For I am sleepy! I am going to sleep soon, but thought I would mention a few things before writing a proper entry tomorrow.
1st, it was my cousin's birthday on Wednesday, so Happy Birthday Dilani!
2nd, its been a long week, long long long. Mainly due to the 5 days of 9-5.30. It's not as bad as some of my friends here, but still, hard work. Most days after work were spent wither going to mink and meeting up with, you wanna guess? Ben and Lynda. That or just cycling about, and exploring.
On Wednesday there were fireworks. It was part of the countries competing against each other and showing off how awesome fireworks really are. Now I would love to say that the fireworks were great, but, well, I missed them. The plan was, go to the spaghetti factory and eat (obviously), then watch the fireworks. What happened was we ate and ate through the fireworks... oh well, nevermind!
Thursday had some random food at Helens place. 'tis was good I say!
Friday... hmm, ok, maybe this will be the week blog then
Friday was pretty boy's last day at work.
Who is pretty boy? Well his name is actually Chris, a legendary person to me at work. Actually I have mentioned him before. Anyway, long story short on the name, the manager gave one of the reasons for not considering him to go out with is that he is too much of a pretty boy. haha, yep, great reason, so it stuck. Ashley ended up calling me tall person, and him pretty boy, kinda like we were super heroes! (ok, yes it's sad, shut up). Anyway, what made this day good was that it wasn't (overly) busy, I may have messed about on the job,
1st, it was my cousin's birthday on Wednesday, so Happy Birthday Dilani!
2nd, its been a long week, long long long. Mainly due to the 5 days of 9-5.30. It's not as bad as some of my friends here, but still, hard work. Most days after work were spent wither going to mink and meeting up with, you wanna guess? Ben and Lynda. That or just cycling about, and exploring.
On Wednesday there were fireworks. It was part of the countries competing against each other and showing off how awesome fireworks really are. Now I would love to say that the fireworks were great, but, well, I missed them. The plan was, go to the spaghetti factory and eat (obviously), then watch the fireworks. What happened was we ate and ate through the fireworks... oh well, nevermind!
Thursday had some random food at Helens place. 'tis was good I say!
Friday... hmm, ok, maybe this will be the week blog then
Friday was pretty boy's last day at work.
Who is pretty boy? Well his name is actually Chris, a legendary person to me at work. Actually I have mentioned him before. Anyway, long story short on the name, the manager gave one of the reasons for not considering him to go out with is that he is too much of a pretty boy. haha, yep, great reason, so it stuck. Ashley ended up calling me tall person, and him pretty boy, kinda like we were super heroes! (ok, yes it's sad, shut up). Anyway, what made this day good was that it wasn't (overly) busy, I may have messed about on the job,
Does anyone recognise this character?and that we changed two peoples lives!
Well, ok, they were just unhappy looking people. The first guy came to the window at the side and his natural face was just an upside-down smile. So to see if we could make him smile, we gave him his burger in a kids bag, and even gave him some skittles! This was while Chris had a little badge I had made for him on his shoulder saying, "I am too pretty" pointing towards him. We gave him a little smirk. his life was changed, for he has smiled... kinda. The second person was a mother who looked fed up with the child, just ever so slightly. It was at the end of the day, so we tend to just give the food to customers rather than calling out their number. So my task was to wear a kids bag on my head, and give her, her food. It was quite hard to keep the bag balanced actually, but I prevailed, and it made her smile! it was fun. Job well done I say.
Oh well, no more random occurrences like that anymore I guess. Farewell Pretty-boy, hope you acting career goes well!
Well, ok, they were just unhappy looking people. The first guy came to the window at the side and his natural face was just an upside-down smile. So to see if we could make him smile, we gave him his burger in a kids bag, and even gave him some skittles! This was while Chris had a little badge I had made for him on his shoulder saying, "I am too pretty" pointing towards him. We gave him a little smirk. his life was changed, for he has smiled... kinda. The second person was a mother who looked fed up with the child, just ever so slightly. It was at the end of the day, so we tend to just give the food to customers rather than calling out their number. So my task was to wear a kids bag on my head, and give her, her food. It was quite hard to keep the bag balanced actually, but I prevailed, and it made her smile! it was fun. Job well done I say.
Oh well, no more random occurrences like that anymore I guess. Farewell Pretty-boy, hope you acting career goes well!
So long pretty-boy, I'm sure that Triple Os will survive without you!Oh, speaking of work, you get to learn accents, and dialects of the people quite well. What I heard the other day though really surprised me. Canadians love to say "for sure". Now this lady, came up to my till and said,
"I would like 2 of these sandwiches for sure".
Now, I dunno about you, but that just seemed excessive. I didn't really need those extra two words there to comprehend!
meh.
Saturday, this was fireworks! many many fireworks, but before any of that was brunch with Helen at White Spot, so I got me a discount. Woohoo! Something we had planned for a while now. It was good, pancakes, sausages, bacon, eggs, potato and maple syrup, and tea of course. now that is a good breakfast... I mean brunch! Helen had the same but with French toast instead of pancakes.
