Just Another Day In School... #21

Another evening in school before a night lecture.

So there was this queue at a food stall, and there were 3 girls in front of me. It was 1755hrs on the watch, and the stall was fast running out of food. Sometimes, people would step up to look at what's left in the counter before queueing up.

And that was what this Chinese national student did when he came. He took a very long look at the food, with the 3 girls and me in the queue. He did this until there was only 1 girl left in front of me.

And then he tried to step in to order food when it was the girl's turn.

The girl side-stepped him and cut him off to place her order. She obviously knew what was up his sleeve.

My turn. I had been looking at him all the time, and the bastard stepped up and started to place his order. I shouted, "喂，不用排队啊？" (translated to English as "Hey, you don't have to queue is it?"). I didn't want to waste time repeating myself just because he didn't understand my English, if I had shouted at him in English.

The bastard turned at looked at me, giving me a pretentious "blur" face like he didn't know what was going on. By that time, there a few other guys behind me looking at the commotion already.

The bastard kept quiet, realising his cover was blown, and went behind to queue.

I proceeded to place my order.

PS: This was the second time it happened to me, except that I wasn't wide-awake during the first occasion, and I just let it go.

Just Another Day In School... #20

Another day, another examination paper to take.

Lecturer announces that the time is up, and for all students to stop writing.

So everybody stops.

One non-local student whips out his handphone, and furiously begins keying away into his phone. Needless to say, there wasn't any invigilators near him. Also, his answer script was still on his table.

I should've yelled out there and then for somebody to apprehend the cheater, for who is to say that nobody behind was not writing still (and in league with the cheater)?

What is WRONG with these (non-local) people?

Just Another Day In School... #19 or Those Darned Teabags

Another day in school...

A short walk to the water cooler to fill up my drinking bottle, and I see a teabag stuck in the drainage system of the water cooler...

A trip to the toilet later, and I tore some toilet paper to dry my hands after washing them. Stepping on the pedal of the wastepaper basket, it opens up... to a basket full of tea leaves.

I go back to where I was seated, resuming my work. Looking up while pondering over my work... a teabag is stuck to the ceiling.

No prizes again, sorry, for guessing who left them there.

Just Another Day In School... #18

The girl (Just Another Day In School... #17) didn't show up for this week's class.

Just Another Day In School... #17

Another day, another tutorial class.

The class was held in this computer labs (although we weren't using the computers at all).

There was this uninvited guest; this girl who was not from my tutorial class. She was working on one of her reports for a module, and she was using the computer in the labs. Typing away noisily, "clack clack clackety clackety clacking clack"...

She was there in my tutorial class each week, every week, all the weeks. Each time however, the lecturer (who was taking the tutorial class) never did chase her (nor any other uninvited guests) out (Yes, there were more than one where they came from, but the girl was the one who overstayed the most).

Her incessant typing at the noisy keyboard was getting onto my nerves. So that day, I got pissed, and took things into my own hands.

I waited for the lecturer to finish explaning the last bit of his concepts and ideas, and then I raised my hand:

"SIR COULD YOU PLEASE REPEAT THAT?! I CAN'T HEAR YOU WITH ALL THE TYPING!"

He gave a baffled look, and I had to repeat what I said a second time.

Now the girl stopped typing, and froze there. The sleepy class suddenly awoke.

The girl then took her water bottle and exited the class for a break. When she came back, she resumed her typing, with less noise and speed, though with the same audacity.

What a bitch. What's WRONG with all these BITCHES???!!! (Not a sweeping statement at all, the other uninvited guests were coincidentally bitches too, and non-local ones)

PS: She didn't look local at all. I suppose the mindset of "embarrassment" only applies to the locals.

Just Another Day In School... #16

Another day, another 20% CA class.

So the wild dogs (I mean, bitches) are let loose, and one of them happily bites at the meat.

The rest of the students finish writing their answers on the board. They return to their seats, leaving the one bitch writing at the board.

And then, the rest of the bitches started taunting their kind:

"Eh write faster lah! You so slow leh!" They shouted at their bitch still writing furiously away at the board. And then they started their sickening laughing and giggling among themselves.

Nobody else in the class was laughing.

Bitch replies, "Wa lau! (an expression of exclamation/surprise in dialect) If I knew this question was so long I wouldn't choose this question to present already!"

The lecturer is standing there like a fool between the bitches. His hands are in his pocket and he is smiling awkwardly at their conversation.

Mind you, the class is in session, and the remaining bitches are shouting at their bitch standing at the board in front of the class.

When the bitch finishes writing, she comes back to her seat, which just so happens to be directly beside mine.

I glance at her work. She only has that single question done up for presentation.

She should count her lucky stars.

As for the other bitches, they really should learn to respect the presence of the lecturer.

I feel disgraced to be in the same class as them. I seriously don't know where the school went to enrol students that behave like vegetable sellers with boom-box voices when bargaining/trading with their customers.

Just Another Day In School... #15

So I was at this class with the 20% CA marks for presenting your tutorial answers to the class.

