Idiosyncrasies

There are two things that happen in a classroom setting i hate with a passion :

1. Brats who are annoyingly rude to the lecturers.

2. Student making phone calls in their seats, in the lecture theatre while the lecture is going on.

Case 1 :
The lecturer is not familiar with the technical aspect of the computer/ laptop settings in the lecture theatre. So maybe in his nervousness (this is his first time teaching in Singapore ever) he fumbled and forgot to change the powerpoint slide in to slide presentation mode. Therefore, making the text unreadable if you were sitting at the back of the theatre. Most of us continued to just copy and take down what is on the screen when this brat yelled out "I can't read the words!" and all of us turned towards the direction of the shrilled voice.

Lecturer : "Excuse me?"

Brat : "I can't see the words!" [this time she sounded annoyed]

Well, if you can't read the words, raise your hand up and politely tell the lecturer to put the slide on presentation mode. Didn't your mom teach you to be respectful to your lecturers no matter what? For your info, if you're the one who is guilty of this tonite, here's what has been said about you; you are rude, with no manners and this reflects badly on your parents. As we say in Mandarin : "Mei You Jia Jiao".

Case 2 :
Regardless of whether or not the lecture is boring or you can't understand the lecturer like 99% of us, it does not give you the right to pick up your phone and dial the number to talk to ANYONE IN the lecture theatre. What you should do is pick up the phone, excuse yourself from the lecture theatre and take your butt out to make the call. I don't care if you had an impt. message to pass on or if it was an emergency (i highly doubt so) you DO NOT make a phone call in the middle of a lecture! It's common courtesy.

I seriously don't know why these people have no sense of common courtesy at all.

At the same time i would like to mention that there is an inconsiderate driver out there, driving a Nissan Sunny EX Saloon with the liscence plate no. of SFC6250T. My dad was patiently waiting in line along Bukit Timah Road to fill up his tank at Esso/Mobil when this guy conveniently drove out of the t-junction and cut right in front of us. Err... HELLO???! What the heck did he think he was doing??? He probably thinks no one would say anything but too bad he had to do it to me. Sorry, Mister but that was just so inconsiderate!

Right... back to normal programming.