Big Big Big Love for Naruto

Update on **18 October 2014**

Never imagined myself will take 12 hours bus journeys from Changlun to Batu Pahat for visiting Naruto. 

I hated long distance bus travel most for the following reasons:

1) No toilet in the bus, only has few times toilet break along the highway. It's totally not convenient for me that is facing high frequencies to toilets

2) lack of sleep-whether traveling in a plane or bus, sleeping is impossible for me because sleeping in a seat is not comfortable at all. 

At the end, I agreed to go over there when she said "I need your companion, all my roommates and housemates balik kampung"

Her statement totally melted my heart.

Students' living room will be their study area

Another study area

 

Naruto's study table

 

Kitchen

It used to call as "Sorlena" according to Naruto. Bought our cooking materials in there

Took lunch in Cili Giling

South and north part Malay foods in West Malaysia always the same for me

 

Reasonable price too

 Update on **22 October 2014**

 Go for watching movies-Anabell

 Having lunch in Hao Xiang Cafe, at the back of the Square One

Seremban Siew Pau and Portuguese egg tart

  Seremban Siew Pau was super delicious. The heat escaped with every bite, the filling was tasty, the skin was very crispy. I missed it when I'm blogging it now!!!

Minced meat mee. It tasted like Sarawak kolo me but more sweet

Chicken feet mee

Nope,we didn't watch on that movie

Here we watched

She almost finished half boxes of the popcorn before the movies started

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Naruto's Changes (after observing her current life in university):

1) more outspoken-first move in asking the Discovery guesthouse Englishman about the early check out issue.

2)high cooperation level with the housemates and roommates-helped them to keep their clothes during raining

3)high social engagement with friends, housemates and roommates-watch movies with them, searching for nice foods in the every corner of Batu Pahat .

 taken in the food court near the bus station Batu Pahat

 In her home

In the bus headed to Malacca

Sorry and thank you Naruto. Sorry for finishing her 2 rolls toilet papers, 1 Dettol soap and clean the messy kitchen for me. Also, my arrival caused her lack of time to revise her study for the incoming examination and accomplished her laboratory report. 

Thank you for giving me support and cares all the times. Thank you for this lovely Malacca trip. It's meaningful and memorable for me that will enhance our sisterhood.

I'm blessed and honored to have you as a sister. You amaze me.......millions thank you!!!

Love Meals

During the few days stay in Naruto’s house, I managed to cook some meals for her.  She told me she hated eating Malay food again and again in the cafeteria university. Mine had the same feeling too.  “We’re eating because of survival”.

Because of her, I brainstormed what’s for breakfast, lunch and dinner (except outings), purchased some cooking materials and rolled up my sleeves and get busy in the kitchen. I even slashed my finger in the food preparation process (She said: I never seen people get hurt in the cooking, why you’re so stupid”).I understood her, she didn’t had any intention to say such a cruel words to me.

Besides that, I felt annoyed with her when she requested for fruit platters in the early morning (I used to pamper her by providing few fruits that rich in Vitamin C as breakfast). However, sisterhood combated my ignorance. I dragged myself to kitchen and prepared fruits platter for her as usual.

Furthermore, during the first day cooking in her home I accidentally set her housemates' pot on fire. I feel stressed and phobia. Rationality drove me to pick up the courage for cooking. I wished I able to feed Naruto with my self-making nutritional meals.

I made a huge contribution to our sisterhood by making meals! I just realized my feminine side from the moment I started cooking for her.

