At home, in London

time flies. it's alrdy like the 2nd week in London. oooh. and lessons still have not started. it's now like the official departmental induction week. so there's still more induction going on. and whatever they say this week we kinda heard them last week. especially the transition program on thurs. BUT i'm going cos i want the organiser :D school handbook you knw? essential :D haha and it's expensive.

yah so since the last time i blogged nothing much really happened i guess. we ran for a run to regent's park. it was sooooo cold. the wind was freezing i felt like my brain froze. and i didn't sweat. it wasn't an intensive enough run but it's too cold to intensify it. i need to consider the gym membership... but anyway, regent's park is sooooo pretty :D looks like a really good place for picnic. and we saw a squirrel which was cheated by lujie. heh.

pretty :)

they kept checking the map cos we didn't know the way

people practising wing chun. i want to learn also!

quack quack quack

hello weiliang the 2 of them combined reminds me of you :')

ok this photo proves that i was there. not nato ok. haha.

cute!

omg and we went to primark. there was a blackout so they were running on their generator. so some lights were not on and the escalators were down. and it was sooooo stuffy. i bought like 2 jackets, a pair of boots, 2 long sleeves, a pair of gloves, a hoodie, a bag, a pair of jeggings which totally look like jeans but no pockets, and 2 nighties cow print damn cute. haha. i'm like known my my animal prints cos i have like leopard and zebra. now i add cow to the collection. hehheh. and i spent like £90. oooh so happy :D but most of the things i bought were necessary so yah ok fine i'm just trying to feel less guilty.


oh and before primark we went to the ucl welcome carnival. the games were all larger than life size. but it was rather quiet. not many people were there. so i guess the atmosphere wasn't all that great.

the games

there was some planting dunno what bulbs for some elderly thingy. haha.

saw this around the corner. it's really nice. it's the barrier to block the construction site. and on every piece there was a drawing of a construction worker. i think it's really creative and it brightens up the street.

did our laundry on sunday morning. didn't have enough whites among the 3 of us so we asked cheryl to pool in some. the dryer didn't dry in 1 spin and we didn't knw how more spins were needed so we took our damp clothes to our rooms to hang dry. oh and our dryer to like 20p and washing machine is £1.60. other halls are like £1 and £2. hahahahaha.

my laundry :)

jiapei's laundry

on sunday afternoon, there was a welcome tea at connaught. it was at the lobby. the place is too small. there were so many people cos a lot of people just moved in cos ucl and lse are starting school soon. so we just socialised over tea and biscuits for 3 hours. then we had dinner. more socialising. then it was connaught's bar grand opening and we just socialised some more there. socialising is tiring. met a lot of people from many places. but after a while, they start to look the same. so the moment they change their clothes, i forgot who they are. haha. ok but they forget me too. cos when i changed for clubbing and wore contacts, a few of they insisted they never met me before and were amazed at how i know their names -.-


that night was fresher's fiesta. went to KOKO. it was quite crowded and i think it'll be the only clubbing event i go to in a long time. didn't really enjoy it .the drinks were so expensive. no wonder the brits drink before they club. and half the time the music they played were unknown to me. not very mainstream. and the guys we went with were nice. they kind of form a circle around the girls. haha. 

we got back at 3am. i washed up and slept at 3.15. damn, i'm efficient. woke up at 8 for breakfast. ahah. and induction started at 10. omg our induction is sooooo boring. and we didn't have a chance to socialise. it was just sit down in the lt and listen. so yah didn't get to know many people. for the first year, lectures and tutorials are held by the department with a total of 6 different courses. so there's like 120 people. quite a number of chinese and hongkongers. and i met a turkish, a lebanese and a guy from cyprus. totally exotic mix. and there's more induction thingy today. all talks. boring. haha.  

oh last night connaught had a clubbing thing but we didn't go so we had a mini party in theodore's room. we were drinking tea and playing monopoly deal. our kind of party. haha. then theodore's parents came back with alcohol and pies. haha. but it was 2 small bottles among 8 people. just to try the taste. minghao turned red, taught us the biological reasons and got high. haha. ohh and i learnt to play bridge! yay like finally. been learning it since like sec1. haha.

ok so i'm beginning to feel at home alrdy. like really settling down nicely. voice still tranny-like. and i'm really beginning to understand why the seniors say ultimately, when we arrive the people we stick to will still be singaporeans. like yah hi and bye, and the initial introduction is fine. but after that, there seems to be no common topics anymore. and even if there is, the conversation ends fast. so yah. ah well. 

ok i'm going back to my drama byebye! :D

Still settling down...

aaaaah... i'm still settling down. still rather unused about some things, like the weather, the efficiency of the banks... lalala. oh but i love they way they walk. fast.

i caught a cold and now my voice sounds like a tranny. my nannies have been forbidding me to eat chocolates, mooncakes and heaty things and complaining that i don't drink enough water. naggy people hahahahaha. ok la, they are just being caring :)

ok so the past few days i've been like still settling all the registration and banking stuff. registered with the nhs and had to do the urine test. hate it -.- setting up a bank is a horrible experience. hate it. so much things to do. and i have no idea what to do with portico and stuff -.-

weather's turning cold. cos of the rain maybe. rained for past 2 days. wind is like cold cold cold. wind come, hide behind somebody but wind still come. somehow. hopefully today is a sunny day. there's a carnival going on. excited :D

ok so other than the settling down troublesome stuff, i've been visiting various halls. ok so our toilet is shared by many and maybe we don't have auto doors and all the atas stuff. just a really simple hall with the necessities and some extras. but i think connaught hall is a really cosy place and the layout makes it easy to see people and make friends. so yeah, i'm liking my hall. just need to do up my room. heh.

and ytd was like tourist day. went to the charles dickens museum with mabel jiapei lujie and zuxin. its a mini museum inside the house he used to stay in. i read 4 of his books and didn't know he wrote so many haha. and i rmbed his biography was the first which i tried reading. didn't finish of course. and i wanna watch oliver! love the book though  read it so long ago i've already forgotten what's it about. haha.

there was a short film on charles dickens' life

a little portion of his published books from different eras

oliver twist :D

i remember going with jiapei but different dates leh... haha.

the house. all houses that belonged to famous people have the blue plaque on top.

we went for the open-top tour bus in the afternoon. £2 for ucl students. original £20. worth the money we paid. haha. so touristy taking the bus and taking in the sights. saw the beautiful architecture and some famous landmarks. saw people running in tanktops and shorts dunno how they do it while we were freezing on the bus cos of the wind. but yeah. pretty cool. saw the part of london to far to walk to. i haven't taken any public transport you know. amazing. just walk everywhere.

connaught and friend (mabel is the friend, she's from canterbury)

love it the way they have such old architecture in the middle of the street.

do you see ben? (no not the yellow guy)

westminster abbey

you can view other pictures from my facebook :) ok i'm going for a run later with my nannies. 

i love it in london, but i miss home...