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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
In the memory of Eddie Guerrero, 1967-2005

This is sad news for anyone who watched wrestling. His untimely death on 13th of Nov (last week) has shaken me. His cause of death is a sudden heart attack. He will surely be missed.



Thats it I guess..

Posted at 03:40 pm by theleftnut
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Friday, November 11, 2005
Teen "angst" -

As my school's computer room's speakers are blaring jaz and clasical music (this is funny cause of the fact that this is an ITE your talking about here), here I am wasting my time on another blog entry, hoping that there is something i could get out of it (really!).. who knows i could be *very* famous? or maybe the thoughts of me earning some money by just typing shit on the computer.. dunno, but seriously it just gets better I guess..

Ok.. this whole day started out like any other day (early in the morning, wake up, sahur, help out by cleaning the house a bit, etc), with a few thoughts in my mind.. (yeah right) I looked at myself in the mirror. Somehow i am slowly but surely was starting to hate what I see.. I grew up never questioning what my parents wanted form me or why there are sometimes so bitter that it pisses me off.. looking at myself in that same mirror kinda refects the type of person I am; a doormat, a sheep, a fraud. I started to ask myself why all of the sudden am I feeling sh*tty all of the sudden so early in the morning, could be the fact that my youngest sister was whining so much about the food that was given to her (I was brought up at the time by my parents who somehow had a very short fuse) and the fact that I did  sleep only for a few hours made me feel pissed throughtout the whole morning (till i boarded the bus and got a nice song played in my CD player, at least). I got blasted for having poor leadership and a non-exsistant opinion with a dash of no confidence whatsoever.. I just wished that my past could just disappear like shit in the toilet bowl when flushed.. I can't help but feel hopeless for being the fella who don't know how to fight back, let alone protect others. I know that I need to change but ain't it too freaking late already?? the part where I turn from a kid to an adult never seems to exist.. I go from adult to kid and from kid to an adult in seconds.. I do feel like crying all the time.. I wonder why.. till I find a reason for a my "craziness" today,yeah "craziness".

Note-worthy : The term "teen angst" is probably coined by an adult to mean something they can't really explain so they can whatever they don't normally see in you when your 5 yrs old under the "teen angst" brand, which is total bullshit..

The only way my shitty feeling can go away is for me to just think your happy, as the numorous idiots who wrote self-help books.. But till they all come up with something that reallly works, then I'll try as much as possible to live and let die..

Posted at 10:48 am by theleftnut
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Friday, October 28, 2005
the dick calling the vagina "smelly"

Type : Current Affairs

Ok, I would like to blast the teacher who puts her students essays on her blog and "parodies the essay". I guess this is a case of "the pot calling the kettle black", or , as I, theleftnut would like to put it, "the dick calling the vagina 'smelly'". In my rage from reading the so-called news yesterday, I decided to talk shit about the entire article and to personaly make it my duty to make a fool of that teacher (ok.. I won't call her a "fustrated old heck", but i'm gonna call her something even worst, I'll like to call her a BITCH
) Ok.. without further ado; I'll be proud to present the most shitty peice of journalism form the New Paper, which the extract I ripped form the Electric New Shitties.


(my comments will be in GREEN while the extract from the article will be in YELLOW )

ELECTRIC NEWS
GP teacher parodies students' mistakes in blog
  • FUN - It's lighthearted way of correcting their mistakes, says teacher <= THAT I BEG TO DIFFER :)
  • MEAN - It could hurt feelings of weaker students, say critics <= I agree with this : )
  • By Liew Hanqing
    October 28, 2005    

    SHE took a collection of her students' mistakes, combined them into a parody and posted it on the Net.

    The GP teacher, from a top junior college (we're not naming the JC to save the students further embarrassment), had put them in her online journal or blog under the title, Bad Engrish.

    GO ahead and name her and the JC ... be my guest.. I won't humiliate the "kids" but I'll humiliate the teacher and the JC in question.. Just when some schools are shutting blogs down for the prospects of the teacher may be "deframed" in public, this shit happens.. Teachers and student were bad mouthing each other since the time there were teachers and sutdents, but a teachers doing this is like rubbing salt in the wound.. Not to mention really immature of them. 

