vacation

February 08 2010

Winter, New York City

For my sister’s birthday this year, we went to New York for the weekend. Having been to New York in the winter three times prior, I think it’s safe for me to declare that I love NYC in winter – it feels much nicer than a typical Canadian winter in Toronto.    We skated on [...]

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I had a couple of round-trip North American flight tickets to use before the end of the month, as well as two free nights at the Fairmont San Jose, so it was natural that Alex and I paired the two and went off to Northern California for the Thanksgiving long weekend. I’d always wanted to [...]

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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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April 15 2009

Life as I know it

I wake up and shower. Then I make & pack our lunches. If I have time, I eat breakfast at home, too. I’m out the door at 8, and I get to work. I go through the piles of stuff waiting for me at work, with many breaks in between to check up on my [...]

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