Snowboarding lesson

So i have signed up for snowboarding lesson at Canada Olympic Park (COP) today. COP is just 20 minutes away from downtown. From the name itself, it pretty much says it all. It was once a venue for Winter Olympic back in 1988. Calgarians are still proud of themselves for hosting the Olympic Winter games.

Anyway, i paid around $50 for lift ticket, rentals and 1.5 hours of lesson. pretty good deal. I am pretty excited and a little nervous about it.It is gonna be my first time snowboarding... gosh, wish i am able to get the hang of it.

FIrst i gotta get a pair of snowpants. money out again...sigh...

Lets hope the lesson worths the money and pain.

Xmas surprise montage

So this is what we did at our Xmas party!!!

It was pretty awesome! haha... it was so much fun.

"Lucky girlfriends"... thats what Chealsea said. hahaha.....

check it out :)

Xmas Party 2007

So it was my first company's Xmas Party!

It was held in Palliser Fairmont Hotel, the only 5-star hotel in Calgary. It was a great night overall, lots of laughing, dancing, drinking. Pure fun. Good to see Principals, consultants getting a little drunk and shaking their booties on the dance floor.


We are the Associates.


The young and fun group.


Cecilia(the youngest actuary in the office, so darn smart) and me


Emma and Owen doing their thing


Stephen, the one on the left, is our manager




me, andrew, emma, cecilia, owen


Guys doing MJ's move!


Farheen and me


Brad (my direct manager)

snow pic

these are the pics i took outside my house on that night when Calgary started to snow....

snow snow snow

I was waiting for the train to go home from work, and snow flakes started falling from the sky. SNOW!~

I always like seeing snow gently drifting down from the sky. It seems to have the power of slowing things around you. It starts filling the ground and makes it white.

It is 930pm now and i think it is still snowing outside. Looking outside from my basement window, i see white on the ground :) Let's hope it snows so much tonite that when i wake up tmr, everything is white in Calgary. I'd love to have a white party =)

E-town

So i went up to E-town with a friend. E-town has the biggest mall in North America, West Edmonton Mall, or it self-proclaimed. I kinda doubt it super title, it does is a HUGE mall, so big that there is a water theme park, a galaxy theme park, a hotel, a few supermarkets, and so big to the point that there is a SHIP right in the middle of the mall. A freakin' ship for decoration. How insane.

I didnt give much attention to the ship more than the shops there. Abercrombie & Fitch, Hollister, Zara, America, Buffalo, Banana Republic...etc are all there.

It was a good trip but i think i spent a little too much! Got myself a ski jacket, a winter wool coat, t-shirts, dress shirts for Xmas party =) and some sweaters. Gosh, i didnt think shopping could be addictive. It obviously proved me wrong.

I shall eat Korean instant noodles for the following 2 weeks.

X'mas party surprise

Guess what?

We are gonna have a surprise dance at our company X'mas party!~ I really doubt any senior management will read my blog, i might as well just break the surprise now and share it with u all.

As our company's Xmas party customs, the Associates of the company will perform or do something for the Entertainment part of the party. This year, we decided to sing X'mas Carols/Thriller/Bollywood dance/line dance/break dance, all in one. We called it the TP Montage. We are gonna start it off singing Silent Night... for like a minute....boring i know...thats the whole point, and MJ's Thriller will break off the song and we start doing the famous Thriller moves for like a minute...and back to silent night and another Bollywood surprise...and etc...

Alfred and i have decided to volunteer to master Thriller moves and teach the others. Well... it wasn't easy. But it was fun. I spent like 2 hours learning from online vids. Getting down most of the moves now, will show the others tmr in a private room at the office.

*shuffle back hop hop, down turn, look stare stare, down ha down ha down ha...*

We'll see how it goes. Im pretty excited about it :) Should be a blast.

This is kinda like what we are doing...

the season of cold

Yea, snow is here, season has changed, and it is the season of COLD too.

I started to have a little sorethroat on Sunday night, after helping a friend moved in the cold weather. Didn't care much, and went grabbed some burgers and fries from Peter's Drive THrough. By the way, PDT has the most famous shakes in town. I got myself a strawberry shake.

Throat got worse on Monday, and still am kinda feeling sick. Lots of water, i know. I had so much water at work today that i thought i need to work beside the washroom.

Oh well, 2 NightTime tylenols before bed, hopefully that'd help. It is 10, i should go hit the hay now. Night.

Finally...

My first real weekend ever since i started working is finally here.
I wrote Exam C on Monday. Am really glad it is over, at least i can have a little break now, from all the studying in the office monday to sunday.
Given all this free time i have now, im wondering how could i best utilize it..
hmmm...
More time for ballroom and salsa dancing :)
I really wanna be a smooooooth salsa dancer.

Cant wait for snow to come! yes, can u believe me saying that?
I know... i never really liked snow, but this time, it is different.
Once the snow is here, i will be the first to sign up for snowboarding lesson at COP. I need to get a pair of snowpants and a better ski jacket. darn, money out again. People at the office are expecting me to be able to snowboard or ski before our Annual ski trip! I better master it. Hopefully.

Whatelse do i wanna do? hmmm...

darn, write the freaking driving test.