Cyberia Smarthomes Residential Card Issue

What is so SMART about Cyberia Smarthomes?

Cyberia Smarthomes is located in Cyberjaya, Selangor, right next to Multimedia University. It consists of 9 towers of condominiums and 2 phases of town houses. It is home for many university students from Multimedia University, Lim Kok Wing University of Creative Technology and Cyberjaya University College of Medical Science. It is also home for those working in Cyberjaya and some of those working in Putrajaya, Sri Kembangan, Serdang and areas surrounding Cyberjaya.

If you have been staying in Cyberia, probably you have said or heard the above phrase many times. What is so smart about this place? In my opinion there’s nothing much so smart about this place accept the smart ass managements.  Prior to the current management, the old management was quite lousy. However, in general they leave the residents here in peace. They are may be slow and inefficient, but they gave little trouble to us, except for the poorly maintained facilities such as street lights and swimming pools. Most of the time, the only problem we have is the security guards who are acting all high and mighty smart ass because they are ‘instructed’ to carry their duty with only the residents safety and interest at heart  (We all know this is bullshit).

Recently, the management had been changed to Raine & Horne something something… and of course the transition wasn’t really smooth. They blamed that the previous management didn’t hand over to them properly and there were rumors that the previous management didn’t didn’t hand over all the files pertaining to the residents here. It had caused the water bills to came late by several months and there were no records on the payment made previously. Those whom had unsettled bills prior to the change  in management had get away with the debt. The deposit collected from the resident cards were also not able to be refunded. Of course people would be angry if they can’t get their deposit back. Who don’t right?

Now, to make the situation worst, they are enforcing a new rule. Those whom enter Cyberia from the small entrance that lead to MMU are assumed to be staying in Cyberia and had been told by the guards that they are required to obtain a resident card or else they will not be able to enter Cyberia. For an MMU student like me, whom had our foundation in Melaka, you will remember Emerald Park and Ixora. You will need the ‘ID card’ to enter into your hostel. That is so because these are hostels. They are run by private and facilities are provided right from the entrance to the bed room. Security guards at the entrance, cctv on the common areas, fully furnished room, maintenance work under the management, just to name a few. Cyberia is a residential area. These properties are obviously owned by owners, which in turn rent it out to tenants whom are staying here. Thus as a tenant, as long we are paying our rental and fulfilling out contract requirement towards the owner, there’s no reason and the management has no rights to disallow us to enjoy the properties that we rented.

I think the management will go super rich if they manage to force everyone to pay for the RM60/year fee and RM100 refundable deposit (provided they don’t ‘run away’ like the previous one). Lets say 5 person/unit, with 12 units/floor, 11 floors/tower (rough estimation coz the top most 2 floors are 2 level penthouse), 3 towers/block and there are 3 blocks in Cyberia Condo, that is almost 6000 residents in Cyberia. haven’t add up those staying in townhouses. 6000 residents means the management will rack in RM360,000/year and RM600,000 deposit initially. That is close to Rm1 million (This does not include those staying in townhouses!!!). Very big figure. With the large pool of money, is there any assurance it will be used properly with on ‘the interest of the residents at heart’? or they will laugh off at how much money they have got? perhaps also ‘run away’ like the rumored previous management? I will not have problem paying for the resident card if they can assure us they will improve the water quality in the swimming pool, upgrade the gym, fix all the broken  lights at the car parks and lit up the parks and the most important of all, treat us as their customers with RESPECT!!! Train all those guards to speak and behave properly.

Lazy way of asking for exam tips

Juniors now a day have never failed to amuse me with their ‘creativity’ side. At one moment, they can be scrambling for tips for almost every paper that they going to sit for exam, to the extend of spamming everyone in their YM list, yet the next thing I realized, they are busy updating Facebook, playing those Facebook games.

