Thursday, September 21, 2006

it's been a tiring week. but im finally done with those yucky assignments! heh :) back to updating:


PART 2: Chinatown
our next stop after gastown was chinatown. i went there with uncle anthony and aunty liyeng 2 weeks ago, but there were still more stuff to see..

west pender st - it's quite obvious that we have arrived at chinatown! haha. look at how almost everything is red - lampposts, buildings, tents, cars, signboards and what not..

east hastings street - the notorious street where the homeless, prostitutes, drug-dealers, beggars and troublemakers hang out in vancouver. apparently, gunshot battles sometimes occur over there at night! madness. it was pretty scary even in broad daylight! mich and i were warned by eldon NEVER to venture there. but aimless walking led us to that street. upon realization, we scrambled to the next street. haha. really must thank God that nothing happened to us while we were walking along that street:) one of my male friend who very recently went pass there alone during the day got harrassed by a homeless beggar..

thank God for so many of these bakeries and dimsum cafes in chinatown - at least i still can have my siew mai, eggtart and charsiew pau over here. heh

this is a very interesting shop. usually, vcd/dvd shops will sell original and pirated stuff. and even if pirated stuff were being sold, it wouldnt be displayed in the windows in such an obvious fashion. the sellers would probably also be more secretive as well. but lo and behold - this vcd/dvd shop sells ONLY pirated stuff. whatever happened to ip protection and anti-piracy laws? looks like it is very much lacking over here- at least in chinatown. haha. but it's great for us - the consumers though;)