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Attention Singaporean Readers!

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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.

Chibi Haruhi Suzumiya
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.

National Infocomm Competition
Step 1: Click on “Online Quiz”
National Infocomm Competition
Step 2: Attempt the quiz
National Infocomm Competition
Step 3: Google for answers (optional)
National Infocomm Competition
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.

55 responses

  1. wei zhong Avatar
    wei zhong

    I cannot believe that the IDA is capable of developing such a lousy website. Every apostrophe is preceded by three backslashes! The entire interface is so clumsy as well. So much for being the infocomm authority.

    Voted for you anyway.

  2. TripleKill Avatar
    TripleKill

    Vote for “NP Team 1” instead :P.

  3. DarkMirage Avatar
    DarkMirage

    TripleKill: No. Don’t make me ban you. >_<

  4. Kresnik Avatar
    Kresnik

    If they want to make money, they should’ve ask votes through short messages.. It’s stupid to make a competition if there’s some external forces at work, without the intention to grill some money out of that… >_>

  5. Lss Avatar
    Lss

    this is seriously pushing the limits of gathering support.

    but the psp sounds good.

  6. Lss Avatar
    Lss

    oh i doubt they make that site. most likely the tender it out and lowest bidder gets it. i think you know what that means.

  7. Ryuko_hikaru Avatar
    Ryuko_hikaru

    Alright voted for you.

    If you need a job just PM me. A restaurant is hiring at $4.50 per hour.

  8. Loke Avatar
    Loke

    you got my vote ^^
    You in RJC?

  9. DarkMirage Avatar
    DarkMirage

    Yes I am.

  10. Soulshift Avatar
    Soulshift

    I voted. Now where’s my PSP?

  11. DarkMirage Avatar
    DarkMirage

    You’ll have to fly back to Singapore to collect it. :P

  12. Soulshift Avatar
    Soulshift

    > You’ll have to fly back to Singapore to collect it. :P

    Deal.

  13. .:~+┼ ĻũşŤřŏůŞ Ŗꥼm ┼+~:. Avatar
    .:~+┼ ĻũşŤřŏůŞ Ŗꥼm ┼+~:.

    voted. hope u do win it.

  14. nutcase23 Avatar
    nutcase23

    You got my vote! Man, those questions were easy….

    So where’s my PSP? A DS ain’t enough for me….

  15. Tiny Red Man Avatar
    Tiny Red Man

    lol..the powa of blogs put into evil use.. XD dun worry though,..u got my vote…

  16. dKiWi Avatar
    dKiWi

    if u won via this blog and someone leaked it to the media it’ll really expose the power of teh internet to all the “cool” naysayers and anal-minded older generation.

  17. Kenneth Avatar
    Kenneth

    i voted, and i’m in singapore wheres my psp haa jk

  18. nanashi Avatar
    nanashi

    Let’s see how much of the competition would be broken by this. =∀=

  19. Fingolfin Avatar
    Fingolfin

    I just voted for the best JC in Singapore!

    Hwa Chong Institution! LOL!

  20. papmech Avatar
    papmech

    You are awesome!

  21. HardCheese Avatar
    HardCheese

    ACS(I) sec 6 here…….

    Really lol-ed at this post.

    Hope you win it and make the time I spent voting worth it.

  22. §oL Avatar
    §oL

    Voted. I want a 2nd PSP.

  23. welsper84 Avatar
    welsper84

    Voted :D

  24. LianYL Avatar
    LianYL

    You know, by just stating Team 1, the people supporting you might end up voting other Team 1s.

  25. DarkMirage Avatar
    DarkMirage

    Fingolfin: Get off my blog! XD

    LianYL: There is only one “Team 1″. Just follow the picture okay. >_<

  26. Flux Avatar
    Flux

    I see your picture on the website LOL

  27. Pyoro Avatar
    Pyoro

    voted now i want my psp

  28. Laflagaa Avatar
    Laflagaa

    Haha u got my vote~ *waits for psp*

  29. Dark Koji Avatar
    Dark Koji

    Done it! Had to go about updating my flash to 9.0 first though. Can’t even load the site when I was still using ver.8.0. =_=

    …And yes, ‘Team 1’ is a really lame name.

  30. Ryuko_hikaru Avatar
    Ryuko_hikaru

    I guess the school choose the name for them.

    RJC is well known for their obscene number of distinctions.

  31. Sachi Avatar
    Sachi

    I’m sorry darling… I did want to vote from you. But then I realised which Junior College you were from.

    Sorry, but old alliances die hard.

    I was from ACJC. =p

  32. JS Avatar
    JS

    Voted! All the best.

  33. Kippei Avatar
    Kippei

    DONE!!!

  34. DarkMirage Avatar
    DarkMirage

    Actually it’s standard practice for lazy people to use “Team 1/2/3” as the team name. It’s just that I think the person filling in our form didn’t realize that the school name isn’t part of the team name by default. (Which is not the case with many other competitions.)

  35. Kesenaitsumi Avatar
    Kesenaitsumi

    Voted….Nar…..

  36. tj han Avatar
    tj han

    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.

  37. Seiryuu Avatar
    Seiryuu

    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. =]

  38. Ryuko_Hikaru Avatar
    Ryuko_Hikaru

    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

  39. Dazzer Avatar
    Dazzer

    Damn none of my alma mater are in the finals. Useless people.

    Voted ^^ (without the need for google. I rawk)

  40. dKiWi Avatar
    dKiWi

    @Sachi:

    I kinda didn’t vote for DM coz I was frm ACJC as well lol…

  41. AK Avatar
    AK

    Darkmirage wants a job? Man, how much more can you squeeze into your seemingly cat food-packed schedule?

  42. Dazzer Avatar
    Dazzer

    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!

  43. joel Avatar
    joel

    hey..is that haruhi figure yours? i’m thinking of getting one myself too! was wondering if you could help me out on that

    ^_^

  44. exalt dragon Avatar
    exalt dragon

    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.

  45. DarkMirage Avatar
    DarkMirage

    Sigh… I actually want a job at SITEX…

  46. quendidil Avatar
    quendidil

    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?

  47. quendidil Avatar
    quendidil

    here is one SITEX job http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=200200, I believe they are advertising in the Straits Times too.

  48. Matsuo Ryou Avatar
    Matsuo Ryou

    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!

  49. abao Avatar
    abao

    Done ^_^

  50. Pear Avatar
    Pear

    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.

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