Hi everyone

Thought it would be nice to do some quotes instead of thought provoking cheem stuff i do everyday or every other day.

Melvin: SHUT UP YOU STUPID IDIOT!
Alan: I am NOT your Chemistry Teacher.

Truth is, there cannot be any "iSpark pedagogy" if we continue bringing mainstream teachers in.
---- Anonymous Person [hint hint spiky hair in class]

Lee: [points at the anonymous person thingy] everytime i see that i feel bad.

[on another occasion]
Zhansheng: Burning inside with violent anger,Burning inside with violent anger, Sephiroth! Sephiroth!
ShangDa: da da da da da da BATMAN
[in case you don't know, what Zhansheng is singing is One Winged Angel from FF7.



Too bad i don't have a photo of the seven Saddams at the back of my class. Yes, a grand total of seven. Plus pins STRATEGICALLY placed, and a bush somewhere nearby. Gee, i wonder what that implies.

LOL

i think of today and laugh.

Have so much to blog about, have so little time. MSJDFLSJDFLKJS

i apologise for the inconvenience caused.




On another note ( a more serious one)

Sorry for the long article next, singaporeans-- you've probably seen this before.

Pub Date: 27/09/2005 Pub: ST Page: 1
Headline: Schools act against students for flaming' teachers on blogs
By: Sandra Davie & Liaw Wy-Cin
Subject: Students, Internet
Related Stories:
Malaysians hounded by vicious blogging too



FREE speech may be the buzzword on the Internet - but libel is unacceptable
everywhere.
The message has been sent out loud and clear, with five junior college
students being punished for posting offensive remarks about two teachers and a
vice-principal online.
The students, all girls, were made to remove the remarks from their Internet
diaries, or blogs, and suspended for three days last month. Their parents were
also informed.
The case is not an isolated one. Of the 31 secondary schools and junior
colleges contacted, 18 said they were seeing more such incidents as the number
of bloggers surges.
Seven secondary schools and two JCs have asked bloggers who criticise or
insult their teachers online - 'flaming' in Internet jargon - to remove the
offending remarks.
One such remark referred to a secondary school teacher as a 'prude' for
disciplining a student for wearing a too-short skirt. 'Frustrated old spinster.
Can't stand to see attractive girls,' the blog read.
Tanglin Secondary science and PE teacher Tham Kin Loong said: 'I've had
vulgarities hurled against me, my parents and my whole family in some students'
blogs.'
The 33-year-old added: 'Most of them do not realise the legal implications
of what they are writing in such a public domain.'
If teachers wish to prosecute, they may have legal grounds to do so.
Singapore Teachers' Union general secretary Swithun Lowe said the union is
ready to back any teacher who wants to take legal action. It has offered legal
help to a few members, but they did 'not want to affect the prospects of their
young students'.
Lawyers say students can be sued for defamation, even if a teacher is not
named. 'As long as someone is able to identify the teacher, and it is an untrue
statement that affects his reputation or livelihood, then the student is
liable,' said Ms Doris Chia of Harry Elias and Partners.
An injunction can be taken to get the student to remove the blog and issue
an apology, she added.
But none of the schools contacted by The Straits Times has banned blogging.
Rather, many English and General Paper teachers encourage it to improve
students' language and writing skills.
Schools also said they do not police blogs. They say they only check them
after complaints are made.
'And if we feel that the remark is untrue or unfair, then we expect the
student to apologise,' said Raffles Institution vice-principal S. Magendiran.
The recent cases of two young men and a teen charged with making seditious
and inflammatory remarks about Muslims on the Net have led to teachers
discussing the dos and don'ts of blogging with students.
It is not known exactly how many student bloggers there are, but after a
recent school blogging competition, the Media Development Authority called the
practice a 'raging phenomenon among the youth'.
The MOE said it does not issue guidelines to schools on blogging, but leaves
it to them to take appropriate action.


OFFENSIVE POSTS

'Frustrated old spinster. Can't stand to see attractive girls.'
- SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENT, about a teacher who disciplined a girl for
wearing too short a skirt.


