On a day courage, tenacity and passion were needed, 11 men decided it was better to become wusses and pussies. And of all the places to do it, they chose the National Stadium. In front of a home crowd who had put everything aside to show them we cared, they showed us why we lost our faith in the national team in the first place.
The best part was, before the match, the same bunch of bloody PEACOCKS were crowing and saying they would score many goals against the Vietnamese, or show them what Singapore was about. FUCKING RAISE MY HOPES.
Well they got part of it right at least. They showed the world what Singapore's football team is about. A bunch of CHOKERS, who only do well when nobody expects them to. Every time they call the fans to support them at the National Stadium, they FUCKING CHOKE.
EVEN MY KITCHEN SINK IS NOT THAT RELIABLE.
I am not wasting another dollar, or another minute of my time supporting this bunch of jokers. This is just a massive OWN GOAL, and a slap in the face of every person who calls himself a Lions supporter. It wouldn't be so bad if they actually tried, but why do I get the impression they were too arrogant and self-confident to really scrap for a win?
Gosh, I am just so disgusted and disappointed.
On a sidenote, the referee is from Malaysia. Dammit Mahathir, I know you had something to do with this.
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Friday, December 19, 2008
WKWSCI should find a new home.
After spending a year in NTU, I think it is becoming plainly evident that WKWSCI is really in the wrong host university. We are a communication school in the middle of a behemoth of an engineering institution that neither understands what we do, or our motivations for doing what we do. As a result, support for our institution is hardly forthcoming.
I've really grown sick of watching how NTU is launching new ventures all the time, and somehow they are always related to engineering or economics. They throw millions at these ventures, but when WKWSCI asks for funding, we really have to make a case for it.
When NTU invites guest speakers, they are always esteemed professors of engineering colleges or in the sciences. I'm not going to argue about how they don't bring in communication scholars. They don't even bring in anybody from the humanities side of the educational spectrum, except when that person happens to major in economics.
You know what's WKWSCI's biggest contribution to NTU this year? Having a Miss Singapore World in our very own school. Yes, of all things we are known for having pretty students. I'm not saying that I'm not proud of such a fact, in fact it is a bonus because I'm male, but really, it is hardly something that defines us as a school. It's more like a lottery, and next year the Miss Singapore World could very well come from NUS or SMU.
The most laughable part was how quick NTU was in capitalising on the glory. Tell me in what way did NTU contribute to Ms Faraliza Tan's campaign? Did they sponsor her makeup? Did they teach her how to present herself? Did they even know she was in the competition? If anything, it was WKWSCI who did all the support work. Certainly not NTU. But guess what? The news appears big and bold on NTU's website like she was sent as NTU's champion. I guess that's what they call the world loves you when you're winning.
Even when we're applying for INSTEP or opportunities aboard for exchanges, WKWSCI is very much on its own. Look at the number and quality of colleges offered for engineering students and business students, and contrast those with the ones offered for communication students. Very often, in many countries, the universities offered are engineering colleges like NTU who just happen to have communication departments. Tell me, why would I want to go on exchange just to end up in NTU II? I hardly see places being offered for communication students for exchanges in prominent universities of communication studies.
But the saddest part of it all is the lack of support for our peripheral contributions to the school. Look at our Radio Fusion booth. In any other school, such a venture would certainly be given more respect, at least the respect it deserves. Instead, it is shunted to the least popular canteen and given minimal coverage so the DJs inside can remain an interesting oddity, like goldfish in a goldfish tank, misunderstood and largely ignored. Is it really so difficult to put the booth at Canteen A instead? And is it really so difficult to broadcast its programmes campuswide?
The real reason is, NTU really cannot be bothered to do so because it doesn't see the importance of giving our radio division more coverage. It doesn't understand our motivations. It's just like Spectrum TV, but don't get me started.
As for Chronicle, its all and good that we have a newspaper that is at least acknowledged as a welcome addition to the school. But the fact that the newspaper hasn't diversified and still remains very much the same after more than 10 years really says a lot about the straitjacket environment it operates in. Our content is censored, and our creativity in taking the newspaper forward is stifled by unseen greater powers.
What I see in Chronicle is an attempt to fuse the Straits Times and the New Paper into an acceptable broadsheet for NTU, with neither the depth of the Straits Times in its engagement of campus issues, or the ability to grab readers' attention like the New Paper does. As a result, it is really at best, mediocre. It may be the best campus newspaper in Singapore, but I just have to go online and I can find campus newspapers that would put Chronicle to shame. Just because we're the best doesnt mean we stop trying to improve, but how can we do that if we're expected to operate in the same way year after year?
WKWSCI should never have been allowed to leave NUS. Even if so, definitely not for making up a certain technological university's gender imbalances. I hope someday, WKWSCI will finally be relocated into another institution, because NTU is hardly good enough for WKWSCI.
I've really grown sick of watching how NTU is launching new ventures all the time, and somehow they are always related to engineering or economics. They throw millions at these ventures, but when WKWSCI asks for funding, we really have to make a case for it.
