Wednesday, June 18, 2008

English teachers, cry your hearts out.

Had a look at a compilation of research abstracts from the National Research and Innovation Competition (NRIC) 2008 which Seng Kiat and Shing Wei attended last month. They did a great job with their research and presentation, but unfortunately didn't win. When I asked Seng Kiat about the competition, he told me it was just a big joke. Didn't understand why till I read the abstracts. There were a few good ones, but sad to say most of them were half-baked and strung together with fragmented English. The winner of the competition didn't look that impressive to me either. In my opinion there were better ones in the list but God knows what other 'criteria' were taken into account when judging. OK la my English is pretty crap also. But if you're a uni student doing a presentation for your research/invention, there has to be some sort of standard right? I mean, you gotta at least be able to string together a complete sentence right? I knew the standard of English in my country is bad (and getting worse as the years go by), but this one is so bad that it's 'good'.


University: *suffice to say, it's a local uni....should I embarrass them by putting the name?*
Category: Social Transformation and Creative Art
Project Title: HIVEGON

The bee hive is used for breed the bee. Today, the honey used in around the world. The honey is a good business. Because the honey very expensive. The honey has more each for health. The bee also gives more benefit for human, because the bee can do the pollination process. So, human take the benefit from the bee process. For the gardener it the big benefit, because the bee can give the pollination process. So, gardener must breeders the bee for take a big profits. The bee hive has a, the name is a HIVEGON. It's because the bee hive has a subject matter from the hexagon or honey comb. The bee hive also solves many problems from the existing product. With the bee hive, breeders can take the honey be easy, because breeders not will go to the jungle and climb the Tualang tree again. Breeders can use the bee hive in their own garden or farm. With that skill, breeders can take 2 benefits in one time.

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