An insight of me: to the land of the Scot'Ish (last part) and on the land of the Scot'Ish..

Dum dum dumm...

Anyways from the airport to the landlord house we went. We got our keys and then went to our apartment. A journey like that already costed us 20++ pounds! Just in case, at that time, the conversion rate was around 1 Pound = BND 2.60. Thus if you still rmb 'Direct proportion' from Secondary Mathematics, all you have to do to convert is just to multiply that 20++ by 2.6. Roughly estimating it is around, maybe around BND $50++ ! This was just the beginning. Hahhaha.. welcome to a place where EVERYTHING IS EXPENSIVE!

Left right straight, top or bottom, everything is definitely more exp. than back home. My first made-in-UK sandwich from the airport costed 2.6 pounds if aint wrong. Around BND $6+? The hot chocolate was 80++ pence, meaning around BND $2? Shyt, take that money(around BND $8), go to 'Overseas Restaurant' and order Buttermilk chicken plus Teh Tarik special and you still got change!

Whoa.. off track once more. One thing I hadn't prepared was what was about to face all of us... Hmm.. or maybe me la. What is common in Brunei is nice houses with big compounds where their house is repainted every year esp before their festive(either Hari Raya or CNY) .. Hahah.. We maintain our houses very well? We promptly repair our houses if there is anything that needs maintenance? Ohh.. and the average ages of our houses might be emm.. lets say 10 yrs ++. Ok.. oldest 30 yrs. Foolishly I was expecting something similar here! LOL.. Bad expectation..

A side view of our building

Our apartment is on the 3rd floor btw. Just have a glimpse at the stairways towards our place.

Emm.. 10 yr old building? Err.. nah .. plus 10? Hahaha.. I think definitely more than 30 yrs. Maybe close to a century-yr old kua.. At first, I was like.. what the heck? Why did we pick such an old place? It certainly gave me the creeps when I first stepped into this place, it was cold,dusty and dark somemore.. LOL..

(The door to our apartment creaked open)... Welcome to my home for the following 9 months or so..

What welcomed us shocked us all.. The hosts on that very day were lots of dust, dirt, oil stains in the kitchen, a brown shower curtain, cupboards that cannot be closed, creaking floorboards, creaking doors, dead insects and even live worms! The condition of the place was appalling! It did not look like anything similar to what we seen from the pics that were shown to us before coming.

Maybe this was how the previous tenant looked like source

Ew.. This was just a small part of the house.

It definitely wasnt the ideal condition for 3 tired souls who were drained from the extremely long journey we undertook to reach here. It was however the ideal condition for these 3 souls to do MASSIVE cleaning!!!

source

No maids, no mum, no dad here.. which means the simple equation of 'clean if you wanna live in a clean home' .. cialat!

However on the first night, it didnt matter whether the place was clean or not for my case. I was so freaking tired, I did not even have dinner that day. I remember lying down in a noisy room where a few of them were playing Counterstrike... yeah.. guess who? Clue: the Counterstrike King from EE group. lol.. Anyways, the next thing I know is I was the last among them to wake up the next morning..

Where we all slept for the first night.. haha..
we're all straight so no worries.. nothing wacky happened

The "wonderful" weather that greeted us the next day..

Sights from out our house windows.
Dayymmm... Where's the sun?

Good morning Glasgow!

The first 2 days were freaking cold. Cold wind plus rain. Very unforgiving indeed. No hot water to drink somemore, as no kettle. The 1st 2 days were days of excitement, fatigue and also some misery to an extent. At times, my mind was "why did I come here? Why not choose some place warmer?" <-- no kiddin'. I did not feel very well. In half of my head, bad thoughts were running thru' my head. I wondered how I'd survived this sort of weather where there it is supercold plus no sun. What if this is how it'll be like everyday? However another half of me was anticipating what was coming =) Anyways after we woke up, we planned to head to the city. Stock up on stuff, open up a bank acct plus of course, see & experience the city! We headed off by subway[called SPT] its very similar to Singapore's MRT..

SPT tickets..

Destination reached..

Some random glimpses of the city..

Once back home, it was cook dinner, then cleaning. We (me and my housemates) endured a very similar cycle everyday for around a week I think. We 'work' aka cleanup the place till close to midnight and will then head to our beds.. It roughly took around a week to make the place livable! LOL

Anyways.. God somehow heard what I was craving for, sun! And miraculously, Glasgow was blessed with 1 week of sunshine starting from the very next day(from the very cold second day)! No kidding!