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Looking for rooms in Westlake, Kampar? Here's a few tips on how you should go about it.
Is the location suitable/comfortable for you?
Look around the area, do you feel comfortable with it? Is it too dark? Is it too eerie? Is it too packed? Is it convenient for you to go to campus from there? How about to New Town where you'll most likely have your dinners/lunch there.
Is the rental within your budget?
Different management will offer different room packages at different rates. Some of them will charge you by the number of occupants staying in the room while others will charge you according to the room. Usually it's 2 occupants per room but it may go up to 4 if the room is big enough, the only room that can accommodate 4 persons comfortably in Westlake is the master bed room in the Yale houses - the two storey houses.
How much is the deposit and what's the policy of the management like?
Normally, most of them would have you pay a 1 month deposit but there are cases where up to 4 months of deposit are taken. What are deposits for? In most cases they are used up as your rental for the last month you're gonna stay at that room. This means that you do not need to pay for the last month of your stay there but on one condition, you'll need to inform the management one month in advance before moving out.
Another use of the deposits are for utility bills. It's to prevent people from not paying their bills. If you do not pay your bills, the amount you owed will be deducted from your deposit and at the end of the day you'll used up your deposit. This deposit is a separate deposit from the room deposit.
You'll need to look at their policies too. Do not sign any documents without making sure that you've read and understand everything that is written in it. You'll be binded to the contract once your signature is on it. Got that from Business Law. =p
Do ask the other party (the management or whoever who is going to rent you the room) to clarify any ambiguous terms.
How about utility bills?
Do you still need to pay for utilities every month on top of your rental? Or does your rental cover it as well? Personally, I prefer the pay-for-what-you-use method rather than include it in the rental because it'll encourage you to save both your money and also the world. People tend to have the "since it's in the rental, I'll have to max it out to get the maximum benefit" mentality when it's included in the rental. However after staying in Westlake ever since I came to UTAR, I've heard of bills that suddenly went incredibly high. I have no explanation for this but the only way to get this problem fix is to write a report to TNB or the water consortium company.
Facilities?
What kind of facilities are they providing you? Start off with your room as it's the place you're gonna be for most of your time here in Kampar. Is there a bed? Mattress? Cupboard? Writing table? Ceiling fan? Chair? Power-points? Lights? Window Grills? Then look at the bathroom. Is is a shared one? Does it come with a shower? And do check the water pressure (I have a thing against low water pressure) if you're planning to stay on the third level of the house.
Then look in the common area. Is there a fridge? Dining table? Chairs? Fan? Lights? Sink? Washing machine?
If you're doing your own laundry, try going out and look if there are enough places for you to hang your clothes after washing them.
After that ask about the internet connection. Are you going to be charged extra for the internet line? How can it be accessed? Wireless? LAN cable? How many lines does the house have? How many person is sharing one line? Most of the internet lines here are shared among students as there's not enough telephone poles to support so many lines and one line for each student would be too expensive, unless you're planning to get your own wireless broadband. 5 person to a line would be ideal by my standards, more than that you'll be plucking hairs out of your head in no time. I have to state that the internet connection in Kampar is not very good either, occasionally you'll be disconnected for quite some time even after the modem is restarted a few times. And on many of those occasions it'll be raining. And on very rare occasions, it's because of your tech savvy housemate whose hoarding/blocking the line.
Do take note that there are some unscrupulous management who charge students for their unnecessary things. Here's one example. There's one management who'll charge the student the cost of building a metal clothes hanger (It's a custom made one, not the ones you can buy and DIY). The occupants of the house should not bear the cost even though they are the ones using it. At the end of the day, when they move out are they going to take the clothes hanger apart and distribute it among each other? That wouldn't be possible. It is an asset of the house and the cost should be paid by the house owner or the management.
Is the location suitable/comfortable for you?
Look around the area, do you feel comfortable with it? Is it too dark? Is it too eerie? Is it too packed? Is it convenient for you to go to campus from there? How about to New Town where you'll most likely have your dinners/lunch there.
Is the rental within your budget?
Different management will offer different room packages at different rates. Some of them will charge you by the number of occupants staying in the room while others will charge you according to the room. Usually it's 2 occupants per room but it may go up to 4 if the room is big enough, the only room that can accommodate 4 persons comfortably in Westlake is the master bed room in the Yale houses - the two storey houses.
How much is the deposit and what's the policy of the management like?
Normally, most of them would have you pay a 1 month deposit but there are cases where up to 4 months of deposit are taken. What are deposits for? In most cases they are used up as your rental for the last month you're gonna stay at that room. This means that you do not need to pay for the last month of your stay there but on one condition, you'll need to inform the management one month in advance before moving out.
