Gulliver's Travels...

My Inbox was Open in Bangkok

2005-03-15T19:21:00.000-08:00

...Okay, just to clarify, I accidently left my gmail open on a public internet console and Sonia had to sign out for me. Not that that's outta the way...I can't even apologize for not updating this in a LONG time, the truth is life here has become normal to me, so things that were different when I first arrived have become natural. In other words I keep running out of material...but on a recent trip to Thailand I was inspired with more material. Bangkok is exactly what you think it is like; crowded, polluted, full of white Europeans/Americans/Australians and Thai hookers, chaos, and somebody trying to make a quick buck off of you. We did the whirlwind tour, visiting the famous temples, getting massages in the place where Thai massage originated (this was the shit -- never been so relaxed in my life -- not even after a big ass spliff). Before we arrived, we were directed to a tailor who made custom suits for people; his clientele reads like a whos who of global business and politics. He has made suits for the entire Bush family, our man Lloyd Axworthy, RCMP chiefs, Secret Service, CEOs, and regular folks. These guys have business cards from EVERYONE, oh also Vijay Singh! I spent about 800usd here and sheldon like a G, but we found a better tailor next door -- the place Sonia got her stuff done. This guy was a little more friendly and didn't act like we were lucky he was serving us (I guess working for Dumbass Bush gives one an ego). For anyone that is interested, we're bringing this tailor down to Toronto for fittings, thats right YOU TOO can get custom suits done for a fraction of the cost. Okay I'm getting tired of typing. We also went to Chiang Mai which is a little north of Bangkok. Here we rode elephants, went hiking, bamboo rafting, learned thai massage, and thai cooking. I went to this cafe called the "Rasta Bar", with some Brit kids, and you know what happens at the Rasta Bar ;) -- remember the Chocolate Thai we used to smoke? Well guys, I found the motherload. It was a great high after soooo long, but couldn't bring any back to Singapore (death penalty). Back in Bangkok we checked into this hotel that had two rooms; one with a big bed and one with 2 smaller beds. The big bed has "curious white stains" on it and handprints on the ceiling. Needless to say we all slept in the smaller beds. Now I'm back in Singapore with a shit load of work to do. I won't be travelling again until April where I'll go to Shanghai and back to Phuket. This is my last post for a while -- peace out.

2005-02-26T21:48:00.001-08:00

view from outside our room

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The pool at Nikko Bali (and ocean)

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After dinner outside the restaurant

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The spa at the hotel

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Part of Nikko Bali hotel

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My view from the beach at Nikko Bali

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@ the Buddhist temple (largest in Bali) look at the freakin sky!

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Playing card and drinking Bintang (bali beer) at some club owned by a canuck.

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Our first hotel's pool at night (the sun is still setting in the back)

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Our first hotel (view from balcony_

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Me infront of the still active volcano -- notice the black soil around it!

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the rice terraces

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@ the entrance of a temple carved within a rock

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I'm Rick Bitch! Show me your titties...

