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Monday, September 15
it's been half a month 3:46 AMI realize I can't keep up with blogging what's happened over the past few days, so by Luyi's popular request, here are just some photos of the weekend's highlights; the captions and mini-elaborations should suffice I hope!
Fri, 12 Sep - St Vital Mall
St Vital Mall is just off Bishop Grandin Boulevard, and we came here specially to check out its Wal-Mart (it's my 2nd Wal-Mart thus far since the previous US trip, but in a city (town) like Winnipeg, Wal-Mart is probably considered exciting already? Haha.)
Ok, I came here too cos I found out that they sell the rubber hot-water bottles that I can hug to sleep in winter! :) I actually went all over Singapore to find it you know, even checked out Tan Tock Seng and SGH but to no avail!
Wini in Winnipeg with Winnie the Pooh!
And we saw a whole lot of Halloween stuff on display! Super fascinating - they have inflatable coffins, dancing ghosts, dancing skeletons and a whole lot of other things that got us pretty excited! So we decided to dress up with the props..
Cute or scary?
Trick or Treat? A very cool knife with movable liquid blood.. and a Halloween version of Kinder Surprises!
Fri, 12 Sep - AIMS Barbecue + Party
AIMS organized a little barbecue gathering for the exchange students, and after that we headed downtown to a club called "Alive", to get a feel of the music they play in clubs over here.
A whole bunch of exchange students, and Lindsay (AIMS events coordinator)
Dennis, and Dennis' buddy Ron
Momo and Marcel from Germany
The interior of Alive, which is rather nice actually though the dance floor is quite small..
The picture at the top RH corner shows the locals line-dancing (!?!) in the club! Apparently all clubs here play some country music at some point in the night, and this is what the locals do whenever that happens, haha. It's kinda amusing, but according to Dylan who went to SMU on exchange, he didn't get what people were doing on Mambo Night either. So I guess this is just Mambo without hands and with footwork?
Ivan, Momo, Ron, Dylan, Marcel (clockwise from top left. not counting Js and I)
Sat, 13 Sep (Mid-Autmn's Eve) - Meeting up with my buddy Laura
We invited Laura and her boyfriend, Dave over for simple home-cooked fare and their very first mooncakes in their life! Haha.. remember my treasures from Chinatown? I waited so long before I could eat them!
We cooked Indo-mie mee-goreng (just for them to try), bok-choy with mushrooms, cheese mushrooms, oven-baked chicken marinated in oyster sauce, and hotdogs. Didn't have enough spices nor ingredients to make anything more Chinese or Asian! Oh look at my white-lotus double-yolk mooncake, heh.
Behind the scenes - Js was just borrowing someone else's food to take photo! Haha.
Here are some other shots of what we do in residence. Some mini gatherings and parties were held recently in lieu of a couple of exchange students' birthdays - makes me wonder what will happen to my own! Haha..
Rosa (from Mexico)'s birthday party, which consisted of Barcadi, Jack Daniel's, coke, popcorn and chips
Ayumi (from Japan)'s birthday in the common lounge. Many Asians came, and alot of effort was put into decorating the place!
Sun, 14 Sep - Osborne Village
Js and I finally visited Osborne Village to try its good fusion food as well as Baked Expectations' cakes. We heard that shopping here is exciting too, and we did see some cool shops.. though really just 2-3 of them.
This is me munching on the cinnamon swirl that Laura's mum baked for us
The streets of Osborne Village
Spicy Noodle House, and Baked Expectations
Our Apple-Bavarian cheesecake. It is superb.. costs almost CAD 8 per slice! They also have huge non-cheesecakes but those are filled with ALOT of whipped cream.
Gags Unlimited - a cool shop selling all kinds of freaky stuff, including the one below..
Now you see the girl.. and now you don't. Yikes.. it's a hologram but it's scary. :(
FINALLY. This hence wraps up my 2nd week here.. what a slip-shod and long post! ROAR.
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