various notes about going to china
stuff to take
plug adapter
shoes (sounds like it’s hard to find larger shoes there)
maybe some bike pedals? not sure how hard it is to find a decent bike there. must remember to pack up bike before leaving, just in case i decide later to send it over
deodorant?
useful links
As was already said on StudentUnion.ca, the SFSS bank accounts have been frozen. There was some question of whether this meant that payroll would not go through, but that question has now been answered for me by an anonymous employee of the SFSS. Employees are not able to cash their cheques currently. [...]
I just ran across the following poem on the fridge here at home. It was written by a fellow co-op member here. He’s out of town right now, but i’m assuming that since he had it published in this little booklet, he won’t mind if i republish it on the web here. [...]
I had my first shift at my new job yesterday. I’m basically a computer babysitter at a place that hosts other people’s computers and hooks them all up to super-high-bandwidth. Big businesses park their servers there so that their customers will have fast access to their shopping websites and stuff like that.
seems pretty [...]
So I got final approval to take the mandarin immersion classes in January. The first step is complete, now that i’m officially registered in the intro class for september. :)
I also got notice that my student loan is approved. I didn’t doubt it, but it’s nice to hear. I had a second [...]
Hey all. been taking an unintentional break from the blog lately. I dunno why, but i haven’t felt much like writing lately. I’ve been keeping busy, though.
I’ve registered for classes in September now. I’m taking two math courses and an intro chinese course. The math will be Math 242 (introduction [...]
Hey all. Just thought i’d put the word out that my friend Joey Only is performing with Anne Feeney at the Railway Club here in Vancouver this coming monday (june 26th, 2006) at 9pm. Joey plays some great radical folk, some of it in a similar style to Johnny Cash. Anne Feeney [...]
Lately i’m taking the opportunity to study Go for a bit. I figured that since i have some spare time, it’d be nice to advance my knowledge of the game a bit more. I’m quite a fan of intense periods of studying just about anything…juggling, languages, whatever. If you can immerse yourself [...]
Well, i escaped Ladner finally. The bus service there was pretty limiting. Now i’m at a rad coop in New Westminster. Communal meals 4 days a week (possibly moving to 5 soon), and group food purchasing. It’s two houses side-by-side with a big yard. One huge kitchen with industrial gear [...]
i went for about a 25km ride on tuesday, and felt ok for most of it….i went for dinner at jack’s coop in new westminster, where i’m applying to move. Quite a nice place…5 days a week they have a communal dinner, and everyone is on a dinner team for one of those nights. [...]