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About 3 months from now, we’ll be moving to (Brampton, Ontario) Canada. We’re a bit excited, happy and sad. Anyway, we made lists of things that we’ll miss and will not miss…
THINGS WE’LL MISS
- family/friends
- our condo
- hot weather
- the language
- beaches
- amazing race asia
And last but not the least – watching starcraft during normal waking hours
THINGS WE’LL NOT MISS
- jeepneys
- jeepneys
- jeepneys
- buses
- motorcycles
- the next elected president
- the next elected vice president
- the next elected – you get the picture
- flood
- oh, did I mention jeepneys?
I wonder how you people from the west cope with the timing difference. I’m not sure if I could get used to it. I’ll probably miss a lot of live games three months from now 
We attended a seminar yesterday on what to do once we land and how to find work but the seminar left out one important thing -- where to attend osl/msl/proleage finals parties! Pls. welcome us!!! lol
We’re probably going to Canada via Korean Air and we’re hoping to see progamers in the airport. lol
 
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What city (or non-city?) are you moving to?
If you like hot weather you'll definitely miss it here.
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brampton, ontario. but we might move somewhere else once we get a job.
but it's too hot here. i'll just probably miss the warm weather but definitely not the humidity and weather that is around 36-40 degrees celcius
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Canada9720 Posts
dude above me who spams zillions of posts: he's moving to brampton, ontario.
where in the philippines are you from? jeepneys are pretty awesome. trikes too. nothin like that here
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On April 23 2010 20:20 CTStalker wrote:
dude above me who spams zillions of posts: he's moving to brampton, ontario.
where in the philippines are you from? jeepneys are pretty awesome. trikes too. nothin like that here
If you're implying I didn't read, he edited his OP to include the city - the original post had no city.
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On April 23 2010 20:29 Zona wrote:Show nested quote +On April 23 2010 20:20 CTStalker wrote:
dude above me who spams zillions of posts: he's moving to brampton, ontario.
where in the philippines are you from? jeepneys are pretty awesome. trikes too. nothin like that here If you're implying I didn't read, he edited his OP to include the city - the original post had no city.
yup, i edited the OP. sorry! pls. don't quarrel!
jeepneys?!? awesome! really?!? have you been here? they drive me nuts esp. when i'm driving!
EDIT: i'm from makati
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....deh?
It's "eh" lol. Jesus christ, good thing you learned now at least.
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Why are you moving to Canada?
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On April 23 2010 20:42 Zapdos_Smithh wrote:
....deh?
It's "eh" lol. Jesus christ, good thing you learned now at least.
lol it's not my fault someone gave us this shirt
![[image loading]](http://i950.photobucket.com/albums/ad350/bunkieterran/Image0140.jpg)
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On April 23 2010 20:52 SlayerS_BunkiE wrote:Show nested quote +On April 23 2010 20:42 Zapdos_Smithh wrote:
....deh?
It's "eh" lol. Jesus christ, good thing you learned now at least. lol it's not my fault someone gave us this shirt
lol... typo?
Nice... I'm pretty close to Brampton... its a nice area. Hopefully you like it here!
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On April 23 2010 20:47 ii.blitzkrieg wrote:
Why are you moving to Canada?
because my relatives are already there.
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Amazing Race US is just as good if not better than Amazing Race Asia. Phil is just as good as Alan.
Brampton's a pretty good city, close enough to all the populous cities, yet far into suburbia where you don't suffer from big city problems.
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Welcome to winterland! You may think the humidity sucks over there, but come mid january there will be days where the temperature plummits to - 40 C . Oh sweet Canada I love you
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Canada9720 Posts
On April 23 2010 20:36 SlayerS_BunkiE wrote:Show nested quote +On April 23 2010 20:29 Zona wrote:On April 23 2010 20:20 CTStalker wrote:
dude above me who spams zillions of posts: he's moving to brampton, ontario.
where in the philippines are you from? jeepneys are pretty awesome. trikes too. nothin like that here If you're implying I didn't read, he edited his OP to include the city - the original post had no city. yup, i edited the OP. sorry! pls. don't quarrel! jeepneys?!? awesome! really?!? have you been here? they drive me nuts esp. when i'm driving! EDIT: i'm from makati
i like jeepneys, coming from the perspective of a traveller. i spent 3 weeks in negros and that's usually how i got around
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Brampton i.e. B-town i.e. Bramladesh has many east Asians/Asians in general in it. Prepare for Bollywood.
