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Sunday, August 20, 2006

No pain, No game...

Note: This is not a blog post :P

No pain, No game…

Article by: Rain

19th August 2006

During my flight back to Ipoh from an 8-months long internship back in my hometown, I managed to catch a glimpse of the top view of UTP’s majestic pentagon-like academic complex unintentionally. Indeed, it is quite a standout feature from the tarnish surroundings that appeared to be somewhat undeveloped. This new academic complex that was officiated in June 2002, boasts 22 buildings of respective engineering and information technology faculties, all bearing the KLIA-like futuristic architecture.

Although a relatively freshly established university, UTP definitely lacks no facilities, providing one of the most conducive libraries among Malaysia’s tertiary studies institutions, hostels that accommodate the entire population of students, the floating An-Nur mosque that oversees a lake view and also the sports complex that is continuously being upgraded with its facilities.

UTP, being situated a good 40 minutes drive from the nearest city, Ipoh, is clearly isolated of any forms of urban leisure. This is undeniably a smart strategy that indirectly guides students to an academic oriented lifestyle, saving them from whatsoever distractions possible. Thus, during the scorching evening after-class hours, almost half of the population can be seen to be swarming towards the sports facilities for their most convenient source of leisure after a long, tiring day.

The sports complex is in fact the first facility that can be seen when one enters the grounds of UTP. The newly constructed jogging track encircles a vast field that consists of football, hockey and rugby fields. Further inwards, the netball, volleyball, beach volleyball, basketball, tennis, squash and badminton courts as well as a swimming pool are also available.

These facilities are usually deserted during the earlier hours, that is from morning to about 5 in the evening, because then, most would still be occupied with their schedules. Later, the sports complex begins to rumble alive and can be termed as practically ‘flooded’ by crowds at about 6 in the evening. Many can be seen jogging along the roads or the jogging track. The one and only basketball court will be an arena of stringent competition not just for the 30-inches circumference orange ball, but also for the space and chance to actually play it. The tennis, squash and badminton courts are too bestowed the same fate, being so incessantly occupied, that even with the pre-booking system, some unfortunate ones may still end up not breaking a sweat pore, at least not for the fact that they did sports.

The enthusiasm the students shows for sports is overwhelming, and should be encouraged because it is a healthy lifestyle instead of studying all day long. However, these single digit quantities of the respective courts usually fail to satisfy the demand during the peak hours, usually from 6 to 8 in the evening. More often than not, there are in fact more spectators, reluctant ones that is, than the actual players. And this imbalance ratio of sports facility to the number of students becomes more apparent due to the recent rapid growth in the population of students. Disregarding the surfacing of this issue may bring more unwanted scenarios than ever imagined because, sports, done in the appropriate practice brings better health, but when desperately exercised in the imbalance proportion of facilities may bring safety hazards.

As a used to be badminton player, I had initially played the sport on a daily to thrice a weekly basis, but later due to the insufficiency that persistently escalates over the period of 4 years; I have now slowly resorted to hardly ever playing. Maybe now that the academic complex that pillars our degrees scrolls have been completed, the An-Nur mosque that guides us along the education path with the right mind is afloat, we can now expand the sports complex to insure our health needed to ensure the degree scroll obtained can actually be of use.

Of course, the alternative sport that will always be available would be jogging. Otherwise, I believe there should something called, computer badminton? Well, at least I’ve tried the tennis version.

Rage

It's 3:37am on my comp clock and here I am... *gasp* I've just reformatted my comp (cause it threw tantrums all the while), and reinstalled some of the critical softwares. I realized I lost lots of softwares cause I was in a hurry to reformat and only backed up some important data. -_-"

And why am I still awake (besides the fact I just revived my comp)? Because I'm suppose to write some not-so-clever article for (censored - but if you look hard enough, it's mentioned... ;P). Anyway, I don't know why in the first place I ever agreed to this (knowing I've already have too much to handle), but I guess it's always something like I'm doing a friend a favor thought that make me say 'yes'. Now, if only writing that article is as easy as blogging this. Well, actually it is not that hard, it's just that after reformatting and reinstalling all that programs, I don't really feel like sitting in front of my comp any longer (not to do work anyway, for entertainment okayla...)

And, complaining so much, I haven't even taken into account the academic wise commitments! @_@ I guess this is the life of sleeping at 4am? *Sigh*

Oh yeah, this is unrelated but... Having being in UTP for 4 years ++, I've learnt a lot about bugs. Those who know me know I fear them. In fact, I'm terribly terrified of them. So it is kind of a disadavantage when my roomate is not around (aka tonight) cause when these scary bugs come attacking, I'll have no savior to turn to. Btw, bugs here are really HEALTHY and BIG! So what have I learnt? That they have this habit of flying so fast that they can't see where they are going and usually end up in a not-so-intentional suicide when they collide with the fan! hehe... Cause it's always HOT here, the fan is usually on full blast, so when they hit it... *tong* it is smacked into the opposite direction and dies instantly of the extreme impact. *say prayers*

Time to work on rage... ;P

Thursday, August 17, 2006

Hot --> Dry --> Conk

I slept at 6 last night/this morning. I set alarm at 7 because I still had infinite loads of stuff to chase after but obviously I did not wake up when it went off. -_-" My roomate who woke up at about 5am after falling asleep at an unknown time claimed I looked stiff as corpse eventhough my alarm was blarring. Haha... I do have this vague memory where this alarm was ringing and I was fighting 'something' to move my limbs to get up but obviously I lost and she offed it for me... Hehe the first time ever! (usually it's the other way round ;P) Luckily I woke up in time at 8++ for class because it was the due to submit that assignment. My unconcious mind is very dependable! :P Still wakes me up eventhough there's no alarm.

