Archive for the 'Life and living' Category

Western Cooking: Apple Pie

Monday, March 20th, 2006

A fellow TRU exchange student in Austria has written a few times about cooking that once in a while gave me those pangs of food from home. In December she wrote about cooking a Christmas turkey and then baking cookies in January. No matter how much I love Chinese food, there are moments I just [...]

From boiling to frozen

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

From Boiling to Frozen: A man throws boiling water into the air in Saskatchewan during a typical mid-winter, -40c day. The amazing result speaks for itself.

Chain irony

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

I was just having a discussion with a friend about those email messages that claim if you don’t forward them on to everyone you know that you are a horrible person and will forever have bad luck… yada yada… Suddenly I’ve got quite the conundrum. The email I received begins with this: DELETE THIS IF [...]

Exam time

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

Whilst my friends in Kamloops have woken up by now to “rain or snow“, my classmates tonight are holed up in their dorms studying for exams. Mercifully, classes ended on Friday the 23rd giving us a chance to reflect on our first four months in China. I took the opportunity to do some shopping at [...]

Hurrah for hockey

Friday, December 9th, 2005

Thank you CKNW radio over the net. What a fantastic hockey game between Canucks and Senators. Go Canucks!!!

Think off-campus. Like, way off-campus.

Thursday, December 1st, 2005

Welcome fellow TRU students and faculty who’ve found my site through TRU World’s “What’s New” page. Feel free to poke around, comment and ask questions, and enjoy some photos from other parts of the globe. If you ever get bored of reading election coverage, visit anytime and I’ll do my best to bore you with [...]