WhyQueen's tagg on my board just serves as a reminder of how nice Nanyang was and how stark a contrast this hostel now is. Alright I'm not going to be a baby and whine about it but there are really a few issues which seem to find pleasure in getting on my nerves.
And one of them is definitely the most notorious wireless. I don't like tapping on others' wireless - I know it's highly illegitimate to do so - but when desperate times call for desperate measures, and hostel wireless is not of any constructive use, what will you do?
Because of 'overwhelming responses' to the wireless installed, it gets so slow and virtually unusable to some lappies (and mine is most unfortunately one of those) and people do what they do best - complain. I confess, I'm one of them. And guess what? The management responded in such an alarming way - they restrict surfable zones to:
1. the canteen
2. ground floor facility rooms, AND
3. some part of this hostel common area which I conveniently forgot oops.
Great. Now, I really can't watch porn. I mean! Not that I DO watch porn, of course, but having to surf in these COMMON areas, there's almost zero privacy anymore. And I can't help imagining clusters of kids crowding around the ground floor just to go on MSN. This is really hilarious. Then again, just how plausible is restricting wireless zones to those three areas? I mean, it's WIRELESS. That means it's some waves thingy (pardon a physics idiot here) and being waves, I thought they kind of diffuse (I know it isn't the right term but I really know nuts about waves) everywhere? Then in the end after then big commotion, people still hog it from their rooms using powerful lappies and jam the system AND everything is back to square one.
What a brilliant idea, what a brilliant hostel I'm staying at. But no sweat, I'm gonna leave it real soon.
Interesting MSN convo with RIcKY:D today - those in italics were mine:
"What ya doing?"
"Reading on Tutanknamen."(after a while)
"Is it a Bio related thingy?"
"HAHAHAx10000000. He was a KING in egypt la!""Orh I see."
...
"Thought he's something to do with wriggling intestines."
RIcKY always has this profound way of associating BIO with wriggling intestines, despite the countless times of me telling him that JC bio has nothing to do with intestines.
And then,
"Hmmm... Didn't know you've got TRIPLE chin!"
"WHAT?!? Me?!?!?!??!!? Where got? You mean WRINKLES? OMGOMGOMG send me the pic I wanna see!""I meant your emoticon )): la."
Conclusion - RIcKY is so adorable. He makes my day everyday, even on days of Bio menance like today.
