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Seriously, I hate NUS

By
Jhui
on September 3, 2008 3:36 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Remember that I said that NUS is slower than a tortoise? I hereby take back what I said and shall change it to "NUS is slower than a sloth". What is a sloth you might ask...A sloth is the world's slowest animal and if NUS is slower than it, it sure tells you ALOT about the efficiency of NUS. Wait...what efficiency?

Since I'm going to Japan for SEP this semester, I had to do modules mapping and modules mapping is not something that's very fun to do. In fact, it makes people want to pull their hair out, vomit blood, and strangle every single admin staff in NUS. So I wanted to try to map this Japanese module from the partner university to NUS's GEM module and I had to fill up a form that included the following questions:

1) Synopsis of module (Reasonable question)
2) Lecture breakdown/topics by week (Seriously, NUS doesnt even prepare this information before the term starts and you expect other universities to have this information?!)
3) Required reading list (WTF?!)
4) Contact hours per week.

Apparently, NUS gives 4 modular credits for 36 contact hours throughout 1 semester and hence, contact hours less than 36 means that you do not get the full 4 modular credits. Seriously...NUS should stop thinking so highly of themselves. They arrive at the calculation of 36 contact hours because they add in the tutorials as well but seriously, do you even learn anything in tutorials?! All the teaching's done in lectures and tutorials are just there to go through readings, which you've already learnt about in lectures...so in short, nothing new is being taught. Some universities in Japan do not have tutorials so to NUS, they're not teaching alot because they do not have 36 contact hours...wtf?! The content taught is the same for fuck's sakes...and isnt it superficial to calculate modular credits based on contact hours?! Seriously, not everyone attends the full 36 contact hours in NUS and does that mean that they shouldn't be awarded 4 modular credits? Oh wait...nobody cares if students do not attend lectures or not.

Anyway, I submitted my request form to the Registrar's Office on the 16th of August and waited for the results. It's stated on the website that they'll take 5~7 days to announce the results but being NUS(i.e. slow), they still didnt tell me the results after 2+ weeks. So on the 2nd of September, I had to email them for the results and they replied me saying that they did not approve of my request and I should email my request to the Dean's Office.......................................

WHAT THE FUCK LA!

If you state that you'll give the results in 5~7 days, then fucking abide to it. Somemore I dont think that they were planning to reply me at all lo! Note that they only replied me after I EMAILED THEM. Take the fucking initiative can or not. It's obvious that nobody's doing their job can! Return me my school fees! Why the fuck should I pay them fees when they cant even be bothered to reply students. And...if I need to email the Dean's Office for approval and you cant do anything about it....then fucking tell me earlier can!

It's because of people like that in NUS that makes me want to graduate earlier and not want to take honours. Can you imagine taking honours?! Taking honours=staying for 1 more year in NUS=having to deal with shitty people like this for another year=going crazy. TMD.

Okay, end of ranting. Off to bed.

Scholarship~

By
Jhui
on July 3, 2008 10:32 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Whee~ I got the JASSO scholarship for a short-term study in Japan! I am so happy because that means I got more money to spend in Japan! Heh. No lah, it means that my parents don't have to pay so much money for my school fees there. See, I'm such a nice daughter...........Ok lah, and also because I can spend more in Japan. =D

So, I'm going for this student exchange programme thingy to Osaka this coming semester. A little scared about this whole study overseas thing, although it's for one semester only, because I've never done it before. One sucky thing about it is that there's lots of preparation work to be done and I don't feel like doing it. Can I hire someone to do it for me? I'll promise to pay the person a lump sum of $0.20. Yes, I am giam siap. So what?

Nothing much to write except for the above two things because my life's totally boring recently. The only interesting thing is that I'm going to remove my stitches tomorrow. Whee~ How fun. -_-

Results are out~

By
Jhui
on May 30, 2008 7:10 PM | | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)
And finally, after waiting for like 1 freaking month since the end of my exams, the results are out!!! One thing I'm unhappy about the release of results is...why do we(read: Arts students, my batch) always get our results last?! It has been like that for the past 2 years lo. Damn it, made me wait so long.

