There are times when an acquaintance offers you just what you need at the precise moment that you instantly embrace her as a friend. I guess I remember help provided best when it’s given in the form of food. Today, close to 2am, just when I was starving and trying to think what I can [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Housing'
Friends Are Those Who Feed You When You’re Hungry
December 9th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Food, Housing, Ramblings
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The year my birthday lasted 40 hours
November 9th, 2007 · No Comments · Campus Life, Food, Housing, UBC
Add 24 hours with 16 hours time difference from your home country, and you get 40 hours on your birthday! That’s if you count your birthday starting from midnight of the day according to your birth country, and then only ending after midnight of the country you’re in! Haha I had a very healthy birthday [...]
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Squareface the Karate Kid. And the wannabes.
October 1st, 2007 · No Comments · Cameras. Pictures., Campus Life, Canada, Housing, UBC
Have I already boasted here that I joined Karate? Well, now you know! And I received my gi (aka karate uniform) today! If you thought I was eccentric….think again. Presenting to you, my comical housemates (who I rely on for insight into Canadian culture?)(my gi was borrowed for the following purpose): “Connie has karate [...]
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‘Tis the life of a foreign student
July 10th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Campus Life, Housing, Taking in; on; and to Shanghai (or China in general)
This is how my 2 years’ worth of barang barang looks like, packed. Every year for the past 2 years, I have had to pack up all my belongings and move them out of where I reside. Last year, I moved from the Foreign Students’ Dormitory to my present One-Bedroom Apartment a.k.a. Bachelorette Pad. Now, [...]
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Goodbye Bachelorette Pad
June 12th, 2007 · No Comments · Campus Life, Fudan, Housing, Taking in; on; and to Shanghai (or China in general)
During this period last year I was really vexed running around house hunting in the vicinity of school, going to agent after agent, viewing house after house. Out of the many places I saw, I fell for my current one-bedroom apartment. Maybe in more than one sense of the phrase. There were cheaper alternatives, but [...]
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