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The chattering, the laughter, the childish jokes – they’re all back. I sat in front of 8 ladies in a lecture theatre listening to the lecturer introducing logarithm, quadratic equations and sets. It’s all something that I have learnt before and this course is more to cater to people who have basically forgotten all their mathematics.

I sat there writing some notes on my work (not the lecture basically) and unintentionally – okay, perhaps a little intentionally – eavesdrop on what the ladies are talking about. I tell you they make the most unfunny jokes you’ll ever hear. I couldn’t laugh. It’s just so cold! I felt the temperature drop each them they tried to misinterpret what the lecturer is trying to remark.

It’s actually like back in polytechnic. After I exit from the lecture hall, I looked at the other two-hundred students, all eagar to learn how to add and subtract. I saw two of my friends too. I perhaps won’t be that lonely this coming semester but it really depends. I can sense not a lot of people are serious about studying there. Most, like me, don’t seem to know why they are in a bloody mathematics class!

Still it felt good. I mean – school felt good. I shan’t complaint too much. Welcome to university, I said to myself.

Must’ve been dreaming a little too much. A check on my schedule reveals my Mathematics night classes are starting. They say that I lack certain Mathematics knowledge so I need to go though it. I do well in Mathematics but I don’t really like the counting and all. It’s some bridging module thing. I’m a little lazy to study under a school again honestly.

I got a little shock on how fast time has passed, however, it also excite me a little. I’ll probably be studying some Japanese too. It should be interesting in the coming months.

And so I gotten a rejection from SMU. They written me such a long letter and once i open it up I don’t have a good feeling about it. I don’t like long letters.

It’s so long I can’t even find if I am admitted at first. It’s just in there somewhere. I highlighted it for you. Actually, SMU doesn’t have to send me just a long letter. Just go straight to the point and tell me that I am rejected. I’ll be going to SIM instead.

They even recommended me to go to UNSW, er, no thanks!

Yup, Bill Gates is finally getting his Harvard degree! Remember that he failed to get one after he dropped out of Harvard to focus on Microsoft. Now Harvard is giving him an honorary law degree.

Bill Gates gets Harvard degree, not at all smug about it

Little Bill is all growed up now, and has finally made his father proud. “I’ve been waiting for more than 30 years to say this: Dad, I always told you I’d come back and get my degree,” said Gates, who received a law degree on Thursday from Harvard after giving a commencement address to the students, the school he dropped out of to focus on Microsoft. “We recognize the most illustrious member of the Harvard College class of 1977 never to have graduated from Harvard,” said Harvard University Provost Steven Hymen, who didn’t seem too humbled to present the honorary degree. “It seems high time that his alma mater hand over the diploma.” Bill Gates seemed more concerned with padding his resume, however, considering the fact that he’s calling it quits at Microsoft soon. “I’ll be changing my job next year, and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.” Oh, we’re sure he’ll get by alright.

Really, Bill Gates deserve this degree. Congratulations!

In the NUS advertisement, you see the girl reject a university application to The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and MIT Sloan School of Management just to go to National University of Singapore. What the… Yeah, you hear right.

NUS Business School Ad

Is NUS really that great? I am quite embarassed by NUS’s efforts to lower other’s value to present their attractiveness in this commercial. And they should probably try to compete with SMU or something, not some school in the states. For all your know, the girl seem to be just interested to check out the asian guys at NUS. The comparison sucks. Really.

An advertisement every Tuesday

In the recent newspaper reports that Singapore Minister Mentor (a rather strange position – yes), Lee Kuan Yew, received an honorary degree in law from the prestigious Australian National University. Some Australians aren’t too pleased with that.

Kuan Yew unfazed by protest in Australia

LEE Kuan Yew sparked angry protest in Canberra yesterday when he received an honorary degree which critics said ignored his opposition to democracy.

Lee, Singapore’s founding father and prime minister from independence until 1990, was awarded an honorary doctorate in laws amid high security at the prestigious Australian National University.

More than 50 protesters, including law academics and students, demonstrated at the campus but 83-year-old Lee said he was unfazed.

“If they didn’t protest nobody would know that I was given an honorary degree at ANU,” he said. “Despite their protest, ANU proceeded and I was not deterred from coming.”

Lee is someone “who’s a traitor to democratic ideals and who has eliminated opposition effectively, including having people jailed and held in jail without sentence,” Brown said.

“He eliminated opposition as effectively as he eliminated chewing gum.”

Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer on Monday said despite concerns about Singapore’s human rights record, Lee was “a great regional leader.”

Source: The Star

I guess he is not that popular in Australia.

Aussies Will Make S’pore Fail, Says Lee Kuan Yew

MELBOURNE, March 28 (Bernama) — Singapore would hit rock bottom if it was run by Australians, former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew said on Wednesday.

“We’re going to prosper, you’re going to prosper, if I allow you to run my country, it will spiral downwards and hit rock bottom,” he told reporters.

Lee also defended the comments he made years ago in which he described Australians as “the poor white trash of Asia.”

He said he made the comments in the heat of an argument but said at that time they were probably warranted.

“Perhaps, at that time it was warranted,” he added.

Source: Bernama.com

Uh oh.

I just received news that my cousin got 13 points for L1R5 which is pretty good in my opinion. I don’t understand why people are saying it’s only moderate. Is it really that moderate? I got 15 points for L1R5 (the higher the points, the lousier you are) and I still think I’m generally smarter then half the population of Singaporeans my age.

So I think my cousin did a rather good job to get 13 points. My mother then added that in my family no guys are successful, only the girls. I am quite upset about that comment actually. I got a little happier when she pointed out all the girls went to universities and all the guys didn’t.

If university is indeed the measurement of how successful a person is, I’ll make sure I just get a bigger house than any of my relatives. How about a bigger car. Oh, swimming pool too. Okay okay, that’s just a dream. Back to my planning board.

I don’t think my cousin read my blog these days, but if she does: Congrats! 13 points is pretty good, have some icecream – peanut butter and chocolate.