27/7-07

I must write that you get to do loads of different things working as a lecturer. They are all new experiences that I wouldn't mind if I never got.

Firstly, doing TV commercials are dead boring. Takes forever and you don't do very much. "Can we do that again."

Secondly, doing reality TV shows. It's definitely better than shooting the commercial as you just keep acting as normal or as normal as you can knowing there is a camera around. So it is easier to do, but I will definitely not do it again.

Thirdly, writing about chemical engineering for prospective student. I have done this both for our own leaflet and for a magazine about engineering studies. It is always are to come with what to write. So it is actually the hardest one to do, but I prefer that one as I don't have to have a camera up my face.

Anyway, seem like we don't have anything we have to do the coming weekend. The question is, shall we leave it like that and just relax or do something. Something have a tendency to mean shopping though. Should try an outing that doesn't involve too much shopping.

I think I am getting addicted to Tempeh, which is quite funny as I don't like the taste of it. To clarify I don't like the taste of it when it's just fried and left to itself or if it's part of something without loads of flavour. But in a reasonably spice sambal or cooked with kicap, beans and chili, I just love it. I miss the European food sometimes, especially things I can't get the ingredients here (you might be able to get it but you are not gonna get a parsnip for RM30/kg unless you are really desperate). So maybe I should spend the weekend cooking. It has been a while since I had pasta or potato (as the main carbo source that is, potato is put in curries so you have a bit of that every now and then) and I would love to have pancakes some day as well. Some rye bread would be nice as well, but that is definitely hard to get. The bread you get in Malaysia is OK but full of Potassium Propionate or they go mouldy in 3-4 days. So most of the time I buy bread and than I have to finish it in 3 days, unless I bake it myself, which gives the same mould problem.

Aaaah the video player has given up, so I can't watch any of my favourite tapes (basically mean Swedish movies, Black Adder and M*A*S*H). Dang, have to get them on DVD I suppose. They are getting fairly cheap after all.

Soon time to move to the new workplace, yay half an hour extra to and from work. Still lazy looking for a new job though. Seem darn hard to get a engineering position in this country and continuing as a lecturer will make it almost impossible to move back to Europe after Noridas contract has finished.
I am doing my best for the engineering positions, but as soon as I find something wuiting, you scroll down and read, must be Malysian citizen or PR holder, must speak Chinese/Malaysian/Japanese. Why can't there be any jobs saying must be able to speak Swedish. I think I would have a fair chance in that case.
The solution to the lecturing problem would be to get a PhD, but that would have to be a part time in that case and that dowsn't sound feasable to me and 8 years of something ahead of you sound awfully scary. And I don't think I can afford to take a PhD position and still afford the new house or rather Norida would basically ahve to pay for it and we would be living on the limit.

I jsut have to stay put here and continue eating my Tempeh, getting pissed off in traffic and reading Harry Potter.