my first week

It's been such a whirlwind week that I don't know where to begin. I'm currently typing this at 230am on a Saturday night/morning. I'm feeling nice and comfortable, decked out in my tk dance shirt and bright pink fbts, with my feet tugged in snugly under my legs (normally mum doesn't allow me to sit this way at home). So comfortable, I've a rather bad feeling I will only complete half the post tonight. My eyes are drooping close already.

haha but anyway, sorry for the long lack of update. As I've mentioned, it's been a crazy week. There are parties every night. Plus there's wenjie and nicholas who always end up keeping me up till late hours (we spend them talking a whole lot of nonsense or doing/watching card tricks in either wf7 or wf8), so everytime I get back to my room proper, it's shut-eye time and blogging becomes out of question. But they left my room early tonight, just past midnight (after terrorising my friends online) so I quickly bathed and jumped out of the bathroom just to blog this post for all of you :D

It's gonna be a long post so read it slowly, savour it and enjoy. I don't know when the next one's coming. But hopefully soon, since school starts on monday and there won't be any more parties, right? Hahaha.


Oh crap. My eyes are really drooping. I'd have to continue this tomorrow. Sorry and goodnight.
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Hey guys I'm back to blogging! It's 1041pm, and I'm in my room (yes, not partying and not hanging out with the two boys talking nonsense) and although I really want some shut-eye, the union party's music is so loud I can't exactly sleep. Funny how this is the first night I've realised that. haha, goodness. Anyway, I just got back from wenjie's house (wf8) and the house atmosphere there was really good. Everyone just came together to cook dinner, eat, then sat together to drink, talk and listen to music. Which is really warm and fuzzy and I wished my house was like that. Haha wf7 is a pretty much reserved house. Everyone does their own thing, closes their door, pack their food in the kitchen individually etc etc. Dang. I want warm and fuzzy!

International orientaion ended already, and it's been pretty great so far. Visited plenty of places, went to plenlty of parties and dancing, made friends, ate horrible catered food (they're trying to prove to us that self-catered is good, maybe). The weather's pretty cold though. I wonder how I'm gonna survive winter. Haha. For some reason, I'm feeling terribly Asian here. The same syndrome both celine and kat blogged about I suppose. It's like how you can be the most outspoken one back home, the one always in the centre of attention, the supposedly "wild" bunch, but over here, you're just immediately shyer, quieter and more reserved than your white counterparts. I'm still getting used to it, and getting used to the fact that things are so liberal over here. Did you know they gave us a condom and lubricant in our Freshers' bag? Talk about being prepared! haha if you compare this with Singapore, this sounds pitchable for gen y/ youthink. Oh well.

Oh this is gonna sound really shocking and everything, but someone died today. Just next door. I was at Tesco's with wj and michelle when keegan messaged me saying that my house (wf7) and wf6 was cordoned off and the police were all around. When I got back, housemates said they saw an ambulance and a mortuary van. Which was really freaky, and our resident tutor confirmed that a student died on his first night here. How do I feel about that? I don't know. It's pretty scary that it has hit so close to home (literally). I guess it really is very different over here.

Anyway, I shall do a quick day by day update to make up for the lack of blog posts from me. Take your time to read it :D Don't skim! Because my blog posts are slowly turning into a scarce resource now. Haha. Day One was spent just settling in, attempting to set up my internet connection and not grimace at the sight of my small and not very pretty room (but it's nice and lovely now! more on that later!)

Random shot taken by the stairs outside the Rootes Social Building





After lunch it was just more unpacking, followed by some music dance thing at night! haha was stuck with wenjie and nic who were for some reason (probably alcohol heh heh) rather high and enthusiastic to follow the steps and echoes. They started playing clubbish music (haha the international songs sound so darn foreign though. hard to dance to!) at the marquee after that so we danced and (they) drank. Hello I'm proud to annouce that I haven't drunk.. YET :D Haha five golden rules! After the party, we went to wf8 and nic showed me tons and tons of card tricks. Apparently I'm very gullible! haha somebody please teach me so I won't be so easily fooled please :D



If I'm not wrong this is Christ Church. But I may be wrong, I was too busy camwhoring to listen.
More camwhoring



and more camwhoring!

After all the sightseeing, we went SHOPPING. omg, shopping paradise at high street!

everything's so big and pretty
my STARBUCKS COFFEE :D :D

Shopping at Oxford was really wow and pretty and the shops were huge. But the prices were seriously sky-high so we resorted to window shopping and not buying a single thing. Sigh. If only I were in singapore I would have gone on a shopping spree.

This was at dinner back on campus afterwards. This is my flatmate/direct neighbour Lisa. She's 39 and has selfappointed herself as my mummy to make sure I study hard and don't go out too late during school term. Haha it's so cute! We'll soon have people throwing stones at my window and me climbing out at night ;)
We had latin dancing afterwards, followed by the same partying at the marquee. Haha this is keegan holding a bottle of drink! Gasp.
The two boys came over to crash wf7 this time and we talked so loudly till 2am, until my new housemate (alex) came in to tell us to keep quiet. Gah. I'm being an annoying and inconsiderate housemate already! It's all their fault!

Okay. I need sleep AGAIN. I can't believe I'm taking 3 nights (or more) to do this one post. But I'm really tired. Continue again tomorrow.
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Hello again! I didn't exactly continue this the next night, because our house were having a miniparty with our wine and vodka. Haha I completely take back what I said about us being reserved and everything. We're a bunch of cool people, really! Okay so the guys are the more outspoken ones, some girls are still quiet but I think it just takes some time to warm up :D Things will be good!

