Since we were on the topic of censorship, what's better than mentioning that Nanyang Chronicle, the student-run campus newspaper, censored an article about Chee Soon Juan's visit to NTU in August 2008?
Read the article here: http://theonlinecitizen.com/2008/09/ntu-censors-campus-news-coverage-of-chee-soon-juan-visit/
A fellow NTU student, pointed to us this article, if not the issue would be throughly forgotten.
And what was the answer of why it was censored? Chair of NTU WKWSCI, said, "“there was a feeling of concern over the use of student media to publicise and promote the unsolicited views of an uninvited person to the campus.”
What do you all feel? was Nanyang Chronicle right to axe the article? Let us know through a comment below!
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
Of Student Union and the Old Can A
Remember last semester after a slew of negative blogging about NTU took the school by storm? Which lead NTU to lay ground rules "after consultation" with the Student Union, that all blogs religious and political in nature, HAVE to be registered with MDA, and sought approval with the school. Freedom of speech anyone? Opps, i heard a 'DIONK' in the drain downstairs, someone must have dropped a rock in it.
You can read this article, blogged by a fellow NTU student, on this issue: http://irreligiously.blogspot.com/2010/09/students-required-to-register-their.html
After the new ground rules was sent, Well, in fact, most students ignored it; some bloggers were infuriated by it; and the Student Union, well, they purrred like a obedient cat in front of the Students' Affairs Office.
Well, as i mentioned on my blogpost on tues, that we received an anonymous contribution from a fellow student who was displeased with the Student Activity Centre (SAC), as just to serve to Student Union (SU), Welfare Service Club (WSC), Cultural Activities Club (CAC) and the Sports Club, and unable to cater to the needs of the student body of being a place for students to study. He wanted to see the Old Can A, which was pulled down for the SAC, retain the old elements of the Old Can A. And not just some meeting point for the SU, WSC, CAC and the Sports Club; and for them to store their stuff in them.
We provide the first few paragraphs of his contributions:
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The only constant is change. First, it has to be made clear that we are not against development in NTU. There is always some renovation going on in some part of the university. If we’re lucky though, instead of seeing the university just making renovations, we get a new building (Still pray-ing those 3+5 New Halls will materialize).
Far from being rebels or iconoclasts, we just want to make sure that some of the more genuine opinions of the major stakeholder (that’s the students by the way) of this university are heard.
The SU and Nanyang Chronicle are clearly inadequate in this role because they are mere mouthpieces for the administration. We don’t blame you if you are one of the students. We know that these student organizations were established with a pretence of independence and pseudo-neutrality; so much for student leadership and student journalism.
Let’s just address 2 issues here. First, is the place that many students fondly refer to as “Old Can A” or OCA.
Besides being centrally located, OCA has many qualities which are probably unappreciated by the administration. It’s greatest quality is that it is huge and open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. With over 23,000 undergraduates, study areas within the university become a scarcity as the weeks go by. Indeed there are many study areas in NTU, but only OCA can accommodate 1,100 people.
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You can read the rest of the article here: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B0xYOPG2yvilN2VjMjVmYTktZTFhNy00OWUzLWJhMDctOTk3MWMyOWRkYTQ0&sort=name&layout=list&num=50
PS I actually emailed SU on the issue of the new guidelines on blogging last sem, but they gave me a taichi-ed reply. If you all are interested, probably I'll repost it here :)
What do you all feel about the Old Can A? Let us know below through a comment!
You can read this article, blogged by a fellow NTU student, on this issue: http://irreligiously.blogspot.com/2010/09/students-required-to-register-their.html
After the new ground rules was sent, Well, in fact, most students ignored it; some bloggers were infuriated by it; and the Student Union, well, they purrred like a obedient cat in front of the Students' Affairs Office.
Well, as i mentioned on my blogpost on tues, that we received an anonymous contribution from a fellow student who was displeased with the Student Activity Centre (SAC), as just to serve to Student Union (SU), Welfare Service Club (WSC), Cultural Activities Club (CAC) and the Sports Club, and unable to cater to the needs of the student body of being a place for students to study. He wanted to see the Old Can A, which was pulled down for the SAC, retain the old elements of the Old Can A. And not just some meeting point for the SU, WSC, CAC and the Sports Club; and for them to store their stuff in them.
We provide the first few paragraphs of his contributions:
________________________________________________________________________________
The only constant is change. First, it has to be made clear that we are not against development in NTU. There is always some renovation going on in some part of the university. If we’re lucky though, instead of seeing the university just making renovations, we get a new building (Still pray-ing those 3+5 New Halls will materialize).
Far from being rebels or iconoclasts, we just want to make sure that some of the more genuine opinions of the major stakeholder (that’s the students by the way) of this university are heard.
