Club 30's "Kill the Boredom Demon" Jive Pad 142nd Edition

• elindra

  6 Sep 10, 13:15

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  
  i think it's somewhere in Bukit Timah... i'll go find out

  
  Let me know too once you find out

  It's really quite horrifying

• the Bear

  6 Sep 10, 13:18

  btw guys..

  it's real!!

  => Duke Nukem Forever

  it's slated for release next year!!
  i'm getting it for the XBox360!!

• LOTUSfairy

  6 Sep 10, 13:19

  i think we are getting more social probs here..

  my boss just told me : hey singapore is getting smaller...

  i replied: no boss, the influx of foreign talents is getting bigger..

  (and my boss is from UK..).... hehehehehe

   

• LOTUSfairy

  6 Sep 10, 13:20

  oops. double post...

• LOTUSfairy

  6 Sep 10, 13:23

  One day, I would like to join a class, be a student.. like in "Mind your language" ..

   

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  6 Sep 10, 13:28

  Back from lunch @ Aston...

  Boss is spending quite a big amount of time trying to win this Tower Defence game which I have no problem with

  I watch southpark with my boss and guess wat, seems like my boss also watch HG Ramon too~

• the Bear

  6 Sep 10, 13:36

  damned sleepy...

  i hate the post-lunch syndrome... when the zzzMonsters gang up on you and you have no defense...

• fudgester

  6 Sep 10, 13:40

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  oh oh.. something came up when sis's friends visited on saturday evening...

  it's about primary schools....

  something very disturbing is happening in schools...

  teaching is now outsourced??

  her children are now told that they have to pay $120 per subject per month for some vendor to come and teach them their lessons during school hours... the teachers of the class sit behind the class and supervise everything... if the children don't want to pay the $120 per subject, they are to "stay at home"

  the cost is in addition to the actual school fees

  the actual teachers only do the "remedial classes" and that is only 3 weeks (or maybe days) before exams...

  for those who think this is a private school, it is not.. it's a neighbourhood school...

  then her children's form teacher keeps being "on MC" almost every Monday and Friday... she's a "parent volunteer" so she gets roped in to become some kind of free "relief teacher" to look after the children.. especially when there is swimming PE...

  the mom subsequently got "blacklisted" as a volunteer when she complained about this as she said that a teacher has to be present during the swimming PE in case there are any accidents and children get hurt..

  also, seems like the school staff is threatening the students not to report stuff.. heck! the school staff is also threatening her not to report or complain about things in the school too...

  but what shocked me was the "outsourcing" of teaching... WTF???

  Huh? Got such sh*t?

  Honestly, this calls for whistleblowing and a full MOE investigation. Teachers are being paid to teach, not to supervise someone else teaching!

  I can understand hiring external vendors to do enrichment classes or something.... but that's only meant to be an adjunct to normal lessons outside of normal curriculum time!

• the Bear

  6 Sep 10, 13:40

  my sis will go find out which school the madness is coming from tonight...

• ShrodingersCat

  6 Sep 10, 13:46

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  damned sleepy...

  i hate the post-lunch syndrome... when the zzzMonsters gang up on you and you have no defense...

  Interesting, a friend just sent me this link :P

  

• the Bear

  6 Sep 10, 13:49

  Originally posted by ShrodingersCat:

  Interesting, a friend just sent me this link :P

  

  Scott Adams is one of the best cartoonists around 

  two of his strips last week had me paralysed with laughter

   

  

  

  

• av98m

  6 Sep 10, 13:52

  By Agence France-Presse, Updated: 05/09/2010

  Briton slain over Philippine Internet love triangle: police

  A British man who went to the Philippines to propose to a woman he met in an Internet chat room was stabbed to death by her jealous lover Sunday, police said.

  John Lorne McDonald's would-be bride, Nanqueen Romero, 31, also sustained multiple wounds after being attacked by her Filipino lover, police said in a statement.

  McDonald organised a party at Romero's home to ask for her hand in marriage, police said, but it was not clear if she had told him about her Filipino boyfriend, Anselmo Locastales, who turned up and attacked the couple.

  Locastales is on the run, police said.

  The British Embassy could not be reached Sunday and no personal details about McDonald were immediately available.

  Impoverished Philippine women often use matchmaking websites to find foreign husbands in the hope of escaping the country for a better life.

