functionally conflicting rationality

2008-02-23T18:34:00.000-08:00

Gathering at Prof Chua's place

2007-05-14T22:51:00.000-07:00

Everyone is well-entertained.....

Da Coolest Man in da house....

2007-04-20T10:04:00.000-07:00

HAPPY
BIRTHDAY
JAC!!!!
=D

SC4201 Presentation

2007-03-30T02:37:00.000-07:00

Is there gonna be a presentation for the last group of SC4201???

*sorry had to resort to posting here!!* =x

-Brenda

inane entertainment

2007-03-26T22:58:00.000-07:00

guys watch this if u want a break and you want ur brain to shut down for a bit
i know some of you will think its asinine but this guy beatboxing while playing the flute is so amusing

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=240147&cache=1

exemplary exam answers

2007-03-19T19:21:00.000-07:00

2007-03-19T19:17:00.000-07:00

2007-03-19T19:14:00.000-07:00

The one and only, our very own....Soci Superstar! (Jake "Counter-culture" Roberts)

2007-03-11T10:01:00.000-07:00

Power. Just because.

2007-03-03T02:06:00.000-08:00

I know alot of us drive/ride. so this is for u guys. Those who don't drive can pass this to your family and friends who do. A friend of mine who works in the police force sent me this. I'm just surprised at how the traffic police have so much money to buy so many speed cameras to put them around Singapore. Read it and try to stick by the rules yea? if not, then just ... er.. RUN?

Be careful on the road. It's not cheap.
Fines increase without notice.

Speeding (Exceed then speed limit)
Exceeding 1 - 20km/h = $130 + 4 demerit points.
Exceeding 21 - 30km/h = $150 + 6 demerit points.
Exceeding 31 - 40km/h = $180 + 8 demerit points.
Exceeding 41 - 50km/h = $200 + 12 demerit points + Court.
Exceeding 51 - 60km/h = $200 + 18 demerit points + Court.
Exceeding 61km/h = $200 + 24 demerit points + Court.

If you want to be hero and fight the court case yourself, and you lose, you pay the court charges yourself, which will add up to your fine. I guess the court charges is at least $200 and above.

Careless driving = $150 + 6 demerit Points.
Inconsiderate Driving = $170 + 9 Demerit Points +Court.
Dangerous Driving = $200 + 24 Demerit Points + Court + Vehicle Compounded.
Illegal Racing = $200 + Vehicle Confiscate + Court.
Fail to put Seat Belt = $120 + 3 demerit points.
Crossing Double White lines = $130 + 4 points.
Phone and Drive = $200 + 12 demerit point + Phone Confiscate.

Do not hold your hp in your hand when you drive even with loud speaker or ear piece.

Drink Driving = Up to $5000 Fine And, or jail Term + License Suspended + Court. For first offence.
2nd time offence = Jail term + Fine + Court.
Making an illegal U Turn when there's no U Turn sign =$70.
Fail to Signal when changing lanes = $70.
Driving at night without headlights or taillights switch on after 7pm =$30.
No Number Plate = $70.
Obstructed Number Plate = $70.
Obscured Number Plate = $70.
Number Plate Of Unapproved Type = $70.

As for Demerit Point system:
Let's say you have 0 points on 1st January 2005, and you committed The offence of Failing to Put on Seat Belt. So now, you will have 3 demerit points and this will last for 1 Year. If during this 1 year you have no demerit points offence at all, your 3 demerit points will be gone on 1/1/2006.
But, if during this one year, From 1/1/2005 - 1/1/2006, you committed Another offence with demerit points, your very first offence will be extended for another year until 1/1/2007.

Bikers/riders/motorists beware. This is from unverified source, but this location seems confirm.

TPs and ROVs are really excited with their new toy call, STC-Speed Trap Camera and they are showing it off to road-users all over Singapore. Following, a list of speed trap locations to see Live in Action!!!

01) Upper Serangoon Road (Morning 9am-11am) - VERIFIED
02) Farrer Road / Adam Road. (Morning 10am onwards)
03) East Coast Highway, after Bayshore Exit. (After 5pm)
04) Tunnel between Bartley Road and Braddell Road under Upper Serangoon Flyover
05) Braddell Road seen on the long pedestrian bridge near SPH
06) West Coast Highway before the new MacDonald’s
07) TPE both direction under the Tampines Bridge. VERIFIED
08) Tampines Ave 10 Stretch. (That ROAD 60 km/h limit.)
09) Along Jln Boon Lay, from AYE towards Jurong Point, at junction of Chin Bee Drive. (50 km/h limit)
10) Clementi Ave 6, from PIE - AYE, just before entering the underpass, at the traffic light junction of Clementi Loop. (60 km/h limit)
11) Road along Orchid Country Club
12) PIE Toa Payoh towards Adam Road. (At overhead bridge after Toa Payoh exit / 80 km/h limit)

