Mood: Tired.
Happy Birthday to Dear! ^^
It's his birthday today but I can't be there to celebrate with him. Hope he had a good day.. I'm starting to miss him already.
I just came back to my residence not long ago. ZZ invited us over for dinner at Tocil. When I arrived there, they already started cooking and eventually whipped up a few nice dishes, especially the Lotus Roots soup! How I miss my mum's cooking and the delicious soup she made everyday. It was a great dinner and I hope to pick up my cooking skills in time to come too. Have faith in me. =D
Steamed cod-fish.
Wednesday is my free day where I could have have rested more supposedly. Yet, my legs were aching badly from so much walking today!
Woke up late and missed the induction session held by International office for the int' students, but I guess it wasn't really that important, I hope. Went to see the exchange coordinator to seek help for Online Module Registration (OMR), and I've finally confirmed the modules. Afterwhich, I replaced the student ID for a new one at the University House as it was faulty and it denied my access into the library. It was drizzling but I decided to walk to TESCO and get some grocery. There's a shop call ICELAND which sells a variety of frozen microwaveable food mostly at £1, and I'm surprised that some actually taste good.
Reached back hall at around 5pm and quickly rush to do my laundry before going for dinner at ZZ's place.
Yes! I finally did my laundry today. It's been almost 2 weeks since I arrived in uk and my clothes have been piling up. But then again, it's normal for the students to wash their clothes once in 2 weeks especially due to the winter season. The laundrette is a 1-2 min(s) walk from my residence and I had to lug my laundry there.
The washing machine costs £2 for normal wash, £2.20 for super-cycle which I don't know what the hell is the exact difference but I opted for the latter instead, assuming that it'll churn out cleaner clothes. They dryer machine is at £1 and the first machine I tried using actually "ate up" my coin but did not start working. Just my luck. Doing laundry has never been such a chore. Counting the number of trips I have to take:
1. Bring clothes to the laundrette to put in washing machine.
2. Walk back to hall to wait 45mins for the wash-cycle to complete.
3. Walk to laundrette to transfer washed clothes into dryer.
4. Return to hall to wait for 50mins for drying process.
5. Walk to laundrette to collect the clean and nice-smelling clothes.
6. Bring the clean cothes back to hall.
Oh have I mentioned that I stay in the top level of the residence? Although it's merely 4th floor but climbing the stairs is a torturous process to me.
Ok,alternatively I can wait at the laundrette for 1.5hrs and sit through the whole process so that I don't need to keep running around. But it's so boring and such a waste of time. This makes me reminisce the days in NTU where the laundry room is just like 20 steps from my room and it's free! LOL.
Now I just gotta wait for the woollen's clothings to be dried naturally since they can't be put into the dryer. My room's messy now with woollen socks and long johns hanging around randomly.
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