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koice:
For those emphasizing the complexity of 'Inception' and 'Shutter Island', you haven't seen nutin' yet. 'Cloud Atlas' and 'Mr Nobody' will leave anyone asking themselves after closing credits... "What was that?!"

Cloud Atlas was very confusing when I watched it the first time, but it's now one of my favorite movies.

sholay2011:
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.

Yup, this is another confusing film I've watched. I didn't fully understand it, even after the second time of watching, until I read the plot on wikipedia.

I'm just appalled and disgusted at the grammar and terrible misspellings/shorthand.

This is terrible.

And there are many many more schools like this all over the country.

If our government would only invest the majority of our budget into our education sector...but no, they refuse to do so.

Nigeria...It's near-hopeless...

MathsChic:
Hmm...I looked at the link and most of the formulations derive from pi's association with the circle or sphere. The Coloumb's law, e.g., is one.

Yes, but Not ALL of them.

MathsChic:
Only a mathematician can tell such joke, cos it's all in favour of mathematicians. Funny, clever joke


Today I was thinking something. The ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter is a number that doesn't occur in nature any other way, besides as a ratio of circumference to diameter. Isn't that just spectacular? Or am I wrong? Does it have other occurences?

Pi occurs in other natural phenomena apart from circles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi#Outside_mathematics

koice:
I'm still trying to figure out what Cloud Atlas was all about.

LOL!! I loved loved LOVED Cloud Atlas!

I would choose the multinational. Purely because of the bigger pay.

But even the though the pay is much better, I'd be wiser and be sure to invest the extra money in business ventures that will still provide me with income if the company fires me again.

Cheers.

MathsChic:
If Africans had taken slaves, i wonder how they would have treated these slaves.

Africans did take a lot of slaves too.

Wanna see one way how Africans treated slaves or outcasts...look at how some Igbo communities still treat "osu" people.

Primer.
A 2004 low-budget science film about time travel.
Most confusing film I've ever watched in my life!

MathsChic:
You dont want to show that you know more than your interviewer. I was at an interview where me flatly lost out on a fantastic job offer because i talked way too much about my abilities. My mouth sha

Lmao

That must have been very frustrating.

I've never done that in an interview. I'm usually too tense so I never speak more than I think is required.

prettigurl16:
Recently, I have been doing a lot of contemplation on my new relationship. Nice guy, a gentleman in every sense, opens and closes doors for me, at the peak of his career with his own home in an exclusive part of town.
The problem is that I decided to test drive seeing as I had arrived at my bus stop( or so I thought).The day started well. We went to dinner in the best restaurant in town. Trust your naija babe. I dressed to kill. He was also very well dressed. I could see that he had

made an effort. I had mussels and oysters. My first time. The white wine was the best.

Then he took me to the beach nearby to watch the sunset. It was beautiful. He had already rented a cabin for the day by the beach, very romantic. Leaving the beach, we came back to the cabin and made love. That was when trouble started. There was no instrument! It was so tiny. I tried to touch it but he said no. Well, that was the end of the evening.

I now berrate myself. I shouldn't have tested. What do you think?
He is caucasian btw

You were right to test. Better sooner than later, when you're already very deep in the relationship.

If you really like him, you could try using sexual toys to satisfy yourself.

There are many free online tutorials that will guide you through the process.

Google for it. Cheers.

Have you ever triple-booted a system with Windows, Linux, and any other OS? I'm trying to do that at the moment.

Also, ever heard of Qubes OS? I was trying to triple boot it with WIn7 and Ubuntu 14.xx LTS. I wasn't able to do so, so I ended up deleting the Ubuntu partition.

The Win7 partition is important because I play a game on it (Driver San Francisco) on it and I doubt if WINE on Ubuntu will be able to handle the game.

naga1:
The problem is with the media, they can't tell what is fact from what is noise. Tell them you discovered a new planet, they will start filling the internet with praises like 'Isaac Newton of Nigeria' etc.



Lalasticlala

Lmao

ochukoccna:
@spacyZee, good for you
It wasn't like that for me and many of my colleagues though when and after studying
Tier 2 visas scarce pass hen teeth especially for those that entered from the time Cameron took over
Why you no drop the info here make we all read?
Cheers!

Several tips to getting a job in UK:

1) As soon as you arrive and settle in, get a National Insurance Number. You can't get a legal job without it.

