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Friday, August 29, 2008
26th August 2008 Here's a picture of my apartment in School- 90 Atkinson Road.. I'm sharing a unit with a fellow Singaporean, Geraldine, but she's only getting here tomorrow. We have our separate bedrooms though :)  My photo wall's up! Finally!And yes, I brought the clique photo over, even though my bag was overweight! haha!  My accessories table. Really mimimal, but enough to get me through 4 months! I bought the small mirror for like 4 bucks at Wal-Mart! I still don't have a bigger one in my apartment, which makes coordinating outfits difficult, but I'll manage!    Initially, i was really irritated at this white box at the corner in my room! I mean, it's not visually pretty. Then I realised.. it's an air-con!!  Initially, I was excited! I mean, who knew that box was the air-con. Then I turned it on! It barely took 1 minute before I realised I'll never ever switch that thing on during my stay here.  IT'S FREEZING! I have no use for the air-con. Give me a heater, anytime. ---------- Me and Diviya settled some admin matters today, opened our bank account .... and finally, we have some time to really explore Toronto! Had lunch at York Lanes, which is the nearest eatery to my aparment (15 minutes away maybe?)   And along the way you'll pass by a field of geese (haha!). How often can you say " a field of geese" ! Super cool. And like they always show on TV, people really do sit under trees with a book and read, amongst the geese!    The maps here are really confusing.. so THANKS DADDY! for printing out the campus map for me! I use it everytime I go out!
 TADAH! just like on TV! Subway's pretty nice! It's never really crowded even during peak hours. And buses here come every 5 minutes, so there's a really high probability your ride would be nice and comfortable.    Our stop today was YorkDale, which was the nearest shopping centre to our university. And it was HUGE! Like 4 times the size of Vivocity. So you can't really blame us for getting tired after like 2, 3 hours of walking around! Had a bunch of high-end stores like ZARA, Mango... (sale stuff are cheap!) Couldn't really find any food or drinks along the way though.   And not forgetting the legendary H & M! Don't worry daddy mummy, I didn't spend all my money here! merely bought some socks ;)  Went back to school to have dinner at York Lanes. We eat a lot here because we have this student card with value inside, so we don't pay cash here when we eat. Did I mention that the servings here are huge? I need more fruits! I ordered this chicken because it comes with RICE. the rice tastes really funny though. like someone poured salt water all over it. And i found bubble tea! it tastes weird though. haha! And pearls here is called "tapioca!" We always end up in our rooms exhausted at the end of the day. Must be the immense amount of walking we do everyday. Diviya's phone actually has a step counter to track how many calories we've burnt for the day! Shall end this entry with a picture of the sunset as seen from my room. Got to run for lunch now! 
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So blur us took the TTC bus to Downsview Subway station, which cost us CAN$ 2.75 each. But the good thing was that, we don't have to pay for the subway! Being law-abiding citizens of Singapore, we went around checking, asking if we still need tickets, but people looked at us with a weird look and said we don't. haha!