Another use of the deposits are for utility bills. It's to prevent people from not paying their bills. If you do not pay your bills, the amount you owed will be deducted from your deposit and at the end of the day you'll used up your deposit. This deposit is a separate deposit from the room deposit.
You'll need to look at their policies too. Do not sign any documents without making sure that you've read and understand everything that is written in it. You'll be binded to the contract once your signature is on it. Got that from Business Law. =p
Do ask the other party (the management or whoever who is going to rent you the room) to clarify any ambiguous terms.
How about utility bills?
Do you still need to pay for utilities every month on top of your rental? Or does your rental cover it as well? Personally, I prefer the pay-for-what-you-use method rather than include it in the rental because it'll encourage you to save both your money and also the world. People tend to have the "since it's in the rental, I'll have to max it out to get the maximum benefit" mentality when it's included in the rental. However after staying in Westlake ever since I came to UTAR, I've heard of bills that suddenly went incredibly high. I have no explanation for this but the only way to get this problem fix is to write a report to TNB or the water consortium company.
Facilities?
What kind of facilities are they providing you? Start off with your room as it's the place you're gonna be for most of your time here in Kampar. Is there a bed? Mattress? Cupboard? Writing table? Ceiling fan? Chair? Power-points? Lights? Window Grills? Then look at the bathroom. Is is a shared one? Does it come with a shower? And do check the water pressure (I have a thing against low water pressure) if you're planning to stay on the third level of the house.
Then look in the common area. Is there a fridge? Dining table? Chairs? Fan? Lights? Sink? Washing machine?
If you're doing your own laundry, try going out and look if there are enough places for you to hang your clothes after washing them.
After that ask about the internet connection. Are you going to be charged extra for the internet line? How can it be accessed? Wireless? LAN cable? How many lines does the house have? How many person is sharing one line? Most of the internet lines here are shared among students as there's not enough telephone poles to support so many lines and one line for each student would be too expensive, unless you're planning to get your own wireless broadband. 5 person to a line would be ideal by my standards, more than that you'll be plucking hairs out of your head in no time. I have to state that the internet connection in Kampar is not very good either, occasionally you'll be disconnected for quite some time even after the modem is restarted a few times. And on many of those occasions it'll be raining. And on very rare occasions, it's because of your tech savvy housemate whose hoarding/blocking the line.
Do take note that there are some unscrupulous management who charge students for their unnecessary things. Here's one example. There's one management who'll charge the student the cost of building a metal clothes hanger (It's a custom made one, not the ones you can buy and DIY). The occupants of the house should not bear the cost even though they are the ones using it. At the end of the day, when they move out are they going to take the clothes hanger apart and distribute it among each other? That wouldn't be possible. It is an asset of the house and the cost should be paid by the house owner or the management.
Just so u know...
Mathematics: The probability in a game of bridge of all four players getting a single-suit hand is approximately 4.47×10−28
Mathematics: The probability in a game of bridge of one player getting a single-suit hand is approximately 2.52×10−11 (0.00000000252%)
Mathematics: The probability of rolling snake eyes 10 times in a row on a pair of fair dice is about 2.74×10−16
Mathematics — Lottery: The odds of winning the Grand Prize (matching all 6 numbers) in the US Powerball lottery, with a single ticket, under the rules as of August 2009[update], are 195,249,053 to 1 against, for a probability of 5.12×10−9 (0.000000512%).
Mathematics — Lottery: The odds of winning any prize in the US Powerball Multistate Lottery, with a single ticket, under the rules as of 2006, are 36.61 to 1 against, for a probability of 0.027 (2.7%)
Mathematics — Lottery: The odds of winning the Jackpot (matching the 6 main numbers) in the UK National Lottery, with a single ticket, under the rules as of August 2009[update], are 13,983,815 to 1 against, for a probability of 7.15×10−8 (0.00000715%).
Mathematics — Lottery: The odds of winning any prize in the UK National Lottery, with a single ticket, under the rules as of 2003, are 54 to 1 against, for a probability of about 0.018 (1.8%)
Mathematics - Poker: The odds of being dealt a royal flush in poker are 649,739 to 1 against, for a probability of 1.5 × 10−6 (0.00015%).
Mathematics — Poker: The odds of being dealt a straight flush (other than a royal flush) in poker are 72,192 to 1 against, for a probability of 1.4 × 10−5 (0.0014%).
Mathematics — Poker: The odds of being dealt a four of a kind in poker are 4,164 to 1 against, for a probability of 2.4 × 10−4 (0.024%).
Mathematics — Poker: The odds of being dealt a full house in poker are 693 to 1 against, for a probability of 1.4 × 10−3 (0.14%).
