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A case of an overprotective girlfriend living in her dream world

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Saw this on tomorrow.sg, thought would like to share it:

We were chatting on the phone last night when I asked him about trainings in camps. I asked if there’s any events like, normal people like us can enter the camps and view the trainings. He said yes. But all the trainings we see are all fake. Means the men inside rehearse for that day luh.

Fuck you Mindef.

I asked why are all the camps located in ulu places like Lim Chu Kang or deserted areas in Yishun? Answer is, because the government doesn’t want us to observe the trainings cause’ they are HELL. Not as simple as we all watch from TV or movies.

Fuck you Mindef twice.

Imagine all the boys enter NS and are ordered around, getting scolded even though they are at their best, eat shit food even though there’s a canteen and there are chefs who cook for them, wearing long sleeves and thick uniforms in the jungle with stupid green crayon makeups all smeared on their poor faces.

Imagine they are going to get hungry when they are on a mission in the jungle and what is left for them are worms on the ground for them to ease their hunger. Imagine they are going to get heatstroke from those thick clothes they are wearing. Imagine them being mistaken for being in pain due to carrying those heavy stuffs which are made of bullets and bombs.

Imagine my baby doing all these!! I’m so heartpain can? These are torture. And not making boys turn into men.

Fuck you Mindef thrice.

The higher ranks will be looking down on the younger ones and scream at them while spitting their smelly saliva on them. Yuck! I don’t want my baby to suffer this kinda bullshit again.

But he can’t be exempted. Why? CAUSE’ BLOODY HELL HE’S LIVING IN A ARMIED COUNTRY CALLED SINGAPORE, AND THEY CLAIMED THEIR SAFETY IS NO. 1.

About the safety part, I can’t deny cause’ if there’s no security, Fucker Mas Selamat might be putting bombs around the place and maybe my house. But only when he reads this.

Anyway, it’s true what! He’s a damn ol’ fucker. If I were him, and I were to run away from the detention centre, I would have kill myself and not to die in other people’s hands.

Baby’s stupid call back is about this damn fucker. If it’s not about this fucker, then it will be other missions for him like sending him to IRAQ. I heard from him lar. He might be crapping around with me. But some things are better to believe 55% of them. I’m scared. Really scared. :(

Boo boo boo boo Mindef.

Why ask those boys who ORDed? Why not recruit those who are going in, or still in there? Why wanna harm those who are already done with this NS shit?

What if baby gets hungry in the middle of the night? He always gets hungry. What if he gets cold in the jungle? He’s afraid of cold. What if baby wanna poo poo? There’s no toilet bowl with nice toilet papers for him. What if baby couldn’t get enough sleep? He will be snapping people’s heads off. What if baby can’t wake up in the morning? :(

Oh yes he’s gonna get screwed for be unable to wake up. :( Then I’ll be so sad. I won’t be there to wake him up by kicking him off the bed.

OH YES! I doubt there will be any beds for him to sleep on either!! :(((

Fuck you 4 times Mindef.

I thought you’re so rich? Get beds for our NS men lar! Why waste so much money on bombs, fighting war trucks and stupid army lorries? Health is the most important for a healthy and fit man! I thought you want healthy and fit men? Then get good beds for their poor backbones and let them sleep well, eat well and shit well.

Allow them to masturbate in the toilets. Why does maturbation become a crime? I ask, the head of Mindef, don’t you masturbate too?

Fuck you Mindef 5 times.

http://lascivious-salacity.blogspot.com/search/label/IMU.

What strikes me most is masturbation. This girlfriend actually felt unjust for his boyfriend and fuck Mindef for not letting his boyfriend masturbate in camp???

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Arcade Fun and some weird things at HongBao River

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Had fun with my dear today. As a form of valentine gift I was prepared to fork out $50 to let my dear have fun at the arcade, more specifically the machine with a rotating canal of sweets where you have to use the digger to dig up the sweet, place it on a moving platform that pushes the sweets to drop them in a chute. And if any of the sweets strike the Checker tab while falling, the player gets a chance at getting the Jackpot prize. Most of the time however, the player will get 1 or 2 or 3 pts, which will accumulate and the Jackpot prize will also payout when the player accumulates a total of 25 pts.

