Often imitated, Never duplicated
Great news for all Apple fan boys and those waiting for the latest iPhone 3G S.
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Good Morning!
Jason is now officially promoted to Corporal First Class (CFC) wef 01 Jul 2009.
I’m off to work. Ciao!
I was in camp yesterday. Yes, a Sunday. Thanks to H1N1, my camp implemented the duty clerk roster whereby every day will have a clerk who stays over 24 hours in case of any emergency phone calls. But considered not bad, as I get 1 day off after the duty.
Woke up at about 6.45am yesterday. Rushed to bath and pack my essential stuff for stay over. As I will be continuing normal work on Monday, I have to prepare bathing materials as well. Managed to reach camp by 7.45am, which is the designated time, but didn’t have time to go top up my car’s petrol.
Upon arrival, saw a familiar face at the duty room, it’s Edwin! Feeling cold, I asked if Edwin could give me 10-15 mins for me to rush up to my real office to grab my jacket. He agreed and I drove up to get it as well as my portable radio.
Upon taking over from him, I switched on the tv and started to browse the channels. Nothing much in the morning, so I decided to use the internet pc located in the room to MSN. But no one free to chat, so I took out my 2 Fast 2 Furious VCD to watch.
Time past very slowly and I did nothing much other than tv, radio, surf net. Finally dinnertime! Ration was horrible as expected and I got treated to a Fillet O Fish meal. Thanks to you 
Anyway, only slept at 1am. Perhaps long time never sleep in camp since my MP days, couldn’t get to sleep. Even if I managed to doze off, I will auto wake up every 30 mins. It’s a horrible feeling.
Once it reaches 6am, I couldn’t take it anymore and started taking my stuff and went to bath. Freezing water.
Packed up my stuff, got took over at 7.45am and headed to the canteen to dabao before heading to office.
The rest went as normal, and hopefully I will be able to take tomorrow off and study for my upcoming exams.
Sorry for the lengthy post. Been quite some time since I blogged this much :3
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GET a degree from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in just one year, for as little as $12,000.
Better yet, spare yourself the trip to Australia. Just head to Beach Road for evening classes once or twice a week, and hand up minimal assignments. No examinations required.
Sounds too good to be true?
Well, not to a few hundred Singaporeans who were persuaded by Brookes Business School in Beach Road to sign up for a one-year course leading to a fake RMIT Bachelor of Business degree.
A dozen of these ‘RMIT graduates’ told The Straits Times they enrolled between 2005 and late last year, and paid between $12,000 and $18,000 for the course, believing the programme was bona fide. At least one of them is still doing the course.
They were drawn by the fact that the school offered degree courses from an established brand-name institution. Also, it was a school registered with the Education Ministry and had a quality mark from the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case).
They attended evening classes in marketing or management once or twice a week and handed in eight to 10 assignments, which they were told would count towards their final grade. They were taught mostly by part-time lecturers whom they say kept changing. The school currently lists seven lecturers, including two expatriates, on its website.
But their suspicions were aroused late last year when rumours started circulating that one of their fellow ‘graduates’ received a stern warning from a bank after she applied for a job with her fake RMIT degree.
Of the dozen interviewed, two ‘graduates’ confirmed that they had used the degrees to land their current jobs – one as a senior administrative executive in a public institution and another as a sales manager in a multinational company. The others said they had not used their degrees, worried by the swirling rumours.
At least three managed to get full refunds of the fees they paid, after signing a form agreeing not to take any further action against the school. This was after the school’s owner, Mr Benny Yap, initially denied that the degree was fake.
A polytechnic diploma holder said that at first, Mr Yap offered to exchange her RMIT degree for one from another university, but she refused to accept it.
Said the service industry executive in her 30s: ‘Why would I want to replace one fake with another?’
Another ‘RMIT graduate’ working in an education-related business said she had been having sleepless nights worrying that her bosses would discover her certificate was fake.
