UMK, Jeli Campus

New semester is coming soon and m gonna be a forth year student. Wow, time flies huh!! I can still remember how reluctant I am to go University Malaysia Kelantan (UMK) to further my study, I keep crying and crying and blame God for sending me so far away as my friends all get the offer letter from UPM, UKM or UM. So, i decided to appeal to change university, after thousands of letters being sent to the Jabatan Pendidikan Malaysia, they told me the same thing, which are......

In order to change university, first you have to study in the university that you get at first for at least one semester, with a good result. After that you can start to appeal with a solid reason on why you want to change university, but you too have to make sure the university that you want to study has a seat for you. There's a lot of procedures that you need to follow and lots of documents have to get ready. My advice for those students who want to change university, if your result is just so so, i would advice you don't waste your time on appealing and you are much more lucky than those who couldn't get into any university. But those who wants to change university so desperately, you can try. Example for those student who are from Sabah and Sarawak, they got to come to Peninsular Malaysia to study or vice versa, it's advice for you to appeal as flight ticket isn't cheap =)

Myself have tried to appeal for one year, and at last I got an offer letter from UPM which is quite near to my house. However, I choose to study in UMK. The reasons are: if I study in UPM, i have to start from the beginning which mean one year of my study in UMK will be wasted, even if I transfer credit hours also the same. I don't want to waste time anymore. Second, I have no interest on the course that UPM offered me. So, just stick back to the university i got at first plus I already make so many friends at here and get used to the university system, so why need to waste my time to adapt to the new environment again?

Ok, go back to the main topic, this blog post is mainly introducing UMK, Jeli campus for my future juniors or those who plan to study their master or work here, haha it's not about transfer university or what :P

UMK is still consider a new university. This year would be 5 years old. The first batch of students has already graduated last year. The first campus was at Pengkalan Chepa. UMK, Jeli campus was officially operated this year, in February 2012.  So all the facilities are very new and some of the facilities are still under construction like mosque, and others. Facilities such as football court, basketball court have been start operated since last semester (September 2012). Jeli campus is specially for students under Faculty of Earth Science and Faculty of Industry and Technology. Faculty of Material Science will also be launch in UMK Jeli soon. UMK of Pengkalan Chepa campus is for Fakulti Keusahawanan dan Perniagaan; UMK of Padang Tempak is specially for student from Fakulti Perubatan Veterinar while UMK of Bachok campus is for Fakulti Keusahawanan dan Warisan. These four campus are very small and you might feel that your secondary school is even bigger than this. Yea it's true, but there's many advantage too, firstly, you don't have to wake up early for class as the hostel is just opposite; next, you don't have to rush for the shuttle bus, all places are within walking distance ^^

UMK of Jeli campus can be said as living in a jungle as the whole campus is surrounded by GREEN color things so the air is quite fresh too. Especially during rainy reason, the weather is much more cooler than Cameron Highland or Genting Highland. However, at the same time it's quite hot too. Since we studied about natural resources, so study at here will make you have a better understanding about natural environment and biodiversity.

For UMK Jeli campus students, are you craving for fast foods?? No worries, we have KFC and Pizza Hut at Tanah Merah which is 45 mins DRIVING distance and for the nearest McD is about 1 hour and 30 minutes away which is located at Kota Bharu. =P You can take a bus or rent a car to Tanah Merah to buy your daily stuffs over there. UMK Pengkalan Chepa students have more advantages on looking for foods.

There's no entertainment here in Kelantan like cinema, k-box, big shopping mall, etc. What we do here during spare time are play kite, go to the nearby beach, hmmm live like X generations. Thus it's consider a good study environment for you. So i can understand those juniors who are coming here to study will be suffer a lot because people like me also from a city and now move to a jungle, i also have the sucks feeling about this place. Everything is so slow here, wanna go to a nearby town also quite far away. But it save a lot of your money as you won't think about entertainment... hahhaha and it makes you more tougher and independent. You will get what i mean once you come here. 

