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Sunday, November 9
crunch-cunch-crunch; first taste of winterpeg 4:26 PMSo after an erratic fluctuation in temperatures last week (went back up to 10 deg C four days ago, then back to 0 deg C) - and trudging through the sloshy ice which felt like my favourite ice-blended frappuccino beneath my feet, haha - winter has officially arrived, and snow is here to stay! The below documents what I've done over my first winter weekend in Winnipeg..
Friday morning, 7 Nov - this was what I awoke to, though it no longer felt as euphoric as the time I first saw snow in Banff, haha. I practically drew the curtains and went, "Oh.. it's snowing.." - just like that, heh. But it was a pretty sight nevertheless; everywhere on-campus was wet/icy/snowy, and it's fun to walk through snow cos Winnipeg's snow really goes crunch-crunch-crunch (it's supposed to be driest amongst all Canadian snow!)! Haha.
I like the snow-covered tree trunks/branches and plants! It's all pretty and romantic somehow, though the unsightly heaps of piled-up shoveled snow along the sidewalks kinda spoil the scenery at times. I'd been so tempted to "sink deeply" into thick snow that I stepped unto one huge pile, only to find that it was just snow covering some sharp plants underneath :( Haha.
Noir Wine Bar, Osborne Village
Friday night we headed out to nua at Noir (haha sheesh, pardon the pun!). Judy drove us there; and omg, it was really scary to experience winter driving! We've heard that even locals themselves aren't too used to driving in initial winter road conditions when the first snowfall comes, cos it's hard to estimate start/stop timings effectively and people may just be over-confident of their driving. Whatever it is, our car too kept sliding and skidding, imagine a car ice-skating on the thin sheen of frost on the roads! Haha.. acceleration was difficult whenever we stopped too, cos the tyres get stuck most of the time - and oh, it was so cold that the car doors were frozen, we had to yank them out before they could open! Yikes.
We didn't take many pics for the night, and I think these are by far the nicest, haha.
After dinner we headed to Anne's place, hoping to build a nice big snowman in her backyard - we even made sure she had carrots for the nose la. Haha.. sadly though the snow wasn't sticky yet, so we couldn't and ended up trying to snowball fight instead. "Trying" is the word, cos it's really damn hard to roll a nice big snowball that wouldn't crumble! So I tried to be smart and made peace with the rest but, erm, I got backstabbed and no one listened to me. Bleah.. so I was defeated through and through! Even got snow splattered and smothered all over my face by Judy (see pic on the right for evidence).. ROAR! :(
P/S: See how adequately prepared we were with Anne's mittens and toques. Haha.. mittens are actually really cute and warm - no fingers, just grabbers. Christine, so no matter how funny we used to think they look, I might really go buy a pair in due time! Hehe.
Polo Park
Polo Park is Winnipeg's largest shopping mall, a place I'd wanted to visit and explore to see how it's like. Turned out my friends wanted to get some winter supplies over the weekend, so I tagged along!
Marcel and Momo from Germany, and Sepi my coffee + study partner, from Holland
I really didn't want to spend much money on winter stuff, even though I only had a bare minimum of supplies. But it wouldn't be practical to get something for such extreme weather and leave them lying around at home, right? Haha.. still, I was really tempted to try stuff on so I did. I think winter boots are really quite cool to strut around in (left pic), and the toque I'm wearing with those dangly lil' side things - used to think they looked weird but they are actually rather cute! Heh. :)
Left: Christine kept saying I should go vandalize cars by drawing on them! Tsk.. bad influence lor! Haha.
Right: These are 2 very cool liquors - Godiva white choc cream liquer, and Goldschlager (I think it's whiskey), but it has real gold bits floating in them! Akin to a giant (gold) snowglobe! We stocked up a little on liquor cos it's convenient to drink a little to keep warm, and we were hoping to have more chillaxing sessions with one another since the term's ending pretty soon. :(
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So I guess it's colder than cold right now, so cold it's hard to describe in words. Haha.. and it'll only get worse from now on!! I actually shiver quite a bit outside and am normally still shaken for awhile when I reach home.. :( 救命啊.
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