Bali-wood

2005-02-26T21:02:00.000-08:00

Yes yes, I know I've been slacking in updating the website, but for those that know me it was only a matter of time before this practise fell by the wayside. Anyway, now that I'm up and about let me fill y'all in. P.S. Ass thanks for getting that package through to me. I've been doing a lot of school work to catch up and get a little ahead so I can dick around for April so I haven't travelled much since my last trip to KL. Reading week just passed and I visited Bali, yes the official honeymoon spot for most of the world. We were there for 5 days, 4nights. Gema, Sheena, Sonia, and I went together; upon arrival our driver asked me if I was a "friend of oil" meaning a sheik cuz I had three women with me. Haha, little does he know -- shoulda shown him my bank account. Anyway, our first hotel was at the famous Kuta beach. Famous for drunken Aussies and big ass waves. Our hotel was pretty much dreamy, luch tropical greenery and a nice ass pool. I was a little disappointed though in my initial appraisal of Bali. The area was quite dirty and the ocean was not inviting (after Phuket anything is pretty much nasty). The waves were fucking crazy though, we swam out far and were getting tossed around by the waves --> i was spun under water 360 degrees by the force of one wave. I made my out of the water pretty quickly after that. The first few days we did the sightseeing thing. Saw a volcano, batik painting, lush green rice terraces, and some temples. We also visited a black sand beach in the north of Bali, drove by vanilla/coffee plantations, and bathed in hot springs on the side of a mountain -- crazy! Oh, I've left out the people of Bali (obviously most are nice) but EVERYWHERE you go someone is trying to sell you something. And not trying to sell you once or twice, they will literally follow u down the street asking you if you want sculptures, fake watches, etc. Lying on the beach every five seconds someone would yell "Hello hello, you want sarong, you want straw hat?" Do I look like someone who'd wear a sarong? Fuck. Also when you do buy something they'd start at $150,000 rupiah, then you work them down to $10,000 -- fockers. I got a few things, but my favourite was dvds for $1 cdn each! I bought 45. And no, no one can borrow them when i get back. Now for the cream of the trip. Nikko Bali. Yes it deserves its own sentence. This place was maybe the most beautiful hotel I've ever been in or seen. It was just breathtaking -- I'll post pics soon. I splurged here and got two massages. One hot stone, and one aryuvedic massage where they pour oil on your third eye (between your eyes on your forehead) for 20 minutes. It was amazing. K I'm runnig outta things to say -- I'm kinda bored of this area, I wanna hit up Bangkok, and then try and make my way to Cambodia, Tokyo, or Shanghai ...

Phuket - (fuck-et)

2005-02-10T20:44:00.000-08:00

This trip, by far, has been the highlight of my exchange in Singapore. Aside from the cheap ass plane tickets, the trip was amazing from the cab ride to the airport in Singapore to the flight back from Phuket. The cabbie was quite entertaining given that it was 545am when we left for the airport. He had lived all over the world and told us many stories about Singapore, Bush, Osama, Vietnam, etc. So fast forward, we arrive in Phuket after a 1.5hr flight (I closed my eyes and badaboom badabing we were already landing); we waited at the airport for Xavi to pick us up. The Spaniards and Germans had arrived in Phuket a day earlier and so had booked hotels and cars for us. He picked us up in a brand new Honda Jazz (SiR)! We checked into a homely looking hotel; room per night was 700bhat or 20bucks a night. I shared with Sheldon (but thats a different story ;). The first thing we did was drive to a shooting range/ATV course. Xavi and Sheldon shelled out the 20CDN in cash for a chance to shoot one round with a 9mm. 10 minutes later we were all riding ATVs, it was scary at first as I didn't know how to control the back brakes, and the course was somewhat challenging (going up 70 degree slopes, coming down wooden bridges that looked like there were going to break), but the experience was incredible. I was drenched in sweat and dust cuz I was at the back and those fuckers kept skidding around in front of me raising up a huge dust cloud. So what did we do after getting all hot and dirty? Drove straight to the beach! This beach was the most beautiful thing I've seen. The locals said that it was so much cleaner since the tsunami dragged all the garbage and shells, etc out to sea. The water was crystal clear with sandy floors. That night we went into Patang Beach, where the tsunami hit hard. Many stores were boarded up from the damage, but there were a lot that were open. We ate dinner at a place that sat right infront of the waterfront, it must have been hit hard; the waiters had this lost look in their eyes and were very sombre but we wanted to give our business to them anyway. The next day was incredible. We rented a 400hp Miami Vice looking speed boat for 60 cdn each (8 ppl). Our first island stop was 1.5 hrs away and so the captain put the pedal to the metal. I've never been on a speed boat before so it was scary at first. We were getting tossed around like marbles in a matchbox, my palms got sweaty from holding on to tightly to the rail. The scenes were gorgeous though! James Bond island was nothing great, bought some stuff for my mom and sister. It was a surreal place though, in the middle of the ocean just green and so pure. Lunch was at a water village on stilts, it was crazy! Bought some more stuff for my mom and sister. The later part of the afternoon was where it was at. The island they took us too was probably the size of 4 football fields. It had white, powdery sands and crystal blue water. We went snorkelling, I was a fuckin pansy and it took a while before I was comfortable to swim with the fishes. We also went swimming, I mean just writing about it is putting a smile on my face. I will definately go back before I leave here. That night I just got an oil thai massage (easy Greig, Toops, Sanji, and all you nasty fuckers that go get massages in TO), ate some food and passed the FUCK out. What a weekend!