2) My friend told me: that I have two main tasks in UK. Focus on getting a good degree, and focus on getting a good job. And both of them will consume my time a lot if I wanted to be successful in both.
During my first team (Sept - Dec), I applied for more than 30 jobs across several sectors in UK. Every weekend, I would spent between 6-12 hours going through tons of company websites and applying through many of their recruitment portals. It's not an easy task, believe me.

3) Due to the migrant restrictions, not all companies can hire non-EU nationals. I learned to focus on only the companies that have Tier II visa sponsorship certificates. The UKBA or Home Office has a list of companies with that privilege.

4) I subscribed to several services that inform you of vacancies and job openings. I used "gradcracker" and "milkround". Join them and setup your profile to receive regular email alerts about jobs/internships that you're interested in. I also attended as many job fairs as I could. Mainly to talk to their reps about their companies, if they hire foreigners, how their graduate schemes are, etc...and also to collect lots of free pens, jotters, flash drives, etc.

5) Timing is important. Most of the top companies start recruiting for graduates around August - Jan, to start the next September/October. So if you start your masters in Sept/Oct, you can apply to many companies before your first term exams begin in January. The best time to apply is before December, cos by then you'll be neck-deep in schoolwork, preparing for exams, there'll be less hours of daylight, and the winter darkness and snow will easily get you depressed.
These companies recruit while following the academic calendar. After first semester exams in January (or in December, before exams), they start calling for interviews and assessment centres.

6) Being in the UK for the first time, the urge to travel around and flex and have plenty of fun is strong the first few weeks. I remember being jealous that many of my classmates and colleagues and fellow Nigerians were having parties, flexing, travelling to new cities etc. That time is better spent applying for jobs if you really want one.
I remember once when I went to London for a December interview, and got back to my school close to midnight, to attend a birthday party that was almost finished. By March, I had secured a job...6 months before graduating. Since I started that job, I have travelled a lot across UK...much more than some of my former classmates then.

7) Practice aptitude tests until you can do them with your weaker hand while in a drug-induced orgasmic state of unconsciousness. Practice, Practice, PRACTICE!!! If your job application is accepted (and if you're a STEM student), you'll definitely do several aptitude tests, both online and physical.




If I think of anymore tips, I'll add them.

PS: I see some people bashing GeneralShepherd for being negative about UK. I don't think that's fair. Statistics show that he is correct. If I had my way originally, I'd have gone to US or Canada for my masters. UK keeps making it harder for EU and non-EU migrants to get jobs and settle in. The main advantage that UK has is that masters is just one year, and admission is very easy to get. PG education is a huge source of revenue for UK. They attract you with easy admission, charge you outrageously, rush you through in as short a time as possible, and then find ways to make you get out as soon as possible. The latter half of my masters was very stressful, and if I was still busy applying to jobs and going for interviews, I might have collapsed.

Cheers

I've been occasionally checking out this thread for months, but avoid commenting.

I'd like to contribute my small opinions.

I was a Nigerian student in UK a few years ago. I was here on a full PG scholarship, and a good one. They paid on time, rarely delayed, and the amount was enough for me to not work.

I also got a good job and started work immediately I finished my degree. I have friends, who got their PG degrees before and after me, that also found work in UK too. In fact, it was through the advice of one of the older guys that I was able to get my job.

I'm willing to offer any assistance and answer questions that anyone may wish to personally ask.

Cheers.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

I love this!

I don't agree with everything, but I was entertained by this article.

Kudos, OP!

This is sad. My condolences.

I can't say I know what you're going through.

I hope you get what is owed to you, and get a better job.

LMFAOOOOOOOO

The way I see it, all we can do is speculate.

I really wish that intelligent life exists elsewhere in our galaxy. I really wish that we can make contact with them, or that they visit or communicate with us...in my lifetime.

I have to be realistic, though...and acknowledge the depressing odds.

While I believe that sentient intelligence is very probable, I think the odds of us detecting and making contact with the type that we expect...is very very very low.

This is all true.

I was expecting an explaination of disk memory space that's used by hidden partitions, file allocation tables, etc

I just shared my personal thoughts on Spectre in this diary post: https://www.nairaland.com/2082491/spend-too-much-time-online/5#39834605

dBard:
Is Tom Hardy British
Bond is Always from the United kingdom

Yes, he is. Born in London.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hardy