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Gord's Exchange to the University of Calgary
Sunday, August 27, 2006
HUM sap jokes
Sunday, May 07, 2006
Updates
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Just came back from Sea World, damn fun! Didn't expect to spend the whole day there, from 11am till 10pm lor, super tiring. For anyone who's planning to go to Sea World San Diego, never miss the night shows. Best! Even got a big fat walrus performing. Damn funny. Anyway will be going Disneyland tomorrow. Feeling quite shag now, 2 weeks of travelling without rest, now going to so many theme parks some more. But its the final week now, after that go back Singapore have to find ways to earn money liao.. Anyway, I think that travelling alone is quite fun. Just do whatever I want. Goes to show what a loner I am :p |
Saturday, May 06, 2006
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Updates In San Diego now. San Diego is much nicer than I expected. Went to Balboa Park today, very very beautiful. A bit the arty farty, nice. Completed most of my trip already. Every city I go is unique and interesting. Having so much fun so far, but my bank account is thinning out. Sigh, no souvenirs for anyone, hahaha. No money, cause I lost 100 plus in Las Vegas. Haha, sigh. But its damn fun there, lose money in jackpot also fun, hahaha. No time liao, here internet freaking ex. Update in SIngapore. Reaching Singapore on May 17. |
Saturday, April 22, 2006
Last Day
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Tomorrow, I will be on my way to Vancouver. Time to say good bye to this place which has been my home for the past semester. Everyone, please pray that I strike the jackpot many many times in Las Vegas! And it seems that US has wised up and relaxed its banned items list. http://www.tsa.gov/public/interapp/editorial/editorial_1012.xml Maybe I should print this list and bring it along with me to the airports in case anything happen. |
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Sesame Street
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Never been a fan of Sesame Street, but these collection of clips is cool! Classic scenes of SS, too bad the majority of Sesame Street is boring :p http://www.foldedspace.org/weblog/2006/04/sesame_street_video_clips.html some clips that I especially like Norah Jones and Elmo : "Don't Know Y" Oscar : I Love Trash Cookie Monster raps about healthy food A-B-C-D-E-F-Cookie Monster Bert and Ernie remember The 'la la la' song Ernie has a banana in his ear Tribute to Jim Henson ps: Always notice that I will spend my time on boliao things especially during the exam period.. hahaha |
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
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Neat things in LA http://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/18/four-neat-things-about-los-angeles Too bad most of them requires a car to be feasible... More links to interesting videos that I watch instead of studying. Super funny soccer clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFe2TJv-jlk&feature=Views&page=2&t=m&f=b Super cool game trailer (God of War 2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEj5_vNBz0c&feature=Views&page=4&t=m&f=b |
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Are shavers allowed on airplanes? If not, then I won't be shaving for 21 days! diaoz... Anyway, Ronaldinho is here to show us more tricks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mybd1Y6zsY&feature=Views&page=1&t=t&f=b |
Friday, April 14, 2006
Mysterious ice falls
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San Francisco so scary, got 2 giant ice falls in a week. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/04/14/MNGM9I9BUC8.DTL |
Trip Itinery
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Decided to post my trip itinery here, so if anything happened to me and I disappeared from the face of this world, you guys can try and find me. 23rd April 6.30pm leave for Vancouver by Greyhound Vancouver stay in YWCA hotel 25th April go to Victoria for a day 27th April take a bus to Seattle hang out a day in Seattle 6pm take Alaska Airlines to Oakland Airport San Francisco, stay usahostels 28th April Day Tour to Yosemite Park 1st May 1140am southwest airlines from Oakland to Las Vegas Gold Coast hotel 2 May Day tour to Grand Canyon 3 May Red Rock Tour 5 May 1135 am Southwest Airlines, Las Vegas to San Diego usahostels 7 May 8am Greyhound to Anaheim Anaheim Plaza Hotel and Suites 9 May change hotel to Hollywood usahostels 14 May 730am Plane back to Calgary Hopefully along the way, will have time to upload photos taken to myphotoalbum. Please pray that I strike the jackpot in Las Vegas, or else I will return to Singapore a very very broke man. |
