ShrodingersCat SG Errrr... hahah i stayed off campus... can't even rem the places liao i stayed i think 1st year at Etwell Road, off Bentley then moved to St James
elindra SG No need to be worried one. The most scratch out her eyes and sink your fangs into her flesh and draw blood
ShrodingersCat SG eh what happened to my reply! ok.. my tutors i almost forgotten all but LET IT BE ON THE RECORD that i lurve BLAIR MCLEISH he's my design tutor and he's a damn good one huge guy with a shaved forehead ans chinese queue like manchuriaan and wears those metal rock tshirts and berms he lives what he teaches.. SO BLAIR if you are out there I LURVE U!
elindra SG I hated this lecturer called something Frost He is as Frosty as his name And I think he is racist too coz his assignments everytime the Asians either fail or get borderline passes It was so bad that everyone banded together and lodged a complaint
ShrodingersCat SG yah soem of my tutors were rascist too.. it is damn funny for my final year FTV project, we are supposed to film an MTV we ended up choosing a bhangra love song and u know what.. during our final show, this tutor said he got to fail us becos he has NO IDEA what the song is about becos we did not use English (despite our visuals being rather straightforwardedly metaphorical lah) thankfully an aussie classmate came to our rescue... and the best part, right after ours another group did a heavy metal english rock song nobody could hear the words and then right after tt, we asked the tutor - well that song is in English - do u know what it is about?
elindra SG And we had this Indian lecturer whom I can't stand a single word! He has lived in Perth for like 20 over years and he speaks English with such a heavy Tamil accent that he might as well jolly well lecture in Tamil Wouldn't have made a difference
elindra SG How did the tutor respond? Oh for Mr Frosty (I think of him every X'mas coz of Frosty the Snowman song ) We tend to compare grades and found it weird that every single Asian did badly or failed the paper and when we compared our project work and found that we had similar pts we were
fudgester SG Speaking of bad lecturers.... Once I had a lecturer who didn't seem to know half the things that she was teaching. And her English is absolutely atrocious.... in a mid-term exam she set, I lost 10% of my total score because of a poorly-worded question which could be easily misunderstood. A lot of people lost that 10% as well.... and when we brought it up to her, she explained (in even more ambiguous terms) why it's all our fault that we couldn't understand it. Then for the second mid-term, we got another poorly-worded long question.... this time, I grabbed a teaching assistant (a PhD student) and asked her to explain what the hell that question was all about. In the end, she also got confused by the question and had to discuss it with the other TAs. They came to a decision, grabbed a microphone, and explained the question to the whole class. You really should have heard everyone groaning. Then the TAs decided to take the initiative give us a few minutes extra.... during this whole fiasco, that lecturer was nowhere to be seen at all.
LOTUSfairy SG i jump in the fun.. during my college time, our Econs lecturer hurl vulgar language at students (really verbally abuse my group of classmates) until some my class boys tempted to "fight" with him..the principal has to stop the scene... we have to pull our classmates aside.. and this is in Singapore...
ShrodingersCat SG when we asked him that, the whole class applauded la he was very pissed but i think with the rest of the department disagreeing with him we were pretty safe that sounds quite evil.. the grades thing... but i tihnk all these really helps u to take it in ur stride u know eh dont like dont like la.. -shows the V- errrr... humm.. ya.. quite angry in tt way in my journalism class there was a lot of racism too... very .. 'undercurrent' sort of not in your face but... life goes on.
elindra SG I'm going to up yours Lotus and this happened to our class in Secondary school I can't remember what did my form teacher said to one of the Ah Bengs in my class Ah Beng: Fuck you la (Class shocked and kept silent) Form Teacher: ................ Form Teacher: I dare you to FUCK ME (We couldn't contain it and burst out laughing coz it's damn funny. Btw the teacher was an old unmarried aunty) Ah Beng: Ok la I fuck you but like fucking a pig like that Class: (sniggers could be heard all around) Form Teacher: (Storms out in the huff to get the discipline master) And of course we kenna very jialet for laughing at the teacher and the Ah Beng got public caning.
elindra SG Yup. My friend did Mass Comm in RMIT and he complained about the racism too especially in journalism class (I wonder if there is a connection somewhere) Ya we just take it and try to convert the situation to our advantage if possible. I only know my brother couldn't adjust to the life in Australia with the racism and all when he was in QUT
fudgester SG Oh yeah... because of that 10% loss of total marks, I didn't get a good grade for that module, and my point average went down as a result. I don't expect the lecturers to have the proficiency of F. Scott Fitzgerald in their exam papers.... but damnnit, I must protest when their lack of proficiency causes them to word their questions so poorly. Hell, I've taken my tuition students to task for displaying the kind of proficiency that lecturer showed.
LOTUSfairy SG the ki-siao lecturer can grab student book and drop across the lecture hall one leh... and the econ books are not light one hor... until most of us skip his lesson, he kana "transfer" out later..
LOTUSfairy SG found one of my sad sad song.. Tamaki Koji - Friend yes yes yes....NAZE NAZE anita wa.....KOI NO YOKAN!! Found it.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9byuZQSiaPM
