. - 7:16 AM
i haven't been updating a proper entry since i've reached and i'm really sorry. i wonder whether people still check back =p but well anyway, the last week was orientation and i made quite alot of friends from places all over the world its quite cool. i have friends from singapore, malaysia, india, hong kong, cyprus, germany, malawi etc. save for the talks on like "driving in the uk" and stuff like that, the orientation was quite fun. we were brought to places like Chatsworth house in the Peak districk [house of the duke of devonshire] which has REALLY NICE GARDENS. and there was the fromal dinner as well which was good experience and fun dressing up!
school has been hectic on the first day, but school fees and registration wasn't that bad. i had med school health check up today and they drew my blood AGAIN. and of coz what is a day without meeting obstacles, i got lost while walking to med school, and ended up reaching there 10mins late. it's not a very good first impression is it! but ok all was fine. i don't have school tmr till like 1pm so i'm up at 1226am blogging now. haha
i've been cooking! i cooked pasta on the first night and just now i had fried vegetables. it's not bad really, taste like mom's/chinese cooking, probably coz i always watch mom, and seroiusly everythign with oyster sauce is going to taste chinese =P to avoid feeling homesick [which comes and goes], i've been planning activites at night, every night the whole week! like yesterday was Population at the school club. today was Borat at the student's Union for like 50p. tmr's Pan's Labryinth at my friend's room, eating chinese take out.
accomodation. i love my room, but can't get used to the environment.
1. its surrounded by construction sites, and i got woken up at 730am this morning by the noise when i was only due up at 830am
2. the girls in my flat LOVE TO TALK OUTSIDE MY DOOR. like **** off, i'm trying to have some peace in my room if you didn't realise.
3. british culture somehow involves alot of drinking. like there's a communal drink cupboard in my kitchen. like WOW. and you get weird random guys from different flats popping by, talking outside my room, bitching abt Singapore [his luggage got lost there or sth, i was silently thinking of going out there and tell him, hey i'm from sg!] if not they'd be having hosue party in the kitchen, making noise, dirtying the kitchen. i haven't participated in any, nor gone out with my housemates. their nice ppl, if you talk to them they'll talk to you. i just don't like it when they talk OUTSIDE my room. oh random fact:
1)this guy was going on abt how he was so wasted, he woke up at 7am on the streets [note its probably <10 degrees at night] -.-
2) the medical school gave us a thick brochure on Alcohol & Health. i was silently laughing at it.
well well enough complaining, it's all part of uni life, its an experience, and i guess when you view things differently, it becomes more bearable and makes a whole lot more sense.
i miss Singapore like truck loads. my life, my family, my friends. i even have thoughts runnign through my head on how stupid i was on not staying in Singapore to study. and i was eating my really nice Marriott hotel Mooncake alone and thinking, damn i would have been eating it with my family back home.
oh wells, i'm beat i'm going to wash my cup and sleep.
till nxt time!