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From: ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rikiya Asano)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.singapore
Subject: Re: Joke about Singaporean
Date: 23 Jan 93 21:47:20 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.AfMYa8u00iV3I5a9Qn
	<1993Jan19.151056.5281@philabs.philips.com>
Organization: Masters student, Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Mr.NCLee writes:

.

>In article <1993Jan18.131333.22299@iti.gov.sg> powhwee@ncb.gov.sg (Tan
Pow Hwee
>) writes:
>>
>>Heard this funny joke from a colleague:
>>
>>    An American, a British, a Malaysian and a Singaporean were on
>>a cruise ship.  Unfortunately, the ship sank in the middle of the sea 
>>....
> 
>I have heard many versions of this same joke.  The U.S. (original?) version
>was from USENET some 10 years ago, and it involved a British, a Franch,
>an American and a Maxican.  The story goes: 
> 
>  (blah blah blah)
>  The British said "God save the queen" and jumped off.
>  The Franch said "Viva France" and jumped off.
>  The American said "Remember the Alamo" and pushed the Maxican off.
> 
>A little historical note here: Alamo was a Fransciscan mission in Austin,
>Texas.  Austin used to belong to Maxico, but in 1836 a bunch of Texas
>cowboys decided to make it part of the U.S.  Maxican army then attacked
>the town to get it back, killing all Americans fortified in Alamo, 
>including the legendary folk hero David Crocket.
> 
>Just another one of many such "not so honorable" wars which the U.S. was
>involved in during its early years.

And there were many!

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From: escmar@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (~{BmOHIz~})
Subject: Re: romantic spots in Singapore
Organization: nanyang technological university
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 08:38:32 GMT

Won-Soon Lau (engp2065@nusunix1.nus.sg) wrote:
: Tan Jin Meng (eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg) wrote:
: > 
: > I believe that the Benjamin Sheares Bridge is a good start. It's a fair
:                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: 		     I guess you mean under the bridge.  ;-)

: Apart from all the romantic spots (are they really??) recommended by
: various people, I think I can still add a few more to that list.

: 1)  Pasir Ris Park,  it's quiet and peaceful
: 2)  Mount Faber,  (inspirational view? I think so)
: 3)  Sentosa during weekdays  (TPB must pay me for this promotion ;-)


: Won Soon

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  Kent Ridge Park behind NUS is not a bad spot too. ::-)

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From: seow@kraft.ecn.purdue.edu (Aik Siong Seow)
Subject: Neon Lights ***
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:24:24 GMT

Hey,
	I heard that the PWD is going to remove all the neon lights in
Singapore so that they can promote a better "city-scape". Is that really
true? Aw.....looks like I am going to miss these relics from the past...

** Chris Seow **
Newsgroups: soc.culture.singapore
From: v3keong@student.business.uwo.ca (Victor Keong)
Subject: Lessons in life :-) (was Re : The Best is Yet To Be (ACS))
Organization: University of Western Ontario
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:52:12 GMT
Keywords: Lessons, ACS, stupid, tragic

eng10205@nusunix1.nus.sg (LING SIEW WEE) writes:

> I was an ACPS boy. But due to my lack of intelligent I was kicked out
> because ACS didn't (and still don't ) have any class for Normal stream.
> My so-called-lousy government school, Balestier Hill Technical School,
> gave me a chance for an education. When I was transfered back to express
> stream, I didn't want to go back to ACS anymore. Simple because, ACS
> didn't want a stupid person like me. I didn't want ACS anymore. 

Geez you still don't get it do you? Adolescent follies was probably your 
downfall in your ACPS days. And you turn around and blame ACS for not wanting 
to take you back for you are stupid. Why don't you blame the streaming system 
instead, or the emphasis on meritocracy in our societies?  

BHTS is not all that bad, I was relieve-teaching there 2 summers ago and Ms Low 
(the current principal, former VP of Anderson) did a great job in propelling 
the school into one of the better government schools in S'pore.
 
> My life was indeed a tragic.

It will be if we all do not learn from our mistakes. And looks like you have 
done well getting into NUS. So quit complaining in the season of jolly. It's 
the New Year, go collect more angpows and have fun!!!



v3keong@student.business.uwo.ca (Victor Keong)
Western Business School  --  London, Ontario
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From: mmurali@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Magical_Flute)
Subject: Re: Lecturing Lecturers
Organization: Dwaraka  
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:15:40 GMT

CHEW KOK CHOR (eng10039@nusunix1.nus.sg) wrote:

