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Sunday 02 October 2011

Permanent Resident

I am now officially a Permanent Resident of Canada.

I “landed” on Friday with my wife at Sarnia, after taking a short trip to Michigan to do some shopping.

I had been incredibly nervous about the whole thing, but it was completely painless. Took no more than 15 minutes.

My PR Confirmation form was completed and stapled into my passport, and my Goods to Follow lists were stamped. I’m now free to import the rest of my belongings – I’ll finally be able to have my computer back! I’ve missed it so much. Using a netbook for the past 2 years has slowly been driving me insane.

Now I have to apply for a Social Insurance Number and an Ontario Health Card. I’ve already filled out the SIN application so I’m ready to walk into the Service Canada office next week. Then I’ll go to Service Ontario in Lambeth to get the application form I need for a health card.

Won’t be long until I have a job again either. I’ve been out of work for over a year, and I can’t wait to get back into employment.

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Saturday 18 September 2010

Xbox 360 Gaming

My roommate picked up a copy of Halo: Reach last night and we sat down to play some co-op. 3 hours later and we’d completed the first 3 missions. The game is pretty awesome. I really miss being able to dual-wield weapons like you can in Halo 3 though. I spent part of today completing a few achievements I had missed early on in the game.

Earlier this week I started playing Halo 3 again after a long break, realising I hadn’t actually gotten any achievements for completing the first few missions of the campaign because I had played them on easy. After getting the Campaign Complete: Normal achievement I decided to collect all of the skulls, I had already found 2 during a co-op game ages ago but I wanted to get them all.

So, on Wednesday I completed finding all of the skulls from the campaign, and then moved onto those in multiplayer levels. Took me a while but I managed to collect all of the Mythic level skulls including the one hidden on the Sandbox level which requires you to overload the level (there are other ways but overloading is so much easier), unlocking the Vidmaster Challenge: Brainpan achievement.

After getting that last achievement I put Red Faction: Guerrilla into the drive and loaded up the last mission. I had last tried to complete it back in June and kept failing to finish it without dying. I had started to get rather angry about this, so put the game away and planned to come back to it at a later date with a fresh head.

I amazed myself, since I completed the final mission in ONE attempt. I had spent hours trying and trying to do it before, but after a few months away from the game, I guess I had to just be patient.

Now that I’ve finished all the story missions I get the chance to complete the remaining guerrilla actions and get the achievements for those. One thing though, by completing the game, it raises the difficulty level on you!

Posted in Life at 23:54 | Permalink | Comments (19031Xbox+360+Gaming2010-09-19+03%3A54%3A08quack)

Saturday 12 June 2010

Married

It’s been a while since I last updated, I haven’t really been in a blogging mood lately. Twitter has made it a lot easier to post things.

Since my last post back in January, I proposed to my girlfriend and got married on 21st May at the Bellamere Winery in London, Ontario.

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Sunday 31 January 2010

Working Hard

I’ve been working for McDonald’s now for 2 months.

I work overnights Sun-Thurs, at a 24 hour store.

The restaurant is the closest to UWO.

I serve a lot of drunk students.

Thursday nights are very busy.

I enjoy the work.

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Tuesday 24 November 2009

New Job

I have finally got a job!

I went for an interview at McDonald’s today, and they hired me. I start next week, in the kitchen.

After being out of work since June, I’m very happy right now to be getting back into employment.

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Wednesday 28 October 2009

I Miss You Bonita

A year ago today, my best friend Bonita died in a car crash, tragically the day after her wedding.

The pain of losing her is still fresh and what makes it worse is that we’d not spoken for months before it happened. We just… drifted apart. I was too busy in my own affairs. She, I imagine, was busy in hers. She’d recently started flying again, she really did love to be a flight attendant. I sometimes wonder how many passengers she’d actually ordered out of her galley over the years.

I regret that we had drifted apart. I realise that there’s nothing I can do, but it still doesn’t help ease my mind any.

She was such a positive person, never a bad word to say about anyone. She lit up the lives of everyone who met her. Even those who hadn’t met her, and had only chatted online to her, knew she was someone special. She could always make you laugh. We shared some really good times, I just wish we could’ve spent more time together.

I miss her so much.

Requiescat in pace Bonita.

Posted in Life at 23:45 | Permalink | Comments (18980I+Miss+You+Bonita2009-10-29+03%3A45%3A00quack)

Monday 03 August 2009

Life In Canada

So I’ve been living in Canada since 24th June, and so far I’m enjoying it immensely. I love this country, although making the adjustment is hard. There are of course things I miss from back home in the UK but most of the time there is something similar to replace it here.

I’m still not working but interest in me is building so hopefully I’ll get an interview very soon.

One thing that is annoying me about being in Canada instead of UK is the fact I have no Canadian credit card which makes purchasing things online so much harder, as half the places I’d want to buy from require me to ship to the billing address which of course is in the UK. Oh well!

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