Club 30's "Kill the Boredom Demon" Jive Pad, 33rd Edition
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do't think soOriginally posted by honeymouse:You can go home earlier today....
the earliest he can go off is his usual knock off time i think -
this is my homeland... saying to pack up and go is easy...
there in the US, you have the GOP which is just a bigger version of the PAP.. only there, they are more destructive, overtly corrupt, blatantly bigoted...
which is to say that everywhere you go, you will face the same problems in different guises...
however, instead of going somewhere else, how about staying and trying to make a difference? sounds idealistic, sounds "unreasonable"...
again, isn't that what the policies here are trying to get people to think? "be pragmatic.. let us financially rape you, politically sodomise you.. be happy about it because you should surrender your souls to us"
i won't surrender my soul..
i choose to stay for the moment.. to those who left, don't kick us for it.. -
I'm trying to fill up the Relief Teaching application form on the MOE website.
The key word here is trying. I don't know what kind of idiotic programmers they have working on the MOE website... the online application form is extremely user-unfriendly. -
I choose to stay, and do whatever little I can to bring about the downfall of the PAP
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Civil Serpents?
no no no. Civil serpents are okay.
The increase of "Go Suck Them" is for Ministirs.
Especially for the newly appointed "Dragon King" -
ahahahahahaha!
this is the one thing we keep ranting at the IT side.. don't make things more difficult!
IT is supposed to make our lives easier, not complicate things!Originally posted by fudgester:I'm trying to fill up the Relief Teaching application form on the MOE website.
The key word here is trying. I don't know what kind of idiotic programmers they have working on the MOE website... the online application form is extremely user-unfriendly. -
Sigh, i am emotionally attached to the old men i worked with.
the old men I ride with.
the young men i apply my glow in the dark batons on.
i can't bear to leave, but i must, because i am too emotionally unstable.
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flay him/her!!Originally posted by av98m:fuck, I dunno if I should be happy or pissed off that the meeting got postponed
the fucker who set the time at 8:15 is on urgent leave!!!
CB, make me wake up early
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My view of IT is simple: computers are the slaves of humanity, and not the other way round. They must obey our every whim and fancy. And if they disobey us, we hold the right to pull the plug on them.Originally posted by the Bear:ahahahahahaha!
this is the one thing we keep ranting at the IT side.. don't make things more difficult!
IT is supposed to make our lives easier, not complicate things!
In this case, though, the online application form is extremely user-unfriendly. I've seen a lot of private sites with much more intuitive and user-friendly interfaces for application forms.
Let's cut to the chase: did the MOE outsource its website administration to Elbonia?
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You'd vomit blood if you see some of the online systems I'm forced to work withOriginally posted by the Bear:ahahahahahaha!
this is the one thing we keep ranting at the IT side.. don't make things more difficult!
IT is supposed to make our lives easier, not complicate things!
In other news, hearing a lot more disgrunted rumblings from people at work over the pay hike -
okay.. i'm a bit shakened...
a few people in my office (senior officers included) do not know what a beaver is... even after i showed them a pic of one and the lodge and dams the critters build.. they didn't know what they are
and all i asked is "what chinese for beaver?" -
dont worry. thats very normal.Originally posted by the Bear:okay.. i'm a bit shakened...
a few people in my office (senior officers included) do not know what a beaver is... even after i showed them a pic of one and the lodge and dams the critters build.. they didn't know what they are
and all i asked is "what chinese for beaver?"
i went to china and some 13 year old pointed at the chicken walking around and asked me 'whats that?'
i told the kid its a chicken
he said...' HOW COME IT HAS FEATHERS???? '
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i can see it with the IT fellas..
"what's a good shortcut for this? Alt-Ctrl-F7 then Ctrl-Esc followed by F3.. that's easy enough" -
The day to day updating/administration is done in-house.Originally posted by fudgester:Let's cut to the chase: did the MOE outsource its website administration to Elbonia?
