Incident: A student stabbed a professor and committed suicide
Date: 2nd March 2009
Time: 10.35am
Venue:
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore.
Name and detail of student:
David Hartanto Widjaja, Indonesian, 21 years old, final year student of EEE.
Name and detail of professor:
Chan Kap Luk, EEE professor.
Relationship between student and professor:
Mr Chan is the final year project supervisor of David.
Weapon used: 10cm knife
Cause of incidents: Not known yet.
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Finally, all the news broadcasting is over. So, as it was mentioned above, an NTU student stabbed a professor and committed suicide there after. The reason of David's action was not known yet but investigation is still going on.
The NTU community and also the whole of Singapore are quite shocked by the incident. Nothing like that has ever happened in NTU. It's like Virginia Tech of the east.
So, what can we learn from here?
For professors: My
SPECULATION is, David tried to kill the professor because the professor gave him a hard time in his final year project (FYP). Students don't hand in their FYP report in February, chances are he won't know his grade. However, the profesor must have said something that made David felt intimidated or insecured of his results. Thus, decided to take actions.
Eg.
Prof:
you! stupid dog! like this oso duno! How do u expect me to help u. Simple thing u learn in high school, my little gal also know.
or
Prof:
You sure fail d la! Your project can't be salvage d. You sure retain d. Your project gone case. If I give you fail, it's very good d, coz it's worst than fail
or
Prof:
You're a good student, been scoring A+ in most of your courses and still maintains a CGPA 5.0/5.0 at this stage. But unfortunately, your projects seems like, the most you can get is just a A-, which will pull your CGPA down.
or the ultimate one,
Prof:
Mister! u C2pig a! lu ane kuang, plojet sure fail one! Lu no blain. c2pig, c oledi kno u luk like 2 pig! Now, u, no choie(choice)! lu either pay me S$9999 or u get F in ur plojet! Lu pay money, we no talk. Lu no pay money, I tok ur A, tok ur deglee Ah!
What can I say... professors, don't act like you have the whole world under you. I know that most professors are not proud but all professors will have a certain level of pride that some students cannot take. So, be careful with the way you treat your students, because if u don't,
THEY WILL TOK YOUR HANDS AND LEGS!!! (Tok - "chop") Don't think that students are easy to bully! You might be good in your field, but students are good in many fields that you don't, such as
TOK YOUR HANDS AND LEGS!!!For students:If you feel that you wanna TOK your professors hands and legs, make sure you think twice. You are in freaking Majulah Singapura! Once you tok, you can't hide! Unless you are Mr Mas Selamat, which is still in hiding after 1 year or drinking bear in Negaraku Malaysia!
(Negaraku - "my country" in Malay)
Unless you are as smart as him and have so many looks. Photo from
http://aendirect.com/Don't crazily TOK your prof over some stupid grades!
If you're a science freak, there is no FREAKING SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL that shows good grades equals financial security and financial freedom!
If you're an art student, go talk arty-farty to some of your friends.
If you're a business student, forget about the prof and start your own business!
If you're a slacker, you won't get stressed, coz a slacker normally won't get good grades.
Good grades =/= Good money
Good grades =/= Good life
BUT
Financial knowledge + willingness to take action = Good money + Good life.
If you're a science freak, make sure you get the above equation correct for your life!
Enjoy life! Live life to the fullest!
Don't jump down from a few stories tall building, jump down from Burj Dubai.
Photo from
www.motherjones.comcoz you get to enjoy the air-ie feeling for at least about 13 seconds (after some simple physics calculation). 8 stories is only 3 seconds max. At least your last 13 seconds are more meaningful, jumping off the tallest building in the world.
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