Cheap is good

Cheap is good, originally uploaded by mrslim.

Mr Lim said that my 2 bucks shirt will shrink after washing. It did not!

Cheap doesn’t mean it is lousy. It just means that it is better on the pockets and for a gian peng person.

My sis told me my shirt was nice. And everybody has eyes of goldfish when I told them it was 2 bucks.

Subway

Subway, originally uploaded by mrslim.

This is the best Subway which my friend had eaten. Not!!!! It hasn’t even been eaten and it looks like it has been dragged through the streets of bukit batok or something like that.
It doesn’t even look pleasing to eat. Wrapping subs is a skill which the person serving my friend obviously lack.

Polytechnics annual fee hike

http://www.todayonline.com/articles/97471.asp

Oh how so timely.

Poly fees to rise by $50 a year

Lin Yanqin
yanqinl@newstoday.com.sg

ALL five polytechnics in Singapore will be raising tuition fees by $50 for the academic year of 2006.

The fee hike, which brings annual tuition fees to $2,100, follows an increase of $100 last year.

We want more of your money please. Oh wait, you have no choice. Bwahaha. It’ll be another $100 next year.

Rising costs, such as manpower costs, was the reason given by the Ministry of Education (MOE) in a joint announcement by the polytechnics yesterday.

For example, according to the annual reports, Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s expenditure on salaries and allowances went up by nearly $4 million.

And Ngee Ann’s spending money on senior lecturers who couldn’t even get the formula of the volume of a cone correct?

“Formula of volume of cone? You should know, this is common sense.”

Then he proceeded to give me the formula for the volume of a sphere. How I wish I was half as smart as him.

At Nanyang Polytechnic, the same costs went up by about $6 million.

“New technology, new facilities, these are all continuous efforts on the part of the polys and MOE towards providing better education,” said Republic Polytechnic principal and CEO Professor Low Teck Seng, speaking on behalf of all five polytechnics.

The increase is being effected now rather than earlier because of the improved economy.

“There were no increases from 2002 to 2004, when the economy was not doing so well,” he said, adding that there are currently no plans to increase fees any further.

Of course, die die also must increase. Even our dear president got a pay rise of $114,900. The one man who does all the most important things in Singapore.

Prof Low emphasised that there were a variety of schemes to help financially needy students, should they have trouble with the increased fees.

More information about such schemes is available at the various schools’ websites.

Prof Low added that about two-thirds of all local polytechnic students currently receive some form of financial assistance through schemes like the CPF Education Scheme and Tuition Fee Loan Scheme and other study loans.

This includes some 10 to 20 per cent of polytechnic students who need financial aid in the form of bursaries and various self-help schemes to meet the annual tuition fees, according to a news report in August last year.

But Ngee Ann Polytechnic student Goh Peizhen shrugged off the latest increase.

“It’s only a bit when you compare it to the full sum of fees we have to pay,” she said.

I wonder who pays for Peizhen’s school fees?

Happy Chinese New Year indeed.

Happy CNY

Happy Chinese New Year to all!

I just heard something funny from my friend, cause I was reminding someone to return money to me before CNY. If not it is inauspicious.

Then my friend was recounting that someone owned her 10 bucks in sec sch. She asked the person to return it to her and the person said ” It is after CHinese New Year already so no need to return.”

Super WTF right?

10 bucks to a secondary school girl in my days is alot of money.

Then I cheekily asked my friend to lend me 1000 bucks.

So moral of the story is to return cash you own before chinese New year.

Joanna Dong

Probably the cutest contestant from Singapore Idol season 1. Pity she only got into the top 30 and eliminated pretty early in the show.

She also has this updated-once-in-a-million-years blog.

http://www.joannadong.com/wst_page3.html

- red ranger

Old

I no longer have the energy to dress up for the night, booty-dance all night, drink all sorts of toxins into my body, slump myself at the back of the taxi, wake up with panda eyes and struggle to stay awake at work the next morning.

I am getting old.

But I shall pick up my dancing shoes and party the night away next friday. For a friend’s birthday.

I am semi-retired from the partying life.

OMFG FIREANGEL FIREANGEL FIREANGEL

Fireangel and her Ribena
I love Ribena too.

The “She�s so hott twhat i carnnot tyrpe and thwink prooeperliy” blogger Fireangel now has her own blog.

http://fireangelism.com/

Fireangelism le. Don’t play play. Nobody else but her can come up with a word as cool as that. Where do I get the registration form to join this cult?