From ridiculous to absurd and they are getting annoying!
Jul 20th, 2007 by Clare
**[Update: I have removed certain part of this post which is deemed unjust by a certain quarter!]
Before you proceed, please read this to get the drill of what I am about to say, otherwise you’ll catch no ball.
That is what happens when stupidity takes over common sense. As I went about the campus attending lectures and going to the library, I noticed a lot of juniors as well as some seniors from my batch are wearing our Bank Islam ATM card around their necks! Well, the ATM card doubles as our metric card a.k.a. our identity card in the university. From what I heard from the juniors, memos had been passed that students MUST wear the ATM card around their necks like a dog tag! Failing to do so will cause us to become RM50 poorer! WTH!!!
As a natural rebel, I, of course, will not abide the so-called new regulation. If the rules implemented are reasonable and acceptable (read: able to be read by the brain), I would definitely oblige. Hello, I do not see any significance of wearing an ATM card around your neck. It is not as if people can see your name and face which was printed oh-so-tiny-ly on the ATM card. What is the point anyway?
I went to attend a Debate Society meeting the other night and was shocked out of my skin to hear what my fellow society member (she’s an Indian, by the way) said.
President: Oh, man! *pointing at the ATM card hanging from a member’s neck* I seriously do not like that thing hanging from my neck!
Member: *quicky took it off* Heeheehee!
President: I mean, why do we have to hang it like that?
Member: I thought they said it is a MUST or else we’ll be fined about RM50 if I am not mistaken…
Me: WHAT?!!! They make RM50 this way??? That’s robbery, man!!!
President: Yeah! And I don’t wear that…
Me: Me neither.
Member: Oh, remember the dress code posters?
President: Uh-huh!
Member: The other day I wore a long-sleeved shirt and black pants to attend lecture, some UK (Unit Keselamatan) stopped me and warned me not to wear that attire again or else, I’ll be fined!
Me: They did what???
Member: And I asked them, “Then what shall I wear?”
Me: What? What? What?
Member: They said, “BAJU KURUNG LAH!!!”
Me: WTF!!!
Excuse me? Baju kurung is not cheap, you know? What the hell are you thinking? Besides, as a Risk Management student, let me do some evaluation on the RISKS of obliging the dress code by wearing baju kurung:
- Baju kurung is a physical hazard to the wearer!
The distance of the stairs of the bus from the ground is more than the diameter of the skirt, no matter how much you stretch the cloth. I saw a lot of people falling down at the entrance of buses while boarding the buses. Besides, while alighting the bus, people behind you might step onto your skirt causing you to fall down as well. - Baju kurung limits your movement!
That is the reason why you-know-who are so blardy slow when getting from location A to location B which would take only a few minutes if we are wearing long pants or decently short skirt. And I have a lot of classes to rush to, so I don’t have the time to enjoy the scenery along the way, thank you! - Baju kurung is a health hazard!
Baju kurung is made from a cloth material that does not absorb sweat and we are living in a country that is experiencing summer all year long, which means that we are sweating most of the time! It is easy to fall sick (too heaty) when you are standing under the sun for too long wearing clothes that cover you from head to toe. I don’t know how you-know-who survived wearing a tudung under similar condition! (And some of them go to sports activities with THAT! Rimas aku!) - Baju kurung is a financial risk!
Baju kurung is not cheap, you know? With a set of baju kurung, I can have 3 long-sleeved formal shirts! Beside having to spend hundreds on books alone, we’ll have to spend more money on clothes. The PTPTN (Pity Pity Notes) loan that we are getting is not enough for books AND food, never mind clothes! You are not being considerate towards poor and needy students! We pay for education and knowledge, NOT clothings! - Baju kurung is a catalyst for criminal offences!
Baju kurung increases the possibility of mental stress. You see, beside worrying about our sucky academic performance, we have to worry about dress code. A lot of students are depressed enough because of poor academic performance due to biased and racist lecturers and you have toaddpour salt to the wound. People who are desperate for money would do anything, even if it is to buy proper clothes according to YOUR rules! Being a part of the statistics for criminal offence is something to be proud of, no?
