Heart Balm

Taken at the Botanic Gardens in sunny Singapore.
A pic I really like.

Random update

I'm now in the New Hunts House Information and Services Centre. Basically I'm just at the library. Haha. I wonder why they want to call it the ISC. What a mouthful. pw's gone to look for a shaman by the name of Richard, in hopes that he can fix her comp so that she'll get the net from her room. *cross fingers*

It is an amazingly beautiful day today and amazing I've been stuck indoors the entire day. Lecture was only one hour in cos it's the intro lect. We ate our packed lunch and then waddled over to the ISC. Would you believe it if I told you I'm hungry now. Lunch was about 3 hours ago. I am perpetually hungry here I tell you. I think it's the cold. But now, the sun is shining and the garden outside looks gorgeous. It's like the 5pm in Sg. At 5pm here, it is dark already. I hope the day gets longer soon so that we can stay out later and go see more things. It's not been too fun so far. I have not done a single touristy thing yet, except to talk pictures of their red mailboxes and double deck buses.

Update: pw's comp was right as rain when the shaman loooked at it. he thinks the prob may be that the signal is too weak in Wolfson. *scratch head*

Oh well, think I'll be spending more time here at the ISC more often. I think the New Hunts House is very nice. Maybe cos it's modern. Haha, more like what I'm used to la. Old buildings are nice, but they are not very convenient or comfortable. Heh.

About my floor mates

The people on my floor have almost all moved in or, rather, moved back in. I mostly meet people in the kitchen because people do have to eat at some time.

In 1201 is Felicia. She's from M'sia and is doing her first year in Neuroscience. Cool huh. She did her A Levels here in the UK so she does sport an accent when she speaks. But she drops it when she speaks to me. And she could tell that I was Singaporean before I told her. She smokes like a chimney when she studies, watches anime, is very friendly and is really chummy with Jermaine in 1210.

In 1202 is yours truly.

1203 houses Peter, this REALLY interesting character. He is like someone out of the 1950s. He has hair that is long and floppy like the Beatles and wears polka dotted dress shirts with nice homely sweaters and butt-hugging suit pants that shows his VPL. I must say, his butt is really quite perky. Haha. He is very friendly and a bit eccentric. And amazingly he watches anime... and likes Stephen Chow! He's watched Kungful Hustle and Shaolin Soccer and is looking for the older Master Chef shows.

1204: Sheetal. She's a medical student and is currently having exams. So I don't really know much about her yet except that she really does take her workd seriously and is worried about screwing up her exams.

Nicole stays in 1205. She an exchange student from New York. I've only said hi to her the day she arrived. Haven't seen her since.

Tall, charismatic Abby is in 1206. I actually can't remember what she studies. Oopsie. She is very nice and seems to be quite close to Peter and Sheetal.

I don't know who stays in 1207.

Helen stays in 1208 and I don't know much about her either.

En Son from Korea stays in 1209. She is the first person I met on this floor. She is extremely friendly and helpful and kind, offering to take us to the supermarket when she found out that we needed to get crockery and stuff. She eats a lot of onion.

1210 belongs to Jermaine, a tall, strapping black guy with a wonderful deep voice. Really, I really like his voice. His legs are about a mile long cos when he sits down, he doesn't look too tall. He watches anime and Stephen Chow as well. I can't believe that he is only 18. 18! Like my younger brother. I thought he's like 20. Ok maybe because he's tall. He doesn't smoke and washes his dishes. I like. He also eats rice. Haha, irrelavent point.

Dunno who's in 1211.

Keesha is in 1212. She does ancient history (cool!) and always says "See you later!"

Dunno who's in 1213 either.

Holly the law student occupies 1214, if I remember correctly. She is the homely homely sort of girl (at least from the way she dresses).

There's also Maria but I can't remember which room she stays in. She's from Ireland. She quite friendly and I've talked to her some, but I can't remember what she studies either. I think it's English.

Everyone's rather nice at this point. Let's see how it goes.

In the UK

I've put up a grand total of 6 photos on flickr so far. The scarcity can be attributed to the fact that I have not gone sightseeing at all in the almost-one week here and also that my pics are gigantic while my internet connection is slow. So bear with me. I try to put up pics that are a bit more representative. Haha.

I spend massive amounts of time buying groceries, cooking, cleaning and doing laundry. it is really quite amazing. Now I realise how much my mum does at home for all of us. I mean, I had time to bored and watch nonsense tv. Now I have watched like 30 mins in the entire week and that is only because we went to FQ's place where there is a tv. I don't think I'll ever go to the common room to watch it. Will just stay online when I'm in the room, haha.

School will start soon, so I guess there'll be proper things to do then. I've bought this gigantic writing pad (200 sheets) from the student union shop (yes they run a shop, not like NUSSU) for 99p. Quite a bargain I think. It's almost cheaper than paper at home. But that is an exception, I tell you. Stuff here is popo expensive. Next time I'll holiday in Thailand or sth. Then I'll feel better. I haven't really gotten the hang of converting the the numbers in the Sg equivalent yet, so I can still think stuff is cheap when they cost less than 1 pound. But then that is already like $3. Ah, got to curb my expenditure.

Looks like a good day today; there is actually sun. Good! Cos I'll be walking a lot today.

Alive and Kicking... in the UK!

Haha, just a short post. I'm now in the UK! Only got internet today, so when I'm free I'll write more. But for now, just, "Hi, I fine and I miss everyone!"