Lifestyle in Campus

Before I entered university, some of my senior who experienced university life ever told me that campus life is enjoyable but sometimes it's terrible too. That time I was wondering why do they saying so? But when I am away from home and living in a hostel for the first time in my life, I realized.

I cherish my privacy. So, when it dawned on me that I had to share my space with stranger, I was uneasy. Apart from that, I didn't know whether i could handle the responsibility in living by myself. Clothes, food, money? All these things I have to settle by myself, no one can help me. All the people around there is stranger to me, even though the environment too. That time I wanted to scream, "I don't want to study and I don't want to stay here anymore! I just want to back home! Some more I'm a teenager, it's my nature to be irresponsible!"

Now, after two semester living in a hostel and one semester living in outside campus, I have become a seasoned student. To me, university life is not too bad. There are good and bad bits about lifestyle in campus.

For example, you will never be alone no matter you are living in hostel or you are living outside with your lovely friends. Literally, the presence of your roommates is strong and clear. They are the ones you spend the most time with apart from your actual friends. Metaphorically, friendship are truly golden. When you're down in the dumps with life, your friends are the ones who'll pick you up again. When your family is too far away to reach, they become your family. So, I am glad to have such a good roommate to me. Thanks God!

Besides of this, there is no parental restrictions. Nobody is here to tell us when to eat, sleep or shower. Some people rejoice with this kind of freedom, so do I. This is because I can do whatever I want, as long as I am not breaking any of the university's rules and regulations.

Furthermore, when you're living in campus, it's easier to forget there is a bigger world out there. It's not that there are not media sources here, but it's when you are buried deep in assignments and exams, events that are happening around us seemed so far away. Plus, many of us don't even have the time to participate in any events that are happening, which is why some of us think going to cinema watch a movie was great!

Another thing is campus loads of facilities. In campus everything is there for us, so we don't need to drag our parents to a bookstore, cafe, library or bank as before. There are bookstore, cyber cafes, swimming pool, bakery and much more in the campus. And if they're outside the compound of campus, most likely it's in a walking distance. Some more, it gives us the benefit of exercising.
On the other hand, we have to sharing public toilet if we are living in hostel. "Sharing is caring," they said. But to me, sharing a toilet and a shower is pretty much far from caring. In fact, it's basically an 'every man for his own' sort of situation. So, whoever queues up first get to shower first!

Lastly, Homesickness is inevitable. This will suddenly make the things that we took for granted became priceless and anything could trigger homesickness. For example, our own bed, television, home-cooked meals and so on. Suddenly, a wave of regret flows through us: 'God, I wished I could Mum's curry chicken right now.' or 'Why didn't I watch more television when I had the chance?'

In my point of view, living in campus is good. At least, it taught us how to cherish all the treasure around us.

What does it mean to be a young malaysian?

As we know, young malaysian is refer to the youth of Malaysia or we called the country's youth. They are full of dream, potential and energy. In every aspect of society, we have those who lead and who are led; those who manage and who are managed. Every young malaysian has his or hers own goal, some of them group together to work and achieve their goals. In case of that, there are some young malaysian who work for the money they can make and those who work for charity, just for the well-being of their society. In my opinion, no matter what we are doing, we have to believe in what we are doing and do what we belief in. This will help us keep away from the negative activities.

However, the level of respect has been decreased, if we compared our young malaysians nowadays with the young malaysians of 20 years ago. There are some young malaysian who is ego and self-centred. They do not show their respect and caring towards the elder and folks, or even their friends. I think that is because they do not want to put themselves into others' shoes. Therefore, we should be stop being naive and always considering others feeling. We have to show our respect not only to others, but ourselves too.

Nowadays, hardly a day passes without a crime being committed. Many college students have become the victims of the social ills, especially the young ladys. They has been raped, robbed or even killed. I strongly believed that young malaysian should be prepared themselves to play a bigger role in crime prevention. We not only need to stay away from social ills, but we need to tighten discipline with the help of teachers, parents and authorities concerned. We need to improve our ability to protect ourselves too.

As a young malaysian, i think we should be grateful due to we can live in this peaceful and harmony country. We can find many different races and religion in Malaysia, so we should be more understanding of others religion. In this case, school has to play a bigger role to help young malaysian more understanding each other's religion. Anyway, people have to fully understanding about what he is practising, before he can tell to others.