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On April 23 2010 21:28 CTStalker wrote:Show nested quote +On April 23 2010 20:36 SlayerS_BunkiE wrote:On April 23 2010 20:29 Zona wrote:On April 23 2010 20:20 CTStalker wrote:
dude above me who spams zillions of posts: he's moving to brampton, ontario.
where in the philippines are you from? jeepneys are pretty awesome. trikes too. nothin like that here If you're implying I didn't read, he edited his OP to include the city - the original post had no city. yup, i edited the OP. sorry! pls. don't quarrel! jeepneys?!? awesome! really?!? have you been here? they drive me nuts esp. when i'm driving! EDIT: i'm from makati i like jeepneys, coming from the perspective of a traveller. i spent 3 weeks in negros and that's usually how i got around
the jeepneys in the provinces are usually not bad. but here in the city, they usually cause the heavy traffics. nonetheless, it's a good means of transport here in the philippines.
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amazing race us is also nice. been watching the latest season in axn. i'm just going to miss the asia edition since there are representatives from the philippines.
and yeah, we heard. temperature is really really bad during those months. i hope we could cope with that. it's a good thing we would come during summer, at least it's not that cold.
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Canada8031 Posts
On April 23 2010 21:00 meeple wrote:Show nested quote +On April 23 2010 20:52 SlayerS_BunkiE wrote:On April 23 2010 20:42 Zapdos_Smithh wrote:
....deh?
It's "eh" lol. Jesus christ, good thing you learned now at least. lol it's not my fault someone gave us this shirt lol... typo? Nice... I'm pretty close to Brampton... its a nice area. Hopefully you like it here!
Maybe it's a Canada Day shirt... I can't really think of any other reason to spell it like that.
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On April 23 2010 22:28 JodoYodo wrote:
Brampton i.e. B-town i.e. Bramladesh has many east Asians/Asians in general in it. Prepare for Bollywood.
This is true. Browntown is a nickname well deserved.
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On April 23 2010 22:47 Spazer wrote:Show nested quote +On April 23 2010 21:00 meeple wrote:On April 23 2010 20:52 SlayerS_BunkiE wrote:On April 23 2010 20:42 Zapdos_Smithh wrote:
....deh?
It's "eh" lol. Jesus christ, good thing you learned now at least. lol it's not my fault someone gave us this shirt lol... typo? Nice... I'm pretty close to Brampton... its a nice area. Hopefully you like it here! Maybe it's a Canada Day shirt... I can't really think of any other reason to spell it like that.
Yip yip, I live in Ottawa and saw about 20000000000000000000000 (approx!!) of these last canada .... deh.
Oh, and about the SC live thing, you just buckle up and get hardcore. My roomates and I have watched many 5:30 or even 4:00 am games. Because that's what you do. You wake up , way too early. Then clean your house after, because everyone else is still sleeping.
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On April 23 2010 22:28 JodoYodo wrote:
Brampton i.e. B-town i.e. Bramladesh has many east Asians/Asians in general in it. Prepare for Bollywood.
Heh, another common nickname is AfBramistan.
Have you spent much time in Canada? I hope it all works out for you and your family!
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Welcome!! I grew up in Brampton (and am now nearby in Toronto). Whereabouts within Brampton? I guess if you already have relatives there they can show you around and stuff. There are sometimes SC events at the nearby Universities of Waterloo and Toronto.
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Welcome! (I'm from Michigan, so...basically Canada) As far as the language, if you're talking about Spanish then there are many people here in Michigan that speak it (so I can't imagine there not being any Spanish speakers in Canada). If you weren't talking about Spanish just disregard the last sentence  .
Btw, this past winter here in Michigan we were routinely hitting temperatures of 0 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit which is about -10 to -15 degrees Celsius I think so be prepared! (In Canada it can be even worse lol)
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Canada9720 Posts
he's probably talking about filipino (tagalog)
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Welcome! Canada is awesome.
One piece of advice: don't use "eh?" at all when you first get here. Listen and get used to the situations where it's used first; you might sound stupid otherwise. It's not even used often and it's not essential to speaking English.
In Winnipeg, we have a huge Filipino community. I'm sure you'll be fine in Brampton though.
I'm sure you'll enjoy our summer weather. However, you'll need to get used to winter.
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East coast is gg live SC games unless you're pulling an all nighter or it's something really important. My friends who went east for college are rarely around to watch SC with me
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Canada has both hot weather and many many beaches. Our hot weather only lasts for a small portion of the year though. If you arrive in 3 months then it will definitely be hot when you get here.
edit: oh, and you can watch amazing race asia on tv.
