"I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland." - Woody Allen

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I have always been against Internal Elections on the grounds that they violate the sovereignty of the electorate. They way they work is that first your constituency elects a candidate, and then the candidates get together and decide who will fill what post. Thus, the electorate has no direct say over who gets what post in the end. What posts people get are dependent on their bargaining power and political capital.

One way I suggested of solving this was for those who get the most number of votes to have priority in deciding what position they get. Someone said there's a danger of time inconsistency here - someone can say he's running for Post A, but then change his mind later and say he wants Post B if he has more/less support than he expected. I then modified my proposal to have candidates declare before the first election what post they want to run for. They then can't change their minds later, even if they get more/less of the vote than they expected.

Come to think of it, the Westminster system also works on the basis of internal elections, but at least you have a clearer idea of who will be what before the election, since there are clear parties and party leaders.


It seems another silly SMU module is "Leadership and Team Building". I'm not sure whether it's sillier than "Creative Thinking", but "Finishing Touch" still takes the cake. I'm still of two minds about "Analytical Skills" (which teaches things like Modus Ponens - "it's not exactly silly, but it's really common sense disguised as a half-credit module... it's all commonsensical, really. But at least there's more content in it than in Creative thinking... The worst of the lot is creative thinking though")

One economics major from NUS who went to SMU said that it was all project work for the sake of project work, and the person felt they didn't learn anything.


u r wt u wr update:

- "I swing both ways" (There was a picture of a girl on a swing, and the words were formed of pink lines)
- "Naughty by nature"
- "Tell your boyfriend I said thanks" (the word 'thanks' was in a heart)
- "I only look innocent"
- "Ready for boarding"
- "Beachside hockey. Let the body checking begin"
- "51% single"
- "Think single" (worn by Lynn)
- Contribution: "I'm much hotter on the Internet"
- Contribution: "I'm the girl your mother warned you about" (This girl was holding a guy's hand)
- Contribution: "Trinidad & Tobago." ("think about it. they're islands. but... strategically placed. it suggests that the owner named one of her breasts ms trinidad and the other ms tobago.")
- Contribution: "TiT. Tai-tai in Training" ("the TiT is strategically placed, with the phrase directly underneath.")
- Bonus: A guy's shirt which said "Love is for losers"
- Bonus: "Don't need no catchy phrase" (worn by a girl)
- Mistake: I thought "The Original Mickey" said "The Original Hickey"

I haven't seen any USP girls wear "u r wt u wr" worthy clothing. Draw your own conclusions from that, hurr hurr.

In my quest to collect data for "u r wt u wr", I inevitably have to look at items to clothing. Since slogans/mottos are almost always at the bosom level, it seems I might soon no longer be thought of as asexual, but as something rather on the other end of the spectrum.