I arrived back to Toronto last night at 4:45pm and then made it back to the apartment at 7:00pm. It’s funny how it takes longer to travel from the airport to my apartment via the bus and subway than it does to actually fly from Moncton to Toronto. It was a really enjoyable weekend which was mostly spent in Wolfville. Alot of good friends were back for the wedding so I got to hang out with them.
The work week is almost over for me…only 6 hours left. I’ll be taking the bus down to the subway station early tomorrow morning and heading off to the airport for my 10:30 flight back to Moncton. Then it’ll be a day at home with the parents and then down to Wolfville/Kentville/Halifax on Thursday. I’ll be at Dan’s bachelor party on Thursday night at a cottage somewhere near Halifax and then heading back to Wolfville on Friday for the wedding which is on Saturday afternoon. It will be great to go back and see everyone again.
In other news, our TV remote was found last night!! It was jammed down the seat in our living room, I’m not sure how it got there but it took a few minutes for Gump and Sean to dig it out. So now it’s back to channel surfing…the lazy way.
Well it was a very short Saturday here at the office. After my posting, I felt the Dim Sum being quite heavy on my stomach. It must have either been the shrimp (which I am sometimes allergic to) or else the fact that eating so much for breakfast when I’m only used to having a bowl of cereal and toast was just too much. I headed back home on the bus and slept for a few hours. Later that night, Sean and I realized that we hadn’t eaten anything else that day, except for Dim Sum. Even on Sunday morning, I was still feeling full, although I had some toast which was my first meal in over 24 hours.
Yesterday was spent doing laundry and writing up an outline for my co-op work report, which I will be starting to write a good copy during and after work today. It’s going to be a late night here again, but hopefully I can get a good start on my report before heading back east on Wednesday. It’s almost lunch now so it’s time for some foosball!
It’s a beautiful, warm day here in the big city and I’m stuck in front of my computer at the lab to write my work report which is due at the end of this month. It’s procrastination at it’s finest. You might say that I still have 3 weeks left to write it, but minus the week I will be down east and the deadlines here at work, it’s crunch time! So I decided to come in on the weekend and try to get as much done as possible.
This morning, the three roomates from Apt 1512, which includes Sean, Gump, and myself, headed across the street to Sam Woo’s Seafood restaurant for Dim Sum (aka Chinese breakfast). I must say, I have never eaten food like that before. I’m used to our Canadian Chinese restaurants where you order some chicken balls, rice, and egg rolls. But at Sam Woo’s, I saw nothing of that kind. Our breakfast included shrimp and beef wrapped in dumplings, beef rolls, spring rolls, some kind of tea with flowers in it, and the ever-popular chicken feet. I must say, the chicken feet tasted really good, even though it was basically just skin without much meat. In total, we had 17 dishes of food between us and could barely finish it. Definetely a breakfast of champions!
This week is going exceptionally fast, seeing how it’s already Thursday and another weekend is closing in on us. Then it’s only 2 days of work next week and I’ll be taking off (literally) for Moncton on Wednesday. Not much else has happened here in the past couple of days. The Xbox at the apartment is getting plenty of use and the the TV remote has gone missing. We were using it on Monday night but for some odd reason it has decided to vanish. It’s beyond me how something of such importance can get lost in our small apartment. We’ve done a small surface search but to no avail, we have yet to find our lost ‘4th roommate’. So from now on, it’s time to channel surf manually, until our remote decides to grace us with it’s presence once again.
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In an effort to put something new here everyday, not all of my posts will be as interesting as if I only posted exciting, wonderful things that have happened to me. So there!
Another long weekend has passed, and more experiences have been had. Arriving home from work on Friday afternoon, I discovered a new Xbox conveniently stored in our TV stand. Sean purchased it just before leaving for Ottawa and in the upcoming month, he will be modding it into a Linux machine. So Friday evening was spent playing Halo and Amped with some tv-watching added in for good measure. On Saturday, I headed down to Rogers AT&T on Kennedy St to get my cell phone fixed. It hasn’t been working for a couple of weeks, I’ve just been too busy/lazy to take it in. But now it’s going to take them another 2 weeks just to figure out what’s wrong with it. Anyways, after dropping off my phone, I headed into some other electronic stores along the street. After getting KFC for lunch, I took the bus home…atleast I thought it would have taken me home. Instead, it took me towards the Scarborough Town Centre, which is the complete opposite direction from my apartment. I stayed on for the ride and got off near a mall where I browsed around a used CD/DVD store and went into Chapters. After that, I headed out to the bus stop where it was now pouring rain. Finally, after a couple of buses and a 10 minute walk in the rain, I made it back home, safe and sound. Then I took a nap and watched Finding Forrester with Gump, which was a really good movie. Sunday was a relaxing day with church in the morning and then taking it easy in the afternoon and watched Awakenings which stars Robin Williams and Robert De Niro. It was an excellent movie, even though I missed the first half of it.
Yesterday morning was spent cleaning up the kitchen and then cleaning out the fridge which consisted of spoiling fruit and other stuff which must have been there since May. Just before lunch, I decided to head to downtown TO. The buses and subway were all on time which was rather surprising, and I made it to Yonge St within 45 minutes of leaving the apartment. I was expecting that downtown would be packed since it was a holiday, plus with the Caribana festival, but it wasn’t the case. I had lunch at a hotdog stand on Yonge & Gerrard. There’s a small park there with a fountain which was rather peaceful, even though it’s in the heart of downtown. After lunch, I spent a few hours wandering around Sam the Record Man, the Eaton Centre, the CN Tower, and Skydome. Finally, at 3:30 I decided to head home. It took only 45 minutes to get downtown but almost 2 hours to get back home since I had to wait 40 minutes for a bus. Oh well, it was a fun day and an overall good long weekend.