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Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Time crawls by so slowly here in Colnbrook! There're things to be done, but yet we can't go about doing them because everything simply moves at lawnmower pace here! Very rigid systems, very inefficient ones too, and somehow we keep running into pple who're keen just to earn our $$ and who disappear after we've committed!

And with regards to that I refer to our housing agent. Very irresponsible guy.. enthusiastic up to the point we paid the deposit for the house. He told us to go collect the rental contract today, and so we did. Before that, we've been trying to contact him by email since last Fri to clarify several matters. But no reply at all. And when we walked into the shop today, we were told that our contract is not ready, and to go back tomorrow! No prior notice at all... we'd gone all the way into the town centre, and yet they din even apologise for that. To top it off.. dear old Adrian declared that he was going on leave just today after arranging all 5 groups of us to collect the contracts from him today! Super angry, but I can't do anything cos I guess that's just how things work here... and he's caused so much trouble to us because we had needed that contract to apply for our library card, and to settle my bank account issues, and to pass it to Lonza for vetting. All these had to be delayed...

which is why we're so bored and stuck in here today! Well it got better as the day wore on, because we played soccer in the evening (and soccer always does take my mind off problems!) Kena thrashed by Edward, Freddy and Jo... evidently all their training on PS2 has paid off! Nevertheless it was a great workout.. wonderful to run around in this climate.. u get the workout but dun get all sweaty! :)

Dinner was instant food again.. well not that instant when you put it into our hands. We took quite a long while trying to figure out how to use the oven. Haha can't really blame us lah... the instructions were totally impossible to comprehend. They were written for a variety of diff models.. within the same few pages.. got us all confused. Luckily chef Jeff came along and taught us how to use it. 30min later.. voila... our "instant" meal was ready! Pizza it was.. check out the before and after pics! Not bad lah.. cheep summore.. 99p only! But it can never beat the Bak Kut Teh we had yesternite.. homecooked food!




Can't wait to start experimenting with various dishes from Jieli's cookbook that his mum handed down to him before we flew... but we'll have to wait till we move into Anthony Way this Fri cause we dun wanna buy all the sauces and have to carry them to the new house.
Btw yups.. we're shifting in on Fri! And here are a few preview pics of the place! I'll take more to show u when I haunt down that Adrian later and make him bring us to the house again!




































Meanwhile.. take care guys.. I'm gg to sleep le! Throat starting to get very dry and nose starting to run a bit.. so I guess I should watch out a little. And it finally started to rain tonite, so I guess the coming days mite be much colder... bracing myself! :)



senz posted at 12:22 AM

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