Area 29

*Date: 16th of February, 2009.

*Time: 14:00 (GMT+ 10.00hrs)

*Location: 29, Bettina.

*Weather: 20 degree Celsius... Wait a minute, who give a damn to weather -_-...

Ok... Let move straight to the point... Ladies & Gentlemen, allow me to show you the Area 29...

*I mean 29, Bettina... My house (rented one) in Australia...
(FYI, this is taken back in 4 months ago. Current appearance do have much difference.)

*First shot at the living hall before entering.

*Empty... With nothing at all...

*Ok, peeking from outside sounds boring... Let's go in!

*The source of heat... Because the central heating is not dependable...

What you are about to see are top secret. Do not tell my mother...

*Welcome to Bettina Operating Station aka Bettina OS ver. 6.1
(-_-... I am not 3 years old kid ok? This is just a kitchen, asshole.)

*So clean... You wouldn't imagine how it turn out to be right now =)

*Presenting some of the rooms inside 29 Bettina.

*This will be the room for our future Financial Controller.

*All these rooms are so empty till I really can't tell which room is this.

*That's the Hidden Chamber of Area 29 - The Third Toilet.

Reason being is that I have only used this toilet twice.
1st time is when I break into the house through the window of this toilet because the front door was locked and no one has the key to it.
2nd time is for real toilet business and I don think I am gonna use it again anymore.

*Let's leave the toilet aside for a moment and off we go upstairs.

*The Unused Basin... I don't even understand why they build a basin there in the first place.

*This is the office which will later belongs to our Secretary of Defense.

Those are some of the pictures that show the early days (I mean the first day) of our house. And as thing like furniture and stuff started to move in, emptiness is of course filled up with everything you can find in a house and along with all this, dirtiness started to accumulate. Allow me to show you what is the outcome when the house wasn't cleaned up for almost a month.

*That pot was left aside for one month plus due to some unknown reason.

Due to the extreme dirtiness, my camera repetitively refused my access to take more shots on our dirtiest spot - The Operating Station. Hence, I shall show you that we are actually very hygienic. We did our house cleaning as well.

*Here. This is the proof.

*Things are constantly shifted from here to there during the cleaning process.

*And therefore our 'Primary Enemy' went from this....

(DISCLAIMER: I held no responsibility to your mental breakdown caused by the unpleasant picture that you are about to see below. Thank you and enjoy.)















*... to this!

We actually have no intention to leave it inside our house. Unfortunately our 'Recycle Bin' has such infinitesimal amount of space for us to 'eliminate' these 'enemies' of us all at once. So, the Honorable Secretary of Defense came out an alternative solution to get rid of these 'enemies' from our house by gracefully putting those 'enemies' into other houses' 'Recycle Bin'. Wise choice, indeed =) ...

Excuse me for not showing you guys those photos during our 'operation'. This is a direct order from our Secretary of Defense for keeping those pictures as P&C and it is reserved only for the highest committee of Bettina Corp. to gain access to it (Ok, to be honest I didn't take any pictures because it was late at night and the weather outside is unimaginably freezing). Anyway, here is the infamous 'Recycle Bin' that I was talking about.

*Our (very small) Recycle Bin.

*Things look more obvious when they are being compared. (FYI, the GREEN one are for dried leaf, YELLOW one are for recycle-able stuff and the RED one are for general rubbish.)

After some horrible pictures, here are some pleasant one to balance up your mental stability before you really go into a critical breakdown =).

*Bettina Street.

*Main Garden.

*Side door.

*Tada! 29, Bettina after 4 months

*Without the bushes like before.

*The Living Hall (This is the warmest spot in the entire house)
I actually spend a couple of night here during the exam period.

*Dining Hall aka Conference Hall.

Now, I proudly present to you the latest version of Bettina Operating Station ver. 6.2 after the Grand Clean Up.

*Compare this with the one above.

*Another view of our Operating Station.

*Bettina's General Archive - The Fridge =).

Hmm... It seems that I have yet to introduce my fellow housemates individually. Let's start with the our President of Bettina Corp.

