4 more weeks yet lots of issues

As usual, everyone is busy at this time of semester, so am I. Looking for job is really crazy and time consuming. But, having received no call from any company yet while my peers have already secured their job is even more stressful. Some of my friends are saying that they'll break SMU's record of 100% employment in 6 months by purposely not looking for job. Obviously one of my friends who graduated 4 months ago is still jobless. Some who are also working said they miss school life and asked me if I am not sad to leave. I don't know my feelings yet cos I've been so busy with a lot of things that I have no time to think about it. But, I think I'll miss after I graduate. 

'Cos I haven't made fully use of school facilities. Although I've been a campus tour guide to exchange students and others a lot of time and explained about swimming pool and nice gym in school, I have never use any of these facilities. 4 more weeks and how can I make full use of my privileges as a student? Stay more in school enjoying aircon and save my electricity bill at home? While our fees are increasing every year, stupid school management switched off aircon on weekends. Do they think we are so cheapskate, saving aircon at home and coming to school? Bur for the stupid curriculum, who would want to come back to school on weekends? I can't understand why we pay more to let school switch off our aircon in group study rooms. Cut cost? Come on we pay premium price. Save environment? The temperature in the freezing seminar rooms on weekdays can be reduced a little bit and give aircon to GSR on weekends. Anyways, let's see how our juniors and student's association tackle the issue with the self-claimed best management university which has the worst management team to run the school. 

Few months ago, I saw a program called Blog TV on CNA. 2 SMU students were featured on the topic of "Are S'poreans Gracious?" which was brought up by MM Lee. I don't know whether the whole Singapore is gracious or not, but at least I've seen a lot of inconsiderate people in school and outside. Although it has been a norm to experience such things in my class, I was so annoyed last Thur when a guest speaker visited my class and conducted a lecture. The girl behind me, who is my friend and former groupmate, was talking out loud with her friends without even realizing Prof's signal to keep their volume down and pay attention to the speaker. I don't know how the guest speaker feels but I was very embarrassed that SMU showed a uncivilized, inconsiderate and low-class student to an external party. Don't her parents educate her at home? SMU encourages class participation and discussion among students and it's very common to hear whispering of few students to one another commenting what the lecturer or a student is discussing a topic in class. Sometimes they clarify with their neighbor what the speaker means. These are common thing. But, talking about other things or gossiping in class during seminar is totally unbearable. Talking for the whole lecture! Come on. If you find it boring, don't come to class. If they are scared of getting absence, there are so many way to get attendance such as asking another friend in class to sign on attendance sheet which most people have been doing. 

Besides this girl, there is another girl on my row making a lot of noises by typing on her laptop non-stop. Taking notes on laptop is also a norm at SMU but she's clearly chatting and emailing. Some more her lousy ACER keyboard is super noisy. Another inconsiderate person! But she at least knows her to fart. She knows when to ask questions to the speaker to make him feel that she's listening though a sensible person in class are used to this kinda non-sense contributions from students who wanna get participation scores. Anyway, my noisy friend should learn from this girl and her group how to be a sucker by laughing out extra loud to a cold or lame jokes from Prof. It wasn't only me who noticed her super LOL. Throughout the whole lecture, my Indian friend sitting besides me was giving a weird look many times. Finally my Indian friend also laugh out loud when I was whispering her in Mandarin “有什麼好笑？” Well, there are people who think they are the whole world. 

These are not all. The guy sitting in front of me was also busy on this laptop applying for jobs while paying attention to the speaker. Being a guy he doesn't know how to suck up the Prof and speaker like the irritating girl. Then he received a call (his phone is on silent mode luckily) from someone and he went outside the room to pickup the phone. It's a thin line how to attend to your own business without making inconvenience to others. But, he just rushed outside the room as if he hack cared the talk but his phone call was more important. I was wondering why a lot of people just lack basic courtesy. What were their parents doing at home? It won't be wrong for others to think that they might breed from an uncivilized family. I may sound like very rude to criticize them but there are so many idiot who doesn't know how to set their phone into silent mode in classroom and even in cinema. In Japanese phone, there is no silent mode but only manner mode. People don't care much about nice ringing tone and mp3 on their phone cos 80% of the time, their phones are on Manner mode. By setting phone into manner mode on the train, classroom, etc. they have good manner by not not disturbing others. Another thing my Japanese friends visiting Singapore will get shocked is people talking on the phone inside the train. With weak signal in the train, these people can't help but screaming on the phone, making noise pollution to others. What's worse, some teenagers or sometimes even adults in 30s enjoy themselves in the train by playing their mp3 on phone speaker. They just forgot it is not their father's train. Talking about manner mode, there was one accident at my Japanese class 2 weeks ago. There was this guy who always forgot to set his phone into silent mode and received a call during the lecture every week. If I really forgot to set my phone into silent mode, I'd try to stop the sound asap and apologizing the class or at least the neighbors. But, this guy just answered the phone in class. It was one week. Another week same thing occurred and he answered the phone again and my teacher reminded us classroom rules to keep it on silent mode and leave the class if we wanna pick up the hone. He tried to cut the conversation and refused to go outside to talk. On the following week, same thing occurred again. The teacher reminded again but he hack cared. I won't say much to those from my other classes but he is in no other class but Japanese where we learn the culture and language and he should know the stricter culture of Japanese even if he has no respect to his classmates.

Oh well, I don't care about the topic on Blog TV whether S'poreans are gracious or not. But, I'm really annoyed by most of my inconsiderate classmates.