Monthly Archives: February 2006

Of Business Schools

By Junjie | Published: February 28, 2006
I’m not exactly sure what to feel about Business Schools in general, but most would conjure images of happy, carefree, 3-day study week students hanging out at movie theatres when their engineering counterparts are slogging away in school. Students who have had enough of Science-based education, ‘A’ level graduates who are absolutely clueless on what [...]
Posted in Long-winded Opinion | 2 Comments

Should We Bring Him Up As A Buddhist?

By Junjie | Published: February 28, 2006
Jeremy wrote: Forget about religion and never bring that up at all. Instead, bring him up #1 to be honest and #2 to be questioning. If you teach your child these 2 qualities then you are equipping your child with the 2 greatest tools in life so that he, in his own strength, can find his [...]
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30 Years of Computing and My Ho-hum Life With It

By Junjie | Published: February 27, 2006
Chanced upon this article, “The Real History of the GUI“. It’s kinda geeky, but it’s quite a good read to know how your computer came about. My first computer (it’s my dad’s one, actually) was a whopping 80486 running Windows 3.11 and DOS 6.22 back in 1995 (Primary 4). Instead of perusing textbooks and slaving over [...]
Posted in Everything Else, Technology | 5 Comments

Letter: Should Students’ Privacy Be Given More Respect?

By Junjie | Published: February 23, 2006
Dear Sir/Mdm, I refer to the article “Poly students in homemade sex video gets counselling” (ST, Feb 22 06). I am appalled to read that the discipline teacher of the said junior college was bestowed with the authority to conduct “handphone raiding”, i.e. investigating the contents of mobile phones without the owners’ permission, on 5 students in [...]
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Follow your heart, prudently

By Junjie | Published: February 8, 2006
I read on the forums today, a man found out that his girlfriend of 10 years and buddy of 8 have been seeing each other. And you thought this only happens in TV dramas and soap operas. But trust me that not everyone will sympathise with this poor man. I recalled once when my better half [...]
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Girls

By Junjie | Published: February 5, 2006
Another extract of a MSN conversation with my better half. Xemus is her 4-year-old cousin who happens to like to stick to me and not her. Sharon: but xemus is so cute Sharon: i jus grab any chance to make him hug me Sharon: so chubby Sharon: lol bAa: lol Sharon: i [...]
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Classic Response

By Junjie | Published: February 4, 2006
(Extracted from a MSN conversation with Jeremy) je m’appelle jer / ♫ Quiet: sup bAa: nothing much, jus slept for 1.5 days je m’appelle jer / ♫ Quiet: erm je m’appelle jer / ♫ Quiet: wtf No, but really, the anti-nausea and giddiness tablet that was prescribed had a hidden side effect that I was unaware of (and not documented [...]
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