Why Do Such People Exist???!!!

Well, if you remember that sanity-absorbing/reducing assignment that I posted earlier on, here's a little more insight to what actually happened that really irritated my last night, and today, and probably for the next 1.5 years...

At the end of the question paper contained the following:

Glass Cookie's (GC) initial passing thoughts: Hmmm, could it be... that... she (ie. the lecturer) is super geh-gau (ie. super rigid and insists on doing things the inefficient, rigid way stubbornly)? Hmmm... maybe, maybe not. See how la.

And since it was a passing thought, I didn't really think much about it other than complaining that it was a joke. And of course, with the passing of time, the following instructions were relayed to me through a coursemate (the following conversations are not the exact words at all, but the idea is definitely there):

Coursemate 1 (yup, this indicates that there is more than 1 coursemate that would be mentioned): Oh, R****** (censored to protect the poor blogger from suffering from 'double jeopardy', and worse still, 'triple jeopardy' or even quadruple jeopardy for future assignments and in the worst case, the FYP) wants us to take back our answer scripts to fill in all the reasons why we use all the formulas there.

GC's second thought: What???!!! After spending probably 15 hours or more on that piece of crap I still need to collect it back to fill in more crap?

And then, not too long after that, a third response came from my coursemate at around 11+ p.m.:

Coursemate 1: By the way, we need to go back to school to collect it from her before 930 a.m.

GC: Huh? Erm, any idea if anyone's going down? Maybe he could collect it from us. I can't possibly wake up if I were to sleep at around 3+.

Coursemate 1: Actually, she said that she will only pass our scripts to us personally. She will not allow us to collect on the behalf of other friends. And because she has a meeting at 10 a.m., so she says we can meet her before that, like between 9:30-10:00 a.m.

GC: What the...???!!! But why 930 a.m.? Our very first lesson is at 1:30 p.m.!!! How about our friends who live in tampines?

Coursemate 1: Ai ya, don't know her la...

GC's third thought: Man, I've never met anyone as geh-gau as her. Why impose her timing on us too?

Well, if I thought it all stops there, I was quite wrong actually. In fact, I was very, very wrong because today, as I collected my script from her, I was told the following:

R******: For your bonus question, I only want a sentence to explain about it, that's all. Why do you all give me so many sentences?

GC's fourth thought: Hmmm, I think I know of some who wrote 3 pages for it... and why didn't she mention earlier? Considering the bonus is 5 marks and the CA itself is 10 marks, why wouldn't anyone write 3 pages if they could? Luckily I only wrote 4 paragraphs...

If you're wondering what's the bonus question, here it is:

Oh, perhaps the note (in red) in this picture should be appended to the previous picture at the top. Anyway, back to the story... As I heard that, I was kinda stunned. In fact, it only went to confirm how rigid she could possible get. But hey, that's not all, because while I was working at the computer lab, yet another coursemate warned my friend (ie. the earlier-mentioned coursemate) and I the following:

Coursemate 2: Hey, for all the assumptions and explanation that she said she wanted, you must put them on a new page. A**** (ie. yet another coursemate) (and of course, censored as usual to protect the poor blogger's friend from suffering from 'double jeopardy', and worse still, 'triple jeopardy' or even quadruple jeopardy for future assignments and in the worst case, his FYP) wrote them in between the spaces of his current script and she told him that's not what she had wanted. I think A**** was irritated/pissed/sian diao.

GC's fifth thought: What???!!! She's ridiculus. Why do such people exist??? This is beyond a joke man. She should just take her e*ropean culture somewhere else man. This is singapore (or 'singapuur', based on the advertisement about some cheap calls worldwide or something)!!!

Oh well, guess that's all of her nonsense... ... ... or so I thought, until I heard yet another warning at a later time:

Coursemate 2: Oh, for the bonus question, she said that if there are two suggestions that are similar, both will be marked zero. She wants different solutions.

GC: WHAT???!!! In hypersonic (ie. speed of Mach numbers above 10, 20 or more) flows, the ONLY problems are heat, low efficiency and high drag. What else could she possibly want???? Well, unless she wants us to come up with crap of all sorts.

Coursemate 1: Ya. I mean, unless she wants us to create an aircaft without wings. What the...

GC: Yea, or an aircraft that consists of only the engine. This is crap man. She's super geh-gau...

GC's sixth thought: PhD students can't even figure out what on earth is going on to improve it, how do we undergraduate students even begin?

GC's seventh thought: I must never be under her for FYP, or that'll be the end of my grades/life/free time/freedom.

GC's conclusion: Just as I thought engineers are rigid people who refuse change, this lecturer has made a mark beyond them man. Or perhaps it is with engineering lecturers like her, that engineers are stereotyped that way they are now. Or maybe, just maybe that is why the engineers are out there working and here she is lecturing...

GC's conclusion (meant for poor aer*space engineering students like me to understand only): Perhaps the curse of Sha*** still lingers after he's long gone...