Palmy.. and all about what I've been doing since.. *warning* not very interesting.
Let's see...er.. okay, mmm.. it's.. okay I suppose.. that's the positive answer.
The not so positive? PLEASE.. get me out of here!!!!!
Having Matt around has been so good. I really don't know how I'd coped without him.
Haih.. silly me.. wanted to be a hero and drive down alone. SO smart-.-"
I'm still quite tired. Haven't had much chance to rest OR sleep in. Sighs. I'm just so tired I haven't called home yet.. Yes.. everyday say I wanna call but then I end up so tired I don't. Mostly because I have been cleaning.. and cleaning... and cleaning.
haha.. Common theme with me isn't it?
Let's see.. erm... the place, wasn't exactly absolutely like, dirty? But it was quite .. er.. dirty in a way? Okay, it wasn't like I could see sand yada yada or shit and stuff. I suppose, I'm just really neat and clean and it wasn't the kind of clean I am used to. Like, the plates and cutlery are kinda gross. They weren't washed properly and stuff... the floors and carpet were okay.. but a little dusty and lint-y or rather lint filled. Stuff here's really old but still usable. A lot of it is like, kinda broken and patched up. It's .. basic.. real basic. There aren't many utensils. I ended up spending loads just getting stuff together for the place. In a way, maybe I'm just not used to living the basic lifestyle. But tell me la, how to cook with one stock pot and one normal pot only? With like.. I donno 2-3 sets of cutlery.. no wait, more like.. just 2 spoons, 2 forks lots of yucky looking chopsticks.. There's like some kinda black droppings in the bottom cupboard under the sink/bench.. I was so grossed out that I'm absolutely NOT touching that cupboard. I'm only using the island cupboard. That is newer and I totally cleaned it out. I cleaned out the 2 mounted cupboards as well.. for my plates+cups & sauces, food. Had to wash ALL the plates AND cups.. Cleaned out the microwave that had food splattered all over. WTH.. Can't ppl clean things-.-" Grr.. it's gross man.
Anyway, I've so far bought a wok, a ladle, teaspoons.. contemplating getting my own cutlery.. a knife.. I should've had the paranoia to bring the extra one down. The knife I bought is absolute bollocks-.-. Serrated so that it will always be sharp.. Yeah.. sure.. that's IF the knife is SHARP to BEGIN with. A lot of random things. Spent a fortune on cleaning supplies.. i even bought a can of insect spray.. why? I don't know.. seems like there's loads of insects around here. Oh.. and there's this pan that's in the cupboard under the sink.. It's blocking a hole that rats may climb through... RIGHT... I wonder what kind of face i gave my landlady when she said that. heh.. Anyway, got things like chopping mats. I thought instead of getting chopping boards since I'd need two. One for fruits and the other for raw stuff. The set of 5 chopping mats is quite cool. It has little piccies to show its designated use. I used them today.. already got scratches on it:( Think it's cause of the stupid knife I got.
The stove's pretty okay. I just gave the oven a real good scrub down today so tomorrow onwards can start using :).
Toilet's okay.. washed it the day I arrived. Hehe.. Matt helped to mop the floors on the first day. Hehe.. The couch is really old.. and has holes everywhere. It had like a white sheet over it. I just washed it (in my really old washing machine that only has cold wash) and when I hung it out to dry, I noticed something... paint stuck to it-.-".... ERRR.......
Oh.. landlady's dog snores.. Yes.. it snores.. LIKE FRICKEN loud. like wth.. DOGS snore that loud one O.o I swear.. I think my dad has competition now. I don't know what my mum will say. She will probably complain that now she's going to have to put up with not only my DAD's snoring.. my landlady's dog too-.-" I know what Lucy means now...... -.-"
OKay, I don't know.. I feel like I'm not really happy with the place I'm staying in atm... but I don't know.. maybe it's cause I'm just not used to it.. I'm just getting really annoyed... but then I have to be like patient. Because this is a test right?
Truth be told.. this place feels a bit too big for me. But I do want the privacy. The room's really big and if Matt weren't here.. I will probably feel afraid... I am now contemplating buying energy saving bulbs so I can switch on more lights.. okay, yeah, I am chicken. I like my rooms bright and what not. The problem is I have spent TOO much money and i really really don't want to spend anymore:(..
Sigh, i guess this is just a start up.. and I guess things would tend to be THAT expensive...
