i miss my final-year / 4th year IIUM Gombak roommates and the moments we spent the time chatting, eating, doing nothing, and doing almost anything together. never did i have such wonderful roommates as them (awaw n ming2), except in KMPh (si kechik, kayna n marie). ohh, how i miss KMPh, the masjid there, lecturers and most importantly, my roommates there! awaw n ming2 are equally awesome as si kechik, k-na n marie. i miss them!!
for me, having roommates that one enjoys the company of each other is very pivotal. this is because, most of the time one spends will be with their roommates. they affected each other so very much. their GPA, CGPA, emotional well-being, stress / pressure level, or in general, the happiness depends on the roommates, especially for one who spends most of the time by being in the room. like me. though i did go out about once per 2 weeks, my bachelor degree years were spent mostly by being in the campus.
for example, in the first year of study in gombak, my roommates were of the same-age with me, but the room that we got was the one which did not have any compartment. one room in my mahallah / residential college will have 4 roommates. therefore, the four of us can see each others' activities without any blockade. there was no privacy at all, which means, i don't prefer that. and i'm pretty sure that everyone else would want some sort of privacy, right?
when i was in the 2nd year, i was placed with 3 seniors. the three of them are two years older than me. they were nice, but i preferred to go to wawa's, ida's n ina's room n sometimes slept in their room. this might be due to comfortableness and adaptability which is easier with the same-age peers.
in the 3rd year, the roommates were 2 seniors (again with 2 years older than me) and one of the same-age and the same course. this year was the most depressed and terrible one, especially in the final exam period. Allah really tested me. one of the roommates who has a radio played it like, OMG, from the moment my other roommates and i started to do revision for the exam (usually at night, after isya') up to fajr / dawn. i was really stressed because the other roommates and i didn't have the courage to tell her to stop playing the radio at a high volume and just listen it to herself by using earphone. that year was an awful one.
lastly, in the 4th year / final year, Alhamdulillah, Allah gave me the sweet fruit of patience i've been holding for 3 years. He rewarded me with awaw n ming2. how i wish they were my roommates from the first year of study. but then i realised that if i were to be given the good thing from the start, i might not learn anything about life in general. i thank Allah and being grateful for giving me such a sweet memory for the last 12 months in IIUM.
i heart IIUM, awaw n ming2.