*Ah Bing aka 阿炳老豆

Like what the name says, he is kinda like the father of this house. Why? Because he is the oldest one among us (hehe... sorry if you were reading this Mr. Bing =).
Besides handling our utility bills, he also has the authority to control our internet usage. For your info, there is no unlimited usage of internet here like what Streamyx offers (They do have such package but the speed is comparatively slow). The internet usage here go by quota, in other words it is limited to a certain download quota. Any overusage above the specified quota will result in god-damn-slow speed which you can't even sign in to MSN sometimes. And for our package, we have got 200GB per month which is then divided to 60GB during peak hour (9am to 4am) and 140GB off-peak hour(4am to 9am). Hence, any download shall only be done during midnight.
So back to the story... This is why we need someone to look after the internet usage of everyone. Besides our Mr. President, the Financial Controller do have such authority.

*Meet Alan aka The Mr. Kunfu Panda (Don ask me why, he just got this name out of no where XD....)

This Mr. Kungfu Panda is the one that manage Bettina Petty Cash aka Ah Gong's Money. Grocery and daily stuff that we shared comes from this petty cash and the money in petty cash is of course from us. Despite being just a so called small little bank, this Financial Controller really did his job quite well. Sometimes when he is being too boring, we actually get to receive a so called 'Bank Statement' via e-mail. This little bank statement has a detail breakdown of all the expenses and funding (Accounting's perspective, you called it debit and credit if I am not mistaken). So far, I have only received one XD...

Wondering who is this Secretary of Defense? Nah, here you go.

*Mr. Secretary of Defense of 29, Bettina aka Kha Liang.

Like what I have previously mentioned, his primary role is to exterminate all the 'enemies' of our house like the one shown in the pictures above - Our Primary Enemies -> The Corpse and also the latest found enemy - Secondary Enemies...

*The Ant.

*Secretary of Defense and his latest weapon against The Ant...

*Lemon =)... And it's very effective... This is an easy task and do not required any professional training... Children are allowed to try this at home.

Next will be our Friendly Neighborhood (not Spiderman) PR Manager...

*Jason Ng aka Ah Biu.

Wonder what does a PR Manager do? Hmm... It keeps our house as lively as possible with all kinds of parties, outings and many more. The reason being is that the friends he have outnumber each and everyone of us. So, this PR stuffs are best to be left for him to handle. There was once we have our so called house-warming and he is the one who get everything done. Invitation, time, venue and etc all covered by our Mr. PR Manager himself. No doubt, that night was a great one. Terima Kasih =).

And recently, the Bettina Corp. has just recruit a new member!
Ladies and gentlemen... May we give a great applause to welcome our new Activities Director, Mr. YC Shuy *Clap... Clap... Clap*

*Our new housemates (my new roommates).

Together with the PR Manager, I am sure this new Activities Director will have a series of promising and happening events to be organized in days to come.

Time to bring you to tour around some of the leftover part of our house that I have yet to mentioned.

*Pathway to our Mr. President's Office.

*See... That's why I said it is an Unused Basin... Coz this area has become a... storeroom -_-"

*The Corpse Storage Area (After Operation S.N.E.A.K.)

*Welcome to my wardrobe (Shared with my roommates).

What does engineer wannabe always do when they are bored? Hmm... Repairing the fan though it's in perfect condition? Screwing and unscrewing bolts and nuts of their own table? Wrong! In fact, we did something that has got something to do with math... And this so called activities actually made up part of our night life, normally after dinner time (sounds so lifeless -_-"... Can't blame us. There is no mamak here at night).

*I present to you, The Bridge. It is still something that has got to do with math ok?

*That's how we go through the boring life at night.

Despite being so far away from our hometown, we are actually still very patriotic to our country. We missed each and everything in Malaysia, especially this ->

*Roti canai
(hehe... sorry to disappoint you if you thought that we are singing Negaraku every morning. Anyway, patriotism isn't defined in that way, isn't it?)

*Bettina's Mamak (Non-muslim)

*What's the point of having roti canai without Teh Tarik? =)

And probably, I think that's all I can crap about my life here. Holiday can be quite boring sometimes, till the extend that I have actually been sitting in front of my laptop for over 3 days just to worked out this piece of crap... Thanks for your time to finish this post.

P/S: Oh ya, I still haven introduce myself yet.

*Meet the Secretary of Bettina aka Junk Food Manager.

Ok, basically my 'job' is to keep all the important (and not so important) bills for future references. And for that Junk Food Manager part, I have long abandon that position because we don't share our junk food anymore.

Last but not least...

*My current study table =)