There is always this bunch of 5 bitches in my class.

Aiyoh, why you so bad call them bitches? People got name one leh!

Here's why:
1. They come to the class laughing and joking between themselves non-stop, even when the class is in session.
2. When any one of them presents an answer, and the lecturer poses a question, they are unable to answer his questions every time.

One of them even has the guts to go HEE HEE HAA HAA and grin at the lecturer, instead of giving him the reply required.
3. At one time, the same HEE HEE HAA HAA bitch went "I dunno!/Not sure leh!" to the lecturer multiple times when the lecturer fired a barrage of questions at her.

He still gave her the CA% marks thereafter.
4. They behave like a pack of wild dogs having a chunk of meat thrown into them.

When the lecturer goes "Who would like to attempt question x?" They would all go in for the kill, screaming "I WAN I WAN I WAN!" like a bunch of young girls screaming at Brad Pitt.
5. Lastly, they all have only attempted one or two questions out of each week's tutorial, and they only aim to present those specific questions which they have attempted in order to obtain the CA%.

Does that make them bitches?

Just Another Day In School... #14

I was stuck in a laboratory class discussing the solutions to a tutorial. My next class was due in 10 minutes, and I had to be there early because there was a 20% CA to presenting your tutorial solutions.

Looking at my watch nervously, one student raises his hand to ask a personal question about the module, not related to the discussion at hand.

The lecturer (who was the tutor as well) senses that the student has a wrong idea in his mind, and starts to explain further and correct him.

So this idiot caused the class to be delayed. And he delayed me for my next class.

*****
You may ask, "Aiyah people innocent one what! Why you scold him!?"

Well, the idiot is in the same next class as me.

You may now ask, "Aiyah maybe he very zai one leh? Maybe he dowan the CA% marks lah!"

Okay, allow me to explain further...
*****

So when the class finally ended, with 2 minutes left to the new hour, I grabbed my bag and rushed out of the lab for the next class. I did a 100m rundown to the elevators (I was on the 6th floor of the building, and needed to go to the 4th floor).

At this point of time, I must admit that my 2.4km timing is under 9:45 mins.

I waited for about 30-45 seconds for the elevator, and when it finally came, I took the elevator to the 4th floor.

When the lift doors opened, I immediately resumed my run towards the next class. I made a right turn out of the elevator... lo and BEHOLD!

The IDIOT was running in front of me with his bag in hand! He took another route using the staircase!

*****
So what do you say now?
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I was seriously pissed when I saw that idiot running in front of me. I felt the blood boil in me, and wanted to shout at him and give him a good dressing-down.

Needless to say, I took another route, and reached the class a couple of few minutes before him.

I only have this single thing to say to this idiot: The next time you DARE to ask a stupid question, you better DARE to be late as well. Don't be a bloody idiot when you know that you will be late for the next class, and yet still want to ask questions and delay the class.

Just Another Day In School...#13

A certain module required students to sign an attendance sheet during lecture, so that students can be graded for their attendance.

A non-local student signs the sheet, and immediately leaves via the back of the hall.

Just Another Day In School... #12

At a certain tutorial class, students were supposed to present at least two questions in order to obtain a participation grade. There were a limited number of questions for the semester, and the commodity of questions was highly valuable in classes that were large.

A non-local student finishes explaining his answer written on the board.

Lecturer: "So what's your name?" (so that he could mark down his name for participation)

Student: *Pretends to look at the class list, but couldn't find his name* "I'm not from this class."

Lecturer: *Surprised, and stops for a moment to think* "Can you send me an email later for this?"

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So what now? Bastard student can skip his class, and attend another class, MY class, and snatch a question for presentation?

In that case, I may as well go join *every single damned class* and snatch all their questions up. Then nobody else will have the chance to present, and obtain a grade.

Just Another Day In School... #11

At a lecture, the lecturer taught for a few short minutes, and then posed a question to the class.

The class kept quiet, so he pointed at a student sitting behind his laptop screen at the far end of the lecture hall, instructing him to answer his question.

The student kept quiet, and didn't answer.

Lecturer: "Are you listening to me behind your laptop?"

This time, the student spoke up, with a heavy Indian accent, "Yes I am. I didn't hear your question."

Lecturer: "Why don't you move foward to these few seats here so that you can hear me?" *and he points to the first 5 rows*

Student: "I am comfortable here."

Lecturer: "What did you say? Why don't you move forward since you can't hear me?"

Student: "I am very comfortable sitting here."

Lecturer: "..."

Just Another Day In School... #10

Another day in school, another lecture.

An empty row is available. I take a seat. My bag is placed on the neighbouring seat. Some other fellas fill in the row from the opposite end, right up to before my bag.

There are plenty of other seats available in the lecture hall.

Girl comes in halfway into the lecture, late. She walks to the row where I'm at, and saunters around up and down the row, her friends pointing this way and that way at empty seats at the other end.

She lingers in front of me, and I look up at her. I give in and remove my bag.

The girl sits down, and begins chattering away like a M2 .50 calibre machine gun.