  

• ShrodingersCat

  6 Sep 10, 13:55

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  Scott Adams is one of the best cartoonists around 

  two of his strips last week had me paralysed with laughter

   

   

   

  

  Yeah I like him a lot.. I even have an M&M dispenser of Dilbert and his computer :D U press his mouse, and an M&M comes out from the side of the computer! and he moves around too!

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  6 Sep 10, 13:55

  Originally posted by av98m:

  By Agence France-Presse, Updated: 05/09/2010

  Briton slain over Philippine Internet love triangle: police

  A British man who went to the Philippines to propose to a woman he met in an Internet chat room was stabbed to death by her jealous lover Sunday, police said.

  John Lorne McDonald's would-be bride, Nanqueen Romero, 31, also sustained multiple wounds after being attacked by her Filipino lover, police said in a statement.

  McDonald organised a party at Romero's home to ask for her hand in marriage, police said, but it was not clear if she had told him about her Filipino boyfriend, Anselmo Locastales, who turned up and attacked the couple.

  Locastales is on the run, police said.

  The British Embassy could not be reached Sunday and no personal details about McDonald were immediately available.

  Impoverished Philippine women often use matchmaking websites to find foreign husbands in the hope of escaping the country for a better life.

  

  
  Fret not AV!

  Viet wife shld be safer~

• the Bear

  6 Sep 10, 13:57

  not surprising actually...

  considering the filipinos are "passionate" people addicted to drama and think they're in some kinda tragi-movie...

• the Bear

  6 Sep 10, 14:01

  Originally posted by ShrodingersCat:

  Yeah I like him a lot.. I even have an M&M dispenser of Dilbert and his computer :D U press his mouse, and an M&M comes out from the side of the computer! and he moves around too!

  this one?

  
  i want one!!

• fudgester

  6 Sep 10, 14:13

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  not surprising actually...

  considering the filipinos are "passionate" people addicted to drama and think they're in some kinda tragi-movie...

  I read about how some Filipino reporter tried to justify the live coverage of the hijacked bus on the basis that viewers expect to see the live coverage.

  However, as journalism experts have pointed out, the media should have made a distinction between what the viewers need to know and when they have to know it. In other words.... they could have just recorded everything without going live.

  The unfortunate thing is that Filipinos are attracted to drama, innocent lives be damned.

  The article I found: http://www.poynter.org/content/content_print.asp?id=189458&format=handheld

• ShrodingersCat

  6 Sep 10, 14:13

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  this one?

  
  i want one!!

  Yes!!!! :D Not sure if its still selling.. I got it almost a decade ago in US during Xmas.. :D

• LOTUSfairy

  6 Sep 10, 14:14

  my boss is eating a polar chicken pie. the smellof the buttery pastry is soooo good...

  he said  "buy one get one free, i rejected the free one cos i cant eat both .... oops, i get for u tmr ..."

  ........................................-.-"

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  6 Sep 10, 14:19

  Originally posted by LOTUSfairy:

  my boss is eating a polar chicken pie. the smellof the buttery pastry is soooo good...

  he said  "buy one get one free, i rejected the free one cos i cant eat both .... oops, i get for u tmr ..."

  ........................................-.-"

  
  my boss seldom eats junk food... but she managed to finish the whole container of lollipops and lotsa chocolate from my collick de table >___>

  infact, her prawn cracker on the table has been there for like... ... ... few weeks >__>

• LOTUSfairy

  6 Sep 10, 14:22

  Originally posted by ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~:

  
  my boss seldom eats junk food... but she managed to finish the whole container of lollipops and lotsa chocolate from my collick de table >___>

  infact, her prawn cracker on the table has been there for like... ... ... few weeks >__>

  my boss does the tri martharon, so he eats well..

  oh goody, boss left office liao.. i can take a break and take a power nap now...

• elindra

  6 Sep 10, 14:58

  Originally posted by LOTUSfairy:

  my boss is eating a polar chicken pie. the smellof the buttery pastry is soooo good...

  he said  "buy one get one free, i rejected the free one cos i cant eat both .... oops, i get for u tmr ..."

  ........................................-.-"

  
  I like the Prime Deli Chicken Pie.

  Don't know why flaky pastry don't do it for me because usually it's not flaky enough

• elindra

  6 Sep 10, 14:59

  Posted on FB MPB's Creme Brulee. Very yummy

   

• ShrodingersCat

  6 Sep 10, 15:09

  i like DON chicken pieee omg omg.. i feel like eating one nowwwww!

• kopiosatu

  6 Sep 10, 15:12

  3 more hours to a meeting at raffles place.

  hmmmm...