NUS is an administrative wreck... =.=
(Thursday, August 6, 2009/11:56 PM)
Zzz... I've been busy lately emailing NUS admin regarding module bidding problems, and all they gave were halfhearted replies. I wanted to take this certain module because it seemed interesting, so I wrote an elaborate email giving my reasons and appealed to a professor to consider allowing me to take the module as my major elective. And his reply was...
Prof: The module is not so related to your major. You can take it as an unrestricted elective.
Errr... Yeah thanks, prof... Can't you be a tad bit more helpful and give me simple reasons why, so that I might understand and be appeased? And go out of your way to help out by suggesting alternative modules which is similar? Pfft... (=.=)
Well... That's not the end of the story. Before this, I emailed to the department, seeking their help to aid me in forwarding my appeal request to the relevant authorities. What follows next amazed me.
Admin: Please email the professor at this email .
Uhhh... How hard is it to simply click the mouse a few times to forward the email to him? In the end, I had to copy & paste my message, write an add-on message to the professor telling him that this is a prior email sent to the department.
And I had to wait 3 days for that shitty reply. Singaporeans are amazing, I tell you.
On Wednesday, I was just watching this TV variety show featuring Mark Lee as the host, assessing how gracious our society is compared to other nations. For once, I was rooting for Mark Lee, as he blatantly pointed out how ungracious Singaporeans are.
The program shifted to Taiwan, and it is so obvious and evident that our society pales in comparison to Taiwan's. Every Singaporean interviewee also mentioned that Japan is the nation to look upon regarding manners and culture.
Yeah... Our economy might be a miracle for a small nation such as ours. Changi Airport is the No. 1 airport in the world. But I'd say... Big deal... If we don't advance our society on a whole, all these successes would come crumbling down very soon.
It doesn't help matters that the government is encouraging the influx of foreign workers and talents who are solely concerned about their own well-being and don't bother assimilating well into our society. Who is a Singaporean, really? PRs are getting larger in numbers by the day...
Oh well, I better not rattle on any further. Political issues are touchy and I usually don't bother unless it's really getting on my nerves.
Holidays are drawing to an end. It's back to school for me. Sigh... =(
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