Tuesday, August 7, 2007
World Crass (sic)
Yet another reason why NTU is a PREMIER education hub. Talk about shooting yourselves in the foot. I wonder how much they blew on this ad.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Everybody loves Raymond
Dear readers,
Firstly I must thank you on behalf of my 3 friends for visiting our blog. The reason why this blog exists is for the simple reason that our minds are still alive. Alive enough to dissent but not enough to understand the environment we so long to escape from.
I've decided to dedicate this post to a particular personality that I have come into proximity with in the last 8 weeks: Mr Raymond Wong
I find it hard, even now, to comprehend the mind behind this personality. Don't even begin to think that these personalities are at all rare. They're becoming a common sight.
This email he sent me explains it all. Put yourself in my shoes and try to comprehend why exactly we all love Raymond.
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> Hi peeps,
My apology for the late email. I have got my own business to do everyday
and night. Thus, I have to trouble our friends huiwen and wen qi to help out
in compiling. So to keep it short, be co-operative by sending your powerpoint slides to both of them as soon as you can; latest will be thursday.
Huiwen and Wenqi, you do not have to chiong to submit on friday. U can
even submit on next Tuesday also can. KPMG kiasu style, very typical.
Recommend you send latest by Monday. But peeps, please try to send our ladies on thursday, latest.
Next, since I have done this "last-day-tell-me-how-u-feel" thing for previous internships, I shall let you know what they expect.
1) Please don't chat more than 30 seconds about what you do in your workplace. Everyone is not interested in what you do unless it's so interesting they wont fall asleep. This is because, everyone is going to say the same job scope.
2) Just say you from which department, briefly mention 3 and I mean at most 3!!! major duty/responsibility that you did. - becos No one will remember or care to remember what u do
3) Just say what you felt about your section's culture, work environment, people, work etc, how helpful the colleagues were, and any rooms for improvement.
PS: I urge you not to lament about your sore days over there. Don't leave a bad impression for them even though it's the truth that they might not have treated you very well. Use your discretion to rephrase your sentence to something positive if you have so called improvements to say.
i.e. "I was only assigned to do shredding, photcopying, and faxing, very mundane jobs. Very sian. Make me feel like i am a cheap labor". DON't say that. Say instead: "Perhaps my section can delegate me more challenging stuff, or explain to me the purpose of the documents that I am handling daily"
Thus, I hope you see the picture with the example I gave you. You might see and listen to other team saying dumb stuff, that's ok, they malu, not you. Give yourself a chance to be more employable. The world is round, you never know if you might land up in KPMG after studies.
4) Give your thanks to whoever you want to thank.
5) keep your slides to at most 2 slides.
PS: I may be giving a speech of maybe 2mins or even less such as 1.5mins.> I will only say which dept i am in, my key task, talk about what i feel > about that place, then give my thanks. Sayonara. keep it short and sweet!
Next thing. Until now we have not decided who should present first and to give the introduction. Can I have the honor to start the ball rolling and to introduce us to the audience? I wish to do an innovative introduction, and you shall leave a deeper impression with everyone.
> > Everyone, please give me what you think you are like.
I.e. This is Wen qi. She is a very sweet, and gentle lady
This is XXXX. He is a very sporting and outgoing young man
If everyone is fine with this email, please proceed with the necessary > tasks.> > 1) Do the slides
> 2) Introduce your personality
> 3) Send these two items to huiwen, wen qi, and me (Especially the personality).
> 4) Wen qi and hui wen compile the slides (Thank you so much gals)
If there's any problem or wish to talk to each other, please sms, call or >use the above email addresss. Please sms to notify that you emailed if you choose to send email as mode of communication.
Rgds
Raymond
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Thanks MR Raymond, for giving me this opportunity to shame you on my turf.
P.S. (in true Mr Raymond Style)
Mr Raymond himself smsed me 1 hour before the presentation to tell me he was down with a sore throat and that he was not gonna be there for it.
Everybody Loves Raymond.
Firstly I must thank you on behalf of my 3 friends for visiting our blog. The reason why this blog exists is for the simple reason that our minds are still alive. Alive enough to dissent but not enough to understand the environment we so long to escape from.
I've decided to dedicate this post to a particular personality that I have come into proximity with in the last 8 weeks: Mr Raymond Wong
I find it hard, even now, to comprehend the mind behind this personality. Don't even begin to think that these personalities are at all rare. They're becoming a common sight.
This email he sent me explains it all. Put yourself in my shoes and try to comprehend why exactly we all love Raymond.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Hi peeps,
My apology for the late email. I have got my own business to do everyday
and night. Thus, I have to trouble our friends huiwen and wen qi to help out
in compiling. So to keep it short, be co-operative by sending your powerpoint slides to both of them as soon as you can; latest will be thursday.
Huiwen and Wenqi, you do not have to chiong to submit on friday. U can
even submit on next Tuesday also can. KPMG kiasu style, very typical.
Recommend you send latest by Monday. But peeps, please try to send our ladies on thursday, latest.
Next, since I have done this "last-day-tell-me-how-u-feel" thing for previous internships, I shall let you know what they expect.