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A beautiful end to a beautiful day!

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Xavi and Berengere (Spain and France, respectively)

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Sports Illustrated anyone?

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Catchin some afternoon rays

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Morton posing for the camera

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Forgot to wax. (Me and Gema)

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Our hotel was by the first beach you see...

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the island was totally ours -- the sand was fuckin incredible kinda like cottonelle meets red path sugar

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Sheldon with a 9mm and his target sheet (notice the near bullseye)

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what more can i say??

2005-02-10T18:04:00.000-08:00

This is where they filmed "The Man with the Golden Gun" -- Bond, James Bond.

Gaylord Avenue...

2005-02-04T03:47:00.000-08:00

As my title suggests, I was thinking of Lobo the other day; not because I missed the bastard but because I met someone who said that she was from Puna (in India). Does Lobo even read this? Can someone tell me what he is doing with his hair these days? Anyway, I thought I would shed some light on Singapore's precarious and hidden political diseases. To make a long story short, Singapore was a shitty island during the early 1900s. Around the 1960s, after gaining independance from Britain/Malaysia, the reins of the government were given to a UK-trained lawyer (a Singaporean). Mr. Lee Kwan Yu, is known as the father of Singapore. He travelled to the US and spend some time at Harvard to study how the US works, in essence he picked up models from all over the world and instilled them in Singapore. He and his government personally transformed this island from a third world fart to a first world country. But all is not well here -- after discussions with cabbies, floormates, etc. I've noticed a definite unrest in the country. Everything here is owned by the government, namley Lee Kwan Yu et al. (his sons are both Prime Minister and CEO of Singtel largest telecom in Singapore). Wow, these guys have their hands in everything here, the country is really run like a firm. The transportation system is owned by the government, everything is dictated by them as well. I'm risking my life by letting you guys in on it so listen up and appreciate this insight ;). So we went to a speech that the Father of Singapore was holding at NUS. Several students had questions for him, but he dismissed them and even went to the extent of riducling them. Everyone is tracked here with their NRIC number, they also tape overseas calls, etc. Its crazy, people even come into our room when we're not in town (how do they know we're outta the country??) -- its a conspiracy i tell you. No I'm kidding, its probably not that bad, but I am surprised to which extent this company is run by a few figures; now one can argue we are also controlled in Canada by a few hidden few -- here its different though, they even control media outlets...mom's the word.

2005-02-01T00:44:00.000-08:00

COME SOON TO A THEATRE NEAR YOU: JAPANIMATION II - SWEET DREAMS AND CHINESE WONDERS...HAHAHA THIS GUY GOT CLIPPED AT THE POOL, THIS IS NO JOKE!!!! THANK GOD GEMA HAD HER CAMERA -- BOOYAH!!!!

2005-02-01T00:35:00.000-08:00

Hyatt Reception -- don't be jealous MUNCHkin

2005-02-01T00:33:00.001-08:00

Palau Hantu...

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on the boat to Palau Hantu - the haunted island

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smashed and hot

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close up of the thaispoosam guys -- makes u wonder...

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he strikes again! Ya'll know what i mean ;)

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cool and the gang

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nike's anyone? $20cdn

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salut!

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petronas twin towers, (i know you see three, but hey i was born like that...what can i say?

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souped up for my boy, the sultan of brunei

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yes i walked these steps...entrance to batu caves

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in bed...

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I'm an athlete -- inside the train. To the left and right are the beds...

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Loc and I waiting for the slow ass train...fuucking sweating

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look at the guy in the centre playing the flute...remind you of somone...hint: PLAYING THE FLUTE...hahah

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...nuff said ;)...

2005-02-01T00:17:00.000-08:00

Thaipoosam - this thing is ATTACHED to his body!

My bad...