"I would like 2 of these sandwiches for sure".
Now, I dunno about you, but that just seemed excessive. I didn't really need those extra two words there to comprehend!
meh.
Saturday, this was fireworks! many many fireworks, but before any of that was brunch with Helen at White Spot, so I got me a discount. Woohoo! Something we had planned for a while now. It was good, pancakes, sausages, bacon, eggs, potato and maple syrup, and tea of course. now that is a good breakfast... I mean brunch! Helen had the same but with French toast instead of pancakes.
We were meant to get the food before eating, but we failed. It looked too good!What we realised is that this Canadian breakfast was kinda like English mixed with a French breakfast. Thinking about this, it makes perfect sense, it's perfectly Canadian with the French and English.
After brunch I joined up with Ben, Lynda and Andrew for board short shopping. Me and Ben were happy with our selections...
After brunch I joined up with Ben, Lynda and Andrew for board short shopping. Me and Ben were happy with our selections...
Ben models his choice of board shortsand
and... I'M TOO TRIED! IT's quarter to 2, I'm sleeping!
more on this tomorrow!
...
continuing on...
my pair are orange fading to red. I think they are cool.
After some lunch, which was a nice sandwich for me and a breakfast for Ben (to wake him up!), we went to a thrift store to help find stuff needed for Lynda and Andrew's place. For their place came with nothing, at all. No beds, kitchen utensils, cooking implements, basically everything!
Much buying of stuff later, and carrying back to Lynda's via the skytrain, we went to buy food. Tis' was good, we had random 3 minute noodles with left over Indian food. It worked well, but also, a moment of genius by Lynda, the suggestion of squishing blueberries and mixing them with Philadelphia. This was brilliant! Great when spreaded on bread. Oh but before we ate the food, we discovered a park nearby. A park with slides and swings and a pull up bar, and one of thoses things with 2 hoops that you see in the Olympics, where gymnasts pull themselves up and do spins. Yea, so we played about there for a bit, having swinging wars (by swinging sideways), and general acting like a kid. It is great fun doing so, the gymnast thing we could flip ourselves backwards but not lift ourselves up. That was too hard to do.
Alright, so Saturday was also the turn of America (apparently) to show of fireworks. We decided to go to Granville bridge and watch from there. There was probably little chance of finding a good spot that late anyway. While Lynda took the skytrain and bus, Ben and I cycled back to his to get his awesome camera, and the to the bridge (Map link to show places will be about soon). We did that quite quickly. Found a place to stand, and got some photo's before and during the fireworks, which were above english bay. The view was good, although towards the end there was also quite a bit of a dust cloud from our view too.
Cars on Granville bridge at night
Picture Ben took of fireworks
Me, Lynda and Ben watching the fireworks
The smokey view of vancouver after the fireworks.
After the fireworks, me and Ben decided that after walking Lynda to the skytrain, we would explore downtown on the bikes and get some night shots. Dowtown does look rather good at night. Oh, but as today was an event, there were many many police there. They did not like mine and Ben's way of cycling on the pave... I mean sidewalk when there were many people there.
Cylcing on the sidewalk is not permitted! (Photo taken whilst cycling on the sidewalk)
They told us to get off the bikes. You don't argue with them. Hah, until you pass them that is. We got back on after leaving Lynda and cylcled towards the seabus station. According to Lynda, when we got back on the bikes, the police lady that told Ben to get off his bike was quite annoyed and called up for people to keep an eye out on him. Hmm. Never did see them again. We did however see just how pretty Vancouver is at night, took many many photos. And cylced down many stairs. It's something that me and Ben have been doing, we are getting good at it. However, on this day, being dark, we did not realise that one set of stairs was actually not just 3 or 4 steps, but more like 9! I will tell you this, that is a very bumpy ride! We made it though, so it was good. Taking a picture of a nice ferrari is cool, until girls try to park behind it. Basically, these girls was trying to park behing this car, with not that much luck, so they swapped drivers, the second girl was better. Whilst all of this was going on, Ben was trying to take a long exposure shot, but they were ruining his picuture. THey eventually park the car, and then proceed to take a photo or two in front of the car. Lets just say ben was not best pleased. So lesson learned, don't take a photo if there is a girl parking a car in your shot.
Photos: we found that Canada place also looks great at night. We also discovered that taking pictures near the edges of the road makes drivers nervous, some so much so that they honk their horns as they think you are on it. This is slightly annoying, if funny.
Photos from this night can be found on our flickr's.
Ben and I appricating the view of downtown at night.