Updates part 2
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West Edmonton Mall West Edmonton Mall used to be the biggest mall in the world, until some mall in China knocked it off the top. http://www.easternct.edu/depts/amerst/Malls.htm However, I don't really find it very big, only 2 levels, and most of it is taken up by the carpark, amusement park, and water park. Its big because its a self sufficient entertainment centre, it even has a casino, mini golf course and a chapel! The main focus of our day there would be the water park. Though we have to queue quite long for each ride, and its freezing while we were queueing, the rides are damn fun! We basically tried all the rides (except for those meant for kids la). My favourite is called Nessie's revenge, which is a stairs like slide, consisting of a few vertical falls which are very exciting. Unfortunately, cockster me dropped my specs on this very slide. And cannot find back some more. So spent the next few hours playing without my specs, actually quite ok in a way cause I don't have to worry about my specs then. Another favourite is the "Sky Screamer". Basically its just a verical drop down, similar to the negative part of an x^2 curve. Wow, what a nerd I am to describe the curve in terms of an equation. When at the start of the slide, we can see a group of people just hanging around. Guess they are too scared to go down the Sky Screamer, cos I got a bit scared when I looked down too. However, I think its not as fun as Nessie's Revenge. An interesting slide would be the "Tropical Typhoon". Its basically like going down a toilet bowl, just go round and round until you drop into the hole at the bottom, very fun! haha The slides are damn fun, makes me want to go Wild Wild Wet to try and see how good they are. Anyway, at the end of the day, went back to the Nessie's Revenge to try and find my specs again. Luckily, the lifeguard this time helped me find also, and he found it easily. Damn pro lor, that time I tried to find, and jioed a whole bunch of students to help me find also, and cannot find. He just dive in a while only can find my specs liao. Wanted to send an email to the waterpark to thank him one, but I'm so tired that I forgot his name when I reached back. I think its Jeremy or something, but just can't remember. So decided not to send the email, hahaha. COP part 2 Spring is coming, and COP was having a discount on its last few days of opening. So we went to learn snowboarding. Very worth it, $15 bucks, then got a series of stations where you can stay as long as you like until you mastered that station. With such a comprehensive training program, MZ and I mastered it in a few hours. SY quit halfway. According to MZ, she took off her snowboard and threw it down the hill when she fell her last fall. Stylo. Can't really blame her, as spring is coming, the snow is hard, so its very painful when you fall. Also, the hard snow makes it harder to learn also, since it makes the terrain very rough. After finishing the stations, MZ and I went down the hill a few times. On one of these runs, I had a major fall, and lost my handphone!! Realised it when I reached the bottom, so I quickly got back up the hill and went down again, hoping to find the phone. Alas, I couldn't find it. We then used MZ's phone to call me, and thankfully, someone picked up. A kind soul had found my phone on the hill, and passed it to the Lost and Found. Canadians are so nice, if this were in Singapore, it would be harder for this to happen. Can see how lucky I am, lost my stuff on 2 trips, and both times managed to get them back. Damn heng lor. French Maid French Maid is a strip bar in Calgary. No photos cause I scared it will get confiscated in the bar, so I never bring. Had dinner there, and the food is actually quite good. There are about 5 strippers in the bar, and they will take turns to dance. Each dance is about 2 minutes only, and then they will proceed to walk around the stage and let the guys throw money at her. Quite boring, dunno why so many people say its nice. Ok la, the girls quite chio with nice body, but the dancing quite boring lor. I was expecting acrobatic pole dances, but they just move around the pole only, not much acrobatic moves. I also feel that its quite demeaning to women. Not the stripping part, but