Club 30's "Kill the Boredom Demon" Jive Pad 153rd Edition

last SG · 2012-05-21T16:23:33+00:00

BTW did anything happen on the East West Line this morning?

elindra SG

pinky bear,

seems like a lot of kpkbing in M’sia over the magical number of S$1 = RM2.50…

oh ya.. upnorth has come w/ new Ringgit notes…

Haha time to go M'sia lol

elindra SG

AIEEEEE!!! IT'S TEH HELLISH KREEPY!!!!

in other news, my dad's a fricken genius..

i'm going to run some errands at IMM and was told by mom to get some barley... dad then told me not to get there because elsewhere is cheaper... he'd go out of his way, spend about $3 in petrol and a few hours of effort just to get a pack of barley which is about 20¢ cheaper...

pure and utter genius, dad... pure and utter genius...

A lot of ppl I know do that

But the time and money spent makes it so much more expensive.

^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~ SG

Stomach contents ==> concentrated hydrochloric acid.

In other words, whatever you eat goes through an acid bath.

ya I know...

I'm also Acid u know...

In the other news, big movement within F&N...

SBS2601D SG

http://adweddingpg.blogspot.sg/

Right. Someone is now complaining about lousy wedding photographer.

Sure. Some people commented: pay peanuts, get monkeys.

But they miss the picture that the photos look really horrible. Even by my amateur standards.

elindra SG

http://adweddingpg.blogspot.sg/

Right. Someone is now complaining about lousy wedding photographer.

Sure. Some people commented: pay peanuts, get monkeys.

But they miss the picture that the photos look really horrible. Even by my amateur standards.

I take better pics with my PNS

SBS2601D SG

I've got no idea what's the going rate of wedding photography.

Anybody care to enlighten me on that?

fudgester SG

I've got no idea what's the going rate of wedding photography.

Anybody care to enlighten me on that?

It cost me about $1500 for two days.

A bit hard on my wallet, but some guys charge more. Looking at his portfolio, his quality was pretty good.... not top-end, but almost as good as the top guys, and his rates were significantly cheaper.

What I can say is to do your homework. Ask to see the guy's portfolio and read up reviews on him.

After all, if he sucks, his portfolio will rat him out. No amount of photoshop can correct a sucky photographer.

And looking at the link you gave..... freak, I can do better with my entry-level Nikon D60.

^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~ SG

http://adweddingpg.blogspot.sg/

Right. Someone is now complaining about lousy wedding photographer.

Sure. Some people commented: pay peanuts, get monkeys.

But they miss the picture that the photos look really horrible. Even by my amateur standards.

This is shyt man... Totally shyt man...

How is this caleb surviving over at clubsnap???

I could have taken the wedding fotos with my phone and it will still look better... (though I'll need a better one for the cover shots)

Edited: btw, ur post say pay peanuts get monkey... but it's more like u pay more and get pappy

This goes to show $10 XO carrot cake not exactly sure better then $1.50 carrot cake from hawker centre!!

Kuali Baba SG

Someone posted in there that they paid $1200 for the same results.

Did this clown go to the US to study under the fellar who took the horrible Team USA photos?

the Bear SG

talking about D60s and whatnots, i need to pull out my cameras to have a go at them before i forget how to use them

fudgester SG

If you don't have a conscience, wedding photography is easy money.

Some photogs charge more than what I paid, and their portfolios are so amateurish that I wonder how anyone could be foolish or desperate enough to engage their services.

Some of them do things like shooting a direct flash in a dark room. In the end, the couple gets over-exposed, while the once-nice backdrop becomes dark.

Come on lah, even an amateur like me knows things like indirect flashes or increased exposure times....

SBS2601D SG

Can the same be described as far as conscience is concerned, with regards to tuition?

And while we are on that,

ST forum recently, someone wrote in to say the only way one could succeed in SG education, is having tuition to supplement education.

And I was like o rly?

True.

Tuition might help.

But its not always the case. Particularly when yours truly never took a single extra class and did ok-ok.

the Bear SG

Can the same be described as far as conscience is concerned, with regards to tuition?

And while we are on that,

ST forum recently, someone wrote in to say the only way one could succeed in SG education, is having tuition to supplement education.

And I was like o rly?

True.

Tuition might help.

But its not always the case. Particularly when yours truly never took a single extra class and did ok-ok.

the trouble with tuition is that it improves the score in exams.. it does not improve the intelligence of the student...

those are very distinct things..

fudgester SG

I never had tuition either.

And frankly speaking, looking at all of my students I've ever tutored, I've come to the conclusion that in lieu of tuition, all you really need is a disposition to be hardworking. I just teach my students out of their own textbooks, and when I need supplementary material, Google is your friend.

Seriously. Like I always tell my students, just pay attention in class and do your homework honestly and conscientiously, and you're already 75% there.

The other 25% comes from your own sweat and toil.

SBS2601D SG

It depends on the tutor.

I refuse to teach my students things found in their notes.

I told them right in the face from day 1 that I don't know the formal definitions and exam-stuff, but I know darn well the fundamental concepts behind them and I teach them the derivation methods.

JC econs class typically teaches 0 maths.

I insist on incorporating a little so that the definitions and concepts become easier to understand rather than pure memory work.

fudgester SG

I hated Econs back in JC.

I failed every essay test (and many MCQ and data-response tests) in JC 1 and nearly dropped the subject.

In JC 2 I somehow managed to claw back up.

SBS2601D SG

Its not hard to see why.

My students are so weak fundamentally, everything also memorise.

I just have to attack their assumptions (which they also any-oh-how use), and they get confused and everything falls apart.

I like to think myself as multi-disciplinary, liking the hard and soft sciences equally.

I liked JC physics and chem and I found that even today, I use all I have learnt pretty often when I read science journals.

Kuali Baba SG

Some of the new exam questions in my day required a little lateral thinking. All one had to do was to adapt and apply the concepts that were learnt. I could do it easily for chemistry, but not for further maths.

cassie SG

i liked maths in high school; "playing and working with numbers"...not so much science

^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~ SG

I always sleep during maths class but still manage to produce As on both my maths when exams come...

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