email from the VC.

er ya. it is that senget.

pardon me for being extremely blunt, but the first reason for the policy is so lame i can't even raise an eyebrow at it. i mean, come on, make it reason #3 la. global warming. huh. get the staff to squeeze into the shuttle-buses and we'll talk.

anyway.

this was the letter that set me writing on the previous post.

and anyway again.

after coercing me into buying a Gadoh dvd for rm15, tim asked if i'd heard about the new ruling after the mpmum's meeting with the vice chancellor (VC).

to be fair to the VC, he took the trouble to disguise himself as a security guard to see for himself the students' and publics' responses to the highly-condemned policy.

in one instance, he got a major shoutout from a disgruntled driver. shoutout as in SHOUTout. in another, he had to go chasing after a stray car who'd zoomed off across the humps after impliedly promising to make a U-turn out the gate.

to be fair to the security guards, i shall confess on their behalf that they're not too hyped about this policy either. they're just doing their jobs under orders of their superiors. and to be really fair to them, although there were nasty guards - like the one who really, extremely rudely barked at me and chelsea to hang our matric cards around our necks - there were also some nice, cool guards. i especially like the ones at the PJ gate. the guards at the KL gate should be kicked in the butt. at least the ones in the morning.

i shan't get the PJ gate's guards into trouble by telling you in detail how they were very nice, but i shall stand up for them a little with the very true statement that the guards i met were always polite and respectful.

the VC has come to a bit of a compromise on the issue of the new policy. he can't put a blanket over the policy, because, frankly, although i've been hooting for that blanket (smelly as it may be), it would make the VC's department look really stupid and lame for starting a policy that's bound to be blanketed anyway.

the policy would be reconsidered according to the respective faculties, because the issue of the lack of parking space is supposedly quite prevalent and real in campus.

i won't know anything about that. because the law faculty has always seemed to have plenty of parking space. and we did just build that new parking lot, you know.

i haven't been around long enough to know about the traffic issue either. when i was in First College, my faculty was right next door. but yeah, i agree with Mr/Ms Anonymous that the traffic only seems to be heavy before and after office hours.

i shall refrain from commenting further, because i only hoot and make noise at facts i'm absolutely sure of.

dealing with the students' complaints about how the public get to enter our campus while we innocent fellows who pay for our place here, can't, the VC has declared that the public would, from hereon be forbidden (hear that, chee kean? don't try anything funny. lala.) to use the university's roads as a bypass to escape the Insane Federal Highway.

he has also promised that the shuttle-bus service would be improved and enhanced and whatever other word there is that's of the same meaning and therefore redundant if added. all complaints can be forwarded to the VC himself at his email.

er.

whatever his email is. gotta go soon. no time to go look for his email. which is probably very much like his name anyway. (ghauth jasmon. shame on you if you don't know. tsk.)

anyway, complain precisely and specifically. i.e. how late the bus was, bus' number plate, etc.

so. since the compromise is really not that satisfactory awesome huge, let's all be jolly and happy and complain regularly in a very detailed manner.

and last friday, i decided in my heart to not dig my beloved institution's grave too quickly out of respect for the guards at the PJ gate.

so all you minions out there who don't deserve the respect, be thankful to your colleagues. and ya, i know my blog isn't malaysiakini, but it still has some coverage. so there!