2005-01-31T23:12:00.000-08:00

Yes yes I know, I haven't updated my site in a while so this posting will try and summarize what I've been up to for the past week or so:
Thaipoosam: A Hindu festival in Singapore where participants attach spikes and such sharp metal objects through their back, face, nose, tongue, feet, etc. We went to the festival expecting to be disgusted but watching these men put themselves through enormous pain with a fixed trance-like devotion to God made me feel like a lesser person. Many spectators became emotional, and I felt a little overwhelmed too; makes you realize how different the self-serving culture of North America is to the Eastern philosophy of community and divinity. It was a cool experience, something I will probably never see again!

Sultan of Brunei: Yes, this is the very same royalty who invited Ms. America to be a guest in his country (for a reported sum of $250,000). Unwittingly she thought that she was going to be a distinguished foreign guest -- to her dismay and his pleasure she was essentially an over-priced hooker. Needless to say she filed for a sexual harasment suit once she got back to the US but nothing ever happened, money does buy you happiness! So this guy, received an honorary PhD in Law from NUS, Loc and I were lucky enough to witness the event and even luckier to eat at the Hyatt catered reception afterwards. Many notables were there, including the President of Singapore.

Kualampur, Malaysia: We visited the capital of Malaysia over the past weekend. Loc, Sonia, and I decided to take an overnight train (total cost for one-trip = $10cdn). The train was pretty sick except that it was over an hour late. We each had a bunk bed and I was on top :). We also met some MBA students from INSEAD (business school in France). We arrived in KL at 7am and didn't yet have a place to stay. The whole trip was kinda haphazardly planned so we kinda flew by the seat of our pants - which was fun but tiring. A bunch of other students from NUS were staying at a nice hotel so we put our bags there and did the tourist thing. Petronas towers (featured in Entrapment - tallest twin towers in the world - booyah NYC), and then the Batu Caves. A collection of temples carved out of a mountain. They were REALLY dirty due to some huge festival and monkey, cocks (as in the bird - perverts), and bats were everywhere. The place smelled like the toilet after Paan is done taking his daily shit and so we got the hell outta there ASAP. We then visited Chinatown -- Holy Fuck -- these guys have fake shit from Tag watches to Diesel shoes to DVDS. The largest size of shoe they had was a 12 and since those who know me know I where 13 -- I was shit outta luck. There XLs are also the equivalent of a Large/Medium back home so I was fucked again. But I did buy some DVDs and bracelets and some gifts for my mom. I also bought a nice necklace for Jennisa (happy? ;). I thought about Toops (shout out) but didn't get anything for him. (I had to put your name in somewhere -- happy you bastard). So - the night progressed - - we went to a jam (surprise surprise). The Beach is supposedly where the hookers go to pick up middle aged white men, so no one approached me. I was brown, broke, and smashed. We did have a good time though, 5 of us got a bottle of vodka upon entry and that set the tone for the night. I also wolfed down some hot n spicy mutton curry after the club (highlight of the night :).

This was an extremely high level view of my week -- I'll add some tidbits later. I'm going to Phuket this weekend...until next time...

yet another island trip...whew...someonez gotta do it!

2005-01-23T18:00:00.000-08:00

Yes, as the title suggests we visited a nearby island on Sunday, Jan. 23/05. (I'm not putting dates because I'm a stickler for details, but to give you guys an anchor with which to guage the time difference so you know exactly what I was doing while you were shovelling snow.) Loc organized a trip to "Pulau Hantu" -- Island of Ghosts. Legend has it that to fierce Malay warriors who had a bitter rivalry went to this island to duel it out. They fought for many days, turning the ocean crimson with blood. Jinn the god of the ocean became angry and using the currents of the sea he sucked both warriors down to the bottom where they perished. The other gods were a little peeved about Jinn's involvement in humanity's behaviour and thus ordered him to return them back to life. Well, as he couldn't put them back in their original bodies, he made them islands so that they may live on earth once again. -- We visited this island. We took a shipping service from mainland out to the island -- a beautiful 20 minute ride. The place is completely deserted, save for a few garbage bins, a sign and toilets. There is no other human influence whatsoever! There are 2 lagoons on the island, our group picked one and basically lazed in/around the beach for 6 hours (hence I look really Tamil now). Some germans collected fallen coconuts, and we broke them and ate them -- pretty good all-natural snack. The tide here is crazy! At about 3pm the lagoon had disappeared and only a bed of sand remained, the water had receded all the way back into the ocean! The boats picked us up at 4pm and we headed back into town to enjoy the rest of the day. I passed the fuck out for a couple hours...
P.S. Would any of you lazy asses muster up the energy and will to reply to my blogs via the "Post Comment" link. This is supposed to be a dynamic forum where we get to communicate with each other...i.e. tell me what pics u want me to take, or if you want me write about something specifically, pantyriderz.