Mathematics — Poker: The odds of being dealt a flush in poker are 507.8 to 1 against, for a probability of 1.9 × 10−3 (0.19%).
Mathematics — Poker: The odds of being dealt a straight in poker are 253.8 to 1 against, for a probability of 4 × 10−3 (0.39%).
Mathematics — Poker: The odds of being dealt a three of a kind in poker are 46 to 1 against, for a probability of 0.021 (2.1%)
Mathematics — Poker: The odds of being dealt two pair in poker are 20 to 1 against, for a probability of 0.048 (4.8%).
Mathematics — Poker: The odds of being dealt only one pair in poker are about 5 to 2 against (2.37 to 1), for a probability of 0.42 (42%).
Mathematics — Poker: The odds of being dealt no pair in poker are nearly 1 to 2, for a probability of about 0.5 (50%)
Mathematics — Poker: the number of unique combinations of hands and shared cards in a 10-player game of Texas Hold'em is approximately 2.117 × 1028
Mathematics — Playing cards: There are 2 598 960 different 5-card poker hands that can be dealt from a standard 52-card deck.
Mathematics — Cards: 52! = 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000 (≈8 × 1067) - the number of ways to order the cards in a 52-card deck.
Mathematics: the number system understood by most computers, the binary system, uses 2 digits: 0 and 1.
Mathematics: the hexadecimal system, a common number system used in computer programming, uses 16 digits where the last 6 are usually represented by letters: 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F.
Mathematics: π ≈ 3.141592653589793, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter
Mathematics — Known digits of π: as of 2002, the number of known digits of π was 1,241,100,000,000 (1.2411 × 1012).
Mathematics: 7,625,597,484,987 - a number that often appears when dealing with powers of 3. It can be expressed as 196833, 279, 327, 
Mathematics — NCAA Basketball Tournament: There are 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 (263) possible ways to enter the bracket.
Mathematics — Rubik's Cube: There are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 (about 43 × 1018) different positions of a 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube.
Mathematics: There are 7,401,196,841,564,901,869,874,093,974,498,574,336,000,000,000 (≈7.401 × 1045) possible permutations for the Rubik's Revenge (4x4x4 Rubik's Cube).
Mathematics: There are 282 870 942 277 741 856 536 180 333 107 150 328 293 127 731 985 672 134 721 536 000 000 000 000 000 (2.8287 × 1074) possible permutations for the Professor's Cube (5x5x5 Rubik's Cube).
Mathematics: There are 157 152 858 401 024 063 281 013 959 519 483 771 508 510 790 313 968 742 344 694 684 829 502 629 887 168 573 442 107 637 760 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 (1.5715 × 10116) distinguishable permutations of the V-Cube 6 (6x6x6 Rubik's Cube).
Mathematics: There are 19 500 551 183 731 307 835 329 126 754 019 748 794 904 992 692 043 434 567 152 132 912 323 232 706 135 469 180 065 278 712 755 853 360 682 328 551 719 137 311 299 993 600 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 (1.9501 × 10160) distinguishable permutations of the V-Cube 7 (7x7x7 Rubik's Cube).
Mathematics — Sudoku: There are 6,670,903,752,021,072,936,960 (≈6.7 × 1021) 9×9 sudoku grids.
Mathematics: 10 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000; 10100, a googol.
Mathematics: 10googol (
Mathematics: 243,112,608 × (243,112,609 − 1) is a 25,956,377-digit perfect number, the largest known as of 2009.
Mathematics: Graham's number, the last ten digits of which are ...24641 95387. Arises as an upper bound solution to a problem in Ramsey theory and is probably the largest number seriously used in a mathematical proof. Representation in powers of 10 would be impractical (the number of digits in the exponent far exceeds the number of particles in the observable universe).
Computing: There are 128 characters in the ASCII character set.
Computing — Computational limit of a 32-bit CPU: 2 147 483 647 is equal to 231−1, and as such is the largest number which can fit into a signed (two's complement) 32-bit integer on a computer, thus marking the upper computational limit of a 32-bit CPU such as Intel's Pentium-class computer chips.
Computing - IPv4: 4,294,967,296 (232) possible unique IP addresses.
Computing — web pages: approximately 8 × 109 web pages indexed by Google as of 2004
Computing — Manufacturing: An estimated 6 × 1018 transistors were produced worldwide in 2008.
BioMed: the DNA of the simplest viruses has some 5,000 base pairs.
BioMed: Each neuron in the human brain is estimated to connect to 10,000 others
BioMed: Each human being is estimated to have 30,000 to 40,000 genes.