: 	In NUS, the 1st year engr undergrads have to take a subject known as
: Technical Report Writing(TRW); and the 2nd year undergrads have to take
: Technical Communication Skills (TCS, I hope I got that right).  These
: subjects are to make us more efficient in communicating, to dispel the
: myths (facts?!) that engineers cannot, in general, communicate
: 'normally'.  I think that it's high time that the lecturers get to take
: some course in the spirit of TRW/TCS.  So as to dispel the myth (fact!)
: that lecturers can't lecture.
..
.........Engr Undergrads who have taken TRW and TCS in their junior
years still have difficulty when it comes to the writing of their
final year project reports. Inspite of having gone through such courses
the first draft of the FYP reports still  show that the message supposed
to have been delivered by these courses has never really sunk in. Inspite
of these courses as well as the presence of numerous guides on technical report
writing, Engr Undergrads still do not know how to quote references
in the body of their text, still continue to list a lot of references
and not refer them in the main body of the report, still fail to
write a crisp and concise report, still fail to provide the gist
of the report in the abstract.  This drama has been continuing the
last 4 years I have been looking at FYP reports. Now is FYP time here
and sometimes I wonder when this drama will end.

So in the same spirit one could ask if lecturing lecturers will make
any difference? Perhaps it will. Perhaps it will not. For some it
may. For some it may not.  The skill of lecturing, I am afraid,  cannot
be taught. It has to come from within the lecturer. Good lecturing
is a result of the love a lecturer develops for his field of study.
It can be improved by practice and constant renewal of techniques.


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From: dyip@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (dawei yip)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.singapore,soc.culture.asean
Subject: Discussion on Malaysian sultanate amendments
Date: 25 Jan 93 17:23:14 GMT
Organization: Northeastern University

Dated 25 January 1993
Editor:   Kieran Cooke
Media:   Financial Times

MALAY SULTANS SENSE AN END TO THE HIGH LIFE
-------------------------------------------

There are few things as upsetting as seeing your own obituary in the
newspapers.  Recently life has been a bit like that for Malaysian's nine
sultans, or hereditary rulers, who take turns as king.

The royalty is involved in a bruising battle with PM Mahathir.  Over the
weekend one of the country's national newspapers pointedly printed a
list of the world's monarchs who had fallen by the proletarian wayside
since the war.

The sultans sit in their palaces, bombarded by adverse publicity,
sensing that their days of high living could be at an end.

Dr Mahathir wants to limit the sultan's powers.  Last week, the PM
introduced a bill to parliament that would do away with constitutional
provisions giving the royalty immunity from prosecution.

The move followed an incident in which the sultan of the southern state
of Johor is alleged to have abused, then beaten up, a sports official.

But Dr Mahathir has a problem.  The constitution stipulates that any
action which alters the position of the royalty must be approved by the
sultans themselves.

Persuasive techniques have been applied to make the sultans agree to the
constitutional changes.  Stories of royal high living and various
alleged abuses of royal power began to appear in the media.  The sultans
seemed persuaded.

But then, at the last minute, they turned on Dr Mahathir, unanimously
rejecting the constitutional changes.  Since then, the government gloves
have come off.  The government started by annoucing that relatively
trival royal benefits, like special licence plates for their lavish
fleets of cars, must go.  Special wards in hospitals reserved for the
royalty would be open to the public.  Dr Mahathir would no longer seek a
weekly audience with the king.  There would be no more state funds for
the upkeep of royal yachts, and no more allocations for work on royal
homes.

By the end of last week, Dr Mahathir had moved forward the big guns.  In
future, he said, funds would be given to the royalty only in strict
accordance with regulations.  In effect, this means the withdrawal of
many millions of dollars from the royal purses.

Each day fuller stories of alleged royal misdemeanours have emerged. 
One sultan is said to have been in the habit of opening fire on vehicles
careless enough to come close to royal motorcades.  Another is said to
have sold timber concessions worth millions of dollars to pay debts.
There have been tales of manslaughter and in one case, murder, with
allegations made in parliment that a sultan killed his golf caddie.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.singapore
From: sliew@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Selbyn Liew)
Subject: Re: Ex-Patricians
Organization: Electrical and Electronic - University of Melbourne 
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 02:56:57 GMT

>     I am thinking of compiling a list of current Patricians on the net.
>Are there any objections? This list will be posted in about a week of so.
>I already have a few names.
>
>
>C.Y. Tan
>Patrician '78 - '81. (Potest Qui Vult)

Thought I might just chip in too.  I also was in St. Pat's from '81 to '84.
Do I know anybody out there?

