Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Internet is still not up yet, damnnn frustrating with the ppl down here, slow and uncoordinated. So...have to wait a few more days when my online class has already started and two online quizzes have to be completed this week. Great! Tat's how AMs work. Irritating...
Anyway, have been following Cha to some of his orientation programs this week. Made new friends today. We met a Singaporean today!!! And he is also sponsored by Cha's sister company. Glad to know people from the same hometown. Heez... We also got to know an ah tiong couple. They seem nice and stay in the same block as us... haha... The wife also accompany her hubby tostudy..but she more jialat, need to stay for 5 years, cuz her hubby doing PHD. She must be so sian. Maybe someday when I get to know her better, we can go marketing together, haha. Fancy tat.
Okie tat's all for now. Now using internet at the lobby, lucky they have unsecured wireless, or I will be so isolated from the rest of the world...
8:52 AM
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
A bit surprised to see tags with concern to my last post, dun worry my frens, cuz I guess it's PMS coupled with anxiety. And it's really true that I feel much better now that I've settled down here. A brief recap of what happened the past week. As expected, I cried rather out of composure at the airport when we departed. What's more shocking was that my mum actually cried for 2 straight hours, even before I stepped out of the house and even up till I went into the departure hall. Dunno how long she kept on crying after tat. Heard from my sis's sms that she still continues to weep when she reached home. Gosh... Din know she waS so emotional and can't bear for me to leave so much. Lucky the SQ flight was smooth without much turbulence and comfortable. This helped to soothe my sad feelings a little.
When I reached Merryland after 26 hours of journey, I was a little lost in my sense of time. Went to the apartment straight and was a little sian that the place was not furnished at all. Okay it's excpected but itwas still very demoralising after such a long flight and Cha and I both knew that we will not get any rest tat day. We rushed straight to IKEA shortly after we settled our luggage. We bought a bed, a bed frame, 2 dining tables aka study tables with 4 chairs. Delivery took two days so we hand carried a ti lum back home so that we have something soft to sleep on. As we don't know our way around, and tpt there is like shit, we took the bus and the bus driver out of helpfulness, told us to get off early when it's not supposed to be. Sian, in the end, Cha got so frustrated that we took a cab and cost us 15 bucks when the bus could have carried us home.
Still cannot rest after we reached home. We rushed to the supermarket which was a good 20 min walk away and bought the essentials, like cleaning tools and food stuff. So damn heavy that we have to carry all of them and struggled to walk the long way home. Wah lucky we found a shortcut to the supermarket after a few days, or else, I would hate marketing and we both have to go hungry liao...
Now still dun have internet connection, cuz the stupid cable company took eons to call us back and schedule an appointment. We gave up and have to go to campus to use wireless connection. Oh yah, the campus is quite nice, lots of greenery and is quite serene. Looks like wat I've seen in TV for uni, not like NUS so run-down. Becuz we have not tv, no internet and no phone, we are cut off from the rest of the world and are so damn bored after dinner. So we ended up watching rented movies every evenings. Hav never seen so much ang mors movies in a week bfore. Most are like shit. I missed Spore, HK and Korean dramas leh...
Shopping here is lousy. Only a simple supermarket and a few outlets in the shopping center. Will have to visit DC if we want to go to large malls. Washington DC is nice with it's grand buildings and we caught a glimpse of the white house during a sightseeing trip on Sunday. It's ulu and heavily guarded. On my bday yesterday, we went downtown Silver Spring for shopping. Cha also whipped up a delicious dinner for me and we had a strawberry cake after that, although there are no candles lar. But the celebration was sweet and simple and I really enjoyed it. My first bday abroad, it was special:)
Btw, Merryland is predominantly black, and I've not seen so many blacks in my life bfore leh. It's wierd I dun see many whites here. A lot of hispanics too. Dun feel safe sometimes, so will be a bit scared to go out alone. Lucky Cha looks a bit hispanic and he blends in quite well... haha, I feel more protected.
Heard that Spore won a silver for ping pong, it's wierd tat the team representing Spore is from China and the competition is in Beijing. Seems no diff to them cuz the gold and silver medals are won by China, haa.. Ironic. The only news I've heard from Spore so far...
Will update my blog when have chance to access internet again...
I MISS HOME, I MISS SPORE!!!
11:44 PM
Thursday, August 07, 2008
Ok, the day is finally here. Tomorrow will be the day I'll be away from home for 2 years. Mixed feelings and confusion. A bit emotionally numbed now. Now bz with packing my luggage and double check that I did not miss anything out. Yesterday my mum cooked a feast to celebrate my bday in advance. She even bought chilli crabs and my fav deer meat. My last time eating them before I'm leaving. Even had a cake for me to blow out the candles. Feel wierd to celeb my bday so early. Guess I'll really miss home and Spore. My family & frens, my bed, my room and the food here. As much as I want to enjoy the feeling of being at home rite now, I can't as I still need to pack some more stuff...Now worrying one more thing. I think my bags are overweight.
Scared that things will change during these 2 years. Even Cha dun seems as attentive as before, often brushed me away with I have a lot of things to do, I'm bz.. Yah..and who's not bz.. This is the time I need most support bfore I leave, too much things I'm hanging onto, and yet he cannot give me the reassurance which might make me feel better. Always say he's tired and dozed off before I could air my concerns to him. Think this will most prob be the case when we are over there. Now I'm more strongly convinced that I will feel lonely and miserable over there, when he will say the same thing like oh im bz with my homework, no time to be with you etc.. Think I will just go mad over there. But I can always turn back to Spore if I'm unhappy over there. I really will. My mum told me to return home if I'm not used to the life over there.
It's sad that the day before I'm leaving home for 2 years to start a new life, that my confidence start to waver...
I miss home~...
2:27 PM
