Digi Broadband

My hostel has no wifi for three weeks now. There is a payment dispute between the owner of my hostel and the contractor that fixes the wifi, and the contractor demands the payment to be paid before he is willing to install the ill-fated lightning-struck modem, to which the owner of my hostel appears to be reluctant to pay. Fine. So I forked out extra money to buy a broadband. Maxis is incredibly expensive, so I opted for Digi. To be honest I know nothing about quality or which is better, I just opted for the cheaper one. I wanted to be as frugal as possible, so I thought a phone-supported broadband would do. But as it turned out, my phone could not support a broadband. When I put the card in, my phone kept crashing, and a spam message called 'Class 0 Message' kept popping and I couldn't block it from infiltrating my phone. Even the phone shop workers were stymied, and they claimed they hadn't seen anything like that. Well, not having any other choices, desperate for wifi, I bought a modem that cost me RM90 more. I'm now sad. Just sad. The only thing I know now, is that I am moving out of this sad hostel next semester. P/s Digi Broadband is not bad, so far.

No Wifi

The enormous thunder in the morning on 2nd of May rather shook Kuching, and it completely destroyed my hostel's internet modem. Till today it has not yet been fixed because, as what I was told, the modem has to be sent to KL for a replacement to be received. Irresponsible. Unprofessional. Lousy service. I have no wifi for two weeks, and I can barely do any assignments in my hostel. I have to go to campus early in the morning, and go back only late at night, simply because I cannot do assignments in my room. Plus, uni is always full, it's hot when the centralised air-cond is off after 9.30pm, and it's extremely uncomfortable. This is stupid. I don't even know why I am still staying in this crappy place.

Construction Law

I'm taking Construction Law this semester. It's an elective for my programme but it's actually a Master of Construction Management unit. I am interested in law and have followed the developments of laws in Malaysia for years, but I always follow only constitutional and sometimes criminal law. Construction law overlaps very much with financial law, and is mostly about contracts, liabilities and duty of care. They are very interesting, but also very frustrating. Sometimes an issue can be argued in so many ways, I don't even know what is the legal advice I should provide in my assignment. Plus, as the unit was prepared primarily for the Master's students, it is prepared in a way that Master's students will cope with it. Here's the thing: Master's students take only 2 units per semester, but I am taking 4! It's too much work load for me at the moment. Okay, I'm exhausted. I'll worry about my assignment later.