Matt Down Under

Ruby developer, founder of choc media, bushwalker, MacGyver fan and hobby photographer, German citizen and Australian Permanent Resident.

In 2008 I moved from Germany to Australia, the best decision of my life. On this blog you can find stories and photos about hiking in Tasmania and on the mainland, travelling, and life in Australia — my journey from Working Holiday to Permanent Residency.

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    5 posts tagged Apartment

    Vietnamese furniture

    Last night it took me 4 hours to assemble my bed frame. Apparently the factory in Vietnam ran out of instruction manuals… My fault. Why would you expect an instruction manual for a bed frame with only 50 parts and 100 screws? I’m still to much used to IKEA where you get instruction manuals for every stupid lamp, even if it gets delievered in one piece.

    But who needs instruction manuals anyway? I’m a man, a Ger-man. That means I’m a natural-born engineer. We don’t need instruction manuals. Just give me a screwdriver and I build a house, hell yes!

    (not really)

    If you can read this…

    …then my DSL connection is working. On Monday I signed up, on Friday it’s working. Only 4 days!!! Deutsche Telekom you can k*** m* a**. When my mum signed up for a DSL connection back in Germany about 1 year ago, it took 2 months (!!) to process the application and to get it running, even though all the infrastructure was already available.

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    Tired of backpackers

    Hm, after having stayed in backpacker’s hostels for nearly 9 months now I recently noticed an interesting change of my general mood. While it’s usually okay to stay in hostels while you’re traveling, it is becoming increasingly annoying as soon as you drop out of the world of backpackers and join the world of civilization, regular office work and above-average hygiene again.

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    My own apartment

    Hi, this is the first post from my iPhone. I’m sitting in the kitchen of Central City Backpackers in Hobart and just finished with dinner. That’s right, I’m still staying at a hostel, unfortunately.

    However I found a beautiful apartment in the CBD of Hobart, only two minutes walk from my office. Yesterday I signed the lease but until I can move in, there’s still another three weeks of delay. I’ll try to attach some photos to this post, but if the blog layout gets messed up I won’t be able to fix it until Monday ;-).

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    Finally: iPhone arrived

    Yesterday I finally got my long-awaited iPhone. And it’s a contract phone, goodbye pre-paid! After providing a pile of ID’s and bankaccount statements they let me sign up for a 2-year contract. I didn’t need to pay any upfront cost and only pay around 40 Euro per month, which gives me 1 GB of data and more than $500 of phone/text credit per month. It means every month I can send about 2000 text messages without additional costs ;-). 1 GB data should be enough too, I can use the wireless network in my office 5 days a week, so it will be hard to exceed it. I haven’t discovered all the features yet, but I really like it, well done Apple.

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