Tour De Whistler

Had a week to remember. Went to PNE (amusement park) on Tuesday, Had a Halloween party with friends on Wednesday and it was really kewl! apart from the movie thing (no offence), went to Vancouver downtown on Thursday and the weather was good too! Went to the clinic yesterday and that was interesting too! Just went for regular check up but I had to remain hungry for almost 15 hours just because of the silly glucose test and still waiting for the reports, and I guess its Saturday today, went to Whistler and visited many other great places on the way. Here are some of the photos of from this week.

 I  love this picture for it's quality. Downtown Vancouver



A tribute to the first Indians that came to Canada as a coal mine workers almost 100 years ago.  
At the convention center. The guy who took this photo was quite shocked because he took 4 photos just in seconds and he didn't even knew that the photos were actually taken. Poor Iphone guy.

Well  that's Whistler. The place where most of the skiing competitions took place during 2010 winter Olympics, the city is really very beautiful and so were the girls who took this pic. ghaint! :P

Lost Lake: as the name suggests the place was lost too and we too got lost for a bit searching for this place. But the weather and the view was awesome, it was worth losing everything.


Now I realized why most of the professional photographers are from these countries, you just need a camera and a good day and you can keep on clicking the whole day. Nature at its very best!


Meanwhile wake up Anthropists! or I'm dead too!

Tata!

Weekly dose

Well first of all a complaint to Priyanka. Why the hell on earth is the WiFi not working only on my phone??? I feel discriminated... Sue ju! JK, but its not been working for the last 2-3 days

It has been quite a busy weekend this one, had to do a lot of hard work as we were shifting my cousins house in the pouring rain of Surrey with a warning of storm and a possible Tsunami threat, 21 Dec is not far, hmmm! The north western coast of B.C* suffered 3 consecutive earthquakes on Saturday to a magnitude of even up to 7.7, though it scared the shit out of the people I was completely unaware until I read that in a news.

So having received all the cards whether it be the PR(Permanent residence) card or the care card I kinda feel so free to move around because all I care about was the care card and now that I've got it I don't care about anything..:P. I haven't had so many cards in my wallet before.

I just came from a tennis match and I still feel very enthusiastic and full of energy. Though I'm just a beginner but I certainly feel like I played my best tennis ever, it was raining and it was raining winners from my side, we were playing in a deuce court and we just nailed it! Won the five set game 4-1 having lost the opening set and come from 8-4 down in the 5 and last challenged set to win it 11-9. Having been a great fan of Rafael Nadal I finally got the opportunity to celebrate the way he does, lying flat on the ground with a relief and it was raining. It was a great feeling.

Planning to go to Whistler next week, Lets just hope that the weather remain clear and so does our thinking.

Tata

*Always stands for "British Columbia"

Like A Boss!

Feeling a lot excited, relieved and tired. Finally got my Canadian driving license too!..:) Though it's a class 7 license which means that I've a few restrictions too, but still I can legally drive anytime on the road unlike before when I was driving on my expired U.A.E license..:P *Ssshhhh*. I just can't wait to go back to Dubai just because I wanted to renew my Dubai's license as soon as I can.

Further talking about the test, It was at one of the most busiest and the most difficult place to drive on in B.C(it only means "British Columbia" here). It was in North Vancouver, the area lying next to mountains, highly populated and congested with very complicated streets.

So I was just driving around Vancouver today in the joy of getting my new license, though I covered almost every single street around the city but I was still just driving around. A cousin of mine who drives his own taxi in Vancouver took me around the city, Believe me he can even fail GPS in the city. So I went to UBC for the first time, Its BIG! It's more like a city, we just went on the outer boundary of it and it was still around 10 km from one end to another, but I still don't understand the Idea of having a Nude beach in a University(Planning to enroll there...:P) and the sunset view from Stanley is just something worth watching.

Meanwhile I just came to know that the SRK starrer movie "Pardes", which was based on an Indian family living in LA was actually mostly shot in Vancouver! and for almost 15 years of my life I've been imagining that as LA and looking for that bridge in the song "Yeh Dil" on the maps of LA! which actually is Alex Fraser bridge, Because it was the first suspension bridge I ever saw. Cheater Cocks!

Ohh and I'm the only guy in the family to have a driving license of 3 different countries now! That feels great!
Now that song got stuck in my head. Aaaaahhhhhhh!
Good night everyone!
Tata!

It's raining bhangra

First of all this album promo has got stuck in my mind and I can't wait to download it..:P, But sadly it's gonna release on November 1st .http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHkCLP9X3LQ&feature=g-all-u
I love almost every single track in it but "Chunni", "Truck" and "Ranjha" are just all over my head.

The very moment I wrote the topic it started raining again. Rain here is like guests in India, you can expect it to be unexpected. I feel like heaven when it rains coz I'm a rain lover, but here the rain is different from the way it rains in India or even Dubai(Hardly though). I mean no thunders, no lightning, It's like a song without beat in it. I need bass!!