The SU and Nanyang Chronicle are clearly inadequate in this role because they are mere mouthpieces for the administration. We don’t blame you if you are one of the students. We know that these student organizations were established with a pretence of independence and pseudo-neutrality; so much for student leadership and student journalism.
Let’s just address 2 issues here. First, is the place that many students fondly refer to as “Old Can A” or OCA.
Besides being centrally located, OCA has many qualities which are probably unappreciated by the administration. It’s greatest quality is that it is huge and open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. With over 23,000 undergraduates, study areas within the university become a scarcity as the weeks go by. Indeed there are many study areas in NTU, but only OCA can accommodate 1,100 people.
_________________________________________________________________________________
You can read the rest of the article here: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B0xYOPG2yvilN2VjMjVmYTktZTFhNy00OWUzLWJhMDctOTk3MWMyOWRkYTQ0&sort=name&layout=list&num=50
PS I actually emailed SU on the issue of the new guidelines on blogging last sem, but they gave me a taichi-ed reply. If you all are interested, probably I'll repost it here :)
What do you all feel about the Old Can A? Let us know below through a comment!
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Dress code in NTU?
http://edvantage.com.sg/edvantage/news/schoolnews/505170/NTU_now_allows_shorts_and_sandals.html
The NTU dress code was revised in December last year, to allow students to wear sandals and shorts to school.
Pertaining to the topic of dress code, SMU's mypaper publication brought up the issue of the current dress code in NTU: No cleavage, nor exposure of the thighs.
whaaaaaaat? so you mean shorts was only recently allowed? So what were students wearing previously before the relaxation of the NTU dress code? Sarong length skirts and bata school shoes polished darlie shiny white? and what what whattt? no cleavage nor thighs to be exposed? I'm sure we've seen our fair share of shorts and cleavage deep enough to grip a pen in between those......... erm nevermind.
And we have came to a conclusion that the NTU dress code has become highly irrelevant in these times. (Like the repelling of the Penal code 377A in today's society.) which is highly irrelevant In such times of uncertainty, how would you know what to dress?
Faculty tee shirts shirts are okay, if you are lazy. But not with fbts and slippers.
track shoes, take on their literal meaning, for all occasions, provided its on the tracks. anything where yes, a big no no.
girls, please don't compete shorts length with lians. you'd definitely lose. soon all they would be wearing g-string length shorts, with no back pockets attached.
Yes, don't be a geisha, either. (i couldn't help it but repost it again HAHAHA)
And if you are unsure, follow @NTUFJ, so you won't commit fashion suicide in school.
Of course, we take in evidence of fashion fails for the judge for sentencing. email all traces of evidence at to voice.of.NTU@gmail.com and you'll be on a Witness Protection Programme, your identity will be secret with us.
On the issue of school rules, we received an pdf article from an anonymous source, about a fellow student who was displeased with the Student Activity Centre (SAC), as just to serve to SU, WSC, CAC and the Sports Club, and unable to cater to the needs of the student body of being a place for students to study. Interesting? definitely. We'll be running that article this friday, so do check back this friday, 28th january!
The NTU dress code was revised in December last year, to allow students to wear sandals and shorts to school.
Pertaining to the topic of dress code, SMU's mypaper publication brought up the issue of the current dress code in NTU: No cleavage, nor exposure of the thighs.
whaaaaaaat? so you mean shorts was only recently allowed? So what were students wearing previously before the relaxation of the NTU dress code? Sarong length skirts and bata school shoes polished darlie shiny white? and what what whattt? no cleavage nor thighs to be exposed? I'm sure we've seen our fair share of shorts and cleavage deep enough to grip a pen in between those......... erm nevermind.
And we have came to a conclusion that the NTU dress code has become highly irrelevant in these times. (Like the repelling of the Penal code 377A in today's society.) which is highly irrelevant In such times of uncertainty, how would you know what to dress?
Faculty tee shirts shirts are okay, if you are lazy. But not with fbts and slippers.
track shoes, take on their literal meaning, for all occasions, provided its on the tracks. anything where yes, a big no no.
girls, please don't compete shorts length with lians. you'd definitely lose. soon all they would be wearing g-string length shorts, with no back pockets attached.
Yes, don't be a geisha, either. (i couldn't help it but repost it again HAHAHA)
And if you are unsure, follow @NTUFJ, so you won't commit fashion suicide in school.
Of course, we take in evidence of fashion fails for the judge for sentencing. email all traces of evidence at to voice.of.NTU@gmail.com and you'll be on a Witness Protection Programme, your identity will be secret with us.
