A Home Away From Home

Met up with the rest of the freshies early in the morning near Keith's place. All of them look really really tired. Seems like they haven't recover from the jet lack. 2 hongkee gers just flew to Newcastle this morning and joined our group. One is called Eleana and the other is Hugo, same name as the brand Hugo Boss. Our group seems to increasing in number each time and that would mean more names to remember.. Aaargh!! *faint*. Anyway, Keith is our tour guide for the day as Yujin and the rest of the committee member of S'pore society are heading down to Switzerland late afternoon *envy* (nvm..we are going there during dec too). Keith had been to Newcastle for a six mth attachment, so he is the 'lao jiao' in the area. We met Yujin along the way to campus and he brought us to the internet bubble in the old library. Apparently, the place used to be a library but now you can't find books there. We met Yujin's friend in the old library. This guy's called Regent and he's in his final year doing business. He just flew in from Singapore this morning and was so unfortunate to 'kana arrowed' to be our new tour guide just because he bumped into Yujin at the wrong time.

Regent brought us to the city centre where we went to set up our bank account and get pre-paid cards for our handphones. Later in the evening, Regent was also kind enough to invite us over to his place for dinner. He stays in Honey Pot House (what a cute name) which is just a small distance away from the castle. Currently, his flat is still vacant expect for this BBC (british born chinese) guy, Steven, who is staying with him now. We ate the dinner that Regent cooked for us. It is really an enjoyable meal, eating some home cooked food and chit chatting with one another. It's just like one big family. A home away from home (Raffles Hall motto).


The weather gets rather cold in the evening and there's like free air conditioning in the house. It's so cold that nite that Yi Fong jokingly said,' Can you pls turn down the air con?'