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Since 2015, Singapore’s best and brightest have flocked to the confessions page that is NUSWhispers, like moths to a flame.
Everyday, the page receives between 10 to 30 anonymous submissions from students looking to shed their inhibitions and air their grievances in exchange for reasonably bad advice from online trolls.
Confessions range from the scandalous, “What do you guys think about a year 1(M) dating a year 4(F)?” to the academic, “Will I still be able to achieve at least a B+ if i scored badly for my midterms?” to the irrelevant, “If a man gets 1 boob through surgery … Is it still offensive to be half naked?”
While it is tempting to dismiss the page as frivolous, writing off these confessions as trivial problems of 20-something-probably-privileged university students, closer inspection reveals that NUSWhispers does in fact accurately and effectively encapsulate some very quintessential Singaporean issues.
It seems that regardless of race, language or religion, Singaporeans really only have 5 problems.
1. “In a happy committed long-term relationship but I can’t stop thinking about this girl I met two weeks ago.”
With close to a third of the confessions posted to the page daily pertain to matters of the heart, NUSWhispers should really be called NUSHelpLoveIsSoHard.
More at (URL removed)
Everyday, the page receives between 10 to 30 anonymous submissions from students looking to shed their inhibitions and air their grievances in exchange for reasonably bad advice from online trolls.
Confessions range from the scandalous, “What do you guys think about a year 1(M) dating a year 4(F)?” to the academic, “Will I still be able to achieve at least a B+ if i scored badly for my midterms?” to the irrelevant, “If a man gets 1 boob through surgery … Is it still offensive to be half naked?”
While it is tempting to dismiss the page as frivolous, writing off these confessions as trivial problems of 20-something-probably-privileged university students, closer inspection reveals that NUSWhispers does in fact accurately and effectively encapsulate some very quintessential Singaporean issues.
It seems that regardless of race, language or religion, Singaporeans really only have 5 problems.
1. “In a happy committed long-term relationship but I can’t stop thinking about this girl I met two weeks ago.”
With close to a third of the confessions posted to the page daily pertain to matters of the heart, NUSWhispers should really be called NUSHelpLoveIsSoHard.
More at (URL removed)
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