After returning from INTI college… my dad enrolled me in a vocational-based technical institute, called INSTITUT TEKNOLOGI BUTTERWORTH… bet tat none of u heard about it before. This is the worst institut anyone can ever go.

I went to the institute, by FORCE. It wasnt my choice. The day i came home from KL, my dad just told me,"Ive registered u for the institut and i’ll keep my eyes on you from now on"… hahahaha… Sounds like HELL to me… and it turns out to be true.

Low Qualifications amongst lecturers, student and even the principal.
I was devastated, to be in an institut full of ppl who barely passed their SPM. Some even failed their SPM. Many got grade 3. The standard was darn low. Some cant even write a proper sentence in English. In fact no one spoke in English. The lecturer, even teaches in Hokkien. And, the best part is, the lecturers havent even completed an undergraduate programme. Some just finished SPM and teach by experience. The highest qualified lecturer has a diploma in-hand. Oh ya only 1 guy had a degree in Mechanical Engineering. The rest are just lowly qualified lecturers.

The institute was run by a chinaman businessman, who was just a SPM holder. This guy is the so-called principal, how dare he call himself principal. And his wife is the self appointed administrator. Means to say, the husband cant control her actions. She comes to work as she likes. Supposed to be in the office by 9am, she may come at even 11am. Many staffs resigned becos they cant stand her ridiculuos orders.

STONE-AGED institute.
The whole institute, is like JURASSIC PARK. They still use typewriter in their letters and forms. And its not even an electronic typewriter, but the ones used during my great grandfathers time. For a technical institute, u may find it weird that there are no computers used in the institute. NO COMPUTERS. One may wonder, how they file up their data, they use files. They file it up in their cabinet. The papers they use are not the white A4 papers we use daily, but the dinosaur aged brown color rough paper.

Poor Infastructure.
The whole institute consist of 2 buildings, which is rented. One is a shop house and the another is a workshop beside St.Marks school.

The shop house building is like a tuition centre. Penangites like to gofor tuition in pusat tuition ghee? ya.. the institute is something like tat. The furnitures are old. And the air cond is the most ancient of its kind. U can find cobwebs around the building. Its not properly maintained.

The workshop is like the same bengkel u use in kemahiran hidup lessons. No safety features. U dont even get to wear aprons  while doing ur work.  Here, they still use papan hitam in their teachings.  The toilet is damaged. And when it rains, this place can get flood.

Outdated Syllabus.
The subjects taught is outdated and not practical. I feel that SPM syllabus is even more challenging. The mathematics they teach is super kacang. All u learned during SPM is taught again. In their mathematics syllabus, the most challenging one is a simple trigonometry question. And guess wat, there are people who even fail in their exams. I was considered bright amongst the students there. But i dun feel proud about it, cos it doesnt challenge me at all. There was once, i even had to teach the lecturer with a faster way of solving a fluid mechanics question using logarithm. This is an insult to my intellectual level. It is tat bad. So be thankful that u r blessed with great teachers and lecturers who know their job well.

The welding system that they teach us, called gas welding and SMAW, is an outdated method of welding. I compared it with those whom r studying in polytechnic.

The physics they teach is also not challenging at all. U just need to ganti the figures into the formula and u’ll get the answer. You dun have to think.

Many of the skills they taught are no longer in demand. It can be replaced by high tech machines.

to be continued….