Ever since the start of September, I’ve felt slightly shell-shocked about how quickly another summer went by. I remember moaning and groaning last summer about all the rain we got on the weekends, and going through a long winter after Christmas last year, wishing for an early spring. When the first strawberries hit the farmer’s [...]
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On Thursday, our friend Malcolm graduated from U of T med school. On Friday, our friend Linda graduated from U of T school of dentistry. On Saturday, they got married. What a week for the happy couple! I was a part of their wedding party as a bridesmaid, and thus had the privilege of being [...]
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Before I went off to university, I never gave Vancouver much thought other than associate the word “home” with the name. It was normal for my friends to discuss upcoming ski/snowboard trips to Whistler, Grouse, Sun Peaks, etc., and it was normal for us to share camping stories from Cultus, the Okanagan, and “the Island”. [...]
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Due to increasing popularity for the Vancouver > Taipei > New Delhi route from China Airlines, they now hire South-East Asian flight attendants and try to incorporate Bollywood music and movies in flight. In the “introduction” flight announcement on my flight out of Vancouver, the main flight attendant announced, in English, that with the crew [...]
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