Monthly Archives: October 2005

Sikh student banned from train for wearing kirpan Sorry to break from my up-to-the-moment health status, but I want to lay something out there about religious tolerance. I love Canada. I love that we are a mixture of cultures. I love that this allows me to travel around the world and have most people like …

I always read these things after the fact: Rome bans ‘cruel’ goldfish bowls I mean, I’m not so naive to think that the fish are living in paradise, but I had no idea they were going blind and now I guess I can figure out that perhaps lack of oxygen might have been a deadly …

Well, I had an absolutely horrible night last night. As mentioned yesterday, I seem to have come down with a cold. Turns out the cold symptoms (cloudy head, general miserablness) were just a hangover, but some little germ stuck in my throat and now it feels like I’m downing big chunks of glass every time …

May a flight of angels carry you… Yup. After a week long hunger strike, in protest of being bowled no doubt, Fish #2 has also passed on. Now, true, the little guys didn’t come with any instructions or anything, but I’m fairly certain I know how to take care of a fish, or two. I’m …

Well, I’ve been looking at some figures (mostly that I’ve guessed at) regarding Chinese wages verses Canadian wages. I’ve been wondering for some time how the two compare. I mean assuming anyone’s checked the label on everything they own lately, it’s strikingly obvious that Chinese people make shit compared to Western wages … but what …

Well, I’m sad to report that sometime early this morning my fish became one step closer to reaching a higher level of existence, and his mortal vessel became one step closer to reaching the sea. Tragically the little bowl-dweller didn’t live long enough for me to give him a name. Out of fear that perhaps …

That’s right folks! I’m back on top! After nearly two months without ready access to the wonders of high speed internet, this morning a young man delivered a beautiful little box that is making my shiney new laptop just that much hipper. So the breakdown, for anyone in Dalian looking to get ADSL is such: …

So tomorrow China’s going to space, again. I am not sure if it’s been all over the news or not as I’m still on dial-up and haven’t been able to keep current with anything – but I doubt it, I mean 20-30,000 people just died in Pakistan. Two years ago China sent the first Chinese …

Hey, so I finally did a post up for my trip to the zoo a month ago. Check it out, there’s lots of snuggly animal pics… Dalian Forest Zoo – Caged