Hello guys, dayum it has been a long time since I have not
update my blog. Not because I am busy, indeed I have a lot of time to spend
after I’ve finished my SPM and already get the result I’m just too lazy sorry
haha
Okay I don’t wanna talk much so let’s hop right in to the
actual content of what I’m gonna write.
So right now, I’m sitting on my desk in my compel in Kolej
Matrikulasi Pulau Pinang. Today’s Saturday and we aren’t allowed to go outing
because an event called KAKOM is being held, I’m gonna explain what’s KAKOM
later okay but first I’m gonna tell ya about my first 2 weeks of living here (I’ve
been here for 3 weeks already hell yeah) so let’s getting started. (I’m
2015/2016 student batch if you wanna know)
1. CLOTHES
So for girls of course you need to
wear baju kurung when it’s kuliah time. You can change to riadah outfit later
at 5pm. You can bring any colors or style of your baju kurung, but I think
jubah is not allowed ? idk lots of people said that but still, people still
wearing it especially during night classes. For Indians I see there’s some of
them wearing umm not saree, but a long blouse with pants, punjabi I think ? but
that’s man attire idk what’s called haha but as long as it’s not too sexy or tight
then it’s okay. For men as usual a button down shirt and slack pants and also a
tie :) A week or two the college will give you gifts (well not really haha) which
are 2 shirts (you’ll wear it during KAKOM or KOKO), a towel and a bag (also a
lab coat if you’re science stream student). On Friday men can wear baju melayu
but it must complete with sampin and songkok. Also you can wear kain pelikat
at night when you’re planning on going to surau.
2. SHAWLS
Here you can wear any types of
shawl or tudung as u desired, any style you want (my friend from KMNS said that
they’re only allowed to wear black tudung or shawls so it really depends on the
college regulation itself). You’ll need white tudung to wear with your KMPP
shirts. Only white okay. Boys aren’t allowed to wear songkok or kopiah during
kuliah time but after that time it’s okay.
3. SHOES
You’ll need 4 types of shoes at least.
One is the one that you’ll wear to kuliah. At first I see for girls all of them
are wearing black or skin-colored flat shoes but after a week or so hah kau
macam-macam colors dengan style ada, converse also can. But bringing a black
flat shoe is necessary okay. For boys typical lah kasut hitam kulit tu. Please
wear the most comfortable shoe that you have because you don’t want your ankles
to be bruised okay, because you’ll need to go to different places for each
different classes and the distance from one class to another is hella far. Next
is sport shoe. Of course you need to wear them when you’re riadah or playing
sports. Neeext is slippers, you need to wear them when you’re going to the
toilet and shower. Last but not least is sandal, when you want to go out eating
or studying or boraking or whatsoever at the café. The socks are of course,
black or skin-colored or grey in color.
4. BAGS
Since the KMPP is gonna give you a
bag, you can wear it but if you don’t want to then it’s okay. You can wear any
bags either sling bag or backpack depends on the amount of books you’re gonna
bring that day. I’m wearing my own bag which I’ve been wearing since high
school.
5. BOOKS
Most of the early syllabuses that
I’ve learn most of them are the revision from the form 4 and 5 of high school.
So yeah I think if you want to bring your pasts revision book it’s okay
especially the addmath books. Please please please prepare some money to buy
the books here because the total of the books I’ve bought (it’s a must) is
roughly I think RM200. There are still books for me to buy so yeah, money is
important here. You’ll need a lot of foolscap papers and also A4 papers. Small
note book for you to jot down things and also note books if your lecturers ask
for it.
6. ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES
Lemme count how many electrical
appliances I have here, hmm there are a fan, a study lamp, phone, tab, laptop
and their chargers, iron and water heater. So yeah that’s basically what you
can bring here. Must I say that laptop is really important, I left my laptop at
my home in Kuala Lumpur so I need to borrow my uncle’s laptop. It’s only have
been 2 weeks or so there’s already assignments that require a usage of laptop
like making a folio and power point. So just bring your laptop but if you don’t
want to on the first week (orientation week) then you can bring it later. There’s
a bilik menggosok at the end of the corridor but I’ve never, I meant no one has
ever step into that room so might as well just iron your clothes in the room. In
addition there are 2 washing machines for each compel, the payment is about RM2
to RM2.50. Some of the washing machines accept notes, some of them only accept
new coins. Portable air-conditioner is not allowed because it will cause the whole
compel to black out (thanks for scaring me when I was studying late night).