So anyway, quite satisfied with my results considering that I started out very hardworking this semester and ended up totally slacking for the rest of it. I think I didn't read like what, 75% of the readings assigned, or maybe even more. An improvement from last semester, the results I mean, not the studying. I realise that I get better results without studying for it...does this mean I should slack even more? Heh~

2nd paper et 2nd last paper

By
Jhui
on April 29, 2008 10:34 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Totally screwed up my paper today but guess what, I don't really care. I just want to finish the exams soon...and that's tomorrow. Totally didn't know that there was 3 essays to write till like 15minutes before the exam. Yes, I am an extremely studious person as you can see. =D

My answer for the first question was "Obviously lar" but obviously I couldn't write that down. Didn't really know how to support my answer though. This is what happens when I try to study a semester's work in 3 hours. Whee~

Second question was bad. Let's just say that I'm totally not cut out for business.

Third question was the best, as in I knew how to answer, but there wasn't enough time. Spent too much on the first 2 irritating questions.

I know that I'll pass but let's just hope that I pass with a decent grade. Whee~

Got back project A and B and test C today. Project A sucked big time and I was wtf-ing when I read through the commentary given. Project B was so-so but I still wtf-ed at the commentary. Test C was ok. Yup, shall go eat my Oreo Mcflurry now. Bye~

Xiao Xiong Bing Gan~

By
Jhui
on April 28, 2008 3:24 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
I can't wait for the exams to be over...although they just started today. =D

JS3208 wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Phew~ It was kind of sucky to take an exam while you're coughing like mad. My throat doesn't feel like as it it was stabbed now. It just feels freaking ticklish...that kind that no matter how many times you cough, you still feel like coughing. Boo.

Anyway, hy bought this for me~!
chokobi.jpg

Does anyone find the above packaging familiar? If you do then you must be a fan of Crayon Shinchan as well! Whee~ I never knew that they actually sold this lor.


Like every kiddy food product, there was a free sticker that came with it. There's like 45 different patterns. OMG, how to collect all?! Will go broke before I manage to do that.


Apparently this biscuit is quite delicious(I wouldn't know because I'm not supposed to eat anything that will irritate my throat any further), so if you want to try them, go Daiso and buy them now! $2 only~!!! Cheap cheap!!! (Ok, I shall stop sounding like a Daiso fan from now on, although I am one.)

Two more papers to go before I set off for Korea. Quick end already, stupid exams.


Exams...arrgh!

By
Jhui
on April 27, 2008 11:30 PM | | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)
Exams start tomorrow. I'm like so effing dead because I've not studied for any paper yet. Can someone help me pretty please? 

Then again, wtf am I doing here? I should really be studying right now although my eyelids are starting to droop down and my brain is not absorbing any information, unless they're non-examination stuff. Oh, and I think that I'm falling sick. Throat infection is back and my mum just had to entice me to eat the so-freaking-aromatic chicken pie that she bought. Of course, I succumbed to temptation and my throat feels like as if someone just stabbed me with a knife and tickled my wounds with a furry teddy bear. =(

Ouch.

Chou beri busy week

By
Jhui
on April 19, 2008 12:09 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Have been chou beri fucking busy this week. This week was seriously hell for me, the 18th level somemore. Let's see how my week went.

Monday: Had to go for the korea trip briefing after class. I just realised that almost half of my tour group is made up of middle-aged people who are not very matured.

Tour guide: (In Mandarin) I will now....(whatever, what he said wasnt important in this anecdote.)
Man: (In English) Sorry but I cant understand Mandarin.
Tour guide: (In English) Oh ok, that's fine. I will speak in English then....
Woman: (In Mandarin) I cant understand English.
Tour guide: Erm...
Man's wife: Why not you speak in both languages then?
Tour guide: Erm...that will take too long.
Man: (In English) Never mind, let's take a vote. Who can understand English here?
Woman: (In Mandarin) Eh! It's not fair lor.
Tour guide: Okay okay, I'll try to talk in both languages.

