Friday, 21 September 2007
Me, from London!!
My dear friends, I'm finally blogging from my room at London! haha my room's really big and spacious, other ppl think I'm mad coz I feel its too big (I can fit a living room in it, with couch and TV!) The beautiful thing is that I have my own toilet, but my hall is SUPER FAR from my campus, it's about 25 min walk, so I've been developing some really sturdy thighs and calves! I live on the 7th floor, so my view's pretty good, I can see my school's signature dome structure! I share the level with 7 other pple. There's a German, an american, 2 british, 3 singaporeans and 1 prc so it's qt multi-national!! So far I've not cooked anything as I realised I dont have plates and such, but the British guy's SO PREPARED! he has like a whole array of knives, pots, pans. You name it, he has it. I was qt shocked when he showed us his food cabinet. Felt qt bad when I compared his over-flowing one to mine, which only had milo and a few instant packets! :x I'm qt glad he likes to cook though, so he may be able to be our resident cook! Just yesterday, he whipped up curry, nun and some pasta!I've been living on bread and bananas! HAH!
Thankfully, the weather is good, cool and breezy. Sometimes it can get really cold when the wind blows and dirt gets blown into my eyes too, really aweful coz my eyes will hurt like mad! But I'll get used to walking with my eyes closed in the wind!The main transportation in London is really walking! Just tonight, my friend estimated that we walked a total of 10km, just to get a couple of essentials from this place called Primark, which supposedly offers cheaper deals. The stuff in London is really freaking ex! I went to Boots (equivalent to watson) to look for tissue paper and was super horrified to see that one box costs about 1.80 pounds=5 plus SGD! wAH! I decided that toilet paper was more important in the end. haha, so yea, it's hard not to convert everything I see and more often than not, after converting, I just decide that I don't need to spend that money!
Went to officially register as a student today! me and my friends were kiasu and went there early and true enough, there wasnt many ppl so we got our stuff done in less than 20 min! whoo that's Singapore spirit at its best! :D At yesterday's reception, I met a few interesting ppl from all over the world! (An Italian, who kept insisting he's from India, A German, A sweet swedish girl, an Indian who has resided in Singapore, Netherlands, India and Texas, and a few others. I had half a glass of wine and was swayin a lil alr. I can tell that my threshold's really pathetic haha! guess its also because I drank it with an empty stomach! but yea, I really still prefer juice!
Anw to recount what happened at this store called Argos which sells practically everything:
I wanted to buy a Laundry basket together with a few items. So I went there, wrote the serial numbers on the order form and passed it to the cashier for processing (yep its an odd system man). Then I proceeded to the collection point to wait for my stuff. Then, the person passed a huge 8kg box to me.
Guy:here you go!
me: err, are you certain? I think my laundry basket's supposed to be flat and light.This is scary.
Guy: sometimes the pictures are decieving, this is it!
me: are you sure?I think you've made a mistake!
Guy: (really stressed) it is it is! just take it.
When I got back, I opened the box and there were 10 laundry bags inside. ahha! i went about giving some out to my friends and flatmates.
From my experience so far, the british are indeed incomparable to singaporeans in terms of efficiency!
All right, it's getting late, I'll update my blog/facebook more often onece i've settled down!
To those who emailed/facebooked/came to send me off/ called me on 17th, I wanna say a BIG THANK YOU!
Miss you guys! <3
