Aiyo... no class again today... so it is four consecutive days without any class, and coupled with tomorrow Sunday, it means five days at home doing nothing and useless things (like creating and posting in this Blogspot for example :p). Ah, the spirit of a lazy bum... driving 10 km from home just to find out that there's no class today and then driving back another 15 km home.

And it turns out that the reason the lecturer didn't come was because this is the first day of fasting, and so he must fast too. Okay, there's an "unwritten" rule that lecturers has the highest level in the campus hierarchy, so even if the campus said this is no holiday, if the lecturer says I don't wanna teach, then it's a holiday (yep, this is no holiday, only 2 classes are closed today, that lecturer's classes). Such a strange thing, no? Combined with the lazy attitudes of BOTH the lecturers AND the students, this thing oftenly happens everywhere round this country. And for myself, a student with an abode that is about 10 km far away from the campus, it becomes a nuisance having to drive 30 minutes to the campus, staying 10 minutes in the campus just to see the no-class announcement and then driving another 45 minutes back home (the return trip is farther and the path is more crowded). The lack of an online announcement board is beyond me. If someone would help me start a petition to make an online announcement board then I would gladly sign it, as that would help me by a LOT!

Imagining: One morning, opening http://it.petra.ac.id/announce.html (note - imaginary link, do not try to open, you have been warned) and finding "oh, no class today... good, I can continue my rest then." I'm sure that all of you would loooove to have this kind of e-board on your campus, and I just remembered that back a few years ago when I played Final Fantasy VIII, I wished I can study in a place like Balamb Garden. Balamb oh Balamb... but it's all just a dream...


••• Saturday, October 25, 2003 •••