BY : AMIR AZIZI BIN MOHAMED FAUZI
CLASS : DIM0102
GROUP : 2
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Now this time, its about my life in college without any company of my family. I am alone, not even a single family member will come and help me or look after me. Because my family lives far away, its a 2 hour trip to get here. I'll just have to depend on myself to keep away from danger, any kinds of trouble such as bullying, smoking, breaking out of hostel at night and go to a night club, have a bad results in college and etc. That's not a person I wanna be right now, I don't want a bad reputation in college. My mom raise me well, and she expects high from me. Better live up to her words, I won't let her down. I would rather stay away from fights, rather have a safe conversation and talk it all out then getting into a fistfights. I learn Martial Arts like Taekwondo for self defense not to pick up fights. I learn martial arts to protect the people around me and myself, I wore a sparring taekwondo pants just to make them think twice if they want to mess with me. HEHEHEHE
First day at KPTM College in 20/6/2015, there's a lot of people who arrived early and I have a few friends from high-school who end up here with me. It was fasting day, I was really tired and hungry like everyone else. I arrived early for the registration for which hostel I want, a house or a dorm. I rather choose living in a house than a dorm, because in a house there are more privacy than living in a dorm. The house has rooms for each 2 to 4 persons, but in a dorm maybe like 8 to 10 persons. After my registration, they gave me a map to the house. So my parents and I drove there to unpack my stuff, good thing that I went there early and get a good place to live for 6 months. After we arrive, we went to see the house chief for house registration. I got in the last house number 11 from 1, I was nervous that i'll have to live in a dorm with less privacy. after I checked in, I unpack my stuff and met my housemates but didn't say hey to each other yet. I've unpacked my belongings into a locker and pull on the bed sheets and pillowcase. When we are done settling in, we went out for a moment to buy a few things for me like the ironing board, detergent, hangars and etc. Then my parents send me back "home", hehe yeah~ "home" is what I called it here now. A secondary home, my parents talked to me about safety and work-hard to achieve something great. After that, I shake my parents hand and kiss my mom's cheek before they leave. I admit that I was a little sad when they left, here's where my story began on being alone without any family members to come and help when i'm in need. I just sat back and relax on my own bed, I gotta say that the bed was comfortable. I brought my pillows that I used at home here. I don't know what to do until I met Afif, he spoke to me with his accent that I didn't quite understand. I replied to him like "ahh yeah, yup, haha" and I smile, he unpack his stuff while I was playing with my phone. And then another person walks in, his name was Iman and he didn't talk much. I guess he was shy or in a hurry, good thing its a cat friendly zone here so I won't get stressed out that much. I'll hug a cat if i'm sad, angry or stressed, yup that's me alright. That evening we had to go to Rapat Setia Hall for a student meeting with the MPPs (Majlis Perwakilan Pelajar). They've welcomed us and introduced themselves, and they talked little about rules for our orientation for the next day and some rules in hostel and college.
The next day, we had an orientation on fasting day, my mind said "what the hell are they thinking doing an activity on fasting day?". That is our challenge for 3 days on our orientation, we were tired, hungry and a little bit bored. Too much talking and nagging, I was annoyed to some facilitators. But others are cool I guess, unless we cross the line they will unleash their fury. Its because we are still fresh they think they can push us however they want. So, the first thing we got to do is getting to know each other including the facilitators. It is called an Ice-Breaking event, most of us was "awhhhh grrreaaaaat", maybe they didn't like that kind of event because they were arrogant or too shy to do it. well they had to do it anyways, so the the head of the facilitator divides the students into a group and assigned a facilitator to join us. I've met with a girl facilitator, she was short and she is 20 years old and we called her Kak Kay. After the Ice-Breaking event ends, they've planned to do a lot of exiting activities. There's to much to describe them all, but we were very tired so is the facilitators. Some of the students faint and got sick, They had to be sent home or back to their dorm, its because the activity was from 7 am to 10 pm. That night at maghrib, we were ready for our iftar. We were assigned to do some work and help the facilitators, well they were tired too i guess. They said it is their first time to do an orientation in fasting day, yeah for us as well. The groups are assigned into different jobs, like cleaning, throwing rubbish, and give away food. My group was assigned for give away food to the other students, we were hungry and thirsty watching the food and drinks in front of us. One of my group members actually drink before azan maghrib, I stopped him after he took a sip and he was like about to burst out. Hahaha, he was too thirsty and so do I. I said to him "Its okay, it was providence that you drank that water." But I swallowed my saliva watching him took a sip of it, dammit!. I thought I was not gonna make it, but my faith is still strong to withstand the challenge for the whole day. At the closing end of the orientation, we were like "yessss!!! Its the last dayyyy!!". We've met with our Colleges Director in the hall, the Director welcomed us and lecture us about college's life, rules and all that important stuff. And then we all have to choose classes on which schedule we like, I thought we would be assigned randomly so my friends and I planned to go to class together.
On our first day at class, we were having a get to know sessions with our lecturers. It was fun and all that, got to meet our AWESOME English lecturer name Madam Hamizah Osman, our ITM lecturer we called him Sir EE, our ITSA/CAIT lecturer Miss Norami, our FOP lecturer Miss Salawani and others I forgot their names. The class is really random, its not like high-school that we will be staying in the same classroom. Sometimes we have to go to different classrooms on different floors and on different buildings, my college is build like the KLCC in Kuala Lumpur because it has like the crossover bridge. Get to meet with my classmates, they were all shy with each other as well for me, i'm shy too. The next day of our class we started learning chapter 1 on each subject, and there's mathematics. My first thought was "why the hell math has to do anything with multimedia?", then again math might be important in multimedia......... i think...., i'm just worried that I won't pass my math and can't proceed on my next semester. And there's a programming subject, i'm all about programming because I followed my fathers footsteps and I like to play video games a lot. How about if I stop playing games and focus on how to make one? yeahhh~~ But after I started learning here, I stopped playing games for a while. Except on my mobile phone, I would get really bored if I don't do anything besides learning. Although we could play sports at our hostel, there's a little field so we can play soccer or any other kinds of sports. If i'm too lazy, I would just lay down on my bed and listen to some music. If that still makes me bored, I would just eat everything I have until i'm satisfied. This is how I survive at my new "home" now , and there's another another few problems that I always have. First is there's NO WIFI!!, technically there is wifi at my hostel but it is sooooo slowwww. I can't even watch youtube that much and do some research for my assignments. Then I decided to buy a portable wifi for my personal use, not for my friends. I use it only to do research for my assignments, chatting, facebook if the lecturer share some useful information there, play my online games on my mobile (not often), watch youtube if i'm really really bored. download stuff like online notes or music. And here's my second problem, MONEY!!!. I really hate this problem, its hard to go anywhere or buy food... especially FOOD. Ugh, its hard to get something to eat at my hostel area. I always eat at mamak restaurant or at a little cafe called Majid Cendol, the food price is reasonable there so that's the only place I eat. And I have to pay for my portable wifi every month, so its a little bit hard to go out and watch a movie or go bowling. But if I can manage with that, my life will not be that complicated.
I guess I would say "home is the most comfortable place to live in" and yeah I guess that's true but now that i'm living in a hostel, I just have to live my life to the fullest. I just have to not to think about my problems that much, I will just put them away.. lock them inside my mind and drop it inside the deepest ocean. If there's a person who'll keep dragging me down, I won't stop to keep getting back up. I want to be a successful man when I walk out this college with a big smile and make my parents and my families proud. this is my experience on how I live without any company from my family. Thank you for using your time to read this, please correct me if there's a mistake. Thanks again.