BHANGRA PAVAAE

2005-01-20T05:53:00.000-08:00

Aight so I'm going to this Indian bhangra thing tonight (lol), it supposed to be really crazy (yar). I hope to take some crazy pics so that you all might amuse yourself just as I do when a bunch of paks jump up to some hardcore desi beats (Lobo, this goes out to you). Haha. A few things about Singapore, (did I say someone is always washing something?) I've attached pics of takeout containers/methods. Anyway what I failed to mention was that last week I go trashed (along with Loc and Xavi), and puked my guts out from a cab window. And guess what! I wasn't with my friends...before going into a club we asked some local which place was hype. So we went into this bar and one thing led to another -- all of a sudden I was pissin alcohol (no not by the bar, in a bathroom -- fuck u ass, paan, 00, karim, Tony, and anyone else). So this local dude comes up to us chills with us and buys us drinks. He was really nice, well-dressed, etc. So I got trashed, my friends left the club at like 3am and I decided to stay with my new found friend. Anyways he took me to another club and then got home (which is when I puked)...and my "ass" hurt (no I'm kidding). Ass shout out. Today was a great day; I woke up, drank some tea, read the news, checked email and went to the gym. After working out my temple, I went to the pool. (Will add pics of the GORGEOUS pool soon). There I did some laps, froclicked in the cold water and then went to sun tan (insert Paan's comment here). It was the closest thing to paradise, the ice cold droplets of water were slowly dried by the hot, dry, sun. All the while the soft whispers of the Backstreet boys crooned to me via my earphones and I passed out for a blissful 10 minutes. After that, ate lunch,did some archery classes and then went to class. K gotta go shower/drink///pz out niggas.

2005-01-20T05:52:00.000-08:00

And if you don't want a cup...u can get any drink to go like this :) Just add a straw

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Wish you were here...

2005-01-20T05:49:00.000-08:00

Take out anyone? For real this is what take-out trays look like!

2005-01-20T05:48:00.000-08:00

Saturday (Jan15/05) Sentosa Beach

kjljlkjl

2005-01-16T23:29:00.000-08:00

Warning: this post is probably going to be extremely short and uninsightful. I just wrote a long-ass posting and accidently closed the window (FUCK). So a week has passed by and it feels as though I've been in Singapore for years! I must say we're pretty lucky in North America -- there is no such thing as customer service here, i.e. if you buy something its yours. No refund policy or anything like that. I've met tons of people from all over the world, namely the US, UK, Norway, Sweden, Germany, and Spain. Everyone is pretty cool and chilling, but my immediate crew is made up of Loc (Vietnamese Canadian from McGill), Xavier (Spanish from ESADE), Jema (Spanish from ESADE), and Sonia. I've visited Little India, Chinatown, the Boat Quay, Orchard Rd. (Toronto's equivalent of Bay/Bloor), and Sentosa Island. We went to the island on Saturday (Jan15./05), and it was pretty crazy. Just like everything else in Singapore it is totally manmade! They imported the white sands from Malaysia and populated the island with wild peacocks! The water is alright, and they built smaller islands around it so that you can swim from one to the next. That night the MBAs sponsored a party on the beach at one of the clubs -- it was very high schoolish. The people here are very innocent and eager to help just like in the movies! I don't know if I said this before but clubbing is extremely $$$ here! I spent $150 in one night -- needless to say I'm done clubbing till Toronto. On another note; there are always people cleaning EVERYTHING. The country is clean, but I mean these guys hose down the basketball courts, clean the walls of buildings, sweep out sewers, etc. Its kinda amusing to watch -- but what you must understand is that Singapore is a country that is run like a company. The gov't has a tight control over all aspects of life here and so far they've done a splendid job, thus no one really complains. My classes are alright -- the students laugh at anything that the teachers say...but the teachers are highly qualified with many from Harvard, MIT, London School of Economics, etc. I'm going to add a few pics...until my next post...peace out biatches. P.S. Although I'm having a wicked time I miss home and all you guys ;) Paan email me your resume...

