Planet Organic

This past few days have been crazy - not because we are rushing for some kind of deadline or what, but because we've been occupying ourselves with going out every so often. On one of those crazy days, we drop by Quinpool Rd and decided for once to walk right to the very end of where any proper retail shop may exist. Before that, we checked it out on Google Maps and found that there were a couple of shops that may interest us. So off we went out on the Metro Transit bus, with our winter boots on and our thick and overweight winter coats. When reached Quinpool, we walked from one end to the other, passing by many of the stores that we regularly go to like Canadian Tire, Atlantic Superstore, NSLC and even KFC. And apart from the Asian grocery, we found this little store which at didn't really intrigue us much (at first), called Planet Organic (for many reasons but for me, mainly because of the O word in its name).



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But having roam this tiny store, we stumbled upon a very interesting aisle that sold spices, flour and beans which allowed customers to buy how much they wanted. This is unlike other stores that usually sells in certain quantity. We haven't really compare the price as this store only displayed the cost by a smaller unit of weight, but plan to do so soon. Although we are very please to know that they allow customers to buy how much they want as this will prevent us from the need to buy too much of something which we would only want to use it once in your cooking or baking.

Here are just of the many array of flour/beans that were sold

Year End (Window) Shopping

No we didn't buy anything. But we did open our eyes to lots of stuff out there. Some interesting things were the Foosball table which was on bargain in Walmart. You can't find such things sold back in Malaysian, even if you were to convert it in RM.




Then of course there was kitchen stuff. One thing that caught our eye was the bread making machine. Yes we are currently very much into baking and our all time favourite apart from muffins - is none other than our all time most consumed food - bread...

Which is why the following kitchen equipment caught our attention when we went for some window shopping in Zellers




It wasn't really that cheap as Zellers tend to hike up their actual prices.


Here's another brand - Sunbeam. From what I read, it is a better one than Black and Decker

HRM Metro Transit Ferry Ride

Just some old photos we took when during the end of summer and beginning of fall. This one was taken when we decided to use HRM Metro Transit from Halifax to Dartmouth to get to Mic Mac Mall. Its a 5 - 10 minutes ferry ride from Water St terminal in Halifax and landed at Alderney Gate terminal.


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Parcel From Malaysia

We got our parcel that my parents mailed over from Malaysia. It was delivered by sea, so it took a while though (roughly 2 months).
Shucks, opening the package and going through some of the old clothes we left behind back home kinda brought some nostalgic feeling.





On the other hand, we got more things now that we're collecting over here. 4-5 years, boy I can't begin to imagine how things would be when we want to leave.

Of Sleds and Toboggans 2

So we headed out to Canadian Tire today and got ourselves a sleigh.

Look at it, pretty sleek isn't it.





Ain't exactly the Rolls Royce of sleds but it'll do
By the way it is called, Snow Runner.



Sadly, all the snow is melting right now. Weather Canada predicts that the next few days would be pretty warm for this time of the year. A high of 5 and low of 0 C. Pretty unusual for beginning of Winter season. So guess, we'll have to wait awhile before we let Snow Runner for a test drive. But the change of weather is good though as we'll be heading to Cape Breton next week. Hopefully, it'll be good enough for us to go to Cabot's Trail too.

Apart from the sleigh we also got ourselves board games and a deck of cards.

Of Sleds and Toboggans

Ok, I can't wait. Just need to get a sled or two and test out the snow hill behind our apartment complex.



Guess the best place for us to get and where there's alot of choices is from Canadiantire. Here's the directory. Which should we go for?
http://www.canadiantire.ca/AST/browse/5/SportsRec/WinterSports/SledsToboggans.jsp

Snow Storm

I guess some of you may have read in the papers of a bad snow storm hitting North Eastern parts of United States.

Well that's a famous places of course - NY, Washington, Virginia, Boston etc. Unfortunately places like Halifax and Nova Scotia usually slips through the radar. But yes, we here in Atlantic Canada, which is just north of those places and we too had a fair share of the bad weather. It came out in the news. I took some shots (video of the snow storm) from our apartment but will upload it later.

Here's the news from the papers the next day.