schoolgirl

UK is bloody cold. And its only autumn. Fuck.

When my lovely girls; Maria, Ah Ma and Naima picked me up from Heathrow, there were frost from our mouth as we spoke. Its like smoking without ciggies. LOL. I love them so much cos they purposely woke up at 4am just to welcome me in Heathrow... and they got lost on the way.

Hahahahhaha!

Oops. I shouldn't laugh. You readers shouldn't as well. The poor darlings missed the bus and had to walk all the way to the train station in darkness and fucking coldness.

....

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I love them. ^_^

Oh, I strayed from what I wanted to say. Whoopsie daisy. I got off the plane on the 28th of September early morning and was shit jetlagged. Despite the killer jetlag sensation, I went for this Freshers' Party the very next night. The theme: schoolgirls and schoolboys.

Ohohohoho. Getting dirty thoughts? Yeah, you should. I was at loss as to what to wear cos you know la, the school uniform in Malaysia sucks. We looked like WWII nurses with our whatever-blue pinafore. And I'd rather go as a duck than to wear that! But anyway, with the help of brain juice, we managed to whip up some schoolgirl outfits.

But cos I was so tired, I was running a bit late and thus, was unable to layer up. The only thing I wore was a thin formal top with mini skirt and sneakers. No leggings, no singlets.

Waiting for everyone to arrive in Wessex Bar

We started off at Wessex Bar, where everyone waited for everyone. While waiting, it was interesting to see how the Brit girls especially, dress as schoolgirls. Like, how short can their skirt be? And how many buttons are undone on her top, and oh, that's a nice black lacy bra. Hmmm, that one's better cos its red lace with push-up.

LOL.

Then, the torture begins. When the crowd had gathered, the pub crawl began. We walked to the bus station and took the bus to the pubs, and we had to walk from one pub to another. It sounds okay but not when its fucking 6 degrees out plus strong winds blowing at you! Ohmygawd... We nearly died of pneumonia.

In the first pub

Left to right: Bitch, bitch, babe, babe

L-R: Nathan, Wildberry, Ah Ma, Naima, Maria, Tom, Aaron

Yeap. The bunch of guys in the pic above are the nicer English people we've met so far. If you think Brits are nice and polite people, you are so fucking wrong. They are simply too full of themselves to realise that they are actually pretty dumb creatures. They don't mix with people other than themselves much, if not at all. And to be honest, the international students are the best. We now know 2 damn sexy Frenchmen. Ooh la la~

But that's story for another day. Damn. I strayed again. Back to the topic, after walking in the freezing cold from pub to pub, we finally went into Q Bar which was apparently, the more happening place in sad little Reading town - think: Nilai town.

Q Bar was packed! It was so damn hot in there, we were practically sweating! The number of students in there was scary cos it was so congested to the point that people had to shove and elbow their way in or out of the dance floor. And the only way u can dance was to just jump up or down. Wriggling your ass sideways was totally out of the question.

But the best part about all these were, the alcohol is fucking cheap - 2 pounds a shot, for instance - and no smoking in clubs. Smokers would have to go outside to this sealed off section to smoke. We tried their famed Aviation Fuel and it was great! I dunno what sort of alcahol was mixed in there but as long my tastebuds are happy, I'm happy!

^_^

It was fun despite the jetlag but we had to head home earlier compared to the sex-crazed and drunken party people cos I was having a hell of a headache and the other girls were damn tired.

The moment we stepped out of the club, ohohohohoh. The blast of cold air nearly KO-ed us. In the end, we took a cab back cos by the time we waited for the bus to come, we would've been human-icicles.

It was fun.

my farewell

It was emotional. Of cos it was. Its a farewell. Who the hell laughs at a farewell? Probably the world's biggest fucker. But this parting was so excrutiatingly painful. And whose fault was it? No prize for guessing.

I finally got my visa on the 26th of September. Consequently I had to postpone my flight from the 25th to the 27th. And because of that, my parents could not send me off at the airport. The only thing which they could do was to see me to my ji-mui's apartment, where I'll be staying for a night.

We had to part there. You cannot imagine what it was like and I really, really hate the angmohs who did this to me. I wanted my parents to see me off at the airport but it was just a dream, obviously.

But at least, I had my ji-muis to send me off. And the parting was no less painful. We were bawling on each other's arms right in front of the guard. But while waiting for my flight, we took some pics around KLIA.

Ji-muis! ^_^

This is how u open the bloody door

"Eh, eh... What the fuck is this!"

"Fuuuuccckkk! Our pic is being taken!"

I love my girls!

Hahahaha. The good times. It was sad cos it felt as if I left some parts of me behind; my family, my ji-muis, the 124E friends and family etc. I suppose that's part of growing older but as the saying goes biarpun jauh dari mata, dekat di hati. Er... something like that.

