Originally posted by teraexa:I did not assume that those were your only 2 examples but instead questioned if your perceptions are unnecessarily restricted by your lack of interactions real-world wise. Well, since you chose to nitpick my doubts as assumptions, I have nothing to say.
As rather not going to university, now may I ask you AGAIN, which university did you come from? Such contextual information is crucial in order for us to know where you are coming from and your motive for your opinions.
Do you think it's difficult for Singaporeans, whether local or foreign educated to have interaction with the poorly tutored and poorly educated local 'university' graduates? They are everywhere! Oh my god. How many of them are admitted every year? Do you know how big the intake is? Do you think we do not meet these badly educated Singaporeans socially? All the bottom of the heap back in school who go there after A levels. And of course in NS we meet them too. So don't worry about me not meeting enough local poorly tutored 'graduates' of inferior minds. It's never a 'problem'. in fact the problem is there are too many of you. Throw a stone anywhere in the streets and you'll hit one of your kind.
More than 16,000 of you every year, about the same number as people who go to JC. What this means is almost everyone who went to a JC 'qualified' to become poorly tutored after. You think you're some exclusive, elusive club member like some PS?
I could tell you my university, but you'll just think I'm boasting.Just look at how you so confidently dare me to tell you what my university is. You sound so proud of what's possibly the worst university in Asia, I bet you're one of those who cut out the little Times clipping and hold it close to your heart as you sleep at night?
Originally posted by teraexa:Well, I didn't say that the "farmers" are smart, super broad-minded and hold super impressive world-views. Examples of foreign grads not possessing such attributes does not necessarily equate to local grads possessing these attributes. Now who is the one putting words into my mouth and assuming? The fact that you lack brains should not be used as a basis to assume that others lack brains too.Oh by the way, I don't think my friends are as conniving as you. Maybe I am optimistic but the more likely thing is that you are just the jerk.
You only proved your friends are critical of their friends. You haven't proven foreign grads, and what's more, Princeton or Oxford graduates do not possess such attributes. Can't believe you think you can compare with them. I don't think your friends are conniving. I know they're polite.
Originally posted by teraexa:Thanks for labelling my well-natured advice as "untrained psychological analysis". I will hardly label it as analysis but you did, so oh wells...
I thought it took that much effort on your part to come up with that. My, do you sound mightily pleased as punch that I threw you a half-hearted back-handed compliment!
Originally posted by teraexa:
And about my future, I am pretty sure mine is set. A smooth path to the upper echelons while you remain whiny and bitchy about local grads and "farmers".
You really think you have a smooth path to the upper echelons? You're so deluded I don't dislike or laugh at you, but I pity you really.
Every year, 400 farmers graduate from the 2 law schools here. big whoop. Do you think you're some President's Scholar huh? One year only 2 or 3? I can't decide whether to retch or pity you. Let's trot out more stats shall we? Besides the 400 farmers here, even more graduate from UK and Australia law schools. These are Singaporeans mind you, not foreigners.So you think you're so exclusive and such a big fuck? It's not like you're a SAFOS (in public sector) or a hotshot investment banker in London (in private sector) landing a paydirt job offer before the finance sector tanked. ST just reported yesterday gahmen is upping the number of lawyers here by a whooping 70% in the next 2 years. I got all this info from here http://sg.news.yahoo.com/cna/20090213/tap-849-singapore-acts-lure-overseas-tra-231650b.html
Besides the immensely large injection of new law grads annually to Singapore, you will be further dismayed to know that the law society president, the solicitor-general AND the attorney-general ALL have foreign university education. Isn't the law soc president the LEADER of the private sector of your field? Well, he went to Oxford. So much for upper echelon. You can't even get to the upper echelon among your tiny little swamp.
Upper echelon my ass.
Originally posted by teraexa:Why? Because I had the opportunity to go overseas but unlike you, I don't jump on the chance to go overseas to study like a male dog jumping onto a bitch in heat, unlike you.
Perhaps, one crucial point I failed to mention is that your analysis about farmers is accurate perhaps only to the government and civil service. Your myopic vision has led you overlook the fact there's something called a private sector.
Not so sure about you but I ain't so silly to bitch and whine about local grads being termed as "farmers" by foreign universities which are frankly hardly any better. Foreign universities are not necessarily better. MIT is foreign, so is Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.