‘I thought it was the real thing and worked hard at all my assignments,’ said the polytechnic graduate, also in her 30s.
Her assignments were never graded and returned, she said, but in the end she received a glowing transcript with more than a dozen distinctions.
A sales executive in his 30s, who only wanted to be known as Mr Chan, said he is still attending classes for his ‘RMIT’ business degree course. He showed The Straits Times his class schedule, notes and a receipt for the $5,000 deposit he paid.
He took up the course to improve his career prospects. ‘Now I feel cheated,’ he said.
Besides selling fake RMIT degrees, the school also peddled bachelor of business degrees from Brookes University, which students said they were told was based in Truro city in Cornwall, in the United Kingdom.
Four students said they had paid between $8,000 and $12,000 for this unaccredited programme and attended the same classes as the ‘RMIT’ candidates.
The Brookes University website describes it as a virtual university, without a campus. It claims to be accredited by the ‘Global Accreditation Commission’ in Wales, but adds that it is a ‘non-traditional university’ and therefore not accredited.
When The Straits Times called Brookes Business School to find out what other degrees it offered, a staff member proffered a one-year course from the University of Wales or the University of Ballarat in Australia, both costing $18,000.
The Straits Times contacted both universities. Ballarat University, an hour’s drive from Melbourne, said it has no such agreement with Brookes.
The director of the University of Wales’ validation unit, Mr Huw Hughes, whose name and signature appear on Brookes University degree transcripts, said he wrote to Brookes in April about his forged signature.
Brookes’ Mr Yap replied, claiming that Mr Hughes’ signature had been misused by a former staff member.
However, the University of Wales confirmed that it does offer a distance learning programme through the Institute of Administrative Management (IAM) in the UK and that Brookes is a tuition centre for IAM programmes.
It is not known exactly how many people have bought counterfeit RMIT and unaccredited Brookes University degrees. But going by the class sizes of 30 to 50 cited by the students, the total is likely to run into the hundreds.
RMIT, ranked No. 10 in Australia by the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings, is popular with international students, especially for its business and IT degree courses.
Dr Madeleine Reeve, Pro Vice-Chancellor (International and Development) told The Straits Times that the university became aware as far back as April 2007 that the Brookes Business School website advertised RMIT degrees.
Through its lawyers, RMIT demanded and obtained a written undertaking from Brookes’ Mr Yap to remove all references to RMIT on its website and documentation. Mr Yap also promised to notify all students that Brookes had no association whatsoever with RMIT.
But earlier this year, a number of Brookes students e-mailed RMIT to check whether they were registered as students. They were not.
Dr Reeve said RMIT has since filed a police report here.
She said that RMIT courses have been offered here for years through a few private schools, the biggest being the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM), which currently has about 6,000 foreign and local students enrolled in RMIT programmes.
SIM charges about $30,000 for a three-year course. Doing the same degree at the Melbourne campus costs at least $100,000 in fees and living expenses over three years.
On average, polytechnic diploma holders are given a year’s exemption and have to devote two years to full-time study to obtain a degree.
SIM chief executive officer Lee Kwok Cheong said the fake degrees were a serious matter. ‘It clearly shows the need for new laws to regulate private schools,’ he said.
Under a new Private Education Bill to be introduced in Parliament later this year, private school operators who misrepresent themselves and leave students in the lurch will face tougher penalties, including hefty fines and imprisonment. Mr Lee advised students to do thorough checks on their courses and schools and not to go for short-cuts.
Meanwhile, one ‘RMIT graduate’ said she recently resigned from a well-paying sales job after learning that her degree was fake.
Said the 28-year-old: ‘I have come across many schools here that offer degrees from unheard-of universities in strange places. But when Brookes offered an RMIT degree, I thought there was no way it could be a fake, because no one would dare use the name of a well-established university like RMIT.
‘I was wrong. I have wasted all my time and money.’
Source: The Straits Times
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