1) Please don't chat more than 30 seconds about what you do in your workplace. Everyone is not interested in what you do unless it's so interesting they wont fall asleep. This is because, everyone is going to say the same job scope.
2) Just say you from which department, briefly mention 3 and I mean at most 3!!! major duty/responsibility that you did. - becos No one will remember or care to remember what u do
3) Just say what you felt about your section's culture, work environment, people, work etc, how helpful the colleagues were, and any rooms for improvement.
PS: I urge you not to lament about your sore days over there. Don't leave a bad impression for them even though it's the truth that they might not have treated you very well. Use your discretion to rephrase your sentence to something positive if you have so called improvements to say.
i.e. "I was only assigned to do shredding, photcopying, and faxing, very mundane jobs. Very sian. Make me feel like i am a cheap labor". DON't say that. Say instead: "Perhaps my section can delegate me more challenging stuff, or explain to me the purpose of the documents that I am handling daily"
Thus, I hope you see the picture with the example I gave you. You might see and listen to other team saying dumb stuff, that's ok, they malu, not you. Give yourself a chance to be more employable. The world is round, you never know if you might land up in KPMG after studies.
4) Give your thanks to whoever you want to thank.
5) keep your slides to at most 2 slides.
PS: I may be giving a speech of maybe 2mins or even less such as 1.5mins.> I will only say which dept i am in, my key task, talk about what i feel > about that place, then give my thanks. Sayonara. keep it short and sweet!
Next thing. Until now we have not decided who should present first and to give the introduction. Can I have the honor to start the ball rolling and to introduce us to the audience? I wish to do an innovative introduction, and you shall leave a deeper impression with everyone.
> > Everyone, please give me what you think you are like.
I.e. This is Wen qi. She is a very sweet, and gentle lady
This is XXXX. He is a very sporting and outgoing young man
If everyone is fine with this email, please proceed with the necessary > tasks.> > 1) Do the slides
> 2) Introduce your personality
> 3) Send these two items to huiwen, wen qi, and me (Especially the personality).
> 4) Wen qi and hui wen compile the slides (Thank you so much gals)
If there's any problem or wish to talk to each other, please sms, call or >use the above email addresss. Please sms to notify that you emailed if you choose to send email as mode of communication.
Rgds
Raymond
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Thanks MR Raymond, for giving me this opportunity to shame you on my turf.
P.S. (in true Mr Raymond Style)
Mr Raymond himself smsed me 1 hour before the presentation to tell me he was down with a sore throat and that he was not gonna be there for it.
Everybody Loves Raymond.
We're not alone
Came across this other blog.
Seems like we're not alone guys.
cheers
http://thentuexperience.blogspot.com/
Seems like we're not alone guys.
cheers
http://thentuexperience.blogspot.com/
Formal Introduction
Hello dear reader, this is 1 of 4 contributors attending to your daily perusal needs. You're reading an entry from gao.
A short introduction about our 'lil corner here. I was informed to set up a blog to record our grunts and gripes about our NTU life. Since my own host site utilses blogger I decided set it up here as well.
As you can see, my fellow contributors have already expressed their views on certain issues we face in NBS (Nanyang Business School, the business school arm of NTU). While I forsee that many a posts in the coming days will be teaching bashing, policy bashing, hall bashing, culture bashing, heck school bashing in general, I plead with you, the reader, please take everything with a pinch of salt. If you disagree with our point of view, take the effort to point out how we narrated the issue incorrectly. It's certainly constructive like that.
Almost every institution has its flaws, its merits. We by far, have seen many examples of these traits. To speak for myself, I have experienced more of these so called flaws, than merits. A testament to my statement, please visit my other site at www.blackballoon.sg
Well, I right now, I just got back from my lovely office, my darling PA. And I'm simply to shagged out to begin a length debate. Instead, I find it my apt to provide a platform as a formal introduction to bring our 'lil corner to life.
So, cheers guys. Here's to hopefully a long string of reader worthy entries.
A short introduction about our 'lil corner here. I was informed to set up a blog to record our grunts and gripes about our NTU life. Since my own host site utilses blogger I decided set it up here as well.
As you can see, my fellow contributors have already expressed their views on certain issues we face in NBS (Nanyang Business School, the business school arm of NTU). While I forsee that many a posts in the coming days will be teaching bashing, policy bashing, hall bashing, culture bashing, heck school bashing in general, I plead with you, the reader, please take everything with a pinch of salt. If you disagree with our point of view, take the effort to point out how we narrated the issue incorrectly. It's certainly constructive like that.
Almost every institution has its flaws, its merits. We by far, have seen many examples of these traits. To speak for myself, I have experienced more of these so called flaws, than merits. A testament to my statement, please visit my other site at www.blackballoon.sg
Well, I right now, I just got back from my lovely office, my darling PA. And I'm simply to shagged out to begin a length debate. Instead, I find it my apt to provide a platform as a formal introduction to bring our 'lil corner to life.
