Squareface @ 31°North

Hey I submitted my photos to UBC’s Go Global Photo Contest just in time before the deadline. Nothing fantastic, just wanted to try out for fun. Nevertheless……….
VOTE FOR ME!
Sorry, I couldn’t put it any other way without sounding 不要脸. Haha.

I recall being forced to write compositions on accounts of being trapped in a lift back in Primary School. Be it a continuation story, a story based on pictures, or just a set-titled composition, we’ve all written about it during those front-teethless years, even if we’ve never had that experience. For 22 years in my [...]

Add 24 hours with 16 hours time difference from your home country, and you get 40 hours on your birthday! That’s if you count your birthday starting from midnight of the day according to your birth country, and then only ending after midnight of the country you’re in! Haha
I had a very healthy birthday cake [...]

There was a blackout in the entire campus yesterday around 1pm, for about 15-20 minutes. I was in one of the classrooms at Buchanan and we just pulled up the blinds and continued writing our assignments. I heard that other classes ended immediately ‘coz of the blackout. Bleh.
Then in the evening at about 7.30ish there [...]

No it’s not that cold in Vancouver, well, not yet at least.
My schedule book has so much orange ink scrawled all over for the next couple of weeks, depicting all the deadlines for the many assignments and term papers. Arrgh!
I won’t be able to delight you with pictures of this or that mountain, nor anything [...]

My dear friend Winnie commented that Reina and I, who are on exchange in Norway and Canada respectively, only blog about “nothing but fun and more fun”, and that the only time we talk about school and books is when we boast (my word, not hers) about skipping classes (I think this was directed to [...]

The weather the past few days has been like this (left), and the weather today was like this (right):

So I figured, why go to school? Looks like this is the best weather we can get before the impending gloomy winter, so I called up my hiking friend and it was easy persuading her to [...]

Although most of my posts are on my explorations and trips around here, I’m still the very obedient and industrious class-attending girl whom you all know! Yeah!
And I shall prove it!

See the heart shape in my notebook? It’s a water stain! This proves that I’ve been hard at work! (or just didn’t know how to [...]

Have I already boasted here that I joined Karate?
Well, now you know!
And I received my gi (aka karate uniform) today!

If you thought I was eccentric….think again.
Presenting to you, my comical housemates (who I rely on for insight into Canadian culture?)(my gi was borrowed for the following purpose):

“Connie has karate chopped Alison” (Facebook joke)

Hmm…

I didn’t know letting Singlish roll off my tongue after being pent up for a month could be so liberating haha.
Three weeks ago I met a Singaporean in one of my classes; a week or two after that I heard Singlish in the same class and three of us got acquainted; and then today one [...]