Sunday, October 12, 2008

Coeur de Pomme

Hello guys, I'm here with freshly taken and uploaded photos from my apple picking excursion. They are appearing here before it is even on facebook and my blog cos I'm so so jealous of the Kingston brothers' awesome Thanksgiving weekend. Haha, compets spirit.

Anyway, David, Clara and Jon (Clara's bf) are here this weekend and we went apple picking at Oka, outskirts of the city of Montreal today. We packed 7 people in their rented dodge, and boy, it was DAMN COSY.

The apple picking experience was fun nonetheless. Weather was awesome today, sunny and not too cold. We get to sit on a tractor which brought us around, fed the goats with our apples, climb trees, climb ladders to reach for the apples at the top of the tree, played baseball/golf/shotput/whatever we could think of with the fallen apples and drank apple cider etc.

They even had cushions on the tractor for us to sit. =)

A very bad jumping shot. tsk

The colours of the autumn leaves are really very beautiful. Unfortunately, they will all be gone in a few week's time.

Take care, everyone! till then.

love,
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Awesome Americanos @ 1:11 PM

-ALI SIFTON!! MARRY JASON (OR ME!!)-

Jason and I had the most awesome Thanksgiving weekend ever over here in Canada. Jason's commerce buddy Ali invited us and a few friends over to her cottage for a Thanksgiving weekend! sounds quite normal right? but the only thing is... her cottage isn't the average cottage. Ali's family (the Siftons) owns land over here in Canada that has been passed down for generations. By land, i mean like eh... the size of say... half of Bishan or something like that? HAHA

It was amazing!!! Their cottage was facing the St. Lawerence River and their family name is on the maps (Sifton Road) and nautical charts (Sifton Bay). When we arrived, we were greeted by the awesome autumn colours as well as the bridge their family owns (basically the government had to ask for their permission to build a highway through their land!)

The Sifton Bridge. Joining 2 portions of their land

Entrance to Sifton Estate

Then over in the estate, there was the guesthouse we stayed in, the main cottage where her family stays as well as other houses around owned by their relatives. The land also contained a ranch for horses, an equestrian course. 2-3 powerboats, 2 jet skis, wake boarding equipment, a tennis court amongst other stuff. At night, we were treated to a Canadian Thanksgiving dinner with an awesome turkey as well as ham and other things like sweet potatoes etc etc

The days were packed with activities that was simply awesome! its kinda like a Canadian version of Club Med!

1. Marveled at the beautiful environment we were in
2. (attempted to) play lacrosse, American football, rugby
3. Swam and kayak in the freshwater river, which is really quite an experience compared to a swimming pool or a saltwater body
4. We played tennis
5. BBQed marshmallows and made smores in the evening
6. We took boat rides in an awesome power boat (courtesy of Ali's dad) out along the Thousand Islands (that's where the salad dressing gets its name! )
7. Stargazed at night
8. Just lazed on a deckchair in the sun staring at the river / lake. Pondering how awesome God is. (ok that's for me)
9. Watch the sun set and rise
10. And finally.. felt extremely depressed to leave the place... =(

Here are some photos of what i am talking about:

ok... that's all for now!! =) I LOVE CANADA / CANADIANS / THE SIFTONS!!!

bobbs
-For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain-

Awesome Americanos @ 11:17 AM

Thursday, October 9, 2008

happy la udla day!

today is our university day, so some of the international friends, zhicheng and i decided to go check out how the mexicans do their thing. and well, its really pretty much the same thing- fiestas anywhere and everywhere under the sun, complete with a dj booth, funfarish games and of cos sol beer :)

oh one of the highlights of the event was the sumo wrestler tournament between zhicheng and yuri, his love-hate relationship partner, with simon and i being their helpers hurrrr :)

pre-fight, stil very friendly with each other hahah

all ready to fight!!!

3, 2, 1, GOOOOOO!

and we've got a winner!

and what we did next was damm unfunfairish........ ..... .... .... . . SNAKE CARRYING scaryy marryy :S well we are supposed to expect the unexpected in mexican fiestas i guesssss heh

Amy and Zhicheng with their snakes

pretty good fun considering the fact that we stayed for only a mere hour and a half. zhicheng headed off to the irish pub as usual, while Amy and I had coffee at the Italian Coffee House before i headed back to my dorm. Well, happy la udla day once again!! and I just spoke to bobbs on msn and he said its early Canadian thanksgiving day today so well happy thanksgiving to the 3 of you silly billies. can't wait for us to be reunited in december! and to those in singpurrrrr hang in there!! just 3 more months and you will be freee!! :)

xoxo

angsterrrrr

Awesome Americanos @ 3:30 PM

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