LOL.

By the way, UK is cold. Urgh.

why

What am I to you?

yet another

What a beautiful day~

I woke up this morning to a call by the Taylor's Law Office, asking me if I had checked my Reading student mail. That got me curious and out of my bed right away.

Not long afterwards, I found out that Dear Miss Simone has been bullshitting us (us meaning all transferring students) all along. We were informed that offer letters were sent to us last Tuesday. Therefore, we were expecting it yesterday. But the offer letter never arrived. In truth, the offer letters were only sent to the International Office in Reading on Wednesday (UK time) and sent out by the International Office on Thursday (UK time). In short, we will only receive our offer letters by next Monday instead of the expected Thursday or Friday of this week.

Wow. Not only are they stupid, slow, inefficient and incompetent, they are dishonest as well. Don't you just love them?

Moving on, I checked my student mail and apparently, received three emails from Dear Miss Simone. I shall post up only two of the mails which she sent me because the third one is plain useless. I tell ya, the two emails are bullshit. Reading it made me want to laugh because how obvious can she make the bullshit be? Even the first sentence is bullshit already. And she is part of the Law Faculty... My, my.


Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:02:58 +0100

Dear Samantha,

To address the question that you posed, as follows:
" ...when will the results be out? I have been checking RISIS everyday for the past week and results are still not out yet, despite the fact that I sat for my re-sit exam on the 28th of August; that is almost two weeks ago! If you do not mind me asking, may I please know why is it taking so long?"

The papers are marked by Taylor's University College staff and they have to be allowed time to do this in the proper way (I am sure that you would not want them to rush this, and not give your paper due care and attention), the papers are then sent to Reading, where they are moderated, once again this process is carefully conducted to give full consideration to each paper. The marks are then collated by the administrative teams (this is no easy task when you consider, as you clearly have not, that you are not the only student sitting for a re-sit examination at this time of year), the marks are then presented to a series of meetings within the School and at Faculty level. Each committee is comprised of different members and sits on different days. The marks then come back to the departments for entry onto RISIS and these are then processed by the RISIS team before they are released on the 18th September to students. I hope that you now understand that we are all working extremely hard at this time of year, and if we could get the results to you any more quickly we would. As it is arrangements are made to ensure that Taylor's students receive their offer/visa letters as soon as possible. If you had alerted the University to the issue with RISIS (which you have still not clearly explained to me, looking at the account I see no difficulty with changing the information contained therein), then you would not be facing these concerns about your offer/visa letter. This programme has been in operation for four years and we have not yet had a student who has failed to arrive as a result of visa difficulties. I hope that you will learn from this experience that careful preparation on your part (keeping records up-to-date, and reading and acting upon information from staff) will ensure smoother operation of processes. I have arranged for your transfer letter, if you have been successful in your recent re-sit examination, to be sent to Taylor's.

Ms. S Austin-Jones


Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:26:45 +0100

Dear All,

I would like to confirm that the offer/visa letters, for those students who have been successful in the recent re-sit examinations, have been sent. I would expect that these letters will arrive tomorrow or Saturday. As has been stated on many occasions, the letters have been dispatched to your home address, as shown in RISIS (it is your responsibility to keep this information up-to-date), unless you have been informed that alternative arrangements have been made.

I would like to remind you , in the strongest terms, that all communications about this matter should be addressed to me. If contact is made by students to numerous other departments, and staff, within the university, this can, in fact, slow the process down, as well as undermining good relations between staff and students. I therefore appreciate your co-operation in this matter. (The most accurate and up-to-date information is available from the School of Law – information obtained from elsewhere may NOT be accurate and may NOT reflect your current position - particularly in relation to examination results, and consequently offer letters, where things may not be finally concluded).

I look forward to meeting you on September 29th.


Simone Austin-Jones


Now, its time for Spot The Bullshit! Let's start with the first sentence of the first mail, shall we?

"The papers are marked by Taylor's University College staff and they have to be allowed time to do this in the proper way..." Riiiggghhhttt. From the first day students stepped foot into Taylor's Law School under the Reading programme, we were being impressed and told over and over again that only First Year papers are marked by Taylor's staff. Second year papers are sent to Reading to be marked and Taylor's have got no business with it. Conclusion: bullshit confirmed.

"...we are all working extremely hard..." Oh, really? Mr G called up Reading a few days prior and asked to speak to Dear Miss Simone, whom the staff at Reading couldn't locate. Clearly, she was missing in action during office hours. So, Mr G was referred to Simone's colleague. He merely asked her to check whether his name was on the list of students who passed, to which her reply was "I'm sorry but we can't help you. Why don't you call back 6 hours later?" Oh, yes. I can see how hardworking you Brits are. Indeed. Conclusion: bullshit confirmed.

