My CaReLeSs WhIsPeR-Think UNIT TRUST, Think Agnes

Multimedia University (MMU)…my university! Proud? Oh yeah, to a certain extent…

Ok..it is a private uni which means you gotta pumped in a substantial amount of money to get a degree..no more a surprise to MMU students.

During one of the training and development presentations, a group of students were chosen to go sit in front and then being asked to say anything they wanna say at all about their university life. I wasn't selected though.

A fren said this uni is a place that equipped her with necessary knowledge for her future job. Another fren said uni life is like a plain white canvas and it sprayed colors on it. Some others said university life was fun and that they made a lot of frens. Everybody has their own stories to tell, so do I.

This phase of life has been exciting, 4 years of university life. I came in not knowing about what to expect and the hell of hard times I gotta go thru, especially during those assignments rushing days, study week, exam week. They had been tough, really! I hate doing literature reviews!!! That would be the worst worst assignments of all..yikes~

In university, we learnt lots of new things/subjects. Since I was a science stream student back then in secondary school, the transition to management was quite a bit of a disadvantage, as I had no (or dun rmb) fundamental knowledge in economics and accountings compared to the art stream students (juz forget about those that we learnt in Form 3-Kemahiran Hidup…that was like centuries ago hehe)

Accounting was a hell of a torture! I hate accounting hahaha. I have never liked it in KH. And who knows the nightmare resumed in Alpha and Beta, damn it. I had no choice but to go thru it no matter what and I did hehe. Gosh you won't know how much I wanted to drop that stupid subject man. I had a fren (my partner in crime during in alpha year) to endure those hard times with though. We both hate accountings so much that we got so afraid to go for the tutorials, coz the lecturer would not provide us with the answers, instead everyone shared the equal possibility that we'd get picked to go write our answers on the white board. It was really unlucky if our names got called. Anyway, the bottom line is…we hate accounting :p

Economics weren't as sucks as accounting though, but it wasn't my fave subject as well. Oh yeah, and there were also Statistic (math) with those stupid fx ('air for fact' to the power of two..we all lauf about it) and bla bla bla. To ppl that do not favor numbers, this is another hell of a suffering. Financial management was interesting, computing NPV, compounded interest rate, risk…but they were not easy.

Life got much better since Gamma when we started majoring in HRM. Firstly, there's no more calculation subjects and secondly, meet my fren Joanna!! We started to become close when me her and audrey decided to work on an assignment together. That was our very first assignment together I think and it was the best and most unforgettable one. We were to interview any Trade Union Leaders in the country and we chose the leader from the Malaysian Trade Union of Hotel, Bars and Restaurant. We went all around Malacca from one hotel to another but none of them was keen to approve our application for union interviews. (Fyi, trade union issues are very case-sensitive) Somehow we managed to get the address of the national hotel union office and it was in KL. This was the highlight of the whole assignment. The union is near the bukit bintang area. The journey to that place was fine. We were so shocked when we actually saw the union's signboard. We expected the prestigious national (national, hello!) union office to be somewhat grand but we were so wrong. There was no sign of big office, instead there was juz a very old stairs that leads to the office on the 2nd or 3rd floor. And oh my goodness was the office small and stuffy and dark. Hmm…is national union office supposed to be like that? No~ We interviewed the union officer there and we got all the info we needed.

We went shopping after that :) Lot 10? Star Hill? Kenot rmb. Our bus was to leave at 4pm from Pudu and we thought by leaving the café at 3.30 was a wise decision. Hahahaa….when the clock strike 3.45 and we still couldn't get any taxi, that's when we got panicked and 'stolen' somebody else's taxi. Sort of like jumped queue kekekeke. The aunty was like saying "pin ho yi kam" (mana boleh macam ni) or smth la, we couldn't care much adi la. I also can't rmb if we apologized or not. We're racing against time man (amazing race ;p)

So we managed to get a taxi and the cabbie uncle asked us wat time our bus was. He suggested that we got out from the cab and ran to Pudu as that time we're stuck halfway in the heavy traffic jam. And that's what we did :0 Imagine you're driving in the jam, then you saw 3 gals, wearing formal attire, carrying bags and papers, running like crazy ppl with heels on, in the scorching hot weather. What a sight huh! Embarrassing I have to say. But hey, that was fun. Running in the jam hehehe! It's not over yet, we reached Puduraya and we din know which platform to go to (it wasn't us who bought the tix), so again, we ran here and there looking for our bus. But when we found out platform, the bus had left and we gotta buy tickets once again.

