The war of the TESL-ian's with a lecturer...

Mates, please read...

Today will the day I am really pissed off, I was challenged by somebody about my computer literal skills! (I think all of us in the morning class today MOSTLY TO ALL of us are totally pissed off)

It happens in the morning. We are going to have a class. But I walk into the class late because I and my friends are still hanging outside for breakfast. After that, when I walked into the class, my friend tell me not to show my laptop because the people that love to 'show off' just blown his laptop out - by changing his title (as usual - when he opens his Power Point, the first thing he say obviously:" I forget to change my title again") or whatsoever...

After that, 'show off' went to borrow the laptop from the school, and yet he asks us to set it up for him when we are peeking at him. I guess that he is not so skillful on setting up the laptop as well as the projector, therefore he use an excuse that "teachers need to know everything". Other lecturers will just directly asks for help if he/she don't know how to do it. However, this 'show off' is really different - as the name, loves to show off.

The projector and laptop are all set, but he cannot make the screen at the laptop shows at the projector (I need to admit that he is poor in computing skills)... Here's the point that our class atmosphere become worse. He is just having a extremely minor display problem which can be easily fixed by me (or even some of my friends).

"Anyone can volunteer to help me to find the technician for this problem?" (What is the point you are finding the technician? Are you so sure that all of us in the class cannot solve the problem?)
10 seconds later.
"Anyone? Can help me to solve it?"
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Then, he is ordering someone to call the technician, and he asks that anyone of us can solve the problem (by now). Therefore, I volunteered myself to help him as I cannot stand on him again on his silly actions.

When I walked up to offer the help, he asked:
"Are you sure you can do it? I don't think you are able to do it."

Hey! He is asking for help yet he still put your pride into that level?! I endured it and I am going to let him know the instructions, and he say: "No, let me do it. You had do it once and I had do it many times. (Hey! I did not even touch your laptop yet, how you know I can't do it by just a peek?!) I think you are out of my league because I have tried it many times."

What the heck you think you are?! Just a PHD means you are superior on everything eh, uncle?! If talking about the course I think I might not into your league, but hey, excuse me! Most of my friends knew that I am good at computing skills, even though I am not as good as the technician as they have undergo training, but I am not! Computer skills? You are the one supposed to be out of my league, jerk!

And after that fixed out, he said the laptop still got problem. He is 'blind' that until the 'My Computer' icon is shown at desktop and all of us saw it - except him. Now he putted his pen drive on, and he say that his pendrive was infected by virus. Wow, how 'pro' of him! Even myself that cannot confirm that once you put in the drive, the pen drive will directly infected. Who knows the laptop he borrowed was using this kind of views?! He said that the views are different, not like the one he saw normally.

Then the 'show off' pissed off and started to blame and scolding at us. In fact you are the one who cannot do anything well! Some dedicated lecturers come early or will have faith with someone to make sure everything goes fine - except him. For a helper like me... I will also ignore what happened to him. Not only that not appreciate on the aid yet insulting me because I am helping him.

Laugh at him? Sure! Why not?! Because he is lame!

Kononnya sendiri Ass. Pro... mana tahu laptop pun tak tau guna, sampai laptop sendiri yang hangkang. Salah siapa kot?

Asking us to go out because we are not 'freash' whatever he calls. We are not 'freash' because we meet somebody in the likes of him. Dare or not, if he is asking for the survey, I doubt who will agree with a 8am class. Oh... Forget it. He is not only 'show off' but also 'syok sendiri'.

The points I and my friends saying him so:

1. He asks us:" Do you want to cancel the lecture today?" 90% of us want to cancel it. However, he answered, "But I want to have the lecture by today."

What is the point you are asking then?

2. "...... I am a successful person because I have overcome such problem. If we got problems in facilities, we should go to complain and let them improve. That's why I am successful."

He are successful... perhaps in the course , publishing books. But you are extremely poor in computer and also the social skills. Said that he wants to decrease the gap between the lecturer and the student, in fact he is increasing the gap. He should consider yourself as a failure. Perhaps he is good at academic, but it is clearly that he is also a person that loves to boasting.

3. Course Outlines, 50% of the reference is his book. In fact if you look closely, you will found that the book he wants to refer got not even a hitch with the course he is teaching. Talking nonsense and showing off is great, this is the thing we should reckon of.

