Photos of my Room

Before going to bed, I thought I'd share some pictures of my room. Everyday I clean it a little bit. Just now I got rid of a dying old plant that was here (you can see in one of the pictures). The bed is nothing more than a mattress on the floor but I have to say the bed is okay and comfortable. The rest is not good, the table is wobbly, the chair is okay but since the floor is not leveled, the chair keeps "sliding" backwards when I sit. Anyway, I only spend 8 hours (max) of the day here and 7 of these I'm asleep. 

In any case, today I wrote to the landlord and complained about the shower of the upstairs bathroom that doesn't work. He said he is going to fix. We'll see. He claims he didn't know but the guy that has the other room in this floor told me the shower has been broken for months. The problem with the shower is that we get only hot water and the water is very hot. Sure it cleans but you also burn your skin. 

First Meeting

Today I had the first meeting with Prof. B. Very nice meeting and lots of interesting stuff. I'm more confident that this may actually work. But the result is that I may have to give a seminar on Friday. 

Key ring, not Kiwi!!

I went to get my soup and after I went to try to buy a key ring to safely put my keys. I get quite a few keys for the NEU and need to make sure I don't loose them. However I went to this store inside the NEU where all the employees are Chinese. Anyway, I made the mistake to ask if they had key rings.... it went more or less like this

- Excuse me, do you sell key rings? 

- Kiwis, yes we have kiwis! 

She then shouted to the back

- Pum Lao, did we get kiwis today?

to which I said, 

- Sorry, not kiwi, key ring. 

- Yes, we do have kiwi, go to the back, it's over there!

- No ma'am, key rings, to put keys.

- No, you can't put keys on kiwi, you eat kiwi!

- I know. I need "something" to put keys on it.

then I show her the keys

- Ahh you want "kiring". No, we don't have "kiring"!!

- Thanks!

I had to control myself not to laugh because it was quite funny. The result is that I don't have a "kiring" nor a "kiwi". I'll try to find later and hopefully the people there won't sell kiwis.

No soup for you!

No luck. No soup (husky card) for me yet. That means no squash or gym for another 2 days.

Husky card

I'm in line to get my Husky card. Hopefully after this I'll he able to  play some squash or at least go to the gym. Tennis doesn't seem to be  an option. I got an email yesterday saying that the only indoor tennis  court has been transformed into a baseball indoor arena!

Good morning. First Monday!!!

First Monday here in Boston. I decided to wake up early to see if I can get to work before 9am. It's kind of hard because I still have to face the bathroom (the dirtiest in the planet) and get 45min in the T. 

I don't have a camera here but guess what? I have a mac with camera!! Cool! So here is a picture of the "view" from my room.