Haha!
This dormant blog always cracks me up:
http://rockson.blogspot.com/
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Cheap Labour
According to this (sent by Marc):
http://sgjobs.blogspot.com/2008/10/singapore-salary-handbook-20082009.html
I am (and will be) grossly underpaid.
I am a pauper of a friend.
I will never strike it rich.
Please bear with this person of me.
I am a heartlander, at heart.
When people study in good schools, I study in lup sup schools.
When people drink coffee at cafes, I lim teh at kopitiam.
When people eat oysters at restaurants, I eat hum at hawker centre.
When people eat Kobe beef and steak, I eat beef noodles.
When people eat caviar, I eat quail eggs.
When people talk about renovating their bugalows, I talk about the upgrading works of my flat.
This will be me. For a long time to come.
Sigh. The melancholy of life.
Why am I judging myself by capitalist standards?
Have I grown too pragmatic for my own good?
Is my discipline a prescription for poverty?
Can my interest be sustained?
Can rhetoric reconcile with practice?
Only time will tell.
Hope I have made it right.
According to this (sent by Marc):
http://sgjobs.blogspot.com/2008/10/singapore-salary-handbook-20082009.html
I am (and will be) grossly underpaid.
I am a pauper of a friend.
I will never strike it rich.
Please bear with this person of me.
I am a heartlander, at heart.
When people study in good schools, I study in lup sup schools.
When people drink coffee at cafes, I lim teh at kopitiam.
When people eat oysters at restaurants, I eat hum at hawker centre.
When people eat Kobe beef and steak, I eat beef noodles.
When people eat caviar, I eat quail eggs.
When people talk about renovating their bugalows, I talk about the upgrading works of my flat.
This will be me. For a long time to come.
Sigh. The melancholy of life.
Why am I judging myself by capitalist standards?
Have I grown too pragmatic for my own good?
Is my discipline a prescription for poverty?
Can my interest be sustained?
Can rhetoric reconcile with practice?
Only time will tell.
Hope I have made it right.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
I am such an imbecile
I am so gonna fail my Japanese. I had already declared S/U for the module, but should I fail, my credibility as a scholar of Sino-Japanese relations will be in question. I wouldn't want to fail, but such an outcome seems so glaringly unavoidable. There is now melancholy in the air I breathe and sorrow in the air I exhale.
I am so gonna fail my Japanese. I had already declared S/U for the module, but should I fail, my credibility as a scholar of Sino-Japanese relations will be in question. I wouldn't want to fail, but such an outcome seems so glaringly unavoidable. There is now melancholy in the air I breathe and sorrow in the air I exhale.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Myopic Simpletons
People tell me that Arts modules are easy to score in. They can write a paper the night before and receive a decent grade for it. Unlike engineering and the sciences. Conduct experiments. Compile lab reports. Tabulate findings and results. Amongst others.
If you are one of these people, good for you. More specifically, however, if you are and yet regard Arts as a redundant and wasteful enterprise, then rice balls to you. Professors and tutors who had awarded you the grade were just being nice. I used to write crap and receive A's for it. Yet professors expect much more from graduate students and I need to adjust to this. This simply means that to undergraduates from both the Arts and other faculties, the professors are lenient and would reward accordingly if only the slightest effort is seen. Guess what: I had read some essays written by students from other faculties and they suck big time. These students thought otherwise, and received B's for what would seem C's back at their home faculties. Taking things for granted eh?
It is a gross misconception to believe that in Arts disciplines, students only need to talk cock and crap their way through in their papers and exams. Even if this is true, talking cock and crapping require a degree of academic skill. What's more, this can only be a statement made by myopic simpletons who fail to see the virtue of disciplines being different and diverse, and who aspire to engage and join in the so-called sunrise industries of disciplines. This would be an insult to the spirit of the academia. Such simpletons should not be regarded as undergraduates: crawl back to your caves or feudalistic camps. You have not completed your course of evolution. You are not getting intellectual at all. Moulds and nuts.
It would be sadder if you are studying a discipline simply because it promises better career prospects and not because you are truly interested in it. A sell-out that is. Selling your soul to capitalist ideals. Gotcha. The invisible hand has gotten you. Help!
There were never distinctions between disciplines and existed no hierarchy of knowledge. These are modern inventions. A real prodigy knows all. PhD: Doctor of Philosophy. Mind that before making sweeping comments. You are being taught by its recipients.
Here's the challenge: take as many Arts modules as you can to clear your UE requirements. Get at least B+s for them all, since you say they can be so easy. Prove your worth and not whine.
People tell me that Arts modules are easy to score in. They can write a paper the night before and receive a decent grade for it. Unlike engineering and the sciences. Conduct experiments. Compile lab reports. Tabulate findings and results. Amongst others.
If you are one of these people, good for you. More specifically, however, if you are and yet regard Arts as a redundant and wasteful enterprise, then rice balls to you. Professors and tutors who had awarded you the grade were just being nice. I used to write crap and receive A's for it. Yet professors expect much more from graduate students and I need to adjust to this. This simply means that to undergraduates from both the Arts and other faculties, the professors are lenient and would reward accordingly if only the slightest effort is seen. Guess what: I had read some essays written by students from other faculties and they suck big time. These students thought otherwise, and received B's for what would seem C's back at their home faculties. Taking things for granted eh?
It is a gross misconception to believe that in Arts disciplines, students only need to talk cock and crap their way through in their papers and exams. Even if this is true, talking cock and crapping require a degree of academic skill. What's more, this can only be a statement made by myopic simpletons who fail to see the virtue of disciplines being different and diverse, and who aspire to engage and join in the so-called sunrise industries of disciplines. This would be an insult to the spirit of the academia. Such simpletons should not be regarded as undergraduates: crawl back to your caves or feudalistic camps. You have not completed your course of evolution. You are not getting intellectual at all. Moulds and nuts.
It would be sadder if you are studying a discipline simply because it promises better career prospects and not because you are truly interested in it. A sell-out that is. Selling your soul to capitalist ideals. Gotcha. The invisible hand has gotten you. Help!
There were never distinctions between disciplines and existed no hierarchy of knowledge. These are modern inventions. A real prodigy knows all. PhD: Doctor of Philosophy. Mind that before making sweeping comments. You are being taught by its recipients.
Here's the challenge: take as many Arts modules as you can to clear your UE requirements. Get at least B+s for them all, since you say they can be so easy. Prove your worth and not whine.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Monday, November 17, 2008
Friday, November 14, 2008
Spoke to Dunman High students a few weeks ago. Gave them a prep talk on what USP is about and my experiences in the Programme.
My last class for the semester. Sigh. The transience of time.
Saturday, November 08, 2008
Time really flies. It is always time for us to say goodbye. Age is catching up on me. Before I know it, many things had happened and were over by the time I became conscious of them. My only adversary now is time. I hope I can stand the test of time.
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Oh Gosh.
See this if you have never seen this before. I feel so smart man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nokTjEdaUGg
And this is a stand-up but a funny one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfBmNlVc9qM
See this if you have never seen this before. I feel so smart man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nokTjEdaUGg
And this is a stand-up but a funny one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfBmNlVc9qM
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