in class today, my prof lol-ed and shared with us about how when students were allowed to pick a topic completely of their choice as long as it was related to the module, "only at nus do you get" most of the students in the entire class handing in term papers on a range of just 4 or 5 topics.
1. "only at nus" is funny; half the class are exchange students. so they're nus students now?
2. this is a european politics class. most of the singaporean students in your class dear prof have been exposed to close to zero academic teaching on europe as a subject area. this. is. our. first. time. and. we. know. NUTS. (ya sure pls proceed here to gloat about how little singaporeans know about europe and its politics) no amount of right-here-right-now frantic reading of texts on european politics can come close to replacing knowledge obtained from exposure to this subject throughout the course of pre-tertiary education (once again, see: close to zero)
3. there's this idea about the singaporean character being mostly play-safe, narrow-minded, uncreative, rule-abiding, conservative. which if im not mistaken my prof was eluding to. i dont disagree. but hey they're rich. and we have health care. and retirement savings. and safe streets. and opportunities. and oh, they're rich. may not be the sharpest most exciting conversationalists, but one of the most loaded ones.. what do you have? oh yea the freedom to do whatever you want including mess up ur own and ur family's lives, drive urself into debt, kill the environment and try to bully your ideology onto weaker states.
sure she's smart and funny, but you know how sometimes smart-and-funny people say the most obnoxious things? there you go (she just did, and i just tried to but failed due to personal deficiencies in those 2 areas oh well my bad. and, this was a waste of time i better get back to my wonderful chinese politics now)
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