On the issue of school rules, we received an pdf article from an anonymous source, about a fellow student who was displeased with the Student Activity Centre (SAC), as just to serve to SU, WSC, CAC and the Sports Club, and unable to cater to the needs of the student body of being a place for students to study. Interesting? definitely. We'll be running that article this friday, so do check back this friday, 28th january!
Saturday, January 22, 2011
What to do during 2 hour breaks.
Timetables out. Add/ drop period is coming soon.
However, we always do not get the modules we want and our timetable looks sucky.
This writer has a 2 hour break in between which he laments.
This shall be a 10 things list for all our readers. This writer and blog shall not hold responsibility for any form of trouble that happens due to any reader following this list.
Ten Things To do In 2 hour breaks besides Mugging:
1. Sleep.
It looks like a wonderful ochestra of sleepers everytime one passes by the sofas at Canteen A.
Why not just catch up on your sleep due to waking up for 0830am tutorials? However, this writer would like to warn readers to not snore too loud.
You also get to sleep with perfect strangers in an orgy of snoring.
2. Botox or Lunchtime 'Beauty Makeovers'
The nearest Cosmetic Surgery Clinic that this writer knows lies within the vicinity of Bukit Timah. Half an hour by cab to the clinic, one hour of any form of augmentation and another half an hour by cab back to school.
Your friends would totally dig your new beestung lips. This writer would advise against botox for modules that require student participation though. I doubt teachers would adore how 'student held a steely gaze despite cracking a joke.'
3.Catch up on your Suntan.
The ADM building has lovely garden roofs for that.
Just do not fall asleep and roll off the roof. The newspapers might have a field day.
"NTU student commits suicide, rolling off school block."
4. 2 hour Romances.
Forget Summer romances/ flings.
2 hour romances can be the new in thing. They say attraction occurs in the first 5 seconds. Whirlwind dating can happen for a good half an hour and then a full hour of torrid sex. You have 29 minutes worth of bad breakup after with seconds to spare.
This writer warns against breaking up over twitter though.
5. Film a porno.
Call it Lunchtime Bangers of NTU.
This writer promises not to take credit for the title.
Please do clean up after yourselves.
6. Runway practises
NTU has long walkways at both spines. Wannabe models could totally stomp down these walkways to music. The toilets at every single interval can be your personal changing room.
Just be warned: FBTs are not couture, even if they rhyme with JPG.
7. Write a novel
Call it
Story revolves around the whiny absolutely girlish feelings of a girl (Bella Sim) who falls in love with a pasty male with damn gay hair (Edward Chan), who always hangs out at Canteen A in front of Subway.
Stephanie Meyer should be proud since "copying is the best form of flattery."
Note that school plagiarism rules are very strict.
Or do a Gossip Girl.
Spotted at Canteen B: L makes out with X while his girlfriend W attends CS100 lecture.
xoxo
The Kaypoh Undergrad.
8. Play a game like how they do in American Cartoons:
"Would you sleep with Steven Lim or Fann Wong if she had durian breath?"
9. Slack.
Enough said. Just have a laptop in front if you and hog powerpoints. It's totally fine. This writer is totally not angry at you hogging powerpoints although he desperately needs to do a project with his dying laptop while you surf Facebook and chat with friends on MSN.
10. Type lists like this on your awesome phone and blog about it for people to read.
This writer would like to re-emphasize that he will not be held liable for readers who attempt to do these suggested things. This list is solely intended for entertainment.
Hopefully you are entertained.
This article is the first non academic blogpost by this writer and all complains would most likely be ignored. Like how requests for Appeals never fail through.
However, we always do not get the modules we want and our timetable looks sucky.
This writer has a 2 hour break in between which he laments.
This shall be a 10 things list for all our readers. This writer and blog shall not hold responsibility for any form of trouble that happens due to any reader following this list.
Ten Things To do In 2 hour breaks besides Mugging:
1. Sleep.
It looks like a wonderful ochestra of sleepers everytime one passes by the sofas at Canteen A.
Why not just catch up on your sleep due to waking up for 0830am tutorials? However, this writer would like to warn readers to not snore too loud.
You also get to sleep with perfect strangers in an orgy of snoring.
2. Botox or Lunchtime 'Beauty Makeovers'
The nearest Cosmetic Surgery Clinic that this writer knows lies within the vicinity of Bukit Timah. Half an hour by cab to the clinic, one hour of any form of augmentation and another half an hour by cab back to school.
Your friends would totally dig your new beestung lips. This writer would advise against botox for modules that require student participation though. I doubt teachers would adore how 'student held a steely gaze despite cracking a joke.'
3.Catch up on your Suntan.
The ADM building has lovely garden roofs for that.
Just do not fall asleep and roll off the roof. The newspapers might have a field day.
"NTU student commits suicide, rolling off school block."
4. 2 hour Romances.