Anyway I just got back from my first tort law lecture. It's pretty crazy because Law has so many classes compared to other courses. Like today while most people just go for one lecture, we have 3 lectures and a 2-hour movie screening. But lecture's here pretty interesting. I like it! I just need to find time to settle down and read notes instead of worrying about food, cooking, laundry and all the teeny little details to settle! Haha I guess this was the overseas "independent" experience people talk about. I'm hanging in here (:

Anyway to continue my day to day update quickly before I head out for my next lecture, Day Four was spent visiting Coventry! It's like the city centre closest to us and has your huge shops plus an IKEA four times bigger than the one in Singapore. But we went sightseeing and boots-shopping!

At the Coventry entrance

Vanessa said: "I want to take a picture with the resident bimbo!" hmphhh. Quaint and pretty :D

SHOPPING

Haha we spent the rest of the night at this party called HEAT. Dancing to mamamia was superbly fun. Singaporeans we should dance moree! I got dragged away from the dance floor to ching's room at merely 11. Where I promptly fell asleep on the his extremely-nuahish floor. Then soon after, Chloe Huilin and Ching himself fell asleep. HAHA ching, I don't know how you're gonna study in that ambience!

Day Five was no more orientation day! But us being adventurous souls, me chloe michelle huilin ching wenjie and nic headed down to the city of Burmingham!

Haha we went to Chinatown and had CHINESE FOOD. So happy. Except my food wasn't very tasty but nevermind, its chinese food! :D

We shopped around and didn't get much stuff, until Wenjie and Nic decided they wanted their Ikea meatballs!

Speaking of Ikea, I got a shoe rack and clock to put in my room! Haha I'm really big on decorating my room but I don't have enough things! I currently want a hot pink duvet cover, pretty red cushions to put on my chair, a pink circle rug to put on the floor, glow in the dark stars to paste up and I need plenty of photos and pictures and decorative stuff to paste up on my board as well! This is an appeal! Send me photos people! haha, this is terribly shameless isn't it? But if you want to send me stuff or come crash during the holidays, here's my address!

Whitefields 7H
University of Warwick
Gibbet Hill Road
Coventry
United Kingdom
CV4 7AL

For those who want my UK number, I'll put it on a note on facebook soon :D Anyway this is my pretty shoe rack with all my shoes! (Everyone commented I brought too many shoes)

And this is my pretty wardrobe with all my clothes! (Everyone commented I brought too many clothes)
BUT LOOK AT MY LUGGAGE WEIGHT! :D Haha gosh I'm so proud of that fact! Chloe insists it's because my clothes are small so I can fit more stuff but I insist it's superb packing skills on my part :D :D Ayeeee.

Oh I gotta speed up because class starts in twenty minutes. Day Six was just spent going grocery shopping in the morning! I've gotten brocolli capsicums and celery and cooked them already (pictures up on next post) and haha I'm starting to turn vegetarian until I figure out how to cook meat. Heh. Day Seven (yesterday) was spent just going for classes and cooking my veggies and my housemates and I sat and drank and talked and listened to music. Was pretty good fun, apart from cutting myself while cutting vegs. I am such a klutz.

And finally! Thank you time :D Here's a big thank you for all the presents and sendoffs! First present I got was from theBOY which completely deserves another post because it's a really sweet poem. Haha you'll get the next post dedicated to you (and pictures of my food!) :D

Then there was this card, rose thingum (which I taught! hah.) and star from ccm. Thank youuu. The card's so sweet :D

And Tseruey's huge bunch of presents which included the photos in photoframe, lip balm, a book!, and this damn cool CD which had our picture on it and inside was a very pretty letter written in PAINT. Omg tseruey this must have taken so much effort thank you! You rock!

Haha I gotta thank my parents for sending me off (despite repeated threats not to) :D Sorry this is such a horrible crappy and unglam shot but it was timer and I had no choice. Thank you Jo for sending me off! It's been so long since we caught up. Keep in touch ok!
Thank you for the sexy book ;)
Michelle! Thanks for sending me off even though you had school and cca and had to rush down!
And this is SO SO PRETTY and must have taken up so much effort.
Haha thank you Kelvin and Marcus for sending me off! Especially despite having to book out and travel all the way to Changi. Plus Marcus, you still came despite all your family problems! Thank you! (and dragging yuliang along as photog haahhaha)
SURPRISE! haha ok toon hwee sent three of us off at a go. Thanks for coming! (WINSTON SOH I BEY YOU WISHED YOU CAME)

Meiyue and Alvin, I'm so so so sorry things were so rushed so we couldn't take pictures or say goodbye properly. But thanks so much for the really cute pink holder and the button plugs! So pretty! I'm gonna miss you guys!

And finally Jafnie! Omg I'm so sorry everything was so rushed and I think I snapped at you in the phonecall but it was because my mum was really really fierce and insistent I go in already (because I was the only one left). Sorry that you have to rush all the way down just to talk to me for 5 secs! But I really love your present jaf! You're my favourite sex bim!


Ok the end. I really got to rush off for class. I'm loving it here, but I miss everyone back home, the food and the WEATHER. Gosh. And I miss being pampered and not having to think of things like groceries and laundry. But I'll manage! Keep in touch guys! And if you wanna visit UK, tell me! LOVE!

Labels: farewells, photos, thank-yous, Warwick