Wei Kiat's Blog

BrightSparks is Singapore’s only Scholarship, Higher Education and Careers portal for JC students. It contains hundreds of scholarship, higher education and career information with a state-of-the-art online scholarship application system. No more painful handwritten forms!

Seriously how many got their scholarships via brightspark? And brightspark is nothing but a spam mailing list because the admin constantly send offers of movies and what-nots to users' inbox. Rubbish.

I always thought that the word "mugger" has negative connotation, a word that meant "a student who is nothing but a harddrive who can only store and duplicate facts, with no thinking or understanding involved, and studies extensively."

I study everything with understanding. And I only studied for 3 weeks in these two years. I am definitely not a mugger, and resent being called one.

Another typical spam I got from brightspark. Is this related to scholarships?

And that is the last straw. Not only did I receive the above email TWICE, I perfectly resent being called a mugger.

And I don't give a damn about your freaking movies because I am getting a PSP on thursday.

If muggers are what scholarships are looking for, so be it.

I'm leaving BrightSparks. And if one day I have my own company, instead of offering scholarships to hire muggers, I'll invest on some computers.

Hell, access speed of computers is even faster than that of muggers, and you don't have to care about their welfare or education.

"dershing here from BrightSparks. I am sorry the usage of mugging has offended you. Read in context, all we are trying to say is don't worry too much about studying, just try your best and take a break and watch a movie on BrightSparks account. As for sending non scholarship/career related information, over 95% of our emails are on the topic of career and scholarships. It is not correct and fair to call us a "spam mailing list".