Of coz all of us have been to KL but the thing is, we've never taken a bus there b4, that's why we were so lost and so pathetic. But now we have got the slightest idea on what to do and to expect :p Talking about it now makes us burst out in laughter..what a adventurous trip that was, ermm 2 years ago.

So when I was in KL a few weeks back, this incident struck me and reminded me of all that happened. Being on a monorail was my first time too when I was in KL after genting, so dun lauf ur butt off when I din know where to insert that damn ticket wahahahaha. *Tsk tsk tsk*

Yeah so back to Gamma and Delta year, we learnt a lot. In uni, we learn about team working, how to work with ppl, how to solve problems and all. All these academic stuff were too much to be named. Not to be denied, during this university life, I did learn about other non-academic concerned stuff too. I made tons of great frens here, some taught me things I can never learn in the text books, some can even make me do things I never thought I'd do in my life (omg), some given me memories to cherish….

To be continued in episode 2 of my Uni life :)

Starting with the Bumper Car ride indoor, that was really cool coz somehow everybody was aiming to bump at one of our frens. He was getting the most fun out of it I suppose coz he got bumped all the time, I mean that is what bumper car is for, rite? I especially liked the last part when he was banged and surrounded by almost every one of us, from every single angle/direction you can think of. I came in last though. Thanks to that one last empty space, it was juz nice for my car to jumped in, forming a complete circle. What an unforgettable arrangement! :)

Me and audrey were so ready for our outdoor themepark rides at 10am. There were really few people at that time though, guess it was still early :p We started off with the Spinner, the one you sit on a 'hanging-on-a-chain' chair that swings you high up in the air in circular motion. After that, we went for Corkscrew. We were not allowed to ride it as there must be more than 2 person for each ride. Luckily then came 2 other gals hehehe. I wanted the first seat so much and yay we got it (it's not easy to get this opportunity when there are a lot of ppl man, and you'll most likely to end up taking the middle seats, that was what happened 4 years ago) I dunno if others experience floating in the seat or not for corkscrew coz I did and I luv it :p

Next, you might think we'd take on space shot as it's juz at the near opposite. But nope…we figured out that we weren't ready for it YET hahahaha, we need more warm up before that seem-to-be the scariest ride of all. So, we decided to go for Rolling Thunder Mines Train, the one in the cave, but damn it was closed. Instead, we tried Sg Rejang Flume Ride where we got all wet from head to toe. For those who have no idea what kind of ride that is…this you sit in a boat, going up and down 2 high humps that will leave you wet when the boat slides down due to the splashed water. And yeah so, before we go into the boat, there was this malay lady who was selling us raincoats for RM2. We told her we didn't want them but somehow she kept insisting that we buy. The outcome of this was……we got wet after the first hump wahahahahaha (means we din buy). The second after that first splash, we started laufing (plain laufing) non-stop for quite a while, I dunno why we couldn't stop laufing. Probably it was becoz of the screaming and the feeling of getting wet in the cold and misty weather. The second splash left us wet once more after the slight drying-up during the slow boat ride in between the 1st and 2nd humps.

When we were about to reach the starting point, this raincoat lady was already looking at us from far, ie to see how our stubbornness had caused us to get wet. Sorry man, we didn't regret at all for not buying, in fact we enjoyed getting wet wet wet :) The same 2 gals who shared the corkscrew ride with us were there, getting ready for theirs. So this lady warned them( I guess that wasn't the 1st time) that they'll be like us if they dun buy the stupid raincoat. Guess what happenned? One of the gals just shouted loudly " tak nak" and jumped into the boat. WahahahaLOL, padan muka, so annoying man!

After that wet ride, we tried the new Flying Coaster. We gotta pay RM10 separately for this ride though. Guess they need to cover the cost of constructing it back then. It seems scary coz of the flat 360 degree turn, but it's not, instead it's nice! This particular new roller coaster is diff and unique. You dun sit, you're lying frontward, if you get the picture. And imagine frying an egg, you're the egg getting turned front and back hehehe and that's how it feels like. Hmm…..

