(or rather, never developed) their capacity to understand and their desire to know whats outside that text book.
Then of course there is the board's ruthless, unorganized and unpredictable behaviour. They do everything possible to make the lives of the students miserable. They think that by making our lives miserable, they can make us better indivisuals. 'Well..BZZZZ....wake up! when in the history that you have been making us memorize have you heard of people who earn success from torture?' They try to create regulations for the betterment of the system but their timing is bizzarre,cruel and unfair.
Just last year, at the time my batch was beginning 10th grade and the previous batch was going to give their board exams, their externals, their so-called life deciding exams....the board conveniently decided to ruin it for them and announced officially that the questions that year in all papers were going to consist of 'HOTS'(High Order Thinking Skills questions).Not that anyone was scared at first but the hype they created would have been enought to blow your mind!! What happened next? A scuicide! 'Congrats CBSE... you murdered an adolecent. Woohoo!'
Before trying to teach, why dont you try to learn?
According to me, What CBSE imparts isnt education, Its the Art of Cramming
P.S. This isnt over!
Saturday, January 24, 2009
The most dangerous drug
The most dangerous drug would be.....Procrastination. Its a drug because it gives short term pleasure but ultimately results in pain.
We have so many things to do that it is extremely easy to procrastinate. Its something we can do at any time and for any amount of time. we can procrastinate on anything(dunno if thats gramatically correct...but you get my point).We start doing something and end up getting carried away with something else.
We dont want to do whats difficult and so we procrastinate, finding ourselves time to locate an escape route from this hideous task that has been alloted to us. Its the easiest way out but the end results are disastrous. In most cases we conveniently forget about that task and end up doing it in the last minute, just before the deadline while saying' Crap! I should've finished this before'
Its something that is very tempting and easy and its human nature to give into temptations...so we do...and we taste the drug of procrastination. Of course we suffer the consequences of our first dose...but that doesnt stop us from tasting it again and again and again.
And we become addicted to it.
The reason why I have called it the most dangerous is that unlike alcohol, caffaine, nicotine, marijuana, coke and the like It doesnt put us in a state of semi consciousness or unconsciousness but keeps us completely conscious. The problem with that is- we are aware of the fact that we have some unfinished business and that haunts us as we sleep, as we play, as we read, even as we blog but still cant get to the job cause its too darn tough or uninteresting.
It doesnt harm our brain or heart but has a direct impact on our life, future and development.
No one has been able to discover a cure to this drug or its effects because its effects are permanant but the best solution any one could come up with is- 'Just Do It'.
We have so many things to do that it is extremely easy to procrastinate. Its something we can do at any time and for any amount of time. we can procrastinate on anything(dunno if thats gramatically correct...but you get my point).We start doing something and end up getting carried away with something else.
We dont want to do whats difficult and so we procrastinate, finding ourselves time to locate an escape route from this hideous task that has been alloted to us. Its the easiest way out but the end results are disastrous. In most cases we conveniently forget about that task and end up doing it in the last minute, just before the deadline while saying' Crap! I should've finished this before'
Its something that is very tempting and easy and its human nature to give into temptations...so we do...and we taste the drug of procrastination. Of course we suffer the consequences of our first dose...but that doesnt stop us from tasting it again and again and again.
And we become addicted to it.
The reason why I have called it the most dangerous is that unlike alcohol, caffaine, nicotine, marijuana, coke and the like It doesnt put us in a state of semi consciousness or unconsciousness but keeps us completely conscious. The problem with that is- we are aware of the fact that we have some unfinished business and that haunts us as we sleep, as we play, as we read, even as we blog but still cant get to the job cause its too darn tough or uninteresting.
It doesnt harm our brain or heart but has a direct impact on our life, future and development.
No one has been able to discover a cure to this drug or its effects because its effects are permanant but the best solution any one could come up with is- 'Just Do It'.
Friday, January 23, 2009
The Worst Thing About Bloggong
Do you know what the worst thing about blogging is? The oone reason why sooooooooooooooo many people stop their blog after the first post??
Its the lack of things to write about. Even if you do have a hundred topics in your head.. the problem is that they are all of your intrest or the interest of your friends(who most probably wont be reading your blog). Those topics are not in the interest of the general blogging or blog reading public. And you then tend to think 'why write if no one's gonna read?'. That is what leads to the eventuallity of loss of interest in the blog and later complete stagnation.
Before writing about the worst thing about blogging(my second post[this post] ) I was thinking of what to write about. I started an article about the ill effects of the education system i study in and gave up the idea because i would first have to give a detailed report on what the system is and why I hate it and why its actually not that bad but why, despite that I stll hate it. So that the general blog-reading public could relate to it and i could feel a sense of not having wasted my time writing about something no one would care about.
Then i thought about writing of what the problem is with having siblings...and then decided there there wasnt one and abandoned that project too.
You see two topics I started and stopped writing about.I was thoroughly disheartened at the end of the ordeal and was about to give up my blog on the day i started it(LOL!) but with a determined effort I though about what to write on..and this topic seemed perfect, because I have, in 2 hours understood what the best and worst thing about a blog is:It provides an outlet for all thoughts and creativity but requires a certain amount of planning and understanding.
:)
P.S. I assure you that i will give a detailed criticism about the CBSE(my education board) later.
Its the lack of things to write about. Even if you do have a hundred topics in your head.. the problem is that they are all of your intrest or the interest of your friends(who most probably wont be reading your blog). Those topics are not in the interest of the general blogging or blog reading public. And you then tend to think 'why write if no one's gonna read?'. That is what leads to the eventuallity of loss of interest in the blog and later complete stagnation.
Before writing about the worst thing about blogging(my second post[this post] ) I was thinking of what to write about. I started an article about the ill effects of the education system i study in and gave up the idea because i would first have to give a detailed report on what the system is and why I hate it and why its actually not that bad but why, despite that I stll hate it. So that the general blog-reading public could relate to it and i could feel a sense of not having wasted my time writing about something no one would care about.
Then i thought about writing of what the problem is with having siblings...and then decided there there wasnt one and abandoned that project too.
You see two topics I started and stopped writing about.I was thoroughly disheartened at the end of the ordeal and was about to give up my blog on the day i started it(LOL!) but with a determined effort I though about what to write on..and this topic seemed perfect, because I have, in 2 hours understood what the best and worst thing about a blog is:It provides an outlet for all thoughts and creativity but requires a certain amount of planning and understanding.
:)
P.S. I assure you that i will give a detailed criticism about the CBSE(my education board) later.
The First Dayyyy!
Well.... Ive wanted to do this for a long time but never got to it. I always thought I'd begin it later-after the exams, before i go for vacation, during vacation, - but then I thought that if I don't get to it now(That is 'if i don't start it at all') I'll never get down to it.
Many people start blogs and don't continue them, eventually forget about them and when their conscience(WTF is the spelling??) comes around haunting them about something they havent finished...they say 'I'll get bac to it' or ' We'll see' or truthfully stand up and with no regrets without any feeling or display of guilt or a sense of incompletness(is that a word?) say 'F**K IT !'
But i realised that if I don't start the blog in the first place...how am I gonna find out which one I am. :P
Many people start blogs and don't continue them, eventually forget about them and when their conscience(WTF is the spelling??) comes around haunting them about something they havent finished...they say 'I'll get bac to it' or ' We'll see' or truthfully stand up and with no regrets without any feeling or display of guilt or a sense of incompletness(is that a word?) say 'F**K IT !'
But i realised that if I don't start the blog in the first place...how am I gonna find out which one I am. :P
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