Sunday. The only interesting thing today was looking for present for my cousin. Then I went to see a 3d film with Emma and Sabrina. The film was 'journey to the centre of the earth'. It was actually a really good 3d film, fun for all the family style, but the 3d was rather good. It's been years since I've seen a 3d film, and long gone are the days of one red eye and one blue eye. These just looked like sunglasses. It took me about a second to realise that they worked by polarisation. Go me, I know things. Anyway, yes, the film, it was good, some parts had objects flying out that appeared to be going rather close, if not towards your face. Sometimes things came near to you so that you felt that you could probably grab them. It was a good experience. No I am not saying what was in the film!
umm, yep, that is all for this week. Time to sleep. Work in a few hours. I'm thinking of quitting 2 weeks before I head back home for some real exploring time, with money!
till next time.
and... I'M TOO TRIED! IT's quarter to 2, I'm sleeping!
more on this tomorrow!
...
continuing on...
my pair are orange fading to red. I think they are cool.
After some lunch, which was a nice sandwich for me and a breakfast for Ben (to wake him up!), we went to a thrift store to help find stuff needed for Lynda and Andrew's place. For their place came with nothing, at all. No beds, kitchen utensils, cooking implements, basically everything!
Much buying of stuff later, and carrying back to Lynda's via the skytrain, we went to buy food. Tis' was good, we had random 3 minute noodles with left over Indian food. It worked well, but also, a moment of genius by Lynda, the suggestion of squishing blueberries and mixing them with Philadelphia. This was brilliant! Great when spreaded on bread. Oh but before we ate the food, we discovered a park nearby. A park with slides and swings and a pull up bar, and one of thoses things with 2 hoops that you see in the Olympics, where gymnasts pull themselves up and do spins. Yea, so we played about there for a bit, having swinging wars (by swinging sideways), and general acting like a kid. It is great fun doing so, the gymnast thing we could flip ourselves backwards but not lift ourselves up. That was too hard to do.
Alright, so Saturday was also the turn of America (apparently) to show of fireworks. We decided to go to Granville bridge and watch from there. There was probably little chance of finding a good spot that late anyway. While Lynda took the skytrain and bus, Ben and I cycled back to his to get his awesome camera, and the to the bridge (Map link to show places will be about soon). We did that quite quickly. Found a place to stand, and got some photo's before and during the fireworks, which were above english bay. The view was good, although towards the end there was also quite a bit of a dust cloud from our view too.
Cars on Granville bridge at nightPicture Ben took of fireworksMe, Lynda and Ben watching the fireworksThe smokey view of vancouver after the fireworks.After the fireworks, me and Ben decided that after walking Lynda to the skytrain, we would explore downtown on the bikes and get some night shots. Dowtown does look rather good at night. Oh, but as today was an event, there were many many police there. They did not like mine and Ben's way of cycling on the pave... I mean sidewalk when there were many people there.
Cylcing on the sidewalk is not permitted! (Photo taken whilst cycling on the sidewalk)They told us to get off the bikes. You don't argue with them. Hah, until you pass them that is. We got back on after leaving Lynda and cylcled towards the seabus station. According to Lynda, when we got back on the bikes, the police lady that told Ben to get off his bike was quite annoyed and called up for people to keep an eye out on him. Hmm. Never did see them again. We did however see just how pretty Vancouver is at night, took many many photos. And cylced down many stairs. It's something that me and Ben have been doing, we are getting good at it. However, on this day, being dark, we did not realise that one set of stairs was actually not just 3 or 4 steps, but more like 9! I will tell you this, that is a very bumpy ride! We made it though, so it was good. Taking a picture of a nice ferrari is cool, until girls try to park behind it. Basically, these girls was trying to park behing this car, with not that much luck, so they swapped drivers, the second girl was better. Whilst all of this was going on, Ben was trying to take a long exposure shot, but they were ruining his picuture. THey eventually park the car, and then proceed to take a photo or two in front of the car. Lets just say ben was not best pleased. So lesson learned, don't take a photo if there is a girl parking a car in your shot.
Photos: we found that Canada place also looks great at night. We also discovered that taking pictures near the edges of the road makes drivers nervous, some so much so that they honk their horns as they think you are on it. This is slightly annoying, if funny.
Photos from this night can be found on our flickr's.
Ben and I appricating the view of downtown at night.Sunday. The only interesting thing today was looking for present for my cousin. Then I went to see a 3d film with Emma and Sabrina. The film was 'journey to the centre of the earth'. It was actually a really good 3d film, fun for all the family style, but the 3d was rather good. It's been years since I've seen a 3d film, and long gone are the days of one red eye and one blue eye. These just looked like sunglasses. It took me about a second to realise that they worked by polarisation. Go me, I know things. Anyway, yes, the film, it was good, some parts had objects flying out that appeared to be going rather close, if not towards your face. Sometimes things came near to you so that you felt that you could probably grab them. It was a good experience. No I am not saying what was in the film!
umm, yep, that is all for this week. Time to sleep. Work in a few hours. I'm thinking of quitting 2 weeks before I head back home for some real exploring time, with money!
till next time.
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