Forget Summer romances/ flings.
2 hour romances can be the new in thing. They say attraction occurs in the first 5 seconds. Whirlwind dating can happen for a good half an hour and then a full hour of torrid sex. You have 29 minutes worth of bad breakup after with seconds to spare.
This writer warns against breaking up over twitter though.
5. Film a porno.
Call it Lunchtime Bangers of NTU.
This writer promises not to take credit for the title.
Please do clean up after yourselves.
6. Runway practises
NTU has long walkways at both spines. Wannabe models could totally stomp down these walkways to music. The toilets at every single interval can be your personal changing room.
Just be warned: FBTs are not couture, even if they rhyme with JPG.
7. Write a novel
Call it
Story revolves around the whiny absolutely girlish feelings of a girl (Bella Sim) who falls in love with a pasty male with damn gay hair (Edward Chan), who always hangs out at Canteen A in front of Subway.
Stephanie Meyer should be proud since "copying is the best form of flattery."
Note that school plagiarism rules are very strict.
Or do a Gossip Girl.
Spotted at Canteen B: L makes out with X while his girlfriend W attends CS100 lecture.
xoxo
The Kaypoh Undergrad.
8. Play a game like how they do in American Cartoons:
"Would you sleep with Steven Lim or Fann Wong if she had durian breath?"
9. Slack.
Enough said. Just have a laptop in front if you and hog powerpoints. It's totally fine. This writer is totally not angry at you hogging powerpoints although he desperately needs to do a project with his dying laptop while you surf Facebook and chat with friends on MSN.
10. Type lists like this on your awesome phone and blog about it for people to read.
This writer would like to re-emphasize that he will not be held liable for readers who attempt to do these suggested things. This list is solely intended for entertainment.
Hopefully you are entertained.
This article is the first non academic blogpost by this writer and all complains would most likely be ignored. Like how requests for Appeals never fail through.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Back to school in less than 72 hours!
The hungry ghosts are back to Pulau NTU! How do you all feel about going back to school after a month's break? let us know through a comment below!
Have you all followed us on fb? Do so here!!
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Unofficial Guide to the new term
Our NTU handbook does not have a student's unofficial guide to the new term, and we propose that our survivor guide should be added into the handbook for academic year 2011/12 and beyond :)
1. managing time -
Time, being an important part of our school life. effective time management allows us to be able to manage projects, assignements and deadlines, and able to lead a life (and not be a no life mugger) and of course, club once in a while :)
Secret for having more time:
时间就像乳沟, 挤一挤就有
(Time is just like cleavage, as long as you squeeze it, you'll get it)
2. Managing lectures, seminars and tutorials
Multitasking, is an important skill in student life. It allows you to pick up knowledge, and at the same time maintain sanity during boring lectures, and not watch your toe nails grow.
We believe that multi-tasking works effectively when u are juggling a boring job with a creative/fun task. Especially when u are in class, you have the boring side of the equation worked out. So now you need a creative task. Something like tweeting (like maintaining this @therealfakeNTU account) , day trading, facebooking, blogging. anything!
But of course, don't try two boring tasks at the same time: like listening to a lecture and reading economics. your brain will send messages to your eyelids to shutdown within minutes.
Conversely, don't try to juggle two creative/fun tasks at the same time. Don't believe me? try knitting and pole dancing at the same time.
class participation
the silly things which students do, just for the sake of marks. but, do not:
use vigorous head hodding to simulate comprehension
speaking the obvious
Attacking presentation mates
3. projects & presentations -
ahh the bane of school life.
Plagiarism
plagiarism is ok. Eg, if you are going to steal your neighbour's car, at least make sure you have the decency to change the number plate, and give it a new spray paint, before you drive it in front of your neighbour.
(And if he has a habit of keeping condoms in the glove compartment, for goodnesssake, remove them and keep them somewhere else instead)
How to plagiarize:
Original article: For example, people may tend to act in a manner that has a consequential effect of maximizing self interest
Your version: People love money.
There you go. that was simple.
Fluffing up presentations:
"We began our project with an immerse mediation, to get in line with out spiritual self, and a journey of self discovery. Our project initiatives were then acted out according to the variable methodology described at our strategic directional pre-consensus framework, in which we hope to explore new paradigms and evangelize the findings."
There you go. This paragraph can be included in any report you have to do, be it chemical engineering, big bang theory, Apple's marketing strategy, nuclear fissure, whether PAP will lose a GRC in GE2011, anything.
Reducing word count
whats the difference in word count between these two samples?
___________________________________________________________________________________
Sample A
However, it was found that distributive justice was of no impact to organizational commitment (Jamaludin, 2008). Also, another study conducted by Moorman (1991) showed that only interactional justice was related to organizational citizenship behavior. This was accrued to the differences between interactional justice and formal procedures and in differences between procedural justice in general and distributive justice. It was also hypothesized and proven that there exists a causal relationship between procedural and distributive justice.
