Wow, has it really been 3 days since I last wrote here? My goodness...anyway, have been busy with work...FINALLY..well, I've actually spent the last 3 days doing the same thing...updating addresses but it's okay. Some guy was really happy that I was updating the stuff...he said that he sent an email to the wrong address. Well, I must say this...my department is full of guys who are 30 plus 40 over...I haven't like really really talked to anyone, apart from the guy in charge of me, Alex and the guy sitting opposite, Holger. I suppose also cos they are the closest to my age. Oh yeah, forgot to mention that just in these few days, I have managed to establish myself as a complete work ignoramus...sigh...but they are quite okay about it...even though it is really cannot make it to screw up a mindless task like updating addresses from on online database into the department database.

In any case, most of the days have been boring...wake up, go to work, go for lunch, back to work and then go home, watch TV, sleep. Holger suggested that Ruth and I go to town cos there are many students there and we can practice speaking German with them. I wonder why on earth it never crossed my mind. But anyway, good idea...will try it, but knowing Ruth, we might end up not going, since she is quite a homebody, even if she does like going shopping sometimes. Will make a suggestion to her not to always go for lunch together...go with our own department pple...but then again ah, really weird to go with a whole bunch of older men...

Going to meet Ruth to settle some bank thing. Going shopping later...so fun!! I can't wait man...haven't really gone shopping since we got here. It's really weird here. People come in and go home as they wish...like no set time to leave kinda thing...well, gtg for now. Tschüs!

end of the day....did not do anything. I wonder if they'd even notice if I didn't come to work at all...I doubt it. I'll bet the guy whose table I am using will be very glad to have it back cos I am like not using it at all. Very frustrated with nothing to do. I'm dead pissed. Even staying and Singapore and slacking would've been better. Travelling 15 hrs to slack is not my idea of fun.They probably tried to find work for me to do but I am sorry to say that they are not very successful at it. The most 'exciting' thing I did the whole day was to call Ruth and speak to her in Chinese, cos the pple in my dept understand English. So stupid...then I read the German test thing that the guy at the table opposite let me have. I feel like a parasite man...or a disease..something that no one needs and trying to get rid of. I dunno what I am still doing here. Do you know that the pple here just come in anytime they want, have lunch anytime they want and go home anytime they want...no wonder I have no work to do...but seems like they have so many things to do...hmm, I want my turn too. I really don't want it to be a waste. Even Siemens Singapore would've been more fun. Sigh. If ´the first 2 days are like that, what I am gonna do for the next 3 months? Anyway, have just decided that the guy sitting opposite is very nice. He lent me a catalogue to read when he saw I was bored....so gonna read it...

Hello pple...second day at work and still no work to do..I do not like being paid to slack...oh guess what? I just overheard that there's someone going to meet him (e guy i\c) so even though he is not back yet, it is unlikely that I have any work to do again today...what on earth am I here for??? Sigh. All I did the whole day was listen to a presentation on the products that the department produces and photocopy some work-unrelated stuff. So sicko...I mean I supposedly should be happy but I absolutely hate it! What a boring life. I have also only spotted 1 cute guy but so insignificant when you are guy-watching... I have taking to playing neopets at work...does anyone recognise the extent which I am suffering? I'm feeling tempted to go steal some office pencils and start drawing, as much as my drawing actually sux...I have no office stationery, though I am supposedly welcome to take the stuff from the cupboard...

Erm....he is still on the PHONE!! Oh well, will write more then...anyway, so how do I know there are lotsa chiobus here? Cos the guy in charge was checking them out in the canteen during lunch and thus I got a chance to see them...So SE man...but those are really chio. The boss is really nice too. Talking to him was like the first time I actually warmed up to using German. For some reason I am still stuck in English mode, and the fact that all the letters that I am writing are in German does not help me much. But, the computer or rather laptop that I am using is in German, so maybe that should help. ü hee hee, I love typing these alphabets without having to press alt, 0 etc etc...

yo pple, I guess it's been quite a few days since I have written. I've been pretty busy settling in. I'm in the office now. The person in charge of me is busy at the moment, so I am trying to navigate the German keyboard which is slightly different from ours. Most importantly the Y and Z keys which are exchanged, so forgive me for weird looking typos.

So exciting...it is snowing here. It's really so beautiful! I went for a walk in the snow to the Siemens compound yesterday, in the snow. It is such a big place. How do I know? Ruth and I have been running all around the compound to get our identification passes and other stuff...Finally I can enjoy being in the office. I am itching for work, after not doing any work at all for the past 3 months. Oh, the people here are really nice...those I've spoken to anyway. We went shopping on the first day with Andrea, who's actually in charge of Ruth and is in her department. I am in a different department, dunno what it is exactly yet...still waiting to be told.

Hope you all had a great Chinese New Year....I have no Hong Baos....*sob* but what's worse here is that I CANNOT remember anyone's name! I feel so embarrassed!!!

Audz, I don't have cable so too bad that I can't watch Wan Quan Yu Le...but you can watch for me and tell me lah...anyway, my apartment address is Zähringer Strasse 40, 90475 Nürnberg, Germany, for those who wanna write to me...I am sharing a house with the Schmitt Family. They are really nice. I am staying on the 3rd floor, in a furnished apartment. Sorry girls, haven't really seen any cute guys yet, but chiobus got alot. Haha....too bad the guys can't be here!