Dem Crazy Aussies (Part 2 of 2)

And here's another one, from the show "Balls of Steel".

If only life here were that exciting like that in this show:

Dem Crazy Aussies (Part 1 of 2)

I should very much like to see the first person in Singapore daring to do this...

Is Your Car Insured?

Let's not even go there by talking about a gunfight. Let's just say a fight breaks out, involving a cop. If the cop takes cover behind your car, is your car insured against such incidents?

Got me wondering...

Module Feedback

And it's the time of the year where we start to fill in our feedback for the modules that we have taken. Here's a snippet that I contributed:

"Term paper should have been an individual effort. 2000 words, divided across two students, seems like assigning 2 students to cook a small pot of instant noodles. Hell, even '(name of another module)' has a 5,000 word-limit term paper, done individually.

From the first lecture, you mentioned that we can't have 3 people in a team because the 3rd person is likely to be sleeping. Well, I only have 2 people in my team, and there's still a "sleeper" in my team. Guess what? It's not me! LOL :-)"

Again, no prizes for guessing what happened to me during the semester.

Truths a NUS Staff Will Never Say to a Foreign Visitor

1. "Our aircons work when the weather is cold, and turns off when it's warm."

2. "Oh yeah, that student has been there for the last 3 days rushing a project."

3. "We've increased our intake year after year. If you go to our canteens during lunchtime, you will find students queueing up; not to buy food, but for seats."

4. "Our students have trouble finding a spot to study during exam periods in school. If you come after 9.30am, you won't find a single study area that's empty. If it is, it means something is wrong with that location."

5. "Let's take a walk down to the bus-stop, and you will see our students behaving in a 'every man for himself' manner when the bus comes."

6. "We've opened up rooms for students to study, but among these few rooms that are open, we reserve them for use for seminars, and we will not hesitate to get the students to scram when we need them."

7. "We've spent millions of dollars on building the University Hall, and we don't allow students to come in here."

8. "Some of our staff are engaged in active research, so much so that they are very bad lecturers."

9. "We have campus shuttle bus drivers who aspire to be Formula 1 drivers."

10. "Look at all our students in here, you will see that the ratio of local students is actually very few compared to non-local students."