Attention Singaporean Readers!
I have a small personal request. Now, I usually keep personal stuff out of this blog ever since it stopped being a place where I recount my daily activities with great attention to insignificant details and wanton cynicism. (Those were the days.) But I decided that since I have a decent local readership, it won’t hurt to abuse it once. Or twice.
Made in China
So if you are from Singapore, read on because I need your help! Foreign readers, please stay tune as this blog will soon resume its regular coverage of trashy anime series and mass-produced moé merchandises.
NIC 2007
As part of an initiative by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), various tertiary and educational institutions organize annual IT competitions for students in Singapore.
The Singapore Science Centre is organizing the National Infocomm Competition 2007, a quiz challenge where teams of three from various schools answer random arbitrary IT questions that range from “what is a mouse” to “what is the best-case complexity of bubble sort”.
This year, the organizers decided to “spice things up” (i.e. fix something that wasn’t broken) by introducing some silly point system that allows the teams in the finals to gain points by receiving votes online.
Help Us!
My team is in the finals for the Junior College category and we are appealing for your help! (Because we are all losers in real-life with no friends.)
It’s very simple. Go to the NIC 2007 website and click on “Online Quiz”. After answering three simple IT-related questions correctly (you can redo the quiz as necessary), you will be prompted to vote for a team in the finals.
Step 1: Click on “Online Quiz”
Step 2: Attempt the quiz
Step 3: Google for answers (optional)
Step 4: Vote for “Team 1″!
The final step is extremely important! You have to vote for “Team 1″. (Yes, it’s an extremely stupid name but I wasn’t the one who filled up our application.)
You will also be required to enter your real name, e-mail address and NRIC number (this is the part where you need to be from Singapore) because, as an online voter, you stand a chance to win a Playstation Portable! Yay! (However, it is not stated whether it will be the Slim version.)
Thank you for your kind attention! :P
P.S. I’m also looking for a part-time job for the school holidays. Anyone hiring? LOL.
November 9th, 2007 at 1:12 am
It took me more than 10 tries to get the quiz right. Even though a lot of the stuff is covered in my IT1001 module lol. Good revision.
I hope I win a PSP.
November 9th, 2007 at 1:42 am
Oh i voted too. even though the chance is kinda small for me to get a psp, it doesn’t hurt to at least give it a try =D. oh yar and thx for the add. =]
November 9th, 2007 at 3:10 am
I hope when you are done with this, you will do a coverage about the Tokyo International Anime Fair 2007, won’t you?
BeForU is there to sing Strike Party!!. <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3
November 9th, 2007 at 11:39 am
Damn none of my alma mater are in the finals. Useless people.
Voted ^^ (without the need for google. I rawk)
November 9th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
@Sachi:
I kinda didn’t vote for DM coz I was frm ACJC as well lol…
November 9th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
Darkmirage wants a job? Man, how much more can you squeeze into your seemingly cat food-packed schedule?
November 9th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Yo guys you can vote for DM and another team. In fact you can vote for as many teams as you want, just only once. Just do the quiz again!
November 9th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
hey..is that haruhi figure yours? i’m thinking of getting one myself too! was wondering if you could help me out on that
^_^
November 9th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
I voted for you but I am more interested in the PSP. Did they say how one wins? A lucky draw?
It’s been a while since you used this blog to publicise your causes…the last one was the haruhiist campaign..
Oh, and IRAS is offering jobs at $6-6.5 for clerical officers. Not bad pay. But it’s full time iirc.
November 9th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
Sigh… I actually want a job at SITEX…
November 9th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
Kinokuniya does offer part-time jobs, but you have to do it for 6 months. You can choose to work on weekdays or weekends (8-hour shifts for weekends). http://www.jac.com.sg also has loads of jobs where Japanese skills could come in handy. Most of them are full-time but I saw some part-time ones as well.
BTW, can anyone tell me if using だ forms in your Japanese oral is penalized? My whole Japanese oral was a hodge-podge of politeness forms, ranging from であります to だ; I was quite fluent however, no pausing at all, relatively long and grammatically correct sentences and correct vocabulary as far as I know. (It’s been like a month since the exam but I had a sudden panic attack) My reading was fine though, no kanji reading mistakes.
I also made a few retarded mistakes on my written exam.
This isn’t a mistake per se, but in paper 2, there was a section where you had to fill in the keigo forms of a few verbs. There was one where you had to change 食べた which the 社長 or whatever wrote in his journal. You were the inferior guy, but you were also eating, so I didn’t know whether to use 召し上がった or 頂いた。 In the end I wrote 頂いた however.
I didn’t split my expository essay into paragraphs at all. Probably going to get penalized for that since the syllabus says paragraphs are required, but I couldn’t get my whole essay in otherwise. Also, I thought 救う was すうく and I wrote 救いた instead of 救った. I did use some JLPT 2 and even a few JLPT 1ish grammar points that weren’t covered though, would that help?
November 9th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
here is one SITEX job http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=200200, I believe they are advertising in the Straits Times too.
November 9th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
I am lucky that those question are related to my field of study. Information Communication Technology, voted!!
I have 2 part time job now. Waiter at Ngee Ann Poly Alumni and Singtel Modem/Mio TV Installer.
If you are interested, you can drop me a mail =)
Good luck for the competition!
November 9th, 2007 at 11:58 pm
Done ^_^
November 10th, 2007 at 7:21 am
quendidil: Depends on what sort of exam you’re doing. Generally for essays don’t use the だ or ます forms; use the である and 普通形. At least that’s what our teacher at school tells us.
November 10th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Yeah thanks, I did use である and 普通形 for the essay, I meant the oral.
November 10th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
My cousin has a monday to friday admin job. Email me for more details.
November 12th, 2007 at 12:59 am
Done… :)
November 12th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Holiday Job: Hold blogging/otaku stuff classes, lulz.
No srsly. I’m teaching basic manga-style illust and basic-intermediate CG to beginners and earning enough to buy artbooks off it.
November 19th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
I am shocked. I got all three answers without even googling.
I feel good.
Oh, voted too, good luck in the game.