We were lucky, and managed to get those 25pts with 25 bucks. Along with the big bag of sweets we inevitably get, and a dragon ball figurine, there are also various coupons which allows us to play various UFO Catchers for free. We had a total of 6 credits, and with that we caught a Stitch and a Pooh Bear soft toy.

So in short, for $25, we got all these:

I feel that it is well worth the money. Don’t you?

Although this prize is quite useless:

Then we took a walk from Suntec City to AngBao River and saw a horrendous wire sculpture of what was supposed to be rabbit but looked like a pig with rabbit ears that had recently escaped out of a highly classified Genetics Research Lab.

We also witness how the War Memorial and the 2 durians (Esplanade) form a weird shape..

And that having such a fun boating game for kids is definitely a very good idea. They won’t have to worry about drowning.

I’ve also noticed that they position the God Of Wealth, Cai Sheng at the same position every year. Now I know why.


(The photo above was slightly digitally modified to make the Maybank building larger)

Still, I feel it rather weird that the fun stuffs are position side by side with places of sorrow. You know how the Chinese avoid funerals and deaths during New Year.

Below are 2 pictures where they obviously did not respect our glorious dead, or heel their cultural traditions.

Have fun everyone, and a late Happy Chinese New Year to all!

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Go ITE directly. Stop wasting your time.

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“Go ITE instead.”

Imagine that is what your principal said to you during the first week of school in a new year, after you have worked so terribly hard in the examinations so that you get into Secondary 5 and will be able to take the O levels to further your future education by going to a Junior College or a Poly.

The principal told a reporter, “Some…who don’t qualify for poly will end up in the ITE anyway, so they might as well go direct to the ITE.”

When further questioned, she said, “It’s a fact.”

Does she even care about the kind of effort less academically inclined students have to put in in order to go this far and be able to take the O Levels? No. She literally told them, don’t waste your time. You won’t make it. Go ITE now.

How disheartening.

Worst, this principal undermined the fantastic marketing efforts that the ministry and ITE put in over the years in order to alter the view of the general public - that ITE is an holistic institution and not a collector of less academically inclined students.

Yet, in today’s newspaper, Minister of State for Education, Lui Tuck Yew is quick to stand behind her. He said, “The tone of a principal’s message to Secondary 5 students may not have gone down well, but it was one that had to be delivered, for the students’ sake.”

I give an example. If I am outside on the street, and someone is right in front of me, blocking my direction of travel. If I were an untactful idiot I would have said, “Fuck off la, cheebye!” If I am more civilized, I would say, “Excuse me, please.” Same message, different tones. Totally different impact and outcome. Is the fact that message had to be delivered a good justification to disregard the tone that the principal had used?

After I say “Fuck off la, cheebye!” to the person and on the verge of getting beaten to death, can I then explain away the tone of my message by saying what National Institute of Education, Rear-Admiral (NS) Lui said, “it was important to separate the ‘tone’ from the ’substance’ of the message.” ?

And in my last moment on earth, perhaps I can further tell my attacker, as if to save my own grace before I die, “I can calibrate the tone. I can soften it, improve on the presentation, but you really were blocking my way.’”

Furthermore, while I am in hell, I still refuse to admit I am wrong,
“‘My message affected you, provoked you and it impacts you negatively, and it’s an excuse. Or you can stand up tall, just take it gracefully and accept that I am a bastard for shouting ‘Fucking off la, cheebye’ at you, and move out of the way so that I can pass.”

Further more, what category of human beings does the principal’s tone put her under? Is she even qualified to be an educator? Lest a commuter on the street.

What are the reasons behind her action?
(The following are my own humble opinions that should be regarded with a pinch of salt. I am only speculating here. None of the below may be true.)

I suspect she look down on her students. It is common knowledge that academically inclined students tended to look down on students who are not. Being a high flier in the education industry, looking at a bunch of less academically inclined students struggling to improve their future careers and paths MAY seem to her like ants struggling to survive after the onslaught of a big spray of pesticide. Laughable and fruitless. Waste of time. Forget it and just go ITE (or in the case of the ants, heaven) directly. Stop wasting your time.

