Apartment Yayasan Melaka

And we meet again on our third post.

You might have been wondering about the students who don't get the college facility, where do they stay? Well, across the campus there is actually an apartment where a lot of UiTM students usually rent for the whole semester. The apartment is owned by the Yayasan Melaka and is named Apartment Yayasan Melaka or the people here often called as AYAM.  All of the blocks of the apartment are occupant wholly by the students, not only from UiTM but also from MiCoST, UTeM, KPMBM and Acceskill as their campuses are located nearby as well.

Apartment Yayasan Melaka

Unlike its name, this apartment is actually a lot lot different than the usual apartments that we used to see. The interior of each house of the apartment is literally more like a sharing college. The space inside the house is quite compact and bad news, there is no spacious living hall for the students to hang around together. Therefore usually, the students would just stay in their own room and do everything in there.

In each house, there are 5 rooms in which 2 students are placed in each room (the rooms are quite small and just nice to fit 2 people), 2 toilets and 3 showers which are shared among the occupants in the house and also a pantry. Just like in college, there is no stove provided but what's better about staying here is that you are allowed to bring your own stove and cook inside your house (SAVE LOTS OF MONEY!)

The inside of the house

The toilets and the showers

The facilities provided around the apartment compund are food court, self service washing machines, vending machines, surau and 2 courts to play sports. The students are also allowed to bring their own cars and park at the parking lot provided around the compound. Most students prefer to rent here instead of other places because of how convenient and strategic the location is as it is very near to almost everything (campus, banks, restaurants etc etc). However, the downside of it is that the rent is quite high which is RM800++ per semester.

Food court

Self service washing machines

So what do you think of AYAM? If you feel like renting here, all you have to do is to come register at the apartment on the day of your registration and pay the rent for the whole semester on the same day. No booking in advance is needed and usually you do not have to worry for not getting a room as the houses are sufficient to cater a lot of student. As at the moment, this apartment is only stayed by the girls but there is already a new block reserved for the boys and will be open for them sometime in the future later. 

Alright, have fun deciding!

-Admin A-