Also driving becomes a lot difficult here once the clouds start pissing off unlike India where it doesn't matter whether it's raining, fog or whatever it is.

Moving on, these days we(me and my friends at university) are quite busy doing bhangra practices for the event which is on 6th November. It's been more than 3 weeks now since we started but all we have done is 3 minute of it and we still have "only" 7 minute of it left to think about, practice it and perfect it. But to what we have done till now looks muchhhhh more energetic than I ever did before.

And sorry to those who were asking for my recent pics. I haven't captured one yet, will try to hire someone to take a picture or two, next post maybe....

Btw went to this bhangra competition last week and it was worth it! we had to walk 2 km because we took a wrong bus, but somehow we made it before the main performances and the energy in the theater was worth experiencing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvD2aYKZKRw
P.S: Don't expect me in the video and watch the last 2 minutes

Tata!

A tough weekend

OMG! It's just early October and the winter's already here, The minimum temperature for the night is expected to be 4 degrees everything around me is freezing cold.

Finally done with the English essay and submitted it too *relief*. I felt it even more difficult and nervous then our English board exam back in 12th, and last but not the least we had to present it! and I realized it when I entered the classroom.

Let's just move on, because I never talk about studies, I call it the most boring part of my life. So last weekend me and a few of my cousins we were all together and did this adventurous and highly risky thing here in British Columbia "Cutting trees". We actually didn't cut them the whole it was just about cutting a few branches that were obstructing the view. 

Cutting a tree here is a far bigger crime than cutting a man. If caught or reported while cutting a tree you might end up being in jail and with a minimum penalty of $5000. Considering that in our mind it was a really tough job, to make it even more tougher the branches were almost like 40 feet high and one of us have to climb all the way up through a steel stair which wasn't even perfectly placed.

For all the good reasons that guy wasn't me..:) but my job got worse when I had to climb all the way up holding the saw which was turned on in one hand and try to stick to the stair by other which eventually started shaking because of me shivering and the Saw vibrating too. Omg! It was very scary, I don't have my health card, So even a small injury could have cost a lot (I was thinking about that the whole way up)..P 

That's one of my cousin who was forced to climb up the tree just because he's got a couple of photos of him on Facebook where he was climbing trees.
P.S: Don't share everything on Facebook for everything there's twitter....:P 

Moving on I have a class 7 driving test this Friday in Vancouver and I doesn't even know the location, the time and the area where I'm gonna take my test. I'm screwed!

My Personal experience: From recent experiences I've realized that we must not extend our hand to shake hands with others who have come to you even or try to hug them. Feels awkward when they don't do the same in reply. I mean it can happen with everyone...

Tata!
*Confused about the topic now*

Routine Check I'm Alive!

It's Thursday! my turn! Well Everything looks kewl! Don't know about you but I'm shivering. Life's been super good ever since I started my university (Oye hoye kudiyan hi Kudiyan!...:P). Don't know why people still think of me being a new lad in the city. I roam around the streets like a boss ever since I got a car. My Own car! I like it! The only thing I hate about it is the insurance. Crap! The car cost me around 8K and the insurance was around half of it! I could have had two R15s in India with this amount, unlucky me. It's a 2005 "fully loaded" Honda Accord.

So almost since my first day here Surrey I've been driving crazy like taxi drivers, I just want someone to tell me to drive a car and I know almost every single corner around this place apart from my University..:P All I know in my university is the library(Our meeting spot at the uni.) and Tim Horton(Out eating spot in the uni.).

I'm doing almost nothing here but I still never make it home before 10pm almost every single day and even I can't figure out how and why and every morning dad wakes me up at around 7 just coz he has to watch cricket match on laptop and I'm the operator.

The best thing about this place is that when ever people see a rich guy going in a good car they are like "It's an Arab"and that drives me crazy, the only thing people know about Arabs is that they are super rich.
Guess what? The road in the picture is a trans Canada highway which runs almost throughout the country! They call it a "HWY", Apparently that looks smaller than a service road in Dubai! Poor people. Oh and I was driving at around 130+ on it and it was looking really Fast!

Had to wake up early in the morning to watch India Vs Australia and I've to go for a tennis match too. Finally I've started playing Tennis too! Probably it was the only sport left which I didn't get injured while playing...:P Trying to achieve that too...:D
Tata!

I am mast!

Hello, beautiful people! 

It's been unbelievably long since I was vocal about my whereabouts. So I decided to pen down a few words and arrange a few sentences here there before I go back into hiding again :P

So, How have my pals been? I know Gurpreet is in Canada, boasting about the fact that he is from Dubai! Just kidding. And the last time I talked to Rajesh and Shariq, both of them were hale and hearty. And as for Amit and Yusuf, I hope they are doing fine as well! 