Another possible reason for her action was perhaps to boast up her school’s ranking. By getting rid of the weaker students, the school’s ranking will definitely go up. As straight forward as that.

Perhaps the least plausible reason was that the principal’s words were “wake-up” call that must be delivered. As illustrated in the earlier example, however, a wrong tone is a wrong tone. Despite the fact that the gist of the message to be conveyed is the same, using the wrong tone has the wrong impact. It can be considered a different kind of message altogether. The principal certainly has not embraced herself in the mind boggling world of English literature before.

I think this incident is a wake-up call to all educators out there. For them to stop being so full of themselves, for them to be more tactful towards their students, for them to really deserve their high pay and educator perks, for them to behave more like a principal, respect their students, and not view school ranking as defining stones on their career.

How successful you are as an educator does not depend on the ranking you achieved for your school, it despends on how you have touched your students an inspired them. In this case, the principal may not even deserve to be called an “educator”.

Quotes
A teacher affects eternity:
he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams
(Me: So what kind of influence did this principal cast on her poor students?)

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state,
than that of the man who instructs the rising generation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Me: Are her actions noble?)

The important thing is not so much
that every child should be taught,
as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
John Lubbock
(Me: “Fuck Olevels. Go ITE directly. Stop wasting your time. You won’t make it.” Oh my..)

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life,
those the art of living well.
Aristotle
(Me: From a parent of one of the students: “‘It is very sad when your principal doesn’t have faith in you and will not give you a chance.’ “)

We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own.
Ben Sweetland
(Me: …)

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken
joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
(Me: Again, “Fuck Olevels. Go ITE directly. Stop wasting your time. You won’t make it.” Oh my..)

Teaching is not a lost art,
but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun

A master can tell you what he expects of you.
A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
Patricia Neal

And finally,

A child miseducated is a child lost.
John F. Kennedy

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References:
Principal’s ‘wake-up call’ to Sec 5 students had to be ‘conveyed’
Principal’s words of advice to Sec 5 students ill-chosen
Sec 5 class advised: Go to ITE instead
Principal’s ITE advice ‘had to be delivered’
Inspirational Teachers Quotes and Sayings

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Note to fellow regular readers: I realised that after going into hibernation for so long I couldn’t write as well as before. Sorry about that. I’ll try to blog regularly once again so as to sharpen the saw and prevent it from rusting even more.

