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I had a best friend. I think we still are? We used to be able to relate and symphathise with each other's fears, worries and trauma etc. I was diagnosed with severe depression and anxiety. Panic attacks are no strangers and they still happen quite often these days. I get that she's busy preparing to take a new step into a new chapter in her life, but it hurts when she just brushed off my fear like it meant nothing. I called her a couple of months back when it started getting hard to keey thoughts rational. I knew it was irrational fear on my part too, but it had affected me so much that it was the only thing that I could focus on. It was emotionally and psychologically scarring and, she brushing it off as it "not being a real problem", just made me feel like I've just been unnecessarily fixated on something small. I knew it was "small", but I have been in lowest of spirits for months before, and it just made me feel worse. She is the only friend I could confide in and thought I wouldn't be judged for it. I guess I thought wrong. I'm happy that she found happiness in her life and eagerness on starting a new chapter soon with her loved one. I just thought I needed the validation that I wasn't over-reacting and that she'd understood where my fear stemmed from. She told me to share any thoughts that I have with her, good or bad. I have always been one to keep everything to myself and she hated that. I take a while to open up and trust others with my darkest fear and trauma. I've just learned to be open 4 years ago and we haven't had regular calls since 2022. I had feared that this would happen sooner or later. I just wasn't prepared for it. I vowed that I won't share anything since then. I just had to get this off my chest as it has been weighing on my mind the past couple of months.

To the post asking about taking NUS engineering master degree #109018, please don't bother lah. NUS wants to charge so much for a masters that is similar to foreign top unis, but you seriously think NUS ranks anywhere near like them? Engineering master degree in Singapore does not give you any significant benefit over a bachelors. We are not known as a core engineering hub or have any good engineering companies that can appreciate a master degree unless you work overseas. Ever since MOE terminated subsidies for Masters coursework, masters degrees here are simply not worth it anymore even if NUS gives a slightly better discount. Any Singaporean who is taking a local engineering master now is stupidly throwing money down the drain. The only one with good ROI is a tech related course. You want master degree just go overseas.

I have nobody to share this tiny achievement with, so I want to share here 30M with 3 years of work exp I have been diligently saving since graduation and 70k liquid assets (cash, stocks etc.) with 130k in CPF (all 3 accounts). While this is not much when compared to my same-aged friends who are aiming for FIRE (already >100k liquid assets), I am still happy that past few years of scrimp set me on track to somebody with average savings for my age group. I look at people aged 35yo+ with easily >300k liquid assets and always wonder how I am going to achieve if 3 years of being single saved only 70k.

Hi, Professor Ben, I have been working as a Software Developer for 2 years, coming from a Mech eng background. I am thinking of continue my postgraduate studies. Is MTech in AI programme by NUS-ISS really weaker than NUS MComp programme? Is there any differences when it comes to future employability?

Hi guys, this is just a casual light-hearted post :) I met this guy in my first year of uni. After about a week of class, he just disappeared. My TA asked if we knew about his whereabouts, but none of us knew him personally. For the rest of the semester, our TA always looked for him, but he never came back (I’m not trying to be dramatic lmao). In my second sem of year 1, I met another guy. We were group mates, so I spoke to him a couple times. Coincidentally, we attended the same tutorial again in year 2 sem 1. After two weeks of class, he ALSO disappeared. Again, the TA looked for him everywhere for the entire semester. His friends and I tried to contact him on Tele, but he stopped using his account altogether. He also deleted his Instagram and everything. So it really makes me wonder if these two guys are okay. To prevent any confusion, I’d like to clarify that these two cases are pretty similar, but the guys involved are entirely unrelated and the classes (and TA) are all different people. The only constant in these two cases is me lol (that’s why I can tell you guys the story). I’m already in year 3, but I still wonder what happened to them to this day. Does anyone have an idea of what happened? Maybe you guys encountered something similar too? Pls let me know, I’m really curious lol. Anyway, I hope they’re okay wherever they are.

Just needed to get this off my chest. Accidentally got pregnant with my boyfriend, and we had previously discussed in brief what to do in the situation. He didn't want to know about it (due to religion), and that I should get an abortion. I agree on the abortion part considering neither of us are at a time in our lives where we are ready to raise a kid. So on the day I did the test, went ahead and did some research on how to get an abortion. Realised it was fairly expensive, and the cheapest route, via polyclinic referral to KKH, could take a while. I didn't want this to drag on especially since I will still be seeing my boyfriend and didn't want to tell anyone. Found this site (don't worry, very credible) that allows you to order abortion pills. I am fairly certain that I am <5 weeks, hence medical abortion would still be possible even if the delivery takes 2 weeks, but I've seen on reddit that the delivery should take about a week to SG. Now, just waiting for it to deliver, and planning to take leave during the worst of it. Pretty on the fence about telling him even after the event since we didn't really talk about that part. So far I do feel pretty bad, of course, but I think I can handle it.