My friend sent an email to his pupil master at the firm just to say hi.

The reply was: ... It's a busy time at the firm but there are good things to look forward to in life, like the festive season, and the return of the pupils.

Civ Pro notes are damn long. So I tried to do a contents page to make referring easier in the exam hall. But now I need to do a contents page to the contents page because the latter is 40 pages long. WTF.

Inane phone conversation.

Friend: Hi! How's the going?

Me: Still studying [for the bar commencing MONDAY].

Friend: I just bought a new phone with CRYSTAL TALK!!! So I'm calling you to test it out.

Me: Yes, you sound very clear.

Friend: Ok, now I'm going to switch on the radio, and you listen out and tell me if you can hear me over the radio.

*Friend blasts radio into the phone and resumes talking.

Me: wow you sound like a radio DJ !

It's shocking. The Straits Times reported that the MDA video (see last post) is popular because of the number of hits it had, though of course, it probably received lots of hits because it is so bad. Do check out the terrible AND ungrammatical lyrics. E.g.

"These are the strength for the new challenge..."

Ridiculously bad media by the Media Development Authority of Singapore. See it for yourself here.

Excerpt from a tragic farewell email:

"This is not goodbye from me but a great big thank you to those of you who has made my time at [the Firm] such a personally satisfying experience."

"PSLE CHEATING CASE" - screams the New Paper.

For foreign readers, PSLE is an acronym for Primary School Leaving Examination, which is the first national exam all Singaporean students take.

Turns out some school teacher corrected his students' answers after they submitted their PSLE scripts, but before they were locked up and sent for centralised marking.

In different ink.

And with no attempt at harmonizing handwriting.

Cheating is bad. But this is worse. It's bad and STUPID.

See right, I'm on marathon mugging mode for the bar exams and I get this SMS from Bongs, who is in the Maldives:

"...Howz the mugging? Am in a sunset bar on the reef on an island having a strawberry juice!"

Friend: Having muggers which are too long to flip and find stuff in the exam is the least of my worries.

Me: Yes. Some people don't even have muggers.

Friend: How can people be so unresourceful after 4 years of law school?

A friend has brought to my attention that the blog which features the unfortunate excerpt (see previous post) gets more tragic. Like this:

"Ytd I went to cut hair. And dye. In a salon. Named SuperCuts. Which also cutted my heart because of the money involved..."

People actually write like that:

"Oh me goosh. No wonder my desktop has been so lag. There’s a trojan horse galloping around leaving all the horse dung which clogs my processor."

PLC wasn't meant to be like this. People are online at 5 am. Mugging. Or playing scrabble on facebook.

Me: X moved from reits to ECM.

Friend (who is in CORPORATE REAL ESTATE): Oh reits?

Moments later...

Same friend: What's reits?

Singaporeans are giving fellow Singaporeans a bad name. Randomly surfing some overseas forums, I came across this:

Hi
i am from singpore, i am coming Hong Kong on 2nd jan 2008, i wants room ment share neaer to Shai won m contact me

One man firm launches magnificent website. Ultra-detailed bio, irrelevant pictures (including one of him posing with his BMW) blah blah. View it here.