The cold weather is retarding both my mind, my body, my fingers, my efficiency and even my electronic goods... oh wait.. even my pens. (And as i type, i feel the cold air seeping in from the windows and turning my fingers into popsicles. The darn heater doesn't seem to work! )
- My mind is in a perpetual frozen mode. I dun seem to remember anything.
a) I can't remember all my passwords.
b) I forgot to turn off the stove after boiling water, so the pot was boiling without any water till i rediscover that. Thank goodness it din burn and it wasn't a gas stove. But i would prolly remember if it's a gas stove.
c) I can't remember all the funny names here. That's forgiven since the language is still pretty alien to me but somehow i feel it's part of the frozen memory.
d) I can't remember if i submitted my WSG form with adeline's signature. Argh... And at this rate i won't get my pay... especially since i din get a chance to work on what sally asked for. *tears hair out* - My body just feels like turning into a ice statue. I dun feel like moving anywhere. Not even from my table to my bed. OR if i'm in bed, I'm frozen to my bed.
- My fingers have lost it's ability to generate any heat for itself. So does my feet. My hands & feet are perpetually cold. Gloves and boots dun work. Who on earth said that boots can keep ya feet warm? Tt's nonsense. Boots are only for aesthetic purposes. Okie.. maybe the steal (we bought 6 boots for 400 SEK which is about slightly less than S$100) i got from the boots can attribute to the lack of it's functionality. I'm seriously bang on investing in a good pair of boots for my poor lil feet before they start shrinking (not as though my feet is very big to start with).. prolly hiking thick sole boots & a pair of chao glam leather boots. Hehe...As for gloves, I think i've given up trying to get good gloves. I currently haf 3 pairs of gloves & a mittens in my collection but they dun seem to function as they should & of coz i haf another pair of ski gloves which i refuse to wear them since they r big n bulky n lack all sense of glamness. But then again, i haven't been very glam here. Warmth overrules glam. But some bit of glam-ness has to be maintained lah...
- My efficiency is ZILTCH! Z-E-R-O. This place is lifeless on weekends which equals that I absolutely haf nothing to do... Nowhere to go since everything closes early. Which also means that I technically should have lots of time for myself. BUT somehow i can't seem to achieve the things I've set out to do. Let's see...
a) Admin matters of settling all my documents... accomodation... internet access... transport pass... Well, this is prolly THE only thing I've worked my efficiency on. Settled most of my stuff... Guess i dun haf a choice since i'm living alone. Documents all settled. Just left paying my darn rent n trying to get my ATM card to work.
b) Check out my courses for this semester. Hmm... I wanted to get started on this in the afternoon but the network was down (it's a sign that i shouldn't touch sch stuff... haha) But finally i did it in the night BUT i figured printing them out would be much easier. And coz of my 'diligence' I realize i haf a class tml. Darn... thot it was my day off... which i planned to clean my flat, do my laundry n some shopping. Now all smashed by Swedish class. A big discovery was made too. I haf more than the stated number of classes on the paper that was handed out during O week. Sucks. And the classes clash. At lesat for 2 weeks. Too lazy to compare for the rest on my lappy. Will haf to figure something to do abt that. (FYI: The classes schedule changes here every week. How much more sucky can it get? Can't really plan things in advance. And even if the schedule is given, they can just change the class timing. ARGH... Now i appreciate the system in SMU)
c) Tidy up my room. Haiz... I still can't seem to decide where i want my stuff to be. The room still feels untidy and dirty. Shall get up early n clean the flat & my room... Motivation factor increased when i found the broom n vacuum cleaner in the closet & CNY is coming.. So 大扫除 ... okie.. think i type wrongly. Maybe i'll feel much much better after that.
d) Tidy up my laptop's photos & rename them. UNDONE!
e) Post the pix of this brillant place n pple on some online album. UNDONE!
f) Blog about my experience here & collage pix for ya eye's feasting. Minimially done. No mood to blog and i'm feeling lazy to write too.
That's a pretty long list of things to do when i haf nowhere to go. But... Sighz... - My electronic goods are RETARDED! (ok... shan't curse them. Karma,... wait they decide to die on me... they are the best who serves me well... )
a) my lappy screen sometimes doesn't appear. It's just a black screen. N i think something is wrong with the backlight AGAIN. Hope not or not i'm DEAD.
b) my camera is lagging. Taking eternity to take a pix. NO, it's not coz of the memory space. I cleared most of my pix. AND the battery is discharging REALLY quickly. I haf to charge EVERYDAY. Argh...I wanna get a new cam! The slim slim casio would be good.
c) My HP is releasing charges into the already dry air. One phone call and it threatens to die. Haiz...