Mobile Speed Camera / Volvo Sightings / Spot checks

01) Tanjong Katong Flyover
02) Telok Blangah Viaduct. Flyover over Telok Blangah road along world trade centre. (near Caribbean condo)
03) Upper Changi Road, at a secluded lobang opp Singapore Expo. (Blue Police van with camera taking through van's side window)
04) Hougang Ave 3 towards Ang Mo kio, below the flyover
05) Upper serangoon road, opposite Serangoon Sec Sch, towards Sengkang
06) TPE just after Tampines Ave 10 exit. (under the bridge)
07) Jalan Boon Lay towards AYE. (Near Chartered Industries of Singapore, Jurong Point)
08) Lentor Ave
09) Clementi Ave 6
10) Old upper Thomson road, going towards Lornie Road/Toa Payoh/Braddell direction
11) Bartley Road/Braddell road. (opp old Outram institute before underpass)
12) Pasir Panjang Road. (between the wholesale market & PSA Gate 5)
13) Gambas Avenue towards Woodlands
14) Mandai road
15) Tampines Road adjacent to Paya Lebar airbase
16) SLE joining CTE. (under the bridge)
17) TPE Sengkang exit. (under the bridge)
18) KJE. (Along road shoulder, near new military camp)
19) KJE Choa Chu Kang exit. (under the bridge)
20) SLE towards Woodlands Ave 2. (under the bridge or after bends)
21) Commonwealth Ave West towards Ghim Moh Road/Holland Road at Power Station gate before exit to Ghim Moh Road. (Blue Police van with camera taking through van's side window / 70 km/h)

BMW / Volvo Sightings.

01) East Coast F1 car park
02) TPE leading to Sengkang/Punggol
03) AMK ave 5 leading to Sengkang.
04) AYE. (Jln Ahmad Ibrahim near to Jurong Bird Park)
05) SLE near Yio Chu Kang

Spot Checks / Roadblocks

01) Fort Road exit
02) Loyang road
03) Yishun Damp
04) Robertson Quay towards Havelock Road. (Near Liquid room)
05) TPE (SLE direction) Hougang exit,at the HUGE bend (usually saturday night) Speed Camera
06) Bedok reservoir Exit from PIE
07) Bedok Reservoir Road. (near SAFRA)
08) Before CTE from MS
09) PIE exit to Science Centre.
10) Lornie Road exit towards Bishan
11) St. Nicholas Sec School outside the gate. (The Downslope leading all the way to bishan park)
12) ECP Marine Parade Exit
13) Bukit Panjang Ring Road. (almost once a week)
14) PIE exit to Science Centre.

Pls Help!

2007-03-01T22:16:00.000-08:00

http://www.zoomerang.com/recipient/survey.zgi?p=WEB2267VZRGHQ5

Takes bout 5 - 10 mins.

Thanks!

Indian Thriller to English Subtitles

2007-02-28T10:48:00.001-08:00

This is damn hilarious...... LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtJRNyPK-lc

Do me a favour peeps

2007-02-23T01:42:00.000-08:00

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=791913349757
my friend doing masters needs ppl to do his survey on airports
esp australians
so pass this link round.. esp to ur australian frens boleh?

thanks

No Guts No Glory - How to Wing it.

2007-02-16T02:52:00.000-08:00

Heya everyone!
First of, Happy Chinese New Year!!!!
Which comes hand in hand with, happy shops-are-all-closed, traffic's-a-killer, suspiciously cleverly-placed term break.... haha

Anyway, a friend of mine sent this link my way, and it is hillarious! When you're face-to-face with a test question you absolutely don't know how to do.. it's time to have some fun and hope that at least, someone out there's amused with your effort.

A++ for creativity. haha
Gutsy gutsy gutsy!

http://www.togoparts.com/forum/showthread.php?fid=6&tid=50428&loc=active&cb=showforum.php%3Ffid%3D6%26page_id%3D1&highlight

P.S "Where's X" is one of my favourites! Imagine all the thinking we could have skipped during those damn maths exams. Heck, most of my brain cells would still be alive! RIP And the hang-man one is ridiculously funnnyyy!!! I feel his pain. haha

Heh :)

lateeeers!

