Laz 'R' Us
...And for my first post I shall regale you with bits of updating I should've done ages ago but had no time to due to my commitments to lazing in front of the TV which, incidentally, is really bad. If you are allergic to on-monday-i-went-to-watch-a-movie-with-mary-and-jane-and-then-on-tuesday-i-went-shopping posts, tune in next post; or else get a grip on your eyelids, yank upwards and.. stay there till the end of the post.
1. Everything is good here.
2. It is cold.
3. There are hot guys.
4. There are even hotter girls.
5. I am NOT going to hook up with any angmohs!!
So that's the top 5 FAQs down.
6. My place: is very small but cosy. Kevin's room has no window. Except one frosted one that overlooks... my room. Kevin is permanently keeping the blinds drawn. Aww.
Oh wait. Now I write for the masses.. Let's try that again.
6. My place: is very small but cosy. My flatemate Kevin, who is the other NUS Law-er going to Mebourne, has a room with no window.Except one frosted one that overlooks... my room. Kevin is permanently keeping the blinds drawn. Aww.
My room has a view of the topmost bits of the city buildings (Dad and Mom: I can see the Commonwealth building on Bourke) but most of it is taken up by a view of the other residents in the same building. Once when I was sprawled ungraciously on the (small) couch watching tv (yes I seem to be doing a lot of that) I had to get up to shut the blinds because some bored dude was standing at the window staring at me. Like I said, tv is pretty bad here.
Other complaints about my place include: the electric (not gas) stove on which it takes 10 years to boil water, Kevin's room's LAN.. port.. thingy (fear not, I am doing internet law and will shortly be able to provide a more accurate description of the..thingy) which does not work, the flimsy chairs which Prash dearest bent out of shape, and the kitchen light which blew this morning and which must, as stipulated on the lease agreement, be replaced at OUR cost. Also there isn't much shelf space so Kevin and I took inspiration from the good ole karang guni man and picked some cardboard boxes off the side of the road. And. Carried. The. Monstrous. Things. Home. In broad daylight. ~Whee
On the bright side: it's new, it's got the cool buzzer thing that Loocy had at his (Loocy is the kind soul who housed us during our sydney trip; I don't think I like writing for the masses too much) and when there's ABSOLUTELY zero tv to watch, I enjoy flashing my pass to get into the lift. Just kidding. AND on channel one on my tv there's a CCTV thing of who's at the buzzer thing. And the place is a 5 minute walk to the city and a 10 minute walk to Law. Rent is cheap for a furnished apartment, these adorable ladies come to clean twice a month to save Kevin and I from drowning in the e coli which would otherwise accumulate and I saw a cute guy in the lift lobby yesterday.
7. School: Law is a HUGE fac because half the world does it as one of their two degrees. The building has 10 floors so it doesn't look so bad when you use it to get to class, as compared to at NUS where everyone knows you can't be arsed to climb one flight of stairs. NUS Law's library is better though, they weren't kidding us at the Dean's Tea speech.
(Btw is it TRUE.. Are we really the ONLY fac moving to bukit timah? Wah...Lau... Eh.........)
Also there are 13 Law Exchange Students and one of them is Kevin's army acquaintance- he's doing law in Nottingham- which makes it 3 singaporean exchangers and a hell lot more who are international students. Nobody can tell I'm from exchange. When I asked this girl (also Singaporean) in my Insolvency class whether Company is part of their core curriculum (it's not) she gave me this oh-dear-do-you-have-short-term-memory-loss-possibly-sustained-in-an-accident look.
The library has a copy of Tan, Thio and Yeo's Constitutional Law in Malaysia and Singapore. It is in the RBR section.
And also we zao-ed class during the 5 minute break out of pure laziness- the lecture was good but it was cold and I was sleepy. It will not happen again, Mom.
8. Friends: I haven't bothered to make any new ones except Erica (VJ ppl: She's Norman from s22's girlfriend and she's a real sweetie! I dunno how but she somehow recognised me at the uni's briefing for international students and introduced herself) and my next door neighbours (both Singaporeans) and this guy at the photocopying shop two blocks from mine (9 aussie cents a copy, and that's considered cheap. Printing is 60 cents a sheet. Apparently money trees are native to Australia) and the other NUS students on exchange (VJ ppl: they're both from VJ- danlin from s21 and shawn tan from the 00 batch.. 00s42 i think).
That's like.. i dunno.. 5 friends. Can count on one hand. But who cares because I have ALL MY S11ERS HERE I LOVE YOU GUYS SO MUCH LA I WISH WE ALL LIVED IN ONE BIG HOUSE AND THAT PRASH AND NESH WERE EITHER AT MELBOURNE OR HAD CARS.
And s11ers and PRs... I can't count on two hands. Awesome.
So, 9. I am really getting on okay here. Mom is not to worry too much. I won't explode any more eggs in the microwave.
And 10. I miss you all! If there is one lesson I can impart to my fellow Singaporeans it is to eat as much bak kwa as possible.
Thankyou for having reached the end of this awful post and enduring that last sentence which did not make much sense. I composed it in front of the tv.
posted by e @ 3:11 PM
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