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Canada is awesome and as already mentioned, Brampton especially has a lot of your fellow brown people so its perfect 
And on another note (My trusty one line in tagalog, hopefully I can have a one line exception for the "english only" rule) :
+ Show Spoiler +Pagod na ang mga baboy kainin
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On April 24 2010 06:58 Bibbit wrote:Canada is awesome and as already mentioned, Brampton especially has a lot of your fellow brown people so its perfect And on another note (My trusty one line in tagalog, hopefully I can have a one line exception for the "english only" rule) : + Show Spoiler +Pagod na ang mga baboy kainin
rofl!
that one-liner is so out of left field it's hilarious!!
if anyone is interested, he said:
+ Show Spoiler +Pigs are tired of being eaten
i've only been to canada twice, each time for about 2 weeks or so - but never during winter
but i once stayed in new york from dec to feb - although canada is said to be a lot colder
just to clarify, we'll stay with my aunt (who lives in brampton) for a month or so until we find our own place. where we get a job would be the deciding factor on where we'll be staying.
anyway, we plan to spread the love of SC to all my filipino relatives the moment we arrive. i'm sure we can get some of them to join our all-nighters!
appreciate all the replies so far, especially those bringing out the welcome mats!
i'm sure we'll miss the philippines so these help!
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On April 24 2010 09:59 SlayerS_BunkiE wrote:Show nested quote +On April 24 2010 06:58 Bibbit wrote:Canada is awesome and as already mentioned, Brampton especially has a lot of your fellow brown people so its perfect And on another note (My trusty one line in tagalog, hopefully I can have a one line exception for the "english only" rule) : + Show Spoiler +Pagod na ang mga baboy kainin rofl! that one-liner is so out of left field it's hilarious!! if anyone is interested, he said: + Show Spoiler +Pigs are tired of being eaten i've only been to canada twice, each time for about 2 weeks or so - but never during winter but i once stayed in new york from dec to feb - although canada is said to be a lot colder just to clarify, we'll stay with my aunt (who lives in brampton) for a month or so until we find our own place. where we get a job would be the deciding factor on where we'll be staying. anyway, we plan to spread the love of SC to all my filipino relatives the moment we arrive. i'm sure we can get some of them to join our all-nighters! appreciate all the replies so far, especially those bringing out the welcome mats! i'm sure we'll miss the philippines so these help!
Yeah, my (Filipino) friend has a theory that pigs started swine flu because they are tired of being eaten. Also, they teamed up with frogs because
+ Show Spoiler +Pagod na ang mga palaka pag experimentuhin
For some reason I wanted to learn how to say them. Also there's some nursery rhyme that basically ended in your dad lying unconscious on the bathroom floor.
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On April 24 2010 01:30 jonnyp wrote:Welcome! (I'm from Michigan, so...basically Canada) As far as the language, if you're talking about Spanish then there are many people here in Michigan that speak it (so I can't imagine there not being any Spanish speakers in Canada). If you weren't talking about Spanish just disregard the last sentence . Btw, this past winter here in Michigan we were routinely hitting temperatures of 0 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit which is about -10 to -15 degrees Celsius I think so be prepared! (In Canada it can be even worse lol)
Spanish isn't even remotely a language of Canada. I'd go as far as saying Spanish is near useless in Canada unlike in the US.
If you are going to learn a second language in Canada, French would be #1 and Mandarin would be #2, in terms of actual benefit.
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Welcome 
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Good luck moving! I never knew what a jeepneys was... just google'd it though.
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Dude.. theres like nothing to do in Brampton... lmfao
Good Luck bro! I live pretty much next to you (Toronto - east of Brampton)
Used to live in Burlington beforehand tho (West of Brampton)
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Yeah, my (Filipino) friend has a theory that pigs started swine flu because they are tired of being eaten. Also, they teamed up with frogs because + Show Spoiler +Pagod na ang mga palaka pag experimentuhin For some reason I wanted to learn how to say them. Also there's some nursery rhyme that basically ended in your dad lying unconscious on the bathroom floor.
rofl this is so funny
i have no idea what nursery rhyme you are referring to. may be you should also ask your friend this nursery rhyme about crab:
+ Show Spoiler +tong tong tong tong
pakitong kitong
alimango sa dagat...
thanks again for all the good lucks and the welcomes
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On April 24 2010 21:09 SlayerS_BunkiE wrote:Show nested quote +Yeah, my (Filipino) friend has a theory that pigs started swine flu because they are tired of being eaten. Also, they teamed up with frogs because + Show Spoiler +Pagod na ang mga palaka pag experimentuhin For some reason I wanted to learn how to say them. Also there's some nursery rhyme that basically ended in your dad lying unconscious on the bathroom floor. rofl this is so funny i have no idea what nursery rhyme you are referring to. may be you should also ask your friend this nursery rhyme about crab: + Show Spoiler +tong tong tong tong
pakitong kitong
alimango sa dagat... thanks again for all the good lucks and the welcomes
I am aware that tong is the sound that crabs make which tripped me out because over here in north america, crabs don't make sounds. Those damn asian crabs need to be stopped.
I'll PM you the nursery rhyme though
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