complain
I recently got a email regarding a complaint letter to the principal/director of TP( temasek poly). Not sure if it’s long time ago, recently or you all have read it.. But anyways, i’m going to post it here..
Dear Principal,
Complain on Temasek Polytechnic School Fee lim bei ka li kong, you have charge me with unfair school fee. Lim bei bo join any student union wat 4 charge me wif student union fee! KNN… i attachment outside still charge me internet access fee,
ke si ar! Yio siew, u think lim bei rich ar! KNN i work till siao also jus barely make it. Still retain me for 1 sem. u think everyone makin $$ like u all ar. Kaoz… Econ bad leh… still dun gif discount stay for 3 years liao, discount a bit cannot ar. Ge Gao! i go buy food for 2 weeks auntie oso charge less, somemore i study TP 3 years liao still no rebate. still wan me to pay extra $$. KNN, next time u try ppl overcharge u lar.
Wa lao eh, last time tt indian principal let us play dai dee in school, u now come liao then cannot play. wat freakin problem u have!!! u cant win in dai dee also cant stop us from playin wat. All work n no play make us dumb students k! u read so much still dunno ar. wat kinda of a freakin principal r u! u think u big ar! ur size big onli. do nuttin n earn so much! na bei take my school fee go play mahjong issit! kaoz, pay so much but facilities still so bad. canteen no air con, so many birds fly here, fly there. U think funny issit!
swimmin pool so small, somemore no lady life guard. and the dance studio no ppl dancin air con still on, u think air con bill u pay one ar! waste my money on unuse air con! somemore the sports facilities oso lao ya one, basketball bo hong, squash ball buay tiao. na bei, u think funny issit!
I oso wanna tok bout the lab ar, KNN build more lab lar! free access always full. and we use to have a set of equipment each for lab but now 2 person share 1. u sell the rest issit! earn profit still raise school fee! u outside earn so much then still kapok our school fee. Ke si ar! u so good then go SP lar.SP big school and more students, u can exploit them wat. u think TP students hao qi fu ar! Burn ur car then u know. So rich ar, employ a security to ‘protect’ ur car somemore still got 1 video cam. u think u drive sports car or Limo?! u car onli Nissan Sunny, act machiam like very high class like tt. Ppl drive Benz oso park outside ar.
All Poly got fast food except TP, u go build 1 fast food resturantlar…damn pai seh u noe, ppl always make fun TP no fast food. Carona oso bo yong… u keep so many Kois for wat, u think our school fee for u to buy Kois ar!
i hope that u charge less (better if no need pay school fee).Otherwise undesirable action will be taken against you and your damn car!.
from a very buay song student,
T0uy@ Ak|r@
What do you think about it? To me, it’s quite cool for a “ah beng” to actually do something about it though it doesn’t sound nice..
Zeitgeist \TSYT-guyst; ZYT-guyst\, noun:
[Often capitalized] The spirit of the time; the general intellectual and moral state or temper characteristic of any period of time.
The best writers of that predawn era were originals who had the zeitgeist by the tail.
– Gary Giddins, Visions of Jazz: The First Century
As most critics and all professors of cultural theory note, Madonna is nothing if not a skilled reader of the zeitgeist.
– “Techno ‘rave’ just the same old Madonna”, Chicago Sun-Times, March 3, 1998
Besides, the zeitgeist seems to be working against any hope of Hormel officials to limit…the usage of [the word] ’spam’ on the Web.
– Gracious Concession on Internet ‘Spam’, New York Times, August 17, 1998
Like other figures who seem, in retrospect, to have been precociously representative of their times, Kerouac was not simply responding to the Zeitgeist, but to the peculiarly twisted facts of his own upbringing.
– Jack Kerouac: The Beat Goes On, New York Times, December 30, 1979
Zeitgeist is from the German: Zeit, “time” + Geist, “spirit.”
