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"1972: Cliff [Richard] was refused admittance into Singapore because his hair was too long" - Gah.

Fudan has compulsory physical training for students. (Un)Fortunately, it's not for foreign students (I didn't manage to clarify if it applied to full-time students originating from overseas).

Someone's friend was in SMU's double degree program for Business and Social Science and said it felt like 2 Business degrees.

A joke a (female) friend sent me:
Q. Why do women get periods?
A. Because they deserve them!

Someone was telling me about one of the problems minorities have in Singapore, in addition to the one of people chattering on in broken Chinese, oblivious to those around who cannot understand them. An Indian was trying to get a part time job after the As. The job description said they wanted someone who could speak Chinese. Although she could, she was still rejected. Apparently they wanted someone who looked Chinese too.

I was relating of how I saw 2 Caucasian guys and 2 Chinese girls on the bus together, and someone said the former wanted the latter to pay for them, as usual. I didn't know that this was a usual practice. Doubtless this is because local men are such losers that the Chinese girls are happy to pay for the foreign ones.

A footnote in Shapiro and Stiglitz (1984) - "Equilibrium Unemployment as a Worker Discipline Device" reads: "Including effort as a continuous variable would not change the qualitative results". Removing the mathematics from the model would not change the qualitative results either. Parsimony in terms of mathematics is unfortunately something that is not adhered to; I haven't yet found a model where the qualitative results cannot be found without using maths.