New Semester, New Surprises

Well, well.. what do you know.. here i am in my fifth & final (hopefully) year in medical school. It's been almost a week now since the new semester started and so far so good, at least i am still able to 'curi' a litttle time to write an entry..
But i am afraid it's not that lucky for some other students.. When i first arrived back in ol' campus, a whole bunch of the students got a heck of surprises..!

Now, there's an abrupt rearrangement of hostels and hundred over students were transferred to another hostel resulting in many dissatisfied students including 1 of my buddy. Alright, it's just moving hostel, what's the big deal apart from having to move your things from hostel M to hostel N which is only a football field apart? Oh boy, the climax had yet to come..

When my friend got his room key, we was so shocked to find out that all the students who was transferred to hostel N from M was given querter room (which is like the worst room where you have to share with 3 other students whom you don't know with very very limited personal space only fit for freshmen juniors and maybe 2nd and 3rd year students..) despite the fact that my friend is already a 5th year student!!! This is ridiculous as he had to share his room with 3 other 1st years..! Not only him but all other 5th year students who were transferred had the same fate. When he complained to the officer-in-charge, he was told that the name list was only finalized that day and they had no choice but to slot in the names into any available empty spaces.. the whole bunch of them tried complaining back to hostel M and was given a lot of excuses; as we stood there listening to them, i was thinking, 'yeah, keep on going, you must have thought of 1001 excuses in your brains now to deal with us..' So, in the end, my friend only ended up filing an appeal with the slightest hope to get a better room, but all of us knew that this hope is as dim as a candlelight that's going to burn out..

However, when you thought that this was the climax, there's even a greater height in sight: about 90 students were transferred out from hostel M to a place called UPPU, i didn't know the exact full term but my best guess was Unit Penginapan Pelajar Universiti.. note: they didn't even dare to use the word Hostel, it's just a Unit but the best word for it is actually a Barrack!

This UPPU was actually derived from the 1st and 2nd floor of shophouses where they fit in about 30 beds and cupboards in 1 floor! Visualize: immediately ext to a bed is a cupboard then next to the cupboard is another bed! hard to visualize? just think of a scene of an army barrack in any movies and you'll get a similar picture.. and there's only 3 toilets to be shared by 30 students! Study tables were arranged in 1 row on each side of the wall of a narrow corridor situated at the middle of the unit, where there's no ventilation and not to mention not enough lighting. Imagine how the residents are going to have some of their privacy; where to keep their things without worrying about theft, how to study in that kind of condition?

I really felt sorry for those guys who got their name listed to live in UPPU. As i know, most of them are already planning to find another place to stay..

Wonder, what other surprises are in stored..?