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Most people should know Ping.sg? A Singaporean version of Digg that applies to local blogs (a good clone of my earlier project in 2005, yesterday.sgblogging.com, which died due to lack of commitement)?
It seems like one of my miserable blog entry made it to most popular in the last 24hrs, with only 44 reads and 9 pongs.
Its the iPhone entry.
Weird..
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Loading ...A ST Forum letter with a very creative heading…
Passed, but passed over
‘What is the use of wasting the nation’s resources when our universities cannot offer them a chance to study locally?’
MS KOH HWEE CHOO: ‘I refer to Mr Ang Kian Chuan’s letter last Thursday, ‘Prof, here’s why parents look to Aussie universities’. I am one of those parents. I have three sons. My first two sons studied in Australian universities because our local universities did not accept polytechnic diploma holders then, whereas Aussie universities offer exemptions for diploma holders. Now my third son, who is doing his national service, was rejected by the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University and Singapore Management University, although he achieved four H2 A-level passes, A for GP and B for Project Work. He scored seven As in his O Levels. He is very disappointed as he wants to study locally. He does not want to waste our hard-earned savings and wants to stay with his ageing parents. Given no choice, he must do what his brothers have done, apply to Australian universities. Will the local universities give him a second chance if he re-applies next year? What is the use of wasting the nation’s resources to train national servicemen when our own local universities cannot offer them a chance to study locally? Once our children go to a foreign land to study, they may build a career overseas, find their spouses there and settle there. So, do not blame them or call them ‘quitters’ for not coming back to Singapore, as they were rejected by our local universities first.’
Wah lao eh.. 7As for Olevel so what, it never fails to irritate me when parents can boast non-stop about how good that kids are supposed to be, focusing on all the good things (7As for Olevel, A for GP, B for Project Work {Actually A for GP and B for Project Work is average nia.. yours truly also scored the same as this kid}), and never elaborate about how the kid did for the H2 subjects. Passes? When in Singapore is passes for exams enough except for kids who want to smoke their parents for materialistic awards (Mummy! I pass my exam leh! Pass leh! I bet last time in school you never pass your exam right! See I so PrRO! Mummy buy iPhone for me!)?
“He does not want to waste our hard-earned savings and wants to stay with his ageing parents. Given no choice, he must do what his brothers have done, apply to Australian universities.” Don’t want waste the money of the ageing parents got very simple options one leh. Retake Alevel lor! Since the kid is soooooo good and so considerate with respect to the parents’ savings, why don’t he retake his examinations and try again? Scare what? My girlfriend got a few friends who didn’t do well the first time for Alevel and they couldn’t get into any local Uni. They retook the examinations and are happily in NUS enjoying its centuries old buildings now. The other way is to forget about Uni. There is a reason why the Local Unis reject this kid. He does not posses the necessary talent/intelligence/skill/mugging technique for it. So why try? You may just die!
“What is the use of wasting the nation’s resources to train national servicemen when our own local universities cannot offer them a chance to study locally? Once our children go to a foreign land to study, they may build a career overseas, find their spouses there and settle there. So, do not blame them or call them ‘quitters’ for not coming back to Singapore, as they were rejected by our local universities first.” Er…
Its not that the Universities don’t want to offer a place for your poor kid to study, dear Ms Koh, he simply couldn’t make it! He can always try again, retake the Alevel, but you and him chose the overseas route. You and you kid are quitters by choice, and not by chance as you put it.
So smart to blame the Uni for not having enough vacancies and not realising that it is your kid that failed to make the mark. Have you ever read the short story by a local write “The Coffin is too big for the hole” where the protagonist and the authority argues over whether it is the coffin that is too big or the hole given that was too small.
