Stuff here n there...

Blackouts
had 2 blackouts last night and 1 e night b4... once when we were in liling's room listening to mp3's, another when we were having dinner in e kitchen and last one when i was alone in my room reading a book. hahaha!! when e first time it happened, we were like "WAHH... what happened? oh no!!" n ran out of liling's room to find out what's going on... only to find tt the rest of e other students were still happily in their room or in the kitchen tokking as though nothing happened!

then when the next 2 blackouts happened, we understood why... hahaha!! coz it's such a normal occurence!! some of them were speculating tt it may be some way to save electricity for e whole city... oh well... in s'pore, when a blackout happens, it hits e headlines!! haha!! so let's all be thankful of our protected life in s'pore and not pull up a fuss n start blaming everyone when things lydat happen!

Glorious Asian Food
wow... we managed to find cheap HOMEBRAND rice from the supermarket... and we cooked **RICE** for dinner! wah... my favourite staple... really missed eating rice these few days! it's e only thing tt never fails to make me satisfied and happee! Xuening will agree wif me! hahaha! best was we din haf rice cooker so i had to cook it using a pot n stove... din know how much water to put also... so just agar! haha!! and it turned out not too bad i guess... fengyi said a bit undercooked... haha! topped wif a sunny side up, stir-fried buk choi and baked beans, it was e yummiest n most filling home-cooked dinner i had since i came to melbourne!

The Germans
there're about 6 germans here for elective at Austin as well and they're all staying at the students' quarters too! Some haf really cool names... like Elke (pronounced as Elka), Bernedetta, Broota (dunno how to spell... haha!), Yu#@$ (i dun even rem how to pronounce).. hahaha! others more normal... Andrea and Steve. we're closer to Elke and Andrea coz they stay at the same floor as us so we usu chat during bfast or dinner. They're really cool ppl... coming all the way from germany for an elective in english (not e main lang for their medical education)! Elke's like really active and spontaneous! always cracking jokes and making funny comments... Andrea's very talkative n tells us a lot abt his hometown and stuff...

Bernedetta and Yu#@$ (feel so bad for writing his name like this... shall find out his name tonight..haha!) are couples and so are Steve and Broota... they stay upstairs n tend to stick to themselves so we dun tok much. but Bernedetta's really really pretty i think... haha!

they are so lucky to get 1 whole year for electives... so like elke'll be going to new zealand for another elective after this one here... n although they mainly use german back home, they're so willing to come out here to learn in english... n also not afraid to communicate in english with everyone! wow...