“The west is best. Discuss.” [25]
In response:
The first attempt was made by Claire Tan, defensive having just memorised a tome of SEA hist statistics: “What? Is this your attempt to be a historian?” But further attempts made by geographers instead seemed no less incoherent: from Yoong Ren Yan was the response “The east is beast?” *gasp*. From Deborah Ong, the response was less shocking but no less revelatory: “The east is least.”
Daniel Lim was determined to restore scientific order and related a most enlightening discovery: “Given a mapping of a three dimensional great sphere, it follows that there is no spherical coordinate for which there exists a point in its positive azimuthal unit vector that violates S symmetry constrained by the holonomic spherical condition. Therefore, by Neother’s Theorem, the postulate is wrong.”
But Huang Jiahui was not to be outdone. In swift logic that would silence any opponent, he expounded his world view on fervently religious grounds: “The trade winds blow from east to west. This is a clear heavenly portent directed towards the west, indicating that the west must be more favoured by the gods. Since the gods are always right, the west is better.”
Matthias Chia, however, dumped his religious sensibilities in favour of cheap Singaporean frivolity: “Jurong got loads more foreign menial labourers, Geylang got more foreign sensual pleasurers”. Upon learning that this would appear on Facebook, he quickly amended his answer to a possibly more decent (but no less incorrect) thesis: “The west has Douglas Lok, the east has Lihui: the verdict is clearer.”
But Li Hui Ng would have none of that. Her response was sharp and clear: “To the extent that there are hot hunks, ice cream and tornadoes there, the west is best.”
In the same thread of fangurling, Robyn Constance Yzelman sang (without sound): “The sun may rise in the east but at least it settles in the final location” (Californication from RHCP) Annie Zeng Jingyin decided to retort with instead with a “Bonus Question: fangurl blabber>
Wenjie (Huang) also gave a rebuttal question: “I should stop slacking. Discuss. [25]” which was hardly surprising. Another not-too-surpising response was from Fong Jie Ming Nigel, who sang “Lalala” (again, silently) followed by stating a very pragmatic “obviously no. Plus, the ‘west’ isn’t homogeneous.”
XuanWei Chew, presumably under the influence of Sowden, responded with a Freakonmics-type “Sex is a more profitable industry than toothpaste.” And Aaron Tang, clearly having his mugging disturbed, would ask “Was that Econs or GP?” And Thia ShanZhi was obviously very puzzled: “Ok la. Depends on what. For education, I’d prefer the west.”
The two most surprising answers, however, came from two girls. Pearl Calista Lee responded with “Megan Fox. Full marks!”, effectively demanding the 25 marks. Joanne Ho’s reply was certainly a shocker: Yong Sheng is a kukuhead. Discuss with reference to his recent autistic behaviour”.
We know this to be false.
Vincent Tjeng says: “No; Kazakhstan is the greatest country of the world, and all other countries are ruled by little girls.”
Pearl also says: “Wice is best but rice is nice.”
yongology.com is up. Tis’ gonna be the best blog ever!