Its strange because the main thing in my life, for the first time since NS, isn't school. I don't know how many people my age can say that, but honestly, school hardly takes up a lot of time here. The lessons are short, not too challenging, and the reason why they make attendance compulsory is because if they didn't, nobody would attend. With the exception of hands-on modules like Web animation, the other modules are frightfully useless in lectures/seminars, useless as in the tutor does not bring to the table stuff that I cannot learn in books.
At least the tutor in my linguistics module is charismatic, but that is borne out of a passion for his subject. I like people who are passionate about things, because the same passion drives their lives and gives them purpose. And people with a purpose are often confident, driven individuals who enjoy life to the fullest.
Now I begin to find myself enjoying some very weird things. First of all, laundry. I do it way too much, because it burns a lot of time and there's always stuff to wash. Secondly, I enjoy tidying my room. I've earned a reputation as a neat freak here, but really, when you have nothing to do, you're compelled to making sure everything in your room is in order, and then some. And lastly, I enjoy cooking. I used to think it would be a chore, but now I enjoy it because every meal tastes better when you cook it yourself. You learn a lot from every experience, because cooking can only be learnt through trial and error. You can pick up the recipe from many places, but to modify it to suit your own tastebuds, you need experience to tell you how to season it. I used to fear oil splattering in the frying pan, but now I use my hands to pick food off the pan to test it. The oil doesn't kill, the most it'll just hurt like an ant bite if it actually jumps up. And that's usually a sign you're using too much of it.
But at night I often find myself very bored and alone. I'm really a person who cannot sit still, a person who must constantly find new and interesting things, and the first few weeks I was here I was doing that, but now that life's settled into a normal pace and I've realised how much money I've spent, its actually become too much of a crawl for me. This place goes to sleep at about 5 plus, because that's when the sun sets and shops close, and at night there's really NOTHING to do here. Its incredible. Its hard for a person used to living in a more fast-paced place to get used to this laidback lifestyle. Not to say that life is bad here, but I wish shops here opened till later. It doesn't help that there's almost nobody to talk to because everyone in Singapore is sleeping.
So in the boredom of the night, I snack. I start on a Snickers bar, then I move on to a pack of chips, and soon I've eaten a packet of muffins and some biscuits. And I wash it all down with a pint of milk. This habit is costing me a lot of money, because I usually buy my snacks from the nearby Union Store, the school convenience shop. So I went to my good friend ASDA and...
Say hi to Big Daddies 26 pack chips. Would you believe 52 packets of Walkers (one put there for reference) cost 5 pounds. And I got myself two packets of Jammie Dodgers too because each one cost a ridiculous 49 pence. On hindsight I should have bought more because they are amazing. And the Snickers bar there, it occasionally costs 1 pound for 5. And 2 litres of milk cost 98p. Who said food is expensive here man. The snacks certainly aren't! Is it any wonder almost all Brits are fat.I'm so going to fail IPPT when I come back.