I have bought 2 night lights. I'm going to sleep with one of them in my room. The other's in the kitchen/lounge. So I can see at night when i go get water etc. Funny thing when we went to buy the night lights.. The lady thought we were buying them for kids.... our kids to be exact, and when I brought two to the counter? She said "oh, so you've got a few kids now do you?" -.-" I told her.. "No, er.. haha, they're for me.. I'm the big kid".
Oh oh.. chris just reminded me of something... the food's here SO expensive. eating out is so crazy.. wth.. sushi in the foodcourt didn't come with wasabi..-.-" Have to BUY your own.. O.o.. then then then.. like.. normal bowl of soup noodles in foodcourt's like.. $9.50!!! e.g. chicken 'wat tan hor' is $9.50, and the seafood one is like bloody $12.50.. !!!!! And the supposed best cafe for cakes.. well, cakes are okay.. but for that price? I can get so much better in Auckland. Sheesh.. I paid $16.00 for a shitty lamb salad. It was !*(@&!*) puny. Just a tiny bit of salad the size of my fist and like.. one strip of lamb that was sliced up.... food's mediocre and well, expensive. I've just been discouraged from eating out.
I think I have ranted enough. Time for bed. Or else I will be late for work..
Oh.. about work. Hahah.. more stories for that one.. mmm.. I have a bit of time. a quickie.
Work's okay.
I cleaned my work desk. Don't really like the location but getting used to it. It's like IN the lab. I basically sit right at the end of a lab bench. There's like a desk.. it's stupid if you ask me. I wiped down everything. The safety manager for that lab must've been like-.-".. hahaha.. she was like, "Wow, you're good" because I started cleaning my bench wiping everything down. Trust me.. I've probably used enough tissue the last few days that came from a couple of trees.
I cleaned my access card which was SO sticky cause I don't know what the last person did.. but they put tape all over it or something. It was SO gross and took me AgES to clean.
I lined my drawer with paper towels and the lab safety manager saw.. then she asked "Do you want to line it with some special liners instead?" I felt embarrassed.. I said "nevermind". But later i went to get it.... but I felt too guilty though because it looked so expensive. So, i put it back without lining my drawers.
I had no chair for my desk. I got given a chair.. it was too low and broken so it wouldn't pump up. I got given another chair which was still too low even at its max. height.. FInally, I got given a lab bench chair which is like super high.-.-" i had to basically bounce up and down on it before it got to the right height.
That's pretty much the highlight of my work day. Off to bed. Good night.
The not so positive? PLEASE.. get me out of here!!!!!
Having Matt around has been so good. I really don't know how I'd coped without him.
Haih.. silly me.. wanted to be a hero and drive down alone. SO smart-.-"
I'm still quite tired. Haven't had much chance to rest OR sleep in. Sighs. I'm just so tired I haven't called home yet.. Yes.. everyday say I wanna call but then I end up so tired I don't. Mostly because I have been cleaning.. and cleaning... and cleaning.
haha.. Common theme with me isn't it?
Let's see.. erm... the place, wasn't exactly absolutely like, dirty? But it was quite .. er.. dirty in a way? Okay, it wasn't like I could see sand yada yada or shit and stuff. I suppose, I'm just really neat and clean and it wasn't the kind of clean I am used to. Like, the plates and cutlery are kinda gross. They weren't washed properly and stuff... the floors and carpet were okay.. but a little dusty and lint-y or rather lint filled. Stuff here's really old but still usable. A lot of it is like, kinda broken and patched up. It's .. basic.. real basic. There aren't many utensils. I ended up spending loads just getting stuff together for the place. In a way, maybe I'm just not used to living the basic lifestyle. But tell me la, how to cook with one stock pot and one normal pot only? With like.. I donno 2-3 sets of cutlery.. no wait, more like.. just 2 spoons, 2 forks lots of yucky looking chopsticks.. There's like some kinda black droppings in the bottom cupboard under the sink/bench.. I was so grossed out that I'm absolutely NOT touching that cupboard. I'm only using the island cupboard. That is newer and I totally cleaned it out. I cleaned out the 2 mounted cupboards as well.. for my plates+cups & sauces, food. Had to wash ALL the plates AND cups.. Cleaned out the microwave that had food splattered all over. WTH.. Can't ppl clean things-.-" Grr.. it's gross man.
