So ridiculous can die!
Jul 11th, 2007 by Clare
On the case of the little girl who was murdered, my Translation lecturer said:
“…kalau saya jumpa pembunuhnya, akan saya ikatkannya pada batang pokok….akan saya telanjangkannya…akan saya potong dia punya xxx…akan saya ambilkan limau dan renjiskan pada xxx-nya…Kenapalah nak bunuh budak kecik? Kalau nak, bunuhlah saya. Saya kan dah tua, dah cukup lama hidup, mengapalah nak bunuh budak?…”
As I’ve ranted and criticised in countless posts before, this university is seriously crappy. Everything here is ridiculous including the rules and regulations especially their emphasis on dress code for their student. Look what I found around the campus two days ago:
Picture on the left: Female students must wear long skirt or baju kurung
Picture on the right: No long pants or decently short skirt!
This is sexist! Or rather RACIST!!! This is what I usually wear to attend lecture:
Almost all the non-Muslim female students here wear similar attire to attend lectures, enter the library, see the doctor, dealing with official matter, etc (Yes, it is a MUST!). We are used to it after a few months of complaining for not allowed to wear T-shirt and jeans to classes.
Sometimes, I had something like this on:
Decent knee-length skirt and a decent formal shirt that is allowed by the government for any government function.
What next? Asking all female student to wear a tudung head scarf and baju kurung regardless of their religion? I expect that to come. Now you tell me ridiculous or not?
They had the nerves to come up with something this shitty without even conducting a proper survey around the campus. Where to get attire like the fourth girl on the left nowadays? So out-dated fashion where to get? Unless I go and dig out my mum’s working attire 20 years back, I still doubt I could find anything like that! My mum is a lot modern than you 20 years back!
This is my final year here and I do not want to create any trouble for myself but this kind of ridiculous rules and regulations are getting on my nerves. Why do they have to come up with all these nonsense when they have a lot of other more important issues to skirt? Why do they have to find trouble with us who are graduating? Why oh why?
Dress Code versus Intelligence. I think I had blogged about this before. I had even wrote an article to The Star which was published on my birthday last year. I would like to quote the same thing again, unedited:
It seems odd to me that this university insists on dress code for her students. If undergraduate is only one step away from adulthood, why are we being treated like school children and are subjected to constant regulations?
We understand very well that undergraduates need to dress neatly and appropriately, but that is all that needs to be said. To spell out, in detail, the way we must dress, would be to put pressure on us.
All this makes me wonder about the priorities of us students in university - are we in university to study or to worry about dress codes? Of course discipline is a part of it but what is the point of being correctly dressed - by university rules and standards - if you do not have the discipline to complete assignments on time AND are unable to string a decent sentence in English and defend your ideas?
The higher authority should look into issues that are more trivial, for example, lecturers and staff illegallly renting cars to students, the lack of wi-fi service in the hostel, measures to curb the constant water crisis last semester, the university taking money from students who wanted to buy laptop but have yet to get their laptop, the crappy bus service, racist and biased lecturers, so on and so forth instead of spending grands to form a committee and print ridiculous dress code posters.
I thought university life is supposed to be an enjoyable chapter of a person’s life before he/she ventures into the modern slavery (term borrowed from Zewt).
Now, you tell me, are we being robbed of our student life, our freedom, our rights???
my uni have similar dress codes for the guys… but those who follow that rule… i call them NERDS, there’s one sibu suaku, last time when he first wear a batik, he tucked it in and wear a tie along with that!!! i think he’s from sacred heart. ha ha
Guys here MUST wear a tie…a rebellious guy friend tried not wearing neck tie once, got caught and kena warning…Metric card also kena rampas until he wears ‘proper’ attire!
from what i can remember… students from UUM have reputation of going to thailand for some ‘fun’ during weekends… not exactly a uni with good rapport… sorry to say that.
i am surprised at the fact that even decent pants are not allowed. absolute stupidity. what do they wanna achieve? i think they just wanna make life difficult for u so that ppl like u leave and then ppl who wear head scarfs can come in. no?
I agree with what you said. We still have that ‘reputation’. A senior even assembled a few guys to cross over with him for the weekend ‘to release stress’.
Just let those scarfed people in then, I’ll be out in no time…
aiyo, thats bad indeed…might as well dress up like ninjas & letterboxes like in taliban afghanistan!
Dress up as ninja in Malaysia weather? That’s suicide! We don’t even have desert storm…
I’m wondering are those fellas who set those funny dress code worrying uni students will have ‘knowledge leakage’ or bocor something if don’t cover from bottom to d top?
Pls don’t turn uni students into zombies!!!!!!
Maybe that’s what they thought…
When monkey is given banana, the monkey will peel it the way it can manage - using 2 legs, 2 hands and 1 mouth. When idiots are put there to manage higher learning institutions, they will be managed like asylums. Malaysia is truly amazing. Using idiots to educate future leaders.
Hang in there and keep your sanity. Kampua meals help to keep you sane…lol
You’ve said it, my friend! You nailed it right in the right place!
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Same like APIIT/UCTI, only formal dress, no T-shirt no short no mini skirt blah blah blah, ONLY FORMAL DRESS
Annoying, isn’t it?
M.E.S.S = Malaysian Education System Sux
nuph sayd.
Yes, they are!
This is what our government capable of doing. Only stressing on not so important issues and dun get their hands on really important matters.
