December 20th, 2007

4:32PM
So yesterday instead of work we had a fun day and went Bowling. It was 5-pin bowling just like the old days at NEB's, except the place was older and you had to tally all the scores by hand. I got really good at my basic math skills by the end of the day. I manged to take a few pics and they aren't too bad so ill show them to you.

Here's the group i bowled with plus 1
(Alex, 1, David, Andrew, Junichi)

I hope thats the right way to tally score

This is me being Wacky!

Also, on Monday we had a goodbye dinner for the co-ops and i forgot to post the pictures. We went to an All-You-Can-Eat Korean BBQ and Sushi place. O M G. I ate wayyy too much, but we all had a really great time.

Our boat (literally sitting in a boat)

Welcome to the 'Big Eaters' table

Andra and Tony, chowin on the veggies....

Alex and myself being very full (can you tell we work together all day?)

Afterwards, myself and Tony went over to the movie theater to see "I Am Legend". It was ok. The best part was that i got to see it for free. Why you ask? Because i have a Scene Card. If you don't have one yet you should look into getting it. Its pretty sweet. Tony got a discount on his ticket for using my card ( which earned me 100 points ) and i got to redeem my points for a free ticket ( 1000 points = ticket ). The cool thing is my friend sent me a link when i registered for my card that had 2 of those "under the cap" winning number things that were worth 1000 points each. So essentially i got 2 free movies before i even did anything, you get 250 points when you sign up too.

December 19th, 2007

4:58PM
So a number of recent events have come to pass.

Lets start off snappy because thats exactly how quickly my iRiver Clix Gen2 was delivered. I ordered the thing on Monday around 3PM and it was here at the office at 8:30AM this morning! Talk about service, 1 day processing, 1 day shipping. Thats less than 48 hours and it came all the way from Nevada, USA.

Moving on after that, let turn to academics for just a brief second. I finally got a reply out of my co-op advisor (only 2 months late) and so i had my "meeting" with him in the form of an email response to some questions.... kinda lame if u ask me but w/e. And following that I also had my work term evaluation here at work. Scored myslef an Excellent w00t.

Speaking of w00t and new things, it has now been added to the dictionary. The word dates back to 1995 and was originally an acronym for We Owned the Other Team, but is now commonly written with a W, two zeros and a T.

Moving on again, some more photos have surfaced from the Christmas party, proving once and for all that i can clean up. And i clean up quite well at that.


Check out that, not too shabby (ignore the messy hair) it was a logn and windy walk and it must have slipped my mind to fix it. And you thought white shirt red tie combo was only cool cause of that middle aged time travelling twin....

December 17th, 2007

3:22PM
So i went to the Business Objects Christmas party. It wasn't anything too special but it was a lot of fun none-the-less... Reason for posting would be the highlight of the night. We found a guy dressed exactly like me.


So this is what i have to look forward to in 30 years. It was hilarious. Other than that not much has changed...

Oh! I just bought myself a Christmas present about 30 minutes ago. A 4Gb iRiver Clix Gen2 with Cradle. They had it on sale at $30 off if you bought the cradle so i figured it was perfect.


$209 CAN after the deal. Yea... looks snazzy eh? Its a tiny beast. Well till next time, Ciao!

December 11th, 2007

4:45PM
Back by popular demand. So Jonas brought his camera into work today, and even though he's already uploaded all of his pictures to facebook, he decided to share them with me anyways! Isn't he nice? Take that FB!

Now the thing I love about uploading my pic's here is that they actually save them in full quality. Click on anyone of the following pics to be linked to the original stored at 3072x2304 resolution. The other thing about Jonas' pics is that they're better quality, his camera has a noticeably better lens than mine.

I'll try and post a bit of information about a few of the pics as well.

On the far right of the above pic you can see the chairlift heading to the peak. And just to the right of that the entrance to the Whistler Bowl, which we skied.

Myself and Olivier having an awesome time in this picture.

This is the best photo I've seen, staring Gad.

Can you tell I'm a little tired after a full day of skiing?

