Evil

Carol, David and Jianfeng were here the past few days and Switzerland was very bad to them. I hope she redeems herself in the form of a good ski trip for Jianfeng today. Sigh. I will miss having our hallway crowded with people talking rubbish...(oops haha) and i will miss them for them too of course...heh. Carol and david left this morning...and Jianfeng is leaving tomorrow morning...

Carol looking like a hooligan and Jianfeng admiring his cannabis tea which he got from a vending machine here!

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BERN

It had a cool fountain...

Heavy heavy snow and some bears that only eat certain fruits (apples, oranges). They don't eat bananas you know. I fed it some banana and the bears were totally above it- they didnt even give it a sniff. Maybe its because the first time i misaimed and the banana hit the bear's head...but usually the bears look up and catch the food in its mouth midair. When i threw the banana however, the bear just looked at it drop like 5 stones.

Bern is one capital that doesn't look like a capital...honestly have nothing much to say about it except that people associate Bern with bears. Not very sure why and im not really motivated to find out why either...

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So just why am i so sian??? Its because our apartment nearly got broken into yesterday. It was a blessing in disguise that Bingkai stayed at home yesterday, if not our losses would be terrible.

Our landlord has been really irritating...wanting to change the toilet window and paint the rooms (??!?!?!). So yesterday BK had to stay at home to wait for this uncle A to fix the window while the rest of us went out. So he's relaxing after clearing up the royal mess that uncle A created in our toilet when the doorbell starts ringing like as though someone at the door needs to use the toilet really urgently. But Bk ignores it thinking its some pesky salesman....and then shortly he hears someone trying to break our door down...break meaning using brute force like destroying the lock etc. At that point of time BK doesnt know what exactly is happening except that its really noisy so he opens the peephole...the three guys get a shock and scoot. The peephole is pretty big and people can look in from outside. It was so scary- BK said they looked like Swiss guys and they were wearing black trench coats. Goodness...fortunately they didnt persevere and endanger our one and only Bingkai. So Bingkai quickly called 2 SMU guys who live down the street from us to come over..in case there was a reprisal of some sort.

So after many phonecalls to the school's housing admin person, a police report and several nonchalant replies later...its settled that someone is going to repair the lock today. We suspect strongly that it has something to do with Uncle A ...(i hope so...and not like some trio who has been observing us for some time already..that would be very freaky).

I feel so uneasy about this and I really dont like this feeling of evil entering our house.

So the plan is ...that this is not going to happen again and thus...i have to get ready to go to school soon with BK. Got to get ready for some verbal sparring with the housing lady who says that break-ins are quite common in Switzerland and that we dont need to be at home when some strangers come to paint our house...armed with my german-english dictionary and some pen and paper for some drawing. Her english is pretty bad sersiously...like when we asked her last time what the floor area of the apartment was, she replied "2nd floor" and when we asked if there was internet connection, she said "clear". so yea...wont be leaving her office until we get what we want..hopefully everything gets settled amiably...sighhhhhhhhhh.

And days of staying at home alone or coming home alone are pretty much history...for now at least...sighhhhhhhhh

Other than that...Mac gave me a crash course on self defense:
1. Use your thumb to jab their eyes. In serious cases, aim to gorge the eyes out. (Don't be wishy washy about this since they are out to harm you anyway)
2. Use your knuckle to hit their throat.
3. Kick their groin.
4. Stamp on their feet.