User:Johnleemk

In real life I'm a 14-year-old computer nerd from Malaysia. I'm half-Chinese and half-Filipino. I came to Wikipedia after discovering it through Google. Although originally contributing anonymously (my biggest regret is forgetting to login while writing Education in Malaysia), I eventually registered this account.

I hold strong(and oddly enough, generally fence-sitting) positions on politics and economics, and enjoy debating them. I'm also a proficient user of Linux, and a web developer who works with LAMP. I tend to contribute generally to articles related to computers and Malaysia(partially because of my dislike of the horrible education system and the bumiputra racism). I have, however corrected grossly wrong POV things such as the section related to education at Mahathir bin Mohamad. However, as part of my perfectionist self, I also correct spelling errors wherever I go, and occasionally create a new article or two, dreaming of the day it'll be featured on the front page. :-p My most recent article to which I made major contribution(s) to is Persekutuan Pengakap Malaysia, which was written almost entirely by me (and proofread by a scoutmaster). I have also been writing articles on the areas of my current residence, Damansara and Bandar Utama.

Like I said above, I fencesit on a lot of things, and sometimes trip myself up. For example, my two heroes are Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates, in no particular order. I can just hear the Windows/Linux fanboys taunting me now.

{rant beginning} The Malaysian education system sucks! The authors of the majority of our primary and secondary level textbooks couldn't be stupider if they had their brains removed (assuming they have any), and our notetaking system is so regulated that if you want to be able to use alternative forms of notetaking, you need to keep two sets of notes - one to show teachers, and one for yourself (the alternative note system). And despite all this, we have a thriving industry in books providing information missing in our textbooks supposedly crammed with knowledge, when the "textbooks" in fact consist of 60% useless pictures (who really needs to know what a particular artist's rendition of James Brooke's ship looked like when we won't be tested on it and we won't ever need it in real life)? {rant end}

My score on the automated version Are You A Wikipediholic Test is 47. Way too low. The real test gave me 82. Still too low. Darn.