My world, my classroom.
March 28, 2009
Like what i said in my last post, most people think their most enjoyable moments in life is during collage/uni time. I don’t.
I hate my college years. It was so crap i would rather have done it on a toilet bowl. Seriously. If you read my blog entries back in 2004/05, most of my entries are angry rants about crap lecturers and flies in the canteen.
i graduated from Limkokwing. There are actually quite a few things i liked about it. The freedom, the blackness (i mean the building and the attire and the…, you know, not the… you know) and the weird people there. Everyday you see Christina Aguillera wannabes and Kurt Cobains alive. What was so crap about it was the location. I stayed in Sg Besi when i first enrolled at the Mayang campus. It was hell to travel to PJ every single day. I had no car then. When i finally shifted to PJ, the college decided to move to Cyberjaya. -_-
I thought that was called Distant Learning.
But no. The real distant learning is, when you don’t have to drive 45KM and pay RM5.40 toll all the way to a campus located in the middle of a dead town to study only to find out that your class is cancelled because your lecturer decided to throw a PMS sickie, and then drive 45KM and pay RM5.40 toll all the way back home. The real distant learning is flexible. The class can be anytime, anywhere, which is exactly what Wawasan Open University’s Open Distance Learning model is.
To me, the concept is so revolutionary it actually sounds a little ridiculous. If that is indeed possible, wouldn’t i be studying all across the world already! All i need is a place with wifi. I would be studying when i am doing hair extensions in Shanghai, when i’m feeling snow in Norikura, when i’m soaked in an onsen in Kyoto, when i’m sipping orange juice (i don’t take caffein) in a small London cafe. Is that what studying has come to?
If there’s one single regret in my life, it is not having studied abroad (even for like, one semester). Really. You guys have no idea how envious i am of you who is now in Australia or UK or whatever snowing country shivering your ass off and burying ur head in your textbooks and whining about algebra. It is a priviledge i didn’t have. Which is the reason why i’m traveling abit over excessively now to make up for the lost opportunities.
Maybe i should become a student all over again. It says that WOU offers second chances to those who missed out on a tertiary education, it does not focus on age, gender or race in allowing entry. Not that i don’t have a whatever degree but seriously, i can just grab my laptop, go to a snowing country shivering my ass off and burying ur head in my textbooks and whining about algebra. Ok, maybe not algebra. Hate Maths. Bad idea.
But yea, just to get the feel of it. Plus apparently WOU’s fees are the lowest among private institutions, due to WOU’s not-for-profit business model which subsidizes a large portion of the actual programme cost. Affordable overseas (pseudo) study!
There. I can travel around the world and learn at the same time. The world is my classroom. And if i get really broke i would just go back home and study from home. I do everything from home anyway. Sleep, work, chat, play. Learn. So i guess i really am a homebody (when i’m not traveling). And it’s amazing how i live by without hardly going out, yet learning new things everyday. Home is my world.
WOU has a contest, where you just send in an e-post card of yourself or you and your friends studying with books or a laptop at a place you would define as your world, your classroom. Paste an e-stamp, write a short caption, and win the coolest study tool ever– A Macbook Air.
I have designed my postcard.
So i’m going to show you my classroom. But you must promise you won’t laugh ok.
(I know you will. 
)
My classroom. I hope it’s punny enough. See, told you i’d rather have done my college on a toilet bowl.
Well. It’s true okay, i do that all the time. Sometimes you read something or chat with your friend until very stim but you just cannot tahan. So you have to go. But you wanna continue whatever is to be continued! There was this one time hor, i refused to accept a webcam invitation because i was, you know. In my classroom.
Also, believe me when i say i’m typing this right this exact second, at the exact place shown above.
So, the moral of this photo is, do not let toilet routine become an atrocious waste of time! You learn a thing or two through crap time too.
Check out more of contest info HERE.
Where would your classroom be? 
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study in the uk isnt as fun as u thought >.< boring life…load of assignments..shops closed at 5pm…no life! but there is ONLY one exception if you study in london…metropolitan city! p/s: travel is excluded in this extend…
haha still im jealous!!! >_<
not really.. i was in sheffield 7yrs ago for only 3mths, but we clubbed alot after study.. like, 6days a wk? the onli day we didnt got coz the club was closed.. haha~~ n we hav seen the so called “wet-T” contest~ the gals were so crazy, juz went topless liddat for a bottle of champagne offered by the DJ.. those were the days~
LOL….thanks for the very interesting write up; your classroom is very clean ^^
I make sure my classroom is clean all the time. If not very tragic.
Haha! Nice picture!
like little jennifer said, study overseas is not as fun as you thought. I hardly have time to travel and play and most of my weekends are spend finishing assignments which have snowballed during weekdays. Although the uni and the people you meet are really nice but the workload is a killer!
Taking another degree isn’t a bad choice though, I have friends who are currently taking their 2nd or 3rd degree now. Haha!
