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hey everyone i'm currently blogging in my school. not that it has started yet or anything.. just that i moved to my actual hall yesterday and being new and everything i can't get the damn connection up in my room! so i have to come to school and rely on the school's wireless in the cafeteria for a connection. isn't that sad?
and lorenda haha sorry for not posting pictures. the first reason is of cos my lack of a connection and the second is cos.. well.. haha both vivian and i don't know exactly what to take to show you guys. to us, though things are certainly different from singapore, in the London context they look kinda the same so we don't know exactly what to take to show you guys. but when the connection of my room is actually up, i'll post some pictures of my old room (a very student kinda room) and my current one (which is more english i guess but being recently renovated and all, now it just looks like any other new rooms in singapore, other than the fact that it has a super low ceiling since i'm on the upper most level).
you know since i'm gonna talk about my room anyway i should just stop using the parenthesis. (is that how you spell it?) anyway, my old room (as vivian saw) is pretty much situated in a quiet, peaceful neighbourhood which i thought was kinda down-to-earth in some sense. it's next to a public school and there's a street market kinda thing (not the wet kind in singapore of course) slightly down the street. my new one is really close to vivian's hall (in fact i winded up at vivian's hall when i was trying to find my way from the old one to the new one) and somehow the vibe is more of a serious one i guess, being so close to russell square (near bloomsbury, which apparently many famous authors like virginia woolf, charles dickens and several others that i can't remember lived in at some point of their lives, and the british museum which has an interior that totally isn't what one would expect from its exterior, to me at least) and UCL. haha in fact, while i used to look at trees when i stared out of my window in my previous room, if i were to look right out of the window from my new room i will see UCL's centre of slavonic and east european studies. haha if i change in my room without closing the curtains, the professors and what nots working in that building on their dissertations and papers would probably have a free show. haha.
anyway, as i mentioned, i'm staying on the upper most level. in name it is the 4th storey. however, i've to climb 12 flights of steps (2 to each floor) since there's the lower ground floor and the ground floor before you get the 1st floor. i always pant after the 2nd floor and man, i'm gonna lose some serious weight climbing that thing everyday. there're no lifts cos i think this building is too old to install some. in fact, this hall (unfortunately) has a history of being extremely fire-prone. to lse students it's kinda like a joke. vivian will probably (or not) tell you more about it when i bring her over.
haha i think vivian is not blogging cos her lectures have started already while i'm still having my freshers' week going on here. when lectures start proper next week i;ll probably have less time to come online. yeah this place is really cool... i think the italian president is gonna stop by some time next week to give a talk for the UN 60th anniversary series going on here and the greek prime minister as well. haha and i forgot who but this really important history guy at the end of october. i think if you guys were over here you would really appreciate it too. i was also quite surprised when i learnt that the library in lse operates 24/7 for students to research and finish up their papers. the collection here is damn impressive. the singapore national library comes nowhere close to this man. and my history dept was still telling us that should we not find any books here (cos others have already taken them or something) we can always pop into king's, UCL or the senate library to try our luck. haha so i'm still going to continue bothering vivian. except that she probably won't be in that library building haha!
if anyone of you have the chance to come for an exchange programme, haha please come to lse. man, i've only been here for 3 days, and i'm starting to be inspired already. if history lecturers in singapore were that interesting, i don't think anyone of us would have fallen asleep. haha.
and lorenda haha sorry for not posting pictures. the first reason is of cos my lack of a connection and the second is cos.. well.. haha both vivian and i don't know exactly what to take to show you guys. to us, though things are certainly different from singapore, in the London context they look kinda the same so we don't know exactly what to take to show you guys. but when the connection of my room is actually up, i'll post some pictures of my old room (a very student kinda room) and my current one (which is more english i guess but being recently renovated and all, now it just looks like any other new rooms in singapore, other than the fact that it has a super low ceiling since i'm on the upper most level).
you know since i'm gonna talk about my room anyway i should just stop using the parenthesis. (is that how you spell it?) anyway, my old room (as vivian saw) is pretty much situated in a quiet, peaceful neighbourhood which i thought was kinda down-to-earth in some sense. it's next to a public school and there's a street market kinda thing (not the wet kind in singapore of course) slightly down the street. my new one is really close to vivian's hall (in fact i winded up at vivian's hall when i was trying to find my way from the old one to the new one) and somehow the vibe is more of a serious one i guess, being so close to russell square (near bloomsbury, which apparently many famous authors like virginia woolf, charles dickens and several others that i can't remember lived in at some point of their lives, and the british museum which has an interior that totally isn't what one would expect from its exterior, to me at least) and UCL. haha in fact, while i used to look at trees when i stared out of my window in my previous room, if i were to look right out of the window from my new room i will see UCL's centre of slavonic and east european studies. haha if i change in my room without closing the curtains, the professors and what nots working in that building on their dissertations and papers would probably have a free show. haha.
anyway, as i mentioned, i'm staying on the upper most level. in name it is the 4th storey. however, i've to climb 12 flights of steps (2 to each floor) since there's the lower ground floor and the ground floor before you get the 1st floor. i always pant after the 2nd floor and man, i'm gonna lose some serious weight climbing that thing everyday. there're no lifts cos i think this building is too old to install some. in fact, this hall (unfortunately) has a history of being extremely fire-prone. to lse students it's kinda like a joke. vivian will probably (or not) tell you more about it when i bring her over.
haha i think vivian is not blogging cos her lectures have started already while i'm still having my freshers' week going on here. when lectures start proper next week i;ll probably have less time to come online. yeah this place is really cool... i think the italian president is gonna stop by some time next week to give a talk for the UN 60th anniversary series going on here and the greek prime minister as well. haha and i forgot who but this really important history guy at the end of october. i think if you guys were over here you would really appreciate it too. i was also quite surprised when i learnt that the library in lse operates 24/7 for students to research and finish up their papers. the collection here is damn impressive. the singapore national library comes nowhere close to this man. and my history dept was still telling us that should we not find any books here (cos others have already taken them or something) we can always pop into king's, UCL or the senate library to try our luck. haha so i'm still going to continue bothering vivian. except that she probably won't be in that library building haha!
if anyone of you have the chance to come for an exchange programme, haha please come to lse. man, i've only been here for 3 days, and i'm starting to be inspired already. if history lecturers in singapore were that interesting, i don't think anyone of us would have fallen asleep. haha.
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