Saturday, June 13, 2009

Update

A few updates:

1. Fake

A few months back I sort of encountered two people who had faked their degrees. One of them is a colleague who was sent to the UK to do her Masters. She came back in 2005 claiming to have graduated but for 4 years she failed to show any evidence of her graduation i.e. the certificate itself until a few months back when she produced a xerox copy of the cert but without showing the original. Upon checking with the university she was only given a certificate for taking a few courses. Anyways this person talks like she knows everything and lying to her is similar to breathing.

Another person is a student who had lied to her family members and probably to her employee that she had obtained her degree from the place that I work. One day I received an email from her brother asking me to verify her sister's claim of graduation. Based on many circumstances and evidences he doubted that the sister ever graduated. Upon checking it is confirmed that she did not complete her program, she left the program during the 3rd year and never came back. While being bombarded with questions and confrontations from her siblings she even faked an email from her to me and from me to her back. A liar will always be a liar, lying is like I said earlier breathing to these people. Mind you these two people are Muslim women who wearstudung.


2. Vacation

BB and I took a vacation to Siem Reap recently through Air Asia Go Holiday. We stayed at an excellent 4 star hotel and visited of course the temples: Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom and Bayon. The Cambodians are very nice people and they can speak English very well yet receiving Engligh Language lessons only two hours a week in schools. Unlike our own kind who learned English a few hours a week for 11 years and still can't utter a word of English. The Cambodians' extrinsic and instrinsic motivations must be very high.

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