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A big JOKE from NUS

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Facebook@NUS

Wanna throw more than just a cow at your Friends on Facebook? You can!
The School of Computing will be offering a new 4-MC Facebook Programming module on next Semester (AY2007/2008, Semester 2) - CS3216 : Software Development on Evolving Platforms. This is your chance to be a part of this new global Internet phenomenon (Weikiat: This is NOT a new internet thingy. Facebook was founded THREE years back, in 2004. Only now did Singaporeans wake up to the existence of Facebook. Please, what you don’t know, doesn’t mean don’t exist.), currently valued at some US$15 billion. (Weikiat: Using money to attract students, eh?)
This new module is not your traditional software engineering course. Enrollment will be open to students of all faculties and students will work in small inter-disciplinary teams to create their killer Facebook applications. Programming experience for non-SoC students is not a pre-requisite (since work will be done in teams). (Weikiat: Teamwork = auto acquired programming skills? WTF?)
As it turns out, Trey Phillips , the winner of Facebook F8 Hackathon, is a philosophy major. This suggests that ANYONE without programming background can be a Facebook Developer. (Weikiat: I play violin, collect stamps, loves to slack. Does this mean that ANYONE who plays the violin, collect stamps or love to slack will be a programming material? What kind of logic is there!!! NUS!!) The nominal pre-requisite is thus CS1101, but students who do not have formal programming background but who have a keen interest in e-entrepreneurship or a background in design. (Weikiat: I can’t make sense of this sentence.) Students will not be assessed individually, but in groups, so individual programming proficiency will not be assessed. (Weikiat: So you don’t need to know programming to do a programming project:) Rather interesting. The only way I know of to achieve this is to rip others’ work from the internet.) Students need only to be able to contribute substantively to their team projects. (Weikiat: So who will end up doing the actual work?). The success of social networking applications depend a lot on the concept and execution rather than good programming ability. The students can develop their applications in their language of choice, but will likely use PHP or Ruby with mySQL. (Weikiat: So you say students no need programming experience, and then ask them to develope it in a language of their choice? Will they end up programming in Chinese? or English? Or Hindu? And you can even predict the language used!)
Assessment will be project-based and there will be no examination component. The course will begin with several lectures on the fundamentals of web development. Subsequently, students will work in teams to analyze and critique existing Facebook apps in a series of seminars. There will be three team-based assignments and a final team project of the students’ choice. Students are welcome to use this opportunity to develop applications that have commercial potential or can be used as entries to Startup@Singapore. (Weikiat: If apps developed a bunch of NUS students without any programming experience [people whom they claim to accept] can have commercial potential or be submitted to Startup@Singapore… oh well.. what is the world coming to? I am trying my best not to be too negative here. I may be wrong though.)
Places for the course in this initial offering will be limited and some places will be reserved for non-SoC students. To avoid timetable conflicts for students from other faculties and because we be inviting external experts to give occasional guest lectures, the lectures and seminars will be held on Monday evenings from 6.30 to 8.30 pm.
We expect that we will have more students who are keen to take this course than the available places. To ensure a diversity of talent and students have the necessary background for the course, places will not be assigned by CORS bidding. Instead, interested students are to submit a personal statement (with their matriculation number clearly stated) (Weikiat: I thought you said ANYONE can join, and in CAPS somemore? Now you admit that background is a factor.) to XXX@XXX.COM by 15 December 2007. Students will be informed by 26 December 2007 if they are offered a place in the upcoming offering of the new course (and students will automatically be pre-registered for CS3216 on CORS if their bid to take the class is successful).
The personal statement should address the following questions:
(i) Why do you want to take the course?
(ii) Describe your background and how you think it would enable you to contribute to the diversity and vibrancy of the new course and to the team projects.
(iii) Describe a cool Facebook app that you *really* want to build. Explain why you think your app is really cool.
Students are welcome to throw in a resume or portfolio of sorts if they think it would be helpful in demonstrating that they have what it takes to succeed in this new module. (Weikiat: I can do it. Once I tell them I am a philosophy major, you will sure let me in!)
Since this is the first time that we will be offering this module, an information session will be held at 4 pm on 16 November 2007 (Friday) in Seminar Room 3B (COM1/213). Interested students are welcome to come learn more about the course at the information session. A course information document with more details on the proposed course is also attached.
This is your chance to let your imagination run wild and do something cool — and add “Facebook Developer” to your resume while you’re at it! :-) (Weikiat: Eeks! What the hell!)

The funny things aside,

I understand perfectly well what direction NUS is driving into. Cultivating creativity and embracing the latest change and developements in Web 2.0. However, by obviously trying to convince students without any necessary background that they can take part too, what are they thinking? Just state the fact. Something like “You need php or other relevant server side programming language for this project. If you do not know, but have the passion, creativity, and a killer idea which you think will bring you to the stars, you may team up with others with similar drive but also with programming prowess.” Won’t that be better than saying that ANYONE can do the job, just because the winner of that competition majors in something else?

I believe the rationale of creating this course is good, and will benefit the students. I applaud their initiative. I sincerely hope that NUS will recover swiftly from the current low ranking.

But this notice they put up? Its a big joke.

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Old man, old brain, no brain.

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From STOMP.com.sg

2 wrongs - she eats, they let her
STOMPer Clement, 60, was riled by the woman eating on the train, as well as the four NSmen standing in front of her who did nothing and let her continue eating.

Clement told STOMP on Sunday (29 July) that the woman was sitting near him at about 5pm on Friday while waiting for the train at the platform of Kranji MRT Station.

“She started eating but I thought let it be,” he said. “When the train arrived, she put everything inside the bag.”

“During the journey, she took out a bottle of water and started eating a second bun. She continued eating even as the announcement came on, reminding commuters not to eat and drink on board,” he said.

“I couldn’t take it anymore. I approached her and asked her ‘you’re an educated lady right? Surely you understand instructions?’ She stopped eating right away,” he said.

