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Friday, November 27, 2009
The Telephone & My Exam Paper
Assalamualaikum dan salam 1 Malaysia
Some nostalgic moments I like to share with all ...
The Inventor's Place
Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on March 3, 1847. Over the years I wish to personally see the house where he was born. I just wanted to feel its wall with my own hands. I managed to visit the house in 1988. And, feel the wall of that particular house I did! It was ordinary. The house was ordinary. But, the child born in that house was indeed extra ordinary! Although not directly responsible for the present breed of wireless mobiles which is now the in-thing of the modern generation, Alexander Graham Bell did lay the foundation for these. Didn’t he?
The OSC Exam
In the sixties the Overseas School Certificate (OSC) exam papers were printed and marked in England. Form five students in Malaysian schools sitting for the examination had to answer in English for all subjects except Bahasa and other vernacular languages. Oxford University Press (OUP) and the University of Cambridge Press were the two university printers involved. These were highly guarded security areas. Outsiders allowed into the premises can actually be finger counted. I visited the press at Oxford in the eighties. Printing and marking of the above exam papers in England ceased when our very own examinations syndicate (Lembaga Peperiksaan Malaysia) came into existence and took over operations in later years.
Some nostalgic moments I like to share with all ...
The Inventor's Place
Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on March 3, 1847. Over the years I wish to personally see the house where he was born. I just wanted to feel its wall with my own hands. I managed to visit the house in 1988. And, feel the wall of that particular house I did! It was ordinary. The house was ordinary. But, the child born in that house was indeed extra ordinary! Although not directly responsible for the present breed of wireless mobiles which is now the in-thing of the modern generation, Alexander Graham Bell did lay the foundation for these. Didn’t he?
The OSC Exam
In the sixties the Overseas School Certificate (OSC) exam papers were printed and marked in England. Form five students in Malaysian schools sitting for the examination had to answer in English for all subjects except Bahasa and other vernacular languages. Oxford University Press (OUP) and the University of Cambridge Press were the two university printers involved. These were highly guarded security areas. Outsiders allowed into the premises can actually be finger counted. I visited the press at Oxford in the eighties. Printing and marking of the above exam papers in England ceased when our very own examinations syndicate (Lembaga Peperiksaan Malaysia) came into existence and took over operations in later years.
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