When the Bored gets Bored

Since I've got nothing better to do, I might as well start.

Saturday, is the second more boring day in the week here in Miri, losing only to the next day, Sunday (from 2 weeks of experience here). Saturday is the day where students here at Curtin sit back in their hostel or house and rest and play... or think of what just happened in the past week (or is it just me).

Anyway, having just finished my first week in Uni, how does a uni differ compared to secondary schools? IMO, a uni is where you learn that only your mother/father/guardian is the only one who's gonna spoonfeed you no matter how old you are.

New stuff in Uni, 1st of all, the lecturers. Come to think of it, the Lecturers are like Pastors.... they stand in front at their "altar" and preach the gospel whether or NOT you're listening. Their job is to deliver. Deliver the gospel, and their done. OH!, and another thing they have loads of, is Money. I was in my First lecture for Engineering Foundations and you know what??.... The Lecturer offers RM50 for those who can answer his questions. And WHAT are his questions?? "Whose profile was written in a PINK coloured font?" (student profile on one of our curtin websites)...... omg...... who the hell is supposed to be able to answer that none other than the person herself.... And btw, not only did he give away ONE fifty dollar note..... but TWO!! He almost gave 3, but nobody could answer the last question and our period was over.


2nd, the Uni Timetable. Who on earth invented timetables anyway. Now I miss my good old teacher prepared timetables in primary schools. I remember those "Dumex" and "Bata" timetables we used to get when buying stuff from supermarkets that we used to write our schedule for primary school on.

But today, if I were to write my timetable on one of those.... I would need 20 of them per month. YES, the ever changing time table!! Since I started classes (1 week), the timetable has changed seven times. And guess when is the newest update? Yes! You guessed it right!! TODAY!

Anyhow, first let me praise the person who arranged this timetable, because, it is not only colourful, creative, and ingenius! It also consist of FIVE pages, one page per day, with TINY (Yes, THIS TINY) writings, stating the many many labs and rooms of the left, and the multicoloured subjects pasted all over the rest of the page. The First time it took me TWO WHOLE HOURS to finish discovering where and when my Lab tests, Tutorials and Lectures will be. Only to find out the next day that I missed my class....Anyone interested in exploring the timetables can proceed to curtin's website to have a look.


Next up is the Lakeside Accomodation which banned me from seeing my own face in my facebook profile. Hmm... what do I have to say about Lakeside. First off, they should put up a "Beware of Mosquitoes" sign out at the entrance. Second, they have modern cooking facilities such as sinks and electric stoves which you can't find anywhere in your homes nowadays, that ONLY takes 30 MINUTES to cook Instant Noodles!! No wonder they call them instant, it takes 2 hours to cook fried rice I think. We have Eight Shower rooms, 4 Rooms with heaters, 4 without, 2 of the heaters don't heat, and one of the heating heater that sprays like a water sprinkler, leaving only ONE fully functional shower room with a heater that heats. In MY room, I have an Aircon which has a "Multi Temperature Setting". 22 degrees Celcius on the Remote controller could mean you'll be having a warm night even without your blanket, but wake up to a freezing cold chiller room that we can keep our veggies safely in.

And at the same time, I thank them for providing us with internet which Bans us from sites including but not limited to: Facebook, megaupload, googlevideo, limewire, and also prevented me from playing my maple. Our internet is also limited to 150mb of Bandwith per day (if I knew this before hand, I might've considered staying elsewhere), which is equals to one episode of anime per day ^_^ And thanks to me reaching my bandwith limit also, as you guys can see, this post is dated 2nd March, Sunday, while it was actually prepared on Saturday....


Thats all for now, I have the most boring day of the week coming ahead of me. Hope each day gets better here as I learn new stuff everyday.