The Republic of Awesome

One very very annoying thing about NUS is that they give you a webmail account the size of hamster testicles. That would be fine, except that they then spam said account like as if they were Nigerian scammers dying of starvation.

George Agdgdgwngo shows us how it’s done.

More often than not, you’d run out of space on your account, and then they’d proceed to shut it down. Which means you cannot receive more of their spam… and other very important emails.

FML!!!

The solution is to auto-forward all mails to a Gmail or Hotmail account which have Gigabytes of storage space.

Therefore, when my friend You Jun wrote a short guide on how to auto-forward mails from his NTU account, I decided to appropriate the guide for use on the NUS webmail system (which is exactly the same as the NTU one…)

Step 1 – Setting up a Forwarding Rule

First, log in to your NUS webmail account. Use Internet Explorer as it has the Microsoft Outlook thing built in. Chrome and Firefox doesn’t.

Find the Rules button. It should be in the left sidebar, below Public Folders. Click on that, then click on the New rule button. It should be on top.

Simple, yes? Now a dialogue box will pop up, in which case you fill in your Gmail/Hotmail or whatever address you wish to forward your emails to.

You can ignore all other fields except for the ‘Foward it to’ field.

Oh and remember to uncheck the ‘Keep a copy in my Inbox’ button. Or you’d keep a space-eating copy in your NUS webmail which will defeat the purpose of this whole exercise.

Click the Save and Close button and you’re done!

From now on, all mails arriving to your NUS inbox will simply be forwarded to your Gmail/Hotmail, leaving your NUS email clean and empty.

Step 2 - (Optional) Getting Gmail to send as NUS Webmail

This step allows you to send mail from Gmail as u0xxxxxx@nus.edu.sg, which is awesome as you’ll never have to login to NUS webmail ever again!

I’m only writing on how to get Gmail to do it (because I <3 Google and it has 7GB of space). If you’re a Hotmail user you can read instructions for Hotmail here.

How to do it with Gmail:

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1. Click on Settings, it’s on the top right hand corner.
2. Click on the Accounts and Import tab.
3. Click on the Send mail from another address button.
4. Input your name and your NUS webmail address
5. Click Next Step.

The next step is to configure your SMTP server thingamajig, which I think is too troublesome. Just go with the default Gmail settings and click Next Step again.

Gmail will then send a verification email to your NUS webmail. Go to NUS webmail, open the mail from Gmail, click on the verification link and you’re done!

Yes you are now free from the clutches of the evil NUS webmail system! Go celebrate with a bottle of old wine and muse on how your life is kinda sad since this is your greatest achievement this week.

If you’ve ever seen university brochures, I’m sure you’ve seen something like this:

Copyright stuff: Sauce.

A peaceful scene of university students soaking up the sun and chillaxing on the grass like everything was a peachy as peach-flavoured punch. Which isn’t actually peachy because it’s made of artificial flavourings. But fuck it.

Well, I’m pretty sure you conclude that life isn’t that peachy here in aNUS and thus we don’t have such a thing going on.

Wrong.

I was walking back from school one day when I saw…

Holy shite, Sherlock Holmes! It’s just like the goddamn brochures!

..

..

Well, except they’re not students.

It’s still good brochure material nonetheless. Just more honest:

I just worked for the last 4 hours or so. Without a break.

Before you start applauding at my amazing feat (amazing because even working for 5 minutes seems a pretty good achievement these days), please note that I was not working on school work.

At all.

I think it would take the threat of Ultraman kicking my ass in his glorious rubber suit to make me do proper work. Or the threat of torture and deadlines work too.

Mmm torture.

But no it wasn’t school work.

I was repairing two disused bicycles left in the hall bicycle shed.

This involved liberating the bicycles from a rusted lock system (mostly by breaking the rusted locks) then some minor repair shit like replacing the seat or resetting the chain on the sprockets.

As I have repaired them, they’re MINE. That is as long as the previous owners don’t come back to claim their rusty pieces of crap.

Great fun – I’m more alive when I’m repairing or building or creating things that I totally don’t have to. This is also known as procrastinating.

That is all.

Oh except that I still have fun during classes doing total rubbish:

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