Apa kamu rasa?

Classes started on Monday. I have classes everyday in the morning. Mostly until 1pm only. Fridays no classes. Actually uni life is kinda laid back, you need to put int the effort yourself. Not just wait for the lecturers to spoon feed us. I hope I get into study mode ASAP. No more devastating results for me. Once was more than enough.

Anyways, life is kinda platonic for me right here, repetitive..everyday. Wake up at 6am everyday, wait for shuttle bus at 7, enter class from 8-10 and 11-1, then I'm free to do what ever I want.

Internet is still an obstacle for me. I found out that if I were to subscribe to Celcom I need to pay RM297 for the first month and RM99 per month afterwards. If I were to apply to Maxis, then I only need to pay RM138 every month. By the looks of it, the long term solution is to apply to Celcom, but that would mean I need to cut back on my pocket money by RM100 monthly. I'm so confused right now. Yes, I get to go online FOC in other uni buildings except for my hostel, but then they blocked out MSN, Youtube, both my staple entertainment and route to the outside world. Going online in my hostel costs me RM10 for only 8 hours valid for only 7days or RM30 for 40hours valid for 30days and it id only limited to 500users. I think I can only decide after the hostel cyber cafe upgraded their server from 2Mb to 10Mb.

For your information, I still don't have any room mate and honestly, I feel quite happy having the room all to myself. I can just leave my things lying around in my room, no qualms.

Friends, I found a few(mostly from Sarawak-Chinese) that click very well with me, but somehow, the feel is never the same as the feel when I am around my secondary school friends and kiddies, especially. 99% of chinese here speak Mandarin. I have no choice but to converse in Mandarin as well. I miss listening to English, mind you, perfect English, not those broken English that most people use here and surprisingly, hokkien. I MISS GOOD food as well. All that I can get around here is nasi kandar and mee goreng.

There are somethings that I can and can't get used to. I don't mind walking from one place to another as I have my trusty umbrella, protects me rain or shine. Heck, I don't even mind climbing up four floors daily or even waiting for the bus at 7am. But I can't tolerate those people jumping queue right in your face!

However, I am thankful that my housemates are quiet and nice people. Although the toilet is not really clean, I've seen worse toilets in other houses. If I have to grade the noise level in my house from the scale of 1-9, mine would be about 2.

The weather here is unpredictable. One moment the sun is scorching hot and the next it is raining cats and dogs. Like what is happening right now, it is raining cats and dogs.

My classmates are not bad. My class comprises of about 80 people. Alot of Sabahan eg. Kadazan Dusun( like what we read in History Books) Sarawakian, Malays, Chinese and also China Chinese. There are 4 in my class, 2boys and 2girls. They are a nice bunch of people. But I pity them though. Classses are conducted in BM/English. They don't understand BM at all(although they came since last year to learn BM and English) and sometimes when the lecturers speak in English, they can't catch a word. Things here mostly come from China(pen etc). It costs them almost double to get the same damn thing here. Food sucks loads(not only me complaining). Hostel is too expensive for them(RM1800 per sem when we only pay RM378 per sem) so they move out to stay in rented houses(I hope I don't get into trouble by disclosing all this in my blog). If they are lucky to be able to rent a place near our off campus hostel, they can take the uni shuttle bus to uni. There are some staying elsewhere and they have to use the public transport(as if it is reliable)

The only thing that I like about this uni is that it has got really nice views. The lectures halls overlook the sea! I love the view there. You can even feel the sea breeze when you eat at the cafe. That compensates for the so un-delicious food.