Last night my CPU decided to give away under the pressure of work I gave it. I was like jumping up and down cause it had practically everything I need to submit soon. Luckily for this VERY, very helpful IT batch mate of mine. Really thank him for fixing my comp! Otherwise... (I don't want to think what would be the consequences)

Weather here is hot and very dry! My eyes feel very dry, skin too... I thought it used to be very hot only in this 'desert', now it's dry as well... I can't stand it. Esp, eyes, when you don't get enough sleep, it's so dry that it pains.

Okay, I should be writing on this paper that is due tomoro, another on Sunday, another two on Monday, another on Wednesday (list goes on), but no... I'm blogging??? @_@ This is BAD~ Okay, I should get going. I realize I'm running out of semesters to be saying "I'll be better next sem..."

Monday, August 14, 2006

Eeuwwww... *pukes*

Now, I think if I don't blog about this I'm going to explode! I'm soooooo annoyed by the people I'm living with. Okay, certain people/person that I have no idea who, but am extremely disgusted at! Right, I may not be a neat freak but I can't live with people who do not keep their basic hygiene!

First it was the kitchen sink! You thought some undergraduates in their final year (I assume all in my apartment are) would understand the basic logic that if you dump all your food leftover into the sink it would clog the tiny hole! And even after the NOTICE as been stuck up there by YP, that certain someone obviously still does not bother scrapping food leftover into the BIG rubbish bin about 3 steps away from the sink before washing her plates etc. SO you expect us to take turns unclogging it for u to just clog it the next time u have a meal?!? Aduh, I feel so sad for you, and sadder for the rest of us to have you (whoever it is) as our housemate…

Secondly, empty bottles of bodywash /shampoo/etc inside the bathroom cubicles *Sigh* FYI, the technology has yet invented auto-return/dispose bottles so when you think you are done with it please return them to the right places or throw them into the rubbish bin. The cubicles are obviously small enough with nowhere else extra to have extra junk.

STOP clogging every single pipelines you can see. The bathroom water drainage is going to clog in no time if whoever it is continue to mistake it for tissue disposal hole. So the rest above I’ve reluctantly ‘removed’ it for one last time…

But most disgustingly (Go look at it in the toilet), that I find it even too disgusting to mention here, please… Oh whatever. I just wanna say, rubbish aka something you think you no longer need to use, is suppose to be thrown into a rubbish bin NOT anywhere else your hand can reach and leave it there for a few days for others to ‘appreciate’. I’m sure if you’ve ‘forgotten’ or whatsoever, you would certainly visit the toilet at least once a day and SEE it and be ethical enough to have it removed!

God, I can’t believe I’m actually living with someone that is actually ‘dumb’ (tell me what else I can use for this kind of person) enough to do all these. I certainly can’t imagine WHO it is because it is like the basic hygiene and ethics one should have!!! Never in my mind would I think anyone would be so uncivilized to do this (esp the last disgusting disposal). I think even my Indonesian maid is much more hygienic (though I don’t like to be bias).

I thought I could IGNORE it and continue living happily, but no, everytime I go anywhere else outside my room (thank god I’ve got a hygienic roommate), I feel like throwing up. The toilet and bathroom cubicles are not going to last…

If it wasn’t because the house is still empty cause most people are having class, I very much want to call a house meeting and introduce that big black cylinder sitting at the corner of the kitchen to everyone, it is something called RUBBISH BIN I believe…

Saturday, August 12, 2006

It's been Ages~

Whoops~ I have been abandoning this blog since the last week of my internship due to the 'high' time back then. Hehe... Back in campus already, back to the sleep at 3am routine... -_-" Back with the same crap students life have, I shall spare the mentioning of the workload.

So what's been significant? Err... It's final year, so it's definitely one significant year. If I was counting down to when my internship was ending a month ago, right now I'm counting to the day I graduate. I doubt even God knows how much I 'love' my Uni life. ;)

Right, I don't have much to say, just updating because there has been some 'annoying' flies telling me my blog is dying or rather dead... Well, what can I say? I don't even check mails nowadays, unless it's official mail so well you guys can spare me all the forwarded friendship relationship etc etc kinda mails because everytime I log in to check for important mails I just trash them away. I'm not being harsh but there's really no space for them and DEFINITELY no time for me to read all that... There are so much more important and interesting things to do. :P Sorry but well, I guess I should thank all friends that did spare time to forward me a mail? Komapsumnida and Mianhamnida!

Till, then let's see how long the next drought will be... ;D