Wire extension is really really necessary okay, don’t forget to bring it.
7. THE ROOMS
Okay so one room consists of 4
persons. Each one will get well, a bed, a pillow, a cupboard and a set of chair
and table. You’ll need to bring your own bedding, extra pillows if you want (i
put aside the given pillow lol I’ll never gonna wear it there’s a lot of maps on it). Your blanket, also you’ll
need a wrapping paper and transparent plastic sheet to wrap your desk. There’s
one plug so that’s why I’ve told you to bring dem extensions.
8. THE FOODS
Actually you don’t really need
that much of food stocks because you can go to the café of your choice to buy
the foods. The only stocks that I have are mainly consists of small packs of biscuits, 3 in one
drink, bottles of mineral water and maybe some Maggie.
Enough of that now I’m gonna tell
ya about the surroundings.
1. THE KOMPEL
For girls there’s 10 compels aka
blocks (cluster A - A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 and cluster B - B1 B2 B3 B4 B5) while for
boys there’s 5 compels (cluster C - C1 C2 C3 C4 C5). There’s a bathroom, a
place for washing your clothes, for taking your wudhuk and a corridor to hang
your washed clothes. Washing machines are only available at the lower ground of
the compel. Each compel has a warden called felo. She/he will take care of you
guys if anything happened between the time of 6PM to 7AM (other than that time
Pejabat HEP will help you). Each cluster has a water filtration machine so you
can get your drink water from there.
2. THE CAFÉ
There are 6 cafés here. Café A
which is in between cluster A compels, Café B which is between cluster B
compels, Café C which is in between cluster C compels, Café D which is in
between Dewan Kuliah and Block Pentadbiran (this café is mostly for breakfast),
Lake View Café which infront of the Block Tutoran and well, beside the lake and
lastly D’Pongsu Café which beside the library. There are plenty of foods here
from nasi berlauk to nasi ayam to burgers to char kuey tiow to fruit salads to
bihun sup to nasi lemak to claypot tomyam to chicken chop. Heaven af. Wifi is available in each of the café, you
can get the password and username at the kmpp’s portal.
3. THE LIBRARY
You’ll need to scan your matric
card at the entrance in order to enter. Your attire must be appropriate okay.
The library is huge and quite chilly so if you cannot stand cold then bring
your sweater. You can obviously borrow the books here for max 1 week. All the
books here are educational and I see none fictional books are available lol. The
library is open from 8AM to 6PM and reopens at 8.30PM to 11PM. You guys aren’t
allowed to be around the compel from the time of 8AM to 10AM weekdays so you
can go to the library. Upstairs there’s computer lab where you can use to find
stuffs for your assignments.
4. DEWAN KULIAH, TUTORAN AND
BANGUNAN SERBA GUNA
Okay here please listen, I mean
read carefully. So, in Dewan Kuliah there are Dewan Kuliah 1,2,3,4,5,6. In
Tutoran there are 1 to 30 rooms, it looks like a typical classroom. While in
Bangunan Serba Guna (BSG) there are 2 Dewan Kuliah and 24 tutoran rooms. The
counting is quite confusing. I mean in your class schedule it will say
Dewan Kuliah 8, which means Dewan Kuliah 2 in BSG. While example for Tutoran,
it say T47, which means that your class is gonna be held at bilik Tutoran
T17 at BSG. So basically if the number of your bilik Tutoran is more than 30,
it means that you’ll need to find the room at BSG, just need to minus the
number of your bilik Tutoran with 30. You’ll gonna get it soon, if not you’ll
gonna end up like me for getting late 5 mins to dewan kuliah because I cannot fking find it.
5. KOPERASI AND PHOTOSTAT SHOP
In koperasi you can get all your
essentials here like toiletries, stationery, breads, cakes, junk foods, fans,
water heater, waffles, top-ups. Also there’s a section where they sell nasi
ayam, nasi kerabu, nasi berempah, sandwiches, macaroni, spaghetti and much
more. There are 2 koperasi so you can choose which one’s the best. Then there’s
Post Office and Photostat Shop. If you wanna buy bus tickets you can do it in the
Post Office. In Photostat Shop there are 3 computers you can use with the
payment of RM3 for each hour. There’s also ATM BSN (only one tho) beside the
Block Pentadbiran.
