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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Left mainland headed off to Victoria ...

June 22, 2009 - Left Nikki's around noon, & walked down couple streets to Tropica at Cambie/12th Ave where we had Malaysian/Singaporean Nasi Lemak, Hainanese Chicken Rice & Chinese Brocoli. Not bad for the price; $27. Left the place and got on the BC Transit for a mere $5 each with 2 transfers in total. The entire bus journey to Tsawwassen Terminal took 5 hours. From there we took the ferry across to Swartz Bay Terminal which journey was another 1.5 hours. Retrieved our bags after the ferry docked and headed to catch the bus to our hotel; another hour ride. We were bushed already and hungry too. As soon as we checked in we went out again; Sphagetti Factory & cold beer just around the corner. It's 11 pm Victoria time now and we are finally resting in clean sheets and really, really tired. Front desk will be waking us up in 5 hours so we can catch the bus at 6:15 a.m. for yet another long ride; 6 hours to Bamfield where we begin our trek for the next 6 - 7 days --- 77 km stretch length through cougar & bear forest. Wish us luck!!

Monday, June 22, 2009

Off to British Columbia ...

June 20, 2009 flew outta Toronto Pearson International Airport to Calgary via Air Canada. Half hour late leaving on account workers having to weld in the cargo berth to ensure safety flying. Bumpy ride there. Got in Calgary around 10:30 pm. Switched yet to another smaller plane and got in Vancouver 10:45 pm. Took the airport hotel shuttle bus to Holiday Inn Vancouver Airport around mid-night. When we got there everything was closed, not a single coffee shop was opened. So, we went to McDonald's drive thru, pretended we were driving and got us 2 coffees and breaded fish on buns. Finally knocked off 4:30 am Ontario time.

June 21, 2009 - got up early and we walked over to Aberdeen Centre for Dim Sum. Most places were not opened until 11:00 am. We're in Richmond and majority of people here are Asians; Chinese predominantly and Japanese, Koreans, Filipinos, East Indians. And the houses here each runs over a million minimum. After eating Nikki picked us up around 11 a.m. Got to Nikki and we took off on own as soon as we dropped off our bags there; Nikki had softball until 2:30 pm and we roamed around Main Street and found lotz sporting stores including MEC which is just down the street from Nikki's.

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Thursday, February 01, 2007

"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination." -- Albert Einstein

Friday, October 27, 2006

It will never go away. I wish it would.

A friend of mine was sexually assaulted by his priest when he was 12 years old. The perpetrator is died now. My buddy is still having a tough time relating to others, especially other males, and females too. He was married once but only for a few years, and they decided a divorce not long into their marriage. He had since encountered many other relationships but none lasted more than a few months. I wish for him the bad stuffs in his life would go away, and he could be peaceful with himself again, and sleep a peaceful, restful night.