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  • My Hostel Room In Newcastle @ Lovaine Flats

    My Hostel Room In Newcastle @ Lovaine Flats

    My Hostel Room In Newcastle @ Lovaine Flats – In Malaysia, flat is like low-cost flat where you it’s a place to stay with a small living room and perhaps 1/2 room. Sounds, low cost, but in the UK, flat actually means apartment and the hostel I am living right now is call the Lovaine Flats. Yeah. Guess what, it’s actually the cheapest hostel in Northumbria University at £85/week and I don’t get my own bathroom.
    Befre. Empty room, with no bedding.
    Room is quite OK, location-wise is very good too which is very near to the city, the library and the gym, what’s not OK is there’s only one shower, and one WC! Oh my god, there’s 5-7 rooms in a flat and imagine you are having a stomachache and he/she is having a stomachache at the same time. Die lo.
    Kitchen for 5.
    OK, that’s me, in a room with stuff now.
    My workstation in the UK. I miss my big monitor screen and an awesome sound system back home.
    I don’t mind the room being small, because it’s bigger than the one I stayed in Taylor’s University, I don’t mind the room is not beautifully decorated because I have my own way to make it comfortable. Kitchen is OK, just lack of a good common area. Well, the dining chairs and table are definitely the place for me and the rest of the flatmate to chill. I’ve seen nicer one here but they are way more than mine at over £100/week. So I was thinking, since it’s just a place to sleep, why not save the extra pounds for something else, travel, perhaps?
  • First Steamboat At Lovaine Hall

    First Steamboat At Lovaine Hall

    First Steamboat At Lovaine Hall – I believe there’s more steamboat to come, since it’s so easy to prepare by just buying the ingredients from Chinatown, divide the money, invite people and eat. So, this is my first steamboat at Lovaine Hall, 4th floor’s AA5 kitchen to be specific which happened a month ago.
    At just about £6 per person, I had a awesome dinner that give me a feeling of home. Happy, fun, bloated, and shiokness.
    Muahahahahahahahahahahaha.

  • A Visit To HELP University And HELP Residence

    Klang Valley I am back! Luckily I did not stuck in the Raya jam last weekend when everyone was just going back to their work town or home town from other place. I came back last Saturday, early in the morning to get rid from the super long jam. My first destination upon arrival was HELP University College at Pusat Bandar Damasara because that my friend, Chien Chern who fetched me and Tee Jin back wanted to check in to the hostel of his new school.

    This was my first time visiting the campus and I never really knew the exact location. Friends keep telling me it’s near to Mid Valley, near to Bangsar, it’s at Damansara. But I have no idea where it was, when I heard about Damansara, I only know about Damasara Utama, where the shopping mall 1 Utama is. Haha.

    But now, I know where it is located, and it’s located undergroumd. Haha. Not exactly underground, the building itself is on a hill slope which the upper part is office building and lower part to the slope is the campus itself.

    It was already close when we visited the place. It’s quiet, it’s so much different from Taylor’s University that I am studying in, it look, different. HAHA.

    Next was to visit the HELP Residence, the hostel for the school. It’s just accompanying my friend to check-in and check out the hostel.

    RM550 without utilities fee on a twin-sharing room with bathroom, without kitchen. What do you think? Looking at the photo, they look a bit dirty on the wall, but the HELP University has responded with a comment below, quite good:

    Nick, Thank you for sharing your photos with us. I wished we had the chance to show you around HELP Damansara campus and the Residence. For your information, we have identified the room and immediately went in to repair and repainted the place. This is certainly an isolated case. The previous student had just moved out in the previous week and due to the long Raya holidays, the maintenance staff had not cleaned up the room in time for your friend’s check in. By the way, here is a link to show you the rest of the facilities in HELP. http://www.help.edu.my/sites/h…

    Nervertheless, HELP Residence do have a good view out of the window.

  • Some Old Photos At Taylor’s Hostel

    Some Old Photos At Taylor’s Hostel


    Me. HAHAHA. V.

    Dug up some old photos in my archive which I think I haven’t post it up here on my blog. I am back to Kuala Lumpur, Petaling Jaya, Bandar Sunway or whichever name you comfortable with. Haha. But then I am not staying in Taylor’s Hostel / Taylor’s Residence already because they suck, staying slightly further out of campus, about like 1KM away. =)


    My housemate last time, Moh Wei Ding. Long time no contact already.


    Stupid expensive lousy in-campus hostel.


    Stupid security system where they want each resident close the door and scan the card one by one. Sucks. Might as well replace with some gate instead of fire door.

     

  • Where Is The Internet at Taylor’s University Hostel?

    Where Is The Internet at Taylor’s University Hostel?

    When I first moved into Taylor’s Residences, the apartment hostel located in-campus of Taylor’s University, there’s no Internet access I was told that the service will be ready by end of August. Okay, I subscribe to DiGi Broadband while waiting for it.

    When end of August came, there’s no Internet service. Sucks. A new notice were given up that they were upgrading the signal strength and stuff and Internet access was promised to ready before October. Fine.

    Obviously it’s just some stupid reason to cover their slowness. Because they only install the modem/router/access point thing in the middle of September.

    Now is already October right? Almost middle of the month already and still no Internet access here! WTF and pissed off by their service and promises. Now they don’t dare to give us an exact date of when it will be available. Everything is just so slow. Taylor’s University is a good school, but the service is really bad.

    Complain? I did already and I would like to write on my blog and share with you guys. Sigh.

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