I am typing this on a metal bench outside my chalet in the Topaz compound.

The wonders of WiFi.

I am not kidding. We are now connected. Though its only a one month trial period according to the Bursar. Its amazing, it really is. Forgive the over-enthusiasm, but if you've been deprived of a quality connection from your room for about a few months or so, this is God-sent.

And with every other hallmark of college-life, I'm blogging this.

The people responsible for the WiFi installation have been seen around college (doing some research I suppose) since the first week of the new semester. One of those hub thingies is around the girl's chalets. Another one is in the Academic Block I think. Over here near the boys' side, if you tilt your computer the right way, you could still get very good signal strength. So it's not so bad.

Again, this is just a one month trial period. But I don't mind it one bit. :)

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This week is Islamic Aspiration Week (IAW), an event organised by MUSCOM to, well, increase the aspiration for Islam. I guess. heh. The whole week is packed with activities galore, from nasyid to talks to an elocution contest to mosque building. Everyday they will give out these little pamphlets that contain some info on Islam and other relevant stuff. The motto? Revert to the virtuous path. Funnily enough, the motto implies that we are not on the virtuous path. Of course, nobody would dare claim that he is ON the path, but it would be a bit more positive and encouraging to say Stay on the virtuous path, no? heh. In any case, they're doing a very good job. Especially last night's talk by Brother Shah which I found very enlightening :)

Ironically, just today, the third day of IAW, some students were shouted at by Mr K for straying from the virtuous path. Apparently they were still busy with basketball at 7.30 pm, half an hour after they were supposed to have stopped. What's worse, it was already Maghrib, and the Azan could be heard clearly from the surau. Shame on them! Tsk. Tsk.

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Speaking of basketball, today's matches were Topaz vs Garnet and Sapphire vs Diamond for the boys. Topaz and Diamond won their respective matches. For the girls this time it was Garnet vs Topaz with the Garnet girls proving that they are the better team.

And so ends today's report. Before I sign off, I would just like to remind my dear readers (or to whomever who just happened to drop by) to take heed and revert to the virtuous path. Amen.