2005-01-10T16:41:00.000-08:00

Prevention is better than cure

First entry from the Land of the Lion

2005-01-06T15:09:00.000-08:00

So after being cramped for 18hrs on-flight, we finally touched down in Singapore. Singapore Airlines is truly a world-class air carrier, it makes Air Canada look like a cargo plane -- so I step out off the plane, and no joke I'm driving down a palm tree laden highway in 30 minutes! No customs, just 5 min with immigration, and the baggage came out as soon as I was ready to pick them up. The first night was a lil daunting, the size of my room is almost the size of my bedroom closet (pics to follow), and the shower head ends at my neck. So to wash my hair I have stand on my knees. The NUS campus is a mini-city, its a mixture of terracota roofed houses, a complex of Isaac Asimov styled residences, and a modern collection of glass buildings. The inner roads are lined with palm trees, and other tropical greeneries. I was up at 5am on the first morning b/c of the time difference, which worked out as there was a lot of admin stuff to do. Met a bunch of Norwegian/Swedish guys from the MBA class, and then headed into town with Sonia. We went to Little India (surprise surprise). Sonia brought a passion fruit slurpie onto the train without realizing that she could get her ass caned for that. Little India, is just that -- Little India. It isn't like Gerrard street where its a bunch of paks in stores. This place is really India! Smells, buildings, signs, everything screams of the country. Found some alright deals, got scammed on others. Ullah was right -- stuff here is $$$ (other than food). Ass's crappy phone retails for $300 Singaporean !!! Thats about $230CDN. Archie you're shit outta luck for phones here -- unless you wanna spend like $300-$400 CDN. Food on the other hand is cheap -- we both ate full lunches for a total of S$4.40 = C$3.00. Aside from some other random shit and a lot of walking around it was a pretty tiring day. Today is Friday, a day which I can eat meat on...

First night: Van City

2005-01-03T20:11:00.000-08:00

Ya so I guess some would call it a blessing in disguise...who would want hydroulic problems over the Pacific? I arrived at Vancouver's airport after flying over the sexy rockies only to find that we were grounded due to technical issues. I must say, however, that Singapore Airlines really took care of us throughout the whole ordeal -- we couldn't have been made any more comfortable throughout the event. I'm in my hotel room right now enjoying free internet, 2 double beds, and a free buffet dinner (Singapore does it up proper ;). My flight leaves in 11 hrs, so that gives me time to check out Van City downtown -- see if it compares to the capital of Canada (that is Toronto for all those Albertans that needed to ask). Tony man, Vancouver is truly your city, its full of portugese/italian errr punjabi people. Around 70% of my flight were sikhs, and the thing is they're always with extended family! Its never the typical nuclear family, instead its like 2 brothers, their wives, 8 kids, and 2 pairs of old couples. I also met this guy who works with Haliburton (a la Dick "Penis" Cheney) in Brunei. He's been with them for over 15 years and you know that guy is making some serious duckets...Therez a bunch of white people going to ashrams in India for "spirtitual enlightenment", lol only in Vancouver. The people here a really nice, everyone from the waiter to the bus driver was friendly, a little too friendly. Its a very tree-huggerish city where granola is the provincial snack. But in all seriousness, they really are nice. Anyways, gotta jet to see the rockies at night...until next time. V for Victory or something corny like that...

2004-12-31T09:01:00.000-08:00

Pre-pre-pre departure

2004-12-30T19:03:00.000-08:00

Hi boys and girls,

For those of you cavalier types who have already come to this site...there is really nothing to say! I haven't gone to Singapore yet...I haven't even finished packing. But add this link to your "Favourites" list or "Bookmarks" (for those of the enlightened that currently used FireFox as their internet browser, thanks bubs). I will be posting stories/pictures/etc. as my trip progresses, its much more fun and interactive than mass emails. Until my next entry...