Greetings January 2015 Trimester!

This 2014 has been a great but challenging year and that it is coming to an end. The September 2014 semester is coming to an end for the undergraduates as they are currently in their study week. Soon they will be facing their exam week and then they will be having a long holiday ahead of them (4 months of holiday is one heck of a holiday though).

Nevertheless, 12 January would be the beginning of lecture for the January 2015 semester both for the foundation studies as well as the undergraduate studies. The freshies shall begin their session on 8th January though as they need to attend the orientation week or Minggu Aluan Siswa (MAS) as we call it.

There have been new rumours though surrounding the foundation students. A good news for them but bad news for us undergraduates though. It involves their rooms to be installed air conditioners and that their hostel fees isn't as expensive as the V3, V4, and V5 counterpart with no air conditioners installed. That's quite a sad news for us old timers as we have been seniors and studied here longer compared to the freshies, if this rumour proves to be true though.

Whereas for course registration and hostel registration, the exact date for the course registration is yet to be announced by the officials but the hostel registration has been set on 5th of January 2015. The course registration must be done before the hostel registration for valid reasons and that the gap between the two processes probably is in few days or no gap at all. Students who wish to register for both must be quick otherwise they will have no unfavourable bedrooms and courses especially for co-curriculum subjects.

It seems that on 1st of April 2015, the government of Malaysia will be implementing the 6% Goods and Services Tax (GST) nationwide, thus prices will go up! Personally, I wonder how the fee structure for January 2015 semester will fare as most of the things such as operational cost may go up despite being exempted by GST. Hopefully, the university will not increase the fees but if it does happen, the sponsors will compensate for it.

Well that's all to it! I wish the new students all the best for their studies and that for those who are graduating, all the best in life! Keep on persistent in achieving the goal in your life until you draw your last breath.