The 2006 election fever may have subsided, but the infamous Gomez affair is still a widely talked about issue in Singapore. Just today, my NIE lecturer "warned" us against "cheating attendance".

It is a common practice for NIE lecturers to pass the sheets of name lists around the lecture hall for the trainee teachers to sign their attendance. But obviously, a minority group of people abused this convenience, and this led to our lecturer naming out some culprits and warning the rest not to fall into the temptation of helping their friends to fake attendance.

(Lecturer looking at the attendance sheets and shakes his head)

Lecturer: I want to see the following students. (Names out a few names, and realises that none is present)

Crowd: (murmurs)

Lecturer: I have to remind you all not to help your absent friends to sign their attendance. Forging signature is a very big offence.

(Crowd became dead silent)

Lecturer: (continues) For all you know, there may be CCTVs installed inside this LT to capture your actions.

(realising our lecturer is spoofing the recent election incident, crowd broke into sparse giggles)

Lecturer: And if you’re caught in the CCTV, the footage’s gonna be sent to the MOE HQ. When that happens, it’s gonna be a serious matter, and no one will believe you if you said it was a mistake. Then, you just can’t just say sorry and let’s move on.

(Crowd started to laugh and cheer)

Ok, it was hilarious. heh

There’s another youtube spoof mentioned in mrbrown.com. Check it out here.