Chances of Snow

Finally, or I would say, I spoke too soon. Weather report says that there's chances for flurries in Halifax tonight and tomorrow. Damn... and I haven't gotten my winter shoes yet.

Too Early For Snow

Damn. Central Canada (areas like Winnipeg, Saskatchewan, and Alberta)  experienced some short flurries this Thanksgiving weekend, something which shouldn't have happen. But if it did, end of Oct would have been the normal. This year, it came a little too early.



All the more reason now to quickly get our water proof shoes incase Nova Scotia experiences flurries too. I am not sure if there's any history of flurries happening here but we'll be keeping tabs with the news and folks here to be prepared.

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.