Looking at NUS with Block B4 Eyes

Dear All,

Viewfromb4 will be put on hold until I finish producing my magazine. Causing me a headache.

Yi Jian

The legitimate tutorial balloting results came out a few minutes before 7pm today, and the following are my results.

You have been successfully allocated the following discussion group/tutorial/laboratory classes in this round of exercise:

EL1101E TUTORIAL DW9
HY2241 TUTORIAL DO6
PS2233 TUTORIAL DO1
PS3240 TUTORIAL DO2

The following classes are not allocated to you due to the following reasons:

PS2249 TUTORIAL DO4 (No more vacancy in class)

Okay, those are acceptable results. PS2249 Government and Politics of Singapore is a large class with lots of tutorials, I’m sure I can fit one of them into my schedule somewhere. But that also means I start balloting again tomorrow.

Okay, Funkygrad’s latest online issue carries this article on “Sex in the University“. The article professes to help you “Stumble along as we bring you five most conducive spots to make out in NUS” and features the very obvious location of “Hall room”.

They rate the makeout spots on five scales. 1) Sweat-before-the-act, how hard is it is to physically get to the location, 2) Sex-tifaction Factor, 3) Climax-ability, 4) Caught with Pants Down Risk and 5) Mozzie Attack Probability.

This is the excerpt for Hall Rooms and the “Caught With Pants Down Risk” scale.

Caught With Pants Down Risk:
1/10
The risk of getting caught is almost zero, unless (1) you don’t like to draw the blinds and (2) you can’t keep your noise level down. There have been reports of live sex shows in PGP as well as “squealers” in Temasek Hall. You are advised to draw the blinds and lower the volume at all times.

How true is this? Well, I don’t know. Living at the edge of Temasek Hall kinda precludes you from hearing all kinds of activities. I’m not in “that” group as well. Go figure. But one things for sure: its incriminating Temasek Hall. But if its a known fact or an “open secret”, then there’s nothing much to incriminate.

Its official! As of yesterday, the fridge has been cleaned. Well, its being cleaned. Most of the internal parts, the clear plastic trays that serve as platforms where our foodstuff stands inside the fridge, have been removed and presumably being washed at some unknown location. The fridge was left ajar and unpowered, with several remaining items of foodstuff that will probably go bad quite soon. Wait… that includes my cheese. Damn.

Hopefully, the fridge will remain clean and usable for the remaining weeks in the semester. Oh, and in the day that I saw the fridge being cleaned, there was a dead dragonfly on the sill of the water dispenser. Yay.

In other news, walking along C block corridors on the way back from class you can see that several doors have been defaced with white chalk. Now, the C block corridor I walk down to my room is a Female Floor and the things that are scrawled on the doors are almost of a hate crime.

I must! I must! I must increase my bust! The boys! The boys! The boys are counting on us!

Will have sex for transport.

TH Official Ch**bye.

Fr33 s3x!

and other assorted innuendo.

I don’t know if its a prank, but if it was a prank I think the girls would have rubbed it off by now. Its probably a dare or some forfeiture at some game.

If the weather’s been any news, its been raining on-and-off since last week. Its irritating because I can’t go running anymore… unless I run in the rain.

Okay, do you guys know the Cheese Prata Shop next to Chong Pang and Fong Seng Nasi lemak? I went down there on the 26th of December and saw a Christmas tree in the shop.

If they really did that in Malaysia, somebody gonna get a-hurt reaaal baaad.

Anyway, merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Good bidding for your modules!

Sorry for the long non-updates. Been away for holiday a week and a bit more in Malaysia and was too lazy to update. Got touch rugby training tomorrow at 10am-12pm.

Things are really winding down here in hall. Most people have already finished their exams by now, and I’m stuck with one of the last few papers which is tomorrow. Some Malaysians have already left for their hometowns, some Singaporeans have already moved out of hall. That leaves poor me in the corner of B4 for another two weeks.

Some people are planning to go clubbing tonight, and I really really wanted to go too, but even though my exam tomorrow only carries a 35% weightage, I rather get a good grade for this subject. And, I’m strapped for cash, so its all cheap activities for me. I feel like going to the park one bright sunny day.

Even my roommate has been going out more than usual. He leaves this Sunday.

I’ve recently paid my vacation hall stay fees, and for my double room it cost me S$200 (40 dollars a week for 5 weeks).

Nothing else much to report, because nothing much is happening. Sorry for not updating for a week.

Two major student bodies have already started putting up advertisements for end-of-the-year bashes, namely NUSSU (I think) and BIZAD, the NUS Students Business Club.

The BIZAD “bash”, for lack of a better word, is at Chinablack and is going at S$15, inclusive of a drink. There is a dress code as it is a themed bash, and the theme is retro. After all, the name is Back to the Old School (which is quite a mouthful to say and probably people will just go, “BIZAD bash”). It happens 22 Dec, right before Christmas.

The NUSSU bash, “Are You Tagged?” has a more provocative advertisement, with a sensual female body lifting her shirt slightly (debatable, actually) to reveal a bar-code tatoo, showing that they have been tagged. That one is 9th December, closer to the end of the exams, and I think happens at Indochine. Price is either S$13 or 18, I can’t remember and the picture that I took wasn’t too sharp.

I’ll probably skip both unless someone is really dying for a good time. I’m already running out of money to go to Harvard Model United Nations in Boston. There’s always work to be done for Politeia and the position paper for HMUN too. I am hoping that there is something to be learnt from clubbing, in the end. Reflecting on the ads themselves, I say that the NUSSU ones were more effective, and I think the model who posed for it should be congratulated if she hadn’t any experience.

I may be a bit late as it may be common knowledge for ex-TJCians, but I came across this in the papers yesterday. Sorry this isn’t much of an NUS post, but may still be relevant to those few who just left TJC as an alma mater.

Youngest Principle This Year, She Will Lead Her Old School
Tanjong Katong Girl’s New Head, 31, is one of 51 Principals to be appointed
by Jane Ng. Straits Times, November 2005 pg H6

… Madam [Phyllis] Chua, who was posted to Tanjong Katong GIrls’ as vice-principal in September, will lead the school from next month.

She takes over from Mrs. Loke Teck Yong, who will move on to head Temasek Junior College.

Being a TJCian myself, I have to say that this will be an end of an era for Temasek Junior College. For the two years I have been there, most student will have come to conclude that she is indeed a very charismatic person, and we will miss the sickly-sweet inspirational/motivational quotes, stories and demonstrations she gives us.

From messaging my friends, I found out that she will probably head back to MOE to serve as the Director of Literature and Language or something like that.

What will this spell for the new TJC under Mrs. Loke? Trying to ask about for Mrs. Loke’s profile and leadership style.