4. "I got 3 reasons I need to cancel my class today.

i. The projector is working, laptop is working but the laptop is infected by virus. I don't want my pen drive later also infected by virus because I need to throw my pen drive later. Why? When my pen drive infected by virus, I need to delete all of the things inside the pen drive include the setting inside the pen drive.
ii. I am wearing wrong spectacles so that I cannot see clearly. I am also wasting my time here.
iii. This is the main reason. You all are not fresh today. So I cancel this class. But use the free time and go to the library and find the books that is in the outline."

Lame, lame, lame! He need to delete or throw his pen drive because of virus? Ridiculous! He don't even know the term 'format pen drive' but talking nonsense. This clearly shows out his stupidity... Then, does wrong spectacles got to do with lecture? Claimed that he is wasting his time. His time is precious, so it means that our time is not precious. Main reason? We all are not fresh because of 'show off-er'. Nobody loves to wake up early and suffer in the first lecture. Find the books? Most of them are the non-related books from him and wanted us to put into our assignment, huh...

Clearly that we will going to hate this fella for the rest of the years. We laughs at him because he such a loser and lamer that always acclaim himself is a successful person... In fact, he is not. Perhaps in academic only?

...To be continued

First Lectures in the school

Well. Started the first lecture in the first two weeks in the school. Obviously there are a lot of surprises and problems happens.

DA
"I have just changed my title, to Ass. Pro. Dr.." This is what he said in the beginning of the lecture///////////

DA? The discourse analysis. At the beginning I am not planning to take this class, after that, uh... And I take this course. Why? 5 people take this course in the beginning, try to imagine that. Perhaps I am afraid him to take revenge on us by the future semester. So... After his first lecture, it seems that his teaching style is quite acceptable, but perhaps the personality -.- is the thing I need time to accept it.

SYN
Now about syntax. The lecturer seems have a 'pleasant' teaching as he seems to be not understand to what happens to his class. Amusing. Hopefully he is not the killer that our seniors mentioned about.

LANG TEST
Language Testing... Never heard about this new lecturer a.k.a our new coordinator. Gosh. I accidentally dropped this course and now I am having trouble to re-register the course. Hopefully this can be solved by the next lecture as this is a compulsory subject, after all.

SPANISH
Harder than before. I wonder that I can survive by this semester, or not?

There are still several major subjects for my school, but I just hope that it will not pose a threat for me as I already suffer for the program courses for this semester.

Maybe it will come with new surprises and stresses, as a lot of the lecturers had give their first assignment to us and we will need to be prepared to do it, and face for the worst.

Haleluyah!

New semester - new dillemas?

It seems that a few days later it will be the new semester for all of the university students. But, there's the question: this coming semester is bringing new hope or chaos or dilemma?

Trick or treat?
It sounds as a dilemma for me- I am sick for days and now quite soon I need to go back to study. It seems that not so serious (throat ache + fever) but still it take ages to recover from this illness. What a great timing - choosing the date I am going back to school 'to sick'.

No sign of recover, but still the illness does not become serious. Injection taken, Medicine taken...

Well... I don't know that I can recover by tomorrow or not. If not surely I will have a lot of problems sooner.

Good news? Chaos? Troubles?
Today I also informed by my friend (sorry man - my hand phone expired but still not yet reload) about our course, which we are going to meet 2 killers in a row for this semester. Just going to praise on the academic department - What the hell are you doing? If you don't know how to arrange then let the students pick the course which they offered for a year - and not follow by your own convenience! Almost our major and school subject clash with each another. Not so sure about the 3rd and 4th year students in my batch, but I am sure that they are doing 'a great work' on scheduling the time table for the 1st year and 2nd year students.

We wanted to balance our weakness and strengths so we can get a better stack on the results.. It seems that you will got no chance to do it.

It seems that most of us are not like on the way our academic department's service. What is the reason, huh?

I guess even though they know, will be useless too. Like the Hookien dialect say:

"Kong Poon Boh Yong lar!"

Real Chaos?
Now is the real problem for our courses. Seems that our major are all stacked on a same day. We not only need to face killers but 4 hours in a row (in case we choose to take the course). More even worse, we will have no idea what is that fella teaching, and his tests are mainly scoped in all parts without giving any range for us to prepare. What kind of lecturer is this? This is not the way a lecturer supposed to be!

