Day 4: Part 2

Alrighty then. I'm back from my shower. Freezing cold after I finish. Trust me. After stepping out of the hot shower, it feels as though I stepped into a freezer. My teeth couldn't stop chattering. No wonder some people i heard on TV hate taking baths or showers. I couldn't understand why they would prefer to be dirty. But now I do.

Anyway, the 'Excellent Day' post is over. Now, it's time for some of my inconsequential observations about this place.

For starters, professors are the same everywhere when it comes to money or grants. Even collaborations can be backhanded. For example some persons on the pretext of developing some thing that may be of use to a certain company, and at the same time develop a similar product for the competing company, without the other collaborators' knowledge. How devious is that?

Back to the light stuff.

I noticed that the light switches here are a little odd. Maybe they'll feel the same way about the switches in Singapore. But I really think that their switches are counter-intuitive. Now, they have this big, huge switches to control basically lights. When I say huge... I mean huge.


See. It's HUGE! Just compare the size of that thing to the door handle!

But that's not the counter-intuitive thing. They flick the switch UP to turn on the lights! Huh? Hasn't it always been down? Isn't it natural to flick down to turn something on? But it's no big deal hor? Just an observation.

The supermarkets that I've been to so far do not seem to sell toilet paper! Where can I get it? They don't sell cereal drinks like Milo Fuzz. Heck, they don't even sell Milo. Or Swiss Miss Hot Chocolates. They only have powdered chocolate to mix with warm milk. Swiss Miss can just mix with water and it's so good. Not only that. Their instant noodles are limited to only a few types. And no CUP instant noodles. Why? And their version of noodles taste so horrible. Maybe it's the style of cooking? The shower gels I see only come in small bottles. Nothing like the ones I used to get back home. And they seem to like Thai food out of all asian foods. I've already come across TWO Thai restaurants here, and no Chinese restaurants.

I thought I would be able to see wild animals here, especially when I see these "beware of raindeers" signs around. But, no... I've not seen a single wild animal here, except for a hare. See, it's so cold that non-hibernating animals have also hidden themselves for warmth. What are we, intelligent animals, doing walking about in the cold and freezing our arses off? So smart... Oh well, maybe I'll see more in spring.

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