Apparently the exterminator found a bee hive on the 3rd floor balcony, 2 floors down from my balcony. He removed it but I still get some bees and wasps visits. Oh well, I'll keep spraying :-)

Time flies, only 4 weeks left until Christmas break!

Not much news. Had a problem with not getting hot water last week so had to get that fixed which was pretty quick and painless. Before the fix I had about 5 minutes of hot water so you can imagine how efficient I became at taking showers :-)
Now I have about 10 minutes so I can relax a bit more before I literally get a cold shower.

Did some more paperwork, changed the address of my fiscal number to my current one and registered as a citizen at the Camara Municipal de Funchal. Hopefully that settles all paperwork since I've been walking around the city center during office hours a lot to arrange things.

The weather is still great, it's about 22 Celsius/74 Fahrenheit now and pretty sunny. In mid-November!
I'm lovin' it!

Watched Johnnie To's "Vengeance" movie again with some colleagues on Saturday night, went to the Indian Taj Mahal restaurant afterwards for late dinner. I had mango lassi and the chicken bhuna. Good food, decent prices. This was already the 2nd time I've been there and I foresee many more visits.

I still have wasps and bees on my balcony but there's no nest/hive so my landlady said she got an exterminator to check out the entire apartment building since the nest/hive might be on someone else's balcony. I've been spraying/killing wasps and bees left and right, I guess I'll just keep doing that until either one of us leaves :-)

Watched 3 quarters of the Steelers game last night and at the 23-3 score in favor of the Patriots I went to bed. It was 4am so I figured sleep was more important than watching the Steelers take a beating. Turns out the 4th quarter was quite eventful with the Patriots winning by 39-26. Oh well, next week the Raiders at 6pm my time so not in the middle of the night. Steelers should also be able to beat the Raiders but last season's 5 game losing streak is still fresh in my memory...

to sleep, to sleep, perchance to dream?!

I always need to get used to all the sounds when I sleep at a new place. During the first week in my new apartment I've grown used to (and stopped getting annoyed by) the barking dogs and hyperactive rooster at night. The latest annoyance is some rhythmic deep banging somewhere higher up in the building. It's like someone is stamping on the floor again and again which starts around 7am. After 10-15 banging sounds there's a pause, then it starts again. I'm not sure at what time this sound ends since I usually get up since I can't get back to sleep anymore.
Another hypothesis was that perhaps it's people having sex and the bed is slamming into the wall. But there's no moaning and the banging is a tad bit too mechanical.
Either way, whoever is making the banging sound it seems to have a serious OCD issue haha. Let's hope I get used to it so I'll be able to sleep in during the weekends.

Asnida got back from her cousin's wedding in Kedah so I didn't do much today, just waited for her to come online and chatted/cammed until just now :-)
Dinner with colleagues and students at 7pm, curious to see who will show up. Either way, I'm already pretty hungry so it will be successful either way.

apartment :-)

I moved into my new apartment last Friday and my colleague Sergi was kind enough to drive me from the student residence to my new place. We had dinner at the Taj Mahal restaurant afterwards and drank sweet lassi :-D
I did some shopping and got groceries on Saturday and in the afternoon went bowling with a few guys. Although this was only the 2nd time ever that I've been bowling it was interesting that I seemed to do better when using my right arm instead of my left arm. I am a lefty but in the strange case of bowling I might not be a lefty...

Went to Radio Popular in the Forum Madeira shopping mall on Sunday to buy TV, hifi stereo and DVD player. I could only take the DVD player with me, the other 2 would be delivered on Tuesday (yesterday).
Since there's a cinema in the Forum Madeira I decided to go see "The town" directed by and leading role by Ben Affleck. Rather good movie so it's recommended.

Yesterday not only were the TV and hifi stereo delivered but also the good people from Meo dropped by to install internet and cable HDTV. And finally someone from the gas company came and replaced the hose attached to the furnace which apparently was expired. That new hose costed me 40 euro haha.

So after all those purchases and expenses I'm almost broke now but at least my apartment pretty much has everything one needs in this day and age. Btw, here are some pics of my apartment: http://s10.photobucket.com/albums/a137/Saldiac/Madeira/