FAMILY IN FIRING LINE

'I've had vulgarities hurled against me, my parents and my whole family in some
students' blogs.'
- MR THAM KIN LOONG, 33. He is on Tanglin Secondary School's discipline and
pupil welfare committees.


AND


Pub Date: 18/09/2005 Pub: ST Page: 23
Column: headliners
Day: Sunday

Headline: Nicholas Lim (left), Benjamin Koh and Gan Huai Shi - Alleged
racist bloggers
Page Heading: think
Notes:
Picture



IN THE first case of its kind, Lim, 25, and Koh, 27, were charged with making
seditious and inflammatory remarks about Muslims on the Internet last week.
Lim, an assistant marketing manager, allegedly posted anti-Muslim remarks on
an online forum for dog lovers in Singapore, www.doggiesite.com.
Koh, who works at a kennel, was said to have made similar racist comments on
his blog, Phoenyx Chronicles, on www.upsaid.com on several occasions.
The two face charges under the Sedition Act, which has been in place since
1948.
A few days later, private school student Gan, 17, was hauled up for making
inflammatory comments about Malays and Muslims on his weblog or online journal.








Singaporeans are making the news again, in all the wrong way.
IF YOU GO TO ANY FING NEWS WEBSITE YOU CAN SEE SINGAPORE ON THE TOP OF THE F-ING NEWS FOR THIS F-ING THING, in every single language in like every major country.
I wish the government will start to take everything a step at a time instead of throwing the book at anything that moves.

Oops. is that going to get me in trouble with the Sedition Act?


P.S. I am in no way supporting racism, but it's just that the three bloggers weren't even given a single chance. AT ALL. NOT AT ALL. So why the F?

A Revolution You Can Hold In Your Hand
This Week: Knee-jerk reactions to Nintendo's bold new controller.
By Dave 'Fargo' Kosak | Sept. 22, 2005



Probably the craziest news to come out of last week's Tokyo Game Show was the unveiling of the new Revolution game controller, which looks like a TV remote and tracks your movements as you point it at the screen. Read the full writeup, check out the images, read a short summary, or watch the unveiling on video. I'll meet you in half an hour.

Back? You've probably got a lot of thoughts about the controller. So did we. Here's a mostly-sorta-true account of a conversation I had with Bryn, our Sr. Console Editor.

Fargo: At first I was skeptical. I looked at the picture and saw the thumbstick and remote connected by a cord and I thought it was likely I'd trip or strangle myself. But it all made sense after I watched the press conference video.

Bryn: Yah, you really have to watch the video to get a feel for it.




Fargo: The pornographic applications are obvious.

Bryn: I can definitely see games that -- wait, what?

Fargo: The pornographic applications.

Bryn: What are you talking about?

Fargo: I mean, they're obvious. At first it wasn't clear to me, not until after I saw the video where the controllers slowly emerge from a sea of delicious milk.

Bryn: ...That aside, they did a good job of 'selling' the idea. I could definitely see how it would apply to, like, a first-person shooter.

Fargo: Or "Hilary Duff's Crotch-Grab."

Bryn: It measures the distance to the TV, too. It's hard to imagine all you can do with it. There are so many motions or interactions to experiment with.

Fargo: Like spanking. Or whipping...

Bryn: You could build a mean ping-pong simulator.

Fargo: Thrusting...

Bryn: Actually, lots of sports would work. They showed the controller being used like a baseball bat.

Fargo: ...Stroking. Or hey, you could also play games!

Bryn: But you know I think there's merit to what they were saying in the press conference, which relates to what Miyamoto told us in a recent GameSpy interview. Game controllers are getting really complicated, it turns away potential gamers.

Fargo: Game controllers are scary. One time one bit me.

Bryn: So you know, a little remote-control-looking thing that you just point at the screen -- anyone can get into that. It's easy.

Fargo: It might have been my cat.

Bryn: Plus, you could control games with one hand.

Fargo: Ah, see! That's my point.

Bryn: What?

Fargo: The pornographic implications are obvious.•


Now fargo is a humour columnist and also has a WoW comic strip [i didn't like his chinese joke- a bit racist there"

But he does raise some points there.

http://img301.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wtf1my.png

That's what me and presumably kezane think of revolution controller.

