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Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Frozen (in every sense of the word)

Hello all, i'm in a different place right now.

Clue:

-_-

Well, i actually had wanted to blog a super hyper post about it a few days ago, but i really am in no mood to do that today.

So basically, here are a few things i've learnt in these few days i've been here:

1) London is, please excuse my language, FUCKING COLD.

When i touched down on first jan the pilot announced it was 3 degrees.

The next few days it was alright, perhaps between 0 to 5 degrees.

But the past few days, today included, were horrible. One of the staff at my school (which i shall talk about later) commented that this is the worst winter in about ten years.

I mean really, when the fountain near your school has frozen water on it, you can tell it's sub-zero.

And unfortunately, it has been sub-zero for the past few days. It was even on the cover of a British newspaper yesterday that the temperature here has dipped to even -10 degrees, but thankfully that's in other parts of UK and not in London.

2) Winter is dry. Dryyyy. Which means your skin is dry. Which means extreme itchiness, which means a mosturizer is very necessary. (Unfortunately i forgot to apply it today -_-)

3) If anyone of you is planning to come to London soon, let me recommend a shopping place for you that is cheap, good, nice,has PLENTY of sizes and has EVERYTHING - Primark. (Yes Atifa, sooo totally agree with you)

4) It is excruciatingly difficult to find halal places to eat in London. So i find myself eating kebabs, HOUMUS (spelling?) which is just delicioussss, and the food my host family(who are Moroccon) eats.

5) I'd like to bust a myth my mother told me about, which is that London has girls who are plummer than me.

Ehem, at least in Singapore i thought i had the advantage of height as compared to the papans.

Here, the girls are tall AND papan. And fashionable too (which isn't always a good thing, because Oh my God, who the hell wears miniskirts and tights when the temperature is EFFIN SUB ZERO???)

-_-

Ok so now i'm actually going to talk about what happened.

Okay crap, i can't find the USB port to transfer the pictures from my camera and i really don't care to open up my bags just to look for it, so perhaps i'll post the pictures another day.

Life in general

The reason why i said i was in no mood to blog hyperly about all the things i've done, even though i have some very juicy things to talk about, is because of one thing.

I'm homesick.

London is freezing, Singapore is hot. I prefer neither extremes, i want something in the middle but unfortunately that will only come during summer here, where the temperature is fine.

I miss the efficiency of things in Singapore.

I miss being one phonecall or message away from my family and friends. I still am, but at a very high cost.

Anyway, my school is located very near Victoria station.The house i'm living in isn't very far from there, only two tube stops.

Where i'm residing

As some of you may already know, i'm staying with a host family. To be more specific, the head of the family is an Imam.

Yes, you didn't read wrongly. Imam. He and his wife are from Morocco. And he's really good-looking and has a janggut but NOT datuk (LOL to atifa.)

Haha and yes, they have sons. Three hot sons (I'm not joking, they're all really good-looking) .

Aged 5,7 and 10.

The first day i came they were very nice and talkative. Despite their parents being Moroccon and having problems with English, they are really the opposite. They're cute and have a nice British accent!

But over the days i thought they hated me. Whenever i came home they'll give me this 'omg, it's you again' look. But i guess i'm just being paranoid. I mean, they're KIDS. they don't really hate people, do they?

And i just had dinner with them. They talked to me. Haha. Yay for me.

Omg what kind of LSE is this where i need even kids to accept me. -_- I guess i just don't want to live with people who hate me in a totally foreign country, that's all.

Abbey college

School's alright. Today's my second day and yesterday was my first.

Ah, here's another thing i miss about Singapore: The prospect of having to wear home clothes and make up to school was attractive at first. But after a while i think i quite dislike it. Why? Because having a uniform saves you the hassle of choosing what to wear everyday and what accessories and shoes to pair it with. (Yes all of that are very important to me,i brought a whole effin bag of accessories -_-)

Yesterday i made friends with a couple of Vietnamese and Chinese new students. Sadly there weren't any Singaporeans or Malaysians, i was the only one.

This internal admissions officer whom i shall just call Mr Robert took us and gave us an introduction to things about the school. We had to get a lot of things settled and since some students have not taken the tube before, he made us take the tube to lots of places and do some things there. Not the best thing to do, it was freezing cold. :\

I like the Vietnamese people i met. They were very friendly. So were the Chinese people. :D

Today i started having lessons. My whole biology class is made up of Indian British people, five unfriendly boys and one nice girl. It was pretty awkward, because THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'M IN A CO-ED SCHOOL SINCE EFFIN KINDERGATEN.

Then i had chem, where LUCKILY, i was alone.

Today was pretty miserable for me, to be honest. Overall i wish i entered my brother's school in Croydon. Then we will be in the same school, i'll join his clique of friends, and i'll actually have a family member i can contact when i feel down or need something. And this reinforces my subtle hate for you, you stupid life-ruiner. When i didn't say i love you, i meant it.

GALALALLALALALAAL this is a very, very brief post from what i had actually intended to write. But i'm annoyingly still jetlagged, it's 7:10pm here right now and 3:10am there in Singapore, and i'm lethargic.

I better sleep early tomorrow because i have school till 5.15pm. Good day to all of you, i miss you guys. Meh.

(And atifa i still owe you a reply to your email, which i shall read after i lie down for a while)

Lol.

twisting beside myself @7:15 PM

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