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The Idiot's Guide To Groupmates From Hell

The Multiple-Checker

This is kiasee-ism blended with a dash of Kiasu-ism. He/She performs double-checks, triple-checks, quadruple-checks and multiple checks. His/Her forte is in performing infinite checks on concepts during practical classes, project requirements, experiments results and EVERYTHING/ANYTHING THAT IS CHECKABLE.

The most obvious physical behaviour of such a person is that he/she writes down EVERY SINGLE DAMN THING that the instructor says. The thing about this character is that there is no way to tell from the looks that he/she suffers from such phenomenon. The only way to discover it is to learn it via the hard way - work together with him/her.

Severity of such a phenomenal person ranges from scale of 1 (lowest, which is double-check) to 100 (highest, infinite checks). It might be of an advantage if your group has such a person who suffers from this phenomenon with a severity of 1 (lowest).


The ardent-internet-supporter
He/She sure knows GoogleSearch and YahooSearch (or any other internet search engines) well. Two words, when mentioned, will definitely excite them. These 2 words are 'COPY' and 'PASTE'.

If you have a chance, examine their keyboards. You will notice that keys bearing the following letters/words are seriously abused by over-usage:
1. 'Ctrl'
2. 'C'
3. 'V'
4. 'X'

Warning: Do not be over-grieved by the looks of the above-mentioned abused keys.

When asked to do any reports, writeups, assignments or anything, they will happily logon to the net and copy and paste the information wholesale from various internet sources.

Severity of such phenomenon varies from a scale of 1 to 5. 1 being the lowest, in which he/she will attempt to try to link up the sentences using words like 'and', 'therefore', 'firstly', 'lastly', 'also'..etc. This is a behaviour to attempt to make the work look more original. 3 being the moderate, in which he/she simply just copies and pastes chunks and chunks of information without any above-mentioned attempt.

5 being the highest, in this case the worst, in which he/she copies and pastes the information straight from the net into his/her word document without any attempt to standardise the font type and sizes from the various sources - This is the most dangerous. If you have such groupmates, be prepared to be charged for infringing copyrights anytime.


The Cutie Pie
This is normally a she and need not necessary possess cute looks. This can be considered one of the most mentally disturbing type. Note that if it happens to be a he, the mental disturbance you will experience is even greater.

She squeals at the slightest things. Anything to be used in the laboratory sessions will become her toys. She will go around acting like she's some innocent curious kiddy. The sure-tell sign is to tell/ask her something and then look straight into her eyes. The eyesockets will usually be stretched wide and the pupils will be intentionally dilated. There will also be attempts to subtly tilt her head to one side to look cute and innocent. But this response may only be evident if you are a guy. It will be most evident if you are a goodlooking guy.

Examples of her daily phrases:
1. 'eeyear..sooooo cute!'
2. 'oooh my god!! this is reaaaly cute!'
3. 'i'm like..he's like..den she's like..den I was like..den everyone was like'

Please be aware that if there are other guys** in your group, they'll usually be mesmerised by such a person. 100% of their Attention will be constantly paid to such a person. You may not be able to get the guys to contribute to the teamwork unless you can squeal louder, stretch your eyesockets wider and/or dilate your pupils larger than her..or, you can always try putting on thicker makeup than her.


**guys who are desperate, or guys with no sense of taste. In this case, according to my personal observation, it is highly probable that statistics will show a near 100% of the guy population.

From: http://www.100percenttingalingling.blogspot.com/ , My Dear Old Bloggie