Hi everyone

Thought it would be nice to do some quotes instead of thought provoking cheem stuff i do everyday or every other day.

Melvin: SHUT UP YOU STUPID IDIOT!
Alan: I am NOT your Chemistry Teacher.

Truth is, there cannot be any "iSpark pedagogy" if we continue bringing mainstream teachers in.
---- Anonymous Person [hint hint spiky hair in class]

Lee: [points at the anonymous person thingy] everytime i see that i feel bad.

[on another occasion]
Zhansheng: Burning inside with violent anger,Burning inside with violent anger, Sephiroth! Sephiroth!
ShangDa: da da da da da da BATMAN
[in case you don't know, what Zhansheng is singing is One Winged Angel from FF7.



Too bad i don't have a photo of the seven Saddams at the back of my class. Yes, a grand total of seven. Plus pins STRATEGICALLY placed, and a bush somewhere nearby. Gee, i wonder what that implies.

LOL

i think of today and laugh.

Have so much to blog about, have so little time. MSJDFLSJDFLKJS

i apologise for the inconvenience caused.




On another note ( a more serious one)

Sorry for the long article next, singaporeans-- you've probably seen this before.

Pub Date: 27/09/2005 Pub: ST Page: 1
Headline: Schools act against students for flaming' teachers on blogs
By: Sandra Davie & Liaw Wy-Cin
Subject: Students, Internet
Related Stories:
Malaysians hounded by vicious blogging too



FREE speech may be the buzzword on the Internet - but libel is unacceptable
everywhere.
The message has been sent out loud and clear, with five junior college
students being punished for posting offensive remarks about two teachers and a
vice-principal online.
The students, all girls, were made to remove the remarks from their Internet
diaries, or blogs, and suspended for three days last month. Their parents were
also informed.
The case is not an isolated one. Of the 31 secondary schools and junior
colleges contacted, 18 said they were seeing more such incidents as the number
of bloggers surges.
Seven secondary schools and two JCs have asked bloggers who criticise or
insult their teachers online - 'flaming' in Internet jargon - to remove the
offending remarks.
One such remark referred to a secondary school teacher as a 'prude' for
disciplining a student for wearing a too-short skirt. 'Frustrated old spinster.
Can't stand to see attractive girls,' the blog read.
Tanglin Secondary science and PE teacher Tham Kin Loong said: 'I've had
vulgarities hurled against me, my parents and my whole family in some students'
blogs.'
The 33-year-old added: 'Most of them do not realise the legal implications
of what they are writing in such a public domain.'
If teachers wish to prosecute, they may have legal grounds to do so.
Singapore Teachers' Union general secretary Swithun Lowe said the union is
ready to back any teacher who wants to take legal action. It has offered legal
help to a few members, but they did 'not want to affect the prospects of their
young students'.
Lawyers say students can be sued for defamation, even if a teacher is not
named. 'As long as someone is able to identify the teacher, and it is an untrue
statement that affects his reputation or livelihood, then the student is
liable,' said Ms Doris Chia of Harry Elias and Partners.
An injunction can be taken to get the student to remove the blog and issue
an apology, she added.
But none of the schools contacted by The Straits Times has banned blogging.
Rather, many English and General Paper teachers encourage it to improve
students' language and writing skills.
Schools also said they do not police blogs. They say they only check them
after complaints are made.
'And if we feel that the remark is untrue or unfair, then we expect the
student to apologise,' said Raffles Institution vice-principal S. Magendiran.
The recent cases of two young men and a teen charged with making seditious
and inflammatory remarks about Muslims on the Net have led to teachers
discussing the dos and don'ts of blogging with students.
It is not known exactly how many student bloggers there are, but after a
recent school blogging competition, the Media Development Authority called the
practice a 'raging phenomenon among the youth'.
The MOE said it does not issue guidelines to schools on blogging, but leaves
it to them to take appropriate action.


OFFENSIVE POSTS

'Frustrated old spinster. Can't stand to see attractive girls.'
- SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENT, about a teacher who disciplined a girl for
wearing too short a skirt.


