Vancouver Harbour

Vancouver harbour in Vancouver BC

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Tags: Travel, Vancouver, BC, Sky, Beautiful, British Columbia

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Our House

...In the middle of the street?

This is our house from 10 years ago, where I "grew up".

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Tags: Vancouver, Travel, 1999, Childhood, Memories, Vacation

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My School

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This is where I went to school back in the day! Did grade 5-7 here I think. Oh the memories!?!?

Categories: Life    

Tags: School, Elementary, Vancouver, BC, Burnaby, Travel

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Back to the Skies

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Back to the skies! This is taken from the plane (obviously!) over Edmonton, Alberta. The weather is a gorgeous -20 degrees C. And yes that is minus twenty.

According to people there, it only gets 'really cold' for a couple of days in the winter. The rest of the time it remains pleasant.

When asked if this day is pleasant, they replied "Of course! It's only -20!"

Categories: Weather    

Tags: Travel, Airplane, Edmonton, Alberta, Snow, Cold, Freezing

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Back From Vancouver, Edmonton and Ottawa

No posting for the last week, because of my reading week (ie. Spring Break) trip out West - from Toronto to Vancouver, Burnaby, Edmonton and then Ottawa - and the lack of time/Internet that accompanied said trip.

Funny that they call it Reading Week. They couldn't call it Spring Break as in the States because there is no sign of Spring anywhere in Toronto. With -10 degrees temperatures and snow still falling, you can't call it SPRING with a straight face!

With that said, enjoy the pictures (which will come for about a week)!

First off on my trip was Vancouver.

Here is a picture from UBC of the mountains up north:

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Although after living in the GTA for a couple of years everything in Vancouver seems small, it is still the best and most livable city in Canada (and probably North America).

In a nutshell, Vancouver has the BEST WINTER (because it is warm enough to not even be classified as a 'winter').

Categories: Weather    

Tags: Trip, UBC, University, Grad School, Chemistry, Travel, Airplane, Vancouver, BC

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Continental Flight 3407

Breaking news - A Continental Airlines plane has crashed in a Buffalo suburb, on route from Newark to Buffalo. All 50 people onboard have died, and the house the plane crashed into has also been completely destroyed.

Unfortunately, it is too early to rule out weather or even terrorism.

Here is the Google Street view of the house which the 74-seat Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 turboprop crashed into:

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Tags: Crash, Plane, News, Death, Buffalo, Airline, Incident, Continental Airlines

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Kofta With Tomato and Potato

Without mentioning any specific names, I would not trust most 25 year old brown girls who I know with cooking something decent. Unfortunately, when I look at younger brown girls, the situation isn't much better, and there is little hope for the future.

So you can imagine how I must have felt when I trusted the all-important Sunday night family dinner (look at this old post from 2004 [!] for the meaning behind Sunday night dinners at our house) to an anonymous 25-year-old Levant girl named Laila.

Alas, Laila came through, and her Levant recipe was very good for the amount of work required to make it. Recipe stolen from Laila's blog.

First, make the basic kofta mix.
- 1 lb minced meat
- 1/2 of an onion, chopped
- 1.5 cloves garlic, minced
- 0.5 cup parsely, chopped
- 1 teaspoon all spice
- salt and pepper, to taste

Add everything to the minced meat and mix!

-Kofta
-2 large potaoes, quartered then sliced thinly
-2 large tomatoes, quartered and sliced
-Juice of one lemon
-1/2 cup water
-1 tb olive oil
-Salt and pepper

*Recipe modified: olive oil substituted for vegetable oil and ReaLemon substituted for lemon juice.

Anyway, here is what turned out. It was served with warm pita bread and hummus (which sucked BTW because it came out of a jar instead of the fresh one that the Arabic store sells).

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Categories: Recipes    

Tags: Recipe, Laila, Blog, Arabic, Food, Cooking, Hummus, Kofta, Good Taste!

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Stupidity in the Lab

(I am in the lab on a Saturday, unfortunately?)

I hate my stupidity:

Hey I found this amazing capillary that is the perfect size and I love using it!
Let's use it for spotting TLCs from every reaction I do from now on.
[2 hours later...]
WOW this capillary really is awesome.
It is perfect in every way!
I will never need another one!
[Another 2 hours later]
SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT!
If I wasn't stupid and didn't reuse the same capillary for everything I wouldn't have had to waste two hours doing a column to purify something that was already pure.
DAMN!

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Tags: Lab, Chemistry, TLC, Capillary, Work

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Sigma Bottles

Some episode of Fringe.

Clearly you can see the Sigma Aldrich bottles in the back!

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Tags: Sigma, Chemist, Chemistry, Chemicals, Fringe, TV, Show

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