This picture above is what is known as the Student ID card, but here in UNIMAS, we have this really unique name for it: Kad Matrik. Basically, you can't get very far without your matric card. All students are given theirs within the first semester that they're here, that's how important it is. Then of course, you also need it when you're sitting for exams. And when you're dealing with any officials in the different departments and faculties. I mainly use mine to borrow books from the library. The rest of the time, I just don't wear it, muahahahaha!
This picture above is the first thing you'll see when you open the door to my apartment. It's actually the college's idea of a living room, y'know, the place where everyone can congregate to chit chat and all the other stuff we're supposed to do to have a so-called 'social life'. I have 3 other housemates. We spend a lot of time laughing here. And getting bitten by mosquitoes too. My college is legendary for its mosquitoes. Seriously. On the right of the 'living room' is the sliding doors leading to a little balcony area where you can hang your clothes and spy on other people below. On the left is the door to my room.
Now this is the door to my room. It's a double room, i.e. meant for two people to stay in, but I don't have a roommate, i.e. I have the room all to myself! And because it's meant to be a double occupancy room, I get more space than a single occupancy room would normally have.
This messy table here with the books and the laptop and the handphone and the cables is my idea of a workstation. It's basically the only place you can put a laptop on in the entire room. And the only place that will fit a chair too. So yeah, logically, it's the place where I'm supposed to do my 'work' and 'study'. To be entirely truthful with you, it's where I watched Episodes 15 and 16 of my current favourite series, Heroes. You see the clothes strewn over the back of the chair? Yeah, that's how bad the storage space is in my room. Not much place to store anything, really. So I end up hanging stuff all over the place. I like to leave the windows open when I'm in the room, but it gets kinda difficult as evening approaches because of the legendary mosquito problem. My windows are coincidently the only windows in the apartment to not have any mosquito netting, so I get bitten quite badly.
This is the view that I get from my mosquito netting-less windows. At least, this is the view that you would get if you were to lean halfway out of the window, clinging tightly on to the table so as not to topple over down three floors. The bluish aquamarine thingamajigs are the 'roofings' of other rooms. Sometimes you see some people poking their heads out, too. The trees are really pretty too. And when it rains, it's really one of the loveliest sounds you'll ever hear. Sometimes you can hear friends walking past your window downstairs and you can just lean over and yell at them. It's quite pretty really, the view. That is, if you lean halfway out. And I'd keep a tight grip on the table too, if I were you.
Ah... Now this is really pretty. It's the view that you get from the balcony (remember, directly right of the 'living room'?) and this one was taken in the morning, before the sun came out really hot and bright, I think. It's really something, isn't it? Well, at least it is, to me. That's one of the reasons I finally moved into my apartment. The view is really something.
Still taken from the balcony, just at a different angle. This is real near the entrance of TAZ College, and this is the UNIMAS bus that makes its rounds like every half hour on the same route, day in day out, every day of every week of every month. Sounds kinda routine, eh? Students who don't have their own transportation (motorbikes, bicycles, cars, jeeps) have to run after the buses each morning to catch a ride to their classes... Just kidding. Don't have to run lah. Enough buses one...
Still from the balcony, different angle. The tennis court cum netball court cum badminton court cum futsal court cum whatever the students want to make of it. I've yet to step foot on it. What can I say? I'm just plain lazy.
No more at the balcony, lemme bring you on a tour of the rest of the apartment. This is one of the bathroom cum toilets in my apartment. There's another one, but for some strange reason none of us use that one. Well, okay we do, but only very rarely, like when this one is being occupied. See how small the bathroom is? I wonder if they're violating any human rights here... Isn't there, like, a law against limited space or something? You know, like chickens have the right to a certain area in their chicken coops, so don't we have something like that for our toilet/bathrooms too? Or maybe they just want us to develop claustrophobia or something.
This is the kitchen area. It's also the washing area I think. We do some cooking here, sometimes. Occasionally. Rarely. But yeah, we still do some cooking. Sometimes.
Like this delicious pot of soup here. Housemates' special concoction, tastes real good too! This was one of the dishes when a few of us decided to stay in and cook up a feast for dinner. I learnt how to do college-style cooking, that is, how to use a rice cooker to cook everything and anything under the sun. Like fried sausages...
... and macaroni and cheese! Oh the tastiness of it all! This was 2 packets of San Remo's macaroni and cheese, and my friends also bought an extra bottle of Kraft's cheddar cheese, and yes, we literally polished off the entire contents of the bottle. Well, there was still a little cheese left. But man, it was good! Better than what some of the fancy eateries in town are offering as their version of pasta. Guai zhai, Bibi zhai, Zhai zhai (you girls know who you are): Let's do it again sometime! Muahahahaha! Life is good up there in college!
Oh yes, life is good alright... I'm looking forward to my next semester in college!
Cheers!