Selbyn Liew
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From: eng10205@nusunix1.nus.sg (LING SIEW WEE)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.singapore
Subject: Re: Curious American
Date: 28 Jan 93 07:00:48 GMT
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Avik  Mukherjee (am5@cec1.wustl.edu) wrote:
: I was wondering: Is it fairly easy to live in Singapore and know English only?
: Can one get along well that way? I'm curious to know.
: 
: -Vic
: 
: am5@cec1.wustl.edu
: 
: 
Yes, you will have no problem. All transportation signs and directions
on roads or tunnel (MRT) have English language written on it.  Most
people including small kids speaks English, although you cannot expect
everyone to be an expert. Anyway, it always been the government policy
to promote English as a way of improving communications among the
different races in Singapore - so much so that many Singaporeans
(including myself) speak better English then my mother tongue...and that
is another problem... (for us of course).

Wilfred Ling
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From: an1975@anon.penet.fi (I. AMI)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.singapore
Subject: What's wrong with Singapore?
Date: 24 Jan 93 19:37:12 GMT
Organization: Anonymous contact service
X-Anonymously-To: soc.culture.singapore

yu@plains.NoDak.edu (A. Yu            ) writes:

> Well? Singapore Driver are far surperb from HITTING SOMETHING. We have the
> best testing system, and I strongly believe our drivers aren't that bad.

Wow, what superlative!  I suppose some International Agency did a 
survey world wide and found yours the best.  Your drivers are 
certainly not bad. Your system even nuture ``road bullies'' who
would break your arm, twist your neck and smash your windshield.
I think some are far superb in HITTING SOMETHING!

> -- 
>    _, /|,                Name   : Albert Yu                               
>    \ o.O                         -Bo Chup King-
>    =(___)=               Email	: yu@plains.nodak.edu	
>       U

Doesn't this animal looks like one that had its neck under 
a tire??


Good try. Keep it up.


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From: vincent@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Vincent Kim-Soon Oh)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.singapore
Subject: A-Z of KIASU (Request)
Date: 25 Jan 93 20:00:00 GMT
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.

There was this really amusing A-Z compilation for KIASU sometime ago. I seem
to have lost the file and I can't seem to be able to retrieve the original.
Could some kind soul out there send me a copy.... on second thoughts, perhaps
post it onto the net. I will probably be inundated with email from a lot of
kind souls out there. Posting it out into the net again would probably give
other people another chance at obtaining this wonderful piece of "work". I
hope this is a fair suggestion. Of course, if you rather not take up too much
bandwidth on the net, I would still appreciate your gesture very much should you
email me the stuff.

Vincent Oh



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From: liu@cs.unc.edu (Alan Ve-Ming Liu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.singapore
Subject: Re: Joke about Singaporean
Date: 24 Jan 1993 09:50:43 -0500
Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
NNTP-Posting-Host: centurion.cs.unc.edu

In article <gfMYWXi00iV385a8Ut@andrew.cmu.edu> ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rikiya Asano) writes:

Much incoherent raving deleted.

>Obviously, you are some young boy from somewhere. Wonder, if I picked
>you up and slammed you on the ground. I don't think that you have the
>balls to say this in the presence of a Malay. This makes you a coward! I
>hope that you would re-examine your intelligence and stop using your
>time on worthless stooooooopiddddd jokes from sttttoopppppid worthless
>Americans that aren't funny. And, quit acting like a child. You did go
>to the Army didn't you????!!!??? Be a man then!

So here we are, listening to a little boy in wet diapers claiming to 
be a man raving and ranting at something he calls stupid.  If it's
so stupid, don't respond.  Which is the greater fool?  Undoubtedly
you.

PS:	I don't claim the original post stupid.  I think Rikya here
	probably gets hysterical enough to wet his diapers when reading 
	rec.humour.funny.
From: ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rikiya Asano)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.singapore
Subject: Re: Joke about Singaporean
Date: 23 Jan 93 21:58:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.YfMYk9C00iV3Q5a=FC
	<1993Jan20.095736.1@vaxa.strath.ac.uk>
Organization: Masters student, Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Mr. W.H.Watts Writes:

.

>Just for information, there is a movie on The Alamo, starring none other
>than the Duke himself, John Wayne.  Pretty good movie, IMHO, although the
>ending was rather sad because the Duke was killed.

This is a stoooooopiddd movie by a sttoooooppiddd man! The movie is not
factual, it represents EuroAmerican superiority(which is stooopidd)
against another race and it is headed by a stttopppid actor. And, Mr.
Watts you come off as being stooppoppid for say from Stooopid unko like
this.
From: seow@kraft.ecn.purdue.edu (Aik Siong Seow)
Subject: Re: Neon Lights ***
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:53:07 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.045546.27508@nuscc.nus.sg> isc20059@nusunix1.nus.sg (KOH YEN LING) writes:
>The ban is referring only to rooftop billboards, NOT neon lights in
>general.  If you people want to criticise, at least get the facts
>STRAIGHT.
>Pathetic.

