Today we experienced our first Chinese New Year Parade in Vancouver. It was a low key affair compared to last year due to the Olympics, it started at 9.30, the parade took 45 minutes to pass, and was supposed to have completed it’s route by 11.00. It was a very colourful and noisy event, the [...]
Feb
23
Review of Shen Yun
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Not quite sure what to say about Shen Yun. I just assumed that they were a group from China and I was going to see something quite cultural and parts of it was. However, to me it turned out to be something between a propaganda and evangelical message. Firstly they were from New York and [...]
Feb
10
Camden Aftermath and New Year Parade
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Black smoke was still billowing out from the Camden Lock area this morning, we could see it as we approached Camden tube station. They now don’t know how it started, no one was injured, but the fire was bad and potentially a lot of damage has been done. Unfortunately not everyone could keep out of [...]
Feb
1
Thomas
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We have watched with interest the Halifax series of adverts and particularly enjoyed the Bollywood one. However, they have come out with an even better one this time featuring the campest asian guy and we love it. The Yorkshire Evening Post did an interview with Thomas Yau who works in a the Halifax call center [...]
Jan
27
Father's Birthday
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This past Friday was my father’s birthday so on Saturday we went down to see my parents. My father seemed to be doing ok, less confused than he normally is. We had fun with the staff in the care home who are very good. The journey home was interesting. Some guy open a bottle with [...]