London's Frustration

After 3 months of great summer, welcome back to London! Now lets see what's happening in London for the 1st term of my London-Imperial life....

Woohoo, move in my new flat, and we got the whole flat for ourselves, we know each other and hope we have a wonderful year ahead... right?? ( not so true.... hmmm)


By the way lets look at my room 1st :




And a nice view outside my window...

NExt my beautiful lecture theatre that looks like a glass house!! And lectures are "interesting"!







But, we get tired sometimes, so we need some rest...


Then, we woke up to find the lecture slides the lecturer have gone to.

With blurr eyess..... sometimes... what?!!? Frank Condom Condon principle??
What is the lecturer talking about, even the imba 92% overall Singaporean can fall asleep..


Playing around with camera in the class is the best way to keep awake.
And of course after using millions of symbols and weird names, sometimes you run out of name to name your constants .......so its just too lame.





Besides, there are more cooking mastery than engineering mastery. Good food keeps you from home sick, despite the lousy London, food is just source of misery.. Imagine sandwiches and salads and pasta every lunch and dinner, cereal every morning. Even joanna aiwoon can slim down.

Thats what we do during weekends, challenge each other's cooking skills
Sweet and sour pork (咕噜肉） Belacan kangkung, some china dishes..


When its someone's birthday, we smash him into cakes, hang out till late night, and sleep the next day in lectures.


Chritsmas is coming!! How is your plan to the wonderful christmas?? Although I must say it doesn't mean much to me, I reluctantly post some pics of London to show the beauty of it......


Window of Selfridges! That day I went with my friends to shopping for the 20pound BioEngineering Christmas Dinner, evening dress code!
Guess how much is 1 cheapest and normal dress??
120 pounds only ma for just a semi transparent cloth that you cant wear without a inner layer.(girls should get what I mean)
Guess how many dresses my friend bought? two only ma! haha

entrance decorations...

Seems like what I am writing doesn't tell why I name my post title like this ?
Come on... London Sucks!!!
Luckily I got scholarship, if not I will cry and run back Malaysia. Its not easy to live outside in London, now I understand how much you need.

5 good friends decided to stay together for 2nd year, so they rented a flat. Suddenly 1 flat mate says not coming 1 week before I was going back to London. Aih nevermind we find 1 more, should be ok.
The 3rd day in London:
I woke up knock my friend's door open to find him not in. Hmm, ok la he might be out for "awhile". 1 day, not back yet, called him but didnt pick up. Hmm .. whats wrong with him.

The following week:
We posted 1 advertisement to find a flatmate to replace the 1 who told me he is not coming back. ok settled. Another hk friend come ask for a room, but ... due to I cant contact the suddenly missing ppl in my flat, I say sorry we have no rooms liao.

2 weeks later:
The missing friend is still missing....

3 weeks later:
Suddenly, some1 called me: I m in Bristol now, erm.... got forced my parents to study there...
Okay, now got 1 room empty again. 5 people left 3.... And how the hell are we suppose to find another people to stay in our flat now?

November:
This month each of us (the 3 people left) paid extra 260 pounds for the rental because of the empty room for 2 months... 260 pounds = RM1.5k just gone like that, for no reason.
Finally we manage to persuade 1 of our friend to stay in from December. First mishaps....

2nd incident:
I don't know why, but somehow the person who came 2 weeks earlier to the flat didnt check the flat before moving in. Aiwoon should know. I remind every1 of you, you should check that every mm cube of the flat should be check for conditions before you accept your flat from the landlord.

So when we move in I happy happy go kitchen, open the fridge, hmm looks like got 3 mutated fly flying out from the fridge, and a very dodgy cloth inside, nwm lo... clean clean clean !!

Then I open the laundry machine, because its the type the door is sideways open, I got a tonne of shit water just flood into my legs. I couldn't describe how smelly it is, because my friend from out side the flat was shouting.. "What the fuck is so smelly!?!?!" It took us some times (2 weeks to realise the origins of the holy water I got on my leg)
For 2 weeks, we can't use the washing machine because no matter how dirty your laundry is, it will never smell as bad as the washing machine!!! Now we realise that, the whole (yes the whole) piping system in our flat is stuck!! so all the shit water from the toilet and kitchen, overflowed into the washing machine!! And the worst time, after we wash our plates from the basin, our bathtub got overflooded with oily black water, Eh this is London!! Can you imagine that???

At last we got our fucking helpful landlord to fix our pipe.... dirtied our whole flat. And now 2 months later(yesterday) , some bad news again. Our washing machine was found with a layer of oil again!!!!!! OMG!!

3rd incident:
Since we moved in, our house got NO heater, and my window is leaking, imagine when outside is 0 degrees, calculate the heat and mass transport (conduction, convection etc) my room can be as cold as 15 C.... Fine, time to be strong, Cold is not a problem for me. (I wonder why the landlord still not fixing our fucking heater yet.)

ok la, fine la, we are super tolerant people... Since we know we are staying in London ma! So can't complain so much la right?
Oh ya (to joanna) that is only our unlucky times here, What for blame my beautiful and perfect London le?? right ??

Have anyone heard about staying in London, you have to pay tax! Yap, you place a tent in the forest and stay also you have to pay tax!!! But of course, we wont fucking pay the council tax la, because students are exempted. Well we got the letters from college to prove that the tenants in the flat are full time students and send to the stupid (the people in lembaga hasil negara are smarter than them) council tax people. Because previously I said 5 of us are staying in the flat, but unfortunately out of this 5 people, only 2 managed themselves to the 2nd year. :( So the council tax people send us a letter and say that because some of the tenants are not students, we have got to pay 75% of the tax !! You guess how much ?? 1000 over pounds. Kidding me meh ?? but luckily we found this photo in google image which was so useful !!

and we send this as an attachment in the email to the council tax of Chelsea. Problem settled!!

Next the British Gas people.
CB joke again. Totally speechless,..
WARNING :place some brace in your mouth before you read this. All your teeth might just drop out.

Yesterday again! happy happy come back for lunch and yay ! found out that afternoon lectures canceled! Nice friday. So checked our mail on the floor. We got a bill from British Gas.

Oh guess how much is the total electricity and gas bill for 2 months? Let tell you some figures. Our friend upstairs got a bill of 38 pounds a month, and some seniors said it should be 100-200 pounds for the whole year. Ours ??

NINE HUNDRED, 900,九百, sembilan ratus, Great Britain Pounds. woohoo!! so high now. For NO heater in our whole flat, we used the most energy. Sounds like I used all these energy to pump my gas tank and fly to the moon. YEAAAAAAAAAAsssssss!!!!! The bill estimated we used a total of near 10000 KiloWatts Hour of energy. Its equivalent to on 3 (2 horsepower) aircond for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for the entire 2 months. Sobz where is my heater? cold and shivering, still paying for the energy bill?? As if I on aircond to cool down my room now in winter!

you know why british people estimate your bill ?? because they are lazy and stupid... Come on even our people in malaysia come to your house to check your meter la dumb !!!!

Welcome to London!!