Here's another quickie. I'm in my faculty's beautiful silent library, sitting in an incredibly comfortable leather chair. This library is completely silent except for the tapping of my keys (am I tapping too loudly?) and the librarian is very scary. Very scary. He was scolding a student for bringing in a plastic bag and he ran through all the rules, including "No Handphones!" and even though I've received this lecture before when I was very very new -totally undeserved, by the way, they should just post a big list of rules up on the wall and tell new students to read it instead of scaring us the very first day- I couldn't remember if it was "No Handphones except in Silent Mode" or "No Handphones". Well, it's "No Handphones". I sat quaking a few paces away from the lecturing librarian and hoped the object in my pocket wasn't identifiable as a phone, because that's what it is.

Reminds me of when Gollum asking Smeagol about Bilbo in The Hobbit : Whatssss in hisss pocketsss...?" If the Mr. L (that's his name from now one, L for Librarian) asks me that question I'll grab my bag and RUN.

The number of updates since I came to uni has been quite small considering the ammount of things I have to blog about because I have to use the library's computer to go online. Also I've been quite busy. Never mind, Pinkerdell should be here next week.

Who's Pinkerdell, you ask. Well, it's not who, it's what. Yes, Pinkerdell is the laptop I'm getting for uni, and it's going to arrive next week. I'm sure its colour and brand are obvious to all of you...

My naming inanimate objects has nothing to do with my introversion, honest. And no cracks about how I remember the names of things but not the names of people. You there, stop smirking.

I've got class in half an hour, so I better get ready to sneak out. Wish me luck!

TTFN,
Jenna

Gasp I have 12 minutes to write this post. That's what the timer on this library computer says. What shall I do? I shall rush. Here's a few things, off the top of my head, that I would be interested to know if I were a reader who cares about me and has never been to UPM.

- my room is spacious, great long desk that stretches from wall to wall, 1 nice neat roommate who doesn't speak much english but we scrape by on a bit of english, mandarin and bm. love the bed because its bedspread is from home.

- my loving loving parents supplied me with lots of biscuits & milo to keep me happy.

- i belong to the faculty of modern language and communication. it's big, modern looking, and has a nice small library which is quite because no one uses it much. complete with lots of classics to fill my time between classes.

- my lectures are in BM and my textbook is in BM but I shall study and do my coursework in English. (figure out how that makes me feel.)

- my college is quite nice. there's a fountain and a kedai runcit and a great hall. all my seniors have been very nice and helpful. (Ragging? what ragging?)

- the bus service is excellent. no walking for me!

- the food...lacks variety, only cooked in the Malay style so lot of nasi campur nasi campur nasi campur. I've taken to making tuna sandwiches.

- there are a few bananas I get along with in class. Other than that I keep to myself, and do that in the library. I'm fine in this department.

Whoa 6 minutes left. Okay, I'll just leave off by saying

a) ThanK God for supplying all my needs. and

b) I'll be back next Thursday night! I'll be back every Thursday till Sunday nights!

TTFN and missing you all,
Jenna

   1. Medical check-up + chest x-ray
 - i took a strange pride in being pronounced to be "in good health". It was fun looking at my own x-ray; pleasing too to see such a clear perfect set of ribs. After watching House and Grey's Anatomy you get used to seeing lesions and masses on the x-rays. It came as a shock to see an x-ray of a perfectly healthy set of bones. And as for my BMI, HAH! All you people who say I'm skinny (actually it's just you NG brothers) my BMI's 18, which the doctor said was good. I told you "a Slurpee a day keeps the doctor away."

2. Forms, forms,forms
- thanks to my bestest buddy Jun Wei who printed out over 20 pages from the UPM website, I filled up everything I could. I'm just about done.

3. Photos
- UPM needs 12 passport-sized photos of me. If they had seen me before, I would understand. But they haven't, so I wonder why they need 12.

4. Shopping!
- This was fun. Vicki and I spent all Monday afternoon and evening shopping for formal wear. Yes, the dress code at local unis are pretty strict. Shirts, collared-Ts, pants, and proper shoes. I only own pants. All of a sudden I'm buying a whole new wardrobe. Shopping was tiring but enjoyable because (a) my parents gave me money to do it , (b) we knew specifically what we wanted and (c) we both were shopping for the same things. We would grab the same shirts in the same sizes, go into neighbouring fitting-rooms, then come out and compare. [All the while, Kuhanesh and Shamus were doing guy stuff just so we could shop : thank you guys] 

5. Telling people about it
- finally I have the answer the the uni question. I've been updating everyone who asked me before this - and when you go to SSMC there are many - and it's such a relief to be able to stop the questions from recurring.

6. Talking about it
- Last Wednesday, the day the results came out, a group of us met up at Kuhanesh's house to exchange results - though news travelled fast via sms- and talk about it. Yvonne is off to Sabah, Huey Chyi to Sarawak, and Vicki to Terengganu while Gervanne, Kuhanesh and I are staying here. I'll miss you guys a LOT! After chatting over pizza and singing sad songs (notably Tears in Heaven and Leaving on a Jet Plane) we decided to watch Kung Fu Panda in One Utama. It's a cute show. Shi Fu is adorable! And Oogui was endearingly close to death. [Favourite scene - Shi Fu's roll of the eyes]

That's where I am in preparations so far.

      Today I spent the afternoon accompanying Shiat Nee to IMU. She needed to drop off her application. One of the administrative staff was very helpful and brought us to see the labs and talk to one of the professors, Prof. Ong. He was nice. My sister uses a facial product he patented! 

      IMU is quite nice, though a bit small. The facilities look clean and new. The students were intimidating in their formal wear and labcoats...made us feel small. Jun Ai, are you intimidating now that you're a dentistry student? I should spring a visit on you when you're in class. 

     We bought sundaes after that and talked. Had a great time, Shiat Nee!

TAFN,
Jenna