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faineant \fay-nay-AWN\, adjective:
1. Doing nothing or given to doing nothing; idle; lazy.
2. A do-nothing; an idle fellow; a sluggard.
Yet if nonhunters ever knew how many properly dressed, entirely palatable big-game carcasses wind up in dumpsters because someone was simply too faineant to butcher and cook and eat an animal he could find the time and energy to shoot and kill, hunting would be in even greater jeopardy than it is today.
– Thomas McIntyre, “The meaning of meat”, Sports Afield, August 1, 1997
According to Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Charles II was no faineant half-wit but a conscientious and reflective king.
– David Gilmour, “The falsity of ‘true Spain’”, The Spectator, July 22, 2000
A faineant government is not the worst government that England can have. It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.
– Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn
Faineant is from French, from Middle French fait, “does” + néant, “nothing.”
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arcanum \ar-KAY-nuhm\, noun;
plural arcana \-nuh\:
1. A secret; a mystery.
2. Specialized or mysterious knowledge, language, or information that is not accessible to the average person (generally used in the plural).
Through the years, Usenet evolved into an international forum on thousands of topics, called Usenet news groups, from the arcana of programming languages to European travel tips.
– Katie Hafner, “James T. Ellis, 45, a Developer of Internet Discussion Network, Is Dead”, New York Times, July 1, 2001
Here we must enter briefly into the technical arcana of employment law.
– Paul F. Campos, JurismaniaThe Madness of American Law
Arcanum is from the Latin, from arcanus “closed, secret,” from arca, “chest, box,” from arcere, “to shut in.”
Dream
Just woke up from a very adventurous dream. I’m not sure about how the dream started but it goes something like this…..
I was boarding a bus from a unfamiliar place and the bus travelled along the rough road with another bus speeding beside the bus i’m in and that bus charged onto a big empty container boxes sticking out of a warehouse. The weird thing is that the bus is still able to move! It then stopped at a bus stop where the bus i’m in parked beside it. They said something like “maybe we should let them out”. The next thing i remember is everyone from both buses alighted at that stop and both buses left. One of the drivers started to drive off when an old lady is trying to alight. I don’t know how she managed to get down but one thing for sure is that she was being carried down by a quite beautiful girl.
After that, the next scene is opposite the bus stop. The crazy bus driver went at high speed and hit a ramp and flew. It hit the wall and more or less blocked the whole road. After that, many stunt cars came and do stunts. Just when I was watching the stunts, a car came hitting the bus and exploded. The explosion was not very far from us and we could feel the impact. In the midst of confusion, a “fireball” flew past us and hit a flammable tank just few metres away from the bus stop. The next big thing is the tank exploded and i can see the pulses of flames coming to us. My only reaction was to save the old lady and the girl but i failed to do so for i got blown to the ground. After all the explosions, i got back up and saw everyone lying on the ground. Right in front of my eyes, i saw this stunt plane flew down at our height and flew back up, barely missing a container box.
There’s a few who got up. I decided to backtrack to look for help. Someone came with me to look for help. We walked and walked and out of nowhere, there’s a big building. I then saw miss chia and i greeted her and chatted with her, forgetting my main objective. She than went to the taxi stand area where she opened the blue door of a subaru wrx sti . The car was SO COOL!!!! It’s super huge (compared to the STi in singapore) as if the car as wide bodykit. She opened up the bonnet and the white lights glowed. It was awesome. I then met her husband who was at the front passenger seat. They than left the building and i go back to my quest. The other guy who followed me disappeared which i didn’t realise. I decided to hired 2 cabs to go down and get everyone. But the security refused to press the button to light up the taxi sign. He keep asking me to shhh~ I got fustrated and just before i left the building, I saw fire trucks coming up. That’s the end of the scene.