So, what to bring if you are so lucky to be selected as a UMK student? For my experience before coming to UMK, there's no info on what should we bring, what can we do or whatever to solve my questions. I am so blur at that time. In order to avoid this problem happen to another people, so i will just share what i can share to you all. Things you need to bring are as follow:

1) Bucket

2) Heater

3) Hanger

4) 2 sets of bed sheet as you might want to change

5) Formal clothes [Vet students are compulsory to wear formal shirts to attend classes while student from other faculty can wear collar T to attend classes]

6) Toiletries [you can buy at the small mart here but it is more advice for you to bring your own as the mart mostly sell those unknown cheap brand stuffs.. haha]

7) FOODSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!! 

8) Your Form 6 or Matrix text books [first year subjects are more or less like we learn at form 6 and matrix]

9) Slipper and shorts (shorter than knee length) are strictly not allow to attend class, once you get caught you may have to pay for the fine.

Now, let's look at the compound area and some facilities..

p/s: i didn't upload all the faci as m too lazy to do so.. hahaha

Other faci include clinic, temporary mosque, multipurpose hall, canteen, student mall and so on..

Hostel

Girl's room for 3 persons.

There are 1 single bed, 1 double storey bed, 3 tables, and 3 cupboards.

Photo credited to Pam CY.

Guy's hostel.

It's a house that can occupy for 20 persons. Each house consisted 3-4 rooms.

Photo credited to Pam CY.

J-mart

1-Malaysia Futsal Court

Night view of UMK, Jeli

Temporary Library

New Medan Selera.

There are 4 major stalls selling foods here, and another 2 stalls that operated by the students which sell burgers and waffle.

Photo credited to Miriam HK.

Lecture Hall.
Photo credited to Miriam HK

For further information that you want to know, you can leave a comment here and i will reply you ASAP or you can join our University Malaysia Kelantan group at Facebook.

Hopefully this blog post can help you a little bit =) welcome to UMK!!

Movie Review: Titanic 1997

Well well well, i know you guys maybe wondering why i post this movie review in such a long time as this movie was filmed in 1997. *cough* actually, i just had a free time to watch this movie though m 22 years old now! hahaha! Yes! You got me right!! this is my first time watching Titanic after 22 years.. hahaha

Titanic is a 1997 American epic romantic disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson, Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater, Gloria Stuart as Old Rose, and Billy Zane as Rose's fiancé, Cal Hockley. 

It's April 1912. The worlds most impressive steamship is about to make it's virgin voyage. It's an unsinkable ship, it's the biggest and the most luxurious ship there had ever been. It was Titanic. On the trip was the young English Rose De Witt Bukater. She travels with her mother and her fiancé. They are going to America and get married. On the ship she start getting frustrating with her life. She is force to marry because she has become poor and her fiancé is a very rich man. In a desperate moment she decides suicide is the only way out.

On the ship is also the young artist Jack Dawson. He won is ticket to Titanic in a card game, right when the ship was about to go off. He happens to be on the deck when Rose runs past him and begin climbing the the front to jump in the water. He calms her and convinces her not to jump, but right when she is climbing back on the ship she slips. He helps her up, and as a thanks he is invited on dinner at first class.

The friendship between Rose and Jack deepens, and both her fiancé and her mother starts getting suspicious. But finally Rose decide to choose freedom and poverty before misery and safety. Rose and Jack recognize the love between them and are very happy for some hours...until the ship hits an ice berg.

(The summary was copied from: here)

My review: I almost cried at the end of the movie when Jack died in front of Rose. Jack spent all his energy to save Rose because he loves her. Talked to her when he noticed Rose couldn't concentrate anymore just to make sure that she is awake. He holds her hand to make her stay warm though he is freaking cold that time and not wearing any life jacket. Jack taught me the power of true love. "You jump, I jump" Now i begin to wonder, is there anyone in my life will do the same for me?  ^^

To have an artist boyfriend seems to be a good idea, you can have him draw a picture for you like what Jack draws Rose's naked body for her and the picture was kept almost 80 years later.. WOW! after that you can show the picture to your grand grand son, showing off how pretty you are when you are young.. hahaha!! It will be quite interesting, i think =)

There is one scene that i love the most in this movie, which is when they kiss on the ship..