All the best
snowball lol. But you have real snowballs also!!!
Woww…cool classroom…Why not…
Wah, I like long leg girl ;p
A nice postcard there ^@^~
lol thanks!
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uni is indeed the best time of my life, it’s definitely not about what’s inside the classroom, lecturer, etc. it’s about the things u do with your friends outside the classroom..
i hate flies all over my food too T__T
yea, thats normally the case. crazy parties and all right!
SWT +_= |||
haha why plus underscore equal me!!!
“Everyday you see Christina Aguillera wannabes and Kurt Cobains alive.”
ya I can relate to this too
also, good idea, hahaha, considering how many hours per year people spend in the toilet. what a waste! might as well put it to good use right. but to see how many hours you waste in the toilet, can check here> http://www.constantlyconstipated.com/calc.html
anyways, there is some pros and cons about studying overseas~ you do get to see the place (that is if you actually have free time) and meet different people with different cultures. but yeah if you’re there as a student, not as fun as when you’re on holiday
everyday go to campus, study, come back home straightaway, study. in fact, I am envious of u cheesie coz u traveled to so many places already! 
haha i took the test and im an average joe what turf.
but you graduated already no? still studying? my memory doesnt serve me well T_T
I can’t remember my result, but mine was along the lines of “slow” xD
i shifted to Curtin uni edi, hoho! I still have this sem and another sem to go before I graduate. I still miss my old college mates tho. T_T I don’t miss the campus tho haha. Coz I used to take RapidKL to uni. Takes about 2 hours *one way*.
Hey Rin,
I’ve studied in Limkokwing mayang campus for 1 sem, then they decided they wanted to shift to the dead town, I tot ‘hey, new campus should b fun’ well guess what, i had the same feeling and situation as you, of all the travelling, u tell me class is cancelled, absolute sien-ness! n i decided to quit that sem, n transfer myself to Aus after that, was pissed off with all the crap! I enjoyed my uni years so much after the transfer!!! LOL!
so lucky you get to go Aus. T_T i had to do everything in that dead town. T_T
hey i have the exact same tot too. haha… bout the toilet idea. becos tat’s basically what we do. when exam is nearby and we just hav to cherish every moment to study more.
hahaha im glad someone does the same
I thought Lim Kok Wing was always hyped up. Funny to read about it otherwise. Heh.
the collage is famous for marketing!
i also came from LimKokWing.. i had to travel from KL to tmn mayang, PJ everyday.. but i was lucky that my mum got me a car.. my very 1st car
it was fun for me.. college time.. i had a few crushes on a few guys but all of it never worked out.. hehe.. had my 1st bf during foundation but for 2 months as he had a gf back at his hometown =.=.. went on dates with a lecturer.. hehehe.. all the freedom we had when we did life drawing.. watching movies in classes with the lecturer.. play ’snood’ at the comp lab.. yea, me and my bff installed most of mac with snood.. hahaha… we’re the culprit.. yes~
overall it was fun, fresh and exciting.. as i get to make friends with some indon chinese, ppl from bostwana, some ppl from the ‘entertainment’ and etc.. i never been to the new campus before and i hope i can visit it someday
and oh, LimKokWing always has the good looking guys and girls around! ;)
eg: cheesie to begin with!
aiyooooooo no la!!!
i think life in mayang was so much more fun. after it shifted to cyber, people just look kinda dead. it’s tiring to travel to college, and we just cant wait for lecture to be over and go back. and you dont get to hang out anywhere unless u wanna go to visit mosque in putrajaya or some soulless cafeteria.
nightmare.
you were lucky to finish everything in Mayang.
Wahhh!!!! I lub ur bathroom! So clean and deco-ed.
Actually I love all clean toilets. Period.
And I LOVED studying in Australia. I wouldn’t say I loved college life, I just loved staying in Brisbane. Clean, beautiful, work/study-life balance.
Living overseas is very different from travelling too. I wish I could live in all sorta different countries over the span of a couple of years…
My classroom: A park in Australia.
SEE WHAT I MEAN!!!!
lol.
If there’s one single regret in my life, it is not having studied abroad <– Me too
T_T
Well, I must say that there are pros and cons to studying overseas. I’m studying at Paris at moment.. and the sucky things are like 7 hours of lectures and TDs (tutorials) in a day.. and when i’m taking only 2 modules for these 6 weeks.. i have FOUR days of school
also, teachers go on strike all the time.. so i can like travel all the way to school.. only to find that out because there’s no info online that the teacher is on strike. or lessons can be cancelled just because your prof didn’t feel like teaching today.
the syllabus here is also much much tougher. you’re expected to know a lot more and be thinking students, but i guess that’s good actually. even though it’s stress-inducing and you have to mug your ass off.
but of course, since paris is pretty easy to travel to everywhere via easyjet or eurolines… i enjoy myself almost every weekend to spain, or belgium, or netherlands, or switzerland, etcetc. so that’s the part that i really enjoy!
but then again, you have to be able to speak french here before people treat you much nicer
so i’m glad i actually do speak french cos i’ve made so many wonderful friends from all over the world! (because my school is a staunch supporter of Erasmus programme).
thank you gel, but i would study any shit just to be able to travel almost every weekend to spain, or belgium, or netherlands, or switzerland, etcetc T_T
ya know cheesie, i think i will have to agree with you. before i got the chance to come here, college, highschool, secondary life were so blase, and so… i hated it. The only way i got to come here was because my dad got retrenched, and he decided to make the best out of it by sending me to Australia to study.
