To continue the story

Okay! So now I have a bit more time again to update and add onto what my last post gave.

However, I'm a bit LAZY so basically I'm going to shoot through what happened a bit faster since I don't wanna spend toooooo long on this. So since I tagged along with the people who are moving into their new "home" for the next two years or so I had a chance to go to IKEA.

Since I'm staying in their house for free, I feel obligated to help out as well so I went to help them shop. Basically they were there for the whole day. My friend sort of went crazy there and bought things like whole beds, tables, book shelves, and rugs. Anyways, they spent in a range of $350 (the guy who was the most thrifty) and $1000 (the guy who got a great bed, it's really awesome, but the bed's about half of that total cost.) Hui Ting spent almost $900. The number's quite large for me personally =__+;; but then again they are going to live there for 2 years.

NOW, the problem isn't that the things were expensive.... but it's that they bought A LOT OF SHIT! And we only hav ONE truck.... ONE! Even if its a freaking TITAN, but TITANS aren't big enough to carry 4 people's BEDS in one trip! And guess what.... IT STARTED RAINING!

Oh yes... and Weiyi happened to have bought a mattress base at Salvation Army prior to coming to IKEA... so it got drenched... XD that part's funny cuz he wanted to save some money... he kinda poked a hole in it after like 5 minutes of getting it so he's kinda pissed off about that. NOW it rains... so it's drenched and got thrown away in the end.

ANYWAYS, so it RAINED... the f***ed up part is that IKEA had no loading area that's COVERED! HOW OUTRAGEOUS is THAT?!?! So we had to load the truck in the rain... when it's like 0-1 degrees Celsius... and by that time it's already like 8pm! It was like hell...

So I helped them load the truck with them in the rain. It was FREEZING! Good thing the coat dad gave was water-proof. Since we couldn't do it all in one trip, we had to load some and leave some back and let me tell you, the stuff are FREAKING HEAVY!

I went with the truck to help carry the stuff into the house, 3 stories.... heavy as hell.... and raining... During the ride, the windshield fogged up... so we had no choice but to lower the window and turned on the aircon so the fog would disappear, we didn't have time to find the de-fog button so we drove like that both trips, it was crazy. I admire Andy for driving in that cold.

Anyways, that night was like hell, just that it was really really cold, lol. Good experience, but never wanna do that ever again. My back ached after that.

So that was the trip to IKEA. Now onto less depressing things.

Now I just finished the first week of school. The professors here are extremely good and teach extremely well. Some courses are damn hard and I have no idea what the hell they are talking about, but hey, my grades don't count XD so I don't have to worry that much. I'd just have to pass.

Food here is extremely expensive and tastes like shit, so that's the bad part. The cheapest meal I can get on campus is $4 so that's what I've been eating everyday. The portion's big so it will feed me properly. It's cool how these food are sold to students. They come in trucks called "Food Trucks" and it's the most popular with students because they are the cheapest option on campus. Other places you'd have to expect to pay upwards of $6.

If you eat in a restaurant you'd have to expect to pay upwards of $10 and for a good meal, at least $15. IT'S EXPENSIVE if you consider that in singapore you can get a meal for S$3.50 and that's already considered pretty expensive in Singapore. Oh well, I guess that's the price of living in the states. That's why yesterday I went to the grocery store "Giant Eagle" to buy some ingredients for sandwiches and bananas + cereals so that I can get cheaper meals at home...

That turned out not to be totally true... I made some sandwiches from stuff I bought yesterday... and I calculated that I actually spent about $7 for the sandwich.... I think the hams are expensive... BUT the sandwiches were AWESOME! Tastes damn good, and I'm very proud of making such awesome sandwiches, WAHAHAHA. I don't regret spending $7 in ingredients, lol. I had turkey ham + balony ham stacked up 8 layers, with 2 layers of lettuce, one layer of pickles. I two of those. It was heavenly. Gonna make more when I can, wahahahaha. Then I had salad (actually just lettuce + salad dressing) and banana. It was a good lunch. I'm definitely making more of those soon, hehe. If you guys are interested in what it tastes like, I can make them for ya, I'll charge $10.

Anyways, there was a CMU Singaporean gathering today so I just attended it. Got to know more people and went out to eat with them. It was fun, made lots of new friends and starting to feel more at home at this freezer of a town. It's actually quite beautiful. Went to eat at a restaurant... called "Steak & Lube" I think... weird name... but they only sell chicken wings, lol. And that's about all the update I have today. Good night!