There goes flying coaster and next up was let me see….ahh my most anticipated ride of all. Space Shot. I haven't tried this before, coz I was too timid 4 years ago :p This time, I was soooo excited to try it out! Woohoo~ An indian guy chickened out during the queue and left. Blehh!! Somebody almost as well (ahem), but luckily she didn't. The moment we were left sitting idle up there was really breathtaking coz it was so high(oh yeah) I have to admit that the scenery was cun, I remembering asking Audrey if she was looking at it. (and yeah, I can still talk up there). So did she or did she not, million dollar quiz for u ppl. The falling was funnn~~~I floated again. Audrey who sat beside me, was screaming and screaming like she has never scream before in her life. That got me wondering if she was truly afraid or was juz screaming for the fun. I did scream a bit coz yeah, when else I can do so after I left that screaming heaven. Firstly, I dun have that much breath compared to her, secondly, I rather enjoy the scenery than screaming coz to me screaming somehow drown the fun abit.

Would you belif if I tell you we played Tea Cup? Yeah we did. *dizzy dizzy* After the tea cup, we went for another round of corkscrew and then my beloved space shot. For corkscrew, we took the last seats this time hehehe coz the last seats' speed will be faster at certain point. As for space shot, we managed to exchange the seats with the malay couple coz we got the same seats as the previous! The second round of these two was much better and I was successful in the sense that I made sure I dun close my eyes at all (blinking yes la obviously duhh).Woohoo…sense of achievement felt!

Then we started to receive phone calls from our frens, this indicated we had not much time left there. On our way out, we played spinner for another 2 rounds consecutively. Hahaha…can't resist ;p We met up with our other frens for lunch and that's when we started feeling a lil dizzy and sick. That was the price we paid for playing too much spinner. Again, no regrets keke~

That's all for our 'journey of thrilling rides'. I wanna apologize to Audrey for all the talking I did..hahaha. Didn't want you to miss those dazzling views ma hehehe. Now, I can't wait for my next round of space shot, that was seriously fun man!! Another thing, I'm not trying to brag or show off to ppl that I'm bold or smth, but it is the fact that these rides are not scary but nice. Bet some of you will agree…

Till here..ciao~ Maybe I cant blog as long as this anymore once I start work one day..sigh~

Before I make a step into the Genting trip…..Frens asked why I didn't make it up to the highest podium the other night hahahaha. So I basically juz told them that there's no need for me to do so as the lower one already will do. Btw, guess the air must be much more cooler up there huh :p
Another thing I forgot to mention was there were gal on gal dancing on the podium too, you know, like 2 gals dancing intimately with each other. A fren said to me that I would be getting more attention if I were to do that on stage. No thanks :p Btw, I saw one pair doing that at the higher stage though. Since I was up there at that time, I couldn't look at them long enuf coz it'd be weird, I dunno how to explain this, but trust me...to look at them from the floor would be easier :p Plus I find it kinda disgusting to see gals touching each other. Yucks! (Juz like how guys feel when they see guy on guy action) Gal n gal, guy n guy….the best is ultimately guy n gal. Ok..that I guess most gals wont mind doing. Right? Oh yeah, terms and condition applies! I dun mean you can simply go touch the gals. Unless you're their bfs or husbands….

It was also damn weird man for us gals to stand in front of the podium gals. Me and Audrey think so. Coz at first we were clubbing and right in front of us, were these gals doing their thing. Picture that, gals! I dun mind if dancing in front of me were cute guys man whahhahaa….hmmm Jason Lo maybe? or Paul Moss? (come on, I think they're kinda cute ok) Or the Moffatt brothers?? Whoever guys that may be, juz not gals plsss~ So wat we did was to move further away from the podium...but still in within our group of guy frens who find it enticing to see the podium gals shaking their asses in front of them.

Let's move to Genting now. Cool? Yeah. Cold? No. Misty? A bit. It was definitely better than being on lower ground nowadays which is so damn hot! Interesting in Genting would be..let me see, Outdoor rides and casino :)

The first day. After our dinner at a chinese restaurant, we went to the casino. That was a fresh experience for the most of us coz we juz turned 21 last year hehehe. We gambled till around 2am, then went for a drink at an open-air Starbucks while indulging ourselves in the cool air.

The second morning. Me and audrey went for our buffet breakfast, and the rest stayed in their rooms for theirs. This was becoz me and audrey had the FUN FUN FUN package that includes breakfast for two and tickets to the outdoor themepark.

Coming up next…Part 3-At the outdoor themepark. See ya!