    She says she did it to help her students in a fun way.

    Yeah.. how fun will it be when WE talk shit about you failing your driving test for FIVE times or bitching about your choice of clothing when you look like... 55 yrs old?! How freaking fun will it be?

    But most of the students and teachers we spoke to said it was mean.

    One excerpt included this piece:

    'I know that Singapore is a small dot in the globe but is giving aids to many countries and Indonesia is being hazy all the time.'

    The entry was featured on local blogger bulletin tomorrow.sg, a site that routinely posts links to interesting blogs about different facets of Singapore life.

    "FRIENDLY WAY "                       <= You got to be f**king kidding me

    The teacher, who goes by the online moniker Ondine, confirmed with The New Paper that the entry was hers.

    The 29-year-old teacher added that blogging about her students' mistakes was her way of correcting them in a friendly way, and that they do occasionally read her blog.

    I wonder having "the finger" pointed to her would be correcting her accent or the fact that she never got married at her "old age"

    She said: 'By using humour and parody, it would be less threatening for them.

    'Trying to teach it in class was too much of an academic exercise.

    'I wasn't scolding them for their mistakes - I was merely showing them what they were doing in a light-hearted and yet pointed manner.'

    But did the teacher's good intentions come through?

    A straw poll of 20 JC students and 20 teachers who read the entry indicated otherwise.


    DUH!! You don't need a "poll" to know that.. ask any teen and they will be spitting "Hokkien bullets" at you. My responce would be "KNNBCCB! KNS! why the teacher here is like a low life sc*ms! F**k you to hell bit*h!!"

    Fifteen of the students and 17 of the teachers polled felt the entry was mean-spirited, while just five students and three teachers thought it was funny and entertaining.

    None saw it as educational.        <= Another DUH of the day.. : )

    Said Jessie Lim, 17, a first-year JC student: 'I don't like it that teachers gather round and get their amusement at our expense.

    'It's their responsibility to help us improve. If we write poorly and fail our exams, it doesn't reflect well on the teaching either.

    'If teachers can get on our case for being disrespectful to them in our blogs, they should respect us, too.'

    Agreeing, Candice Ng, 18, a second-year JC student, said that many of her classmates who are weak in GP often stay back for remedial classes.

    'They try really hard to improve. If they aren't trying, that's a different story - but to make fun of students who are actually trying - that's just mean.'

    Teachers The New Paper spoke to also felt the blog entry was unnecessary, although a few did say that some students routinely make ludicrous spelling and grammar mistakes in their GP essays. (See report on facing page.)

    RATHER CHILDISH   <== Very true..

    One GP teacher at a top JC, who declined to be named, said: 'It just seems rather childish to me - it's totally unnecessary to blog about your students' mistakes.

    'It might be funny to some, but it could hurt the feelings of weaker students.'

    Another GP teacher at a JC in the North zone said: 'Many of my students come from non-English-speaking families.

    'Their command of the language is weak to begin with - add that to poor general knowledge, and that's where all the ridiculous mistakes come in.'

    When asked if she thought students would take offence at the blog entry, Ondine maintained she didn't think they would.

    'It wasn't taken from any person's piece of work - it really was just a parody of the different mistakes that I've come across through the course of teaching and observation,' she said.

    FEEDBACK POSITIVE

    She also said that feedback from her students about the Bad Engrish entry was mostly positive.

    'Some have commented on how silly they must sound when they make such mistakes in class or in their writing.

    'Those that I've talked to have taken it in good jest - some students have actually come up to me and told me that they check on one another now, to make sure they are not slipping when they talk to one another,' she added.

    Now she is "checking on their speach?!" What's next huh? wearing a board like a sign saying "I am a fu*kin' moron and a retard in engrish. Please do laugh at me, tease me for all eternity and recougnise me for being a fu*king imbercile of the year" and ordering them to walk around school and the nearby neighbourhoods during recess? WTF?!