the money throwing part. In the chinese custom, its an insult to throw money at someone, and over here, everyone is throwing money at the stripper. Its actually a "game", where she puts a coin on her body and the guy will try to hit the coin with his coin. If it hits, he gets a poster or postcard. If the guy uses a note, he is guaranteed a prize. Seeing that the lowest value for a note is $5, its a high price to pay for a poster. Anyway, I still want to try throwing the coins even though I find it demeaning. Well, its like a form of tipping *innocent face*. Wanted to throw quarters, but the others were telling me that they think need to throw at least a dollar coin. Being the cheapo me, I don't want to throw dollar coins, so decided not to throw. On the way out, I walked nearer the stage and tried to see what coins everyone is throwing. But still cannot see clearly lei, maybe because got other "views" distracting me. But I am quite sure its quarters, since I think most of the customers aren't exactly the rich type, and they are throwing the coins like nobody's business. Oh well.. Old Spaghetti Old Spaghetti is a chain of restaurants in Canada. At first wanted to try it in Edmonton Mall, but the queues were damn long. So went to try in Calgary instead. Also have to queue, but we can spare time in Calgary. They have this cool antique height measuring machine, which I guess is for the people queueing to waste time on. Anyway the food is damn nice, no wonder so many people come to eat. I had veal, and its heavenly. For less than $20, including taxes, we had the main meal, unlimited bread (like Cafe Cartel, but the bread is served), unlimited drinks and an ice cream desert. Top it off with flawless service and food, and you get a wonderful eating experience. Recommend it to anyone who's going Canada to try eating here. I think most big cities will have Old Spaghetti. Tibetan Cultural Performance Jioed by Yoichi to go to this performance. Its in a damn ulu place, and its quite sleazy as well, a Ninja School! Probably set up to scam innocent young kids who like Naruto and Sumarai X. The performance is quite good, though I feel its not worth the effort to travel to such a ulu place to watch. Its by a group of renegade Tibetan Monks who fled to India after China occupied Tibet. They are so poor, that they have to send their monks around the world to tour and earn money. An interesting performance is that of a Yak Dance, which is very very similar to the lion dance, only that the yak is all black. The yak can swing its tail also, quite pro, I wonder how they do that. Also, the mouth cannot be opened, and it "picks" things up using its horn. Another interseting performance is this dance. The costume is kinda "shaman-like", and it scared the little kids who were there. However, I enjoyed that dance, find it quite pro. BSD Bermuda Shorts Day marks the end of school for University of Calgary. Today, students just drink till they almost literally die. By right, students can only drink in the "Beer Garden", which is a football sized field set aside for BSD. In the Beer Garden, its impossible to walk without stepping on beer cans. Beer cans are all over the ground. Even the trees were not spared, and they were all decorated with beer cans. There is also the stink of beer lingering in the air, which is very pro considering that it is in the open. Because I don't have drinking buddies, and the beer is cheap beer (Canadian beer) sold at expensive prices (3.75 per can), I did not drink. Just hung out near the performance area, and the deejay area. Saw many drunks who cannot make it already. Even got a few kena ambulance evacuation. After a while, went with MZ to his "homeroom". A homeroom is a very good idea which should be implemented by NUS. Its a room set aside for a particular level in particular faculty. For example, MZ would go to the Year 3 CE room (but he hangs out more in the Year 4 room as he took Year 4 modules here). There are tables and lockers in the room, which students can reserve for a fee. More importantly, students are allowed to furnish their own homeroom, and CE's one has a tv, sega, fridge, sofa, etc.. As we were in the final year Homeroom, there were many students celebrating their final day of lessons. Most of them are obviously drunk, spraying water everywhere, throwing frizbees around, and playing substandard Mortal Combat on Sega. And thats the end of the recap. Tomorrow, I will be going on a road trip with 2 Japs. Exams start on Monday. So need to start studying now. But no mood to study, already thinking of my holiday trip and tomorrow's trip. Hahaha. |
