Kolej Cendana : The Breakdown!

Kolej Cendana. What the hell is it? Who is it? Where is it?

If those question are overflowing in your pitiful heads, then you have to the RIGHT place!
I will tell you how wretched that wretched hostel is. Please! EMBRACE YOURSELVES...

I'll start first by expounding the conditions of the room.


Lets begin shall we. Now, the picture above is the main door to the room or "house" or "living quaters" or your "barracks", because believe, its a war out there.
So anyway, when you open this door, you will enter the room (DUH!!!).


The is what you see when you enter the room. Ok. I'm kidding. This is what you see when you enter the room AFTER 1 MONTH. But, its all the same. As you can observe, there is nothing special nor is there lacking anything. All you need to survive this ordeal is given to you. You got a chair and a table. There are a maximum of 6 people in 1 room. And the room, as you can see, is divided in to 2 sub-rooms, A and B.

In room A, there are 2 beds and 2 locker. So in room A there is a maximum of 2 people. On the other hand, in room B, there will be 4 people. So the usual: 4 beds and 4 lockers.
A -> 2 people
B -> 4 people
If you can't understand this, then by all means just frigging hit your head or something.

Anyway, when you turn your head to your right (or left) you will be staring at the toilet. HaHa.


Scary, innit?! Well, it supposed to be, dammit. As you enter this despicable proximity, on your right will be the sink. As you advance further, the first door contains the shower and the last door contains the "hole" with a wrinser. Behold! There are 2 ampaian to hand your pitiful yet damp clothes.

Enough about the toilet. GeeZ! So, when you continue on, you will see more of the cold and dark room. And the paint is yellow. Weeeee.............




Lets move on the sub-rooms. I'll go to room B first. =)

There is nothing to much to explain. Why? Because there is nothing much in there anyway. I'll show a picture :


2 bunk beds. 4 lockers. Done. Oh yeah. And the tiles are pink. =)

For room A, there are 2 single beds and 2 lockers.

Reminder!! Pillows, pillowcase, bed sheet, blanket and locks (for the lockers) are NOT provided.

Well, that is pretty sums up the "ROOM". Any question, please contact me by commenting in the shout box or pressing comment.

~To be continued~

The First Day I Went to Shah Alam!

29th June 2008. After receiving the official JPA scholarship (hehehe), My family and I (except my sister and brother) ventured into uncharted territory... Shah Alam!!! Well, the sun was shining brightly and that, for me prove to be darn useful.

opposite the Kolej Cendana.

The date to rendezvous was to be 30th June 2008, 8a.m. So, My family and I departed from the Hotel that we stayed at and made our way to the cold, heartless, and pink Kolej Cendana. And you wouldn't believe the gargantuan people who were there. It was chaos. Just chaos. Mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, babies, and a whole lot of cars, mostly Protons. Noise everywhere. Shouting here and there. Anyway, my family and I alighted the car, walk up to the dark, main gate of the hostel and , and that was my first steps to a long, arduous journey I'll never forget. More on that later.

Outside view of the Kolej Cendana

Anyway, I then proceeded on alone while my family stay behind. I then proceeded to register myself in the long, arduous registration. From getting my room key to paying RM 25 and to getting a lousy ass shirt. =( After successfully completing the registration process, I was utterly relieved. I thanked God and said a prayer. But it ain't over 'till its over. And it wasn't. Big, scary people came closer to me. They proclaimed to be the volunteers to help new students. They called themselves the PMS - pembantu mesra siswa. They commandeered me to follow them to my new room. I was frightened. I had no choice. I tagged along with them.



That led me seeing my new "house". It felt cold, unwelcoming, evil, immoral and....... cold. I, however, had absolutely no choice. I had to live here and live here I had. So with that sad thought, I went down to meet up with parents and told them I had to bring up my stuff to my new "house". So off we went to bring 2 luggage and a few bags containing ordinary stuff, such as clothes, clothes and clothes. It took awhile to get the stuff to the new "house", but it was possible, barely though.

The front door to the "house" - The right door is mine...

My parents saw the room and they didn't anything. They were the speechless. After a full 5 minutes, my father said " so,,,,hmmm, this is it, huh?" Well, I thought to myself, this is what hostels are supposed to be like. Then my mother started to unpack my stuff just to make sure everything was in order. The time now was 10.30a.m. By this time, I have already greeted 2 of my new "housemates" - Sharma and Amin. Cool fellows. More on them later.

Soon, I returned to Ground Level (by stairs!!!!) to attend a mandatory talk by the officers present on that day. The main idea was that the JPA officers were late and were arriving close to noon. Bah, but it didn't matter 'cause this was something I had to get use to. So after wasting time hanging and chatting with my new "housemates", those JPA officers came at 11.20a.m. All the JPA students came down and lined up and proceeded to hand over the documents. By this time, I coincedentally met Wei Jie, but I already knew he was coming. ;) Even more surprising he and I happen to get the same room. Woah!

Night view of the Kolej Cendana

Later, I had my lunch at the infamous Dawood, which was my first step to more sadness and scary experiances. Prices were exorbitant. Even my parents were shocked when the bill came. Well, nothing could be done. We headed back to Kolej Cendana, and to my dismay, it was time my mother and father had to leave. Sad I was. I waved goodbye to them and headed to my new "house". I sat on my bed, took out my laptop and watched some anime.

'Till next time - Tootles~