Most of the graduating students would surely have been or gonna go on a graduation trip. I started thinking about it since last year as in where to go to, with which frens and the amount money I would save up for it. The plan didn't work out at all, unfortunately. Guess it was becoz we kinda forgotten about grad trip a bit. Was it due to the hectic-ness of chinese new year, prom, tests and stupid assignments? Or HR major lacked of good leaders? Or me not putting in effort to make it a success coz I'm running outta money? Or we simply couldn't be bothered to go vacation with each other and prefer to go with other closer frens from other majors and faculties? Maybe we were. Juz face it.

But hey!! I did go on holiday with my FET frens :) Well, it was a more budget trip compared to Redang or Sabah, that's why I could afford man. We went to Genting and KL for 3 days and 2 nights. This blog is especially for Joanna who was supposed to join in but didn't :( But I'm not sure if you would enjoy it as you dun like clubbing and thrilling rides.

So which one should I start with? Genting or KL? Hmm…let's start with the highlight of the trip for me. The highlight for me had definitely gotta be ZOUK. Those who do not know what zouk is, it is actually a club, aka disco to some of you. So, as you might ask me, what's so interesting about it and why it was a highlight. Well, coz I did something I never thought I would do, ie dancing on the podium (stage). It's a stage meant for gals to go up, most of them were sexy chic, I admit I can never be compared to any of them. But who cares, I'm having a good time and I really wanted the experience and the memory.

The podium has got 4 sides, the north east south west, and another higher one in the middle of these 4. One platform can fit around 3 to 4 gals and it was surrounded by a lot of clubbers. I went up the podium twice. The 1st time I stepped up, it was quite scary and intimidating. Imagine ppl looking at you the second you got up there…*scary* This is very much diff than presentation though hehe.

Thanks to those who clapped and cheered when I got up there. The 1st time up there was kinda awkward. I was alone as Audrey didn't want to come up with me. Ishh! I came down like after half a song or so. A fren wanted to leave around 2am so we went out from the crowd for a while to discuss smth. It was good that we did that coz then they played the song 1,2 steps and we needed bigger space to do the moves! (right, tyco?) Watch this video clip by Ciara and you'll know what kind of moves I'm talking about hehe.

2 impatient guy frens had gone back in the dance floor. Sigh! So, the 6 of us went back in not long later. Me and audrey saw our African fren, Bangoura there. Actually he noticed us first and said "you! Hi!" Wahahhahaa. There was this foreign guy who kept smiling at me then turning his body to dance with me. I didn't give a damn about him at first but somehow he never moved his eyes from that somewhere. I dunno what exactly he was looking at. Ok, this wasn't right man, so I quickly turned around and faced my other guy frens. My frens were like smiling away so I dunno if they know I was avoiding that guy. Then this guy went up to Audrey and asked her where her other frens were. She pointed to all the guys behind us and I think he 'cuak' to see all guys there! Wahahhahaha…..he left! This is soooo damn funny~ I can't stop laufing now!!!

The podium was getting empty. And it was right in front of me kekeke. So guess what? I stepped up again for the 2nd time! Yeah, why not? I didn't go up there for the attention, instead it was for the cooler air, better view, and the wider dance space.Seriously, it was really nice and comfortable. I stayed there for a few songs long. You can shake your anything without worrying you'll bang other ppl beside you, or ppl shoving you. That sucked!! (Btw, I'm not saying about my frens, I mean OTHER clubbers) The only one good thing about dancing down there is you have your frens to dance with :)

We left at 3am. Danced for 3 hours, 1 hour more than last year at beach club. Still I can't get enuf of it, wonder if 4 hours are enuf. Our hotel was near to Bintang Walk and it took us 20 to 30 mins to walk to Zouk and to walk back. Actually, before the clubbing, I wasn't excited about it at all and I didn't really looked forward to it coz I was soo worried and afraid to walk in the middle of the night, wearing strap top and short skirt. But dun worry, we managed to walk back to the hotel safely. Oh yeah, we stopped for drinks at 7-eleven half way before reaching our rooms at 4am. Thanks to all the guys frens that escort us gals.

