Yah, a post.
Life's been good, 'cept that the weather is freaking cold at night you wonder if it has dipped beyond 0 degrees, and that I get hungry real quick here. My analogy is that I'm so easily cold that the eaten food gets burnt so quick in the stomach. For the record, I get hungry every 3 hours.
It's almost impossible to stay awake till 4am and sleep till 12pm the next day here. Even with WoW. I haven't tried, but I am certain it's impossible. It's so cold by 9 or 10 that you can't do anything but blanket yourself to sleep and you can't sleep further than 8am because the cold wakes you up by then anyway.
My landlord kinda sucks. To be fair, he drove us around for groceries, mattress shopping, and gave us a good price at a time when both of us were desperate for a roof over our heads. At the same time, he is so regimental that we got to do everything he say - wash the dishes immediately or else bring it to our room, don't let the door go bang, don't watch tv unless we are eating. At the 99cents groceries store, he forced us to take the same shopping route as his, throw stuff he likes into our cart. At home, he forced me to download quicktime so that I can enjoy the movie trailers he so enjoyed. Nuts.
There are so many things I can write about him. Hell, I can even start a new blog and name it, 'The Desperate Landlord' or wad. It's just a waste of time though. I've got so many things to do. Like, subject registration. Okay, I've did everything the coordinator told me. Yet my add code doesn't work and it's driving me crazy because when you click my timetable online, it's empty! I have no classes, that's it. Am I here to let them heap misery on myself or what?? Damn sian.
The only things I'm looking forward to is weekend. The plan is to tour most of San Diego using weekends, a 2-week hike around Califonia after the exams and possibly a week trip to around New York.
It's expensive here, but there are ways to save. The 99cents groceries mall is the best place to dine cheap. High speed internet means downloading of movies only take an hour or so, thus reducing the need to rent dvds or watch tv. Having a budget means the room would go unfurnished as well. Only 2 coffee tables and a sofa bed makes up the room. Luggage makes up for the lack of drawers, while the waterproof bags for the backpacks become our laundry bag.
Oh, did I mention we have to climb 2 hills to get our laundry washed? 'Cos there's no laundry here in my house. That was by right. By the desperate landlord. By left, there is a washing machine sitting in the deep lockroom of the house, we discovered. O who cares about why? This landlord has a loose screw somewhere.
I have made some friends here. I'm not sure about the social life of Eric and Louis. But the people here are so into parties, and parties are just not for me. In school, the students live mostly a solo life. You see alot of lone souls walking around to class, sit alone in class. It's not like in NTU where you walked everywhere in cliques. It's only one day in school, so most probably I would find a way to know American friends. Most of the friends now are from China. As in the really good ones. The first strangers I talked to when I reach USA now live a couple of houses away from me. They are not your Singapore ah-tiongs. They are so high class they pull you apart with their superb ang moh. They bathe, they interact with non-ah-tiongs. Maybe Singapore itself cultivate our kind of ah-tiong bah.
The Finnish, French, German, Mexican are met at the soccer court in the recreation centre. They are clumsy, they pass the ball anyhow. They can't get past me, but when they lose the ball, they bodypush me so hard that I couldn't gain any advantage. The basketballers are only tall and strong. They like to dunk alot, but my tiny roommate could get past them easily with speed. Just a sporting comparision between they and us bah.
The sofa bed assembler is a Mexican. He brought me around town when I needed to make some small change in order to pay him. He is a nice guy. 30 year old chap. We exchanged numbers and he said he will pick me up for a drink should he drive past someday. Ha, we shall see.
It's night now and I'm dreading the cold later and tomorrow morning. Will be confronting the damn coordinator tomorrow. She's nice but she's making me frustrated by not listening to me at all and assuming otherwise. Sigh.
Alright. Batman Begins now. And then sleep. Goodnight.