Saturday, December 30, 2006

Best Bathroom Ever


The National Orchid Garden in the Singapore Botanic Gardens has the best bathroom ever. It was like peeing on a Cypripedioidea then cleaning your hands with a Mexipedium. Click here to see the rest of the garden.

Singapore ho


A master of English misconception once said “I’ve got a bad case of the jet legs” when talking about feeling a little jet lagged. I never really understood jet lag until today. After 33hours of traveling (that includes a couple of layovers), I finally landed in Singapore and I feel like I’m living through a really bad hang over. I’m droggy and tired and can’t focus. Jet lag sucks.

Monday, December 04, 2006

The Neighbours

My neighbours hate me and everyone I live with. Rightly so, I guess. I live in a posh apartment full of childless middle-aged families who dislike being disturbed in the middle of the night. We’re the only students in the whole apartment and we’ve managed to piss off everyone in the past with parties that would last until 4 or 5 in the morning. So this past weekend we thought we’d be nice to our neighbours and send everyone to the bar at 11. We figured it would take 45 minutes for everyone to actually leave, meaning peace and quiet for the neighbours as they headed to bed at 12.

It didn’t quite work out as planned. We did get everyone out by 12 but the neighbours still weren’t impressed. The couple from upstairs came down and started to yell at me as people were leaving. They told my South American friends to stop speaking Mexican. Then the South Americans got offended and started to get in my neighbour’s face. Then the lady started to tell me how I was a typical Ontarian. I told her I grew up in Westmount. It didn’t really escalate into much but when the landlords called with their weekly list of complaints they did mention it would be nice if we went to apologize to our neighbours. I think that’s a bridge I’m going to let burn. And that’s that. Check out the pictures.