My god, what language is the tour guide going to speak in during the tour itself?! I sense that there will be some interesting drama on the tour though =D

There's like one bad thing that I cant stand this tour group. Many of them were LATE for the briefing. The briefing was supposed to start at 6.30pm but no one arrived on time. It's not a Chinese wedding dinner for goodness sake! I had to leave at 7pm because I had work to do and when I left the room, I complained out loudly to my mum, "Walau eh. Those people are irritatingly late lar! What's wrong with them seriously..." Then, after saying that, I realised that the couple who walked passed me, and obviously they heard my speech, was from my tour group. That means that they were like for a freaking...HALF-AN-HOUR. They better not be late during the tour or I'll give them hell.

Night was spent preparing the presentation slides for translation and linguistics. Slept at 3am.

Tuesday:  Had translation presentation and Korean class. Night was spent rushing out my linguistics paper and writing the draft for the JS2224 paper. Slept at 4am.

Wednesday: Linguistics presentation went well. Phew~ Watched Alvin and the Chipmunks(yes, I know that this show was out ages ago.) before continuing the JS2224 paper with hy. Had to study for my final French test too. Slept at 4am again.

Thursday: Woke up at 7.30am and my head felt like as if it were going to burst or something. Tried to do some last minute French mugging before I headed off to the classroom. I like it how teachers say that students must be on time and then they themselves show up late. Not blaming my teacher because she was only late this time round but just saying in general. The class seriously thought that she cancelled the test and was planning to celebrate when she walked in. Finished the paper in like 20mins partly because I didnt really know how to answer some questions. Took a short nap and after waking up, nobody else had finished lo!!! Anyway, handed in my paper and went for lunch.


Dont ask me why but hy started writing out Shuuchishin's lyrics on the whiteboard during lunch.


Koide Keisuke, again by hy.

French oral went surprisingly well though...erm...at least I thought so lar~Haha. Had Korean class after French and on my way to class, I got so attracted to this bag that I stopped over at that shop to look at it. Needless to say, I was late for class :D

Night was spent...writing JS2222 essay. So once again, slept late but this time round, 5am.

Friday: Woke up early to finish up the referencing part of the essay. I hate referencing :( Rushed to school to print it out and dumped it into the teacher's mailbox. Today was so freaking hot and I seriously thought that I was going to melt.

Wanted to eat the student's meal at Jack's place today but couldnt find the menu anywhere so my mum helped me ask the waiter about it.

Mum: Hi, do you have the student's meal menu?
Waiter: Mam, student's meal is for students.
Mum: -_____________- (Of course I know that student's meal if for students only lar! WTF.)

Okay, my mum didnt say WTF. I added it in. :D



My beef pasta was soaked in oil la! Damn disgusting. Every mouthful was like full of oil. Couldnt finish it because I really felt like puking 1/4 way through.


The dessert made up for it though. Mango and chocolate ice-cream. Super-duper yummy but I couldnt finish it though. The oil from the main course took up too much space in my stomach.

citygems.jpg
To reward myself for working so hard this week, I went SHOPPING~ Bought a new cardigan and some leggings~And this pair of earings from Citigems. Shopping with my mum rocks...because I dont have to pay a single cent. :D

Anyway...one more essay to go!!! My goodness~Shall start on it after I continue to reward myself by watching the Spring doramas. Jya!


Touring around NUS

By
Jhui
on April 7, 2008 10:28 PM | | Comments (4) | TrackBacks (0)
Toured around NUS for the first time and almost died walking. Well, you would too if you've been walking for like what...2~3 hours? The weather was freaking hot somemore but it was quite fun though, bringing 2 Japanese students around. The funniest part was when we were walking through Dr. Morita's office in the JS Department. Dr. Morita was having a consultation with Kyohei, one of my classmates from linguistics, and when we walked past, both of them actually stood up to exchange greetings with the Japanese students. So cute!!! Normally teachers will be damn pissed when you interrupt their consultation sessions but Dr. Morita was different :D

Fulin and I first brought them to tour around Arts and I'm proud to announce that I've discovered a few shortcuts in Arts that I've never known of. Whee~ Shorter walking distance to classes in the future! Next, we crashed a Sociology lecture and because Take wanted to sit in for a while, I brought Yayoi to the library for a short tour while Fulin accompanied Take. I originally wanted to write something about someone in the library but considering that she's my friend's mother, I shall refrain from doing so.

