SG Speaker Corner

[mrfatso]

sound like dutch is one heck of a language to learn, if the spelling changes annually, how do they keep up with all the correct spelling?

It's a miracle anyone pass those test without the teacher crossing out your letter and filled it with circles detailing spelling mistakes.

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

Well, the truth is, no one still knows what the correct spelling of all those words is. And the teacher's don't know it either, so unless if the spelling errors are really big, they don't care if there's spelling mistakes in your homework or not because they don't even know

 

[mrfatso]

Cool, but still, this will be really confusing, if it's me, i would have been stuck in year 1 for the 6th time since every year i am remembering a totally different word due to all of the confusion.

On the other hand, this would make it a pretty easy subject since as long as the mistake isnt major, they would have let u get away with it.

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

It is, actually. I almost always score really high (well, I'm good at languages in general but still) so that's quite awesome!

Anyways, different subject, do you know the MMORPG Fiesta? I think it's quite cool, it's like Runescape in terms of gameplay but much cooler, the only thing I find annoying is that it's hard to see everything on a 10 inch monitor

There's boxes everywhere and I can't figure out how to close them

 

[mrfatso]

Fiesta, i might have played that game during closed beta but other than that, i don't remember much about it. I do remember attempting a castle party quest and everyone else getting owned and i was the sole survivor to face off with a boss, needless to say, i got owned badly.

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

Are you interested in playing it again? Because then you could be in a guild with me and ortomedius (if you download the EU client), that would be awesome!

Everyone else who plays Fiesta on the EU client, tell me about it!

BTW, 400 pages, wtf

 

[mrfatso]

not really, i am just playing MFO for now, and already i am in my slacker mode where i train for 5 ~ 30 mins a day.

Fiesta was a mmo that to be honest, it didnt interest me, since it felt pretty generic to me, there wasn't a lot of things to set it apart from other mmo that i had played, probably much has changed since cbt though.

Rapplez on the other hand, i might attempt to see if i remember my passport and give that another shot.


Also, cool, 400 pages, should someone post a cake picture in celebration?

 

[Domination]

Chinese 'O' Levels next monday.

Tips fatso, I want tips.

I DEMAND TIPS!

No seriously. I need to get A1 this time, cos I'm retaking this year after I got B3 last year.

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

Rappelz looks like a nice game, but will it run on my netbook with 1GB of RAM? The game seems to be full-3D, and most of the times games like that cause problems

Monster Forest Online seems to be full-3D too, but with less detail, it looks quite cute, although not as cute as MapleStory or Dragonica

I might give that one a try, I'll download it now

 

[mrfatso]

Just a small tip. At the beginning, it will lag like mad for MFO, u have to get into the game option and disable shadows and depth and set the setting to low instead of the default high.

Also, rappelz's requirement are found here: http://rappelz.gpotato.com/?m=downloads

Minimum Requirements

CPU RAM VGA Direct-X
AMD/Intel Single Core 2.0GHz 512 MB 128 MB 3D graphics card 9.0c

Recommended Requirements

CPU RAM VGA Direct-X
Intel P4 3.0GHZ
or
AMD Athalon X2 5000+ 1 GB 256 MB 3D graphics card 9.0c

@Dom: i really dont have any tip since i myself got B3 as well.

All i did to prepared myself was read chinese news paper, listen to chinese song, talk to my friends in chinese, in other words, just keep exposing myself to chinese language.

Also, i started writing sample essays on some topic. Since i always write about newspaper, i used that as my practice. Choose an article and write a essay on that, next i read to myself and see if i can spot any mistakes. Ask my friend to give it a read and see if they could spot any typo.

Usually, i have a bad habit of writing in a way where it reads like a rude argument instead of a persuasive version, so i had to make fixes to that sample essay and make a note in a little book.

Also, bought myself a chinese assesment book, and i was working on the exercises, for example, today i will work on 3 exercise, tomorrow another 3.

And each time, i will mark it myself and take note of the typical mistakes that i make.

 

[FlameTakuya]

not really, i know flame's friend, but i have no idea who flame is in real life, other than he's younger than me by 1 year, i think.

Rly late reply but w/e lol.

No lar, I was supposed to graduate this year too. 'Cept I failed a module so stay back half a sem. Same age as you and Faq and Kim Kai they all lol

Yay page 400!

