RIDICULOUS!

You know the whole perception that, “things will be better overseas” when you do a comparison with what you have back home and the yearning for better things to come when you’re in some place different? I’m sorry guys and gals but THAT doesn’t always happen... especially when you’re living where I am right now.

Perth, the most isolated city in the world – quoted from an unknown website I stumbled across randomly over Google...

Let us now narrow the scope of the focus of my ranting now and it is none other than the UNI I go to..

Back in Malaysia, the lecturers may not always deliver the most interesting lectures nor do they know what they’re talking about most of the time but we get compensation with FREE WIRELESS INTERNET CONNECTION and FASTER CONNECTION (mind you), print quota of about 300 pages per semester (print B&W or coloured pages till your hearts content y’all!) AND we are able to see our lecturers anytime of the day (as long as they’re still in college and they’re at their desks).

Even when I had all the above, I still wasn’t satisfied...

NOW...

I have to PAY for internet connection – costs differ with webcam and headphone usage, to print and to photocopy stuff == here, there isn’t such a thing as making photocopies of books. NO BOOKSHOP WILL LET YOU DO IT; it’s against the law, simple as that. Food choices here are less than satisfactory and the Asian foods here aren’t exactly Chinese type of foods to begin with. [They’ve all been Australianized.... There is NO PROPER VEGGIE!! There are only cubed potatoes with long beans. And THAT’s the only type of VEGGIE! The rest of the dishes are all meat!!!!! –chicken cooked in 5 different style – bbq, honey, crispy, lemon and soya sauce.].

I’m living on campus – the admin of the accommodation is awful...

For example, my heater... the most recent of my complaints... The guy came and took it from me yesterday and said that he would bring it back LATER. If he had said, “I’ll bring it back in a few days’ time” – i would totally understand and give him his time... And today, I went to ask for my heater at 2.40p.m. but he was out for lunch. Fair enough – A lady at the reception took my name, flat number and room number and said that she would notify him once he gets back from lunch. At 4.10 p.m. I go to the admin office and guess what another lady tells me?

“Paul went back already”.

Me: (I stood there jaw dropped halfway and I explained that I got someone to pass him a note after he had come back from lunch about my heater and all and guess what she replies...)

She: You come back tomorrow at 8.30a.m.

Me: ...

I’m fuming!!!!!!!!!!!!! WTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m going to email him again now, asking him when exactly is my heater coming back. I really don’t care if the people at the office hate me for complaining but it’s because they’re not doing their designated jobs which result in unsatisfied student customers.

ARGH!!!!!!! n i tot college back home was bad....