Saturday, September 23, 2006

The One with the Engineer

Monday, September 18, 2006 <-- from xy's blog
Joke of the Day...Engineers! *tsk tsk tsk*
DUring tutorial for History of military thoughts today, my lecturer from Australia told a very funny joke to demonstrate the point on how engineers are not the smartest people around. Well at least I thought it were hilarious. My kind of joke, and sorry to those engineers out there reading this...I'm not apologetic. Heeh

When a lecturer says "Good Morning" to a class from Arts, the students will reply by nodding their head.
When a lecturer says "Good Morning" to a class from Science, the students will echo back the same words.
When a lecturer says "Good Morning" to a class from Engineering....they'll write it down.
posted by Cloud @ 9:07 PM

An engineer replied to it:

Anonymous said...
In the working world,
When someone says good morning to an engineer, the engineer nods his head in reply.

When someone says good morning to a business grad, the business grad nods his head in reply.

When someone says good morning to an arts grad, the arts grad replies to the engineern, "Good morning boss, coffee with milk?"

10:17 PM

Cloud said...
That is only if the engineer thinks small...(which further demonstrates my initial point that they are)

When a history graduate walks into a class his/her students will say "Good morning teacher!"

hurhurhur... ;p

8:31 AM

우찌유 said...
I'm sorry 'anonymous', but you just don't make sense. If you're trying to say that engineers are 'higher up' than arts grads, your joke just isn't phrased correctly. (which illustrates the point that engineers just don't know how to work with language. they copy but they dunno how to apply. hurhurhur) I'm not against a good joke. but a bad joke. no no no no.

what your joke says is that is someone says good morning to an engineer or a businessman, they will only nod their heads in reply. but if someone says good morning to an arts grad, he will reply TO THE ENGINEER with 'good morning boss, coffee with milk?'

that's wrong in so many ways.

when you say the engineer and businessman nod their heads in reply, it is implied that they're busy. or they just couldn't care less. that's fine.

but whenever someone says good morning to an arts grad, there are 4 implications. (i) the arts grad doesn't reply to the someone and instead finds an engineer to reply to (ii) only engineers are polite enough to greet people good morning --> this also implies they're too free to go around greeting people, and there is also the conflicting view that if engineers are nice enough to greet people, why are they so mean to each other and only nod their heads in reply? (iii) that arts grads are the only nice people that reply to greetings or (iv) that the arts grad is the employee of the engineer (I guess this is what you are trying to mean). WTF is an 'engineern' anyway?

As you can see, due to the various obvious differences in implications from the statement, your punchline is fundamentally flawed. Incoherent and shows just how much of an 'engineern' you are. Wahoo! (Now that's a joke!)

If you're looking at stereotyping the jobs of an arts graduate, you might want to understand the situation first. Usually arts graduates aren't associated with working under engineers per se. So your observation is unfortunately wrong. Perhaps you might want to try illustrating the arts grad as working in the teaching line after graduation. Afterall that's where many of them go to.

No arts grad will actually work under an engineer in a plant or construction industries. It's not within their scope. Perhaps you might want to come up with a joke involving an arts grad studying all the way to get his/her degree only to be assigned to primary school and having to clean her student's backside coz he/she just shat in class. That'll be an implication of doing all the studying just to land in a position of doing what he/she didn't need all that education for. To clean up children's shit.

If you do wanna change 'someone' to 'engineer' in the joke, it'll come off like this:

When an engineer says good morning to another engineer, the other engineer nods his head in reply
--> implication, either busy or rude. that's fine.

When an engineer says good morning to a businessman, the businessman nods his head in reply
--> implication, either busy, or the engineer very irritating he don't want to talk to him.

Then you can say:
When an engineer says good morning to an arts grad, the arts grad replies: Good morning boss, coffee with milk?
--> only then can you draw the inference that he's an employee.

Might I add a line to the joke in an attempt to make it funny. Instead of 'someone' I'll be 'specific' here.

When an engineer says good morning to a lawyer, the lawyer (probably from WongP) replies to the engineer, "How? Got new case for me ah?"

(PS: You might want to know that many of the IMF delegates are arts grads. Whilst... sad to say the engineers were lacking at the meetings. I wonder why. Busy dreaming about ordering arts grads around I suppose)

9:01 AM

You sad sad little engineern.

