Merdeka 曖昧

Dearest all, for your info, this blogger has left Vancouver at 10:30 Pacific Standard Time (PST), February 17, 2006 Friday, and soundly touched down in Taipei at 15:45 our homely Bolehland time (MYT), February 18, 2006 Saturday. Had 2 meals, namely lunch at like 12:00 PST and dinner at 17:00 PST.

The 4 movies watched being Bee (about Bee the Spelling Contest and some mysterious I-dunno-what stuffs), An Unfinished Life starring Jennifer Lopez, Duma and satu lagi the first one, story about country singers Johnny Cash and June Carter, whose title I’ve forgotten laa, Walk with me or something to that effect if I’m not mistaken…

Imagine spending 29 hours and 15 minutes for a flight of 12 hours and 15 minutes… Before I boarded the plane, just had some time to write my better half a postcard from the Starbucks, and bought her a T-shirt, one of the kind back in Bolehland, yeay !

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Pinky dude, Shin’s off to Victoria… Come back laterz, mwah !

I’m going to Victoria on Vancouver Island, the provincial capital of Colombie Britannique tomorrow, thus, instead of venturing around, I spent my morning doing some homework, surfing through various websites including Wikipedia Victoria and BC Transit Victoria, so I can plan forward what am I supposed to do when my ferry lands in Swartz Bay tomorrow.

Still, I went to Richmond town centre for lunch, bought some bran raisin muffins for my breakfast onboard the ferry tomorrow, and f0llowed by my routine cuppa coffee and piece of chocolate cake.

Again, some pictures have been captured specially for you. Obviously the super sweetie in the cafe is a must, but I don’t think revealing more of her pics without her consent is very ethical, thanks for your kind understanding

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Tsawassen doubles up as a border checkpoint to the little USA enclave of Point Roberts, an little peninsula extended southward from Tsawassen, which is separated from the US mainland by the Boundary Bay. As it lies to the south of 49′ N parallel, it is belonged to the state of Washington. A satellite photo from the Aug 2004 issue of National Geographics shows its location…

The 56th Street runs throughout Tsawassen all the way to the checkpoint with Point Roberts. As a small community, a lot of things can’t be found in Point Roberts, such as, according to a local resident interviewed by National Geographics, a bra. Thus, many of its residents come shopping in Tsawassen. When US dollars is weaker, the opposite takes place.

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Tsawassen, in the southern end of the District Municipality of Delta, is about an hour away from Richmond by bus. It is most famous for the main terminal of BC Ferries, the gateway to among others, Victoria, Vancouver Island, the provincial capital of British Columbia. However, this ferry terminal is quite a distance away from Tsawassen town centre, and I will only visit it next Tuesday when I am scheduled to take my ferry to Victoria.

Unlike Vancouver or Richmond which are full of checkerbox streets, Delta comprises three small townships and vast farmland in between. Its town centre, located at where 56th Street meets 12th Avenue, boosts a small cosy shopping mall with no more than 20 outlets. The only coffee shop here is run by a Chinese woman from Beijing, whose daddy, according to her, was born in Johor, Malaysia. They have a keyboard in the coffee shop, where kids will meet and sing together every weekend.

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