___________________________________________________________________________________
Sample B
___________________________________________________________________________________
Answer: Sample A is 74 words, Sample B is 0 words. (PS Sample B is a JPEG image. don't say we taught you)
4.Career advice
For those going on internships/graduate students going out to the working world, here's a MCQ for you.
If you work hard on your new job/internship. you'd be rewarded with:
1) A huge year end bonus
2) Employee recognition award/promotion
3) More work
So now you know what to do.
5. Lastly, follow us on twitter, and tell your friends!
1. managing time -
Time, being an important part of our school life. effective time management allows us to be able to manage projects, assignements and deadlines, and able to lead a life (and not be a no life mugger) and of course, club once in a while :)
Secret for having more time:
时间就像乳沟, 挤一挤就有
(Time is just like cleavage, as long as you squeeze it, you'll get it)
no no, we don't mean butt clevage
2. Managing lectures, seminars and tutorials
Multitasking, is an important skill in student life. It allows you to pick up knowledge, and at the same time maintain sanity during boring lectures, and not watch your toe nails grow.
We believe that multi-tasking works effectively when u are juggling a boring job with a creative/fun task. Especially when u are in class, you have the boring side of the equation worked out. So now you need a creative task. Something like tweeting (like maintaining this @therealfakeNTU account) , day trading, facebooking, blogging. anything!
But of course, don't try two boring tasks at the same time: like listening to a lecture and reading economics. your brain will send messages to your eyelids to shutdown within minutes.
Conversely, don't try to juggle two creative/fun tasks at the same time. Don't believe me? try knitting and pole dancing at the same time.
This is okay-
These are not.
class participation
the silly things which students do, just for the sake of marks. but, do not:
use vigorous head hodding to simulate comprehension
For goodness sake, you aren't a bobbing toy on my car dashboard.
speaking the obvious
- Instead of running the experiement for 4 weeks, would the outcome be any different if you ran the experiment for 28 days?
- I agree that we need customers for a business to be profitable.
- Trying to power up Solar powered electrical devices would ultimately fail approximately 50% of the time, because the sky is dark from 7pm to 7am.
Attacking presentation mates
- Can you run the entire revenue forecast again, on a 20%, 30% and 50% reduction in each budget for marketing, recruitment and sales?
- I know u used π = 3.14159 to derive the answer, but how much does it deviate from the actual answer, if u used π accurate to 100 decimal points instead?
- If the earth rotated 10km closer to the sun in the orbit, could you run an experiment to show that we could still see the stars at night?
- I'm correct because I'm smarter than you. I'm smarter than you because I'm correct.
3. projects & presentations -
ahh the bane of school life.
Plagiarism
plagiarism is ok. Eg, if you are going to steal your neighbour's car, at least make sure you have the decency to change the number plate, and give it a new spray paint, before you drive it in front of your neighbour.
(And if he has a habit of keeping condoms in the glove compartment, for goodnesssake, remove them and keep them somewhere else instead)
How to plagiarize:
Original article: For example, people may tend to act in a manner that has a consequential effect of maximizing self interest
Your version: People love money.
There you go. that was simple.
Fluffing up presentations:
"We began our project with an immerse mediation, to get in line with out spiritual self, and a journey of self discovery. Our project initiatives were then acted out according to the variable methodology described at our strategic directional pre-consensus framework, in which we hope to explore new paradigms and evangelize the findings."
There you go. This paragraph can be included in any report you have to do, be it chemical engineering, big bang theory, Apple's marketing strategy, nuclear fissure, whether PAP will lose a GRC in GE2011, anything.
Reducing word count
whats the difference in word count between these two samples?
___________________________________________________________________________________
Sample A
However, it was found that distributive justice was of no impact to organizational commitment (Jamaludin, 2008). Also, another study conducted by Moorman (1991) showed that only interactional justice was related to organizational citizenship behavior. This was accrued to the differences between interactional justice and formal procedures and in differences between procedural justice in general and distributive justice. It was also hypothesized and proven that there exists a causal relationship between procedural and distributive justice.
___________________________________________________________________________________
Sample B
Answer: Sample A is 74 words, Sample B is 0 words. (PS Sample B is a JPEG image. don't say we taught you)
4.Career advice
For those going on internships/graduate students going out to the working world, here's a MCQ for you.
If you work hard on your new job/internship. you'd be rewarded with:
1) A huge year end bonus
2) Employee recognition award/promotion
3) More work
So now you know what to do.
