The Vancouver “Olympic Line” started running today on Thursday January 21, 2010. Since I got a day-off, I decided to hop-on before it’s taken over by tourists.
The Olympic Line in Vancouver is shorter than I expected. The ride takes less than 5 minutes over the 1.8 km track. As a demonstration project, the vehicles run [...]
Several years ago, I went to Japan with family for our Christmas vacation. After landing, we waited in a line before the custom. In front of me was a black man. Bored, I started a conversation with him. Naturally the first thing I asked was where he came from.
Sri Lanka, he replied.Mind you this [...]
I feel like today is the right day to start writing again.
After surviving from 6 months of chaotic lifestyle in Taiwan, I am back to Vancouver. When I was in Taiwan I found it impossible to sit down and write about anything. Maybe it was just an excuse, I don’t know. Now that I’m back, [...]
Recently submitted my proposal for the UBC Alternative Energy X contest. I am not sure if this is what they are looking, because my plan is pretty boring from a PR perspective, and its implementation would be an administrative nightmare. Nevertheless, I think it’s what UBC and other major institutions need:
Vision for a Net [...]
Before anything could be done, we need more awareness. For the meantime, tell the clerk that you don’t need a bag. It’s more of a habit rather than necessity.
Writing a public blog about your private life can be frustrating. It’s almost inevitable to have some uninvited guests digging through your blogs/facebook/twitter/plurk if you don’t watch out.
I thought of writing this post before but worried that I would come off as an obsessive stalker. Well, I still don’t know how to get [...]
I have a confession to make, for I have sinned. I took a 13 hrs flight across the Pacific Ocean to Taiwan.
I find it difficult, even unrealistic, to convince anyone not to fly, myself included. In most cases, there is simply no reasonable alternative other than not going. I bet even the environmental activists fly [...]
The only places I see people using phone directories are in movies. They are usually used in interrogation scenes.
I absolutely hate getting them every year. They waste trees, energy, water, human resources, and my time. Even if you are morally ambivalent toward phone books, I’m sure you can agree that in the internet age, they [...]
[Photo via darkest-star]
I talked about my annoyance toward fake personal junk mails, but I actually hate junk mails in general.
Junk mails are very resource intensive. In the US alone, every year 100 million trees are harvested to make them, and 44% of the time they go straight into trash (source: ForestEthics). This is equivalent to [...]
[Photo via Michael Mistretta]
Hi I’m back from slacking off.
A lot had happened in 2008: the Olympics, the elections (yes, there were more than one), and the market going apeshit. I’d say 2009 will be an in-between year though. It’s not quite 2010, another symbolic coming of a new decade and the much anticipated Winter Olympics [...]
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