Choosing to take the two courses in the semester will drain your 'life' more even faster. I think the better option will be taking one of them, and the second one by the next semester (even though not so sure that he will ban us from holiday or not, but surely he is a person who always proud of himself. Attending his class will only hear about the showoffs from him instead the thing he supposed to teach).

Sigh... What a 'year of hardship'.

Online Web games

Hey, readers: is it 'boring' when you have your two month holiday, and got nothing to do as the games published recently are more and more into nuts as the requirements and the machine problem?

I spotted (perhaps is replaying) a online WEB game to spend my time in the holidays. Having a pet in real life is fun but troubled sometimes? Want to have an imaginative pet while you can take care of the pet, and get some friends around the world as well as playing games to spare your boredom moments (as well as waiting for the download)? I think this is the site you might need to hop into. Click on the banner to register and view more information about this game.

Click the banner below!

Prove it that you are playing this game.
I am currently playing this game when I am online (already a month). Of course - I also have a pet which I named as _0_Latias_0_, with the species that called Shoyru (a kind of dragon in the Neopets community).

Want to view on my information in this game? Well... Click here for more information.

A picture of my pet. Yeah... it's a female.

World Cup in Neopets world?!

In this world, they also have held the cup which is similar to world cup, but they call it as Altador Cup as Altador is the origin of the worldwide sports tournament in the Neopets world (or called Neopia).

Three games are held in this tournament, which are called Yooyuball (5 people indoor soccer), Slushie Slinger (sling your drinks to customer and gain points) and Make Some Noise (shouting louder to gain more points).


There are 16 teams that from the world joining this world tournament, and I was a member of this team: Lost Desert (as the left logo) and the members of this team as in the lower image.

What you can do in this game?

I can say there are a lot of things that you can do. For example, while raising your pet, you can playing some Flash Games that in the website and surfing the net or the articles about Neopia, exploring the world (while you wait for the games to load), doing your usual routine as surf other websites.

Not only that, you can also learn to become a businessman by try to haggling the price when you are going to buy something, train your pet to join the battledome, and play with your pets with some PHP games in the website too.

In a nutshell, you can buy, sell, trade, show, train, play, chat and more functions as it is going to be added soon to the game, and most importantly, this game requires no download (but your computer will need to have Flash, Shockwave and 3-D Life Plugin in order to play the games though), and it is free!

Why this game?
You know, in school there is unlimited wireless services but there are some limits on using it. You cannot use it to download something as P2P or even use to play online games (due to the restriction and the booby speed we have at there). Why we don't effectively use the resource that they gave us (besides by using it to search information) as playing games before the lecture is coming? (Gosh, study and study, even online also searching for article for study is a boring thing to do, you know)

This game does not require any monthly cards or points card to play (Only if you want to have a better attire for your pets to show off, unfortunate that Malaysia still not yet have that service), while you can earn the money (they called as NeoPoints inside the site or when you are playing the flash game. You surf, play and have to take care your pet when you are online so that you will 'got something' to do (not idle always) in the web surfing.

So, what are you waiting for? Click on the icon or the banner above and start to join the community just as the Friendster does! Looking forward to see you at there, and ad my user name too!

Registration for next semester - how?

Well... it seems that the academic department has done their work, 'flawlessly'. I am going to report something to my readers whom are my coursemates too.

Is it really 'final' for the course time?
This is the question. When you view on the website (I take a SS on it) and they mentioned that they 'made' this by 18th of June and finalized by 21th.





I can say that - I don't think so, and it seems to be worse than the previous semester.


Flaws - Quite a lot... can be seen when you are searching for the time table of your course. The course codes changed. For example a course: UF3072 now changed to US00302. It has caused more confusion when we want to register our course by the 1st of July soon.

Nightmares coming!
Well, as mentioned earlier, we will face 3 killers in this year in our major, and eventually one of the lecturer that has a bad reputation from us has stayed his post- but I am still not sure that if he is teaching the course that we are taking. I am not his student before, but judged from most of my mates by last semester, it seems that this guy is not a good person though. Real or not, who knows.

There was another two lecturer who known as killer that we must face by this year. It has been foretold from our seniors that it is rare to get a A, or even a B when you are under these lecturers. Currently the best result they gave in the past merely a B-.

