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Moving Day

Note: I am post-dating these entries to make it more chronological. I apologize for any strange mistakes that I might make.

Yay! Today was move-in day. We left the INSEAD Residence at 7:30AM to take a taxi to our new home. We again have way too much luggage but at least it was more manageable this time because we packed better.

Ron had to rush off to class and I stayed back to unpack and do some laundry. It started storming pretty hard with thunder and lightning so I didn’t want to leave the house. I’m not fond of torrential rain. But I did have the chance to make our master bedroom more cozy and did 2 loads of laundry. I had my first experience with hanging our laundry up on a clothesline because there is no dryer.

At 2:30PM, I headed over to INSEAD (still raining) since there was a Partners Orientation and Afternoon tea. The meeting was very short so we headed home quickly afterwards.

We ended up having dinner at the other HDB food court behind us (on Commonwealth?), only S$2.50 for a plate… still so amazingly cheap to me. We also bought some pastries and milk for breakfast and some fresh fruits. It’s so hard to live without a refrigerator!

School Starts

Note: I am post-dating these entries to make it more chronological. I apologize for any strange mistakes that I might make.

Today school started. Singapore must have been sad, it was raining really hard. I stayed inside all day while Ron was running around for orientation.

We attended the opening ceremony at 5pm and had cocktails and snacks at the INSEAD cafeteria afterwards. The class seemed not at all worried about going to class the next day so a large group went to New Asia Bar for drinks and more networking. It’s located on floor 71 and 72 of the Swissotel The Stamford.

I had a drink called the Coco Loco:

It’s a mix of Kahlua, banana liquer, cream, chocolate, ice, and other things. Tasted like a delicious milkshake!

It was great and a beautiful view from up top. I didn’t take very good pictures though… I’ll have to figure out how to use my camera better.

Stationary and Chinatown

Note: I am post-dating these entries to make it more chronological. I apologize for any strange mistakes that I might make.

My goodness, we spent 3 hours at Mustafa Centre learning about the different type of stationary supplies available in Asia.

The highlights:
Notebooks are 2-hole punched
There is 30-hole punched paper and dividers
There is no “loose-leaf” paper, all of them are in notebooks only
A4 size is longer and slimmer than the 8.5×11″ in the US

I love pens and stationary but I wasn’t very satisfied with their selection, I wanted more!

But we got the basics and headed to Chinatown for dinner. We ended up at hawker food court right near the MRT, I think it was called the Hong Lim Complex. Right there is also a handicraft center where they seem to have crafty things like beads and scrapbooking!

We were eager to go see a movie afterwards so we headed to Vivo City to check out the showtimes. Seems like theaters in Asia assign seats when you purchase tickets so you don’t need to show up early to get a good seat but you do have to purchase tickets early online if you want a good seat. When we got there to try to see Bourne Ultimatum, the only seats left were in the first 3 rows! So we skipped that and just walked around Vivo City. We stopped by PAGEONE bookstore and took a peek inside. Most of the books are shrink wrapped so I guess you’re not encouraged to browse too much. I ended up buying a book on using origami to make cards 🙂

The stationary portion of the bookstore looked fun though so I hope to go back soon.