Some personal views

Topic…..the universal technical subjects of Science and Maths currently taught in English to be reverted to BM.

A lot has been said, argued, debated, polled, petitioned recently and yet the people who we have elected, supposedly to serve, hear and understand the voters (aka the mass public) are NOT HEARING! Acting (with heavily coated false sympathy) yes but really hearing and doing something about, I can only wonder. *eyes rolled*

Since their own children themselves are NOT ATTENDING normal public schools, I can only wonder whether they really care at all? Do they really understand the consequences of their actions?

Why LOWER the urban education standard just to fit the rural areas? Logically, it should be the opposite!!! Instead we seem to be going 'backwards'. More should be done for the rural education and alleviate their standards. Wouldn’t this be more cost effective and better for the country’s economy in the long run?

Needless to say I am disappointed at the mandate decision despite strong protest from the majority of the public. Apparent freedom of speech but only defening silence is heard!! We are on 'mute' I suppose?

After more than 50 years, one would have thought that they would have got it right by now. Instead after every few years the entire system is overhauled and rebooted from scratch. I would have thought we’d be going somewhere, building from the existing blocks, learning from errors, but it looks like we are forced to accept a longer and drifting route to a place called ‘NO-WHERE’. Building and fostering a 'lost generation' are we??

The international private schools will probably benefit MOST from this.

The children of middle to lower class earners will probably stand to LOSE the most.

Our future education system looks as clear and bright as our current gloomy hazy sky. I fear for our children’s generation and future.

Pierced by selfish power-obsessed short-sighted political gains. Humanity at its rawest!

While the masses, left to suffer and co-exist with the fallen crumbs.

Coke eruption (Experiment #1)

Master Prince got pretty excited when I told him that we'd be doing some science experiments together.

Remember watching this on MythBusters a while back.

All you need is coke and some mentos sweets.

Suppose to get plain mentos but after walking to 3 shops we finally gave up and bought 'iced flavoured' ones only to discover the 4th shop had what I wanted, sigh!

We got one normal coke and diet coke to see whether the jet eruption would be different. Of course, it would be better planned if you got them the same sized bottles!!

The trick is to ensure that you drop at least 5 sweets into the coke all at once and then move out of the way - least you don't mind getting a little wet and sticky. DH was afraid of getting drenched so he only managed to drop one mentos and see how tall it shot up! I would have stuffed the drops myself if I were not taking the pictures :)

Master Prince had a go with the smaller coke bottle - had some reaction but not as tall with the larger coke bottle. A very simple and quick experiment - think it took longer gathering the materials together but FUN all the same!

You can read more here - the MythBusters "concluded that the caffeine, potassium benzoate, aspartame, and CO2 gas contained in the Diet Coke and the gelatin and gum arabic ingredients of the Mentos all contribute to the jet effect".


Hm.....considering a contest on who can make the tallest coke jet, anyone game?