When NTU invites guest speakers, they are always esteemed professors of engineering colleges or in the sciences. I'm not going to argue about how they don't bring in communication scholars. They don't even bring in anybody from the humanities side of the educational spectrum, except when that person happens to major in economics.
You know what's WKWSCI's biggest contribution to NTU this year? Having a Miss Singapore World in our very own school. Yes, of all things we are known for having pretty students. I'm not saying that I'm not proud of such a fact, in fact it is a bonus because I'm male, but really, it is hardly something that defines us as a school. It's more like a lottery, and next year the Miss Singapore World could very well come from NUS or SMU.
The most laughable part was how quick NTU was in capitalising on the glory. Tell me in what way did NTU contribute to Ms Faraliza Tan's campaign? Did they sponsor her makeup? Did they teach her how to present herself? Did they even know she was in the competition? If anything, it was WKWSCI who did all the support work. Certainly not NTU. But guess what? The news appears big and bold on NTU's website like she was sent as NTU's champion. I guess that's what they call the world loves you when you're winning.
Even when we're applying for INSTEP or opportunities aboard for exchanges, WKWSCI is very much on its own. Look at the number and quality of colleges offered for engineering students and business students, and contrast those with the ones offered for communication students. Very often, in many countries, the universities offered are engineering colleges like NTU who just happen to have communication departments. Tell me, why would I want to go on exchange just to end up in NTU II? I hardly see places being offered for communication students for exchanges in prominent universities of communication studies.
But the saddest part of it all is the lack of support for our peripheral contributions to the school. Look at our Radio Fusion booth. In any other school, such a venture would certainly be given more respect, at least the respect it deserves. Instead, it is shunted to the least popular canteen and given minimal coverage so the DJs inside can remain an interesting oddity, like goldfish in a goldfish tank, misunderstood and largely ignored. Is it really so difficult to put the booth at Canteen A instead? And is it really so difficult to broadcast its programmes campuswide?
The real reason is, NTU really cannot be bothered to do so because it doesn't see the importance of giving our radio division more coverage. It doesn't understand our motivations. It's just like Spectrum TV, but don't get me started.
As for Chronicle, its all and good that we have a newspaper that is at least acknowledged as a welcome addition to the school. But the fact that the newspaper hasn't diversified and still remains very much the same after more than 10 years really says a lot about the straitjacket environment it operates in. Our content is censored, and our creativity in taking the newspaper forward is stifled by unseen greater powers.
What I see in Chronicle is an attempt to fuse the Straits Times and the New Paper into an acceptable broadsheet for NTU, with neither the depth of the Straits Times in its engagement of campus issues, or the ability to grab readers' attention like the New Paper does. As a result, it is really at best, mediocre. It may be the best campus newspaper in Singapore, but I just have to go online and I can find campus newspapers that would put Chronicle to shame. Just because we're the best doesnt mean we stop trying to improve, but how can we do that if we're expected to operate in the same way year after year?
WKWSCI should never have been allowed to leave NUS. Even if so, definitely not for making up a certain technological university's gender imbalances. I hope someday, WKWSCI will finally be relocated into another institution, because NTU is hardly good enough for WKWSCI.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
sofarkingawesome.
Is it me or are the holidays actually really darned boring. I'm going to say it right here. The holidays are damn boring. It's probably something nobody wants to admit to because before the holidays they've been wishing it couldn't come sooner. But now that it has come, it is actually very boring.
I think its because I belong to a deviant species. The fun is actually not fun because it is now legalised. Darn it. I'm free to slack? Holy shit. Where's the fun in that? I want you to tell me I actually have work to do so that when I slack it feels guiltier and ten thousand times more exciting. Guilty pleasures ftw. I think that might be why I pile myself up with work during schooldays so that when I slack its almost orgasmic. Farking awesome!
And its not as though I have nothing to do. I have a list of 10 things I'm supposed to do, and I always do the 11th thing that is not on the list. Someday I should actually make a list of 10 things I shouldn't be doing, so that I might actually clear a list for once. Maybe, if I ever make it to item 5 on a normal list, I should slap myself on the back and strut around like a rooster.
Oh what the hell. I've got my keys right here. Gonna take myself out for a walk, just like how I walk a dog.
I think its because I belong to a deviant species. The fun is actually not fun because it is now legalised. Darn it. I'm free to slack? Holy shit. Where's the fun in that? I want you to tell me I actually have work to do so that when I slack it feels guiltier and ten thousand times more exciting. Guilty pleasures ftw. I think that might be why I pile myself up with work during schooldays so that when I slack its almost orgasmic. Farking awesome!
And its not as though I have nothing to do. I have a list of 10 things I'm supposed to do, and I always do the 11th thing that is not on the list. Someday I should actually make a list of 10 things I shouldn't be doing, so that I might actually clear a list for once. Maybe, if I ever make it to item 5 on a normal list, I should slap myself on the back and strut around like a rooster.
Oh what the hell. I've got my keys right here. Gonna take myself out for a walk, just like how I walk a dog.
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