UTP really closed down

Basically this is what happened, in just about 2 or 3 weeks, so many people started to have symptoms like cough, flu, fever, which is unusual considering the sudden amount of people having it, and then there's this quarantine place in UTP located in V6 duyung for those having the following symptoms, and the next thing u see is that everybody started walking around the campus looking like surgeons (wearing masks), and the UTP clinic suddenly had so much business to the extend the patients were even lining up outside the clinic......all these happened for one cause - the existence of a freaking virus called........H1N1.

But the main thing here is that UTP has already closed down! This doesn't sound surprising as there were already many universities which have closed down including UTP's neighbour UiTM, and the fact that there were already more than 100 suspected cases in UTP indiciates that in no time UTP will also join in the closing down.

Rumours about UTP closing down was already spread even before the official announcement, and the reaction from most students is "Good! UTP is closing down so we get 1 week holiday!!" That was also my initial thought during the time when UiTM was closed down, but as time goes along, with so many things to do n catch up, i really feel that i do not wish UTP to close down anymore.

These are what will happen following the closing down of UTP. Firstly, classes will be canceled and replacement classes will be scheduled on very weird timings, and we may need to have classes from 8am to 5pm non-stop or even have night classes until 12midnight, then we would have a lot more assignments than usual later on, and wouldn't have enough time to breathe! Secondly, closing down UTP for a week would affect our holidays during mid-sem break. Since we are already having a so called "holiday" right now, it would be a reason that they abolish our mid-sem break when we really need holidays then. Thirdly, to some of us who are involved in the coming Convo fair, it would awfully hectic for us after the "holidays" since we will only have 4 days to prepare for our performances, as for me there will be Virtuoso, Keroncong and the Chamber group to practice, good thing the chi orchestra already has many cellist so i do not need to perform, but for the rest, i believe it will be super intensive training during that 4 days. Fourthly, many Sabah, Sarawak and international students will have nowhere to go during the 1 week quarantine, and I think these people are the most pitiful people in UTP, since they are stuck in there and not allowed to go beyond the gates of UTP, and some of them may be very lonely in there since most of their friends have already escaped out.

Because of the sudden closing down of UTP on fri, i realized there were a list of things i wanted to do but was undone...
1. I wanted to go and donate blood on Friday morning. This is actually what i planned to do every sem - to donate blood. But because my mind was full of matters about whether UTP will close down or not, i totally forgot about donating blood. =.=
2. I wanted to go to the Security Office to complaint about my summon, as they had summon me for parking at a motorbike parking lot. But the thing was they had closed the parking opposite v4 for convo fair and there were no more parking lots around v4 since i came back from virtuoso practice quite late, thats why i had to park my car at the motorbikes parking since there were no motorbikes. Anyway, UTP closed down so sudden that i didn't have time to go and make the complaint, so i can only do that aft "holidays" when i'll be so busy!
3. I wanted to borrow my friend's music scores to photostat, coz there's a piece that i really want to learn, but i failed to do so, also for the same reason, UTP already closing down, so no time to borrow and no time to photostat.
4. I wanted to submit the form for the 30 hour famine at Pocket D, friday was already the last day, but by the time i remembered, UTP was closing down and the guard was chasing me out of UTP saying "Hari ini sudah cuti lah, cepat balik rumah!" and i was like "ok ok, saya akan balik, don't worry." Hopefully I can still submit it directly to the organizers after "holidays".
5. I wanted to renew my ERT membership but once again I forgot, though that doesn't really matter much to me, but still it was a reason why it was not done due to the closing down of UTP.

Anyway, as much as I had not wished that UTP closed down, I still hope that i could do something productive during the "holidays", perhaps studying ahead of the syllabus or going to tower 2 to learn more programming. And one thing i really hope is that I don't get infected with that stupid H1N1, and hoping that friends and family around me wouldn't get infected too. For those who are suspected with the virus, I really hope and pray that u will be all right and get well soon, coz these people are really pitiful during times like this, being isolated and quarantine, and people around them constantly saying "stay away from me, i don't want to be infected by you.."
Lastly, I just want to wish all UTPians a "happy holiday" no matter how you are going to go through it. After all it is still sensible for UTP to close down to avoid the situation from getting worse. All right, take care everybody!