New posts coming soon
Sorry for not making any new posts in the last week or so but I have been quite busy moving to a new apartment as our old one was flooded by a storm we had a week last Wednesday and we could not live there any longer, too many squatters, what with the ants and mosquitos.
Anyway, Yaning and I have found a really nice place not too far from the old apartment. It is much cleaner, will be warmer in winter and most importantly is mosquito free! (Pictures to follow) The flat is also in a good area which is full of artisan based shops and laid back bars. There was a national holiday last week so we spent it unpacking and getting ourselves sorted. There are still a couple of jobs to do to make the place nicer, like cover the inside of the kitchen cupboards with plastic to prevent dust and deter the roaches, but other than that things are in order.
Our landlord is a bit of a pain though. Trying to get him to do anything is quite hard, he had some stuff in the flat we did not want and it took a week of calls to get him to move it, plus we are not on the phone and there is legislation stating that only the owner of the house/apartment can engage a phone contract so we have to wait for him to sort that (plus wait for the usual beaurocracy to take place to make it happen) before we can have a home phone number and maybe internt access at home. We even had to get the letting agents to convince the landlord to get us connected with a home phone as he didn't want to have it done, according to him no one uses them anymore as we all have mobile phones, what he really meant was that he didn't want a bill in his name in case we skipped town!
At the moment I am using the internet access at Yaning's office to make posts and check my email so things may be happening a little slower until we get online at home, but I hope to make a few posts soon that I wanted to make over the last couple of weeks so keep checking the blog for updates.
Anyway, Yaning and I have found a really nice place not too far from the old apartment. It is much cleaner, will be warmer in winter and most importantly is mosquito free! (Pictures to follow) The flat is also in a good area which is full of artisan based shops and laid back bars. There was a national holiday last week so we spent it unpacking and getting ourselves sorted. There are still a couple of jobs to do to make the place nicer, like cover the inside of the kitchen cupboards with plastic to prevent dust and deter the roaches, but other than that things are in order.
Our landlord is a bit of a pain though. Trying to get him to do anything is quite hard, he had some stuff in the flat we did not want and it took a week of calls to get him to move it, plus we are not on the phone and there is legislation stating that only the owner of the house/apartment can engage a phone contract so we have to wait for him to sort that (plus wait for the usual beaurocracy to take place to make it happen) before we can have a home phone number and maybe internt access at home. We even had to get the letting agents to convince the landlord to get us connected with a home phone as he didn't want to have it done, according to him no one uses them anymore as we all have mobile phones, what he really meant was that he didn't want a bill in his name in case we skipped town!
At the moment I am using the internet access at Yaning's office to make posts and check my email so things may be happening a little slower until we get online at home, but I hope to make a few posts soon that I wanted to make over the last couple of weeks so keep checking the blog for updates.
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