4:54PM
Doh! Forgot to upload the 3 vid's he recorded.

This is Olivier flying down a run ( I was in the chalet getting lunch when they went out for this ) this run seems a bit icy at the beginning but it wasn't actually that bad anywhere else.

This is Jonas just randomly boarding down a pretty basic run.

This is Olivier doing a 360 in the stunt park, you cant see the landing but it looks like he skies out pretty clean.

December 10th, 2007

6:30PM
So I went to Whistler yesterday! And I Skied, oh did I Ski! I've got a tonne of amazing pictures to go along as well while i tell the story. Right now my upper and lower back, quads, and calves are destroyed. But its a feeling of accomplishment, i tackled Whistler.

It all started at 6:00AM on Sunday morning. Yea i know soooooo early. I got dressed, and headed out front to meet up with Geraldine. She lives across the street in a neighboring tower, and we walked down a few blocks to Budget. Ok, i lied... I guess this story actually started the day before, because i got my Skis waxed and sharpened at the local SportChek. Surprisingly both cost under $20. So back to Budget, there was 7 of us and we decided to rent a mini-van. For some reason when we got there they gave us a pimped out Explorer.... It was sweet but it was NOT going to fit all of us, so we traded it in for a Sienna. *this turned out to be like $50 cheaper for some reason* We waited for everyone to arrive and piled in.

Here is us packing the Van.

I was super tired on the trip up so i slept a bit on the way there. Here's some pictures of the other people i went up with.

Papa Jonas (he was like the dad driving us kids up to the mountain, lol)

Andra, Olivier, Geraldine

Cesar!

We stopped at a McDonald's on the way up so some of us could grab breakfast. I had got myself a sandwich at Starbuck's just before we left but it was a bad mistake because it made my stomach upset all morning.


We got there and a bunch of people went to get rentals. Myself, Jonas and Olivier already had our own gear and so we decided to head up on and get a few runs while they were busy renting etc. This ended up an an extra hour of Skiing, GOOD CHOICE! Jonas bought a new board the day before... very masculine.

It's white and snakeskin textured ontop.

We decided since we were probably the better 3 skiiers that we should try the challenging runs before we grouped up with the other which would slow us down. I was self-admittedly the weakest of the 3 of us. Olivier teaches at the top ski-school in France and grew up in the Alps. Jonas is from Switzerland and used to work in the swiss alps.

Here's a shot of the 3 of us from the Peak of Whistler when we first got up to the top.

After we finished our first run and got warmed up, we decided to hit the 'Whistler Bowl'. A straight wall black diamond run. Easily the toughest run of my life so far and VERY enjoyable. By the time i got down the first segment, my legs had had too much and i was forced to sit for a few seconds while the lactic acid drained. To get into the run you literally had to step off a cliff down into the moguls. It really was a different level of skiing.

Here's a map of the runs, look up Whistler Bowl, it drop down from the peak

So after 3 runs (= 1 hour) we met back up with the rest of the group and did some more skiing. I got some awesome shots. Including a CRAZY rainbow phenomena in a slightly desolate part of the mountain on a short Diamond section.

Ranbows!

I have a few more rainbow shots. Can upload on request.

Cool Group Shot (Cesar, Geraldine, Andra, Jon)

Cool Shot of Jonas

Geraldine in some Rainbow, and Jon sitting down. After this 1 run his feet hurt too much and he quit for the day :(


SWEET view

I should be a professional photographer, Cesar never looked so cool

One of the few i have of myself that are on my Camera (aren't i good hot) I'm going for the unshaved Ski-Bum look. There are lots more pics of me but they're all on Jonas' Facebook I'm sure.

And so we skied the whole day, the weather in the morning was absolutely fantastic, and it got a bit cloudy as the day wore on. But still an awesome time. Sadly they close down around 3:30PM and we headed back home. By the time we rolled out it was pitch back on the drive back and it was only like 4:30PM.

I may get some more pics later on and continue the post but thats about it. Till next time. Ciao!