Lost contacts, calendars... and ??... after upgrading Mac

I did a clean install on my Mac as I wanted to upgrade clean from Lion to ML.
Now I just realized that all my contacts and calendars (and what else I have not yet discovered) are gone from my iPhone 4S. My notes are surprisingly still there.
Although historically I have switched from time to time from using iCloud backups to computer, I notice my last update on iCloud was done in February 2013...
New Mac OS was installed on a different HDD (so I would guess if any recent backup be done somewhere in the Mac HDD it might sleep somewhere there, am I right?
Yep I know, I should have gone iCloud all the way or at least do my last backup there before upgrading. Unsure about the basic 5 GB, this is probably what has always motivated my ''sticking to the Mac'' backup... Now I resignated to purchase an additional 20GB this morning, but for my immediate problem, there's little it can do of course.
I am reading many articles and posts about ways to recover, but they all relate to - let me call it ''normal'' use... Not in the context of someone who jumps from iCloud to computer backup, then maybe even sometimes from a PC (Windows) to a Mac.
Assuming I can still access my old Mac HDD content, is there a file or folder I could simply copy from there and put it somewhere to recover my mistake and sins ?
Thanks,
Rob

Try this - Reset the iPad by holding down on the Sleep and Home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider - let go of the buttons. (This is equivalent to rebooting your computer.) No data/files will be erased.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5209
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4437
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4215
 Cheers, Tom

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