The weather is too cold for all these electronics that have been acclimatize to Singapore's heat. Boo... - And YES finally at the last retarded item. Some of the pens i brought here is dying on me. The ink refuses to come out. Blehz... Shall attribute it to the weather rather than my lack of using them (yes i haven't been doing work.. Haha)
AND TIME HAS FROZEN HERE TOO! Esp when we are waiting for the bus to come. And the bus service too freezes during the weekends. They become less vicious. Haha... So poorly adaptoble pple to the cold have to freeze our arses (no... toes & fingers mainly) off at the bus stands.
So far, the thing i've done best is to stock up on my groceries. Haha... I've been a frequent visitor to the supermarket. Got watever food i need but when it comes to cooking... I just stare at the cupboard n fridge filled with food. Haha... N usually i end up not using the stove. Haha... N i keep forgetting to buy meat. I miss chicken & fish. Blehz... Meat here is expensive. Okie... rather everything is expensive. And chicken seems to have extinct. I can barely find a whole raw chicken in the supermarts tt i've been to. Only got drumsticks. And fish is WORST. Haf i been deluded that i'll be having lots of fish in nordic countries? Haiz... Where have the fishes gone to? I WANT FISH! STEAM FISH! They only haf frozen fish/vacuumed/ preserved/seasoned fish. I want them fresh. Blehz...
Anw had a rather interesting encounter yesterday nite. Lazy me is ripping this extract of my friend's blog. TY, hope u din copyright this. Haha...
ASSHOLES
Oh, when Sharleen and I sent Angie and Jieying to the bus station
just now, we met 2 black and old assholes. But it was damn hilarious la. hahaha.
Maybe they had a drop too much or something I don't know. I dun think so though
coz it was only 10 plus la. Anyway, they came up to us and tried to speak to us.
They started saying 'Hi' and spoke to us in English. Coz they looked so
suspicious, we ignored them. (Actually I would have replied if not for the rest
who stopped me) We were just hoping that they will leave if we ignore them long
enough. Thinking that we did not understand them, they started asking qns in
various languages. I just nodded when they said "You speak Chinese? Are you from
China?". And we just gave them the 'i-dun- understand' face at whatever qns they
posed. So, assuming that we completely did not understand english, they started
talking obsencely.
They said: "You are [dunno what] fuckers [dunno what]
blah blah"
(i didn't understand the behind part, i think it was in another
lang)
*ignore*
They asked: "Are you all idiots?" *snicker snicker
snicker*
*i-dun-understand face*
By this time, they have lost much
interest in talking to us already. Haha.. thank god. I so wanted to laugh out
loud.
Then one of they had to ask: "Do you want my dick?"
*pretend nv
hear* But inner-us: "WTH!"
Luckily after that qns they just laughed and
walked off.
Haha... I feel like telling them. I would love ya dick frozen in the cold so that i can see if it would freeze and drop off. Haha... Then again, no i have no interest in seeing any of that manz. *see no evil* They are nuts lah. But this place is filled with some loonly pple. In a week, I've seen 3 already not including them. First was on my first day here, i saw a guy eating and talking to his pizza. Second and third was at the bus station where the guy was talking really loudly to himself. Thanks goodness, i had pple ard me. The cold n the long dark nites do indeed make pple insane. (well, i read somewhere of the disease but my frozen mind can't recall. Haha)
Okie.. Now i kinda can't remember wat else i want to blog.... Wat's new. Anw the temperature is dipping. DIPPING... it's below freezing pt. It's so cold that we figured that putting our can drinks outside would chill them faster than putting them in the fridge which is soo true. As of now, it's -19 degrees. I feel the cold air creeping to my hands but the hot air is keeping my legs warm (my heater is just below my windows. The theory of physic. Haha... So maybe we should do handstands so our feets won't freeze. :P)
That shall be all for now till i can remember wat else i want and can blog about... which somehow the inspiration has come to blog as i end this post. Shall blog about the discoveries i've made here... the things that we've been taking for granted at home, the clubbing scene here, the lack of stationaries & tissue paper here.
School starts tml. So exciting. Hej hej lesson! Haha...