 

[mrfatso]

Same as 3 of my friends, maybe you know aaron, zong rong, abel ? On the bright side, u dont have to go NS that soon, you have 3 months+++ of childhood/teengerhood to enjoy before you are now official an adult

I guess it's me for start a cake picture

 

[FlameTakuya]

Same as 3 of my friends, maybe you know aaron, zong rong, abel ? On the bright side, u dont have to go NS that soon, you have 3 months+++ of childhood/teengerhood to enjoy before you are now official an adult

Nope don't know them lol. Actually the only people i know from DET are like Faqrullah, Kim Kai, and Ban Theng. :/

(DET juniors I know include Wilson, Fook Yu, Aloysious, Eric, know any of them?)

And lol NS deferment, dunno if it's a good thing or a bad thing :/

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

Recommended 1+ GB and a Pentium 4? I only have 1GB and Atom processor. It'll kill my computer most likely so I won't try it

 

[mrfatso]

Same as 3 of my friends, maybe you know aaron, zong rong, abel ? On the bright side, u dont have to go NS that soon, you have 3 months+++ of childhood/teengerhood to enjoy before you are now official an adult

Nope don't know them lol. Actually the only people i know from DET are like Faqrullah, Kim Kai, and Ban Theng. :/

(DET juniors I know include Wilson, Fook Yu, Aloysious, Eric, know any of them?)

And lol NS deferment, dunno if it's a good thing or a bad thing :/

on the bright side, by the time u are in, hopefully they considered you as old army man and u get to be more slack and sorry, i don't know any of them.

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

BTW, that's some nice cakes you got there mrfatso, you got me hungry now

I guess I'll go eat some more cornflakes

 

[elixirdream]

tips on chinese?
i guess that is a daily affair...
read more literatures is always the best way

 

[FlameTakuya]

Same as 3 of my friends, maybe you know aaron, zong rong, abel ? On the bright side, u dont have to go NS that soon, you have 3 months+++ of childhood/teengerhood to enjoy before you are now official an adult

Nope don't know them lol. Actually the only people i know from DET are like Faqrullah, Kim Kai, and Ban Theng. :/

(DET juniors I know include Wilson, Fook Yu, Aloysious, Eric, know any of them?)

And lol NS deferment, dunno if it's a good thing or a bad thing :/

on the bright side, by the time u are in, hopefully they considered you as old army man and u get to be more slack and sorry, i don't know any of them.

Ah, I see...

And lol maybe lar. XDD

Ugh Chinese. Was never good at it, but I don't hate it. It seems my conversational Chinese has gotten better since entering Poly (And dialects too lol). Reading totally went down the drain tho. :/

 

[iPikachu]

sucks that i cant get 6000th post...

NEVER MIND I WILL GET 6666 OR 6996

my brother got A2 for chinese....


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i hatehatehate this workshop compulsory for art students, in 3 days we in our 8 groups must make new signboards for the school canteen's food stalls, and i got into a group with the acad and tech, one cannot stop giggling one outline also cannot outline properly, one trace also fail so much, tio the stall got the worst name (which is "mama mee ya" a noodle store) horrible pun and all then the group ask me all the stupid questions,("eh what colour base you want?""anything""dont say anything la""blue""yellow good with red right?*takes yellow pencil and orange lead box and starts to compare colours"

THEN the instructor "teach" us about elements and principles of art... oh guess what my sec ONE teacher taught us 2 years ago.... (lines circles... shape is not form is not shape okay we get it -_-)

THEN NEXT "THIS IS VERY HEAVY BLAH BLAH"... it turns out to be COLOUR THEORY, which is mentioned in the damn textbook which everyone but me does NOT read. she took one hour to do what i could have learnt in ten minutes, still say short of time must hurry. my group finish the 4 sketches by reccess when the whole thing end still like never progress....kns


60 DOLLARS MY EDUSAVE LEFT 82 DOLLARS FOR MY REST OF MY SEC SCHOOL LIFE NIA STILL GOT CHINESE SHET COURSE LUCKY NEVER GIVE THEM THE EDUSAVE FORM

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

Can't you tell your teacher you already know how to do it and let her make you do something else? Or do I misunderstand what you're saying?

Also, thanks for giving me the 6000th post, iPika