Alamak....you must understand that we guys here dun usually get the full info
from ST Overseas.....or we tend to generalize things a bit mah......
Give us a break man (or shall I say, lady...)!
Anyway thanx for the clarification...... ;-)


** Chris Seow **
Newsgroups: soc.culture.singapore,soc.culture.asean
From: ygoh@fraser.sfu.ca (Kelvin Goh)
Subject: Re: Discussion on Malaysian sultanate amendments
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:18:54 GMT

sci240s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Wey Jing HO) writes:

>In <1993Jan25.172314.3498@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu> dyip@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (dawei yip) writes:

>>have sold timber concessions worth millions of dollars to pay debts.
>>There have been tales of manslaughter and in one case, murder, with
>>allegations made in parliment that a sultan killed his golf caddie.
>                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>	I heard this long time ago (> 3 years). Can't confirm it though.
>Anyone know who this sultan is?

	This happened 5 years ago by the Sultan of Johor, as reported by BBC. 
Also included in the commentary was how some of the Sultans splurged on luxury
cars and their ruthless lifestyle.

	Personally, I'm glad that the government is trying to do away with
all this.  At least our tax mony would be better spent elsewhere.  However,
Mahathir is taking matters into his own hands by passing the proposed
ammendments without the approval of the Royalties.

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From: tchua@soda.berkeley.edu (Terence Chua)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.singapore
Subject: Re: The Best is Yet To Be (ACS)
Date: 25 Jan 93 02:51:35
Organization: QMW Department of Laws
NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu
In-reply-to: eng10205@nusunix1.nus.sg's message of Sun, 24 Jan 1993 18:13:47 GMT

In article <1993Jan24.181347.4855@nuscc.nus.sg> eng10205@nusunix1.nus.sg (LING SIEW WEE) writes:

   I was an ACPS boy. But due to my lack of intelligent I was kicked out
   because ACS didn't (and still don't ) have any class for Normal stream.
   My so-called-lousy government school, Balestier Hill Technical School,
   gave me a chance for an education. When I was transfered back to express
   stream, I didn't want to go back to ACS anymore. Simple because, ACS
   didn't want a stupid person like me. I didn't want ACS anymore. 

   And you know what? I went to ACJC. Thank goodness there isn't any AC
   University of Express-Student Only.

I sympathise, but you can't blame ACS for "not wanting" you because
they wanted to follow a certain standard. If you want you blame
someone, blame the Ministry of Education for *setting* that stanadrd
in the first place.


   My life was indeed a tragic.

   Wilfred Ling 

Only if you want it to be. You're in NUS now - make the most of it!

I have an announcement for all ACS Boys out there who have Internet or
e-mail access. For those who don't have USENET news, please spread the
word to them. Oh - I shouldn't be sexist... this applies to *all* ACS
people, male or female, associated with the institution as a student,
for however brief a period. 

As you may be aware, RI has its own mailing list, rafflesnet, which is
run from MIT. There has been talk of setting up a smilar net, an
ACSnet, perhaps, or oldhamnet. Somebody in Sheffield University was
supposed to set it up but the quote - "bum" - unquote isn't doing
anything about it, so I'm calling on those out there who know *how* to
set it up to get in touch with me at T.Chua@qmw.ac.uk (*not* my
Berkeley account, please!) to discuss it further.

Thank you for your attention.

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From: sa2263263@v9001 (ROLAND U)
Subject: About soc.culture.singapore
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 06:03:00 GMT

Aaahhh. Finally can post. Greetings to one and all. i've been following
this news group for quite a while now and there's been much I've been wanting
to say. First, a comment regarding this news group. This group hyas had a good
start with interesting and informative posts regarding Singapore or Malaysia
but lately, its been hit by nonsense fever postings where swear words, racist
jokes and incoherent babbling about neon lights. This would a big waste
if this were to continue. As it can be seen, this news group is already 
becomming a conduit of information for foreigner interested about Singapore.
Respect this group and let it prosper in a meaningfull manner.

Roland U.
sa2263263@ntuvax.ntu.sg " Darkness is merely the absence of light " 
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From: eng10406@nusunix1.nus.sg (TAN KAR GEE)
Subject: Re: romantic spots in Singapore
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:34:26 GMT

Alan Porter (big@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu) wrote:
: 
: I will be visiting Singapore in a couple of weeks, and I'd like to
: find a nice romantic spot to take my girlfriend.  Something like a
: park or a quiet spot with an inspirational view...  A good place for
: an afternoon walk...
: 
: You guys know of a good place to go?
: 
: ------------------------------------------------------------------
:                  Alan Porter   (big@catt.ncsu.edu)
:               104-A Darlena Court, Cary NC 27511 USA
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Hello,
   There are no lack of romantic spots in Singapore like Fort Canning
Hill. However, I have to warn you that there are also no lack of
disgusting peeping-toms in these areas. So have fun but beware.

 
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