London, Ontario
Thursday, September 06, 2012
11:37:00 am
So folks, Wennie left early this morning at 2.30am and I must admit I teared walking back into the house and cried my way to sleep and I woke up this morning with that sick feeling in my stomach again thinking about how I won't see him for so long.....
But at least today was a good sunny day, but a really foggy morning. But I heard it's not always foggy every morning. I sure hope not! Don't fancy being run over by cars when I ride to school in the morning. Due to the late night, I decided to only get up at 11am! After my quiet time and blogging the morning's post and sorting things out online, I took a little run towards the church I wanted to go to 4.3km away (according to Google maps). It's only about 10 minutes away to Gibbons Park and I must say I like that place more and more! While the weather was pretty sunny and warm, I didn't sweat all that much. The church is rather far though. Trying to find one nearby hmmmmm...
Gibbons Park! On my way back I stopped by to sit on the swings for a bit... WHeeeeeee! And then dropped by Metro. Oh me oh my, never seen it this crowded before! I knew I forgot to get something........ T'was the sunflower seeds! Mama has made me like them toasted with salad leaves! After all I have a whole bottle of balsamic vinegar to use up!
Came home and did some cooking, socialised with the girls a little (and was told by one who followed XiaXue for a short while that I have the same Singapore accent as her - not sure is this positive or not for me.. Never heard her before.............). Sorted out my tools and prepared for school. Did the accounts and feel terrible looking at how much money has been spend :(
So anyway, Toronto airport is one of the nicer airports after being in SF. It's almost posh like Singapore's. They were so efficient there was hardly a queue and we got out in like 15 minutes? Luggage came out first due to Wennie's Krisflyer Silver status hence the "Priority" tagged bags. Hence the long wait for the shuttle to bring us to London.
My first impression driving through London was "Wow, this is really old school". The buildings were single/double storeyed. Each having their own front and back space. Everything looked so old and really country-style!
The house looks like this:
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| The road outside the house |
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| Houses to the left and right of the road |
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| The side entrance which is our entrance |
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| The little porch where I lock my bike. The window there looks into my room and the ledge on the top left is for the kitties to go in and out! Real cute! |
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| Backyard |
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| Kitty! Everybody loves how it is so affectionate! It climbs onto the owner's lap! |
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| Entering the door leading into the basement |
It's a little different now. Neater for one. And the microwave went onto the desk table and the induction stove onto the fridge (under a cork mat for safety) and so the kitchen area is pretty spacious now!
As we only had half day left on Thursday (arrival day) we did a shopping trip at the little village mall which is about 12 minutes brisk walk away. Will take pictures some other time. It has a 24 hours Metro which is about one half times the size of Clementi mall's NTUC. Has most of the things I need so... yay! There's a pretty large Drug mart too, about the size of Clementi mall's Guardian. Bank and some shops and eateries.
Friday was spent settling in, cleaning, packing, cooking meals. Saturday was a little wasted due to the bike-buying incident. Suppose to meet this person at 10am at the village mall but seemed to have missed him and so we met again at 1pm, which was pretty late already by then. But we headed out to Hyde Park about 15km away on my new bike! There's a Canadian Tire (which is like a Walmart). There's also a Walmart. And it's like those big open spaces with shops like factory outlets but not factory outlets. Got more cool supplies such as this cutesy little rice pot for 10 bucks!
It even comes with a measuring cup and rice scooper! I got a cute little campbell soup cup for my toothbrush mug too!
I love two things about this cosy little house - The new frying pan and the toaster. The toaster is amazing. Either that or the bread here is. Toast is like the BEST ever! Just the right amount of crunch outside and all nice and airy-type crunch! Plus the tosater goes "DING" when it's done so I don't have to watch it! Milk cartons are old-school type:
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| A bus park full of yellow school buses! Random shot on our way around. Beep Beep! |
We headed to downtown London on Sunday. Here's what it looks like:
There's nothing downtown!!!!!!
But there's plenty of these little creatures all over the country!! Like, everywhere! They're huge and furry and real cute!
SQUIRRELS! :)
Lots of Wennies around then! :)
I went to school on Monday while Wennie was out riding his bike. Collected all my documents, spent a good time looking through the millions of stuff and sorted out into "throw" and "keep" piles. Visited the music faculty, met a percussionist who explained the building and the location of the various rooms to me. Visited the Sports and Recreation centre. It has a HUGE gym, a cool warm indoor pool, and a very cold ice hockey ring!! I want to watch a game!!!!!! Some hilly hills in the school but it is indeed really tiny, about one third the size of NTU I'd say.
Oh yeah the bad thing about living in a basement is that you can hear people walking above and we do have a rather large sized sir living on the main floor. And so his steps are rather...... loud. But other than that I do like this place and the space I have. Worrying about the fact that they let the house get to 14 degrees during winter though............ Oh, surprisingly this place uses degree instead of Fahrenheit and km/h instead of miles! How odd...... But their coin system is equally confusing and boyyy does one get many coins.....
And... it's close to impossible to buy swimming costumes here or in the USA! Ended up ordering a very nice looking Speedo suit online, and due to all the discounts and sales going on, it's only USD 34! Shipping to papa who'll ship up to me. Thank goodness! :)
Okay sleepy time for boys and girls who have school tomorrow. Rather apprehensive I'd say and please don't rain! Goodnight everybody!
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