5. Lastly, follow us on twitter, and tell your friends!
Friday, January 14, 2011
NTU website fail
Disclaimer: This column is created for the purpose of humour. If you do not have a sense of it, please email us, and we'll mail it to you at S$103 per gram (UP 3% since last year, since NTU is raising the school fees by 3% for Academic year 2011, after a 5% hike in the previous year). So get it fast before we raise it again the next academic year.
This NTU website fail was spotted by one of our students:
Boy: Mom ah, i want to go NTU!
Mom: but NTU and NUS just annouced a tuition fee hike leh. how?
Boy: Don't worry mom, in today's papers, NTU said even though the school fees have increased, they have set aside more money for financial aids for poor students? Lets visit the school website! And see? under prospective students, that's me! Lets check on their financing options for prospective students!
(http://www.ntu.edu.sg)
Boy: and wow, the website says NTU stands by giving every student the opportunity of a university education! And there are various financial assistance schemes for us! And these assistance schemes cover living fees and emergency fees as well!
(http://www.ntu.edu.sg/guides/Pages/prospectivestudents.aspx)
Okay, there's a link for 'Explore NTU's financing option' lets click it and see what financial aid we can apply for!
Boy: .......
Follow the given links and what do you see? Irony at it's best.
And of course, we are displeased with the new tuition fee hike again.
This NTU website fail was spotted by one of our students:
Boy: Mom ah, i want to go NTU!
Mom: but NTU and NUS just annouced a tuition fee hike leh. how?
Boy: Don't worry mom, in today's papers, NTU said even though the school fees have increased, they have set aside more money for financial aids for poor students? Lets visit the school website! And see? under prospective students, that's me! Lets check on their financing options for prospective students!
Boy: and wow, the website says NTU stands by giving every student the opportunity of a university education! And there are various financial assistance schemes for us! And these assistance schemes cover living fees and emergency fees as well!
(http://www.ntu.edu.sg/guides/Pages/prospectivestudents.aspx)
Okay, there's a link for 'Explore NTU's financing option' lets click it and see what financial aid we can apply for!
Boy: .......
Follow the given links and what do you see? Irony at it's best.
And of course, we are displeased with the new tuition fee hike again.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
therealfakeNTU on facebook?
therealfakeNTU on facebook?
We hope to have more outreach to our NTU student body, and a platform for NTU students to be heard.
what do you all think? :)
Sunday, January 9, 2011
RIP, @ceostevejobs
Disclaimer: This column is created for the purpose of humour. If you do not have a sense of it, please buy a pound of it from your nearest NTUC fairprice first, before reading. Thank you.
We were informed that the parody Steve Jobs twitter account, was shut down: http://www.cultofmac.com/apple-takes-action-against-parody-steve-jobs-twitter-account-exclusive/75728 and it was reported that impersonation, is a crime punishable under law, by up to $1000, and/or 1 year jail.
In medieval times, it was said that the punishment had to suit the crime. Makes sense, doesn't it? that is, if you stole from somebody, you would have your hand chopped off. conversely, if you raped somebody, you would have your... Erm, nevermind.
So in all due sense, why punish @CEOstevejobs by fining him $1000/1 year jail term? what about fitting the punishment to the crime? Of course you won't make a serial child molester/kiddy porn director do community service in childcare centres, so why would you fine @CEOstevejobs for impersonating Steve Jobs? Our team at @therealfakeNTU has devised appropriate punishments for fake twitter accounts:
1) @ceostevejobs: suspension of the rights to use and own a mac computer, and to use a 688Ghz computer, running Windows 95, surfing the net with a netscape explorer, coupled together with AIM messenger on a 56K dial-up. That will teach you not to poke fun at Apple, will you?
2) @PAPLightning (pls see: http://twitter.com/PAPLightning) : Erm, what else can we say, other than detention under ISA without trial. (which actually reminds me, @PAPLightning hasn't been tweeting since august, 2010. hmmmmmm.)
3) @Lord_Voldemort7: Avada Kedavra (See: http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Unforgivable_Curses)
4) @Queen_UK: If the account owner is a Liverpool fan, to watch all Liverpool matches of the 2010/2011 season till date, in slow motion. (especially the losing matches, PLENTY).
If he/she is a non-Liverpool fan, repeat the above punishment as well. He'll/she'll be tickled pink by Liverpool to the brink of death.
5)smrtCEO: What else could we say? Dim Sum Dollies jingles on repeat mode. Face the creations of your creator.
6) SingtelCSO69 and @singtelPR: to force them to record: "Your call is important to us, please hold the line for the next available customer service officer", for Singtel's customer service hotline, over and over and over again.