Now what say you? I’m speechles already!
Actually hoh! u can run fast fast wan wearing baju kurang! Just pull up the dress then running no problem ( last time in school chase by a girls wearing baju kurang, I lost, so have to ‘belanja’ food ) same as in going up or down bus. Why, if u pull up dress & tied it up u can even climd up rambutan tree wan! But I agree with u very troublesome & expensive! If I am the head of ur u I will give order:- ‘ No uniform in this U, wear what u want. Don’t wear even better!!!’. Have a nice day.
Haiyo, very cho lo leh pull up the dress and run…like chicken wearing skirt like that…hahahha!!!
Name oledi baju kurung loh… u know what kurung means in BM rite.
Kurung=confine…man, that’s ILLEGAL!!!
Thing is getting worse! How can tropical country also snowing nowadays?
Baju Kurung, OMG! My uni last time not even bother what we wore, as long as you wore something!
How I wish they just allow us to wear T-shirt and jeans to classes…what is wrong with that, right or not?
tomorrow u wear miniskirt & low cut blouse exposing ur nen nen to skool lah!
Then I mah rugi teruk lor…
dr. lim would be proud, you using RM to write your post.. lolz
If I use that as my thesis, I will not graduate lah!
wahlau….
UUM = universiti utara malaysia or universiti untuk melayu?
and after reading what you wrote.. i think they should change to URP (universiti rompak pelajar)
It’s the second wan…couldn’t they be more obvious? Hahaha!
LOL!!! way to go with this post clare…. yeah, even the non-muslim girls in my college have to wear baju kurung all the time during academic hours as well as when going outing… which means, they even have to wear that freaking ugly thing to church… damn pity when i see them.. farking stupid lar these ppl… oh yeah, as for the guys, they dont allow us to wear three quartered pants and knee length cargo shorts.. because apparently, the ladies of “that” religion gets aroused too easily by looking at the sexy legs of guys.. i didnt know ladies also have legs fetish until i come here.. *rotfl*
Oh ya! Thanks for reminding. That is what happen here as well…girls get turned on by looking at guys’ hairy legs and hence nothing shorter than the ankle is allowed…Someone kill me! Buahahhahahahahhahha!!!
I am speechless too when I found the dress code attire poster you had posted up before appearing in Sin Chew! This has become a serious issue. MCA is complaining. Now, the ATM card issue again. Is UUM really that sucks?!
Yeah, now you know I am not bluffing…UUM is not sucky, the rules are!
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I agree that universities should not enforce these kind of restrictions/rulings particularly those that pertains to dresscode and attire, as in my view, university is the time where one is treated like an adult, who’s able to make his or her own decisions, and this include deciding on what to wear to classes. I also agree that UUM’s management and staff have a rather outdated view when it comes to education and an even more outdated view on life. I remember a few years back, visiting UUM for a research project, and I was stopped and called by one of the academic staff there and was lectured for not covering my head, albeit the lecturer was aware that I was not a student and was a visitor. On that moment, I make the conclusion that the reason for the construction of the university at such remote place is so that people like him could be send and myopically think that they are god’s warriors.
Having said that, I also think that it is not right for you to just lambast ‘baju kurung’ and making all that ridiculing statements associating it such negativity. Please, baju kurung leads to BO? Not unless you don’t practise proper hygiene, which maybe the case for certain segments of UUM’s students population. Baju kurung is a physical hazard to the wearer? One could just lift the skirt slightly and voila, you can stretch as wide as you want. Again, its the case of the wearers, not the attire itself, but to make all that slandering remarks, it’s just totally uncalled for.
LOL… You get all of them real right. But the dress codes is truly an issue there. In UKM, people wear jeans all the time. Seriously, it gave me a shock in my first day here. The dresscodes wasn’t being much applied in this stupid place. You can go yellow hair and jeans in front of the prof, you know.
But I hate the UKM merit system. Suckers big time.
You know what? A number of my male friends got warning because they highlighted their hair or made their hair spiky. Really ridiculous man!
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