So, cheers guys. Here's to hopefully a long string of reader worthy entries.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Uncle f***ing FOOOOOL
and it is confirmed.. uncle FOOL is joining kpmg for a year as a director. Congratulations to you uncle fool for being included in my dishonour roll. In the meantime, someone please KNIFE me to death the next time i play CS.
Nice one about uncle Foo.
Ive much built up angst and dissentments bout our lovely tutors but I think I'll save that for another post. That in itself is a topic deserving of another post, which would take me an entire day to pen.
Anyway I'm glad this blog is up.
It not only speaks of our bonds as close friends, but of close friends who suffer pretty much the same fate in the environment we've been thrown into.
However, it'd be pointless if the 4 of us just share these entries amoung ourselves. Would be lovely if we could share our thoughts with people who know us but dont know our plight, and people who dont know us but feel our pangs.
True to the name of this blog, solitude is not an end in itself but a mean to an end : the strength to stand alone. And stand alone we will.
To kick start this emo fuckshit, I'd like to thank all the MotherF****** who have made this blog possible, who also give me the honour of shaming them on this blog. Without them, such resentment to the general population of the place we come from wouldnt be possible.
Read on folks...
Ive much built up angst and dissentments bout our lovely tutors but I think I'll save that for another post. That in itself is a topic deserving of another post, which would take me an entire day to pen.
Anyway I'm glad this blog is up.
It not only speaks of our bonds as close friends, but of close friends who suffer pretty much the same fate in the environment we've been thrown into.
However, it'd be pointless if the 4 of us just share these entries amoung ourselves. Would be lovely if we could share our thoughts with people who know us but dont know our plight, and people who dont know us but feel our pangs.
True to the name of this blog, solitude is not an end in itself but a mean to an end : the strength to stand alone. And stand alone we will.
To kick start this emo fuckshit, I'd like to thank all the MotherF****** who have made this blog possible, who also give me the honour of shaming them on this blog. Without them, such resentment to the general population of the place we come from wouldnt be possible.
Read on folks...
at the most EMO time of the night, as promised...
Ok, i'm not going to start of with the 'dear diaries' crap otherwise this would most likely be my first and last entry on this lovely page.
Just when I prepared this entry to be purely dedicated to the one and only Uncle Foo, the Hall 7 FOC committee had to make me even more emo to get me deeper into the mood. In any case, let me start of with Uncle Foo, the man who is as famous in kpmg RAS department as he is in NTU AA205. Somehow, everyone in KPMG risk dept talks about uncle foo. I even heard from pang thye my fav prof might be joining the kpmg team.. can't wait for that to happen! I'm sure he'll be a useful asset to the kpmg team. Of course, kpmg will lose me as their lowly GA then, cos i won't be able to stand facing uncle foo after my graduation from this International Educational Hub we call NTU.
And kudos to hall 7 foc ex-co for confirming my doubts that brainless people can still be found in NTU. Its such a waste these people are not doing ACC otherwise they would help push our bell shape curve to the right. As much as I would like to apologize to adrian for my 'you are damn fucking stupid please wake up you damn fucking idea' tone, i think it totally fits you. For now, let you be the scapegoat for my angsty-ness with regards to the FOC committee. Till i find the next brainless cockster to slaughter, you will be and the receiving end of my rants (ok so this is a blog since i'm ranting - in terms of bandy's definition of a blog).
Well, lets just get this blog going. This will be the place where our 'champions' of ntu are slayed and buried. I can't wait to see liow's entry on 'everybody loves RAYMOND' and 'yings-gelicious seduction', jame's entry on 'i love shi-shaaaaaaa' and of course bandy's 'i heart kawaiii gerz to the max worx'.
Night guys..
Just when I prepared this entry to be purely dedicated to the one and only Uncle Foo, the Hall 7 FOC committee had to make me even more emo to get me deeper into the mood. In any case, let me start of with Uncle Foo, the man who is as famous in kpmg RAS department as he is in NTU AA205. Somehow, everyone in KPMG risk dept talks about uncle foo. I even heard from pang thye my fav prof might be joining the kpmg team.. can't wait for that to happen! I'm sure he'll be a useful asset to the kpmg team. Of course, kpmg will lose me as their lowly GA then, cos i won't be able to stand facing uncle foo after my graduation from this International Educational Hub we call NTU.
And kudos to hall 7 foc ex-co for confirming my doubts that brainless people can still be found in NTU. Its such a waste these people are not doing ACC otherwise they would help push our bell shape curve to the right. As much as I would like to apologize to adrian for my 'you are damn fucking stupid please wake up you damn fucking idea' tone, i think it totally fits you. For now, let you be the scapegoat for my angsty-ness with regards to the FOC committee. Till i find the next brainless cockster to slaughter, you will be and the receiving end of my rants (ok so this is a blog since i'm ranting - in terms of bandy's definition of a blog).
Well, lets just get this blog going. This will be the place where our 'champions' of ntu are slayed and buried. I can't wait to see liow's entry on 'everybody loves RAYMOND' and 'yings-gelicious seduction', jame's entry on 'i love shi-shaaaaaaa' and of course bandy's 'i heart kawaiii gerz to the max worx'.
Night guys..
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