University Hall

Living in Uni Hall for close to 1 1/2 years and what can I say? Firstly, meals are being catered for but the meals prepared by the hall caterer does not seem to please the taste bud especially since Tina, the chef, left for another job. Secondly, my eggs have been stolen couple of times! Anyways, I'm glad that the academic year is almost coming to end and I have to tolerate it for another 2 months, I reckon!

Here's a little poem that one of the Hallies wrote for her Hiakus assignment and I thought it would be nice for you to see how living in Uni Hall is like.

University Hall Kitchen by Amy Bartel

Home brand chocolate

Drips into the plastic dish

Coating reduced flour.

Two minute noodles,

Often decorate the bench

In bright sticky clumps.

The stove’s light flickers,

And smells strange, but with a thump

Or two, it will start.

A sunburnt ochre

Rings the blackened hotplates and

Stubbornly stays put.

They’re not mine, she says,

Eyeing the cracked eggshells,

As her omelette cooks.

Someone has stolen

The washing detergent, and

The dishes pile up.

When my mum visits,

She has a horrified stare.

“You make food in here?”

End of semester,

The cleanliness is eerie,

But it will not last.

P/s: Its not that bad!