To Urs, For Urs, From Ur: Wed 23Jan08: UK Campus isn't that Superior After All

My first night of good sleep brightened my day today! I woke up early again coz I still slept very early (compared to my ‘normal’ sleeping time) the previous night. Must have been due to both jetlag and the darkness that came earlier made us feel so tired faster. But I’m sure this will not last long, hehehe… xD

Anyway, Me, MY and Su-En are having the same thought of taking math subject from Engineering School instead of other business modules (some are available in Malaysia Campus, some aren’t) and modules from other various schools offered to Business School (around 100 over). Three of us had a bad feeling about the last exam results, so by taking a math-based subject we hope it could pull up our average. Some peculiar subjects are Animal Form and Function, China in the 21^st Century, Criminal Law, Freedom and Determinism, Housing and Society, Human Rights and Global Sex Trade, Introducing Deconstruction, Introduction to Biblical Hebrew, Introduction to the Roman World, Issues in Feminist Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Oceanic and Atmospheric Systems, Psychology & Social Influence at Work, Practical Archaeology, Selected Work by Pushkin, Self, Mind & Body, The Ancient Greeks, The Buddhist Tradition, and many more.

So after the first class of Introductory Econometrics (IE) - in which I was amazed with the most detail & compact notes I've ever seen since high school - we went to UG office. The admin staff said that she had to reconfirm whether or not we are eligible for these math subjects to Chew Ging first. Fine. But when we asked about WHERE we were supposed to get approval from for taking the subject, she was not sure. Don’t even know WHICH SCHOOL these subjects belong to, therefore where we should go to. Yeah right…!! **Lesson earned: the staff is not knowledgeable about the university system itself, much better and more efficient to ask your friends around **

The other ironic thing is that all the core books were borrowed with long requests behind. Diana, who are transferred here under Petronas scholarship, said that they knew the required textbooks BEFORE the FIRST CLASS COMMENCED through Nexus – sort of WebCT dedicated for Business students, with more features and information such as forum discussion and assessment feedback for each respective modules. ARGH!!!!

We cooked Chinese food for our dinner, finally! Thanks to Su-En for kindly bringing her rice cooker. Never knew MY is such a good cook, we are so lucky to have her here! Anyway, I believe pictures give better explanation here :)