Marlborough Woods

This blog is dedicated to my wife's 2nd sister and her husband who love trekking the most, and also to my parents who of late have found youth in their post-retirement days with the countless of adventures and morning walks.

Not long ago, prior to the torturing days of exams and assignments we're experiencing of late, we roamed the tiny Halifax peninsular at its Western arm side. We came across Marlborough Woods Park,



which is a street of untouch natural wooded forest found in the South End of Halifax that stretches in between railroad and the coast facing Halifax's Western Arm.

It was a bit of a experience. Walking just 2 of us in a quite surrounding which was pretty shaded and I could say spooky if not the least.





But conquering our fears, we stride on and was captivated by the beauty of the natural surrounding albeit the railroad that's always just a glance away.



Well, we did come across a pylon along the way and can't help but to capture it with a backdrop of a fighter jet's trail.



The trail took about 10 minutes walk give or take a minute or so. And we ended up at Atlantic School of Theology.



Which had some pretty old unique structures for its buildings.

A Bit Of Home

Was digging through some of our ol' photos taken when we visited Toronto and Niagara and I came across some shots that we took when we went to a few Asian supermarkets there.


frozen durian in a package (worry-free and torn-free durian delight)


but if you miss the memories of handling the actual thing, they the REAL deal too - FROZEN of course.


haha.. Ipoh's if definitely BETTER...




pathetically sweet Chile sauce....

Of course all of these stuffs are in Toronto. Sadly there's less of this in WASPY (western anglo saxon) dominated area like Halifax.

Busy...

We've been busy of late which explains the big gap from the previous updates. 2 assignments, lab work and a week long streak of cloudy skies and rain (thankfully no chances of meatballs, hehe. Although that could also be good in away - no more worries about food)

Long story short, to put in an equation...

Machine Learning + Natural Language Processing + Prototype Demo Due = (Long nights + No Sleep + Countless Amts Of Coffee + Anxiety) - (Good night SLEEP + Relax + Feel good moments)

Could have put some derivatives or integrals or those fancy maths symbols but didn't want to bother finding out their html equivalent. Anyway, the good part is 1/3 of the semester is over, and another 2/3 of it go.

Google Street View

You really have to hand it to Google - they're really doing really good things. Street view is one of them. Check out an image of me surfing Street view. Here you can see the image of the entrance to the university (click to enlarge).



What I like about this is now I could get a view of the place I wanna go to in 3D perspective rather than the 2D view from you standard map. I am pretty sure this is also something welcoming for those in the tourist industry. Would be visitors could use this product to sort of get a feel of the place they want to go to before making that decision.

Street view is now available in Canada. Its a widely available in the US and UK but has been slow to get on air in Canada due to privacy issues. Most major Canadian cities has Streetview capabilities on Google maps e.g. Toronto, Vancouver, Halifax and Calgary. How do you use it? Well just look out for the following icon on when using Google maps. If its colored in Orange that means there's Street view service over the area and you can then drag and drop it over a street you intend to take a sneak peak at.

Harvest Festival

Its a Thanksgiving weekend here now in Atlantic Canada.

Went to both Atlantic and Sobey's supermarket you can just tell that it is celebration in the air.
Most people here would treat thanksgiving much like how the Chinese would treat Mid autumn festival.

Abbundance of Food

Check it out.



An offer from a local store which is too hard to resist. Plus with the actual flyer there's a coupon which we could use along when purchasing this. It'll give us the free 1 pack of PC's the decadent chocolate chip cookie.



A meal for 4 which we could reheat the 2nd half for another meal plus a pack of cookies. We got the whole week covered. We're going for more!

Beautiful Autumn @ Kejim

It's 1st Oct... Autumn is fully here.

Check out Novascotia's tourism blog.
http://www.novascotiablogs.com/whereiswally/2009/10/the-autumn-scene-is-beginning-to-heat-up.html

Some beautiful shots of Kejimkujik National Park are shown there. The leaves are starting to turn red already. What I heard is that you only have at most 2 weeks to enjoy this. After which they will fully fall from the trees and wait for winter to arrive in the next 1-2 mths time.