Kind enough to offer a seat (I was not obliged; there were plenty other seats around), yet not kind enough to keep the bloody trap shut.

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The next time somebody asks me to remove my bag, I will ask "ARE YOU JUST SITTING DOWN, OR ARE YOU GOING TO CHAT WITH YOUR FRIEND THERE?"

No prizes for guessing what my response will be.

Just Another Day In School... #9

30th January (Monday) was a holiday. The lecturer instructed all students from Monday's lab class to attend either Thursday or Friday's lab classes.

I went to my original class on Thursday.

Upon entering the laboratory, I realised that two other fellas and me (that makes for three of us), did not have seats in the labs because for some "strange reason", the laboratory class was full.

The tutor remembered the lecturer's instructions, and asked "Who is not from today's (Thursday) class?"

One sneaky-looking non-local fella had been sitting there quite comfortably for quite some time, behaving just like anybody else, raised his hand.

The tutor then asked him, "You are from Monday's class?"

Sneaky-pants says, "No. I'm from Friday's class."

No sense of shame, no sense of common sense.

What is WRONG with you? You bloody moron! Do you think that you have the right of way just because you are what you are?

Just Another Day In School... #8

Another day in school, another lecture.

A girl comes in, dressed to the nines. She has her hair dyed reddish brown. She sits down.

A few moments later, she starts scratching her head like there's lices in there.

***** One hour later *****

An ominous "PuUUuuuuuuuu" comes out from her direction.

She speaks with a weird accent.

Just Another Day In School... #7

First we had the folks who wanted to rent textbooks; a far-fetched idea, but not a ridiculous idea actually. Now we have this:

I have no idea what she is trying to do.

Just Another Day In School... #6

At a certain spot in school, a study area, there are a bunch of clowns who are happily chatting away, fooling around, catching up on the latest gossip, sleeping all over the tables and chairs, playing games with each other via MSN on their laptops, watching videos on their laptops.

In short, making a hell lotta noise.

All the while, with me and some other students who are trying to do some work at the study area.

Did I hear you say "Some people are just like that, they like to waste their time away in-between lessons. Just go find some other quieter spot lor..."?

It was a Saturday in school, for goodness' sake.

What is WRONG with all these people?

Just Another Day In School... #5

The only sanctuary in school nowadays are the below locations:

1. A SBS Bus
2. Any class that requires essay-writing for a term paper.
3. School of Law

I will post more locations of such sanctuaries should I find them.

Just Another Day In School... #4

Here are two very classic examples of "How In The Hell Did You Qualify For University Education?!"

Classic Example No. 1:

Note:
1. This posting was made on 29th September 2005.
2. The "make-up test" being referred to here is to be scheduled on the 8th October 2005.
3. Scienctists have not made any breakthrough in forecasting/predicting the future as of now (29th September 2005).

Classic Example No. 2:


Note:
1. This posting was made on 29th September 2005, marking Week 7 (out of 13 weeks of the school semester).

Disclaimer: I am not liable for the coincidence that occurs in the names of the students involved.

Just Another Day In School... #3

A non-local student comes 15 mins late into the lecture class.

Beside me, is a whole row of 7-8 empty chairs.

He moves into the same row as me, and HAS to sit one chair away from me.

Now instead of sitting down quietly minding his own business, he starts flapping my shirt-sleeve.

I ignore him.

He persistently flaps my shirt-sleeve with his hand, and I finally turn to stare at him.

He points at my lecture notes, packed full of writings and highlights of the important points, and beckons for me to lend it to him to copy.

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Let's analyse this carefully:
- He could have just "sat down and shut up". Nobody else would be burdened by him; only he himself has to answer for his punctuality for lectures. (This is what the normal student would do)

- I could lend him my notes immediately, but I would have no other place to copy any thoughts/words that the lecturer conveys. I could take out a spare piece of paper while the bastard is copying off from mine (assuming I did lend him my notes). But then I would have to spend extra time at home transferring the notes over from the spare paper.

- I could tell the fella to wait until the break at the end of the hour, but his persistency in flapping my god-damned shirt-sleeve sure pissed me off. There is no denying that he knows that the lecture has already started, and that nobody would like to be disturbed by such impertinent requests in the midst of any lecture.

And I am one of those who does not like anybody to disturb me during lectures.
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Obviously irritated by this lazy bastard, I hold my finger up to my lips, and tell him (in his native language), "Keep quiet! Don't kick up a ruckus!"

He turns back, and gradually shows his true colours. After awhile, he grew tired of listening to the lecture. He shook his legs like a pair of jackrabbit vibrators. He sat and played with the empty seats nearby (these could retract and be brought up/down). He went to sleep (not doze off accidentally, mind you). He didn't make any notes of his own.

The lazy bastard.

Just Another Day In School... #2

A university undergraduate made a posting in one of the module's online forums. And a very intelligient one:


When you post it once, it's a question.
When you post it twice, it may be an accident (browser problem, lagging Internet).
When you post it thrice or more...