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20060827 - Whoops

First of all, sorry for takin a 4-day leave from bloggin. Had a self proclaimed field trip around campus these few days. And whenever i'm online, which is at night or in the mornin, kinda get pre-occupied chattin online and checkin up on the EPL! Crap, can't believe i'm missing out on Manchester's brilliant early season start - notching up 10 goals in 3 games, conceding just 2, and grindin out wins even though they played badly!

Sooo let's see how the last couple of days went

Thursday

Wednesday night was the first night spent with the roommate. Well, not really cos he came back from a party at around 2. But then again, i wasn't too disturbed because i was still awake.

About the roommate, let's see. He listens to heavy metal music. Slightly different from my kinda music but ah, here's where the iPods come in handy. Just gotta stuff them in my ear when his comp speakers are on. But actually he could stuff his own in his ears but there's this unspoken rule that whoever's got their music on first gets to keep his music on. So in the morning, when dawn breaks, it's a mad rush to the computers! We both scramble outta the beds, arms and legs entangling, chiong-ing over to the computers! Nahhh, that doesn't happen. Usually i get to the comp first, but somehow, i feel bad turnin on the music cos he's sleepin and i'll forget to get them turned on once he wakes up...so he's the one with the music on from then on out. Ahh but's somethin we'll work out over the next few months....

Had lunch with some of the dormmates. Other than that, Thursday was pretty uneventful, save for the chaos at Target. It's a supermarket by the way. Woo, you see students and their parents scrambling with their push carts around the store, lookin for stuff to put in the dorms. Hot selling items were the fridges, microwaves, water filters and other comfort items like those. But i just got some foodstuffs while some other singaporeans got their detergents/toiletry baskets and pails (for who knows what!). Oh i did get ear buds. Don't want months worth of earcrap buildin up do i?

Met more singaporeans over dinner, some familiar faces, some faces i never seen before. Nice to meet them though, plus there's one who plays tennis too so that's an added bonus! Nothin much happened for the rest of the day, or rather i can't really recall. Oh, just that the roommate went for another party and came back at 3 this time (but i was still awake). So yep, 2 parties in 2 nights! He's on a roll!!

Friday

Friday was walkaround campus day. Lookin for ideal chillout spots. Somethin i need!! Haven't really found one but so far, starbucks' lookin as the universal chill out locale. Oh wells, that'll have to do until i find somewhere better that isn't a bar/pub. Covered quite abit of campus-ground, familiarised myself with the routes to take from my dorm to the central area of campus. Because you see, my dorm is riiighhhht at the corner of campus and all the good stuff happen in the middle of campus. By good stuff i mean, where my classes, food, student halls and ATM machines are found.

Oh yeah somethin weird did happen at night. Was online in my room when i heard crazy sirens all around my building. Looked down and saw...4 police cars, 2 ambulances and 2 firetrucks at the foot of my dorm. Wah, i figured with all the crazy frat parties down the street, some fight must have spilled over to my dorm! So me and a few guys in the dorm went down together to take a look. Stepped out of the lift on ground floor and saw firemen in their firesuits (complete with oxygen tanks, pick axes, axes, rope).

But i soon found out all that was just for some people stuck in the lift and called 911. I think as long as u dial 9-1-1, you mobilize a rescue crew about that size -.- ahh but if you think firetrucks are called upon to rescue cats stuck in trees, this isn't any biggie. But then again, thats what they say in cartoons, dunno whether firemen really do rescue cats stuck in trees. hmm.

Oh wait, roommate went out for another party friday night. Strike 3! is he out? you'll see..

Saturday

Saturday saturday..slept in! Woke up quite late and headed down to a chinese place for lunch. Ahh the food here, aside from the local food, not that good. I mean, there's thai, indian, chinese, korean, japanese and mediteranean (spell?) food but i don't think they're very good. But so far only have had thai indian and chinese but hey, cannot expect too much la. But even then, the portions are HUGE. And the taste is suited for the americans, so its kinda sweet or bland.

Went for some international picnic (which means free food and i'd do many things for free food...plus it was all you can eat!). Let's just say i came outta the picnic not so full cos everyone had the same mindset as me - pile up the food at every serving!! So by the time it was my turn, only had a few not-so-round beef patties and other kindsa salad, which i dont do very well. Like potato salad and stuff. Makes me wanna hurl!

Oooh after that was freshman initiation. Ahh, nothin much happened except the seniors offerin (forcin) shots around and one guy pukin a few times. Got home feelin bit buzzed, drank some water so i wouldn't get hungover for the next mornin!

Sunday...Today!

OH WAIT. i forgot to mention, roommate partied again last night. came back around same time as me though this time. So we drank water together so we would wake up and not be cranky with each other. So wait, he's got 4 parties in 4 nights now! Wooo! i've got a wild one. But haven't got on my nerves yet, so i'm not complanin.

So! sunday sunday sunday..sundays always a lazy day when your in the bed. So why stop now? Well...cos it's not really like my bed at home! So took a tour of the shops on campus. Mostly souvenir shops and there's this cd shop thats sells albums of bands which i can never find in singapore! and on the cheap too.

Now i'm just finishin off this supppperrr boring post cos i tried thinkin of everythin that happened that last few days and its not like i've got the best memory in the world! Anwyays roommate bowled today, didn't party.

Aww he missed out on a perfect 5 outta 5.