The Search Is Over, Now The Odyssey Begins

[This post should have been posted on 2 Jan 2008, however due to technical inconvenience on the author's side, it is only able to be viewed today.]


A new year brings a new beginning. Today, I have officially entered into the world of being a student again in HELP University College. Today is the first day of Orientation Day. Tomorrow will be the last one. So many things to do before classes start next week. Hope to get my timetable tomorrow so that I can arrange my schedule and plan for the subjects that I am about to take.

Currently, I am living in HELP’s Residence.

My roommate is yet to arrive. I’m paying RM470 a month for this teeny room, fully furnished hostel, but doesn’t feel like a house at all. How I miss the days where I can afford to sit on the sofa with my legs folded, opening the refrigerator whenever I feel like munching something and walk around the house in whatever clothes I’m wearing. I’m not sure whether my sacrifice is worth all these at this age, when I’m supposed to buy a house, renovate it, decorate it like a palace, have a child, bring up and educate the child, and most of all live like a queen. Electricity charge is not included in the rental, so when I feel like saving electricity, I can take my laptop to the student’s common room which is air-conditioned and equipped with wireless facility.

This is the Main Block of HELP’s University College where all the administration offices and bursary are.

On the first day of academic year, the students who are ten years younger than me looked nervous and anxious about what was to happen next. Some came with their friends, and others with parents or uncles. When I was in my first year undergraduate in UTM (13 years ago ;<>

[How on earth did Stephen King write 10 pages of 2000 words a day. I find it so hard to continue even at this point. 懒惰虫]

The one inconvenience that I found up to this point is that all payments must be made by cheque or cash, but not by credit card. So, I have to pay my fees in cash now since I don’t have a cheque book, yet. I plan to have one as I am so eager to start a business.