Day 3: The Jet Lag Continues

And so. I slept slightly better the second than the first. Instead of waking at 0000hrs, I woke at 0300hrs. Oh well, this should get better with time. I'm sure it'll be right soon.

Day 3 has been good to me. I got to know someone from another apartment, living just a few doors down from me. A girl from Honduras. Come on. How many Singaporeans can say that they met a real person from honduras before? (Ha ha. Score one for me.) And I learnt that I have a post office near the apartment that allows me to receive packages that are too large for the mailbox. Yay. Maybe larger packages of food can be sent to me??? (Hint hint)

Learnt how to do the casting and something about milling the forms. To my utter surprise, they use Solidworks for their drawings instead of AutoCAD or L-Edit. Woohoo! I don't have to relearn some user-unfriendly software here! What luck. I never thought I would find another person using Solidworks. It seemed like such an ulu program to me. I thought only the ME guys would have some idea about it but it seemed that only a few of them actually use it.

Anyway, I manged to cut the costs of buying food at more than s$10 a meal at the cafeteria, to around s$4 a meal from the supermarket. And that s$4 meal includes a drink, unlike the more expensive one. This will be my plan from now on until I can find something better.

From my apartment at Sysslomansgatan, take a 20min walk to Stora Torget, go to the supermarket and buy my food. Then take the bus to the lab. So nice. I think I'm going to be a very healthy person after six months of 40min walk a day.

And I take my words back about the bus service being inefficient! I was wrong. So totally wrong. Although the intervals are longer than what I am used to, the busses here are extremely puncutal. Extremely. I can plan my entire schedule and journey using the bus times and not have to leave too early and be at the bus-stop freezing my arse off. What fun. Plus the busses here have an electronic signboard that shows next stop and the driver also announces the stop for all to hear. So nice. Unlike the SBS busses, especially 105, that can come two at the same time and the next bus after that would be a loooong wait, and the SMRT busses that have the same electronic signboard idea, theirs hang quite often, or show the wrong stop. In terms of service, this place in leaps and bounds ahead. It's just that the prices are a little steep. Shucks... I can't have everything, can I?

Well, here's to better days ahead and better weather. Cheers!