OMG!! is sooooooo romantic!!! you won't know how desperate i wanna kiss someone at that time!!! *cough* hmmm, i shall re-watch this part later =P

Overall, this movie was awesome!! I rated this movie 8 stars out of 10? It is because I have another better movie in my mind than this --> Pearl Harbour. That movie is really classic!!

Let's check out some of the pictures of this movie:

The theme song was good as well, love the beginning part of the song.. it will straight away refresh your memory about this movie!! Check it out the song "My heart will go on" by Celine Dion

UMK Jeli the New Campus

Hello m back like finally..

was moving to my new campus at Jeli and there's no wifi was installed in my hostel so i barely can blog..

the new campus was big compared to the old one and the water was crystal clear ^^

the internet connection in the administration block was fast too!!!

you guys can viber, talkbox, whatsapp or whatever apps that you had to contact me~ hehe

overall the campus was okay, we shall just be patient abit more when all the facilities are complete..

so far m quite satisfied.. 

and we shall gladly that what we had here..

you know..

some people are just not willing to change or i would say, accept the fact that we are in JELI now..

if you are willing to change, soon you will be adapted to the new environment..

I have attended a lot of camp before, and most of the places were even worse than here..

if i can adapt to all those places, why not here right??

i will make it as a good experience -- to live in a jungle for 2 more years

in Jeli, you will have the chance to see squirrels jumping around the forest in the morning,

birds sing out loud to wake u up in a great morning everyday..

and every oxygen you inhaled is extremely fresh, 

mist all around the campus like a small Genting Highland and you will feel every cell in your skin are fully moisturizes *sorry, m sucks in expression* 

however, the weather is extremely hot sometime, especially when there's no rain..

when you walk under the hot sun, you will feel like every drop of the water in your body is evaporated every single nano second. 

so therefore, i always make sure i drink enough of water to prevent myself from dehydrated..

and always use an umbrella and long jacket so that i wont look like a negro..

i have yet to explore the whole Jeli as i really super duper busy T___________T

will blog more when i have the time..

gotta rush for my assignmentssssss now,

ciao~

Movie Review: First Love (A Little Thing Called Love)

People, I highly recommended you all to watch First Love (A Little Thing Called Love), my first Thai movie!! Omg, it's so nice, so much more better than You Are the Apple of My Eye!! It's so funny and touched!!!! 

The story is centered on a plain-looking, dark-skinned school girl named P'Nam (Pimchanok Luevisadpaibul) who is secretly in love with an older Grade 10 guy named P'Shone (Mario Maurer). Shone is a photography enthusiast and a popular student in their school. However, he is often teased by some of his schoolmates because his father didn't score the penalty kick and made their province lose in a national football cup. But that doesn't change the fact that a lot of girls in their school are going crazy over him, including Nam. However, Nam is well aware that she is not the prettiest of the bunch, but she doesn't give up easily. With help from her close girl friends, Nam tries everything to make herself more beautiful and outstanding in school, hoping that Shone would like her someday. 

(Copied from: here )

My review: It's kinda true story that almost everyone has gone through.. During high school, will you purposely pass by your crush's classroom just to peep him/her on what he/she is doing?? Will you smile happily when your crush talked to you, know your name, etc?? hahaha... Even now i also doing the same thing >.< me and the main female character are so alike, trying to develop our self by studying hard, change the way I dress so that my crush will pay attention to me, try all the methods that can make my skin fairer and fairer(of course by natural methods) and so on. Besides, you will also feel jealous when your crush treat other people nice(the same sex with you).. and maybe you will purposely try to fall down in front of your crush something like that.. Back to the movie, i rated this movie for 9 stars out of 10?? the movie is just so cute and i couldnt stop laughing when it's Teacher Inn scenes.. Overall, this movie is really good, a must watch movie =)

Let's check it out some movie scenes...

 

Look at this, from ugly duck become swan