After that, Mr G received an email from Dear Miss Simone herself; blasting him for going through her colleagues instead of liaising directly with her obese self. Apparently, the matter was between Mr G and herself. There was no need to get her colleagues involved. Oooh, touchy, touchy. Why so touchy, Miss Simone? Someone scrutinising your back for incompetence? But I thought that u were working extremely hard...

Next suspected bullshit is "...the issue with RISIS...looking at the account I see no difficulty with changing the information contained therein..." Dear Miss Simone, are you really sure you looked properly?

This appeared when I logged into RISIS

On a closer look

As you can all clearly see, my personal particulars were missing and so were my course module and past examinations marks. How on earth was I supposed to change my home address? Log out? Conclusion: bullshit confirmed.

"This programme has been in operation for four years and we have not yet had a student who has failed to arrive as a result of visa difficulties." Dear Miss Simone, "not yet" doesn't guarantee that in the future, it would not happen. You see, all this while, the second cohort of the First Year Students were not allowed to re-sit, unlike the first cohort. So, if they failed, its bye bye. But this year, Reading changed the system to allow second cohort students to re-sit, which explained why the re-sit date was pushed 'til so late. Don't talk so soon, Miss Simone. You may have to eat your own words, though for my own sake, I pray that its not this year. Conclusion: bullshit inconclusive; however sentence contained alarming element of bullshit.

"I hope that you will learn from this experience..." Yes, I have. Brits are incompetent and dishonest. And anyone who wants to read law should just screw Reading and enrol in Sheffield or Oxford or other better universities. Conclusion: no bullshit.

Now, lets have a look at the second mail. Oh, this is getting fun.

"I would like to remind you , in the strongest terms, that all communications about this matter should be addressed to me. If contact is made by students to numerous other departments, and staff, within the university, this can...undermine[ing] good relations between staff and students." Why so affected by students liaising with your colleagues who are in the same department as you? Muahahahahaha.


There. A year's supply of bullshit from the fat lady herself. What's a small town girl from Sabah like me to do? Send her the sweetest thank you note ever. ;)

Dear Miss Simone,

I thank you so much for all that you have done to help us transferring students, with regard to our results and offer letters. I understand that everyone has been working extremely hard to enable transferring students to rush things in time. Your effort in the matter has helped us a lot and I really appreciate it.

I would like to apologise if you were offended or annoyed in any way by my previous mails, and I deeply regret any inconvenience caused. Once more, please accept my highest gratitude because what you have done was a great help.

Thank you very much.


Yours sincerely,
Samantha Ho.


Yep. Thank you for giving me so much bullshit. I trust that my garden will produce prize cabbages and sunflowers. And all the earthworms will be wriggling around joyfully because there is so much shit.

Thank you, thank you very much.

again

Initially, there were so many things for me to blog about. For example, the great time I had with my friends last week when we multi-sported; karaoke, archery, movie and midnight basketball.

Then, I had the dim-sum buffet with my sisters. Yummy-licious dim-sums and at a reasonable price too. Last night, I went on a shopping spree with Naima and had an interesting dinner with Baby Boss. And today, I was sent to heaven by this ice-cream walnut brownie in Secret Recipe.

Such happy stuffs. There was like, four happenings which I could have happy-fied my blog with.

*sighs*

As usual, the stupid Brits managed to piss me off badly. So badly, all I can think of everyday is "What useless shit are they up to now?" They are so slow, its a shock that they aren't moving backwards. Gosh!

To cut a long story short, here's the correspondence between me and the University. I trust that my beloved readers would understand what's happening without needing me to explain from A-Z.


Sent: 08 September 2008 10:48

Dear Miss Simone,

I know that results for the re-sits are not out yet but should I pass, could you please send the offer letter to the Taylor's Law Office instead of my home address in RISIS? This is because I am currently in Kuala Lumpur and not my hometown; waiting for the offer letter to do my visa. There is very little time and it would be a great help if I am able to receive my offer letter directly from the Taylor's Law Office.

Additionally, may I please know when will the results be out? As mentioned above, there is not much time left and I would need to rush for my visa in addition to the preparation for the transfer to Reading.

Your effort and kind consideration in the matter is highly appreciated,and I regret any inconvenience caused. Thank you.

Yours sincerely,
Samantha Ho.


On Sep 8 2008, Simone Ann Austin-Jones wrote:

Dear Samantha,

If you have been successful in your recent re-sit examination, the offer letter will be sent shortly, to your HOME ADDRESS, by courier. I do not think that it is possible to alter this, but I will make enquiries on your behalf. I hope that this helps.

Kind regards
Simone


Sent: 10 September 2008 04:12

Dear Miss Simone,

Firstly, I thank you for making enquiries on my behalf. I really appreciate it. However, I do not think that I have made my situation clear enough to you. The reason I requested that the offer letter be sent to the Taylor's Law Office was because I was unable to change my home address on RISIS due to some problems.