(Taken from http://theoatmeal.com/comics/customer_service)
7) @StarhubCares: yes, you are genuine. But starhub still sucks. go Avada Kedavra yourself as well. (See above, @Lord_voldemort7)
8) @Jesus_M_Christ and @Jesus: tied and bondaged, punished with canings and whippings, Japanese AV SM style. ahhhhhh. (NOTE NO IMAGE FOR THIS. GO GOOGLE YOURSELF :D )
9) ah, for our friend, @fakeNTU: how about detention in the Chinese Library, together with students from the middle kingdom?
What about for @fakeMOE, @realFASS and the rest? What do you all think? Let us know!
We were informed that the parody Steve Jobs twitter account, was shut down: http://www.cultofmac.com/apple-takes-action-against-parody-steve-jobs-twitter-account-exclusive/75728 and it was reported that impersonation, is a crime punishable under law, by up to $1000, and/or 1 year jail.
In medieval times, it was said that the punishment had to suit the crime. Makes sense, doesn't it? that is, if you stole from somebody, you would have your hand chopped off. conversely, if you raped somebody, you would have your... Erm, nevermind.
So in all due sense, why punish @CEOstevejobs by fining him $1000/1 year jail term? what about fitting the punishment to the crime? Of course you won't make a serial child molester/kiddy porn director do community service in childcare centres, so why would you fine @CEOstevejobs for impersonating Steve Jobs? Our team at @therealfakeNTU has devised appropriate punishments for fake twitter accounts:
1) @ceostevejobs: suspension of the rights to use and own a mac computer, and to use a 688Ghz computer, running Windows 95, surfing the net with a netscape explorer, coupled together with AIM messenger on a 56K dial-up. That will teach you not to poke fun at Apple, will you?
2) @PAPLightning (pls see: http://twitter.com/PAPLightning) : Erm, what else can we say, other than detention under ISA without trial. (which actually reminds me, @PAPLightning hasn't been tweeting since august, 2010. hmmmmmm.)
3) @Lord_Voldemort7: Avada Kedavra (See: http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Unforgivable_Curses)
4) @Queen_UK: If the account owner is a Liverpool fan, to watch all Liverpool matches of the 2010/2011 season till date, in slow motion. (especially the losing matches, PLENTY).
If he/she is a non-Liverpool fan, repeat the above punishment as well. He'll/she'll be tickled pink by Liverpool to the brink of death.
Coming in Summer: Corporate takeover.
5)smrtCEO: What else could we say? Dim Sum Dollies jingles on repeat mode. Face the creations of your creator.
6) SingtelCSO69 and @singtelPR: to force them to record: "Your call is important to us, please hold the line for the next available customer service officer", for Singtel's customer service hotline, over and over and over again.
7) @StarhubCares: yes, you are genuine. But starhub still sucks. go Avada Kedavra yourself as well. (See above, @Lord_voldemort7)
8) @Jesus_M_Christ and @Jesus: tied and bondaged, punished with canings and whippings, Japanese AV SM style. ahhhhhh. (NOTE NO IMAGE FOR THIS. GO GOOGLE YOURSELF :D )
9) ah, for our friend, @fakeNTU: how about detention in the Chinese Library, together with students from the middle kingdom?
What about for @fakeMOE, @realFASS and the rest? What do you all think? Let us know!
Saturday, January 8, 2011
About Us
As much as we'd (okay, actually I) love to blog as much, but I'd welcome any contributions, of any kind! so just drop me a mail at voice.at.ntu@gmail.com and let me know!
Blog updates every tuesdays and fridays + any random ad hoc contributions :)
Cheers.
Blog updates every tuesdays and fridays + any random ad hoc contributions :)
Cheers.
Friday, January 7, 2011
Why the fuss behind CORS bidding?
A blogpost dedicated to our NUS friends feverishly bidding for their mods during CORS. I mean, whats the fuss?
In order to understand their feelings, let us look into a chinese festival which is celebrated during the Lunar Seventh Month, more commonly known as the hungry ghost festival. It is a belief that the ghosts of the underworld are released into the mortal world during this lunar seventh month, and they are free to roam the streets. (ie they only get to book out once a year)
One interesting event which happens during the hungry ghost festival is the Dinner and Bidding auction. (Note: not the D&D that you all are familar with.) During the dinner, there will be items held out for bidding, which includes practical items like TV sets, DVD players to auspicious items such as pineapples, pomegranate trees, and charcoal, for example. (Charcoal is seen as 'black gold' and is a highly auspicious item) It is seen as an act of appeasing the hungry ghosts for a year of peace and safety.
黑金 $888! $888一声!发发发! 恭喜你， $1288一声, 黑金 $1288两声... 恭喜你黑金$1488! 一世发发! $1288一声... 两声... 有人么？黑金$1288! 黑金三声$1288!成交恭喜你一世发发！ (Read: hokkien)
READ: http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/new-straits-times/mi_8016/is_20060806/rm68000-piece-charcoal/ai_n44330444/ 黑金, black gold (Charcoal) was auctioned off at RM$68,000 (about S$34,000)!
