more & more straight-A students

Read the following tweet this morning:-

 

RT @SinChewPress: 2010年初中評估考試（PMR）成績標青，是過去4年來成績最好的一次，總共有3萬零863人考獲全科A（7.02%），比去年增加了2千675人。

it means:”Excellence 2010 PMR result, the best achievement over the past 4 years. There’re 30863 students obtained straight As (7.02%), an increase of 2675 students compared with last year”

 

I am wondering every year we're producing so many full A students from public exam. Is this a sign that we hv better students quality? Or exam is getting easier? Or ironically they are good 'exam answering machine'? How these excellence results link to their personalities, character building and mentality?

Why Study Plants?

Impressed with the launch of “Teaching Tools in Plant Biology” in one of the high-impact Plant Biology’s journals- The Plant Cell.

 

I believe most of my friends know that I am a postgraduate student in Plant Science. The first article- Why Study Plants? clearly illustrate my intention & passion to carry out studies in this area.

 

This article is written for general public, easily understandable without the excessive used of scientific jargon. You can download the article &/ power point presentation at (YouTube video is available as well):

 

http://www.plantcell.org/teachingtools/TTPB1.dtl

 

Hope you enjoy reading this interesting article. Cheers

 

Snowing is great, but……… =.=’’’ @-@

More pictures available at:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=254256&id=757132962&l=e15ac0e465

Although it looks good, but it is challenging when ice formed on the next day. Icy road is slippery and sometime could be dangerous. (imagine you’re skating on ice with sport shoes)



Luckily I got a ice-spiker recently, this helps me to walk comfortably. 



Enjoy your snow then :)