University = Hunting Ground

11th April 2005, Monday

A brand new 5-days work week... The main thing to look forward to is the probable performance bonus, then again after a leak of information from a somewhat reliable source, it seems I better not count the eggs before it hatch... well let the mystery unfolds by the end of the week then...

After the excruciating hot Sunday, Monday help chill our little island and perhaps the drowsy minds of many who are back to work or school... A really soggy afternoon which was much sweeter especially with the half day leave applied by my O.C.... my own domain, own realm..all mine...muahahhahaaha

Which leads me today's main theme...
An equation well justified for generation, even resistant to time and tide and the whole evolution junk...
You and I both know schools are not just location to acquire knowledge and make you a better person acedamically but it's a vicinty where tensions fly (definitely not the same kind my colleague and I are having).. where boys meet girls, boys meet boys, girls meet girls, gays meet gays, sadist meets machoist etc...
It's a perfect game park for the prey to be predated while the predator hunts for its prey...

None is as boisterous and as vociferous as tertiary students (undergrads, poly students)
The prospectiv preys and predators are in the right frame of mind and maturity level, of course puberty is on high alarm, people are on heat like fertile cats prowling in the night...
Especially guys who had be "imprisoned" in their national service for 2 years (in the past it's 180 days more), the opportunity of meeting young, nubile targets is overwhelming....

Personally I'm sad to admit I'm with the masses, and eventually was real fortunate to find my current squeeze and prospective partner to accompany till the twilight of my life in my NUS stint as well. She was one year my junior, but that story we will delve into some other time...

There's a commotion in the NUS engineering faculty recently...
It seems like a very obliging Mathematics lecturer helped a student of his to present a self created PowerPoint slide to publicly declare his undying adoration to a fellow course mate...
Romantic as it seemed but it got into some controversy when the whole process was videotaped down in the webcast which was able to broadcast the entire global community...
You can watch the entire 2:01 minutes of the clip here.

The news spread like wildfire and within a week, even my sister from SMU heard about this...
Rumored that the story had a tragic twist for the main 3 parties involved:
The guy: got rejected and now the official "piero" (clown) of the faculty (don't worry people will forget as fast as they have forgotten William Hung, unless you pull yet another bound-to-fail stunt).
The girl: got hounded by every single soul that have watched the clip, however the fact that we only knew her name is "Cui wen", however the internet community was prompt to shovel out her photo (the girl on the left) & her blog...she might found blessings in disguise as she starts assimilating a mini celebrity status...
The lecturer: the most innocent party, now seemed to be investigated by the cohort administrations who are of course more uptight than this supposedly uninhibited lecturer.

Well my take of this incident....
This poor yet courageous chap is just heeding the "Romancing Singapore" campaign... what? it's over...er...ok he is too little too late...
Very different point of views were been debated by both genders
It seems like not many of the female population would actually appreciate such a stunt, it doesn't goes down to well to be spot-lighted especially in the middle of a Maths Lecture!
Our male lead ain't no Don Juan DeMarco, but he should be given credits for his guts that yours truly still had it frozen in the -80 degrees freezer in my workplace...
Perhaps he has made research on the fact that Cui wen is single, and vey available, thus he thought he stands a good chance, and by professing his love in the public, it's like ladies' fantasy comes alive (read into public proposal)
Then again someone pointed out that such declaration is world apart from proposal because in the latter case both parties love each other dearly...duh....
seems like our male lead has missed out a single detail in his research...
"Cuiwen is single and very available, but just not available to you"...

*OUCH*

Well I feel everyone should really give our male lead a break, he must have been crushed into shambles both spiritually and emotionally, while he requires yet a time span to recuperate , find a brand new target (perhaps he already had a few to begin with, sorry Cui wen, you just happen to be the unlucky one), and think of a love declaration antic... (perhaps doing crop circles around the barren soccer field in the NUS sports complex)

All these happened while 25% of those living in halls are still cuddling in their beds during lecture time, perhaps with each other ...in a pretty risque way.. *GULP*

Japanese word of the day:恋人　~Koi bito~ (Lovers)... obviously our friend desperately in need of one while so does Cui wen to fend her off unnecessary attentions which she might really enjoys basking in...