Saturday, September 09, 2006

this is a long overdue post. i had planned for this blog to enable my family and friends to see how and what i am doing over in vancouver! i arrived about 7 days ago but there were 1001 things to settle!! ok here's a little update:

mich and i left for vancouver in the morning on 3 sept 06. it was teribly depressing having to leave my family and friends behind. this is the first time im gonna be away from home for such a long time!! thus it was (and is) especially difficult for me:( ah well. hopefully this homesickness will get better.

anyway the flight to vancouver was crazily long and very tiring - but i really enjoyed the food!! our meals were were prepared by lei garden (think: yummydelicious dimsum and double-boiled broths) and yung kee (think: hk famous roast goose and lip-smacking egg tarts). haha. but of course our meals werent of that variety but they was still very good! i was especially delighted by the haagen daz icecream which they served as dessert for our lunch:)

en route to vancouver, we had to transit in hk. mich and i explored the shops in the airport and tried (unsuccessfully) to hunt down free internet terminals. after wandering around aimlessly, we decided to just sit by the viewing gallery while waiting for our connecting flight.

when we finally arrived in vancouver in a supremely tired state, we STILL had to queue up for almost 2 hours - to retrieve our study permits from the Canadian immigration. and we were quite mad at a certain Malaysian lass who cut queue. how ungracious. bah.

after that, we checked into our respective residences. i was quite pleased with my room coz it had nice windows and was reasonably clean:) the only problem? it's darn far from EVERYWHERE!! sigh. but looking at the bright side, maybe more exercise would ensure i won't put on so much weight over here? heh. but i am pretty lonely here - coz my friends are so far away from me! boohoo.