BioMed — Strands of hair on a head: The average human head has about 100,000–150,000 strands of hair.
BioMed — Species: The World Resources Institute claims that approximately 1.4 million species have been named, out of an unknown number of total species (estimates range between 2 and 100 million species)
BioMed — base pairs in the genome: approximately 3 × 109 base pairs in the human genome.
BioMed — bacteria in the human body: there are roughly 1010 bacteria in the human oral cavity.
BioMed — Neurons in the brain: approximately 1011 neurons in the human brain.
BioMed — Bacteria on the human body: the surface of the human body houses roughly 1012 bacteria.
BioMed — Cells in the human body: the human body consists of roughly 1014 cells, of which only 1013 are human. The remainder of the cells are bacteria, which mostly reside in the gastrointestinal tract, although the skin is also covered in bacteria.
BioMed-Insects: 200,000,000,000,000 (2 × 1014) - The estimated number of ants on Earth.
BioMed — Atoms in the human body: the average human body contains roughly 7 × 1027 atoms.
BioMed: 1030, number of bacterial cells on Earth
Language: There are about 6,500 mutually unintelligible languages and dialects.
Language: There are 20,000–40,000 distinct Chinese characters, depending on how one counts them.
Language: 267,000 words in James Joyce's Ulysses.
Language — English words: The New Oxford Dictionary of English contains about 350,000 definitions for English words.
Records: As of July 2004[update], the largest number of decimal places of π that have been recited from memory - > 42000
Info — Web sites: as of 26 February, 2010, Wikipedia contains approximately 3,206,530 articles in the English language.
Info — Books: The British Library claims that it holds over 150 million items. The Library of Congress claims that it holds approximately 119 million items.
Genocide: Approximately 6,000,000 Jews were killed in the Holocaust.
Demographics: approx. 402,000,000 native speakers of English.
Demographics — world population: 6,587,890,000 - Estimated total mid-year population for the world in 2007 (April 10).
Physical cosmology — Age of the universe: Current theory and observations suggest that approximately 1.4 × 1010 years have passed since the Big Bang.
Cosmology: 1 × 1063 is Archimedes’ estimate in The Sand Reckoner of the total number of grains of sand that could fit into the entire cosmos, the diameter of which he estimated to be what we call 2 light years.
Astronomy — stars in our galaxy: approximately 4 × 1011 stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
Marine biology: 3,500,000,000,000 (3.5 × 1012) - estimated population of fish in the ocean.
Economics: Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe estimated in February 2009 by some economists at 10 sextillion percent, or a factor of 1020
Geo — Grains of sand: all the world's beaches put together have been estimated to hold roughly 1021 grains of sand.
Chemistry: there are roughly 6.022 × 1023 molecules in one mole of any substance (Avogadro's number)
Chess: 1 × 1050 is an estimate of the number of legal chess positions.
Chess: Shannon number, 10120, an estimation of the game-tree complexity of chess.
Board games: 4.8231 × 10115, number of ways to arrange the tiles in English Scrabble (100! / 9! / 2! / 2! / 4! / 12! / 2! / 3! / 2! / 9! / 1! / 1! / 4! / 2! / 6! / 8! / 2! / 1! / 6! / 4! / 6! / 4! / 2! / 2! / 1! / 2! / 1! / 2!).
Usually you'll hear about dogs biting humans in the news. But have you ever heard of a dog ripping off the front bumper from a police car? The dog, Winston was caught on other cruiser's on-board camera biting and pulling off the front bumper from a Tennessee state police cruiser. The officer displayed a great amount of patience by not stepping on the gas pedal and rolling over the dog. There were cases where dogs have been shot for doing less.
Here watch the video and see how it ends.
Video from NewsChannel9
OOoohh... The Ferrari 458 Italia is gonna be a new member of the Autobot family? Apparently the director of the Transformers movies, Micheal Bay had announced in his blog that the brand new Ferrari 458 Italia will be the joining the ranks of the Autobots in the 3rd installment of the Transformers franchise.
People, meet the new Autobot
Fans of Michael Bay’s Transformers movies, rejoice! The man himself took to his blog recently to reveal that filming of Transformers 3 is set to begin in a month’s time and they have secured veteran actors Frances McDormand and John Malkovich to star in the latest installment.
But the biggest update Michael Bay gave us on the new Transformers film is that they’ll be welcoming a new Autobot to the family – and it’s a bright red, scorching-hot Ferrari!
Michael blogged: “I also was at a Ferrari charity event this week raising money for a hospital being built by Ferrari in Haiti. I announced that night the newest Autobot to join Transformers: the Ferrari 458 Italia.” Sorry Bumblebee, we think we have just found our new favourite Autobot.
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