This is the problem. They put so much effort to hunt down last minute tips:

1. Meet every single lecturers, 1 day or 1 week before the xam or during the last lecture. Ask for tips and what questions will come out.
2. Tell their friends to ask their lecturers (if it is a different lecturer) the same thing.
3. Posting in online forums, asking for last minute tips and claiming that they are doing it because the lecturers are not helping them, they are not as smart as ’somebody’ so they have to ask for tips or other nonsense.
4. Spamming their contact list in their instant messenger asking for tips for almost every subjects they are taking.

Instead of doing those, why don’t you:

1. Compel yourself to successfully ‘understand’ the subject and pass the exam.
2. Do all your tutorials. Nothing from the tutorials that will not come out in your exam. It may not be similar, but it will be related.
3. You should have spent your time in lectures wisely. No, this does not mean paying  100% attention to your lecturers or achieving 100% attendance. These are nonsense and bullshit. You should have planned how you want to absorb the lecture given. The truth is, human can’t absorb anything 100% and our average attention life-span is 45 minutes. Make full use of that 45 minutes while you are still not yet sleepy. Pay attention to the lecture not the lecturer (I know some lecturers are cute, handsome, hot or they are just eye candy but by staring at them will not make you any smarter).
4. Do past year papers, not for the sake of doing exercise and memorizing on what going to come out but to build confidence and recognize the question patterns. In this way, you know where you can build your confidence. It is useful if you are the type that have low self confidence.

There are other things that you can do:

• Group study. Nothing in this world is free. Help your friends the same way you would expect them to help you.
• Look for tutors, lecturers and seniors who can help. Asking them for help once a while is perfectly fine but bugging them constantly is not. They are not paid for you to bug them constantly. Tutors and lecturers are paid to help you understand the subjects. Help yourself. Show some ‘appreciation’ if they are annoyed by your constant bugging. Once again, nothing in this world is free, so make sure you reward them accordingly.
• Be friends with those lone ranger seniors whom always sit behind because you and your buddies alienated them. By your definition, they may not be smart. Even if they are repeating that subject, they are indeed experienced (only applicable to those whom previously did not fail because they were once like you). Make full use of their experience. You do not want to be one of them if it so happen the next time you have to repeat your subjects.

This is a very popular practice in many universities, but not in MMU. There are external tutors that you can hire to give you tuition. They may be your own tutors, academicians from other universities or your seniors. They work the same way like your tuition teachers back during the school days. You pay them and they will try their best to help provided you are helping yourself. You might ask yourself, I have already paid so much to MMU for my fees, why do I need to fork out more money. My answer is, there is nothing as free lunch and do you want to pay a small amount of money to increase your likeliness of passing the subjects or you want to pay a hefty price(the term here implies the consequences of failing a subject) for repeating a failed subject and having your CGPA affected and Fs written on your transcripts?

Some of you who knows me may say of course I can say all these because I am ’smart’ or I am ‘different’. I can assure you I am different and smarter than you because I have only 15 minutes attention life-span, I definitely know how to differentiate what kind of approach that I need to take for my subjects and I am smart enough to know how to make good use of the time I spent in lectures. At the same time, I am no different or smarter than you. I am still a student and I still need to study.

I'll always remember…

Looking on my student ID 105XXXXXXX, makes me ponder upon something. I should have been graduating. I am seeing people of my batch graduating, or left about one year to graduate. But not me. I started engineering studies quite bad, stuck for 3 years, before I finally decided that I cannot take it anymore. After almost a year switching to Game Design, I am much more contented. Although I still dislike programing and maths subjects, as least I am doing what people have been telling me I am good at, IT. Although I am not a 4 flat student, at least now I am back in reality, where the effort I put in seems to pay off with above 3 pointer.

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Rules for MMU Freshies

Freshie is a loose term for freshman in MMU. Ever since I came to MMU, the word freshmen is like taboo. Maybe freeshie is a word used by the seniors inadvertly to mock the juniors.

