It's weird that a reader left a comment on my blog, requesting for me
to write a post about the NTU stabbing incident.

i dunno man...i'm not exactly a reflective person who is prone to think
of the philosophies of life when stumble upon a situation or a piece of
news. Not that i'm nonchalent, no not at all. I just don't know how I
should feel about it when I'm not physically present in the school to
experience the hoo-ha since I'm currently in my term of internship.
And all the information I have is no more than what has already been
featured on the news.

When I first heard about the incident from a fellow intern who in turn
got the news from her friend in school, my immediate reaction was
"..." and then "Is the stabber a local?" I didn't had that kind of horrified
feeling. But after reading up the news updates on the net, i began to
register that it was such a scary incident. It's either the stabbed prof
was a jackass himself, or he was just too suay to have handled such
psychologically unstable student.

While you hear about the outstanding students excelling in NUS, you
get news like this about crazy student stabbing professor in NTU.
How encouraging man...Anyway it's really a sad thing cos the student
was the former president of some electronic sports club or something,
I read. What a waste especially when he's already in his final year...

One advice for the professors in tertiary education:
Be afraid. Be very afraid...