Salutations dear funties! haha..

First of all i'd like to express my deepest sympathies to those who are going to be banished to the forsaken lands and is known as PULAU TEKONG. Its an arid desert (water comes in green rectangular plastic boxes called "jerry cans"), land of the crippling tekong fever, mosquito swarms and frought with many other dangers. However do not worry, as i have faith that you all will somehow find a will and a way to overcome the circumstances and escape safely back into the realm of civilisation sooner or later... roughly two years to be more precise. One word: Endure.

Second, ... whatever.. heck e structure. I'm gonna jump on the 7th! the day some of them enlist. So fun! haha... kk.. good thing bout e course, its a 5day week. but i think we deserve it for e effort we put in. there's this whole wall of photos from the past courses. So maybe i can find Mr Peh in one of them.

Here's something, Candice Wan the top arts student has scored a fairly bad impression with e public thanks (or no thanks) to Straits Times! Our beloved newspaper. For those who know her would know that she was being misquoted and all that, and some people would understand that reporters are just making the story jucier for the news hungry. However, people generally do not fall into those two catergories and there you have it. Poor girl.
http://www.mrbrown.com/blog/2005/03/literature_winn.html

And something to exercise all your underutilised brains. (answers will be given when i feel like it)
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Part I

Once upon a time, I went to an interesting place called THE SCHOOL.

THE SCHOOL is interesting because there are only two types of people there - students (S), who always tell the truth ('S' for 'straight'), and lecturers (L), who always lie ('L' for 'lies'). And you can't tell them apart just by their looks.

Now i needed to go to THE SCHOOL because i needed to borrow an important book.

When the i first stepped into THE SCHOOL , i saw 3 people standing at the gates, presumably named Alice, Bob, and Chuck.

"Maybe one of them could tell me how to go to THE LIBRARY," I thought, "but first, I'll have to find out who's a student."

I first asked Alice, "are Bob and Chuck both students?"

"Yes," claimed Alice.

"Then is Bob a student?"

To my surprise, the answer from Alice was "no".

After a moment's thought, I knew who exactly are the lecturers and the students.

Do you know as well?

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Part II

When I reached THE LIBRARY, he knew he had to find the librarian (who happens to be a student). Now the library had only one librarian, but there were 3 people standing there, so i had to find out who the real librarian was.

"Which of you is the librarian?" I asked, without realising that it was probably not the most useful question to ask.

"I am," claimed one.

"I am the librarian!" claimed the second.

The third one just smiled like a Mona Lisa.

"What do you have to say?" I asked the third.

"You know," quipped the third one rather philosophically, "only one of us three tells the truth."

With that, I knew immediately who the librarian was.

Do you know who?


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Part III

The librarian was obviously quite clever, and it became even more apparent as we chatted.

"Before I retrieve the book for you," said the librarian, "let me issue you a challenge. If you win, you can have the book; if not, you can come back another day."

"Tell me," I said quite eagerly, "I'm always ready for a challenge."

"Ask me a question to which I must answer yes or no," said the librarian, "but even though the question has a definite correct answer, and even though we both will know the answer, I will be powerless to give you the answer. I will not be able to give you the answer because it will be logically impossible for me to do so."

I wasn't feeling so calm anymore. Can you help me to think of that question?

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