And you can say all you want about farmers and me about being bitter not being part of the "cream of the crop" that goes overseas. It doesn't matter because I know very well that I have the calibre and the chance to be part of the "cream".
Yet, I, unlike you, have the freedom to choose the "farmer" path. You, perhaps, have no choice but to plunge into it.
Now, that's something that you should be truly bitter about.
You're saying because you had the option to not be a farmer, you're better than a non -farmer? The Farmer's logic is on display to full blown goriness in public view again. Hipx2 hurray.
You don't need to bring in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. It doesn't turn any of the 3 shames into an MIT. Nope, relativism doesn't apply here. Of course no one was referring to Perak University here.
You already said you didn't go through UCAS in your last post and so you didn't apply. Now you're claiming you could have got in top foreign schools? Who are you bluffing? You only said you were awarded the SMS, which doesn't mean anything because it's nothing and which Kashiva, Codexboy and I concurred to be a farmer scholarship. Two among us also testified that none of the SMS we know are intelligent or had paticularly decent grades. So you have hardly proved that you could have qualified for top foreign institutions.
"No choice" to "not be a farmer"? You mean like Hugh Hefner is fucked for having no choice that he can fuck lots of girls? Or Einstein has "no choice" but to be smart? You mean you add "no choice" before anything, it becomes something 'bad' and you win the argument? Thanks for proving my point about farmers being intellectually deficient.
Can you please refrain from telling too many people you went to university in future? It's for the best for the Singapore non graduates and foreign grads.
Originally posted by teraexa:It doesn't matter because I know very well that I have the calibre and the chance to be part of the "cream".
For fuck's sake, you didn't have the chance to be part of the cream. You didn't receive any acceptance to a single foreign top institution, so stop lying about that in repeated posts. You got an offer of a farmer scholarship that no one wants (that says it would send you overseas), which a few of us here say holders of the mentioned scholarship are not high achievers..
You didn't qualify for any top foreign university.
Originally posted by Gloater:You're saying because you had the option to not be a farmer, you're better than a non -farmer? The Farmer's logic is on display to full blown goriness in public view again. Hipx2 hurray.
You don't need to bring in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. It doesn't turn any of the 3 shames into an MIT. Nope, relativism doesn't apply here. Of course no one was referring to Perak University here.
You already said you didn't go through UCAS in your last post and so you didn't apply. Now you're claiming you could have got in top foreign schools? Who are you bluffing? You only said you were awarded the SMS, which doesn't mean anything because it's nothing and which Kashiva, Codexboy and I concurred to be a farmer scholarship. Two among us also testified that none of the SMS we know are intelligent or had paticularly decent grades. So you have hardly proved that you could have qualified for top foreign institutions.
"No choice" to "not be a farmer"? You mean like Hugh Hefner is fucked for having no choice that he can fuck lots of girls? Or Einstein has "no choice" but to be smart? You mean you add "no choice" before anything, it becomes something 'bad' and you win the argument? Thanks for proving my point about farmers being intellectually deficient.
Can you please refrain from telling too many people you went to university in future? It's for the best for the Singapore non graduates and foreign grads.
Well, so says you. You are right. Those friends of mine who got into LSE, cambridge, oxford with results similar to mine are wrong. Maybe my tutor is wrong when she said that I could've qualified for a top overseas uni is wrong because her 15 years' worth of students is worth less than your opinion.
As for SMS... Well no comments really because I have seen people who got it with very good results and people who got it with less-than-decent results. To discount the 90th percentile because of the 10th percentile is doing statistical injustice.
And oh, don't compare yourself to Hugh Hefner or Einstein. It stains their names. I am just saying that you are just one bitter soul because you have no way to climb up the social strata ladder. You weren't even offered the escape route.
Of course, I will refrain from telling people that I went to university in the future because people like you actually graduated from universities.
Maybe, just maybe, the crux of everything lies in WHICH university.
Now, Mr Gloater, why don't you enlighten us about which university you came from?
I promise I won't say that you are boasting because others will judge you themselves.
If it's truly an elite university, you will be bashed for having an elitist view by others.
If it's a farmer university, you will be bashed for being bitter by others.
Either way, you will be bashed by others.