Next up was the Coop where they actually bought some NUS souvenirs back~ I never knew that NUS had such cute souvenirs...not going to buy them though. Hee. Went to the UCC(this abbreviation keeps reminding me of the coffee brand) next and there were like tons of cute little Malay kids there, preparing for some performance or something.


Yayoi left first because she had to do her homework. I seriously hope that she did not get lost on the way back.


Fulin, Yayoi


We later then went to the Raffles Biodiversity Museum. There were like lots of girl and boy scouts there who were doing museum tours or something...since when did we have this?! Then again, there were too many of them and it was quite irritating because they were blocking lots of exhibitions.


Wowie~ Elephant bone!!!

I do not believe it but we actually went to NUH next, along with Fulin's friend, Alvin(I think). NUH looks more like a shopping mall than a hospital. There was 7-11, Mr Bean and gift shops there. Walked around the gift shops for a while and I saw lots of cute stuffed toys there!!!


Qizai! Then again, this qizai looks fake to me because it's hair colour is too yellow. Still cute though. :D


Intellectual hippo.


Me, Fulin.


Me, Fulin, Take. After the NUH tour, I parted ways with them and met up with my mum and sister for a seafood dinner. Damn expensive I must say for 5 dishes only. Then again, it was quite delicious...but not delicious enough to justify the price though.


Bought this for dessert.


Yummy~ Gonna go eat this now...Ta-ta~

NUS is slower than a tortoise

By
Jhui
on March 13, 2008 1:19 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Received a NUS email informing us about this programme: Korea University International Summer Campus (ISC) 2008 Programme. After hearing rave reviews about this programme from Eileen who went last year, I decided that I wanted to participate too. However, I had a few queries regarding my eligibility of application via NUS because this is counted as SEP(Student Exchange Programme) but I'm slated to participate in another SEP programme later this year. The reason being that one student is only allowed to go on SEP once. At the end of the email, we were told to contact IRO(some NUS organisation) for more information and that the deadline for application was 10th March 2008.

So...I did. I emailed IRO on the 28th of February 2008 and waited for their reply. I seriously do not know what's wrong with NUS but NUS is so freaking slow and the staff are so non-responsive. They replied me on 12th March 2008. WTF! Applications closed le lo! The best thing is that the email told me to ask my faculty's SEP Coordinator...Like that must take so long to reply meh?! Damn fucking helpful I must say.

This episode adds to the long list of reasons of why I want to graduate from NUS ASAP and that NUS has freaking low efficiency. I should've gone to NTU or SMU instead...seriously.

How can NUS get such a high ranking as a world-class university when their efficiency is worse than people on strike?! Oh wait, whether the university is efficient or not does not contribute to that ranking. If it's included, NUS can jolly well fall off the ranking.

(Edit) I emailed IRO back to 'thank' them for the reply. Had the urge to write 'Thank you for the PROMPT reply' but decided against it because it sounded a little rude.

Sucky Day

By
Jhui
on January 17, 2008 2:20 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
It's only about 2pm but I already had an extremely sucky day today. No thanks to those people whom I met today.