Similarities
1) Johor Bahru businessman bids S$34,000 for charcoal, S$4,000 for 5 mandarin oranges, S$300,000 for a urn. NUS students bid 1000+++ points for a module.
2) Chinese bid for a year of peace and safety. NUS students bid for a semester of peace and safety.
How much have u bidded for a module during CORS? What about the STARS wars going on in NTU? STARS vs CORS, which would you prefer? Let us know!
In order to understand their feelings, let us look into a chinese festival which is celebrated during the Lunar Seventh Month, more commonly known as the hungry ghost festival. It is a belief that the ghosts of the underworld are released into the mortal world during this lunar seventh month, and they are free to roam the streets. (ie they only get to book out once a year)
One interesting event which happens during the hungry ghost festival is the Dinner and Bidding auction. (Note: not the D&D that you all are familar with.) During the dinner, there will be items held out for bidding, which includes practical items like TV sets, DVD players to auspicious items such as pineapples, pomegranate trees, and charcoal, for example. (Charcoal is seen as 'black gold' and is a highly auspicious item) It is seen as an act of appeasing the hungry ghosts for a year of peace and safety.
黑金 $888! $888一声!发发发! 恭喜你， $1288一声, 黑金 $1288两声... 恭喜你黑金$1488! 一世发发! $1288一声... 两声... 有人么？黑金$1288! 黑金三声$1288!成交恭喜你一世发发！ (Read: hokkien)
READ: http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/new-straits-times/mi_8016/is_20060806/rm68000-piece-charcoal/ai_n44330444/ 黑金, black gold (Charcoal) was auctioned off at RM$68,000 (about S$34,000)!
Similarities
1) Johor Bahru businessman bids S$34,000 for charcoal, S$4,000 for 5 mandarin oranges, S$300,000 for a urn. NUS students bid 1000+++ points for a module.
2) Chinese bid for a year of peace and safety. NUS students bid for a semester of peace and safety.
How much have u bidded for a module during CORS? What about the STARS wars going on in NTU? STARS vs CORS, which would you prefer? Let us know!
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Once upon a time..
Once upon a time, there was a blah blah blah prince, from blah blah blah land (NOT IMPORTANT), called Sang Nila Utama, who landed on our shore (probably known as a red pimple to Indonesia, and a pi sai to Taiwan). He saw a tiger, which he thought was a lion. (Come on la, you think you landed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, got lion ah?) and everyone around him went, "yes yes, that is a lion, My Majesty!" And so, tadah, we are known as Singapura.
Sang Nila Utama was not only suffering from short sightedness, he probably also suffered from a ailment of having huge, enlarged testis (more crudely, balls, poor him), which lead to his followers having to carry his heavy balls everywhere he went. (Sniggers, Singapore has lions!)
In modern day Singapura, it happens too, and its in the form of:
"wow YOG exceed the budget more then by 3 times, how ah? What do you all suggest we say to the media?"
"well, its okay minister! we can say the benefits outweigh the exceeded cost due to international exposure blah blah blah..."
shortsighted + heavy testis. now lets combine the two stories into explaining why our NTU logo is a lion, and not a __________?
So, did our founding fathers of NTU thought he saw a lion in the SAFTI MI forests (The huge patch of forests behind NIE), or was he, erm. shortsighted and had heavy testis?
What IF, he did not see neither a tiger nor a lion in the SAFTI MI forests? Imagine, what sort animal will lurk in the forests of SAFTI MI? Atiger, a lion, or a wild boar, or a...........................
What do you think? :)
Sang Nila Utama was not only suffering from short sightedness, he probably also suffered from a ailment of having huge, enlarged testis (more crudely, balls, poor him), which lead to his followers having to carry his heavy balls everywhere he went. (Sniggers, Singapore has lions!)
In modern day Singapura, it happens too, and its in the form of:
"wow YOG exceed the budget more then by 3 times, how ah? What do you all suggest we say to the media?"
"well, its okay minister! we can say the benefits outweigh the exceeded cost due to international exposure blah blah blah..."
shortsighted + heavy testis. now lets combine the two stories into explaining why our NTU logo is a lion, and not a __________?
So, did our founding fathers of NTU thought he saw a lion in the SAFTI MI forests (The huge patch of forests behind NIE), or was he, erm. shortsighted and had heavy testis?
What IF, he did not see neither a tiger nor a lion in the SAFTI MI forests? Imagine, what sort animal will lurk in the forests of SAFTI MI? A
What do you think? :)
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