Club 30's "Kill The Boredom Demon" Jive Pad, 37th Edition
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To this day, I still don't know what the *#$& is a noun, verb, adverb, adjective, and so on and so forth.Originally posted by av98m:*high fives the fudge*
I got A*, A1, A1 for PSLE Eng, O Level Eng, and GP
And up till that point I still had no fucking clue how to explain English grammar, or even what is a clause, noun, etc. Actually hor, now I also forget liao.
What I did was read, read, read, and read
Back when I was in JC, my peers would often be reading through lists and lists of super-cheem words like 'garrulous' and 'salubrious'. I kept advising them against doing so, for their basic grammar was, to put it frankly, not up to standard.
I mean, if they still can't tell when to use 'every day' instead of 'everyday', then why bother trying to learn all those words? I've always been a lot more concerned with putting my points across in simple and digestible terms than trying to impress the examiner with bombastic words. -
Oh-ho! Not that easy! You're seeing rose bushes in a field of weeds! Take off your rose-tinted specs!Originally posted by stellazio:actually i am considering the prospect of a company internal audtior. but need a few years experience and abit of luck. esp for those MNCs, can travel round the world, and work lesser too.
Before you get to a senior position, you'll have to bite the bullet and work really hard, which usually entails OT usually, and then prove your worth and possibly upgrade yourself with courses.
Out of the seven years I slogged in the corporate world, five were spent working full-time, going to night classes, then juggling OT that sometimes spills over into my weekends. Nightmare!! -
btw internal auditor is a very responsible job hor stella
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I was thinking, i'm filthy anyway, why bother?Originally posted by stellazio:same la! except u lazy to change side nia.
It was raining the whole time I was in the field ><
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no, i think because that time was only his 2nd month there.Originally posted by elindra:I think he telling you the slacker moments only
That or he has fine-tuned his system till he can afford to do that
But seriously usually it is like what Bear said
but i know he told me had to sell away his car, because he won't be using much. and seems rather happier then his time as an external auditor. -
Originally posted by elindra:btw internal auditor is a very responsible job hor stella
Oh come on guys, let's all clench our fists, and then try to motivate our sitella!
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I still read emails at work from people using bombastic words wronglyOriginally posted by fudgester:To this day, I still don't know what the *#$& is a noun, verb, adverb, adjective, and so on and so forth.
Back when I was in JC, my peers would often be reading through lists and lists of super-cheem words like 'garrulous' and 'salubrious'. I kept advising them against doing so, for their basic grammar was, to put it frankly, not up to standard.
I mean, if they still can't tell when to use 'every day' instead of 'everyday', then why bother trying to learn all those words? I've always been a lot more concerned with putting my points across in simple and digestible terms than trying to impress the examiner with bombastic words.
That being said, I feel my command of the english language getting worse over the years, so some reason. Soon I'll be grunting instead of speaking in complete sentences. >< -
i should go check back with him again one of this days.. if he's in town, cause he work's kinda near me. shipping business too.Originally posted by elindra:btw internal auditor is a very responsible job hor stella -
av good in english..
i got A, B3 and B3 for english/GP...
the B3 and B3 got me a lot of flak from my teachers -
I can't remember, must go back and ask him again. He also taught me some army lingo - mostly bad ones.Originally posted by stellazio:i thought the maximum was 4?
side A and side B then after that turn upside down! where is the last 2?
btw, i learn this in NCC.
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I got a A2 for english for my 'O's
and a B4 for my Lit. I got flake from my teacher
Anyway my english has gone down the drain coz I have to converse in mandarin and dialect and singlish -
Precisely!Originally posted by elindra:I think he telling you the slacker moments only
That or he has fine-tuned his system till he can afford to do that
But seriously usually it is like what Bear said
Sitella, there's something called one-upmanship. When someone's bent on boasting to you, they will gloss over everything! Even the bumps and potholes, spikes and scythes get lacquered over!
It's kinda like if you ask most Singaporeans who have migrated to Australia about their new lives there, you mostly hear only the good stuff, rarely the bad. Then when you are there yourself, you think, blardy hell, all are blardy liars just keen on making others envy them so they can feel superior or something!!
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Let's put it this way....Originally posted by av98m:I still read emails at work from people using bombastic words wrongly
If you don't know how to walk, then don't try to run.