You think that’s the end? Nah. Back to the story. Somehow, I got back home safely and i watched the news, saying that the 2 drivers are actually killers dispatched to kill someone. They then show the part on how they became bus drivers. Don’t know how many days later, I went back to that place at night. It was dark and the only source of light is the moon. I went to the field opposite the bus stop and these time, someone pulled me down to the ground. He was with another person and he told me that the field is full of landmines. Just right after he finished saying that, at the other side of the field, three figures threw something over. For a moment, I thought they threw grenades as it looks like so when it is in mid air. I panicked and quickly crawled towards the field. I saw the “grenade” coming towards me. The funny thing about it is that it doesn’t look like a grenade or any explosive item. Instead, it looked like a clarinet stand. It’s exploded in less than a metre away from me.Change of scene.
For no reason, it became dawn. I was behind a bush with the same people i met at night. I wanted to get out of there when the guy stopped me and asked me not to make a single noise. A guy dressed in white walked down to the field area and looked around. He was searching for something. He walked around here and there. The guy who stopped me moved forward and grabbed hold of the white dressed guy. He than…………..
I woke up. Lol. A very no link story heh. Well, believe it or not, i dreamt of the exact same thing few years ago. Ahh~ wth. I need to go to school soon. BYE!!
gelid \JEL-id\, adjective:
Extremely cold; icy.
The weather is gelid on a recent Thursday night–so uninviting that it’s hard to imagine anyone venturing out.
– Letta Tayler, “The Accent’s on Brooklyn”, Newsday, April 6, 2000
Last January a major crisis arose when the Argentine naval supply ship Bahia Paraiso foundered near an island off the Antarctic Peninsula, creating a diesel-oil spill that inflicted untold damage on the ecosystems clinging to the edges of the icy continent or swimming in its gelid seas.
– Christopher Redman Paris, “Could anything be more terrible than this silent, windswept immensity?”, Time, October 23, 1989
Gelid comes from Latin gelidus, from gelu, “frost, cold.”
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ebullient \ih-BUL-yuhnt\, adjective:
1. Overflowing with enthusiasm or excitement; high-spirited.
2. Boiling up or over.
The glasses he wore for astigmatism gave him a deceptively clerkish appearance, for he had an ebullient, gregarious personality, a hot temper, and an outsized imagination.
– Jon Lee Anderson, Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
He was no longer an ebullient, energetic adolescent.
– Linda Simon, Genuine Reality: A Life of William James
Sometimes he would come back from the Drenchery Club holding on to the walls till he got to my office, where he’d be jolly and ebullient. At other times, he’d return morose.
– Harriet Wasserman, Handsome Is: Adventures with Saul Bellow
Ebullient comes from Latin ebullire, “to bubble up,” from e-, “out of, from” + bullire, “to bubble, to boil.”
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Zeitgeist \TSYT-guyst; ZYT-guyst\, noun:
[Often capitalized] The spirit of the time; the general intellectual and moral state or temper characteristic of any period of time.
The best writers of that predawn era were originals who had the zeitgeist by the tail.
– Gary Giddins, Visions of Jazz: The First Century
As most critics and all professors of cultural theory note, Madonna is nothing if not a skilled reader of the zeitgeist.
– “Techno ‘rave’ just the same old Madonna”, Chicago Sun-Times, March 3, 1998
Besides, the zeitgeist seems to be working against any hope of Hormel officials to limit…the usage of [the word] ’spam’ on the Web.
– Gracious Concession on Internet ‘Spam’, New York Times, August 17, 1998
Like other figures who seem, in retrospect, to have been precociously representative of their times, Kerouac was not simply responding to the Zeitgeist, but to the peculiarly twisted facts of his own upbringing.
– Jack Kerouac: The Beat Goes On, New York Times, December 30, 1979
Zeitgeist is from the German: Zeit, “time” + Geist, “spirit.”
YEAH!!!!!
