2 penalties in a minute. And one resulted from a missed penalty. 

FM decided to go crazy. 

Continuation of the Lazy Lecturer saga

I was bitching about the lazy lecturer in my previous post and guess what, he managed to surprise me today with something even better.

He turned up for the exam invigilation in shorts and sandles!

It must be against some university rules for lecturers to turn up in casual wear. You always see them in at least trousers and shoes, but never in shorts and sandles for an official event.

It is a bit pot-kettle-black, as I always go to school in shorts and sandles, but these are lecturers FFS.

Could be just my heavy biases talking though.

Bloody lazy lecturer.

Not that I want to complain but my lecturer is a bloody slacker.

Examples include:

Folks, some of you have asked me to type the tutorial questions in full rather than just list page & question #s from the 3rd edition text because you are working with the 2nd ed. of the textbook. Generally speaking, I might have thought that'd be difficult as a student to rely on an older edition. In any event, I might have typed the questions if they were few and short, but I am loath to type them especially since some of them require diagrams and make references to figures in the text. There are three copies of the 3rd ed text on RBR in the Science library. Depending on how much of Chapter 3 I'm able to cover, I'll assign problems from the questions at the end of the chapter. Please xerox those pages if you need to. I won't be doing much TCP, so questions relating to the text up to Section 3.5 will suffice.

Great, he's too lazy to type out the questions for people who don't have the book. Can't even be bothered to scan it in.

and

Please don't send me mail asking me to explain some section of the text or some problem or the other by e-mail. I've had office hours all semester long in which I've hardly noticed any traffic. I cannot type long answers for your one line questions which often require carefully and painstakingly constructed sentences.

Admittedly, students should not wait till the last minute to ask questions, but still that should not mean that you can be too lazy to answers questions that students have.

I am going to be so screwed for this module.

Carrying obsession to a whole new degree.

Would this be considered cyber stalking?

Casino

Got this in an email

Subject: FW: Casino to open up new opportunities


Subject: Casino to open up new opportunities
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:35:41 +0800

Singapore's loan shark industry openly backed the proposal to build a
casino yesterday, saying it would contribute greatly to their growth.

Association of Hardship Loan Operators and Neighbourhood Gangsters (AHLONG)
spokesman Dr Chao Ah Beng told the Ministry of Finance today that the loan
shark industry would benefit tremendously from the setting up of a casino.
"We know the Gahmen say the casino will bring in tax revenue, lah, employ
eople lah, bring in money that is lost to Genting Highlands and casino
cruises, lah, all that sort of thing", said Dr Chao, "Many Singaporeans
make noise but then ah, they all dun realize that the casino will oso boost
many other industries, which is another good reason for setting it up."

To highlight his point, Dr Chao, who lectures in money-laundering and
grievous bodily harm at Hoot U, the Geylang-based tertiary institution for
bengs and lians, said the casino would enable the loan shark industry to
diversify and upgrade its existing line of products and services.
"Before ah, we lend people money to pay off their gambling debts", he
explained, "Now, with the casino, we can oso offer them high interest loans
to enable them to pay the entry fee to get into the casino in the first
place."

Dr Chao also predicted a rise in their traditional service of debt
recovery. "I would definitely invest in pork futures. With more
gamblers, it makes sense that there will be more debtors, and a
corresponding surge in demand for pig's heads. In fact ah, I believe oso
that there will be anuder option for racehorse owners who are looking to
get rid of their old horses ... sometimes ah, horse heads can be used too."


Dr Chao, who also pens an occasional advice column for Talking****.com,
also announced that Hoot U hopes to sign a memorandum of understanding with
the proposed casino. "The casino sure need bouncers to keep the riff-raff
out, ah lians to attract the high rollers, heavies to hoot cheaterbugs,
that sort of thing, and Hoot U is the region's premier producer for
manpower in these sectors. So we hope to establish an internship
on-the-job-training programme."

The spin-off benefits to other industries cannot be overlooked either, Dr
Chao went on. "There will be an increase in the demand for medical and
hospital care ... people with broken arms or legs, noses .. faces
even. In fact I will even say the undertaking industry will see potential
high growth too. There will be a need for psychiatrists and counsellors
... even physiotherapists, to treat tired arms from pulling on jackpot
machines, or rolling dice and so on. The Singapore Tourism Board will
finally be able to justify its existence - poor thing, so many years, kena
condemned as waste of taxpayers money, because will have more visitors to
Singapore. I can say, ah, that even the gahmen agencies and ministries,
like MoM, ICA and the police force will see increased employment
opportunities, with more cases of illegal overstaying, vice and crime.
There will be more work for all Singaporeans!! Ahya ... the list can be
endless!!!"

