2 weeks
We've been here for exactly 2 weeks now. Gotten used to the pace of things, like checking email and surfing twice a week instead of twice every hour, that was tough, that was partly why we felt cut off. Bedtime's also changed, we knock off about 12am and get up chirpy about 12pm. Jo says my eye bags are much better here. The mac powerbook is finding a new life as a jukebox, Corrine May, Tim Hughes, Matt Redman and Sarah McLachlan have been keeping us company every other day. Also, I got a french mobile line so keeping the M1 sim card out of out sight, if there's anything please sms Jodie. Also thought we found a great Pho place called Pho14 (it's very famous apparently and crowded) but woke up at night with super thirsty, no wonder it's good, got lots of msg. So skipping that.
And coz we have the kitchen, we spend less, buying provisions from G20 (more ex than Monop) and Monop (meat not as fresh as G20), saving tonnes. I also read Bill Bryson's 'Notes from a small island', 'Primary Colors' by Anonymous, 'Post Mortem' by Patricia Cornwell, the landlord left them here on a sitting on a bookshelf. Jo was amused to see me reading. We also don't have cable so no english channels, it's all french, and the news is all about france, so we missed the Bali news, it's terrible.
We met our contact this week and she turned out to be a really really nice lady, will have to see how it turns out. I've also made some decisions about photography direction after thinking and mulling for a while, see if God's ok with us going in that direction.
Jo's brother and sister sent a surprise package via DHL, reached us yesterday. It's got marmite, maggie porridge, black pepper sauce mix, thai curry mix, pocky, mos chicken cubes, hi-chew candy, letter and a CD filled with mini quicktime movies. Woohoo! Thanks guys!! And Shane's laugh sequence is such a hoot! Been watching the videos to no end. Congrats to you Teck Hua and Janis, your baby son looks like a potential lady-killer.
Btw, Battlefield 2 and some of the new games cost 50something euros here, crazy. But they do have Plantronics Gamecon 1 headset for 50 euros, we don't have them back home. Plantronics has some of the better headsets in the market but we don't see them at SLS, funny.
Also btw, saw a canon 5D and it's about S$5900+ here after minus-ing VAT. So Terz or Kelvin if you are reading this...
Love,
Wes
6 comments:
Hi,
Reading your post bring a smile to my face. Good morning!! :-)
Glad to hear that you have adjusted to no internet and that your spirits' up.
Baby boy's cute and doesn't cry much. I have also adjusted to getting up every 3 hrs (can be 1 or 2 hrs) to feed him. Got used to it but can't wait for confinement to be over. Can't go out. Arggh.....
Thinking of you from a thousand miles away and giving you a thousand blessings.
warmest regards
Doll
$5900? Still sounds a bit steep... another friend of mine tells me that if we make an online order on a Japanese website (I forget which), and we get someone to go to Japan and pick it up, it's only about $5000... which seems like a better option. More money for accessories.
You must try to watch the news! That's one of the best ways to acculturate and also to improve your French :)
heh heh, can't wait for both boys to grow up. Then ah gong and I can sit back and help screen all the girls that come knocking on our door!
The 5D rocks. :)
thanks tym,
we try to watch the news. try very hard. :-)
wes
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