If anyone of you were keeping track of time, you'll know that I'm not a fresher anymore! Yay! :D Man, it's an amazing feeling just to wake up and walk around the campus filled with new faces! I once literally heard a mumbling about how seniors are cool! Haha, made my day! Seeing these new faces around me makes me remember myself from a year back. I was silly, afraid(just a bit) and boy, I sure was interrogative! I used to ask so many questions! How's this? Why that and all! Good thing I survived, else I would have died with so many queries in my mind. Lol! 

The other big thing happening around me is the annual festival, and everyone's burning the night oil (Used as a metaphor, don't be sarcastic. I know your double meanings very well, Gurpreet :P) just to make sure that things fall right where they should be. I'm doing my part as well. As a matter of fact, I'm going to compete this year. The last time I competed I  remember was with RJ, I guess CIF, right? Ah, old memories! I'm going to be presenting a paper on Nanotechnology. Exicted. Wish me luck.  

So, this is pretty much it, my life in a nutshell.  


Good bye! 
*TakesABow*

Reporting from Canada

I'm kinda so excited to write this post that I've been planning it for the last week or so but that lazy part of me stops me from doing it when I think about writing 2-300 words out of nothing.

Well First of all my flight wasn't as bad as I was expecting it. It was very boring but I wasn't tired enough to feel like jumping off the plane or not to wake up for 2-3 days, probably because I was excited about the new place but for a moment  I was shocked when I landed and I saw the freakin 1990s airport with same model cars moving around the runway and all. I was like am I in Canada or in Somalia?

Talking about now, I'm having quite a great time here, got a lot of great new friends all thanks to Priyanka (Why my auto correct shows it paprika??)...:P and a few of them of my type as they can understand my double meaning talks. It was tough in the first week when I was totally messed up with locations and I was trying to change from my lifestyle in Dubai to a new lifestyle here in Canada (Especially adapting to the weather) But its all good now just apart from University.

The best thing about this place is that I feel like being in Developed Punjab. Almost half of the population is of Punjabis and I guess the second language is Punjabi too! Sounds surprising but it is! And the best thing is to watch old people sit in the park and play "Seep" (card game) in groups.

So all I've been doing here is trying few new things like playing tennis, trying to adapt to woody stuff (wooden houses, they are very noisy), to adapt to the accent and to drive a lot around the city and to drive slow(most difficult part). Oh and I go to University too! once a week and that too I've a class with Priyanka and Deepika  its the English (Hogayi padhayi) you can expect the rest with me being the way I was in TCS. Sunir lal was better than this teacher though. I miss him for the fights we use have.

Some of my friends have Bhangra in the University tomorrow and I'm not in it! but I'm still so excited about it. Excited to see them do it in pairs with "Female partner" and I'm like CRAP! I should have been here much more earlier..:D

Well I haven't been to many places around here so I can't differentiate much between this place and Dubai but to what I feel I think this place has a great weather apart from the fact that it rains around 9 months (Reminds me of a poem. remember?) a year and its much greener here, Apart from that I don't feel anything special about Canada and also when I tell people that I'm from Dubai and I tell them the facts about Dubai they are basically stunned for a moment or two and at first they can't believe it.

And yea I've found a few cricket clubs too and might contract with one of the clubs next season. Already excited about that.

Last but not the least I love Dubai!
Tata!

First day at college

It was good. Got to know new people. Topics of the day were Antibonding bonding orbitals and rms current. Attended only two lectures...very tired .........

Gone.

Busy days

First of all apologies from the left ventricle of my heart to Saifu. Sorry dude couldn't wish you on your birthday...

Secondly, wait no second option! that reminds me of our principal and from there our English teacher and then I can't remember anything..hurrrrrr *shakes head*
And there's already nothing left in mind except the word "pronunciation"...:P

So it's less then 15 days to go before I fly to Canada and I'm already done with my packing, most of it. But the worst thing is that now I've to pack the household things in boxes and then send it through sky cargo just because dad's going to India next week and brother's busy...:( and to make it even worse my laptop is gone for repair and I hate using others computers so I've been visiting cargo village a lot over the last 2-3 days and RTA too.

My things have this annually problem naturally in them, they have to go for repair almost exactly after a year. I remember I bought my laptop on 4th August 2010 and exactly after a year which was 4th august last year I brake it's screen fighting with my brother..:D and after exactly 2 years it has a problem with processor. So all I have right now is my galaxy (phone) actually two of them...
What I actually want to say from all this waste of words and time up ahead was that I'll be very busy over the next few days and might not be able to write much frequently, Will have to somehow make it over 200 words..:P

Btw Olympics are much more interesting this time then any other Olympics, some big unexpected shocks, amazing comeback by Michael Phelps and it's really a tough competition at the top of medal tally... looking forward to tonight's mens 100m final. Surely one of the most awaited event of this years games...
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