Inadequacy, and cravings.
All of a sudden, I take a step back and realize that this domain is horrendously inadequate. Something is just lacking - but I just can’t, for the moment, figure out exactly what.
Especially the ‘Literary’ section. I have the choice of writing new articles to replace the current ones there - because the existing once are either horrendously outdated, or simply reflect my incapability in writing coherently.
Either that, or I shall scrap that section altogether from the next version onwards.
My writing style in the past used to be long, chunky paragraphs, characterized by long-winded sentences and the tendency to drone on and on. As for now, I can’t figure out for the life of me whether I’ve developed or regressed. You decide.
Ah, well. Decisions, decisions.
I predict that some major overhaul is going to be underway - soon. As long as I am able to get my lazy arse down into doing some work.
Speaking of that worm-infested Tambun Biscuit fiasco a couple of days back, I now have a fresh, worm-less supply at home for me to sink my teeth into.
And it was only recently when I learnt that another name for Tambun Biscuits is ‘Tau Sar Piah’. I’ve heard the latter so many times in my short nineteen years of existence but not once did it ever occur to me that it was the answer to my Tambun Biscuit cravings.
And why I am constantly insisting on calling them Tambun Biscuits is beyond me, because ‘Tau Sar Piah’ sounds much more interesting.
I mean, just listen to the TWANG! as I repeat it’s name.
TAU SAHHHHH PIAHHHHHH!
Sounds yummy, eh?
And oh, the box was again, only half-full when I decided to grab a piece this afternoon. Seems like everyone else in the household are craving for them as much as I do, until they start pouncing on every possible supply.
Even when I hide them in my personal mini-refrigerator.
Hands off my Tau Sar Piah! Argh.
For gosh’s sake.
If you wish to constantly advertise yourself as a university with the best infrastructure - both physical and IT-wise, please make sure you keep true to the image you are trying to assert.
Because for the record, my university’s email system is fucked up.
It took me two whole minutes just to wait for the contents of my inbox to load, and half a minute to open each email.
And so after clicking each title in my inbox, I have to sit aside, twiddling my thumbs, as the entire email window goes blank, before the actual message eventually loads line by line.
And add another half a minute to delete each email.
And the fact that several people (student leaders, deans, professors and yadda yadda) love to spam the inboxes of the entire student population doesn’t make the situation any better.
Trying to read and delete the eight emails I had in my inbox this afternoon took me a good twenty minutes of my precious time.
Just imagine the hundreds of messages rolling in when school reopens next term. It’s little wonder how my blood pressure shoots up during the progress of each term - and I tell you, it is not the school work alone than contributes to this.
And finally, I don’t understand why I am dedicating an entire entry to whine and ramble about my university’s slow email server when I am supposed to be on vacation.
And so, for the final record:
8 emails in inbox. Two minutes for the inbox to load. Half a minute to open each email. Half a minute to delete each email. Average of one minute to read each email.
And finally, ten minutes to write a whole entry whining about the above.
Waaah. Almost half an hour gone just like that.
Thank goodness for Gmail. Otherwise, I wouldn’t know which other email server can I ever turn to.
Now, you finally understood why I loathe using my school’s email account.
Remember this entry? I hereby present part 2 of that entry.
A couple of days ago, I’ve written about how the actions and words of some teenagers on a public medium have gone too far. In this case, an internet forum.
Tired of not being able to do anything to salvage the situation and just sit aside helplessly as the matter escalated from bad to worse, I finally got off my lazy bottom and decided to type out an email to Mediacorp, a local television company in Singapore, and also in charge of all the websites and forums of their various programmes.
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am an external viewer who has been browsing through the forum pages of the Campus Superstar (CSS) official website for the past month.
Apparently, what I have seen has displeased me to a great extent - teenagers sprouting vulgar and crude language at these young contestants which, in my honest opinion, can have quite a bad impact on them.
These contestants are still young, and they should not be subjected to the cruel and harsh bashing by the general public - mostly teenagers who are irresponsible in terms of feelings, and incapable of expressing themselves in writing in a subjective and responsible manner.
This will affect the contestants emotionally, irk the public reading the forums, and bring about a general bad impression and influence on all the other people around.
I understand that this is actually quite common on not just the CSS forums, but in other forums elsewhere.
However, if I were to do a subjective comparision between the forums on the CSS website and others, the current entries at CSS is starting to get out of hand - and furthermore, these are young teenagers we are talking about.
I wonder if there is any moderator in charge of these forums, and why is he/she doing such a bad job at doing so?
Furthermore, with the series of CSS already being over, I suggest that these individual forums be shut down, to prevent this scenario from escalating any further.
Perhaps if other (more responsible and sensible) people still wish to speak up about Campus Superstar, a tighter-security forum can be implemented such that the users cannot lie about their identity.
Cheers,
Brenda
I surfed into the forums this afternoon only to find that all of them have been shut down. Peace and quiet reigned, unlike one which was previously filled with teenage angst and profanities.
Go, me!