A losing proposition. Maybe that's why you remain ambiguious and utterly opaque.
You have nothing to lose, do you? It's a lose-lose-lose situation either way.
Originally posted by teraexa:Well, so says you. You are right. Those friends of mine who got into LSE, cambridge, oxford with results similar to mine are wrong. Maybe my tutor is wrong when she said that I could've qualified for a top overseas uni is wrong because her 15 years' worth of students is worth less than your opinion.
As for SMS... Well no comments really because I have seen people who got it with very good results and people who got it with less-than-decent results. To discount the 90th percentile because of the 10th percentile is doing statistical injustice.
You need a lot more than just grades when you apply for top schools. Do you know why you didn't know that? Because you didn't qualify.
Who cares about your tutor? Is she sitting on the Harvard interviewing board? How come her 'opinion' that you can get in means you can? I'm sure some ugly duckling's mother thinks she's a real babe too.
I don't care if you claim to know some SMS with "very good results". Who knows what's good to you isn't good to anyone else. Moreover, it doesn't change the fact that it's a farmer scholarship. And if people with less the decent results can get in, it means that's its lowest common denominator.
Originally posted by teraexa:If it's truly an elite university, you will be bashed for having an elitist view by others.
If it's a farmer university, you will be bashed for being bitter by others.
Either way, you will be bashed by others.
I don't think you've got it yet, farmer. farmer university = NUS, NTU and SMU. Even people who did not go to university are not farmers compared to being educated badly and coming away confused. It's no secret that the standards of students who aspire and accept the offers of the farmer universities are laughable. So many of them can't string proper sentence in English, all possess sua ku and frog in the well mentality, and of inferior intellectual calibre. So no, I can't have gone to a farmer university to answer your question, because I didn't deign to do so.
I'm quite sure I've interacted with enough non graduates and poly graduates that are superior in intellect and exercise more independent thought and critical thinking skills than the farmer graduates.
I didn't expect anyone above the age of 7 to think that reptiles breastfeed or be confused about whether 'million' had 6 zeros all the time or "some of the time only".
Originally posted by Gloater:You need a lot more than just grades when you apply for top schools. Do you know why you didn't know that? Because you didn't qualify.
Who cares about your tutor? Is she sitting on the Harvard? How come her 'opinion' that you can get in means you can? I'm sure some ugly duckling's mother thinks she's a real babe too.
I don't care if you claim to know some SMS with "very good results". Who knows what's good to you isn't good to anyone else. Moreover, it doesn't change the fact that it's a farmer scholarship. And if people with less the decent results can get in, it means that's its lowest common denominator.
Well, who cares about my tutor? Well too bad then. She has wrote so many recommendations for her students that she knows approximately who has the chance to get into the top schools.
More than grades? Of course. Yet, that's pretty much true for US. UK? Ha. Grades do matter. And for that matter, one of my NS course mate got into LSE Management Science without an A.
And regarding your argument about the lowest common denominator, why don't you check up the lowest grades for the top schools and tell me about their "lowest common denominator".
Lastly, you still haven't come clean with your university. Why? Scared ar?
Originally posted by Gloater:I don't think you've got it yet, farmer. farmer university = NUS, NTU and SMU. Even people who did not go to university are not farmers compared to being educated badly and coming away confused. It's no secret that the standards of students who aspire and accept the offers of the farmer universities are laughable. So many of them can't string proper sentence in English, all possess sua ku and frog in the well mentality, and of inferior intellectual calibre. So no, I can't have gone to a farmer university to answer your question, because I didn't deign to do so.
You know, really, does your boss come from NUS, NTU or SMU?
I dare you to walk out to Raffles Place one day and say out exactly what you said in this thread.
It's amazing that the cloak of anonymity allows you to spew out things which you normally won't spill out. That is, you won't stand by what you say.
It is just plain cowardice.
Want to prove that it's not cowardice? Why not print out what's stated in this thread and publish it in the newspaper.
I stand by what I said. Do you?
(Don't give me the crap abt gahmen wanting to protect local uni. They will want to protect your viewpoint more to justify their policy of sending their best scholars overseas.)
Originally posted by teraexa:I am just saying that you are just one bitter soul because you have no way to climb up the social strata ladder. You weren't even offered the escape route.