There is also the stereotype that engineers in nus are desperate. Why?. Here's an extract from someone's blog. I randomly googled it so no offence if it's yours:

What's the course like?

Enjoyable. For one thing, u are gonna have lots of female classmates. That's a enviable position compared to other eng discipline.

KNN. come to study or pao char bo. No wonder struggling with studies la, got time to eavesdrop on girls summore:

I overheard a conversation between these two undergrads. One was complaining regarding the amount of test she has. The other was complaining regarding the projects due. I was quite curious and listened on. Horrors of horror, one had only 2 mid term tests and the other had 2 projects due. Sigh, I share my plight together with the other hundred over engine undergrads, mugging away in the day & night, burning the “mid-night oil”. 5 mid term papers my friend! Plus one essay assignment. And best of all, the test was freaking difficult.

Sigh. Gone were the slack-laid-back days in the Police Force. Time to get back to reality.

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If they had spent less time ogling at arts girls and more time studying, they might probably be doing pretty well... You wanna slack, go back police force la. soon i shall blog about my visit to the police station. no i wasn't caught. that was last time. hurhurhur. this time my turn to lodge report... and boy was the office 'helpful'... knn...

Thursday, September 21, 2006

The thick skinned nerd is BACCKKKKKKK~~

Interesting turn of events. Nerdy boy's getting AGGRESSIVE!!!! wahoo... Here's a peek at his blog: I don't want him tracing all the new traffic to my site. BEWARE though. When u think that the contents are written by a 23 year old individual... you will realise that it's damn creepy... Skali he get MORE AGGRESSIVE. Then very mafan for the poor girls. Yeah. Her fren. He's into CARPET BOMBING these days.

Anyway.. actual event went like this: A was late for class and msg her fren to save a seat for her. so she did, and they colaborated to leave immediately after class so that the nerd can't follow them. easy for them to think that way.. considering he was at the back of the class. what happened was once lesson ended, they packed and chiong out.. aiming to go girls toilet where nerd can't follow. but SWAY ah. he DAMN FAST. bashed through the class and cornered them before they reached the toilet..

Advertisement >april wants a special menition in this entry cos she's with him at BLARDY CONSTRUCTION CLASS>

"Hey, you all want to meet up during the holidays?"

A: meet for what?

"Can exchange notes or meet for tea/coffee or chat" <-- along these lines

A: no.

A's fren: er... er.... i'm going Batam.

"When are you coming back?"

A: I have to go toilet now. bye bye!



When reading his blog, do watch out for instances where he says he's supposed to meet someone for lunch then she cannot make it. Read between the lines. PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO HAVE LUNCH WITH HIM. also see how he always tries to meet GIRLS for lunch. or basically to go out. I don't need to read psychology I also know that he's in desperate need for ASSERTION. By asking girls out he's basically trying to assert himself that people still care about him. Or that he actually exists in society.

Isn't that sad?

By imposing himself on others just to assure himself that he has a reason to live... it's NOT FAIR TO THE OTHERS. why must other people be forced to tolerate his unwanted presence just because he's a sad individual?

Some people should just understand that sometimes, it's not about the trying. It's about being who they are and instead of forcing people that don't want to be with you to eat lunch with you, go seek out your fellow nerds from science club or something. There's a fine line between annoyance and friendliness.

sad to say, you just don't get it.

Bukit Timah Campus Canteen is Screwed up

I got cheated again by the BTC Canteen. Damn du lan. Cheebye chicken rice seller try to be funny. Last time i packet back he charge me public price. Then the Fan Choy Auntie I buy 2 veggie 1 rice she count me price of 1 meat 1 veggie. She say curry veggie not counted as veggie coz got coconut milk. KNN. Last time i buy before twice also no problem. I just want a snack before class obviously I buy a little bit to eat only right? Put the price up there very clear but still dare to thock me. Today the chicken rice uncle damn cheebye. I see 2 meat 1 rice $2.50, I ask for that, 1 white chicken 1 roast chicken. He count me $4. I told him uncle, i'm student ley. He say 2 portions of meat $4. KNN. Then where's my extra portion of rice and cucumber? Alot of people I don't ge gao with him. But after that I go ask him. He say 2 meat = 1 chicken, 1 char siew. Then i say underneath you write meat = charsiew, chicken, roast chicken. damn misleading la. where got this type of reasoning one. Crazy bugger. They put the price up there don't follow. To top it off, my hot teh was salty. KNN...