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...

Settling down...

getting ready for school is sooooooooooo tiring, for the past 2 days, we've been doing lots and lots of walking just to prepare for school and life in london.

monday was spent on getting the phone card and buying like daily stuff. i brought so much fruits. the strawberries so cheap. haha. so finally got the phone card and i have like unlimited text and free incoming and 100mins outgoing for £10 (shit the £ sign is so troublesome). and walking the whole day is super tiring. we kept walking up and down tottenham court road and oxford street. omg oxford street! shopping! and primark is sooooooo cheap :D super got to go there and shop. and there will be a wailing siren like every half an hour or so, like london is in a lot of crisis. had a lunch meal deal from superdrug (like a guardian, watsons place). a sandwich, packet of crisps and a bottle of drink for £2.49. not that bad. and dinner in hall was not bad too. hopefully the standard remains and not deteriorates as time goes by as many people claim...

lunch

 

oxford street

today went to enrol, get the student id card, get the ucl password and id and tried opening a bank account but it is soooooooooooooooo troublesome. omg i love singapore banks! walked around to all the banks and they all want the stupid student letter in a specific format and all banks different format -.- wahpiang damn troublesome. so i have to go my department to ask for the letter -.- shit troublesome man. but we got the water filter (london has hard water with a lot of calcium or sth which is not good in the long term so we need a water filter). jiapei lujie and i shared one so jiapei is gng to do the filtering and we just go get the water. what to do? save money is like that one. haha.

the main quad

my department is here so this will be where most of my lessons are held i suppose

ok this is the REAL body of benjamin bentham and the head is fake. cos apparantly students from rival schools kicked it around like a football. disgusting.

ohh lunch today was free! :D ok not entirely. i dabao-ed from breakfast and brought some fruits which i bought last night. woohoo money saving ttm. for dinner, we had some pizza and pasta night to welcome early comers at connaught hall. there was wine too. and like music. haha. the food is really not bad hope it maintains. and the lift is REPAIRED! OMG YAY!

lunch

dinner

and we just had a water tasting session to try out our new filter. haha. it works. yay. ok im tired, shall go sleep long day again tmr and hopefully i can get my bank done. urgh.

 

HELLO LONDON!

OMGOMGOMG I'M IN LONDON!!!

blogging for a while before i leave for the welcome speech. so i arrived at 3.15pm on the 19th sep. didn't have much trouble at the customs, thankfully. had a little problem with the baggages though, cos there won't enough trolleys. we were so clumsy. haha. and then we had a little problem with the car cos instructions from the office wasn't clear.

the van

and my hall was the first stop but we had trouble finding it. the driver didn't know the way -.- and he scolded me for not having the full address. like what the hell. cos the full address is like 36-45 Tavistock Square then the postcode. so he insisted that that is not the full address cos full addresses must have street name -.- found it and reached my hall only at 7pm. and guess what? dinner ends at 7! hurray!

oh and i stay on the 3rd floor and the lift was spoilt. good thing there was this guy who helped me with my baggages. and there's a good lift which doesnt stop on the 3rd floor -.- so had to bring the goods to the 4th floor and carry them 1 floor down -.-

threw down all my things and tried the internet. doesn't work. i started like panicking, thinking it's my laptop problem. baaaaaah ): but it's not because the internet and lan wire works in jiapei's room. yay. went out for dinner cos lujie and i were sooooo hungry. jiapei and mabel brought us around and we settled in subway. they have different flavours from singapore. haha. had the spicy turkey cos that was the day's special. went to a tesco express to get water and headed back. chatted for a while. and then headed to unpack. jiapei and lujie (guys) stay near the ladies. and i stay near the gents -.- oh and made a new friend, tom :)

first meal in london

anyway, my corridor is like right at the end, near the warden's apartment so it's damn ulu. haven't seen anybody yet. but ah well. spend the night rearranging the furniture and unpacking some of my stuff. and plonked down and slept. the bed is pretty good. i think the pillow is fine too. must be my mattress and pillow protector. hehheh.

when i saw this i almost cried. so tiny and cramped.

i rearranged the room and pushed everything in to make my entrance bigger and the room look more spacious. should totally be an interior designer. hahahahaahaha.

 ok i gtg. so that's it for my first night. will update soon, hopefully! :D