Hello everyone. I just got home from a movie screening organised by "Die deutsche Sphäre" which is a German student club on campus. It is quite nice since there are a lot of Singaporeans studying German and they are very keen on talking. They will arrange a lot of activities during the semester ranging from food fares to a Chinese-German language tandem program. We watched "Lola rennt" today which I suggested Aurelia to get. She is one of the organizers of the club and I got to know her last week when I was in Chinatown with the other guys.
But what I actually wanted to say right now: When you go abroad to Asia and live in a hall, make sure neither your last or your first name begin with an L or W.
Unfortunately, I have both my names starting with these letters which means that whenever I want to check my mail in the mailboxes (which are ordered by letters and are for all 500 students living here) I have to go through thousands of letters addressed to Lee, Long, Lu, Lan and Wong, Wang, Weng, Wu.. and so forth. I was waiting for an important letter from my dad and guess what, I neither found it in the L nor W slot. Fortunately, an Indian friend by the name of Hari asked me if I found my letter that has been lieing around there for several days already. "No, which letter??!!" - "Well, in German Mister means 'Herr', right? It is in the H-slot, I've seen it there for a long time already." Aaaaahhhhhhh how could I know the mail man takes each word so seriously. Whatever, I got my letter and beg everyone to address letters to me in future with a # or with aaa. Then it should be on the very top.
But what I actually wanted to say right now: When you go abroad to Asia and live in a hall, make sure neither your last or your first name begin with an L or W.
Unfortunately, I have both my names starting with these letters which means that whenever I want to check my mail in the mailboxes (which are ordered by letters and are for all 500 students living here) I have to go through thousands of letters addressed to Lee, Long, Lu, Lan and Wong, Wang, Weng, Wu.. and so forth. I was waiting for an important letter from my dad and guess what, I neither found it in the L nor W slot. Fortunately, an Indian friend by the name of Hari asked me if I found my letter that has been lieing around there for several days already. "No, which letter??!!" - "Well, in German Mister means 'Herr', right? It is in the H-slot, I've seen it there for a long time already." Aaaaahhhhhhh how could I know the mail man takes each word so seriously. Whatever, I got my letter and beg everyone to address letters to me in future with a # or with aaa. Then it should be on the very top.
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