Farewell, TPJC!

14th marks the final day of our official stay in TPJC.

And of course, we go out with a bang.

Kinda.

The teachers decided to put together some sort of a video which has all their delications in it or something of that sort. It was rather moving, especially with all the "Thanks for everything." style of speech done by everyone.

After all the videos, the teachers sang "When You Believe" and a chinese song. Although half of them can't sing worth nuts, it's still a nice effort done by them.

The day ended with the entire college singing the college song together for like the first time, since no one sings the college song during morning assembly. TPJCians rose as one, and with 1 voice, blew the audi away.

A truely memorable moment.

Thank you, TPJC.
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October 14th also marked the opening day of the Cyberathlete Professional League. Of course, the 1st day was totally rubbish, with the air-con not working, resulting in the tent becoming a "greenhouse" (as quoted by the newspaper).

Today is the second day of the tournment. For those who cannot make it to the place itself, you can simply watch the action on TV. Channel 1 for Starhub peeps, and some UFM frequency for those who don't have cable TV. I highly recommend watching it, because it is extremely exciting. Much better than any show you could watch. For example, the 1st match showed fnatic.vo0, one of the favourites of the tournment, getting owned by a 4k member (forgot the name) in a game of painkiller. The next one was on Counter-Strike 1.6, which showed RtL winning Progamers by a score of 16-14. RtL was behind 11-14, before they came back to take the game.

Extremely exciting.
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With us leaving TPJC, there's also one more thing which continues to fascinate me.

The level of stupidity in the TPJC forums at times.

Threads on how globalisation being beneficial to the world, or thoughts on terrorist attacks never get much replies, but threads on DOTA, a candy shop, and so on.

Hey, it's a forum anyway. Since when did any forums place any interest in world wide events, short of UT's serious board, and GamingForce forums?

But still...

Looi Yuan Hui 05S17 (Fri 7 Oct 2005 9:36 pm) Not rated Profile Rate Reply Reply w/quote Send message Permalink

well my promos just ended, and supposedly i sud be having fun and playing like madman, and enjoying time with close frens, but suprise suprise....guess what? my frens and i couldnt think of anything ANYTHING fun to play, or even things tht we cud do to enjoy...

Well mayb thts the school wants to see, turning us into hardcore muggers, to the state where we are not deprived of un, but the inability to think abt having fun, so nice, WELL, as for anyone, especially the teachers, YOU dun have to say things tht ''STUDENTS ARE TO HAVE A BALANCED LIFE, WORK HARD AND PLAY HARD''

THese are all nonsense, BEcuz of the fact tht the school only aims for academic results, even at the expense of our mental well being, i might sound as if i am making a mountain out of a molehill, but truly in SG, we only seek the results, the schl will be more than happy to see us all go mad, AFTER our As lvls, so tht we can push TPjc onto higher grounds, and as for wht happens to us after it, the schl cudnt be bothered abt it

Sad. Truely sad.

05S29 has also happily decided to use the TPJC forum as their own, starting their own thread. Fine, they are TPJC, but hey, start a php board, will ya? LoL. Not that I mind, since they don't care who reads their posts, if any.

Of course, there is hardly any thread which could stay on topic for like 10 post, before some sort of flame happens, or that the topic goes sideways, 50 degrees to the left, or whatever.

For example, take the DOTA thread, which was somehow placed in "discuss" instead of "games". By the 10th post or something, there's this guy advertising some pro dude who will level your Bnet account for 5 bucks or something.

Needless to say, he got flamed to hell. I shall take even greater pride in saying that my CG was the one who sent in the nukes, before he was forced to retreat out of the forum, showing how badly he got owned.

Seriously, 5 years in GF forums has taught me plenty of tips and skills, after I got owned rather badly when I was still a youngling. However, from those ownages, I learned from my mistakes, and after watching a few more people get owned, I picked up a few tips.

After my stay in the TPJC forums for 2 years, I can safely say that there are less than 5 person who can defeat me in a debate, when I'm right. (Over confidence. ^_^)

How do I do it?

Simple.

Here's a few points which I follow:
-Never let your emotions get better of you. If you do, you lose. Immediately. That's because you will make a fool out of yourself when you are angry, by typing stupid things.

-Scout your competition. Especially if you think you are wrong. Getting owned isn't a nice feeling, and even more so, when you are the one who started it.

-Before posting your message, check and double check. If there are cracks, take care of it. Prepare some sort of a counter argument before you post it. If you can't come up with a counter argument with what your opponent is about to post, then don't post it.

-Evade when necessary. Sometimes, you simply cannot counter their points. Simply press on your advantage, and hopefully, you can play him into your hand.

-If you are losing, back out. Gracefully. Simply agree, place a few smilies, and be gone. Don't start to swear, or try to repeat stupid points which he has convincingly beaten. You'll simply look stupid.

-Last of all, type properly. If you are going to argue, you want to look serious. Keep the chat language to the chats. Sure, this is the age of technology, but as you can see, respectable websites post their stuff in proper lettering and grammar. Take CNN.com. Imagine that site with all the funny chat stuff "pres bush said tt every1 mus stand 2gether". How much are you going to respect that report?

Not a lot.

It isn't that hard to debate properly on a forum, since you can simply disappear if you are really screwed. However, whether you can make your points heard during the process of debating is what matters.