But Clement was just as upset with the four Nsmen standing in front of the woman. “They behaved as if they did not see it or that there was nothing wrong,” he said.

Three of them later got off the train, while the remaining one sat next to Clement.

The STOMPer had to talk to him. “His name is Song. I asked him what he thought of my action and I explained it is our job to tell people when they have broken the rules.

“He gave the impression that it’s better to let it be and told me maybe I need not have been so harsh with the woman.”

What also bothered Clement was that other commuters saw it but did nothing.

“What if they spot a bag and it could be a security threat? We have to be civic minded enough to do something instead of thinking someone else will do that,” he said.

After that conversation, Clement received a surprise email from Song. “He thanked me for enlightening him and promised that he would do better next time.

“I was impressed with him for being so forthright in telling me I should not have been so harsh with the woman. I accept this - and I think I could have been more polite with her,” he told STOMP.

“This is part of national education. As a 60-year-old man, I am concerned that not all our young people understand that we all have a role to play,” he said.

What should I think of this 60 years old man?
Retarded? Lame? Bo liao? Or morally upright?

Whatever the case, go spend more time on 4Ds and horses races…

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Planet of the Apes may just become reality…

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From National Geographic,

For the first time, great apes have been observed making and using tools to hunt mammals, according to a new study. The discovery offers insight into the evolution of hunting behavior in early humans.

A chimpanzee modified a branch by breaking off one or two ends and, frequently, using its teeth to sharpen the stick. The ape then jabbed the spear into hollows in tree trunks where bush babies sleep.

When hunting in the hollows, “almost without fail, every time they would withdraw the tool, they would sniff it or lick it, and then proceed to stab it in there again,” said Jill Pruetz, an anthropologist with Iowa State University who led the research in Senegal

Watch the video here.

One day, the chimps may just take over the world…

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Valentine in Muslim Country

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Muslim authorities
‘Decry Valentine’s Day’
In Malaysia and Brunei, they say it conflicts with Islamic principles, could cause moral erosion. AP
Feb 13, 2007

Religious officials are urging couples in Muslim-majority Malaysia and Brunei to shun Valentine’s Day tomorrow, saying it conflicts with Islamic principles and could cause moral erosion.

The warning came as florists, hotels and restaurants ramped up promotions for the occasion, offering roses inscribed with sentimental proclamations, idyllic seaside escapes and candlelight dinners with popular singers serenading lovers.

There are no laws banning celebration in either country, which advocate moderate Muslim teachings, but some officials noted that Saint Valentine was a Christian and feared that romantic revelries might prompt impure behaviour among young people.

“From the point of view of Islam, this is not an advisable practice,” said Muhammad Ramli Nuh, a state UMNO law-maker. “Unmarried couples might come together and mingle with each other in unacceptable ways.”

“We feel it is inappropriate for businesses to hold Valentine’s Day programmes for couples,” said Muhammad Ramli, deputy chairman of the government’s Islamic development council in Malaysia’s northeastern Terengganu state.

In neighbouring Brunei, spiritual leaders used mosque sermons last Friday to express concerns that couples “might not just send greetings and gifts but … go beyond the limit and even engage in promiscuous activities.”

“It is sad to note that we also celebrate such an occasion without knowing its origin, whether it is permissible in Islamic beliefs or otherwise,” the imams said in a message carried by Brunei media. “Valentine’s Day is not a celebration needed among Muslims.”

Muslims should not “follow Western cultures in the name of modernisation without knowing that such culture is against the Islamic teachings,” the message added.

But the advice did not deter businesses from capitalising on Valentine’s Day.

One Brunei florist reportedly imported 1,000 roses with phrases such as “Thinking of You” and “You Are Mine” inscribed on their petals.

A beach resort in Terengganu publicized a “Romantic Interlude Package” that includes spa treatments and a tree-planting ceremony to commemorate each couple’s stay.

Saint Valentine is believed to have been a 3rd century martyred Roman priest or bishop.
Theories of how the holiday became a celebration of lovers include that it stemmed from Valentine’s Feb. 14 feast date falling close to a pagan love festival or that it was because mid-February was seen in Europe as the time of year when birds start mating.
Associated Press

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