6. OUTINGS
On the day of your registration
week you will receive a book which contains the rules and regulations of the
college that you must obey. And it will provide a calendar that is filled with
the dates of activities, exams, important events that will be held during the whole
semesters of your study. The calendar will show you when you can go outing or
go back home. So just refer to that. Here in KMPP the places that are closest
for you to hang out are sunshine and mydin. There is cinema there so you can go
watch movie to release your stress. There are public buses and taxis and “prebet
sapu” that you can hop on for a ride to your destination. On the day that you
can go out, you need to get back before 7PM. Same case when you go back home,
you can go out at 5PM after your class ended on Friday and come back here on
Sunday before 7PM. You are required to scan your matric card at the guard post
before you can go out.
7. KAKOM
KAKOM is a sports activity that is being held annually. It is a sport game between other Matrics Colleges. Which means every matrics have KAKOM. You can decide either you want to join it or not. It's the same like KOKO. There are plenty of sports that you can choose from and some of them are new to me like squash, tennis and bowling. There are also typical sports like netball, volleyball, badminton, pidato, takraw, bola sepak, kawad kaki and much more.
Fuhh, done with that now lastly I’m
gonna tell ya about the orientation week okei.
ORIENTATION WEEK
Firstly, you need to make sure
all your documents are settled. Especially the borang perjanjian, make sure to make
two of them. NOT TWO COPIES. TWO SET OF THE FORM. Also make sure the documents
like birth certificate and all that, get the verification from the government officials,
in my case I ask my high school teacher to sign it for me. Please make sure the
penjamin of both of the forms are the same person okay.
So the first day I entered this
college I was nervous but excited at the same time. Cars were parked at the
astaka (fields) and many students and parents were there. We were all required
to be at the Dataran Pelajar, parents were seated there while the students were
lined up at the counters to make sure the documents required were completed.
Next we went to the computer lab to confirm the registration for those who
registered online. After that we get ready to take a picture for matric’s card.
Make sure you guys look hella good that day okay. Lastly we were asked to go to
the bilik tv to get our room key. Then after that you are allowed to take your
stuffs up and set things down. Oh and don’t forgot to bring kain buruk and
feather duster because your room is gonna be hella dirty. Need some cleaning
skill a lil bit. For my semester they don’t provide any curtain (I still haven’t
put one yet) so you need to bring your own. Not to rush for that day, just use
kain batik temporarily before you set up the curtains on, maybe the next week.
On the next day the orientation
week begun, most of them are held by your seniors. They were there being a
volunteers and facilitators to guide you for a week. This week is gonna be so so so tiring because
you’ll need to wake up at 5AM and only allowed to go back to your compel at 11.30
PM. I remember I’ve only showered once a day. So damn uncomfortable. You’ll
need to solat subuh berjemaah at Dataran Pelajar, then they’ll divide you into
your practicum, each practicum mainly consists of 5 to 6 people. Next you’ll
have mentor and mentee session, rest for solat zohor, continue with the
session, and rest again for solat asar. Then you’ll have to change your clothes
for riadah session. All of the students are compulsory to join the senam robik
session. It was fun tho. Later we were required to getting ready for solat
maghrib, and sit for ceramah while waiting for solat isya. After that we were
rushed to the places that already have been set up for taklimat. Lots of
taklimat. Dem legs were killing me.
And after that hell week, you guys
are now ready to start your first kuliah ever :) The 2nd week here
was kinda hard for me because of the homesick was haunting me. I really miss my
family and my friends and high school, I would kill for living that moment once
again. But now I feel quite better, I’m still trying to adapt to my new world.
It’s getting fun every week. My roommates are so great, once we watch a movie
on Wani's laptop even tho each of us have lots of assignments that need to be
done.
Well I think that is the end of
this post, this is probably the longest post I’ve even written haha. I hope
that my roommates, my practicum mates and I can achieve such a great results
aka 4flat (aminnn). All the best to you guys if you’re joining kmpp sooner or
later :)
BYE GUYS, STAY FAB AND RAD XX
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update : things might change from time to time. For instance I heard that for the batch after me there will be no more Lake View Cafe and D'Pongsu Cafe and the owner of each Cafe A B C and D exchange places between each other. Lake View and D'Pongsu are the best tho :(
update : things might change from time to time. For instance I heard that for the batch after me there will be no more Lake View Cafe and D'Pongsu Cafe and the owner of each Cafe A B C and D exchange places between each other. Lake View and D'Pongsu are the best tho :(