The software/systems/forms on the other hand..................*sigh*
If you can ever see what software I'm forced to use to update the webpages I'm in charge of, you'd spew out blood, I kid you not -
uhh.. udon.. these people in the office are over 30
Originally posted by udontknowme:dont worry. thats very normal.
i went to china and some 13 year old pointed at the chicken walking around and asked me 'whats that?'
i told the kid its a chicken
he said...' HOW COME IT HAS FEATHERS???? '
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I did mention some colleagues who are incredibly knowlegable in their area of specialisation but completely clueless about everything else right?Originally posted by the Bear:okay.. i'm a bit shakened...
a few people in my office (senior officers included) do not know what a beaver is... even after i showed them a pic of one and the lodge and dams the critters build.. they didn't know what they are
and all i asked is "what chinese for beaver?" -
General knowledge is a very low priority for many Singaporeans. Among many students, they read the news simply because they want to score well for GP, and nothing more.Originally posted by the Bear:okay.. i'm a bit shakened...
a few people in my office (senior officers included) do not know what a beaver is... even after i showed them a pic of one and the lodge and dams the critters build.. they didn't know what they are
and all i asked is "what chinese for beaver?"
A few years ago, I was asking a friend of mine for his opinion of the collision between an RSN vessel and a huge container ship. When he didn't know what I was talking about, I told him that it was all over the news.
His response?
'Huh? You still read the news even after the A Levels?!?!?!' -
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I think its 'shui Lan' the LAN you pronouced it longer.Originally posted by the Bear:okay.. i'm a bit shakened...
a few people in my office (senior officers included) do not know what a beaver is... even after i showed them a pic of one and the lodge and dams the critters build.. they didn't know what they are
and all i asked is "what chinese for beaver?"
Dont have my dictionary with me, so not sure its the right description. -
maybe "hai tar" helpsOriginally posted by the Bear:okay.. i'm a bit shakened...
a few people in my office (senior officers included) do not know what a beaver is... even after i showed them a pic of one and the lodge and dams the critters build.. they didn't know what they are
and all i asked is "what chinese for beaver?" -
the age doesnt matterOriginally posted by the Bear:uhh.. udon.. these people in the office are over 30
so long they arent exposed to it, they wouldnt know it.
3 years old i can understand.
but for something like this...13 and 30 doesnt make any difference. -
hey, we're still using MSIE6
we can't use FireFox or Opera because they're "unauthorised and therefore vulnerable"
heck! when we were running win98, my PC was full of stuff which made the PC run better than the stock PCs... i was using Star Office, Opera and a lot of other things which the IT fellas didn't know about... you know.. open source or free stuff
best part about it was that i was opening stuff from all the different places which they could not open with the stock programs (microsoft stuff)
and i became the guy they went to...
the programs were all free, while the organisation was paying a crapload for the MS licences and i wasn't using any of it
so, i still think that the locking of xp and vista now, is just a conspiracy to wring more money out of stupid organisations whose management don't know any better...Originally posted by av98m:The day to day updating/administration is done in-house.
The software/systems/forms on the other hand..................*sigh*
If you can ever see what software I'm forced to use to update the webpages I'm in charge of, you'd spew out blood, I kid you not -
hmm any of u guys been to Soup Spoon?
issit nice there? pricey? -
hey, i dont read newspaper, only trashy magazines.Originally posted by fudgester:'Huh? You still read the news even after the A Levels?!?!?!' -
they are not interested i guess.Originally posted by fudgester:General knowledge is a very low priority for many Singaporeans. Among many students, they read the news simply because they want to score well for GP, and nothing more.
A few years ago, I was asking a friend of mine for his opinion of the collision between an RSN vessel and a huge container ship. When he didn't know what I was talking about, I told him that it was all over the news.
His response?
'Huh? You still read the news even after the A Levels?!?!?!'
pple think unless the current events affect them, theres no real need for them to know about it. true in a sense if you think about it.