If only all the Malaysian Universities working on how to improve their wordwide prestige ranking rather than emphasing on the students’ dress codes.
*nod nod* They ignore what they are supposed to pay attention to AND make a big fuss on petty matters. They don’t know how to prioritize.
Yo Sibu friends,
I logged in, I saw and I read. I know what you guys feel about all of these idiotic rules and regulations. Trust me friends, this is just nothing but a silly way to show its so called uniformity. I am so glad that I managed to leave the country back then and skipped all these crappy rules in which do not reflect anything wise about the university itself. Friends, like Malay proverb says…”Hangat hangat tahi ayam”. This won’t last long. Let me tell you guys one thing what we’re missing here. We’re missing the freedom of speech. Students here can’t complaint. They can’t say what they feel. They train all of you guys to learn how to OBEY. No offence for those who are wearing tudung or scarfs and all, but the truth is some of them are far worse than those who are not wearing. About the issues of renting cars, or even going out of the border for so called “released tension” idea, is commonly done by those who pretended to be good and pious. People, get real! I pity those who are smart and intelligent. You guys are wasting your time learning with some idiots. I thoroughly understand your situation. I hate people putting up nonsensible rules and regulations. All in all, that reflects their maturity and intelligence.
Ramon
Yes, we are brought up in such a way that we shut up and accept everything that is implemented, whether or not they are beneficial to us. I am tempted to put the link to this post into the university’s public forum. Thinking about the consequences, I might be suspended because the people who put up the rules do not have the nuts to admit mistake or simply said, too ego. I only have another year here before venturing into a new phase of working life.
Haha… Malaysia, truly asia. Was in Labuan Matriculation for 1+ month. Had to wear baju kurung. Panas nak mampus, dah lah duduk kat atas pulau tepi pantai. The perfect casual attire for Malaysians, especially for uni students should be - t-shirts/tank tops, shorts, jeans, sunscreen/block, sunglasses, wide-rim hat, and bearable body odour. Why bother putting on coats and blazers, scarves and beanies, if it is not winter? Unless of course if we study in a fridge (fully air-conditioned lecture hall a.k.a North Pole in disguise). Ahaks…
“Some things change, but some things never do.” quote from Morpheus from The Matrix Trilogy. And our edu system it seems….. tepuk dada tanya selera. Love your article Clare. Well done!!!
Even if we are studying in a fully air-conditioned lecture hall, it is only for that hour and once we are out of there, we’ll be in the Sahara already. They are trying to suffocate us by asking us to cover from head to toe, aren’t they? We are no less intelligent even if we wear t-shirt and jeans…
Interesting topic to talk about huh… I guess what is behind this is simply an act to show that they care for their so called status and all.
Back in the States, students and teachers are like friends. They share their knowledge and life. But here, it isn’t. I am an educator myself. I find it very amusing and simply nonsensical at all. I know that there are some teachers out there who tarnish their reputations by having affairs with their very own students. But, let’s be clear about why is such shameful scenario taking place in our community far more than others.
Real reason lies in our very own philosophy and etiquette in whatever things we do. It is not the clothes that count but the morality and honesty. By setting up nonsensical rules and regulations as such discussed earlier will not have any whatsoever effects on students’ well being and development in studies. In fact, the issue of comfort is the most important factor of all that needs to be looked upon. Students should be comfortable with the place and the system. Then only we can produce excellent people out of it. Let me put it this way, you own a factory but your workers are hungry and unhappy, you do the maths. Why do people in western countries excel more than us? Have you guys ever thought of that? Well, these people need not wearing scarfs and fully covered clothes whenever they attend lectures or tutorial classes. Some of them can be clasified as half naked… but these people score big. Better than some of our so called ’standard’ students here. They are comfortable and happy with the place and the system.
My point here is, there are other important issues that these people should pay more attention than creating hatred between students and university. As I could recall, my university years were always be the best time of my life. The most memorable time of all, in fact. I enjoyed my studies and little that I could complaint about. Why is that so? I guess we dared ourselves to voice out our opinions and critiques, should we find it logical and sensible to do so. Each and every student has rights to suggest and to complaint.
So Clare, my suggestion is someone has to voice it out loud. For 50 years now, Malaysia was not built by sympathy nor out of someone’s courtesy. We fought for this piece of land. We are building it till this very second. I am sure our future will never be as bright and glorious as we’ve planned if our students today are nothing but the ‘living dead’.
Ramon
I like your comment. Your comment alone can make a post for me…LOL!
Yeah, allow me to do it…
my stupid so-called “IB world school” college also has a crappy strict dressing code. just because we are sponsored they make it a point to threaten us to inform our sponsors if we dont dress accordingly, i mean who wears tailored pants and tucks in a polo t and wears sports shoes to the cafe? about the hair, they dont allow layered hair with a slight mullet, if not the stupid admin will chase around you with a scissors and chips them off… !! effing rubbish la wei ! nabeh i kena once in front of so many ppl, damn paiseh. how would they expect us to become top class scholars if they still treat us like primary school kids, im almost 20 and they still wanna care about my hair. thank god i got only like 8 months before i fly… lukily im not bonded with the gov, wil nevr come back to serve this bloody country ever !!!!!!!!!!!!!! >:(
Poor you! Ya, I can imagine how you felt…a lot of my guy-friends also kena in front of the crowd as well…This is seriously crap! If you are given the chance to get the hell out of here, just don’t return. This country sucks to the max!
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