Anyway, I've so far bought a wok, a ladle, teaspoons.. contemplating getting my own cutlery.. a knife.. I should've had the paranoia to bring the extra one down. The knife I bought is absolute bollocks-.-. Serrated so that it will always be sharp.. Yeah.. sure.. that's IF the knife is SHARP to BEGIN with. A lot of random things. Spent a fortune on cleaning supplies.. i even bought a can of insect spray.. why? I don't know.. seems like there's loads of insects around here. Oh.. and there's this pan that's in the cupboard under the sink.. It's blocking a hole that rats may climb through... RIGHT... I wonder what kind of face i gave my landlady when she said that. heh.. Anyway, got things like chopping mats. I thought instead of getting chopping boards since I'd need two. One for fruits and the other for raw stuff. The set of 5 chopping mats is quite cool. It has little piccies to show its designated use. I used them today.. already got scratches on it:( Think it's cause of the stupid knife I got.
The stove's pretty okay. I just gave the oven a real good scrub down today so tomorrow onwards can start using :).
Toilet's okay.. washed it the day I arrived. Hehe.. Matt helped to mop the floors on the first day. Hehe.. The couch is really old.. and has holes everywhere. It had like a white sheet over it. I just washed it (in my really old washing machine that only has cold wash) and when I hung it out to dry, I noticed something... paint stuck to it-.-".... ERRR.......
Oh.. landlady's dog snores.. Yes.. it snores.. LIKE FRICKEN loud. like wth.. DOGS snore that loud one O.o I swear.. I think my dad has competition now. I don't know what my mum will say. She will probably complain that now she's going to have to put up with not only my DAD's snoring.. my landlady's dog too-.-" I know what Lucy means now...... -.-"
OKay, I don't know.. I feel like I'm not really happy with the place I'm staying in atm... but I don't know.. maybe it's cause I'm just not used to it.. I'm just getting really annoyed... but then I have to be like patient. Because this is a test right?
Truth be told.. this place feels a bit too big for me. But I do want the privacy. The room's really big and if Matt weren't here.. I will probably feel afraid... I am now contemplating buying energy saving bulbs so I can switch on more lights.. okay, yeah, I am chicken. I like my rooms bright and what not. The problem is I have spent TOO much money and i really really don't want to spend anymore:(..
Sigh, i guess this is just a start up.. and I guess things would tend to be THAT expensive...
I have bought 2 night lights. I'm going to sleep with one of them in my room. The other's in the kitchen/lounge. So I can see at night when i go get water etc. Funny thing when we went to buy the night lights.. The lady thought we were buying them for kids.... our kids to be exact, and when I brought two to the counter? She said "oh, so you've got a few kids now do you?" -.-" I told her.. "No, er.. haha, they're for me.. I'm the big kid".
Oh oh.. chris just reminded me of something... the food's here SO expensive. eating out is so crazy.. wth.. sushi in the foodcourt didn't come with wasabi..-.-" Have to BUY your own.. O.o.. then then then.. like.. normal bowl of soup noodles in foodcourt's like.. $9.50!!! e.g. chicken 'wat tan hor' is $9.50, and the seafood one is like bloody $12.50.. !!!!! And the supposed best cafe for cakes.. well, cakes are okay.. but for that price? I can get so much better in Auckland. Sheesh.. I paid $16.00 for a shitty lamb salad. It was !*(@&!*) puny. Just a tiny bit of salad the size of my fist and like.. one strip of lamb that was sliced up.... food's mediocre and well, expensive. I've just been discouraged from eating out.
I think I have ranted enough. Time for bed. Or else I will be late for work..
Oh.. about work. Hahah.. more stories for that one.. mmm.. I have a bit of time. a quickie.
Work's okay.
I cleaned my work desk. Don't really like the location but getting used to it. It's like IN the lab. I basically sit right at the end of a lab bench. There's like a desk.. it's stupid if you ask me. I wiped down everything. The safety manager for that lab must've been like-.-".. hahaha.. she was like, "Wow, you're good" because I started cleaning my bench wiping everything down. Trust me.. I've probably used enough tissue the last few days that came from a couple of trees.
I cleaned my access card which was SO sticky cause I don't know what the last person did.. but they put tape all over it or something. It was SO gross and took me AgES to clean.
I lined my drawer with paper towels and the lab safety manager saw.. then she asked "Do you want to line it with some special liners instead?" I felt embarrassed.. I said "nevermind". But later i went to get it.... but I felt too guilty though because it looked so expensive. So, i put it back without lining my drawers.
I had no chair for my desk. I got given a chair.. it was too low and broken so it wouldn't pump up. I got given another chair which was still too low even at its max. height.. FInally, I got given a lab bench chair which is like super high.-.-" i had to basically bounce up and down on it before it got to the right height.
That's pretty much the highlight of my work day. Off to bed. Good night.
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