Official Report for the first week in UTAR Setapak.

    The first thing that i will comment is the food available in the cafeteria. The cafeteria in the UTAR setapak has more variety of foods when compared to the cafeteria in UTAR PJ. However, the workers in Pj are way more friendly than those sour-faced workers in setapak. When in pj, the worker will at least smile at u when u buy the food at their cafeteria (especially the jovial uncle) but here in setapak, u can hardly see any one of them smiling at u. If u are lucky to find one, it’s either u have eyesight problem or maybe the worker is overstress and thus smile for no reason. Some of the food served are really nice while some taste like garbage (for example:noodle with thai sauce. Avoid this food at all cost if u value your money).

    Next will be the library. The library in setapak is the worst library i ever went to. Even the national library is way better than it. The air con don’t seem like functioning and its really hot inside the library. If blind people were to enter this room, they will thought that they were inside a sauna room.

    So far, the lecture were just ok. The lecturer of the subjects that i don’t like are mathematics for engineering and dynamics. Both lecturers for the both subjects have no patience at all. They are teaching for the sake of finishing the syllabus and not to teach the students to fully understand the concept behind the subjects. I hate it when this kind of thing happen. Come on, my parents pay thousand of ringgit for the tuition fee and it’s not like they volunteer themselves foc. Pengajian Malaysia is another problem. I thought that i can forget all about the history after leaving the secondary school but now, i’ll have to face it all over again.

    Lastly is the travelling cost to and fro from my house to UTAR. I have to spent RM 11 a day just to travel (i take bus and LRT) and u can imagine how much i would spend on transport alone for the entire degree course. Hence, my slogan for this year is ‘Bye bye money, hello suffering’.

 

Registration day

    Yesterday morning, i woke up at 6.10am, quickly wash up myself and get ready to leave the house. Went to the Maluri LRT station at 6.30am, take the lousy public transport and finally arrived at the Wangsa Maju LRT station at 7.20am. Bong fetch Teng Eng (he also took the lousy public transport) and me to the UTAR setapak for the registration thingy. And you know what?

After forcing myself to wake up that early and waste RM4.50 for the LRT trip, they (UTAR staffs and students) told us that we can’t really register until we pay our bill. These UTAR people really know how to make people become extremely angry. Why can’t they inform us earlier or maybe just allow us to register since this is their mistake?

    Not only that, they are not efficient at all. It almost seems like this is the first time they do the registration thing. If the university is just ‘new’, perhaps people can tolerate it but UTAR? Come on! I’m sure they had done this kind of thing dozen of times before but judging from yesterday issue, it’s like they all are just started working that day, in other word ‘newbie’. Everytime when ask them something, they always reply "Ohhh, I don’t know about this thing. Nobody inform me about it.I think u need to check at that counter" Asking every counter will lead you to another new counter. This is just the services and i haven’t even start talking about the frequently lag UTAR server.

    Anyway, after that, we went to the Setapak house which a group of my friends had rented. It’s nice to relax and have fun after that lousy experience at UTAR. Honestly, i do wish i can stay with them but money will always be the barrier to it. Although i can’t stay there, at least i can visit them once in a while or maybe have lunch together with them.

    By the way, i had received my muet result and i seriously don’t like it at all. I got band 4 but i thought i had done well enough to achieve band 5. It’s a real disappoinment to me. Perhaps the writing test pull me down as i had barely enough time to write a ‘near-perfect’ essay. I really think its too much to expect student to write two good essays in a short period of time. Creativity takes time to develop, and u can’t just simply force good idea to pop up in a second. Rome doesn’t built in a day. Anyway, a past is a past.