Ameliorate

Survived my first week of school. Brain's still kind of rusty, and I have to adjust to the new style of learning. No longer is it just mugging of organic chem reactions or integration formulas, it's now critical analysis of the law and questioning the the ideas of it. Not easy, as am still a bit too used to the route learning method in Singapore, where I'll have my multitude of highlighters ready to highlight every key point. Here you have to dig out the key points by yourself and read up widely. Wikipedia has been my best friend so far.
Weather here ranges from horrendous to fine. It was nice and cool on Sunday with a bit of warm sunshine, thus I went out only in a t-shirt and my black blazer with yq and sharon to camden market, for he wanted to buy homeware. Sharon, being the 3rd year student, brought us around and advised us about some issues in London. Back at hall we had the warden welcome party. Had 4 carlsbergs bottles and talked to a few people. Should have drank more as it was paid for by our fees. Alvin was in his fine form commenting on a lot of things that night.
Saturday was ok as well, it didn't rain but it was cloudy and gloomy. The temperature didn't drop very badly though, so it was still tolerable. Had my King's Singapore and M'sia society event, which consisted of a walk about campus (albeit a week late, thus I ended up knowing most of the places we went already). We made detours to leceister square and trafalgar square before finally ending up in chinatown for dinner, which was a sit down communal chinese dinner. I ingested 5 bowls of rice. Suffice to say for the amount I ate was definately befitting the 4 pounds I paid for the meal. Met a lot of people there as well, but socialising can get quite tiring as well so by the end of the night i was quite groggy already.
The weather was totally horrendous on friday and today. Friday was super windy and rainy, thus it was very cold. I only had 1 class for that day, a 2 hour seminar at 1100, which only lasted 35 mins as it was only the introduction. Braved the rain across the waterloo bridge, met up with some friends for lunch and went to primark. Bad mistake. Primark is this retailer in London that sells arguably the cheapest clothes in London. Think Robinsons during the sales period on a weekend or public holiday, take that crowd, and multiply it by 10. I kid you not. Even on a friday afternoon it was jam packed with people. In the end I got a headache, probably due to a combination of the cold and the smorgasbord of people, and left early back to hall via the tube.
Today was weird though. Although many things happened that can make me feel lousy and think it's a blue monday, strangely enough I'm quite upbeat. I went to the wrong campus for class this morning, ended up having to charge across the bridge to get to the other campus, and upon reaching there I still had to fumble my way to the venue which I wasn't sure where it was. In the end I was 30 mins late, and the tutorial lasted only about 15 mins more before it ended as it was only for introduction. Then to the law library I went, which is not in the same campus I just had my class in, where I tried to do some readings, but fell asleep at a few points but managed to get a fair bit done. I braved the rain again and grabbed some lunch to go at an eatery, before making a crazy decision to cross the bridge while it was still raining. My puny umbrella couldn't stand against the strong winds, and I was splashed by a vehicle. Fortunately I managed to jump out of the way a bit, thus it wasn't that bad.
Had my late afternoon classes and returned back to hall for a dinner of cold sandwiches and hot cup noodles, which cost me 79p. (SGD 2.40) Damn heart pain.
A rant about British cup noodles. I bought a 24p (72 cents) cup noodles which was the house brand of 1 of the supermarket chains in London. It tasted like crap, and nick agreed. Thus I decided to buy the more expensive koka noodles as I thought might as well buy something that tastes nice.
London is a real quirky place. For starters you stand on the right on escalators and not left like in Singapore, and people do follow it well. The service you get here is most of the times friendly, but sometimes they are not as efficient as it is back home so you get a bit frustrated.
Nick's floor is the official "party" floor, with the room that is 2 doors away from him the nexus of it. When they get drunk they'll do funny stuff like chase each other along the corridors and bang the doors of those who did not join them. Other stuff I heard are people playing golf and lacrosse in the corridors, on the girl's floors of all places.
I feel quite bucked as sat night a lady asked me for directions. I guess that should mean I look confident enough of my way around that people feel inclined to ask me for directions.
And ever since I came to London I can fall asleep very quickly, once my head is on the pillow I'll concuss in 5 minutes. And also my appetite is always good, as evidence by the generous amounts of food I take during dinner and my consumption of the 5 bowls of rice and me finishing off other people's char siew rice.
This post is rather random as my mind is a bit frazzled and tired so I'm just commenting on random bits of memory that pop into my mind. Since there's nothing new popping into my mind now, I shall stop here. Another update for another time.