Were you talking about yourself? Haha! the social strata ladder! the nation refuses to look the way of the like of you, from where did the state's leader come from? What about how all the top of the 'social ladder' within your field are not farmer graduates? That's just one field. I don't even have to touch on civil service!!! Are you confused even before you started your confusing de-education?
Originally posted by Gloater:
I'm quite sure I've interacted with enough non graduates and poly graduates that are superior in intellect and exercise more independent thought and critical thinking skills than the farmer graduates.
I didn't expect anyone above the age of 7 to think that reptiles breastfeed or be confused about whether 'million' had 6 zeros all the time or "some of the time only".
Here here, you are lumping EQ and IQ together, right?
Yeap I agree grades aren't everything. EQ is important too.
Tell me, how many poly graduates really made it big in society? For everyone 1 good poly grad they produce, how many failed ones did they not report?
If you insist on basing your arguments by comparing the most negative outlier of local uni grads and the mean of the poly grads, well, I can't stop you. You will only stubbornly stick to what you think is right and others are strictly wrong.
This lack of open-mindedness is hardly better than the "farmer graduates" whom you despise so much.
Originally posted by Gloater:Were you talking about yourself? Haha! the social strata ladder! the nation refuses to look the way of the like of you, from where did the state's leader come from? What about how all the top of the 'social ladder' within your field are not farmer graduates? That's just one field. I don't even have to touch on civil service!!! Are you confused even before you started your confusing de-education?
Frankly speaking, I think you are the little confused one. I have more ways to climb up the ladder compared to you because you probably studied a generic degree.
No matter how you look at it, admit it, your industry prolly has lower barriers of entry compared to mine.
Originally posted by teraexa:You know, really, does your boss come from NUS, NTU or SMU?
I dare you to walk out to Raffles Place one day and say out exactly what you said in this thread.
It's amazing that the cloak of anonymity allows you to spew out things which you normally won't spill out. That is, you won't stand by what you say.
It is just plain cowardice.
Want to prove that it's not cowardice? Why not print out what's stated in this thread and publish it in the newspaper.
I stand by what I said. Do you?
(Don't give me the crap abt gahmen wanting to protect local uni. They will want to protect your viewpoint more to justify their policy of sending their best scholars overseas.)
Hahaha! Now you are claiming that you know who my 'boss' is. How do you know I am working now? How do you not know if I am 1) serving my NS 2) not working 3) working for my father? Seriously, you're showing more and more of your farmer traits with every post. It just reeks of it man! Haha!!!!
Now, you're egging me to make known in newspaper forum what less straightforward people don't tell you to your face. What to do? So what if there are people who feel that way about farmer graduates? Buay song right? Live with it dude!
Originally posted by teraexa:Lastly, you still haven't come clean with your university. Why? Scared ar?
I'm not about to lay the foundations for accusations of elitism, which is unfounded should it arise. This isn't elitism, simply seen by how foreign grads can see the superiority of so many non-graduates over the FARMER graduates. This isn't a branded-uni-is-better-than-you issue. It's a farmer-graduates-are-a-disgrace-to-higher-education issue.
Originally posted by teraexa:Frankly speaking, I think you are the little confused one. I have more ways to climb up the ladder compared to you because you probably studied a generic degree.
No matter how you look at it, admit it, your industry prolly has lower barriers of entry compared to mine.
You talk too much from a place of knowing nothing.
But hey, that's another farmer trait. I have to stop expecting so much from you. But you still outdo yourself with each post.
Originally posted by Gloater:Hahaha! Now you are claiming that you know who my 'boss' is. How do you know I am working now? How do you not know if I am not 1) serving my NS 2) not working 3) working for my father? Seriously, you're showing more and more of your farmer traits with every post. It just reeks of it man! Haha!!!!
Now, you're egging me to make known what less straightforward people don't tell you to your face. What to do? So what if there are people who feel that way about farmer graduates? Buay song right? Live with it dude!
Well I never claim to know who your boss is.
I just merely asked if your boss is from the above 3 universities.
Because if he is, then how come he is above you even though he is a "farmer graduate" and you aren't one? If he is not, well you win that round then.
Now now, I am kindly asking you for your university that you studied in so that it's easier for me to see where you are coming from.
