Survivor XXII Ep.3

Third day of our no-heater existence in this house. The boiler is still not fixed (landlord called at 4pm to say he's coming with someone tomorrow), and day by day it's getting colder.

The first day was not that bad, since the house still had what little of the remaining heat left. The second day was ok, I survived sleeping wearing a jumper over what I usually wear, although I kept waking up during the night feeling cold. Which can't be a good thing...

Because tonight, I think maybe I will just be kept awake forever from the cold. The house now feels as cold as it is outside (as in, wearing a t-shirt + jumper + trackpants around the house feels the same as wearing a t-shirt + winter jacket + jeans outside). And 'smoke' comes out of our house sometimes when we talk. Especially when we yawn. This is really bad. I guess, in order to not feel so miserable, I could count my blessings and thank my lucky stars that we can still take a warm shower.

XG, NH and I were absolutely frozen after being drenched from a sudden heavy downpour right as we were walking out of our landlord's shop (very much like Singapore's mama shops) after paying our rent. We took shelter under the building next to it for a while, but when it just went on and on we began our freezing walk home in the rain. NH and I were lucky to have been wearing jackets with hoods, but even so our faces got drenched due to the strong wind.

Once we reached home we couldn't stand the cold anymore and turned the oven to the highest temperature and left its door open in order to heat up the kitchen. And we ordered curry for dinner. In order to warm up, NH suggested we 'make it hot'... as in, order the curries that are as spicy as possible. So XG ordered a Prawn Balti, a Chicken Madras and a Mutton Vindaloo. Balti has become a very popular thing in UK, and it's something (a way of cooking) that was started in Birmingham. Of the three curries we ate, Balti was the mildest and Vindaloo was the spiciest. I think Vindaloo would be something like a devil's curry, or maybe a bit spicier (?? not sure...). Madras would be like a normal curry, but with a stronger tumeric taste (maybe something like the strongly-smells-of-tumeric kind of Indian curries, but milder??). Balti was not really spicy... maybe like not-spicy-enough curry lor.

The Vindaloo rocked. We warmed up real fast. And also started shivering real fast, once we finished dinner. XG went to spend the night at his girlfriend's house, leaving NH and I to suffer here... sigh... gonna be a long night...