Well, I can't say I didn't expect a 'majority' to strongly oppose the government's consideration to make it compulsory to pass English to get the SPM certificate. After all, Malaysians have proven too many times that when it comes to making certain difficult, but necessary decisions, we'll vote to stay ignorant for as long as we can.

So you see, that's probably why so many concerned factions desire no change in the status quo of continuing stupidity. All in the name of not burdening our students (in the rural areas) further with the need to pass English in order to get an SPM certificate.

After all, in their eyes, this country doesn't need to grow. This country doesn't need to move with the rest of the world. Never mind that Hong Kong is considering to revise their curriculum and to reinstate English as the teaching medium for Science and Math. Never mind that corporations across the nations are lamenting on the quality of English amongst Malaysians up and coming bunch of 'highly employable' workers. Never mind that we have thousands of people scoring straight As and crying foul because 'boo hoo I can't get to become a Doctor, and I don't care that its because my results can't verify how good I am, I deserve to be a Doctor cos I got 20 As for SPM damn it!'… well, the 'increasing' number of splendid scorers in the country proves that we are a developing nation of on-print geniuses.

So by the time, the next bunch of inept people come out with an A in their SPM English paper, and you wonder why they're fine with saying 'I is very happy today', without blinking and eye, and that they have no idea what 'grammar' really means, you can't blame them. Nah. We have a caring bunch of older adults who can speak and write proper English, NOT willing to allowing an already inept government to do something right for a change.

I think the next time we want to blame the government for their stupid, illogical tactical decisions, we really want to stand back and pause for a moment. They're never allowed to make right decisions anyway, so who cares? Me? Given the choice, given the situation, if I were the government, since the people won't make me do anything right, I'll do my best to be as corrupt as possible. It's what they're rooting for anyway.