Getting sick on the first week I stepped foot on a foreign unfamiliar land isn't exactly what I wish for. Nevertheless, things certainly don't always go according to my wish list, that's why they say life has its ups and downs.
Actually I have no one else but myself to blame on for my annoying fever. Reason 1 was walking in the rain during the ChemEng Scavenger Hunt for us freshers. (Dad was like, ''You see? You seee?? Surely fever one like that!'' when I told mummy and him about it.) I didn't dare reveal reason no.2 - eating a LOT of biscuits. Sigh. Maybe I shall blame Marks and Spencers for producing so much effing wonderful biscuits which sis' parents bought for her...and ended up in my tummy. The milk chocolate digestives is my love!! Though sis finds them a tad tooo sweet. I guess all those time in Miri when I seldom eat biscuits cause dad says they're heaty just makes my cravings even worse.
i wish i would not get sick eating biscuits =(
So here I am, sulking and pouting alone in my room all day long, doing nothing but sleep, drink, swallow my vitamins, chloroguard, spirulina and haemoberry, pee, boil water for a million times and online. But low and behold, the Internet is down, which is why my flatmates turn to the tv in our common room instead. How pathetic can things get!
Anyway, I think I'm being a bit homesick. In the sense that I keep thinking, how nice if I'm at home where mummy will come check on me when I fall ill, bringing a cup of water and touching my forehead to see if the fever has gone down; whilst dad will slice apples, oranges, kiwis, bananas etc for me. Speaking of which, I miss all those fruits immensely. =( I know I can find them here, but, you know..$. Thinking from another aspect, perhaps I'll start buying them all the same, cause fruits are healthy and I heart fruits! Sis, faster come back with my plums..Supposed to go shopping with everyone today but retreated as the chill out there might worsen my stupid fever.
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Lectures/school will officially start on Monday in 2 days time. I hope fever has bid me goodbye by then, better even tomorrow so that I can go to church for mass. This week was all about introduction and stuff. Our School of CEAS director, Dr Arthur Garforth, is an amiable, humorous person with good voice projection. He should meet my dad - both insist on not using handphones XD But Dr Arthur is more extreme than dad, cause he doesn't even use MSN or Facebook or any of these things, the reason being he doesn't wanna waste time on them when he can spend the time with us instead! So, he's the only staff in the university without a phone and he's proud of it. (I think. =)
We met with our personal tutors - 6 of us share 1. Mine is Professor Robin Smith and he sure looks experienced and intellectual. He has been living in Manchester for 25 years, seeing it as his home. The other 5 tutees in my group are all from London except for one who's from Malaysia as well - Wai Lam who did foundation here last year.
There is also this PASS programme which stands for Peer Assistance Study Scheme where we are divided into groups of 10+ led by 2 seniors. I stupidly joined the wrong group to be confused why my name isn't in that group's list x.x Very lame reason I don't wanna disclose. Anyways, my real seniors are Andrew and Stephen, 2 quite quiet guys. My fellow peers appear to be all locals except an Iranian girl and an Irish guy. Point is, all of them have strong accents which makes me go blank at what they are saying sometimes. And I wonder why the girls don't seem to like me, as in I get the feeling they don't want to talk to me. Maybe I think too much, maybe it really is racism. Looh Zhen convinced me it was the later, since she and Sarah dealt with the same problem =/ Thus an afternoon which I was very quiet as we did things like squeezing 7 of us into a telephone booth, running into the fountains at St. Ann’s Square when the water stops shooting up for that few seconds, taking pics with a bus driver and a police and so on. Each task gains the team points, that’s how the game runs...I don’t understand why it is called scavenger hunt. I find Looh Zhen’s team mates uber funny – one of the task is to look for a weird thing, and the thing they got was…a durian in Chinatown! Some people just have to show how narrow their mindset is.
I don't find it weird btw. I find it tasty! =D