If anything, I think that their strategy of leafing through all those lists of bombastic words backfired on them spectacularly. I mean, it's one thing to know the meanings of those words, but using them in the wrong context can get you into a lot of trouble.
And when you have non-existent words like 'alot' appearing in the passage, it goes to show that you're trying to hard to impress the examiners without trying to get the basics right first. -
oh.. my literature teech in sec 4 wanted to murder me.. i got C6
english has gone to blazes since talking to my friends at work, and email exchange usually consists of a lot of KNN, *^$# and hokkien obscenities
for formal work, it's hard.. you type correct grammar, you get bad grammar back...
or worse, where i work, stuff has to be "vetted" and the vetting person keeps changing the grammar into bad grammarOriginally posted by elindra:I got a A2 for english for my 'O's
and a B4 for my Lit. I got flake from my teacher
Anyway my english has gone down the drain coz I have to converse in mandarin and dialect and singlish -
I believe there are jobs that entail easy work and good pay .
Just look at all the undeserving #^%@)!*s out there ! -
Yeah. The worst example is getting your basic sentence structure wrong and using big words at the same time.Originally posted by fudgester:Let's put it this way....
If you don't know how to walk, then don't try to run.
If anything, I think that their strategy of leafing through all those lists of bombastic words backfired on them spectacularly. I mean, it's one thing to know the meanings of those words, but using them in the wrong context can get you into a lot of trouble.
And when you have non-existent words like 'alot' appearing in the passage, it goes to show that you're trying to hard to impress the examiners without trying to get the basics right first. -
I got A1 for English. And C6 for Literature.Originally posted by the Bear:oh.. my literature teech in sec 4 wanted to murder me.. i got C6
My Lit teacher nearly strangled me alive.... until I explained to him that I was running a very high fever at the time (which I really was).
Thank goodness I got A1 for Geography... I used that as my Humanities requirement instead of Lit. -
Originally posted by choco B:I believe there are jobs that entail easy work and good pay .
Just look at all the undeserving #^%@)!*s out there ! -
How in the blue blazers did u get a C6Originally posted by the Bear:oh.. my literature teech in sec 4 wanted to murder me.. i got C6
english has gone to blazes since talking to my friends at work, and email exchange usually consists of a lot of KNN, *^$# and hokkien obscenities
for formal work, it's hard.. you type correct grammar, you get bad grammar back...
or worse, where i work, stuff has to be "vetted" and the vetting person keeps changing the grammar into bad grammar
I find that hard to believe too -
I got a C6 for Lit because I just plain hated shakesphere.Originally posted by fudgester:I got A1 for English. And C6 for Literature.
My Lit teacher nearly strangled me alive.... until I explained to him that I was running a very high fever at the time (which I really was).
Thank goodness I got A1 for Geography... I used that as my Humanities requirement instead of Lit. -
you mean... like.. Ministers?Originally posted by choco B:I believe there are jobs that entail easy work and good pay .
Just look at all the undeserving #^%@)!*s out there ! -
i read the books once..
i read the plays and watched the plays on video... once...
i read the poetry and fell asleep halfway...
i knew my A Math, E Math, Chemistry and Physics will pull me through (although i did screw up my Chemistry and Physics)
and i plain just didn't careOriginally posted by elindra:How in the blue blazers did u get a C6
I find that hard to believe too -
My lit teacher was damn du lan with me because I obviously spent lots of my time reading lots of books. But I just refused to read some of the lit texts outside school hours.
I was reading unabridged Dickens novels while refusing to touch the blardy lit texts (except for To Kill A Mockingbird) -
Did you know that poly lecturers gets 40 days of annual leave a year?
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One can be good in English but it doesn't mean that they are equipped to teach the language.
Using it, and knowing the technicalities of it, fall into two different genres altogether.
I spent a lot of time familiarising myself with the technicalities when I had to teach tuition because I put myself wholeheartedly into it. Then later, at one stage in my working life, I had to juggle two positions because our Training Administrator had resigned and the company had no 'headcount' to fill that position so I had to apply to be certified by MOE to teach the BEST and WISE English courses to our blue-collar foreign workers.
TMD... give me TWO posts to juggle, then at the end of the year, during my appraisal, can tell me that I'm not as up-to-par on my jobSSS as I ought to be!
Nary a word of thanks for taking on the extra responsibilities with NO salary revisions but dare to nit-pick! Luckily I spoke up for myself then and stunned my boss, who realised the situation and then decided to put me up to the next grade!