Can I survive this year?
A tough question. Getting a Spanish course that I am weak at, and now need to face a lot of killer lecturers in this year, not matter he/she is teaching the major course or the school course. School course are always to be shown as a threat to us to maintaining the pointer of 3.0 and above, while major course.. It is fine as long as the lecturer are kind, as I have faced some, especially Mr. Lourdes that teaches me by the previous semester.

My friends ask me to give up my Spanish and taking Japanese instead. It seems that is easy, but I need to waste a year time again as foreign language courses takes 4 semesters to complete (and I am half way in it). Through thick and thin, I will need to take Spanish as I just need to suffer for two semesters only and I must maintain at least a C- for this course - then I am safe.

Going to plan your course time table?
Forget it. See the screenshot at the right? This is one of the course that I am taking. They made changes and it has caused confusion as we are following our prospectus which they have only 4 numbers after the code. They not only changed the number and they have changed the code.

In instance, Japanese and Spanish previously are coded UF and now Japanese are coded as UJ, while Spanish as US. The Malaysian studies we take previously coded as UF too and now changed to UL.

And then, the time table is still not yet filled! So far I know that my major and my school course are always in conflict and cannot imagine that in this semester, the courses are also in conflict, even the school course itself also crashed with each another. We are forced to take all of the school course while we need to take our own majors and minors. Thanks to them, we need to abandon the courses that we are going to take again. Sigh.

Problems are forwarded to them, and they will take the action to repair it or not, I don't know. Perhaps they want us to waste our effort again by checking the time table at our own faculty so that they can save their time to fill in these blanks. But if they think so, why they make this in the first place and inform us about that?

Not persistent and lame.

Petrol Inflations - can you cope it out?

Petrol price has increased. Do that inflation impact you a lot? I found this thing on my e-mail, which my lecturer gave me. I have made some modifications and save it into this new one as at a sudden the government come out with a new plan for East Malaysian's vehicle on the rebate 'terms'.

It seems that this will cope out the problem. But, will it?

Click here to download the MS Excel Formatted file. Count it yourself, see how much it exceeds compared to the previous value.

Just simply key in your monthly usage in the box provided. You will find out that the financial problem quite soon enough because of the fuel cost 'only'. You should surprise that how much extra value you need to add in your monthly life!

So... the government just saying that changing our lifestyle - how to change..? Does it means that we use bicycles instead of cars? Eat porridge instead of rice? No more relaxations? What a silly conclusion that they made...

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Roughly 45 days have passed for this semester break, but it seems that it was more bored if you can go nowhere - inflation streak, work as well as financial problem... Anything about money. Sigh...

Family matters
A lot of things happened in my family too. Because of my father's health problem, I had went through some hospitals in Kota Kinabalu and Lawas in just a few days. Before that, I am also working at a father of my friend's restaurant, and now I have 'shifted' my workplace from a restaurant to my father's brick factory - till he was fully recovered or when my next semester starts.

Crazy inflations
At the same time, I also knew that the money earned nowadays are quite tough - even RM 3000 monthly salary would barely enough for this time due to the crazy inflations. Government accuses that they don't have enough salary, in face their earnings more than the value mentioned at least +3000 or even more for some higher 'level' politicians. Perhaps, they should try just like us (citizens), use public transport to go to work, do the same thing just as we do, including accommodation and foods.

There was SUPPOSED to be the men behind these scenes, and it thinks that the current salary of the citizens are able to cope it out. They should try to experience the life of the 'commoners' for a month first, otherwise they should not put out their opinions too fast. Don't ask your driver to fetch you to work or to anywhere, nor without car. You should try to use the public transport and you will know why sometimes we choose to use private transport instead of the public one. "Use public transport more and drive less to solve the inflation, save more...", as some politicians said. What a lame excuse. Try our life first, then you give your opinion, dude.

My oncoming semester
Talking about the future semester, I also wondered that how on earth about the school policy on setting up the things? See... 14 days more for the orientation for freshmen in my school, and just after they finished the orientation then we ONLY be allowed to register for everything, including hostel and courses. This is the most troublesome part as the semester starts in the 7th July, which we also need to do the things above - Whew! That was nuts! the academic department never done his job well since I was in the university...

*Sensitive, huh? Well... people will be boring without any complains since so many problems on the moment. Just meant to say something it is real, after all. I rarely speak something that is fake though, not my interest nor personality.