    As you can see.. I'm not a really nice guy : )

    In all honesty i DO NOT appreaciate any teacher who would stoop so low and do that kind of shit. Any teacher who does that to me personally will be "flammed at" (I'll give you the real meaning of that word throught may action, so don't say I didn't warn you!).. ok that's all i want to say about this issue. Anybody who had any teachers "flamming" at you just because you called her a "bitch who couldn't drive a car" and their responce on their blogs are on the lines of  "that fu*king bast*rd", please comment on this blog entry... thanks!


    Posted at 10:37 am by theleftnut
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    Tuesday, October 25, 2005
    the protest in singapore..

    Yeah.. I thought it'll never ever happen in a kazillion years... 4 ppl were dispersed by 40 or more tight-



    panties-wearing policeman and riot police. I got some pics here but it nothing compared to the thousands that come for mass rallies in america and other Western countries.. Maybe we don't really need to look so far away, just look at the protest in Indonesia in which is (mostly) peacefull.. No need to apply for some obscure permits and shit like that.. com'on lah.. Other countries can actually just laught at the prospect of free expression.. some of the demonstrations can be humorous in nature while others are distructive.. Ok back to the topinc: the hearing on the 4 ppl was to start on the 21th of this monthe but the the government trying to make a "face saving move" are going to continue its proceedings in closed doors way away from public eye. It's kinda sucky cause of all poilicies that are suppose to effect history is slowly but surely changing.. I can  feel the wind of change blowing in this direction.. maybe this could be a spark of more protest to come or is it going to be the final nail to free speach in the virtural and real world.. "The future is ours to make".. if so, lets build a better one based on a new sort of political freedom.. But that's for another entry..

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    Friday, October 21, 2005
    the funny thing here...

    Still in my efforts to defame compliment the politics of this little island of singapore.. I somehow got lost and thought that being a blogger is just a publicity seeking act.. the truth is that all i could ever do is to talk cock to my friend (my friend got angry with me being an shit spewing moron), hell, I could even get a Ph.D on Empty Talking.. maybe that's just me being a normal teen in fair weathered singapore ; boredom just somehow sucks the entire life out of it.. What happens if guys like me who somehow at the age of 17 do not have a girlfriend yet and a are not a part of any group of friends (or even worst, not having any at all.. ) were left idle?? they start bitching about the bloody government lah! talking about "the nuts on the top".. What were they thinking.. setting up a casino just for forigners? Is the fact that a quater of the entire population of singapore is made of forigners has just gotten up to the head of the dick (gahment)? They said they are trying to recreate another Las Vegas in this tiny island of singapore - without the sleeze. Only God knows if they'll suceed..But here's a sure fire way to attract the customers - and hopefull the forigners - wallets:

    First : Get a clue of what the locals want in the first place!

    If the locals aren't happy then the alien visitors won't be happy right? We need to be unique.. the merlion is one monument that signifies this.. ask anyone on earth can you find a merlion and they will point their sweaty fingers to singapore.. Ask them where the Esplanade is and they will point to Italy or France or some other ang moh country.. Seriously.. they could just do thtat..The whole problem really starts with the Singapore Gov wanting to be the "everything" hub : The computer hub,the science hub, the kopi hub, etc.. Why whould a teen like me just worry about it, you ask? Well, for instance If i am interested in getting a job as a senior programmer or a website admin for a large company, I will have to face the smell of indian programmers who will be allot more cheaper to employ anyway.. come to think about it. Instead of being the "money government" like it already became, it should be the "people's government" where the term "power to the people schould be followed and protected with vigor. No one owes us a living, therefore we should all work for what ever we want. Kill all the old understanding and move on to the new world, where ever it may be.

    If you really want to see REAL stuff that somehow got lost from the headlines go to Singapore Review or something.. cos comehow this teen's got lost in the political movement while still wondering if the girl standing in front of his monitor has a crush on him.. ah well.. till then.. 