E3
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Updates Part 1
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After so many people say I no life here, I will recap on what I have done since the reading week. Yea, I'm too slack to update on my life, end of sem liao then update on what I did during the mid terms. Oh well... Reading Week Feb 19 -26 Went to Kicking Horse from Tuesday to Friday, with a bunch of students. Organised by RSA, which is something like JCRC, except that its for all students in Rez. Tuesday Took a bus to Kicking Horse, takes around 4 hours. Canadians are cute, whenever the bus goes past a lorry of hay, they will go "HEY!" Arrived in our motel, Golden Rim Motor Inn, at around 5pm. The motel we stayed in looks like those kind of sleazy motels you see in movies, and with a faulty sign to boot. Where there are Canadians, there will be beer and alcohol. They even brought a beer bong along! Of course, this is considered tame already. MZ got invited to a birthday party, and he went to smoke weed along with his friends. Even learnt how to roll them. We then searched for a hill to do some tobogganing. Took some photos, but its too dark. Its very fun to toboggan, but its just a warming up for the fun in Kicking Horse! Wed - Friday 3 days of skiing fun! Should look at my photos. The backdrop, The Rocky Mountains, is damn beautiful. After skiing, we went to party in the town nearby. Nothing special, but met a group of students from the University of Alberta and another group from our university also. All in all, these 4 days are perhaps my most enjoyable 4 days here, because I really love skiing. Though I did not really ski as much as I would want to, cause I spent some time teaching MZ and trying to teach SY, and also had to stick to the green zones to accomodate him. Anyway, I also quite paisei, I think MZ knows that I want to try more difficult terrain, so he pushed himself too much, ended up getting injured. Quite sway, cause that is our final run, and he fell at the end of the final run. Sigh, wonder if I will have anymore chances to ski again.. Any skiing places in Indonesia? Anyway, you might notice that I don't have many pictures of SY. This is because 1. She is too busy to give me her photos 2. She quit after the first day of skiing. After I had patiently tried to teach her, and failed, and the other more pro Canadians also tried, and failed, she quit skiing. Then still have to trouble Shelly to get refund for the other 2 days. Quite troublesome, cause the tickets are booked in a group, so very hard to ask for refund. Anyway, after that, she just spent the next 2 days in the hotel, dunno doing what. Actually, she also tried to get a refund on the hotel and go back go Calgary earlier, but that would mean the rest of the group need to pay more for her share of the hotel, so cannot. Returned to Calgary on Friday night, we then prepared to leave for Banff the next day! Banff is a small town near the Rockies. Again, very beautiful place! Sorry for my poor command of English, cause I cannot find words to describe the beauty. Also sorry for my poor photography skills. A group of HKies brought us there. Its around 2 hours away from Calgary. First, we walked around the town, and then went to the hot springs. We had 10 people, just enough for a group discount for the hot springs. However, SY did not want to go, so ended up paying more. While in the hot springs, I was commenting to MZ if SY would take a picture of us in the hot springs, since she's just slacking outside. We agreed that she wouldn't, and she proved us right. Anyway, we went back to Calgary after that. Had dinner in a Chinese Restaurant in Chinatown, and the food is damn nice and cheap. Luckily one of the HKies know the owner, so got discount I think. Had lobster lor! Probably the best meal I had in Calgary, and this is saying a lot, since we ate at a lot of places. When MZ was discussing about our travel plans, he's like "what's there to see in Grand Canyon? Amusement parks very fun meh? I don't like Disney. Why go so many parks?" So I asked him what he wants to do when he travels, and he said that he wants to eat. Now see how good this restaurant is? And thats how I spent my reading week. 4 days skiing and 1 day in Banff. Oh, actually, the Saturday before we went to Kicking Horse, we went to COP, cause I told them that they should find an instructor to teach them in COP first. Turns out that this is not very useful.. |