October 18, 2014. Dinner. Stir fried vegetables, steamed fish and radish eggs

October 21, 2014. Breakfast. Dragon fruits and cherry tomatoes

October 21, 2014. Dinner. Steamed chicken, boiled vegetables and beancurd corn soup

October 22, 2014. Breakfast. breads, hard-boiled eggs, overnight oats, self-made dried mee

October 23, 2014. Breakfast. Breads, Yogurt, fruit bowl and hot milk

 October 23, 2014. Lunch

October 23, 2014. Dinner. Seaweed soup, sausage rice, boiled vegetables

October 24, 2014. Breakfast. Yogurt, orange , cherry tomatoes, kiwi

 

October 24, 2014. Lunch. Stir-fry baby Kailan, tofu corn soup, steamed chicken wings, fried eggs with tomatoes beans

Cooking for someone that I loved brought the happiness for me. That’s how I define happiness currently. We got chatting more and more when dining (eg critized and commented my homemade dish). Luckily, she finished A.L.L the foods. Cooking for yourself (lack of interest, just for the sake of survival) is happened to me when I worked. No one finished your leftover food, no one complained about the lousy cooking skills, empty seats on the dining table all the times. Those feelings killed me and decreased my percentage to enter the kitchen anymore.

A Visit to University Tun Hussien Onn Malaysia (UTHM)

Update on **21 October 2014**

I followed Naruto to her university, UTHM for managing her curriculum matters.

Pass through out-campus UTHM, Kolej Perwira. Naruto had been stayed there for 1 semester and currently moved out and rent the nearest houses

School bus of UTHM

The main gate

ATM machines located near the front gate

Bus stop that filled with notices and announcements

 

Faculty of Science, Technology and Human Development

It's side door

Naruto and me liked this kind of English style buildings

Never thought that Bursary UTHM will separate with the Registrar and the management level of the university

According to Naruto, IEM will always organized many activities for the engineering students

Go to Tun Syed Nasir cafeteria for breakfast

Tunku Syed Nasir was belonged to Male students

  

The wooden door of Tunku Syed Nasir cafeteria

All the stall owners shared the whole space of cafeteria

The cheapest photostat service in UTHM according to housemate Naruto

Tennis court

Student affairs department

Indoor swimming pool that used 4 years time to accomplish. Naruto wished to bring me in but it didn't open for ladies during Tuesday

aeroplane was there!!!

Library. According to Naruto, overlooking the night view from the library is worth to see!!!

She spend almost 40 minutes in the curriculum center to settle her problems

A close up view of the library Tunku Tun Aminah, the name of the daughter Sultan Johor 

Computer room

only accessed by aeronautic students,lecturers and related people by fingerprint

I kept on persuading her to have 1 shot under the colorful umbrella. And she did

It's a five-storey library

 

It was Naruto's favorite place to read the daily newspapers

No matter where was the library, library always flooded with books and book shelves

Carrel rooms

The twin-towers alike buildings were the engineering faculty. Naruto proudly told me it awarded as the most "beautiful" faculty compared to other faculties

electronic book-borrowing system

The new convocation hall

The sofa was shouting me to laid down on it

Heading to Parit Raja by waiting bus however at the end we canceled it since wasted 40 minutes (low frequency of the school bus UTHM during semester break)

It was quite surprise when I informed by Naruto the lecture rooms and management offices were situated in the library. It must be few reasons behind such kind of planning. Whatever it was, the existence of the university library benefited Naruto and other users. The cheerful smiles will appear on her face once she enjoyed all the library facilities (that's my sincere hope)

One thing that I would like to highlight was the rude and poor service attitudes of the school bus drivers. I had the experience being scolded by the bus driver when didn't understand his messages. I don't think the students deserve to have the poor customer service of the drivers. They had paid the bus service (although with low prices), they had the dignity too like the adults. 

If this issue didn't solve, definitely it will have the long term effect.  Student satisfaction towards the school bus should be emphasized by the university because they are the direct recipient of the services. Poor bus service considers one of the weapons to influence the marketing strategies of the university. The students will spread the poor bus service to their family members and relatives. It would be better if the university always take the feedback, comments and complaints of the students as the direct customer to improve the strength and weaknesses of the services. Not only that, the training towards the bus drivers about the proper customers service attitudes and safety driving is a must.