hello all
its me from Canada.
aap log soch rahey hongey mai kahan orangi town chala geya jaha se contact nahi horaha hai
baat ye hai ke the day I reached here I was dead tired...........seriously 14 hrs journey is like hell...........aap kuch karne k qabil nahi rehte. 2 din tak to thakan utaarney mai lag jate hain.
the place im residing is out of internet access due to some maintenance goin on in line. by Monday it will be resotred. I just opened a bank account here yesterday and on Monday will buy sim.
here I m logged in from café.
just to give u guys small updates.
on airport the checking in tight.......I mean luggage wise. on 23 kg bags the emirates are accepting upto 24 kg.....means just 1 kg margin. or can say 1.2 kg max. on excess baggage they are not offering even 1 kg............it should be max 32.4 kg.......not more than that.
if u guys have someone in FIA then take their help. mere sath hua ye
out of 6 bags of 23 kg...........2 were over weight to 32 kg..........means 4 bags to 23 ke thay..........baqi 2 32 k thay.....so for those extra 9 kg I was required to pay 50 dollars US per bag......total 18 kg extra ke 100 dollars.
baqi excess luggage mai out of 4 bags.....2 bags 34 kg k thay.........means 2 kg extra.
to mera total 20 21 kg ziada weight tha. but mere ek friend ka dost FIA mai hai. I took his help. usne mere luggage ka weight he nahi hone dia..........actually mai 4 hrs pehle airport pohoncha...us se mila....he made all settings with emirates guy at counter. then jab counter open hua mera aik bhi luggage weight nahi hua...........he just issued me baggage slips.
in return I paid that fia guy 4000. to is tara jaha mere 15000 lagne thay waha sirf 4 mai kaam hogeya and excess luggage bhi 34 34 per nikal gaye. even hand carries were 14 kg each (I was carrying 3 hand carrys) and uske ilawa mere and meri wife ka back pack bhi tha weighing 6 kg each.............to itna sara weight aram se nikal geya. he dropped us in waiting lounge then he went back.
the custom asked me how much dollars I m carrying...........I told them 5000 cash only. no other currency nothing else. again than fia guy helped there and they didn't searched a single thing not a single bag. I was carrying in fact 38000 Canadian dollars cash! yes I took them all cash and nothing happened Alhamdulillah.
at Toronto airport the cbsa guy asked me nothing.............no forms of goods accompanying no forms of goods to follow. he just asked me to show the gold jewelry and by looking at all separately he stamped the photos of jewelry. nothing he asked nothing he took nothing he demanded. hamari sari tayyari gayi tail lene............
everything went smoothly. Alhamdulillah.
guys costs are really high....from airport to Mississauga the taxi charged 65 dollars. the potter charged 30 dollars for luggage. its like 10 dollars for 3 bags then 2 dollars for each additional. I got 13 bags including hand trolleys to I was charged 30 dollars. 10 dollar I gave tip to potter. cos my bags were so heavy and he even loaded them into taxi and helped a lot. potters are mostly muslims from arab countries. so our brothers.
I opened the bank account in TD bank. its very easy and smooth process. pehle appointment lia then kaam hua. i opened 2 separated checking account for me and wife and one saving accounts joint with wife. saving mai aap log sochenge sood hoga........but they said even if u put 50000 dollars in saving then the interest rate is 0.8% per anum. that means 400 dollars yearly...that means around just 35 dollars monthly on 50000 deposit...........so not that much of sood...........all u can do is take out that soood money after a year and give it to someone needy here or back in Pakistan. we can use it to help other needy instead of using ourselves or wasting. again a debatable topic.
if u have small babies upto 6 years of age please bring your strollers with u........its booked free of charge in all airline........here u have to do lots of walking...........i loosed 2 kgs and 1inch waist in just 3 days! and my son is always tired after 10 mins and i have to pick him up............so please bring strollers. muje to majburan yeha se lena hogi. so why wasting 50 dollars here if u have it there?
i have also took a locker in bank to save my jewelry and other valuables in it......cos yeha ager dakaity parti hai to sab safaya hojata hai so its wise to buy a locker here.
initially for new commers the account are free of any charge for 1st 6 months in bank and locker also. so i took all inclusive account which i can change later after 6 months. locker small free hai but not availanble.............medium mila for 28 dollars yearly.. actually ye hai 58 dollars ka and small 30 ka but for us new commers small is free so i just paid the difference of 28 for medium one cos small hai he nahi free. maine list mai naam likhwa dia hai as soon as it get available i will take it cos small free hai for 1st year and next year se only 30 dollars yearly. medium 58 hai yearly.
ok that's it till now. as soon as i get internet and sim i will come online. please pray and its really good to come here. bas its really really coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooold in here. very very cold...............nothing i have ever faced. so fast wind of like 40 kms......and very chilling piercing winds! so cold really.
AH
