Banality
I know I said I’d post semi-regularly, but I swear I have a word document with all the journal entries that I’ve been too lazy to post online. That, and some things just need to be kept private. I’ll [back]post them soon enough. Pinky swear.
Anyway, I’m spending a weekend at my uncle’s place in Serangoon Garden to escape from school and Boon Lay and all that is Singaporean. I just gorged on a few plates of kare-kare with bagoong, followed by dragonfruit, langka, and turon. Yum! I then proceeded to take a shower and I have never felt so clean (at least here in Singapore)!
Coming out of the shower to see your kitchen isn’t exactly the most refreshing feeling. Please refer to the following:
Exhibit A: The "bathroom" (which in reality is a bathroom/kitchen)
Exhibit B: The kitchen. The shower and toilet are to the left. Yep, what you're thinking right now is exactly what was running through my head too.
Welcome to Boon Lay.
Aside from our living conditions (if there were ghettos in Singapore, we would be living in them), things are going well for me here. Class is interesting despite the fact that I’m really, really behind and I can’t understand what my professors are saying half the time thanks to Singlish. Most exchange students take just 4 classes (regular undergraduates take 5 or 6) and we even get to take 1 class Pass/No Pass. For my final semester of college I’m taking Chinese 1, Social Thought & Social Theory, Arts of Southeast Asia, and Growth & Development in Southeast Asia. My schedule is pretty amazing too - I get Mondays and Fridays off, and every other week I get Wednesdays off too! Now I get to be extra lazy and savor life here in Southeast Asia.
And because I can't get enough of extracurricular activities (and because all Filipinos like to perform, apparently), I think I might try out for a dance team on campus. I wanted to join NUS Rondalla, but musical experience is required, no one was even Filipino, and the president was kind of a jackass. But, one of the members overheard our conversation and offered to give us free lessons. Score!
Next weekend I hope to round up some people to join me on a trip to Kuala Lumpur or someplace relatively close. I want to get as much traveling in as possible before tests and midterms and the craziness of school. Singaporean students are so hardcore - they kind of freak me out sometimes. I know I’ll get to travel afterwards (since I will have graduated!) and I am actually toying with the idea of staying here a while longer to figure out my life. We'll see.
I know this post is mundane, but life can’t always be exotic.
Anyway, I’m spending a weekend at my uncle’s place in Serangoon Garden to escape from school and Boon Lay and all that is Singaporean. I just gorged on a few plates of kare-kare with bagoong, followed by dragonfruit, langka, and turon. Yum! I then proceeded to take a shower and I have never felt so clean (at least here in Singapore)!
Coming out of the shower to see your kitchen isn’t exactly the most refreshing feeling. Please refer to the following:
Exhibit A: The "bathroom" (which in reality is a bathroom/kitchen)
Exhibit B: The kitchen. The shower and toilet are to the left. Yep, what you're thinking right now is exactly what was running through my head too.
Welcome to Boon Lay.
Aside from our living conditions (if there were ghettos in Singapore, we would be living in them), things are going well for me here. Class is interesting despite the fact that I’m really, really behind and I can’t understand what my professors are saying half the time thanks to Singlish. Most exchange students take just 4 classes (regular undergraduates take 5 or 6) and we even get to take 1 class Pass/No Pass. For my final semester of college I’m taking Chinese 1, Social Thought & Social Theory, Arts of Southeast Asia, and Growth & Development in Southeast Asia. My schedule is pretty amazing too - I get Mondays and Fridays off, and every other week I get Wednesdays off too! Now I get to be extra lazy and savor life here in Southeast Asia.
And because I can't get enough of extracurricular activities (and because all Filipinos like to perform, apparently), I think I might try out for a dance team on campus. I wanted to join NUS Rondalla, but musical experience is required, no one was even Filipino, and the president was kind of a jackass. But, one of the members overheard our conversation and offered to give us free lessons. Score!
Next weekend I hope to round up some people to join me on a trip to Kuala Lumpur or someplace relatively close. I want to get as much traveling in as possible before tests and midterms and the craziness of school. Singaporean students are so hardcore - they kind of freak me out sometimes. I know I’ll get to travel afterwards (since I will have graduated!) and I am actually toying with the idea of staying here a while longer to figure out my life. We'll see.
I know this post is mundane, but life can’t always be exotic.