other than wat i heard from abg.
cos unswAsia’s expectation of the student’s result pretty high.
and thus low no. of new students admiting into unsw.

and if dat is true….
then i guess…
why wud majority of the smart kids join foreign university and pay alot alot more[cos no subsidies and wats not], when they wud most prolly , qualify nus of ntu?

personally,
i never considered unswAsia as my choice…
cos they just set up their campus here..
and pioneer batch usually get shit.

and now this happens!!
tsk

sad reality i have to live with ..ergh!

one thing i’ve heard so many times, and it dang its sooo true
“student life rules!”

keep it up guys!

hoho.. I’m neither gonna tell you “welcome to the real life”, nor am I gonna say “life is unfair” for both comments are simply the truth and really, goes without saying.

honestly, I feel your plight, for I’ve once been freshly out of school before with barely 10 buckeroos to last two months. imagine the disability, especially when you need to go out for interview. THAT, is something I would not want to relive.

but I suppose having gone thru that, has taught me to stand on my own two feet much sooner, and well kinda made me a skeptic.

which leads to my opinion on the hike.

you see, I used to do so, complaining, blogging, telling anyone who would bother to listen. then someone told me off to get a grip.

which kinda made me think, is it the end of the world? well, of course it isn’t but it sure does make living difficult.

i honestly do not have any words of consolation for you hun, but if there were any way that complains would actually be heard, then I may chip in.

but as you can see, as much as we are supposedly recommended to “free speech” (bullcrap), i highly doubt our complaints would be heard by anyone.

in the meantime… i might suggest you do some temping or freelancing to get the extra moolahs. hope that helps.

g–gawd!
i didnt even see urs or reality’s comment…
whahahha, horrible connection here.
paiseh.

the last comment i saw was norman’s…
so i was actually pointing out to 2 comments above urs.

aniwae…

complains fall onto deaf ears,
true…
but if u dont even talk/whine/complain [well if u want to...]
then, its sadder..
they wont hear wat we say, and so just let us say lah, it wont matter right?
kind of just get off the chest.

well,gst hikes and all dat, def isnt the main course of my conversations.
but im sooo in when there’s discussion like dis.
cos i am affected.

but isnt it hard when they bombard us with all the hikes at one go?

speaking from a fresh out of school,
freshly having to pay adult fare,
freshly having to pay her own bill,
her own lunch,
still looking for a stable job
and yaadadada…

its worrisome.
esp. when u dont even get the gst offset. hmph!

and dont start with “welcome to the real life…”
dat is as helpful as “life is unfair”.

Like I mentioned, it was a general comment. I’m not saying it’s good nor bad. I’m not even saying if the reasons provided by the GST hikers are good reasons at all.

What I meant was it was bound to happen sooner or later. Not necessarily a part of normality, but more like a governments-will-make-it-happen-sooner-or-later issue.

With tech hikes, education hikes, standard of living hikes, there WILL BE bound for cost hikes. Is that not apparent?

I couldn’t care less about complaining anymore, because I know they’ll just keep on hikin’.

Unless we got any power at all to change the minds of those in control of whatever or WHOever it is that handles these issues, I doubt we could go far with merely complaining. And trust me, I wouldn’t wanna start a debacle with our government either.

I suppose at the end of the day it’s about felxibility, and whether or not we can strive to live with it. Perhaps one could consider to move to a third-world country instead if one does not want to deal with taxes. You have no idea how many times that thought has come across my mind.

And if by accepting such things as price hikes, and trying to work around it and spending less, instead of complaining yet getting nothing back, makes me a stupid, foolish, moron, hey by all means.

It’s one’s opinion to another anyhoots.