Another important factor was that, I am currently in Kuala Lumpur, West Malaysia. My hometown is in Sabah, East Malaysia. To wait for the offer letter to reach Sabah and subsequently for my parents to courier over my offer letter to me would take at least a week.

To make matters worse, the application for a visa takes up to five working days, at least. As I have mentioned in the previous mail, there is very little time. If the offer letter was not sent to the Taylor's Law Office, it is highly likely that I would not be able to make it to Reading in time for the Refreshment Week. It was heavily emphasised during your visit to Malaysia that students do not miss Refreshment Week.

In addition to that, I have booked a flight to UK on the 25th of September. As I have mentioned above, I am from East Malaysia and it would take me one day to travel home to Sabah from Kuala Lumpur. Due to the re-sit, I was not able to go home and spend time with my parents whom I have not seen for almost a year. I really hope that I can at least spend a week at home with them before I leave for UK, assuming that I pass, of course.

On that vein, I would like to ask again, when will the results be out? I have been checking RISIS everyday for the past week and results are still not out yet, despite the fact that I sat for my re-sit exam on the 28th of August; that is almost two weeks ago! If you do not mind me asking, may I please know why is it taking so long?

Miss Simone, if what I have typed above had offended you in any way, please accept my most sincere apologies. Nevertheless, I hope that you understand the predicament that I am in, and of other transferring students as well. We really need your help in this matter.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,
Samantha Ho.



See??? Such bullshit. They are bullshit. The whole system is bullshit. Every single thing is bullshit. Nothing but bullshit. Bullshit.

I can't wait to see what bullshit reply am I going to get from the University tomorrow. Make my day.

ignore this

Omg. I am sooooo pissed.

One would think that the reason Westerners have a ridiculous superiority complex is because they are much better than us, nationals of developing countries. We, sad to say, depend on them for the upturn or downturn of our lousy economy. It doesn't help that they have a much higher currency than us.

Being their superior selves, one would think that they are a smart, efficient bunch. Superheroes waiting in eager anticipation to swoop down from their glorious polluted skies to save third-world country victims from injustice blah blah blah. Even when we don't need their bloody help cos we know very well that they are simply finding an excuse to meddle, interfere and butt their noses in places which doesn't belong.

Ah, yes. How superior. That's until you have to deal with them personally and then you realised that they are actually sooooo terlampau bodoh, you can't help but go "What the fuck?!"

Why? Because they are impossibly rigid and unreasonable. I suppose they would die if their lives are without procedures or tedious paperwork. They like to drag things because they worship the snail - "Oh, look. The snail took an hour to move an inch. Lets do that too! Yippee!"

They couldn't be bothered that people are frantically rushing around trying to get things done or if someone of a non-Western descent really, really needed help. Yes, why must they move their fat arses from the couch? Its not like superior them brought about our predicament.

*snorts*

Oh really? I admit that I have failed one paper because of my extenuating circumstances, and not because I have not studied. Regardless, I understood that I have failed and needed to resit. And the only kind thing that they have done to me was to allow me to resit as my first attempt, at the expense of my national moots. I'm so friggin' touched.

*tears of gratitude rivalling the Niagara Falls*

Then why is the resit sooooo farking late??? Oh, its cos they wanted to make it simultaneous with the second cohort of the First Year's resits.

WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUUUUKKKKKKKKK???

What has first years got to do with 2nd years? They know very well that 2nd years are transferring students and we have a lot of things to do in preparation for the transfer to Reading. "Sorry, but that's the way we do things." Very smart. So smart that I was moved to vomit blood.

And it has been more than a week after my resits. And results will only be out next week. Then, I still have to wait for my offer letter to do my visa. Which means, I probably can't go home; because their lives depend on silly procedures in an attempt to look intelligent which only, I'm so delighted to say, proved otherwise.

Arrrgghhhhh!!!! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u! I hate u!

Why on earth are they sooooo fucking boooddddddoooooooooooooohhhhhhh??????? In all actuality, we are so much more better than them. They can all go die. Ngiao.

Orang putih jahanam tak berguna dan tak berotak langsung memang sampah masyarakat tapi mereka sangka diri mereka hebat sangat dan bila semua orang ketawakan mereka, mereka lagi gembira kerana fikir bahawa kita sukakan mereka padahal kita benci betul melihat muka satu sen mereka yang macam beruk bernama Usha, busuk lagi menyampah.

Geram betul.

of angels and evils

Was blog-hopping and decided to check out this site which was recommended by one of my friends. It tests the evilness of ur blog or a passage of text.

And here's my result:

Oooh... Wildberry ain't so evil after all. She's practically an angel. Believe it, assholes.

*Laughs like an angel*