But since you are so stubbornly stuck to your "so what if I feel like this? what can you do about it?" mentality, I will just let society deal with you.
Seriously, with your mindset like this, bashing the lowest common denominator, I can't see how you are different from those "farmer graduates".
Kinda proves your point wrong about "farmer graduates" if non-farmer uni actually produce people like you.
Originally posted by teraexa:Tell me, how many poly graduates really made it big in society? For everyone 1 good poly grad they produce, how many failed ones did they not report?
If you insist on basing your arguments by comparing the most negative outlier of local uni grads and the mean of the poly grads, well, I can't stop you. You will only stubbornly stick to what you think is right and others are strictly wrong.
This lack of open-mindedness is hardly better than the "farmer graduates" whom you despise so much.
You assumed (hey! yet again!!!) that I compared the mean of poly or other non grads with statistical outlier of the farmer grads.
I compared the mean of BOTH.
Originally posted by teraexa:Well I never claim to know who your boss is.
I just merely asked if your boss is from the above 3 universities.
Because if he is, then how come he is above you even though he is a "farmer graduate" and you aren't one? If he is not, well you win that round then.
Now now, I am kindly asking you for your university that you studied in so that it's easier for me to see where you are coming from.
But since you are so stubbornly stuck to your "so what if I feel like this? what can you do about it?" mentality, I will just let society deal with you.
Seriously, with your mindset like this, bashing the lowest common denominator, I can't see how you are different from those "farmer graduates".
Kinda proves your point wrong about "farmer graduates" if non-farmer uni actually produce people like you.
He's from an American university. How? Are you going to sux my dick now? No right? Then? Duh!
Originally posted by Gloater:I'm not about to lay the foundations for accusations of elitism, which is unfounded should it arise. This isn't elitism, simply seen by how foreign grads can see the superiority of so many non-graduates over the FARMER graduates. This isn't a branded-uni-is-better-than-you issue. It's a farmer-graduates-are-a-disgrace-to-higher-education issue.
Still, why are you afraid to say what university you come from? Are you SCARED? Your uni is important because we want to see how exactly your uni is different from the local ones.
Elitism is prevalent is Singapore. Most singaporean local grads, or "farmer graduates", don't really mind it.
Unless it gets downright obnoxious or snobbish like yours.
Originally posted by Gloater:You assumed (hey! yet again!!!) that I compared the mean of poly or other non grads with statistical outlier of the farmer grads.
I compared the mean of BOTH.
You can hardly accuse me of assuming if that's all the information that you provide.
Frankly speaking, you haven't seem to have met the mean of poly grads.
Else you will be cursing them instead.
Originally posted by Gloater:He's from an American university. How? Are you going to sux my dick now? No right? Then? Duh!
Ok fine, you win. I don't claim to have the ability to know things which I can't possibly know.
And besides, your dick is non-existent. So, too bad then.
Originally posted by teraexa:Here here, you are lumping EQ and IQ together, right?
Yeap I agree grades aren't everything. EQ is important too.
Tell me, how many poly graduates really made it big in society? For everyone 1 good poly grad they produce, how many failed ones did they not report?
If you insist on basing your arguments by comparing the most negative outlier of local uni grads and the mean of the poly grads, well, I can't stop you. You will only stubbornly stick to what you think is right and others are strictly wrong.
This lack of open-mindedness is hardly better than the "farmer graduates" whom you despise so much.
Who says anything about EQ? No one mentioned EQ until you did.
I said poly grads possess higher critical thinking skills and independent thought. Which of these is about EQ? These are traits of IQ, not EQ.
I said farmer graduates do not know that reptiles do not breastfeed, and are blur about whether million always has 6 zeros. This is also IQ.
You have repeatedly proved in every post that you are deserving to go to a farmer university.
And how dare you say "Tell me, how many poly graduates really made it big in society? For everyone 1 good poly grad they produce, how many failed ones did they not report?" Seriously the mean standard of poly grads are so much superior to farmer grads-to-be, like yourself!
I noticed you deleted that line but I quoted you already above in my post, first quote of you in Feb 15 9.25pm (poly grads please go take a look!) so what you said is immortalized now.
I deleted that line? Haha. Joke. Look it up yourself. It's still there.
I stand by what I say. I have no need to resort to deletions to shield my cowardice, unlike you.