Hej hej!
I've been busy settling in the past 2 days, buying groceries, going IKEA and setting up my bank account. And today, because it was raining (we had originally planned to go take a walk about campus in the morning), we (me and junming) decided to stay in to really pack up our rooms and quit living from our luggage.
And I'm proud to say that everything's finally unpacked and in it's place. :) All that needs to be done is to mop the floor, which is really quite dirty. It's another headache, but a problem for another time. I've accomplished enough today. haha. Will post up photos of the before and after state of my room soon. heh.
Just 3 days here and I've realized something - that if I had bothered to do everything myself (from cleaning to buying groceries to settling admin stuff) in Singapore, I would never complain of being sian and having nothing to do. There's always something to do every minute here, only problem is whether I'm diligent enough to do it. But I have no choice, because there's no one here who can help me and I've got to do everything myself. So lazy or not, things have got to be done sooner or later.
The people here are really good looking. There's plenty of eye candy around (there were so many times where I was so tempted to whip out my camera just to snap him/her). -.-
Everywhere we go, there's bound to be someone to look at. Really, the guys are very good looking (and so many varieties somemore! haha. Got the rugged type, model type, gangster type etc etc...) and their dressing is really good. The girls are also damn hot (not all, but we've seen quite a number!), model material.
The weather here is erratic. The 2nd day we were here - the sky was overcast and it kept drizzling on and off. It was gloomy and depressing and didn't do much to cheer us up. But yesterday, the sun was out and the whole place was so much brighter and cheery. I'm really dreading winter time.
We haven't made any exchange friends yet, partly because the orientation programme here wasn't planned to make it such that interaction between each other is compulsory, and also because the orientation was a general one for all exchange students, and not only for law students. So it was pretty difficult to mix around and talk to people.
Me, Shu and JM were lucky to be housed in the same building on the same campus, albeit on different floors. Me and Shu stay on the same floor, but different corridors (there're 2 per floor); whilst JM lives one floor below.
In my corridor, there're only 4 students (incl. me) who've moved in (there are 10 rooms here). So it's really quite quiet on my corridor. But Shu's corridor's gonna have a welcome dinner tomorrow (I'm envious) whilst most people in JM's corridor have moved in.
Food here is really quite expensive and it's so much more economical to cook. As Shu has been away for the past 2 days, me and JM have been cooking dinner for ourselves. Well, to be fair, HE has been doing most of the cooking. haha. :) The meatballs here are really good though.
The cheapest (outside) food we've found is kebabs at the kebab house in the city centre, and that costs 19SEK (roughly about S$4?)
Alright, I think I've pretty much talked about life here so far. It's pretty boring lah, but what to do. We haven't really explored Stockholm yet (we've only been to the city centre not even to Gamla Stan - Stockholm's Old Town) because we're pretty much starting life from scratch. So got to settle down first before talking about exploring and travelling.
Oh, but we went to IKEA yesterday (no choice, had to get necessities). The IKEA here is REALLY huge - easily twice or thrice the size of IKEA in Singapore. The stuff in IKEA isn't say cheaper than in Singapore; it's roughly around the same price - which is good enough for us because if it's the same price as back in Singapore, then it's considered CHEAP here.
To get to IKEA, we had to take the free shuttle bus from town because it's about half an hour away from town. As we were new here, we walked up and down the street where the bus-stop was supposed to be located at, TWICE (and it's quite a long street) and we never saw it. Until we asked someone and she told us that she's very sure its somewhere down that street. So the third time we walked, we walked real slow and finally JM saw it. It was just a SMALL sign stuck onto the post of the bus-stop (will post a photo of it later). We spent 1 hr finding that sign. !!!
On another note, Shu's gonna be back in 6 hrs and I really can't wait for her to get back. Haha.
I've been busy settling in the past 2 days, buying groceries, going IKEA and setting up my bank account. And today, because it was raining (we had originally planned to go take a walk about campus in the morning), we (me and junming) decided to stay in to really pack up our rooms and quit living from our luggage.
And I'm proud to say that everything's finally unpacked and in it's place. :) All that needs to be done is to mop the floor, which is really quite dirty. It's another headache, but a problem for another time. I've accomplished enough today. haha. Will post up photos of the before and after state of my room soon. heh.
Just 3 days here and I've realized something - that if I had bothered to do everything myself (from cleaning to buying groceries to settling admin stuff) in Singapore, I would never complain of being sian and having nothing to do. There's always something to do every minute here, only problem is whether I'm diligent enough to do it. But I have no choice, because there's no one here who can help me and I've got to do everything myself. So lazy or not, things have got to be done sooner or later.
The people here are really good looking. There's plenty of eye candy around (there were so many times where I was so tempted to whip out my camera just to snap him/her). -.-
Everywhere we go, there's bound to be someone to look at. Really, the guys are very good looking (and so many varieties somemore! haha. Got the rugged type, model type, gangster type etc etc...) and their dressing is really good. The girls are also damn hot (not all, but we've seen quite a number!), model material.
The weather here is erratic. The 2nd day we were here - the sky was overcast and it kept drizzling on and off. It was gloomy and depressing and didn't do much to cheer us up. But yesterday, the sun was out and the whole place was so much brighter and cheery. I'm really dreading winter time.
We haven't made any exchange friends yet, partly because the orientation programme here wasn't planned to make it such that interaction between each other is compulsory, and also because the orientation was a general one for all exchange students, and not only for law students. So it was pretty difficult to mix around and talk to people.
Me, Shu and JM were lucky to be housed in the same building on the same campus, albeit on different floors. Me and Shu stay on the same floor, but different corridors (there're 2 per floor); whilst JM lives one floor below.
In my corridor, there're only 4 students (incl. me) who've moved in (there are 10 rooms here). So it's really quite quiet on my corridor. But Shu's corridor's gonna have a welcome dinner tomorrow (I'm envious) whilst most people in JM's corridor have moved in.
Food here is really quite expensive and it's so much more economical to cook. As Shu has been away for the past 2 days, me and JM have been cooking dinner for ourselves. Well, to be fair, HE has been doing most of the cooking. haha. :) The meatballs here are really good though.
The cheapest (outside) food we've found is kebabs at the kebab house in the city centre, and that costs 19SEK (roughly about S$4?)
Alright, I think I've pretty much talked about life here so far. It's pretty boring lah, but what to do. We haven't really explored Stockholm yet (we've only been to the city centre not even to Gamla Stan - Stockholm's Old Town) because we're pretty much starting life from scratch. So got to settle down first before talking about exploring and travelling.
Oh, but we went to IKEA yesterday (no choice, had to get necessities). The IKEA here is REALLY huge - easily twice or thrice the size of IKEA in Singapore. The stuff in IKEA isn't say cheaper than in Singapore; it's roughly around the same price - which is good enough for us because if it's the same price as back in Singapore, then it's considered CHEAP here.
To get to IKEA, we had to take the free shuttle bus from town because it's about half an hour away from town. As we were new here, we walked up and down the street where the bus-stop was supposed to be located at, TWICE (and it's quite a long street) and we never saw it. Until we asked someone and she told us that she's very sure its somewhere down that street. So the third time we walked, we walked real slow and finally JM saw it. It was just a SMALL sign stuck onto the post of the bus-stop (will post a photo of it later). We spent 1 hr finding that sign. !!!
On another note, Shu's gonna be back in 6 hrs and I really can't wait for her to get back. Haha.
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