The level of intelligence of Singaporeans is raising all these years, but the level of maturity has fallen so badly, so much that a MOTHER of THREE KIDS can have less maturity than a 20 years old NSF (your’s truly). Oh my god. Does she not realise that if we are to give every random kid who wants (or the parents force him to want) to go to a local uni a place in the Uni, going to the Uni will not mean anything anymore and that will be an even more waste of resources and time — 4 years of studying in Uni in order not to be unemployed might be the scenario if everyone is given a Uni place.
If it is up to me, I would like to go back to the good old days with lesser Uni places. In that way, it will be real meritocracy. Now what I am seeing is endless Kaopei-trocracy.
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Loading ...Remember the entry about iPhone I wrote earlier last month?
iPhone is Next-Gen? You got to be kidding me!
Seems like I got a pretty cool reply!
K Kapilan Aug 14th, 2008 at 10:10 am Edit
@ azmiyogi
Dude, the iPhone is coming out on the 22nd of August. SingTel has yet to release a price list.
@ Mr. Admin man
Sir, I have to tell you that YOU have failed to understand what the iPhone is really about. Apple has always been about simplicity. That is what the iPhone is as well. An intuitive phone that even a construction worker could use (no offence intended). That is how simple this phone was intended to be y Apple. However, due to the heavy price tag, this phone was not too readily available to the masses.
Next thing, the iPhone, being built for simplicity, DOES NOT require a secondary camera. Seriously, who the hell video calls? I am pretty sure as hell that I most certainly do not. It is a redundant feature that the Japanese suddenly thought up off.
Batteries, since when had ANY Apple product (besides MacBook and MacBook Pro) ever have swappable batteries? I am sure iPods don’t… like seriously, the don’t… yet they are the MOST POPULAR, BEST SELLING mp3 players in the industry!
So seriously, if you are such a Linux fan, I suggest you do not write such a biased opinion of the iPhone. You must have single handedly turned off like 200 potential buyers (who have never used an Apple product before) already.
He stumbles my brain on how he says that iPhone is good because even a construction worker can use (showing off his elitism), and forgetting that most construction workesr can’t afford an iPhone so it doesn’t even matter whether they can use or not:)
Simplicity is NOT equal to lacking of feature. I mean, no vibration mode, no sms forwarding, no video conferencing, no video recording, no zooming in when using the camera, no contact forwarding etc… these are SIMPLE things that iPhone don’t have!
The lack of swappable battery is good because such product sells? Yeah, the masses have to keep buying new iPods because lipo batteries generally last only about 500 recharges… after that you will be faced with 3 options, carry on using your iPod and recharge it every hour, spend USD99 to replace a battery, or spend USD199 to buy a new iPod. Of course people would keep buying new iPods! Bestseller!
Wow, since the commenter debunks my entries so uh-erm well and insists that I have mistaken, his subconscious brain must still be in serious agreement with what I wrote because he said that my powerful blog entry must have put 200 people off buying iPhone!
Update: Hm… seems like I made a mistake. iPhone does has vibration mode, but the vibration was so weak almost cannot feel it:)
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Loading ...The wife of a regular officer wants to petition against the change in army uniform because she don’t find it sexy.
Dear all, I’m an army wife and my husband is a SAF regular army officer.
One of the many primary reasons I married my husband is because of his dashing uniform. We were fixed up by someone we knew mutually and had many email conversations over a month before we met. He sent me a picture of him in his no.4 uniform and immediately, I fell in love with the way he looks in it (i didn’t say i fell for him immediately). I felt myself swooning.
When we began dating, he invited me once to a parade in his camp and when I saw him in person in his no.4 uniform, I was sure and told myself I will make this man my husband. The whole get-up made my knees weak. On our wedding, he wore his no.1.
Anyway, I was horrified to find out that SAF was going to change the no. 4 uniform. What was worse is that the new uniform is unspeakably ugly. It looks like pyjamas and the camo print is hideous. The colours are gross too, with a lot of brown, very weird, looks like crap. The colors of the current one are perfect and manly. And the camo print of this current one is perfect too. The cut, lapels, badges, collar, cutting are perfect.
