Day 2 at US...
Raining... Raining... Raining...
I am on the verge of starving to death because I forgot to pack life-saving maggie mee into my luggage!! Grr...
So the the first morning after waking up (or not sleeping at all) in the hotel, I realised that it was thunderstorm... and is not going to stop until the end of the day. There isn't anything inside the fridge, and the nearest eatery is so far away. The best thing is I even forgot to bring umbrella with me!.. Sigh, so unprepared..
Anyway, I was tuning to the weather channel that keep broadcasting bad news that its gonna rain until flood everywhere...
Luckily luckily... The rain finally stopped for a moment and I rushed out to the nearest Wal-mart which is 20 mins' walk from the hotel. I brought all the essential instant ra-men, eggs, frozen broccoli, fish fillets etc. etc.
Food at supermart is not that expensive, compared to the restaurants. Day dinner brought 天丼 from a restaurant 'Niko Sushi', is like USD 7 plus. Way too expensive for like white rice and 2 pieces of shrimps, not nice somemore. I decided not to eat outside whenever possible.
In anyway, I still stopped by Dunkin' donuts to get some food for breakfast, by the time I went back to hotel, I only managed to put the stuff into the fridge before going out to meet the realtors to see the houses.
I don't really have time to think much about other things right now, hopefully I can get my housing settled really fast...
Monday, July 28, 2008
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Yokoso America!
Today is day 3 at America. Finally got my work laptop and able to surf the internet from the hotel!! Excited...
Arrived at Newark airport on 23 July evening and it was drizzling a little. The first thing I realised is that I'll have to pay a USD3.00 for the trolley to put my luggage on... Didn't know until I pulled a trolley from the front and the auntie asked me where I got the trolley from...
I just replied that it was pulled from the front and she pointed to me that I'll have to get it from the back and pay USD3.00 into the machine so I can use it.
I never knew that trolley needs payment on any airports, so this is the first I've seen, wasn't very 'shuang' about having to pay and was struggling whether to get the trolley or not since I have like 2 baggages with me. So after thinking for like 3 minutes, finally decided to pay. I still feel the pinch about the USD3.00 now.
Anyway, this first episode of my encounter with the ang moh country and I will update more as I go along... Hopefully, I can post some pictures soon, because I don't have any connection from handphone to this laptop.. @$#%$&...
Arrived at Newark airport on 23 July evening and it was drizzling a little. The first thing I realised is that I'll have to pay a USD3.00 for the trolley to put my luggage on... Didn't know until I pulled a trolley from the front and the auntie asked me where I got the trolley from...
I just replied that it was pulled from the front and she pointed to me that I'll have to get it from the back and pay USD3.00 into the machine so I can use it.
I never knew that trolley needs payment on any airports, so this is the first I've seen, wasn't very 'shuang' about having to pay and was struggling whether to get the trolley or not since I have like 2 baggages with me. So after thinking for like 3 minutes, finally decided to pay. I still feel the pinch about the USD3.00 now.
Anyway, this first episode of my encounter with the ang moh country and I will update more as I go along... Hopefully, I can post some pictures soon, because I don't have any connection from handphone to this laptop.. @$#%$&...
Sunday, July 20, 2008
A note of thanks
Dear Blog,
I hope you will be happier because I think I am going to update you with news more often than ever, hopefully, everyday...
A lot of events have been happening lately. I have had a lot of farewell gatherings, final farewell gatherings, finally final farewell gatherings... etc etc. Which I really appreciate a lot. Not to mention the goooood food I ate and grrrreaaat gifts that I received.. hehehehe...
More importantly, as a summary, I think I appreciate things here more than ever. Maybe even more after I leave this little summer island. Friends, family, food... Even the weather and the smell of the air now has a different meaning to me. I will use every brain cell to remember as much of the details and events over here so that I can reminisce if I should ever miss home.
Lastly, thank you friends who have helped me a lot and bothered to really tell me lots of information about NJ, packed lots of survival food, even ask for housing information from cousin's friend, remind me of things to take note of, organized tons of farewell parties etc. etc.
So I know I am a person who really cannot be bothered about a lot of things, don't really plan, cannot take care of myself, careless and forgetful, lazy, don't mind going without food for a day or two etc... (sigh..) However, I am blessed with a lot of friends who really care about me, be part-time mother(s) to take care of me and my a lot of things. Wonderful people, thank you.
Lastly, Blog, I will post nice photos of the last, final and finally farewells gatherings, slowly. (nono.. is not an excuse of laziness okay, I promise)... I will have tons of times after I reached NJ... ^^
I hope you will be happier because I think I am going to update you with news more often than ever, hopefully, everyday...
A lot of events have been happening lately. I have had a lot of farewell gatherings, final farewell gatherings, finally final farewell gatherings... etc etc. Which I really appreciate a lot. Not to mention the goooood food I ate and grrrreaaat gifts that I received.. hehehehe...
More importantly, as a summary, I think I appreciate things here more than ever. Maybe even more after I leave this little summer island. Friends, family, food... Even the weather and the smell of the air now has a different meaning to me. I will use every brain cell to remember as much of the details and events over here so that I can reminisce if I should ever miss home.
Lastly, thank you friends who have helped me a lot and bothered to really tell me lots of information about NJ, packed lots of survival food, even ask for housing information from cousin's friend, remind me of things to take note of, organized tons of farewell parties etc. etc.
So I know I am a person who really cannot be bothered about a lot of things, don't really plan, cannot take care of myself, careless and forgetful, lazy, don't mind going without food for a day or two etc... (sigh..) However, I am blessed with a lot of friends who really care about me, be part-time mother(s) to take care of me and my a lot of things. Wonderful people, thank you.
Lastly, Blog, I will post nice photos of the last, final and finally farewells gatherings, slowly. (nono.. is not an excuse of laziness okay, I promise)... I will have tons of times after I reached NJ... ^^
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