WOOHOO!!! Went to bbdc (bukit batok driving centre) at around 10 to register for the basic theory test. SO WHO STILL WANNA SPREAD THE RUMOR OF GETTING LICENSE AT THE AGE OF 21?? WHO WHO WHO?? Lol. Back to the story. I went there with hoi kan. He’s a “funny” guy.. We reached there and asked for the queue number from the information counter. He than said that he forgot to bring his IC with him. Since the counter said that the waiting time as around 1 hour plus, he decided to go back to get his IC. So, We took bus 188 to chua chu kang interchange and transfered to 302. We reached his house and he asked his dad to pass him his IC. He looked high and low for it but he couldn’t just find it. That’s when his mum came back and helped to search more thoroughly. It only took her 3mins or so to find it. Amazing? NOT. She remembered that the IC has always been with him since he went to hong kong for holiday.
OK. So, we travelled back to bbdc only to realise that my number has been called. I had no choice but to get another number. Haiz. While waiting, I saw Ariff from CSS band. He’s a super big sized guy who plays the tuba and is always cracking jokes. Remember him? Didn’t had time to ask him why he’s here though. But to be meeting him there is most probably either having theory lesson or taking theory test. We waited for VERY LONG and our number has been called. It took quite awhile to be registered but who cares? As long as i’m registered, I can’t be bothered at the time taken to register. Oh, for those who wants to register, bring along your credit card or NETS as they don’t accept cash. The total cost I paid for registering and booking for theory test cost $11.35. After going through all the trouble, we headed home. Only after i reached home. I realised that we didn’t get the theory book. I was laughing my head off when it hit my mind. Oh well, looks like we had to go back to bbdc to purchase the book. That’s all for now. Gtg back to yishun. Bye-bi~
gnomic \NOH-mik\, adjective:
Uttering, containing, or characterized by maxims; wise and pithy.
A long pause, during which the group reflects on this gnomic pronouncement.
– Ruth Shalit, “Send in the clowns”, Salon, June 21, 2000
They consisted of strange, short, sometimes witty, sometimes gnomic, often semiautobiographical essays about architecture.
– Geoff Nicholson, Female Ruins
But the young man’s gnomic utterances — that life is “a journey” and “a big circle” — might reflect not Buddhist-tinged wisdom so much as the fact that he has been skating around in circles for years.
– Gary Kamiya, “Flight of the wonder boy”, Salon, February 14, 2002
Gnomic derives from Greek gnomikos, from gnome, “intelligence, hence an expressed example of intelligence,” from gignoskein, “to know.”
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multifarious \muhl-tuh-FAIR-ee-uhs\, adjective:
Having great diversity or variety; of various kinds; diversified.
She is good at constructing a long, multifarious narrative, weaving many minor stories into one, so that you are left with a sense of the fluidity and ambiguity of historical interpretation.
– Jason Cowley, “It’s bright clever… but the result is academic”, The Observer, May 27, 2001
Men’s opinions, accordingly, on what is laudable or blamable, are affected by all the multifarious causes which influence their wishes in regard to the conduct of others, and which are as numerous as those which determine their wishes on any other subject.
– John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
But as he reached the verge of the lawn and vaulted the retaining wall there, crossed the flagstone walkway and started up the steps of the ad building, the multifarious marvel of his congested brain surprised him–the apes flew right out of his head and he was thinking about California.
– T. Coraghessan Boyle, Riven Rock
Multifarious derives from Latin multifariam, “on many sides; in many places.”
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bibulous \BIB-yuh-luhs\, adjective:
1. Of, pertaining to, marked by, or given to the consumption of alcoholic drink.
2. Readily absorbing fluids or moisture.
Vineyards are everywhere, especially when Felix approaches Paris, the most populous city in Christendom — and the most bibulous too, since lousy local wine had to be drunk before it turned sour in a few months.
– Eugen Weber, “Renaissance Men”, New York Times, April 13, 1997
Ever since the joys of the fermented grape were discovered, the bibulous have been waking up feeling the worse for wear.
– Sally Chatterton, “The Daily Website: www.hungover.net”, Independent, September 3, 2001
Bibulous comes from Latin bibulus, from bibere, “to drink.”
