Wed, 8 Jul 2009
Our grumblings about SMU and internships actually made the news!! Things have been busy whilst I was in Bali!
When I read the article, this really rankled:
SMU’s associate dean of external relations and practice assistant professor of law Rathna Nathan confirmed that all 116 students from its pioneer batch obtained internships during this school vacation from May to this month.
But she denied that the school has arrangements with firms to allocate spots for its students.
‘We would not have been able to place all of our students in internships without our partners, but they also choose students completely based on merit,’ she said.
I find it amazing that SMU’s spokesperson can deny the fact that they reserve places for their students when that was what the SMU students themselves told my friends and I at my last internship! Are they telling their students one thing and the public another?! And it seems that our Dean wasn’t even informed of this reservation scheme! Fair play fail much? If ALL the students got internships how can it POSSIBLY be based on merit?! Unless they don’t grade on a bell curve, which, according to the SMU students, they do.
I don’t really have a quarrel with the reservation thing. They need it to graduate. Fine. I totally understand. Then, in the spirit of goodwill, don’t over-reserve! And for goodness sake be HONEST about the whole affair!! Urgh!
Thu, 2 Jul 2009
That’s how many of us were in the lift when it got STUCK. Unlucky number indeed! On my last day of work too!
This is the first time I’ve ever been stuck in a lift. W and K were with me, and FX was in the lift too. K was saying that now we can cross off being stuck in a lift as one of the things to do before kicking the bucket. My reaction was HUH, why would that be on ANYONE’S list of things to do! LOL. Thankfully the lights and fan were still on so it wasn’t really a bad experience. There was a kind of ‘camaraderie in crisis’ thing going on, and this stranger in the lift was giving me advice about Bali and everything. Quite amusing. A complete 180 from the usual stiff stand-offishness of lift interaction in Singapore. LOL.
And, getting stuck in the lift proved that the iPhone is indeed powerful. It was mostly those with iPhones that had one measly, but extremely valuable, bar of reception! Woohoo!
Wed, 17 Jun 2009
Four effing chapters to finish by Friday.
I want to STRANGLE SOMETHING. or SOMEONE. ARRRGHHHHHHHH. The chapter refuses to shake down into neat portions. I need one of them Quick Quotes Quills of Rita Skeeter’s that will write the chapters FOR me.
Or rather, I think I’m just horrendously burnt out from not taking a break after exams and internship. Why do I ALWAYS do this to myself without fail?
Tue, 16 Jun 2009
I chased my stupid dog all over the house yesterday trying to get him to take his medicine. He turned up his nose at President’s Emmental Cheese!! WHALAO! (Usually we wrap the medicine up in cheese. Think ravioli or wonton. He refuses to eat Cheddar anymore, which is why we go with Emmental.)
I went to cut slices of Camembert to press the medicine into. Even then I had to wave it around his nose going, “You know you waaaaant it!!” before he finally ate it! This dog arh!!! I quote Mr Mercedes, “Qi you ci li!”