I don't understand....

Why? Why? Why?

Why the ICTC staff is so lazy? They don't even wanna come to help students/lecturers who experience problems with the LCD projectors despited being requested to do so. This afternoon, I have class in Block A as Block B (where most of my classes are in that block) is used as venues for final exams of the foundation students. The laptop and LCD projector are brought in for Mr Soh to conduct his lesson. At first, there's some problem with the projector. Everything's being set up but the projector couldn't detect anything. So Winna decided to go to the ICTC to ask for help from the staff there. But she returned to the FAS meeting room, alone, saying the staff refused to come. WTH!! Hello!! We're just one block away from where the department is located yet they don't want to take the trouble to even come and have a look. C'mon lah!! We're not in Block G or H or even I that u need to walk quite some distance to reach us. FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, WE'RE IN BLOCK A. Why the staff refuse to lend a helping hand?

I understand that any vehicles which enter into the campus compound require vehicle stickers, if not the security guards will stop the particular car or motorcycle from entering the university. But the latest rumour that I heard is that even bicycles need to have those stickers. Not sure whether it's true or not but this is another thing I don't understand. Why we need to have stickers on our bicycles? Is it probably that the number of bicycles around the campus are too much that the management need to control the amount? And bicycles found in inappropriate parking locations will be chained up. At first when I'm riding my scooter into the campus for the previous trimesters, I wonder why there's invasion of parking spaces by bicycles at the parking areas for motorcycles (in front of Block C). Now I realise that students do not want to walk too far away from their venues of class. Bicycles definitely outnumber the rest of vehicles greatly and the sad thing is that there isn't sufficient parking spaces available. Last time, bicycles are seen parked along the bicycle lane inside the campus but now this is not allowed anymore. And the parking area near Block D (not the one directly in front of the block) which is the supposed parking areas for bicycles is very soggy and muddy.

I just don't understand why there's so many unsatisfactory things happen within the campus. Sigh!

Utar memang PHAIL!!!

I dunno wats wrong with Utar management.. give students lousy timetables!!
From the time I started studying here, the timetable was quite okay. But as time goes on, I find the timetables were not properly organised, getting worse one trimester after another. Sum students have classes until 8pm.. sum days have only one class.. sumtimes students have to be in the university for the whole day.. wide gaps in btwn classes. Exam timetable also not organised either, last trimester I have 5 papers in 8 days. Though I can go home earlier but the hectic schedule limits study time of me & my fellow coursemates. I heard from sum frens that they have papers in 2 or 3 straight days or 2 papers in a single day or 12 days gap btwn 2 papers (no names mentioned of those I mean, u know who u r). Totally unfair!! And totally PHAIL!!
And for this trimester, it's a total mess-up. Excluding BM, I have evening classes on Mon & Wed and 2 days where I have to spend the whole day at school. And for Saturday itself, we have to attend 6 hours of Intro to Japanese lectures, according to the timetable given, instead of 4 as the subject is a 3 credit hrs subject. I dun understand why this happens. Mr Krishnan has to come to help Mr Naha Rajan & us EL students to solve the problem. We attended the 1st lecture from 8-10am, but unsure whether to follow our timetable or not. After negotiating with other students, Mr Rajan asked us to come at 2.30pm and cancel the 5-7pm class. But he started the class late cos need to wait for a new grp of students to arrive. He carried on with the lecture and before he ends the class with Q & A session abt Japan. He asked EL students to come from 8-10am n 12-2pm for his lectures next week onwards. Another PHAILure of Utar!!
One last thing is that Utar hired a full-time working adult as our part-time tutor for the same subject. Wth!! Just b'cos of shortage of lecturer for Japanese, they have to ask experienced Mr Chirstopher Ng to handle our tutoiral classes. Now, he can't teach us anymore cos he has a permanent job. PHAIL!!! And that leave us unsure abt our tutorial classes on Mon & Wed. But Mr Rajan suggests that we come on Sat for our tutoirals. This MIGHT happens but depends on situations. If that does happen, it means that we have only two days of classes whereas those taking Chinese have 3. I've no ideas wats gonna happen next but Utar is epic PHAIL man!!
I know I shouldn't say all these things out as this may defame Utar's reputation but I have my own rights to voice out my opinions & feelings. It's just not fair to me as a student here.

Frustrated

What's going wrong with the computers in Internet Lab 1? Cannot do printing one? Tried more than 10 PCs also failed... Really frustrating
This morning, after Mr Renu's tutorial, I went to cafeteria to have breakfast. Then, I met with my seniors.. Hui Ching, Crystal, Ponneey, Arthur.. they're part of the newly-chosen ELS committee.. it looks like they're setting up a counter in the cafeteria.. curiously, I went to see what's going on.. it turned out that there's goona be a movie review next week (refer to my pervious post, ELS Movie Review)..actually, I wanted to go to Block B at that time to print out my essay (which I was supposed to do when I went out for dinner last night, but I forgot abt it).. nvr mind, juz lend them a helping hand.. it didn't take much time to do the task anyway.. around 11am, I left for Block B to do the printing
When I got to Internet Lab 1, there's a number of computers that were vacant, Great! So I randomly chose one of them.. insert my pendrive.. opened the files.. and tried to print the essay and references. Error! No printer connected.. Damn.. I left the computer and went to another one... same problem happened. Went to another computer.. no printer connected again.. this happened a few times dy.. I was frustrated at that time.. tried more than 10 PCs also cannot get the job done.. not only no printer connected, there is one or two PCs which says unrecognised USB drive when I plugged in my pendrive.. there is even one computer which required the admin staff to log in to install the device.. u can guess how I felt at that moment.. but nvr mind, there are other labs.. so I went to B202, another Internet lab.. again, I chose one of the PCs and did the necessary procedures.AAAHHH! Finally, I was able to print out the essay and the references. Happily, I left and went ot Cafeteria for my lunch.
I wonder why there are problems with the computers in Internet Lab 1.. previously, it was closed temporarily for maintenance.. there shud be no problems after the maintenance.. but what happened today didn't meet my expectation. I hope ICTC Dept will get this fixed ASAP, though I didn't inform the dept abt the printing problem.