In other casino-related news, legendary Las Vegas casino operator Harrah's
has understood to be be changing its name to "Harry's" in order to improve
its bidding prospects for the Singapore project. The operator believes the
change in name will bring about a stronger identification for Singaporeans.
A spokesman, who declined to be named, said, "Despite the
controversies, we hope this will remind all Singaporeans of the legacy
behind the advent of casinos here."

Update from Friends!

Too lazy to find stuff so I'll post things that people send me. :P

Nintendo Themes (Alex)

Pre-exam-reading-week-eat-all-you-can-sushi-buffet!

Wall of Plates.


My personal conquests.


Chee Kit considering whether to eat that extra plate.


Ying and Alex eyeing Chee Kit's extra plate.


Extra plate in question.


Aundrey peeking over the Wall of Plates.


The aftermath

And a continuation of the saga of the NUS guy.

Krapofcw

This is supposed to be Gary's blog. The guy who professed during THE NUS lecture.

Well keyword being "supposed". Can't really confirm it. And you must read the comments.

YNWA

Celtic fans singing YNWA

A friend once asked me if I cried during movies. I replied honestly and said no. But added that I do cry during soccer matches. That produced the required stare.

But it's not the soccer matches, but the songs sung in solidarity and friendship that make me cry.

Above is a rendition of "You'll Never Walk Alone" adopted by Liverpool and Celtic fans as an anthem. It never fails to make my hair stand and on emotional occasions, cry.

Hillsborough Anniversry

On this day (15/04/1989), 96 fans died at a football match. They will never be forgotten. You'll Never Walk Alone. RIP 96.

I never knew about this before supporting Liverpool and was ignorant about it for quite some time after that. But I slowly learnt about this and am deeply affected by it. No one should die supporting the team they love.

Learn more http://www.contrast.org/hillsborough

My lucky star seems to have arrived!

Studying at the library and leaving your phone there. Forgetting about it and leaving only to realise your phone's not with you about 5 minutes later.

Worse case senario?

Not when you're lucky. I went back and someone actually returned it to me! Although the phone was off so it meant that they had the idea of taking it, but maybe they thought my pityful look was too pityful after all. I don't care what their intentions were, but thank you all the same.

So a side news, Liverpool are through to the semi finals of the Champions League after a goal-less draw at Turin. Liverpool went through 2-1 on aggregate and it's great result for us. Maybe all the karma that I have been accumulating over the years is starting to be put in use.

As such I continued my good form of Karma by giving my seat up to a pregneant women on the MRT. Noticed her a bit late as I was dozing off but still late is better then never. Disgust me to the core that people will just ignore her.

Not going to bitch too much as that will decrease my Karma and we are going to need a lot of it for the 2 legged match against Chelski a.k.a Rich Man's Small Club(RMSC).

Update!

Wonder if I actually study...

LMAO

Cool but fake

Cool, not sure if it's real though

Nice commercial

Flying dog

OMFG!

Cool game

I should be mugging but....

This is a rough report on what happened yesterday.

We started off at Clementi, meeting at 5:30pm but inadvertably leaving only at 6pm due to chronic case of lateness from some party members.

And in the begining there were 5. (Alice, Ben2, Joseph, Kee, Siyong)

We merrily made our way to Ginza Plaza to have our dinner where we were met by the muggers Kailun and Maxim, and the crazy Sid and Sam.

After a delightful dinner, in which Siyong drank some "special" sugar cane juice, Ben2 learning how to say sugar cane juice in Chinese and we were given a discourse on why there might be calcium sulphate in bean curd, we made our way to West Coast Park.

Riding around in the relative darkness and getting all sorts of comments, we decided to leave the safety of the park and venture out into the great unknown.

Across treacherous terrain we moved, and before we knew it, we were at Harbour Front. There, we had our customary milo bing (:P) session. Photos telling the story are below.


Alice with her typical "You take me I take you" pose


Joseph enjoying himself. Take no notice of his shirt.


Sid and Jeff.


Ben2 and tired Sam


Siyong and Alice

But alas the call of the books was too strong for many to resist, with most people deciding to go home after the milo bing session. Only Sid, Jeff and Kee decided that they did not know what was best for them and decided to brave it on to City Hall. Jeff decided to back out after a while as his 20" was having problems catching up with the amazing duo of Sid and Kee (not your fault Jeff, we're just too good. :P)

Photos below will capture the ups and downs of that journey.


Sid and Kee at Kallang


Sid with his power bar at Kallang


Sid and Kee at East Coast Park

Kee chickened out at Kembangan and decided to go back home to sleep. It was around 1am. Sid still delirious from not being in a black strait-jacket decided to cycle on into the night, muttering to himself "I'm sure it was a goal" with some intermittent "I'll unicycle down Mt. Everest one of these days!"

End result, a very very tired Kee who was still sleeping on Sunday. This is actually RR doing the report for him.


Kee still sleeping on a Sunday

Great momments

Sometimes soccer just makes you want to cry and at other momments it makes you just want to laugh.