Some 5-minute distractions

2007-02-15T08:38:00.000-08:00

eh... everyone loves youtube :D

Enjet Enjet Semut.. for the Malays and pple like ms tan :p
http://youtube.com/watch?v=k4Xci2YSxqE

Hossan Leong @ Indignation '06 doing his thing
[live]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QuR4M3ylG6Q&mode=related&search=
[with animation!]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pOqtFh-ysNU&mode=related&search=

Ruby Pan @ Indignation '06 doing different accents
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QCsZdbfBuSY

Hokkien speakers disturbing a prata seller @ RK House
http://youtube.com/watch?v=XdguyMJprsA

Maritess vs Superfriends (ancient by now but one of my faves)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xD3IxxclCxc

Grad Trip

2007-02-13T15:35:00.000-08:00

damn.. the mood is getting to everyone.. anyone interested in grad trip? that time u all got talk abt bangkok or sth rite? cos if that's happening, i gota start saving my ang pao money.. haha.. 199 baht...... or.. let's do something crazy like bungee jump or sth.. ?!

sigh

2007-02-11T02:57:00.000-08:00

classes are so boring these days. i miss last sem's ones where everyone's around and the room's like packed and all. especially movements. twas fun. aaahh memoriess..

Cleaning up the Room

2007-02-04T07:08:00.000-08:00

Hey All..
An attempt to make use of this blog..
(also meaning the sad, but hopefully temp, demise of the Yahoo groups..)
but yah.. clean up this Thursday.. with some details here..

Marcus has kindly agreed to help us wash the cushion covers! (Hurray for Marcus!)
Also, Jiaxia was asking bout getting rags and disinfectant and such...
Sadly, we don't have a fund for this sorta thing.. so, all based on goodwill..
Bring some from home if possible?
I know we can depend on the charms of Johan to borrow mops and pails from the cleaning uncle or the History Hons room which seems to have all these stuff too. (So, Johan, please come!)
But stuff for the leather sofa, I've really no idea.. so contributions will be great.
In the meantime, I'll try to locate a wax for the sofa that I left in another room before..

Anything else to say?
But until Thursday then!

_Mel_

p.s. We could all have dinner and movie after too! So Irfan, what show's on? =)

because this is so much more fun than actually reading stuff for ur fyp...

2007-01-30T01:44:00.000-08:00

http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/2007/01/26/best-use-of-the-web-ever/
listen to the podcast
you will not regret it... and seriously you might end up wanting to hit the guy with a flounder

If nobody is going to post anything I'm going to make this a personal playground

2007-01-24T06:55:00.000-08:00

hi ppl just want to ask all of you to relax a little... everyone looks damn stressed if you're not careful all of you are going to get premature wrinkles
if you don't listen to me one day you're going to look in the mirror and all the skII in the world won't help you from looking like old man's scrotum (not my words... i just quote... you can't make up stuff like that)

here's some stuff to help you chill out

john hodgman rules -http://www.areasofmyexpertise.com/ - no shitriously check out his interview with jon stewart on youtube (speaking of which, check out jon stewart in general....freaking hilarious)

for those of you into food porn (henry/boon keng - for the first time ever i can tell you this - yes can eat one) check out this website http://chocolateandzucchini.com/
incidentally jan 23rd was national pie day - what the hell?! all of us missed pie day! abominable!

and then for those of you to whom the above two websites don't appeal - im not sure what to do with you... so you can maybe check this out http://www.freshtrend.com/ and give capitalism a boost...

People let's make it work...

2007-01-19T21:11:00.000-08:00

Why is the blog not being updated?
Come come people... write stuff!

ANYTHING

incidentally
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,458863,00.html

Ananda Rajah's Funeral

2007-01-11T20:48:00.000-08:00

Hey guys, a few of us will be attending Prof Rajah's funeral tomorrow morning 9.30 am (12/01/07, Sat) at Marine Parade. From there, his coffin will be brought to Mandai Crematorium at 10.30am. For those who would want to go there straight may do so too. You can call Melissa (94371956) or myself (97552066) if you want to meet up.

Take care guys.

Johan

SC4206 Urban Anthro Coursepack

2007-01-08T19:58:00.000-08:00

Does anyone know if it is on sale yet?

Greetings and Initial Rantings

2007-01-08T16:01:00.000-08:00

Hello people, the raison d'etre of this site is for us to have a common and easily accessible (as opposed to logging into yahoogroups) channel for posting of: 1) library books, for others to share; 2) module happenings, for those who missed class etc.; 3) details and photos of our gatherings; and 4) Anything cool and could potentially jeopardise our graduation eg: www.alluc.org (Thanks Alvin and Candy)

Anyways have a good sem ahead guys, lets make this one good :)

-Anonymous Pumpkin