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i'm a scorpio, here's wat
Ruling Planet: Pluto/ Mars
Element: Water
Cross/Quality: Fixed
Group: Intellectual
House Ruled: Eight
Polarity: Negative
Opposite Sign: Taurus
Favorable Colors: Dark Reds & black
Lucky Gem: Opal
Key Body Part: Reproductive Organs
Period: Oct.23 - Nov.21
Basic Profile:
Passionate, vibrant, magnetic, perceptive, emotional, sensual, alert, willful, determined, resourceful, purposeful, directed, dominant, ambitious, fearless, committed, intense, but can be obsessive, extreme, vengeful, jealous, spiteful, unforgiving, bully, menacing, possessive, arrogant
Famous Scorpions:
Bill Gates, Theodore Roosevelt, Pablo Picasso, Martin Luther, Marie Curie, Prince Charles, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Calista Flockhart, kd lang, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jodie Foster, Demi Moore
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You are pure love. Pure and deep. You not only want
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not afraid of any challenge for your love, and
it is something to truly treasure.
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"I've never been so far from my dream than when I was standing right beside it"
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again"
"Ten fingers, ten toes, that was all that mattered. They don't say that now"
-- Quotes from GATTACA
"Love is like an apple; it has been more than 300 years since an apple dropped and hit someone randomly"
-- zenöv
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Re: Hike in NUS Tuition Fees
I refer to the announcement from NUS and NTU to increase tuition fees for the coming academic year. In the news on the 14th, a student who was interviewed agreed totally to the increase, but I must say that this is definitely not the view of the general student population of NUS.
I am here speaking in the capacity as an NUS student, who, as an ignorant small fry, find it hard to convince myself that the increase is just.
First of all, there are many ways to balance the books and it is definitely not by increasing the fees paid by end-consumers. There are many local corporations out there who managed to cut costs effectively without increasing the burden on the consumers. I do not understand how an institution of acclaimed academics could be incapable of driving operating costs down.
If the budget is tight, why do I keep seeing new buildings that I rarely visit? How many students have been to the University Cultural Centre more than twice a year? How many people have been to the spanking new University Hall? In addition, why are there ongoing renovations to seemingly new structures?
If the budget is tight, shouldn’t the authorities cut costs by cutting salaries of their employees? Up till now, there is no news from NUS that such a measure has taken place to ensure that costs are kept low. Similarly, air conditioning is everywhere: in empty lecture halls, empty seminar rooms and open corridors. Is there a need for such extravagance?
Another reason why I as a student am opposing to the fee hike is that students are already paying a lot of extra money to supplement our studies in NUS. We pay for our textbooks, the printing of our notes, buying of tools, our lodging, transportation and the list goes on. I do not understand why I pay nearly 50 times more than I did in JC to do 10 times more of the work I used to do.
And I find it an irony that the school is putting aside $3million for grants and bursaries for needy students. What is the use of increasing the fees in general and then subsidizing a minority? Frankly speaking, the crux of the problem is that the student population has no idea where the allocated amount for grants and bursaries has gone to.
According to my knowledge, foreign students are also entitled to the grants. In fact, most of the foreign students I know are receiving such student grants. Many people are complaining about the hike in the population of foreign students in NUS, such that many of us believe that the hikes in tuition fees have actually gone to ‘importing’ more of these foreign talents. This sounds naïve, but it’s the general notion brought up during casual talks.
Perhaps it’s the uncertainty of the whole affair that makes me reluctant to accept the hike in fees. What with the recent incident of NKF, there seems to be a similarity between university authorities buying $2000-a-pc worth of chairs for professors to the installation of golden faucets; there seems to be a parallel between salaries for lecturers and peanuts for the CEOs (in co-relation to the amount of productivity seen to come from them). Can NUS provide hard evidence to justify the increase in fees? Best of all, can MOE step in to pacify the student population? After all, it’s the money of tens of thousands of non-working students we’re talking about here.
I refer to the announcement from NUS and NTU to increase tuition fees for the coming academic year. In the news on the 14th, a student who was interviewed agreed totally to the increase, but I must say that this is definitely not the view of the general student population of NUS.
I am here speaking in the capacity as an NUS student, who, as an ignorant small fry, find it hard to convince myself that the increase is just.
First of all, there are many ways to balance the books and it is definitely not by increasing the fees paid by end-consumers. There are many local corporations out there who managed to cut costs effectively without increasing the burden on the consumers. I do not understand how an institution of acclaimed academics could be incapable of driving operating costs down.
If the budget is tight, why do I keep seeing new buildings that I rarely visit? How many students have been to the University Cultural Centre more than twice a year? How many people have been to the spanking new University Hall? In addition, why are there ongoing renovations to seemingly new structures?
If the budget is tight, shouldn’t the authorities cut costs by cutting salaries of their employees? Up till now, there is no news from NUS that such a measure has taken place to ensure that costs are kept low. Similarly, air conditioning is everywhere: in empty lecture halls, empty seminar rooms and open corridors. Is there a need for such extravagance?
Another reason why I as a student am opposing to the fee hike is that students are already paying a lot of extra money to supplement our studies in NUS. We pay for our textbooks, the printing of our notes, buying of tools, our lodging, transportation and the list goes on. I do not understand why I pay nearly 50 times more than I did in JC to do 10 times more of the work I used to do.
And I find it an irony that the school is putting aside $3million for grants and bursaries for needy students. What is the use of increasing the fees in general and then subsidizing a minority? Frankly speaking, the crux of the problem is that the student population has no idea where the allocated amount for grants and bursaries has gone to.
According to my knowledge, foreign students are also entitled to the grants. In fact, most of the foreign students I know are receiving such student grants. Many people are complaining about the hike in the population of foreign students in NUS, such that many of us believe that the hikes in tuition fees have actually gone to ‘importing’ more of these foreign talents. This sounds naïve, but it’s the general notion brought up during casual talks.
Perhaps it’s the uncertainty of the whole affair that makes me reluctant to accept the hike in fees. What with the recent incident of NKF, there seems to be a similarity between university authorities buying $2000-a-pc worth of chairs for professors to the installation of golden faucets; there seems to be a parallel between salaries for lecturers and peanuts for the CEOs (in co-relation to the amount of productivity seen to come from them). Can NUS provide hard evidence to justify the increase in fees? Best of all, can MOE step in to pacify the student population? After all, it’s the money of tens of thousands of non-working students we’re talking about here.
Friday, February 03, 2006
《怎样》
我这里天快要黑了 那里呢？
我这里天气凉凉的 那里呢？
我这里一切都变了 我变得懂事了
我又开始写日记了 而那你呢？
我这里天快要亮了 那里呢？
我这里天气很炎热 那里呢？
我这里一切都变了 我变得不哭了
我把照片也收起了 而那你呢？
如果我们现在还在一起会是怎样
我们是不是还是深爱着对方
像开始时那样 握着手就算天快亮
我们现在还在一起会是怎样
我们是不是还是隐瞒着对方
像结束时那样 明知道你没有错 还硬要我原谅
我这里天快要黑了 那里呢？
我这里天气凉凉的 那里呢？
我这里一切都变了 我变得懂事了
我又开始写日记了 而那你呢？
我这里天快要亮了 那里呢？
我这里天气很炎热 那里呢？
我这里一切都变了 我变得不哭了
我把照片也收起了 而那你呢？
如果我们现在还在一起会是怎样
我们是不是还是深爱着对方
像开始时那样 握着手就算天快亮
我们现在还在一起会是怎样
我们是不是还是隐瞒着对方
像结束时那样 明知道你没有错 还硬要我原谅
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