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The real, uncensored Hall Guide Part 6

April 30th, 2005 by lynnylchan under Blogroll

If you are searching for information on: Eusoff, Temasek, Kent Ridge, Sheares, Raffles, King Edward VII - you’re in the right place!

The last up for inspection: Cavey Hall!

A little bit of history:
Cavey Hall is named for the pioneer school of medicine in Singapore, King Edward VII College of Medicine. Owing to that heritage, they continue to be thought of as the ‘medic hall’. They have been on the Clementi campus since the beginning, although they arrived later than Ken Rich Hall. Like Roughly Hall, they are a ‘transplanted’ hall that moved from the Dunearn campus.

Cavey does not seem to have a twin hall, isolated as it is in a hidden corner.

Rooms:
Not renowned for being particularly roomy, Cavey rooms are available in single and double variants. I don’t know anyone living there, although I have seen the exterior. Nothing special, I don’t know if they’ve been upgraded. Online research shows that lizards and cockroaches have been known to visit occasionnally.

Facilities: Their website doesn’t seem to work. Odd. Facilities should be standard, they have a squash court, tennis court and multi-purpose court. Despite this, they are quite, er, average in sports. They’re next to Prince George’s Park residences which has a 24-hour food court, so that’s nifty.

Location: Tucked away in the foresty part of campus, ‘near’ the Science faculty the way that the moon is ‘near’ Earth, as compared to other planets.

Its remoteness from the rest of the campus makes it a choice residence only for Science, Medicine and Computing students. I personally can’t imagine Arts or Engineering students wanting to live there, it’s a very long bus ride to those faculties. Perhaps a plus point is that Cavey is located next to the bus terminal, so the residents can always be the first on the shuttle bus. The surrounding roads are hilly and very quiet because of the secondary forest. It’s good for a midnight jog, but not if you’re faint-hearted because of the ‘nature’ of the area… snakes are a common sight.

Food: Absolutely no idea about their food. I don’t suppose it’s very good, but there’s always the PGP food court nearby. The really desperate can walk out to the main road where they can catch a bus to Holland Village.

People: There seem to be a prevalence of PRC students, but every hall has them. Cavey is reputedly a very quiet and unhappening hall. I’m sure they’re not that dead, but certainly they are not as happening as Yousucks. (heh.) They’re not very strong in sports, but they are good in cultural activities such as choir and ‘xinyao’ or Chinese songs. They organised the combined hall choir concert, which speaks well of their dedication and organisational skills, if not their actual performance skills.

Potential: Cavey probably has the highest proportion of medical students among all the halls, so those craving a doctor boyfriend or girlfriend might be advised to look there. Otherwise… Science and Computing students aren’t really renowned for their good looks (yes, there are a few good looking ones, but they are rare). I will say this however. They are likely to be less pretentious than Arts students, and although they are boring and nerdy and whatnot, they will probably also be more stable partners. And remember - you can teach a nerd to party, but you can’t turn a party animal into a nerd.

Nasty histories: A little vignette concerning the friendly rivalry between Roughly and Cavey can be found under the Roughly Hall post. Other than that… there doesn’t seem to be anything. I think maybe the blocks are placed too close together for anyone to get away with anything. (”Oi you in block D level 2! Keep your moaning down!”)

This has been the hardest post to write, really, due to the lack of information. So kids, if you want a nice quiet hall, in the neck of the woods, go for Cavey. Just a word of warning though: Constant viewing of the posh apartment blocks of PGP might just cause in you such envy that you end up moving.

And with this, the Real Uncensored Hall Guide comes to an end.

p/s: Cavey residents who wish to prove me wrong on the ‘unhappening hall’ basis may email me with valid reasons for me to edit my post. Please include details of drunkenness, debauchery and/or general silliness.