FAMILY IN FIRING LINE

'I've had vulgarities hurled against me, my parents and my whole family in some
students' blogs.'
- MR THAM KIN LOONG, 33. He is on Tanglin Secondary School's discipline and
pupil welfare committees.


AND


Pub Date: 18/09/2005 Pub: ST Page: 23
Column: headliners
Day: Sunday

Headline: Nicholas Lim (left), Benjamin Koh and Gan Huai Shi - Alleged
racist bloggers
Page Heading: think
Notes:
Picture



IN THE first case of its kind, Lim, 25, and Koh, 27, were charged with making
seditious and inflammatory remarks about Muslims on the Internet last week.
Lim, an assistant marketing manager, allegedly posted anti-Muslim remarks on
an online forum for dog lovers in Singapore, www.doggiesite.com.
Koh, who works at a kennel, was said to have made similar racist comments on
his blog, Phoenyx Chronicles, on www.upsaid.com on several occasions.
The two face charges under the Sedition Act, which has been in place since
1948.
A few days later, private school student Gan, 17, was hauled up for making
inflammatory comments about Malays and Muslims on his weblog or online journal.








Singaporeans are making the news again, in all the wrong way.
IF YOU GO TO ANY FING NEWS WEBSITE YOU CAN SEE SINGAPORE ON THE TOP OF THE F-ING NEWS FOR THIS F-ING THING, in every single language in like every major country.
I wish the government will start to take everything a step at a time instead of throwing the book at anything that moves.

Oops. is that going to get me in trouble with the Sedition Act?


P.S. I am in no way supporting racism, but it's just that the three bloggers weren't even given a single chance. AT ALL. NOT AT ALL. So why the F?

A Revolution You Can Hold In Your Hand
This Week: Knee-jerk reactions to Nintendo's bold new controller.
By Dave 'Fargo' Kosak | Sept. 22, 2005



Probably the craziest news to come out of last week's Tokyo Game Show was the unveiling of the new Revolution game controller, which looks like a TV remote and tracks your movements as you point it at the screen. Read the full writeup, check out the images, read a short summary, or watch the unveiling on video. I'll meet you in half an hour.

Back? You've probably got a lot of thoughts about the controller. So did we. Here's a mostly-sorta-true account of a conversation I had with Bryn, our Sr. Console Editor.

Fargo: At first I was skeptical. I looked at the picture and saw the thumbstick and remote connected by a cord and I thought it was likely I'd trip or strangle myself. But it all made sense after I watched the press conference video.

Bryn: Yah, you really have to watch the video to get a feel for it.




Fargo: The pornographic applications are obvious.

Bryn: I can definitely see games that -- wait, what?

Fargo: The pornographic applications.

Bryn: What are you talking about?

Fargo: I mean, they're obvious. At first it wasn't clear to me, not until after I saw the video where the controllers slowly emerge from a sea of delicious milk.

Bryn: ...That aside, they did a good job of 'selling' the idea. I could definitely see how it would apply to, like, a first-person shooter.

Fargo: Or "Hilary Duff's Crotch-Grab."

Bryn: It measures the distance to the TV, too. It's hard to imagine all you can do with it. There are so many motions or interactions to experiment with.

Fargo: Like spanking. Or whipping...

Bryn: You could build a mean ping-pong simulator.

Fargo: Thrusting...

Bryn: Actually, lots of sports would work. They showed the controller being used like a baseball bat.

Fargo: ...Stroking. Or hey, you could also play games!

Bryn: But you know I think there's merit to what they were saying in the press conference, which relates to what Miyamoto told us in a recent GameSpy interview. Game controllers are getting really complicated, it turns away potential gamers.

Fargo: Game controllers are scary. One time one bit me.

Bryn: So you know, a little remote-control-looking thing that you just point at the screen -- anyone can get into that. It's easy.

Fargo: It might have been my cat.

Bryn: Plus, you could control games with one hand.

Fargo: Ah, see! That's my point.

Bryn: What?

Fargo: The pornographic implications are obvious.•


Now fargo is a humour columnist and also has a WoW comic strip [i didn't like his chinese joke- a bit racist there"

But he does raise some points there.

http://img301.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wtf1my.png

That's what me and presumably kezane think of revolution controller.