I don’t understand why they would change such a nice and flattering uniform. The current SAF army no.4 is the nicest and smartest and manliest army combat uniform throughout all the armies in the world.
I would like to ask if wives are asked for their opinions before this change was decided? Who decided this? As wives of our regular soldiers, we are in close contact with the uniforms as much as the soldiers are. And it is also a large part of our lives.
I fell for my husband because of the dashing and manly no.4 uniform. Many many other army wives believe that uniform is extremely flattering and sexy.
Can we seek some explanation or redress in some way?
I mean, ask your husband to wear the sexy no.4 while others wear the new one, then see who die first.
A change in the Camoe pattern (if indeed the new pattern is harder to spot in the jungle) is to better protect our soldiers… falling for a guy just because his uniform looks good is just too… shallow of a supposedly intelligent Singaporean.
But then, if the change in uniform even further lowers the birth rate in Singapore, then how:(
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Loading ...Here is an update of my Audio rig…
Cowon D2 4GB + 8GB SD Card
HybridMAX IC
GoVibe Petite +DAC
Ultimate Ears Super.Fi 5 Pro with Complys
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Loading ...From a 2wd Budget Buggy (Tamiya DT02)…
… to 4wd Race Spec Touring Car (Tamiya TA05)…
… Shiok ah!
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Loading ...MOE is now asking for people’s suggestion to name its new university. I was pretty curious about the whole thing and was wondering if I could make a quick buck naming the 4th University of Singapore as “The 4th University of Singapore” and promptly visited MOE’s page here: http://www.moe.gov.sg/schools/name-the-uni/
The Ministry of Education invites you to suggest a name for the new university!
Singapore’s new publicly-funded university will open its doors to students in 2011. It will provide rigorous and high-quality innovative degree programmes to students who want to learn across disciplines, hone their entrepreneurial skills, and be well-prepared for successful careers in the global knowledge economy.
Suggested names should be befitting of a premier educational institution in Singapore, and could reflect the qualities we hope to see in the new university and its students.
The naming exercise will end on 30 November 2008. Your suggestions will be put up to the New University Steering Committee for consideration.
We look forward to receiving your suggestions!
It seemed that no monetary reward was promised, but that does not stopped me from writing my proposed University name and explanation.
Suggestion of name for new university: “Uni@Changi”, or “iUni”, or “iChangi”
Explanation of Name:
XXX University of XXX. or [Insert Random word here] Technological University. Or the Growing Academic Yoyos School (GAYS). This kind of old naming convention although reflective of the venue, is so cliche and outdated. In modern day where naming conventions become more and more “hippy” so to speak, it would be cool if our new uni has a simple and straight forward while at the same time modernised name.
With this name it gives the new uni a more modern and different outlook, fitting of its new revolutionary image that can help Singapore step up and progress ahead and stay relevant with current workforce needs. Graduates from the other 3 universities just can’t cut it anymore. They are now only good for wasting various foreign imported students’ time on.
Singapore desperately need to cultivate a home brewed Steve Jobs, although it is not really publicized that Jobs did not finish his college education and his success is something that Singapore should not vainly try to emulate as it would just be a waste of “millions of dollars”. Already our University Town has turned into something geeks call “vaporware” (something that just vaporised) due to lack of funds. I praise MOE for the insight to not let additional funds go into waste in a naming contest, where someone get lots of money for naming “Marina Bay”, “Marina Bay”. But what then, will I get out of proposing a name? Like the common saying among Full Time National Serviceman slaving for the country, if not for wealth or fame, then for fuck?
This naming contest is an irony in itself. The fact that MOE needs suggestions for the uni’s name shows a blatant lack of creativity that the 4th uni seems to be set out to promote. Will the 4th uni be a case of the blind leading the blind? Time will tell.
For now, i just hope MOE names the 4th Uni as “Uni@Changi”, or “iUni”, or “iChangi”, or “4th University of Singapore”. I don’t give a damn. Hurry up and get it over with.
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