My FYP professor happens to be the head of department and he is simply too busy to meet his FYP students. In fact, since FYP started last Sem (5mths ago), I haven’t even met him, not even once! He actually told my friend who is also a FYP student under him, that is too busy and that we should not bother him. He leaves everything to the PostDoctral and told my friend to inform us that the PostDoctral takes full control. What he doesnt know is that this PostDoctral fellow has been ordering us around like slaves, making us come down EVERY SINGLE DAY of the week (9am to 6pm) to do the experiment which he commands. He never explains what the experiments are for and when we try to pursue, he brushes us off and asks us to just go do it. He even made ridiculous demands for us to stay OVERNIGHT in the labs in school and also come down on weekends.

As FYP students, we feel very helpless cause there is no channel to seek help or complaints. We do not dare to approach our FYP prof to let him know of what has been done to us because we fear he might take it the wrong way. Afterall, you never know how are things between him and the PostDoctoral. What if he chooses to believe the PostDoctral who lies through his teeth that we’re slackers or lazy students who don’t do our work and don’t come down at all? Furthermore, since the FYP Prof is never around, he is probably going to leave the grading to the PostDoctral (thinking he knows best) and god knows what kind of grades we get after we try bringing up his “abusive” issues.

I therefore take the NTU incident with a pinch of salt. It takes a lot for someone to drive a knife through another being and it takes a lot to jump down a building. You can say the student has bad stress management or whatsoever but let’s not forget that students DO get very sucky profs for FYP. Given the 1 year setting of the project, under such long term stress, it is totally possible to drive someone up the walls.

Furthermore, I have come to know some profs are entirely different in class and in FYP setting. Some of them are very relaxing and easy going during classes but when it comes to FYP, they totally change because most of the Profs make use of FYP to publish papers. And these papers are essentially their ticket to further employment or pay raise or promotion etc. A certain number of papers needed to be published in a certain time frame while the profs are being employed by the university. It is also common for profs to make use of FYP students as free labour to do mandune or time consuming experiments which they themselves do not want to do or do not have the time.

At the end of the day, all that time spent and all the hardship a student endures through FYP, just for that few modular credits and possibly a better class of honours, may just consume you.

http://www.gabrielsai.com/blog/2009/…hs-in-ntu.html

and don’t forget to watch this film:
http://www.mysoju.com/a-million-star…-from-the-sky/

The film told about the student who took suicide but later revealed that the professors who killed her. In sociology, don’t take common sense la but you have to investigate the facts. In other words, if media said he was suicide but without knowing facts then wo should not beleive it.

as i’ve said up above, that they will only publish what they want to hear. at this point i cant help it but Be very skeptical of ST reports. It’s somehow analogous to aLiar telling u that he won’t lie again. there he just made another lie..

It was a closed scene where there were no eye witness.
Yet the media said that the student stabbed the professor and then killed himself. Did the statement come from the prof’s mouth himself. Or was it just simply assumption made based on the end scene. I am aware of the use of the word “allegedly”/”believed” by the media but people tend to ignore that and be prejudice.

It was like watching the movie just seconds before the end where there is one guy lying on the ground lifeless and another guy bloodily injured. No one knows the scenes leading to this. Yet, people are guessing and making their own scenarios and it happens that the media is strong enough to convey the message. I’m not saying that the news is not right. But up to this point, I think that this is just simply an assumption.

Some news even just quoted from personal blogs, forums. Those are all based on opinions, not fact.

Aside from the evidence (autopsy result, knife, police report etc) which are not disclosed to public yet, the only person to break the deadlock is the prof himself. I understand that he is still recovering physically and mentally. however, with full respect, I sincerely think that he should step up and explain to make everything clear, whenever he is fully recovered. For his responsibilty as human-being, not representing any group, and not biased for the advantage of any group.

Once again, I don’t know what happened in the room between the student and the prof, I’m just voicing my doubt on the trueness of the news. It might be true but it might also be false.

but ain’t you people that there was some contradiction about the news?!

you all shall to see this link

http://www.kaskus.us/showthread.php?t=1495128

i thought that it was bluffing..

then i checked out they were right

especially when the news said that he died using black tshirt.. indeed he died wearing white tshirt..

and news stated that the professor was injured badly..however.. he could recover in two days..

it’s out of logic i think

-i’m thoroughly appalled by the torrents of comments suggesting the restriction of foreigners into the country. are u guys Really that ….? First, u should be thankful to those foreigners who came here, to pick up the slack for ur Stressful > cmon guys, as u noe mostly all of us worked hard for our money worked hard for our money and pls do not stereotype us into becoming lavish or extravagant being. (Directed @steve lim #113, ‘Rich Playboys’)

Malaysia and Thailand have their very serious political problems. The Philippines is still gripping with insurgency issues. Myanmar still have issues with the world with its junta background. Vietnam has been facing recession for some time. I just came back fron Vietnam and my friend there tells me there there’s a serious unemployment rate for the past 2 years. Indonesia still has to cope with rampant corruption within its ranks. And Singapore, we too have lots of problems ourselves. It may not be fair for me to point fingers when my country has her fair share of problems but I’m trying to be as unbiased as possible here, its still pretty bleak for ASEAN.

10 years ago just before the 1997 recession, they called ASEAN a ‘goldmine’, 10 years on, nothing has changed. If you compare ASEAN and the EU, you will know what’s lacking, ‘Unity’. And within most individual countries, rich elites that care for their rice bowl more than anything else.

Sorry if I have digressed. I just felt and hope that this incident will not spark off a poor relationship between the Indonesian students and the Singaporeans.

I hope more Singaporeans have the mindset like yours. Appreciate your open-mindedness. Frankly speaking, the Political and social instability in southeast asia countries are almost story of the past decade. Take a trip to one of those countries, you will find out their fast paced development and revolution.

Regards,
time

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–noun 1. learning; knowledge acquired by study; the academic attainments of a scholar.
2. a sum of money or other aid granted to a student, because of merit, need, etc., to pursue his or her studies.
3. the position or status of such a student.
4. a foundation to provide financial assistance to students.

Lastly I do not understand how this issue relates to the two countries, Singapore and Indonesia. Let’s not judge anything until the truth is revealed by the authority.

Yet, Singaporeans must not be over-confident or arrogant. We need to keep earning and keep adapting. This, and many other incidents of 2009 should serve as a good reminder for us citizens. If there is a wrong to right, then take it into your hands and not wait for others. And if our forefathers can do it, surely we can too.

And with this episode, we need to learn to live closer and better with our ASEAN neighbours. As a metropolitan, we cannot avoid being a city made up of different races, nationalities and creed. It is diversity that makes us beautiful too.

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like, finally, a kind of good comment appear here, eventually. well, hope, mr. oklah, and mr.steve lim, and whoever outside there who are anti-foreigners can read this and take the possitive feedback.
we all want the best for our nations.