Monday, November 27, 2006

about 1.5 weeks ago, vancouver issued a boil water advisory after a powerful storm (that left thousands of people w/o power in SW B.C.) caused massive floods and stirred up water supplies. this caused our tap water to change colour:( since then, i had to make do with cloudy tap water. we were told not to drink the water, wash vegetables with it, or even brush our teeth with it without boiling it first! actually the situation in ubc is considered quite good already. steve, who stays just outside ubc, told us that the water that comes out from the tap in his home, was dirty green in colour - and this was after boiling. how yucky.

it was especially worrying because last wednesday, it was announced that traces of e coli were found in the samples of water taken from the reserve in ubc. but thank God that it turned out to be a false alarm after all! in fact, the boil water advisory just got lifted:) yayy!!

i had a great and eventful weekend!! i had a wonderful mini-foodtrail with karen, huiping, gil and joseph on saturday, and an enjoyable seattle road/shopping trip with mich, ab, grace, jinny, ying & christabel on sunday:) oh and it started snowing on saturday as well! it was so exciting initially - coz it was only my 2nd time experiencing snow! we played snow and had snowfights!! haha. i even caused poor jo to fall face-down onto the snow! oops (sorry jo! heh)! but the novelty wore off after a while when the snowfall became a snowstorm:( .

in fact, the snowstorm was so bad that on sunday, it caused a blackout in the whole of ubc:( it was such a terrible experience!! no lights (much thanks to my dad who forced me bring a torch! haha - i wouldnt know what i'd do w/o the torch), no heater, no hot water to bathe, no internet, no telephone reception (coz network was very busy):( i felt really dirty coz i couldnt bathe:( it was major-ly depressing. the blackout lasted for 13 hours - and boy was i glad that power was back again:)

alright - i will update with more pics soon!! right now, i gotta prepare for a court hearing tmr:( quite apprehensive about it actually, coz i am clueless about the procedural formalities here. hopefully the judge doesnt give me a hard time. to make matters worse, tmr's temperature forecast is -7 to -8 degrees celsius. oh my.. it's gonna be damn freezing :(