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Ten ways to make a difference

By OON YEOH

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
I often hear people, young and old alike, who say that there’s nothing they can do to make a difference. And thus, they have given themselves the license to be apathetic.
That’s the typical Malaysian tidak apa attitude. And it’s something […]

theCICAK on American public radio!

Kathy Corcoran, former San Jose Mercury News staff writer, produced a story about theCICAK for KQED, a San Francisco public radio station. It was aired on World Press Day, May 3 on Pacific Time, a weekly magazine that focuses on Asian issues in the United States and abroad. Corcoran spoke to Poh Si Teng, the […]

Blogging compulsory to pass class at Multimedia University (MMU)

By TIMOTHY TEOH
Want to know more about how to stack Pizza Hut salads, become a cowboy or care for pet hedgehogs?
You can learn all this and more on blogs hosted by Multimedia University (MMU). It’s the university’s twist in its “Engineers and Society” course this year. As an assignment, all students are given MMU-hosted blogs, […]

theCICAK IJOK EXCLUSIVE: Student Affairs Department and MIC Youth Brigade stalk and threaten university students on election grounds

Three men, in blue and yellow shirts, from the MIC Youth Brigade intimidated Tuan Mee estate residents who were looking at election survey forms handed out by students. A youth brigade member snatched a survey form from a participant.
By CHUA SUE ANN
I went to Ijok last Sunday as a student and an “election tourist.”
I went […]

AUDIO INTERVIEW: Malaysian Virginia Tech student says Harian Metro fabricated facts in story

By POH SI TENG
The world was horrified when news organizations reported the murderous rampage at Virginia Tech in the United States. The incident took place on Monday, 16 April.
The lone gunman, Cho Seung-Hui, shot and killed 32 students and faculty members with two handguns. Cho later turned the gun on […]

Where will badly designed targets lead us? Let’s study the NEP and students who chase A’s

By ELANOR TAN
Almost a decade has passed since I sat for my SPM. In those days, the highest possible numbers of A’s you could obtain was 10. Although almost irrelevant by today’s standard, achieving 10 A1’s was something quite rare – nation-wide, only slightly more than 50 students got them. After my SPM, I went […]

Good and bad in “chasing A’s” in SPM

By LEE ZHI WEI

I was delighted when theCICAK asked me to express my opinion about students “chasing A’s” and taking more and more subjects for the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia exam (SPM), which was recently highlighted in the newspapers. It was very refreshing because for once, since I received my SPM results, I was asked something […]

Comprende, can or not?

By FLORENTYNA LEOW
Raise your hands if you:
a) are born-and-bred Malaysian, but
b) don’t speak like your average Malaysian (or for that matter, any character from Phua Chu Kang), even if you went to a local school
c) cringe and writhe in agony whenever you hear people pronounce things wrongly
I had my hands up all this time. […]

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