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Thursday, September 18
wini's residence guide to being domestic and time-saving 1:45 AMThis is the 2nd chapter of the "Wini's Survival Guide" series to life in residence, haha. Okay, just thought it was interesting to document and keep these photos, and wanted to come up with something light-hearted and easily readable. Heh.
For the sake of Luyi who keeps saying my residence has very good facilities, I shall write this post specially for her, since she's also the only other person whom I've ever known who's equally domestic as me - in fact, she's even better - sometimes she wakes up and suddenly feels the motivation to scrub the whole house from top to bottom! Haha.
So for a start, let me introduce the laundry room in AVM:
I'd say the machines here are much better than those public coin laundromats I've tried in the US.. they even have an ironing area (albeit a very lousy iron) at the side. Anyway, these work on a cash-card system so there's no need to save my quarters and coins for laundry - Evi would understand!
To future employers of Maria: I can cook, I can wash, I can iron.. (see! I look so happy even doing my chores!)
But life as we know isn't smooth-sailing and we don't always have all the time in the world - sometimes the machines take VERY LONG before your laundry gets done (and you still have to transfer the load to the dryer thereafter), so here's what Wini suggests you do while you wait:
Hit the gym! Or better known as the fitness room over here, cos well, it really just consists of 1 treadmill, 1 cross-trainer, 2 bicycles, some exercise mats and a gym ball! Rah.. but albeit minimal, I think it suffices for my stay here.
Treadmill 101: Run and look like a pro - but doesn't mean wearing an iPod armband and patella brace will definitely make you look like you're endorsing an advertisement (like me) k! Haha. Oh anyway, the running pic was NOT posed. Seriously I was made to run at my normal speed before the shot was taken!
Okay, this is getting too much but I just wanted to show the equipment they have. By the way, some random guy whom I bumped into just now said I look like a cheerleader in my running singlet and shorts! A comment that's both weird and amusing, haha.
So well, the point here is to make the best use of your time while waiting for laundry - you can achieve so much in the 1.5 hours! And at the end of the day, here's a fitter you with cleaner clothes - and check out my personal clothes line in my room! Quite cool eh.. haha.
P/S: Luyi, I'm sure you'll agree with what I say about saving time and gymming while washing clothes right? Hahaha.
Random-ness
This is a cute cereal - I think it's deliberately made to sound like Honey Nut uh-ohs! Haha.
Alrightey, it's 1.30am here and maybe that's why I'm getting slightly crappy. Nevertheless, on a more serious note, I've been doing quite well in Small Business Management, i.e. interacting with classmates, finding groupmates, and even delivered a well-received individual elevator pitch today!
I introduced a business idea of incorporating a food delivery service here on-campus (which Prof thought was well-considered, researched and presented in a good lively manner). He's also asking me for input to incorporate international perspectives into the course, so as to facilitate class discussions! In fact, he says he'll be screening something on Singapore in a couple of weeks' time, and that makes me excited and proud to be Singaporean somehow, haha. :)
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Winifred Lim
Arthur V Mauro Residence, Box 436B
120 Dafoe Road, Winnipeg, MB R3T 6B3
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You are an enthusiastic innovator, always seeing new possibilities and new ways of doing things. You have a lot of imagination and initiative for starting projects, and a lot of impulsive energy for carrying them out. You are stimulated by difficulties and are most ingenious in solving them. You can get so interested in your newest project that you have time for little else. Your energy comes from a succession of new enthusiasms and your world is full of possible projects. Your enthusiasm gets other people interested too.
Your feeling preference shows in a concern for people. You are skillful in handling people and often have remarkable insight into the possibilities and development of others. You are extremely perceptive about the attitudes of others, aiming to understand rather than judge people. You are much drawn to counseling and can be inspired and inspiring teacher, particularly where you have freedom to innovate. With talent, you can succeed in almost any field that captures your interest.
A difficulty for you is that you hate uninspired routine and find it remarkably hard to apply yourself to sometimes necessary detail unconnected with any major interest. Worse yet, you may get bored with your own projects as soon as the major problems have been solved or the initial challenge has been met. You may need to learn to follow through and finish what you have begun, but are happiest and most effective in jobs that permit one project after another, with somebody else taking over as soon as the situation is well in hand.
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