A momment such as below makes you both want to laugh and cry at the same time.

The irony.. 

Very very late April Fools Joke thought

I was listening to radio the other day and they kept doing this thing.

DJ: "What's you favourite station?"

Naive Listener: "Power 98!"

And I was wondering why no one tried this for an April Fools joke. Maybe someone did and I missed it...

DJ: "What's you favourite red hot radio station?"

Prank caller(PC): "Perfect 10!"

DJ: "Ok thank you for... wait..."

PC: "Huh? Wrong station? Ok, think I got it this time. Class 95!"

DJ: "Err.. no it's *cough*power*cough*98*cough*"

PC: "Wow. You DJ's talk too much. Drink some water, your cough's real bad. But don't worry, I'm sure I got it this time. YES 933!"

DJ: *choking sounds are heard now*

PC: "LOVE 972? BBC? Some obscure local radio?"

DJ: *starting to have spasms*

PC: "Maybe it's 0104 Joke?"

P.S: No DJ's were harmed in the production of this lame joke.
P.S.S: All radio stations are real. Think my pants are going to be sued off me this time.

Google = Big brother?

Google = Big Brother?

Be careful.

Update

Been talking too much. Now for some updates!

Interesting magnet game

Cool light artist. Whatever that is.

For the arsonist in all of us.

Funny short film.

Rissole?

What the hell is that?

Well this is dictionary.com's definition.

Why do I ask this? Well I just ate one today and want to know it I should be suitably disgusted or delighted that I ate one.

Why did I eat something when I had no idea what it was? Didn't my mom always tell me not eat things that I don't know. Call it blind stupidity, or courage under fire, but whatever momment of madeness made me do it, I hope it does not strike me again.

You see, I was just trying to buy some food. Food. Now that's a thought. Get something you like next time..

And the snack that I wanted (potatoe croquettes) happened to be sold out. And on the same tray happend to be these rissoles that looked pretty similar in texture. So I decided that since they were on the same tray, and I'm unable to pronounce either one correctly, they should be similar.

One bite and fish paste in my mouth later, I decided that my decision making skills needed some brushing up.

However, in a momment of pure inspiration, I have decided that I will not eat another one again.

Now, where are those fish cakes?

Dangers of April Fools Jokes.

In what started out as an Aprils Fools day joke, this sure turned out scary.

The basic premise is that it was going to be April Fools day, so as a prank, it was silently decided between Siyong, Kailoon and me that we would try to organize a unicycle trip then not turn up, leaving everyone stranded!

Some how, word of this got to Sid and the trip became a post April Fools day celebration ride to be held on Saturday. To disuade Sid, I gave the cheeky suggestion that we should do a ride around P.Ubin at Night and without lights. I think Sid probably gave it some consideration before throwing it out of the window for being too cowardly an idea.

And thus, there we were on a Sunday morning, waiting to go to P.Ubin, in what can best be described as a Post, Post April Fools day ride. To me it just was an April Fools day joke gone horribly wrong. Me and my big mouth and since I was a *cough*loyal*cough* friend, I decided to join Sid, Sam, Ben2, Jolyn, Helena and our unicycles on this trip. It was quite a milestone actually. It was both Sam and Helena's first unicycle trip, albiet on unicycles.

The weather was hot and humid, with most of us feeling the effect after just a short ride. But undeterred, mainly due to the fact that Sid just might kill us all if we did not get moving, we pressed on.

"There ain't no mountain high enough, there ain't no valley deep enough" was probably a good theme to go to, although the highest mountain was a hump that Jolyon fell over and the valleys all tended to have bridges. But non the less, we went on.

To cut a long story short, we went, we saw, we kind of slunked back to the jetty, but we survived a ride in the wilderness that is called P.Ubin.

Hope this makes all those muggers *cough*Kailoon*cough*Siyong*cough* jealous.

So when's the next ride?

Millennium of visitors.

I know, I know,

If you want to knit-pick then "millennium" is normally only used for years, but still I don't care. :P

Anyway, once again, I'll like to thank all the visitors to my blog, all THREE of them. (You know who you are).

Now to just keep blogging away.

Conspiracy theory

If anybody can remember, about a week ago, a man fell onto the tracks at Bouna Vista MRT and got hit by a MRT and subsequently died.

It was claimed at first that he went down to pick something up, only to be refuted the following day by his fiancee. She claimed that he "slipped".

Also the authorities claimed that the cameras were working but "strangely" did not record anything down at the momment in time.

Now, the metal strips at the Bouna Vista MRT have strangely been removed. Strips that are used to guide the visually impaired. Strips that one might slip and fall upon..

Don't believe? Go take a look and notice that no other station has yet removed those strips.

NUS Girl extremely pissed.

Remember the girl who got proposed to during a live lecture?

Well this is her blog. And boy is she pissed.