Happened to remember my old England days. So thought to share. I went there for my postgrad. Survived the One Whole Year of academics, loneliness, cold and cultural curry! yeah. More of it will come later, let me first introduce you to the 6 housemates suffering each other mutually:
Name: Catherine*
Nationality: French
Peculiar characteristic: typical French blonde dumbhead; often found strolling around hallways in panties
Activities: sleeping with random guys on drunk weekends, trying to speak seductive english
Whackaoo moment: kissing an Irish boy at a bar - because that was the 'firsst taime she kisszed ze foreyigner' (sic)
Name: Jonathan*
Nationality: British
Peculiar Characteristic: semi-bald totally cad Law major with the black granny umbrella! A boastful Junior Under Officer of the Army corps whose face fell flat when I told him I was the SENIOR Under Officer in the Air Force corps
Activities: Attending bonfire parties/barbecues wearing kilts ( Scottish skirts for men without underwear)
Whackaoo moment: His equally cad girlfriend moving into our house at the start of new term
Name: Junaida*
Nationality: French
Peculiar Characteristic: the Algerian-French girl with maggi noodles hair, came to England to seek the man of her dreams! a cleanliness freak who ironically left the toilet in an incomplete mess every time prompting me to put up a big poster 'in there' - Please flush the toilet COMPLETELY. Did not drink for religion.
Activities: dressing up seductively and going on regular dates with irregular men. Humbug! she finished my expensive body shampoo in 2 days!
Whackaoo moment: Finding the Mr Right in a mixed race supermarket security guard rumored to be a drug dealer who disappeared for 5 months leaving the damsel waiting.... finally came back to claim her. I never dared to ask what was it all about.
Name: Joshua*
Nationality: British
Peculiar Characteristic: the rolly-polly Redhead army lieutenant - A Sandhurst graduate
Activities: Attending military trainings, getting paycheques from a jewellery shop in Leicester! entering home with random drunk guys at midnight
Whackaoo moment: Finally having a girl stay overnight with him-in his room (or else i had become sure he was gay)
Name: Kristina*
Nationality: British
Peculiar characteristic: Hippy Scot with an immigrant Chinese boyfriend, fetish for baking cakes for the Man or world peace; has her home behind the Scottish RoseLine church featured in the Da Vinci Code book
Activities: Protesting for fair trade and ethics; Capoeira; trying unsuccessfully to make us pay the house bills on time
Whackaoo moment: Moving out of the house and Into with boyfriend in a new shared house after graduation with her dad driving more than 200 miles just to help her shift the luggage! (WHAT a Dad!)
Name: Farhad*
Nationality: Malaysian
Peculiar characteristic: Not noted as creature seen only once in 4 months
Activties: Ordering home delivery from kebab shop and not realising the arrival of frustrated shopman ringing the doorbell for hours together in the English rain!
Whackaoo moment: finally disappearing from the house For EVER without paying any of the bills!
oh.. and finally me
Name: eS*
Nationality: Indian
Peculiar Characteristics: A college bag full of different varieties of foods, daily seen leaving the house towards the internet lab
Activities: being bored, often found cooking spicy chicken curry in the groundfloor kitchen causing snotty mayhem to the European dags
Whackaoo moment: leaving UK with a degree in International Criminology - WHAT? isn't that why i went there in the first Place!
More scoop on them in coming times ;)
*(names changed for privacy reasons)
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Full House
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