You Want to Sit in My Class? Get an iPad!

Wah lau eh... 岂有此理!?!

My friend tell me her daughter just called her from Shanghai and told her that her university lecturer told the class, "You want to sit in my class? Get an iPad!"

According to her daughter, Mr Henry Liang, who teaches finance in English at the Shanghai Maritime University, issued this notice on his microblog last Friday: "In next semester, all tests and resources will be presented in iPad format only."

Mr Henry Liang says that "iPad represents the latest trend and superiority, so do my chosen students," he wrote. If you don't have one, take part-time work to buy one; if you cannot earn merely 4,000 yuan (S$750) in the two-month summer vacation, you are not suitable to learn finance or be my students."

He also ordered men to wear suits and women to wear simple make-up in class to prepare themselves for their future jobs in the finance industry. This guy is Hitler in the making... Steady lah!!! (^_^)y

So now, my friend kan cheong want to either send money to her daughter in Shanghai or buy an iPad here and ship it back to Shanghai...

But I think this lecturer like that say also bueh gum... Cos he like that say macham look down on the poor although some admire his unusual teaching methods.

Internet user Koralle, who claimed to have attended Mr Liang's class and lectures, told Shanghai Daily: "He is a rare good teacher with his own thoughts, though he is sometimes very radical."

After kena complain, Mr Liang got change his microblog ID and deleted the posts. But he also wrote this: "iPad will still be brought into classroom. Formal wears are still required. I still keep all my opinions as yesterday. Nothing changes! You can claim victory in tongue, but nothing more." (sic)

When Shanghai Daily contacted the teacher on Monday, what he said differed from what he had posted online.

He said: "I deleted some posts because I realised that I used some inappropriate words. I wrote in English because I only want my students to read it. It's not for the public. I don't care about their criticism.

I am not studying in the Shanghai Maritime University so I no comment but if my friend's daughter look like the girl in the photograph, I pass her the iPad 2 that I will win from the Chicken Rice Lucky Draw lah... Hosay!~<3