Well, being here in MMU for 4 consecutive years and I am still in Beta (2nd year degree equivalent), I have the bragging rights as a senior. And over the years, we have seen juniors coming in after our batch. Just when we thought we were the pathetics ones when weclo first came to MMU, the juniors are even more pathetic than us.

I didn’t make all the rules myself, rather, it is compiled from word of mouth and modified from a chain letter.

1. You are a FRESHMAN. Only we, the seniors have the rights to call you freshie.
2. Don’t brag how many seniors you know or which seniors you know. The more you do it, the more we can tell you are a stupid freshman.
3. Don’t hang your ID around your neck. We do not care who you are unless you are a female and you are attractive.
4. Don’t think you are smart if you can escape from being fined by the security. We all have done it.
5. Don’t bother introducing yourself to senior girls. Either they are taken or they are not available.
6. Don’t wear formal attire to class. When you sweat, it looks disgusting and no girls will not come close to you. Only wear it for presentation and change immediately after that.
7. Don’t brag how smart you are in class or else we will throw our projects and assignments to you.
8. Don’t try to sit behind the class. Those seats belong to your seniors. You should sit in front and concentrate.
9. Don’t act like you are a senior. The senior girls know you are really a freshman. It is written all over you.
10. Don’t even tell us “You were once freshies too”. Yes, we were once, but we ain’t anymore. So shut up and keep your head low.
11. Don’t think you are cool coz you went clubbing. We all have done it.
12. Don’t brag how many times you went to the gym. The bended weight bars in the gym are speaks for itself how long we have been visiting the gym.
13. Don’t try to cheer or scream ‘You rock’ at grandhall concert. They ain’t cool coz you have to sit on the chairs while watching the rock performances. Its the rules and it sucks.
14. Don’t try to brag how many times you got summoned for having cigarettes in hostel. We will think you are dumb enough not to hide it during spot checks.
15. Don’t ever remind the lecturer about giving assignments or when it is due. You are ought to get beaten by the seniors sitting behind if you do it.
16. Don’t ever make fun of your seniors who are taking subjects such as Math Tech 1, Engine Math 1, Circuit Theory, CP1, we will make sure you will suffer in the class for the rest of the semester.
17. If you know of a senior who is not in the class when the lecturer is calling his/her name, the answer is not ‘I saw him/her in the previous class’. You are to keep your mouth shut.
18. A note to all freshmen guys: Do not go around bragging how many girlfriends you have or how many girls you dated in MMU. We all know your dick haven’t grow yet and you are lying.
19. A note to all freshmen girls: Do not go around camwhoring and posting your pictures. You have nothing to show… yet. Do not attempt to wear your little sister’s clothes. The only seniors that are going to see your pictures are those sick, perverted nerds or otakus. Even the geeks’ girlfriends are better than you.
20. A note to all freshmen: You own the lowest possible social ladder. Stop hitting on the seniors. Consider yourself lucky if you aren’t beaten up by their boyfriend/girlfriend.
21. It’s no big deal if you touched a boob before. We all have done it.
22. Stop boasting about how a senior treat you nicely and bring you out for yamcha. Probably they just felt sympathic.
23. When we have seniors only party, freshmen are to stay guard at the door. If you attempt to have freshies’ party, we will make sure everyone in the campus are invited.
24. Stop thinking life is though and shit in MMU. We will make it even shittier.
25. You are not as hot as the graduating girls of 107XXXXXXX, 106XXXXXXX, 105XXXXXXX, or before. You have small boobs, small ass and you are like a 12 y/o.
26. Freshmen must give up seats on the T429 bus to your seniors. We have spent 3-4 years standing, and now its your turn.
27. We don’t care to remember your name. Your name is ‘108′ to us.
28. We all went thru these shit. That’s why we are your senior!

Consider this as a message from us 107, 106, 105 or before.

Congratulation to those who are graduating this June 2009. You don’t suck anymore.