    Wednesday, October 12, 2005
    the student "flamers"


    Ok.. the last few weeks/months have seen a dramatic increase of stupidity over this tiny island of singapore.. this island so tiny that the stupidity of it's nation has boiled over to another medium of expression : the internet. Surely many of it's citizens have knows that the issue is "so yesterday (whinny white chick voice)"... but the impact of it could not be undermined. Yeah.. the right nuts talked about the student bloggers who -ahem- "flamed" their teachers online. Most of the right nuts say that the "kids are rude and should be punnished".. Punnishment should be only be used when the "kids" are not following the school rules (which most of us don't give a shit about anyways), but punnishing blogers who write their personal understanding of their own teachers and ranting about how cruel they are is just going too far.. of course i agree that the 3 racist goondos should be reprimanded for their actions but to cane, identify , and even worst, to sue the student bloggers for saying silly things about their teachers are just going a tard too far.. I seriously think that the ST (Straits Times) was joking about the sueing bit.. I mean.. why sue teens? Why sue kids who are just using a new medium to express their angst? It's kinda obvious that the whole process of sueing involves money and attention.. Why would any intelligent teacher would want to sue his/her student when it could bring unwanted attention to themselve? not to mention the wasting of money..
    The obvious misinformation has been linked to many blogs that have been killed (meaning: deleted, to all those who believe everything they see in the farking news),either the blogger takes the thing down or the teachers who are offended by the blog forces the blogger to close the blog down.. The tatics used by the MIW(the Men In White, refering to the morons-clad-in-white, PAP or the "gahment") have now finally being used by the people who lived in the "Woodbridge Residential Appartments" to scare the polliticals of tomorrow from making "dafamatory"(or even better,"damning") remarks of their teachers ever again.
    Hopefully by the time those teachers finally grew a brain cell or two, they would have learnt to at least just laugh at it.. No point risking high blood pressure on those stupid moronic students.. Afterall, we are just "kids",what?


    Posted at 12:07 pm by theleftnut
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    Tuesday, October 11, 2005
    story of a nut..

    Hi y'all..

    Ok.. here's my story.. could be long for those who are usually not the types who read long detailed entries, so here's my pathetic attempt to make my intro to the blogging community (there's a name for this but i don't remember..)

    My name is.. uhm.. I would like to be unknown for now.. the real story behind the nick comes from my understanding of singapore and singapore's political "scene"(yeah right..). the nick is more or less an analogy of the general groupings of the average singaporeans (yeah we singaporeans somehow loved being labeled) : the left nut (the anti-everything-PAP & Garment) and the right nut (stupid sheeps).. both are opposite each other and have different sizes (if your a "normal" guy), but both still work for the the dick (the singaporean gahment) and both at the mercy of it.. When it comes to danger, be it the recession or the NKF saga or the retrenchments, both nuts will be the first ones to feel the kick (the kick below the belts, the "low blow"- as they've called it in wrestling).Sorry for my bad choice of nick but I more or less don't 100% agree with the garment so that somehow make me a "left nut" right?

    Personally, i don't really believe there is such thing as "freedom of speech" in sain-gapore, let alone if you use the internet WHILE still living in singapore (the laws still apply, dummy). The front page treatment of singaporeans who wrote racist comments on their blog and the schools action against "flaming" teachers on their own blogs on our nation-controlled newspapers just proves this point loud and clear.. But freedom will only come to those who work, or at some rare cases, fight, for it. So that's why i think i should join the bus to freedom of speach (well.. nobody really rides bandwagons nowadays in "efficent, clean and high class" sian-gapore,right?) I guess that's it lah.. classes comming up next...

    PS : while I am for freedom of speech, i do not suport the "freedom to preach", be it religion, racism, hatred, goverment bashing, etc.. so don't claim that i promote that in my blog, hor..

    PSS: yah.. for all who may ask, this is a person blog full of personal opinions.. so for those who would like to hurl me to court for "defaming" them please take note that I am really not worth it lah.. but if you really don't like what i write then just leave me alone .. as the saying goes "leave and let live"..

    Posted at 12:44 pm by theleftnut
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    Whacca wanna know??

    Nick: The Left Nut aka adious
    Age: 17
    Date Of Birth: 15th of Febuary 1988
    Star sign: Aquarious
    Age: 17
    School: ITE Sentosa (hopefully lah..) ITE MacPherson
    Former School: YTSS and Xishan Primary School
    My Hobbies: Eating, sleeping, talking cock with a close friend, researching for my on entertainment, reading books, annoying the adults with my gravity defying hairstyle, etc
    Fav Bands: Green Day, Linkin Park, Yellowcard, etc


       





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