London, we’ve got a problem…. (like, being expensive??)

It’s been a while since I have blogged, the main reason is I have been busy (un)packing and left Robert Black College to London for the new degree that I’m undertaking at King’s College London. MA in Cultural and Creative Industries. Sounds fun, huh? Yeah it is! For those whom I haven’t spoke to for a while – I promise you I will seriously consider fulltime job but hey, who really want to do 9-5 when they can just hang out like a student? (mentally suppressing the financial reality here ducking into my little surreal universe…)

I know you’ll be happy for me, and semi-wanting-to-kick-my-a** when you know that every single breath I’m inhaling contains some sort of history throughout London. It’s great. I really like my school especially the campus – probably exquisite is the word to describe it.

Although it’s the second time I have been to London, this is the time I actually get to spend a lot of time with myself and experience the ultra-ego baptism – just me, me, and more me. I got to hang out a lot, feed my eyes and brain a huge amount of visual data. It’s incredible.

First few days were indeed hiccuppy, as much as I expected I still didn’t really quite figure out how things could get so expensive. I was particular upset when I saw that there was nothing in the kitchen when I desparately wanted to have something like some noodle or soup. Luckily there was a second-hand utensils sales right opposite to my block and I was lucky enough to scoop most of the things I needed with like £9! Even better all my flatmates are really sweet and they kept on adding stocks – so now when I got into the kitchen I felt like I was in some sort of magazine showing those model family lol. Bunch of banana, bread and milk! Got lost a couple of times, but a new buddy thought that I knew London quite well, so have my ego fed and am a happy explorer. Yesterday I met E and had a great night out went to C&R that made really pretty authentic Malaysian food, it was amazing!

If I had any homesickness at all, I think the Singaporian LaSah cured it! We planned to go watch The Queen, and I can’t tell you how much I extremely looking forward to. (as much as I tried to act cool I am forever fascinated by the Royal family). It feels like reading Da Vinci Code on the way to the Vatican City two years ago. Man, I can’t get any lamer.

Well for my course – at first I thought I could take the Tate Modern module, which showed you inside-out of how this museum worked and allowed you to be an intern of the place at the end of the semester. But since there was limited quota, I couldn’t get into to this. Well as much as a pseudo Taoist-wannabe, I was just a bit disappointed learning that I wasn’t the lucky girl being able to get into this thing – not much, but a bit, since I had been awaiting some severe cultural stimulations from the class on Visual Culture. Stay tuned. I might randomly blog on that here too.

Finally, thanks for bearing with me for this relatively long blog. Gosh I had no Internet for first 4 days. FOUR SOLID DAYS. Absolutely sucks. I feel like I was a salmon swimming upstream almost drying out these few days scrapping information from broken expensive internet cafes. Now with access I’m back to life again. Paradoxically even though I’m so tired now I still have to finish this blog. Alas. CMCs could be killing us as much as CO2 (was watching An Inconvenient Truth on the plane).

PS: I watched a great movie Miss Little Sunshine today. Gosh it was brilliant. I love the outragiously smart dark dark humor. M you gotta watch it. I was making a lot of mental note thinking how funny we would find this movie

Right, getting back to compiling the postgrad list of my dorm….