Since I had to wait an hour before my first class started, I decided to make a trip to the library to photostat my JS2224 readings. The librarians were having some meeting or something and they were all talking loudly in the library. -_- Arent librarians supposed to shush people and not talk loudly among themselves? Anyway, whatever. That was not one of the reasons for my very sucky day. The sucky part began when I inserted my cashcard into the printer's card reader. Normally, the card slides in smoothy when you push it in but today, it wasn't smooth at all and in fact, my card got stuck. Damn. Went to the counter for help and this nice lady came over to help me. She tried to switch off and on the power switch, pressed the eject button and even tried to use a tweezer to take my card out but to no avail. Time was ticking and I had lesser and lesser time to photostat the vast amount of readings. She told me that the printer is usable, just that the cashcard's stuck and told me to go ahead with the printing. I placed my handphone and cashcard pouch on the printer tray which I wont be using at all. Halfway through printing, another lady, whom I assume to be either the printer expert or that nice lady's boss, came to me saying (shouting), 'GOT DEDUCT MONEY OR NOT?!'Apparently to her, if the cashcard's stuck, money might not get deducted from it and that means that I'm printing for free. Of course, they cant give me paper and ink for free (although it's their fucking printer's fault). In her hurry to try eject my cashcard, she went to LIFT THE TRAY WHICH MY HANDPHONE WAS ON...so as to allow her to reach for the power switch. My phone almost fell to the ground because of her. Fuck. She didnt even say sorry. So anyway, she managed to eject my cashcard and re-inserted it in for me. Continued printing...realised that after a certain amount of pages that I printed, the cashcard stopped deducting money...which meant that...my cashcard's stuck AGAIN. Being a nice person, I continued and finished printing my stuff before telling the nice lady that my cashcard's stuck again. :D In fact, I think it's still stuck now. Wonder when will they call me to pick up my cashcard.

With a little time left after printing, I went to the JS Office to pick up the application forms for SEP. Why cant that school put the application forms online?! Apparently, that school still hasnt sent the forms to NUS yet...-_- NUS' deadline for handing in the forms is like approaching soon lo! :(

After school, walked in the freaking hot sun to Citibank to open a savings account with my mother. Few days back, my mum called this Citibank guy to ask him for application forms so that we can fill them up. I seriously dont get the point of printing out application forms yourself, then bringing those forms to the bank to open an account. I mean, since you have to go to the bank anyway, waste their papers la! Why waste your own? One thing I cant stand is the online application thing. What's the fucking use of online application when you need to print them out so that you can sign on them? Defeats the purpose of the word ONLINE. So anyway, the Citibank guy told my mum that it's ok for me to open an account that requires clients to be at least 21 years of age although I'm not 21 yet. Reason was because I'll turn 21 soon anyway. Went down to the bank in the sweltering weather, got told that I cant open the account, felt extremely pissed. All because of their ignorant Joseph Lee guy, I made a fruitless trip. Asshole.

All because of that stupid Citibank employee, I went to POSB to open an account instead. The lady tried to convince us to sign up for this minimum ten years account. There are risks with this account because it's like an investment account. Not sure what the account is about anyway. The lady explained like never explain like that...and her tone was seriously damn haolian. When my mum asked her how the bank will use the funds to invest, she replied, 'Invest lar! Different kinds.' Thanks alot bitch. Next my mum asked how risky it was because there's something called high-risk and low-risk. She replied, 'Every investment also got risks.' Thanks, not helping at all. Decided to sign up for 2 accounts. One was the one that she was trying to promote and another one was the MySavings account. Asked her several times if I need to fill up the MySavings account but she ignored me because she was trying to print out the other account's application form. She didnt even offer me a pen to fill up the form. So ya, she printed out the application and started to explain to us the details. Fuck you. Only when we say that we want to sign up then she made an effort to explain. Anyway, the terms didnt sound that attractive so we decline signing up. It's our choice whether we want to sign up or not but she went 'I know you dont want to sign up because of the application costs (or some other costs, cant remember exactly) right!' WTF. Hated her fucking arrogant tone and her I-will-serve-you-only-if-you-will-sign-up-for-an-account attitude. I think they get commisson for that account because she looked pissed when we told her that we will just sign up for the MySavings account. On a form that she asked us to sign, she did not offer us a pen. Isnt it common sense to offer your customers a pen when you request their signatures?! Anyway, wanted to give her a 'Need Improvement' rating but my mother told me not to do so because she didnt want to get her into trouble. -_- WTF?! Hopes she get fired soon anyway.

So yup, sucky day. Hope that the later half of the day will be better.
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