I think that's basically it, our trip to ZOUK KL. Wanna thank Wafi for his encouragement. If he didn't ask me to go up there, guess I'd never do so until now. So thanks! I wanted the experience of dancing on the podium, at least for once, that's why I did what I did. And it was very unbelievable and shocking even to myself. I can't believe I had the guts to do that!!! Where comes the guts man? Hahaha btw, I didn't drink though. Was still very much conscious that night! I can still remember most of the songs played, and how my frens actually danced :p

Coming up, part 2 of the trip…genting highland :) Stay tuned…

My uni is a place with thieves, having inefficient department operations, slack staff, know-how-to earn big money LIBRARY by not informing someone about having to pay fines that will be accumulated each single day, starting from the day you borrowed instead of the day the books are due; unreasonable and dumb STAD head; no-brain APAC person who can't understand "dun wan flip chair, need tables for drawing"; laggard working staff from FINANCE,. But I have to say that one Indian SECURITY guy is quite helpful, approachable and nice as he got the lost book details from me and went asking around the main departments and blocks.

Let me elaborate on each.

LIBRARY
Something really really bad happened and it was a total disaster to me. The books I borrowed from my uni's library go stolen in the uni itself, in a classroom, in less than 5 damn mins!! Sad enuf to say, I haven't seen them at all till date. The fine's amount is increasing each day, which I wasn't informed until after 2 months plus, that was a few days ago! Maybe they had this stupid assumption that I should know about the fines procedures and charges. HELLO??? I never lose any books before this, how the hell am I supposed to know? Pls man, I dun go read the idiot lost book procedure for no reason. Now I have to pay a huge amount of fines for losing the books. I know I shouldn't condemn my own uni, and I dun usually curse things but…..Go to hell you blood-sucker. Acting like dracula sucking all the blood out of you! To that toot who took the books free of charge, I dun have to curse that idiot who will pay back in whatever ways…someday!! Dun wanna talk much here, it makes me sad..really.

STAD head
Mr Stad didn't allow me to enter the squash court as he was afraid that my shoe would leave marks on the floor which it wouldn't. Dumb! And he said to me that if I want to carry on with my squash game, I gotta pay RM10 as fine charge. That day, I decided not to feed this uni with that RM10 where nobody knows what the uni is using this money for. Not that we have better facilities nor have clocks in classroom nor fast computers nor having good and fast printers (this reminds me of my experience of printing in the lab some time ago)

APAC
I dealed with APAC twice, for two events. First was in Alpha where I was appointed as the MMUsic concert secretary. Back then there wasn't any online rooms/hall booking so the process of booking the main hall and stuff was kinda complicated and lengthy. That was fine, though it sucked. For the second event, as a director of academic for Creative Arts Club, I gotta booked tutorial rooms for the drawing and painting classes every week. Thankfully there was smth called "room booking online system". So you think there wont be anymore problems? You're wrong man! First time I stated there "for drawing classes". They gave me tables and chairs. Second time, they started giving me clc tutorial rooms with flip chairs. I went to APAC office and asked the lady. She told me to put there " need tables and chairs" So the third time I changed it to "dun wan flip chair, need tables for drawing". Guess wat they gave me…flip chairs again! It's not that the rooms with the tables and chairs were fully booked or occupied. Too dumb to understand??? Poor command of english??? Too lazy to go thru the whole application form???

FINANCE
For the whole 4 years, there was only once or twice where I nid not Q-up for half to one hour juz to pay fees. I usually pay my fees like 2 or 3 weeks before finals but by that time, the finance office is already jam packed with students. It's common sense that when there are more students coming in to settle their fees, you should speed up and work at a faster pace. But it seems like there is no difference, or perhaps they have tried their best, juz that the intranet connection is slow? Besides, for quite a few sems, after you have settled your fees, they still had not unbarred you from course registration.

FBL
Another thing that sucks was the uninformed cancellation of lectures and tutorial classes. That had happened for several times in these 4 years…Imagine you go all the way there and see a class cancellation notice on the lecture door. They think we get our car petrol for free, ya rite!

EXAM
Exam unit. You can't print your result transcript on our own, you gotta let exam unit do it for you. Fine! Then you can't pay RM10 to them, you have to go to Finance to pay and then hand the receipt back to exam unit. Wait for another day or so, then only you can collect the transcript. Stupid procedure!

Actually, I dunno why I ended up blogging about how bad my uni's depts are. Maybe it juz happened coz initially I wanted to explain why my grad trip plan didn't work out. And yeah, it was partly becoz I'm broke, having to pay the stupid library. Then somehow, I started complaining about the LIBRARY and then it continues with others as well. Hahaha. Anyway, stopping here. Oh yeah, since this is a complain post,so if da-council wanna post this in the bitching galore, here I give you my consent…Ciao~