I have just received tons of post from Cambridge and from the JCP (Junior Committee Parlour, which is kinda like the student council of the college) of Pembroke. some exerpts from the booklet of house rules:

• Avoiding fire: "you must never leave any pans unattended while in use, and you must avoid in particular frying in oil, which can generate high temperatures and fumes, and thus considered to be dangerous, as well as anti-social." well then, if i can't fry in oil, what can i fry in? maybe i'll have special frying liquids when i wanna cook there. and anti-social? how is that anti-social?? oh then there's more: "the bursar may remove, without notice, any frying pan!" apparantly it's illegal to bring a frying pan to college. quite a tricky move to get us to all eat from the buttery eh!!
• Entertainment and parties: "permission must be obtained in advance for any party exceeding 15 persons and will require that stewards are named to assist in the smooth running of the party". sounds regally restrictive... like there's so much order to be followed in college.

the rest of the package was quite interesting. it sounds like a lot of fun in fresher's week! i'll have parties and pub-crawls almost every night. die la i'm going to be so tired after only the first week. oh and there's going to be staircase dinners, family outings, matriculation dinners where i'll have to wear an academic gown, whatever that is, and lots of other obligations to attend to. it's going to be packed.

on another note, i haven't started packing yet! and the worse thing is there aren't people around these days who are free enough to hang out with me anymore. so i'm left alone in the house most of the time. thank god for korean dramas! and the internet! my companion buddies, i foresee, through to the day i leave our sunny little island for the cold of the UK. it's only 2 and a half weeks more.