BUT, i will admit – my favourite place, to study, to read – is also the TOILET! damn shiok ahhaha.
anyways, i know you’ve been to australia for studies. but i think… i think, you should sign up for a short course (like ya know, a certificate something) then, fly here to study at the parks for 3 months hahaha…
lucky for you
no leh i never studied in Australia. completed my lousy degree locally.
ah oops i mean been to australia for touristing….
mhhh I dont think college will be that much fun
but studying abroad would be totally cool….
even though definitly not in UK or australia
I would do it in america and I even will have a degree that will allow me to study in america without taking an extra test on my english
but dunno
america is so far away and i like my home
I have a university right before my house
in 20min i could be there even with the public transport systems
=> dont worry about living expenses, dont worry about food….
but it would mean i would have to live with my parents *~*
Actually i am visiting university already before i finished school, so that later I wont have to do it all for so long or so that i will have really much free time
ohh and my favorite place to learn is infront of my computer
haha so meaning u can learn anywhere la!! good luck with college okay!
yeah thx
the only problem is that my computer is one you cant take with me…
so my learning space is pretty limited ;)
Nice postcard!
thanks!!!
sexy legs
angle, angle!!!
out of topic, but i just found this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chessie_(sea_monster)
CheSSie~ lol
oh yea i was studying wikipedia…
what’s chessie gotta do with cheesie~lol
why turf would u be studying wiki lol distant learning is it
now i noe why u don’t like ppl calling you CheSSie~! haha
how about ppl call you NavicGatal..hehe
che: wooyea, what a great name! haha
I do that all the time. I reckon I can think better and more productive (either way) in toilet.
Gizmodo mentioned once.. studying/phone calling/working in toilet has become an usual matter in our daily life ;)
hahahha your monster is soooooo cute!!! look, it’s doing the maiya hee maiya hoo dance wearing dinosaur legs!!! lolol
LOL! do college work in the toilet, now that’s an idea! >D. Yeah, the reason why they shifted to Cyberjaya is because the government sold the land to Lim Kok Wing at a cheaper price and a good place to start because it’s gonna be a ‘ popular community’ when now it’s become an isolated land. >D Itu lah….think cheap, but no brains.
ya lo, i know that also. very sien. hope his hair fall off more lol.
oh yes.. LUCT is somehow s8ck to the max….. i had bad times during my life there too.
Ohyes.. i know that christina aguilera wannabe, she’s staying around in PJ though. LOL! and i remember there’s this girl who always wear this ‘fairy wings’ or dress up like some cartoon princesss (i saw her once in snow white similar outfit)..
those are really the time that you cannot forget man…
is it!!!!!!! does she still have blonde/pink braided hair and wear rainbow socks? hahaa never see the cartoon princess though.
the last time i see her, her hair is black but still braided!
Graphic department if not mistaken! hhaha!
opps; but i love my secondary school years; (:
& cause im good at art; *proud;
i was chose to do the class design & in-charge of the class decorations;
i still remember the design for my secondary 3 notice boards, etc;
its cute & pretty~ *double proud;
i even make all 3 noticeboard looks as if they are of the same theme, etc…
*blabbers on… *show-off… *proud..
*laughs.
so cute!!! hahha i was “kind of’ good at art. but sometimes when im lazy my mom would help me draw and i always get A for art cuz mom’s an artist.
i had no idea you’re from LKW too, am from LKW too, graduate in year 2005/06. One word – that is one crappy college.
lol that’s 5 words
Ringo,
How do you take such great pictures no matter the location? ? ?
Only you can sit on a commode and look so kawaii!
David
hahaha erm, get an awesome camera!! first time hear ppl refer toilet seat as commode. is that an american thing
really?? i was in LICT too … but before cyberjaya …
yea before LUCT it was LICT
hmm, he is probably the first Chinese to have a university in Malaysia named after him. Even Tun Tan Cheng Lock doesn’t have a uni named after him.
Maybe I should start a university too…
Hey, that is true, i must give him that, no matter how well licked Dr M’s shoes.
The original Open University is also good: http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/ . It’s where my mother did her degree – in pre-internet days, she sent her essays etc. by post
waaaaaa i didnt know that! Awesome
Does your classroom have free period?
*R*
It doesn’t snow down under…it hails.
Except on ski resorts!