Chasing Ducks At Public Garden

Trip To Staples

Did we say that stationaries are expensive. Well they are! At the university's book shop, and even at Walmart itself. We never thought that we come to say this, but we're in desperate need for stationary supplies. Especially files and folders to help sort our mounting pieces of papers, documents and notes. Without them, its all clutter here and there. But our first visit to the university's book shop came with a suprise. We found out that there was no (none at all) files with 2 rings sold. So being the type that would not make a hasty decision, we went to Walmarts and lo-behold, we ended up with nothing because why? There were no files and folders with 2 rings sold.

We then decided that we have no choice but to give in to the fact that files here are 3 rings and that we should just proceed with buying the necessary suplies. But the price was way way expensive. Imagine a simply thin file with 3 rings cost a minimum of CAD 6. Times that by 3 it would be RM 18. But here's the thing, even if you don't convert it is still expensive because you could get the same type in Malaysia for below RM 6. Let's not get to the 3-hole puncher. That's another killer.

That's the reason why, come this weekend, we decided to take matters into our hands and since we were told that Staples would have a better selection of things for stationary supplies, we though, heck yea, let's go to Staples. Anyhow to cut the long story short, we did not buy anything. The fact of the matter is, the stationaries are expensive here - period. We will simply be using our slide-in folders rather than the ring ones and wait until Fall sales arrives (that's when summer ends and students prepare to head back to school).

Below are some photos our trip to Staples on Saturday. Along the way, we pass by Public Gardens from another angel, the Museum of Natural History and Citadel. We also visited another shopping mall called Scotia Square.

Here was our walking path -> here.


5 minutes into the walk and we are nearing Public Gardens.


bus stop infront of PG


Fences along the Public Garden, to the left hand side is the cemetery.


Fence again


People picnicking at the Gardens. It was a fine weather that day.


Beautiful view of the garden.


Benches at the garden


Back entrance to the garden


The museum






Staples


Citadel


Mooseheads - its the stadium where they play ice hockey. If I'm not mistaken, Mooseheads is the name of the team too.




Scotia Square

Public Gardens @ Halifax

Just some shots we took when visiting Public Gardens last week.

The flowers are just starting to bloom but the leaves haven't really covered all of the trees yet. Some are still a lil' late but I suppose by next month it would really be more beautiful than this. So we'll be going back again then one more time and will give you a lil' before and after.

Harsh Weather

Yes you said right. Today's weather is not very friendly. It is indeed unpredictable the weather here in Halifax, NS, Canada. Winds are strong and its chilly at 10 degrees C.

But we managed to open our bank accounts at Scotia Bank near campus and are right now in the Faculty building.

Here are some shots we took.

One is the Public Gardens which will only open on 15th of May.



And here's one showing Spring Garden Rd and there's the Metro Bus which we have been using quite frequently to get to places further away (otherwise, we'll stick to Bus No. 11 for awhile)



Cheers, gotta go check out other things.