Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Return to Waterloo

Hello there folks!

I had intended to update the blog as soon as I moved in, however, until Monday night, my dwelling was devoid of an Internet connection... Since classes started on Monday, I've been pretty busy ensuring a smooth start to the term...

So here I am, back in Waterloo. As some readers might recall, I was having a fair bit of difficulty in obtaining a place for residence (Getting to Canada). On my trip to Waterloo to search for housing, I passed by my old place, which I'd been told was to be closed for rental by August. Luckily, I found a couple of people who knew me as a previous tenant, and was informed that the place would be up for another four months, and they had quite a number of rooms available. Hooray! I was getting a good deal so I immediately signed up! As they say, "Don't look at a gift horse in the mouth"...

My Home for Fall 2011
Moved here with all my stuff on Friday... After dumping my bags, boxes, crates and what-not in the master bedroom... I had a monstrous task ahead of me... cleaning the kitchen...

And a rather dirty kitchen it was! Worse was the refrigerator! Had to hold my breath when clearing it out! Scrubbed and washed out every single shelf, every nook and cranny. The stink simply refused to go away... only to be cured a couple of days later by the utilization of some baking soda... And the microwave... it looked like someone had exploded something inside it!

Thankfully, an hour and a half later, the kitchen was totally cleaned out...

A View of the Kitchen
The next target was the bathroom... Which surprisingly did not take a very great effort...

The Sink Missing the Plug...
Decided to take a break from the cleaning... Set out for Zehrs to get necessary groceries...

Returned back home around sunset. Rearranged bedroom furniture, and dusted and scrubbed the wooden flooring. Unpacked the bags and boxes and arranged all the stuff. It took a while, but it was totally worth it...

My Room
My Closet
My Working/Eating Table
The only problem initially was no Internet. Two days without Net were crazily boring! Add to the fact that connecting via Fido through my BlackBerry gave a really crappy speed. Unable to bear much longer, I put in a few calls to SparkMatrix, the ISP who controls the Internet around here. Turns out that they can completely discontinued their services, and were starting from scratch... Took them a while to deliver... But on Monday night, finally got access...

So yeah, that was my moving-in story. For more pictures of my new place, see my Facebook album.

Hope you enjoyed this post. Stay tuned for "First Week of Fall 2011", which will probably be out sometime during the upcoming weekend...

Good Night/Day
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 14, 2011 at 11:18 PM

    Interesting looking room you got there and the house looks pretty spotless... but are you sure that plastic drawer is safe up there? Seems to be directly above the bed... on top of the pillow... where the HEAD rests! Could be potentially dangerous, don't you think?

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  2. AnonymousMay 1, 2012 at 5:49 PM

    Just an FYI from somebody with intimate knowledge of SparkMatrix's inner workings: The reason it took several days was that they rely on Bell and such to get the physical lines to the building, and after cancelling the accounts for your building it took them several days to get in and re-set up the accounts and lines. Not much SparkMatrix could do to speed it up more than they did.

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