Report!

One of my secret little hobby is to read my old blog posts that I've previously written, and I just spent two hours doing that yesterday.

So since 2007 summer, I've written 286 posts. And this is my 287th. I've written a couple more in the past, but they've gone missing with the rest of my other blog pages.

But I've realized I'm kind of falling behind. Last year I wrote 52 blogs, I've only written 18 so far this year. Jack says I still have a couple more months to catch up, so I think I'll do that. Like Judy, I'll write blogs everyday now and maybe I can break my record. Jack says I'm wasting time. But I think I'm recording history. MY HISTORY. Perhaps my blog posts will end up in some kind of archival inventory in the future. College students who wanted to know the lifestyle of a typical Vancouver lady in her 20's during the 2010's will only need to search up my blog through google archives/blogs to find a whole lot of sources that could be used for his or her essay topic on "Urban Life in Vancouver, 2010's". And my name will appear on his or her paper countless times I believe. I'm making history, do you know how important that is?

So what to write, what to write,....

WELL, when I woke up today I had the brilliant idea of wearing my jeans to match my new blouse. I looked frantically for them but couldn't find them anywhere in the apartment. My last guess was to look in the laundry room in the basement. And oh-em-gee, five days since we did our laundry, my jeans was still there, flat on the counter.......... YES this is what happens when your brother takes on laundry chores. He collects everything that belongs to him and only leaves behind the jeans of his sister. Ass.

And I skipped lunch at work today... I bought a new pair of boots today because my converse is beginning to fall apart... I dressed casually today and the lady at Aldo said she liked my blouse, which made me very pleased. Then I came home and ate what I should have eaten for lunch, then I started watching movies. Now I'm here trying to break my record for annual blog post! My brother just showed me this video of this Japanese guy who broke the Guinness world records of "breaking" the most walnuts with his butt in 1 minute.

CRAP it's 12 am here now... I'm showering! Awfully tired from not eating lunch today.

Ottawa Week 1

來了一個星期，差不多都搞定了！耶！耶！耶！

這幾天忙著買菜，找路，買菜刮布，坐錯公車，買浴簾，吃外帶。

默默的感謝上個房客留下來的齊全廚具，電鍋，熱水壺，碗盤，未開封刀子，懷疑從來沒用過的鍋子，還有鹽，胡椒粉，橄欖油。這樣省了好多麻煩。

才一個星期每天過得超上班族。早上起床，塞個麵包去門口等公車。和一群穿得跟自己一樣的人下車，排在和自己穿得一樣得人後面等著買咖啡，坐8個小時。回家後在上網洗澡睡覺。好規律正常呀。。 看看能不能之後加入“下班後慢跑”。

這幾天渥太華天氣都不錯，20上下左右，害我很後悔沒有帶夏天的衣服來，今天根本就可以去野餐了！

不過來到這裡應該要趁機會去當文藝青年走一趟博物館。這裡國立博物館一堆的。

這兩天各去了一個博物館，

canadian museum of civilization &

canadian war museum

因為是學生，所以兩張票只要15加幣，相當於看一場電影吧，讓我覺得特別划算。而且兩個館都讓我很大吃一驚，光是建築就很壯觀，想說加拿大居然能有這麼大型的展覽，Oh！ Canada！

兩館都很有趣，所以可以看很久都不出來，我在看文明博物館（現在有很有趣的日本創意設計展覽）是看到要休館時被管理員趕出來。

之前覺得渥太華的大眾運輸很糟糕怎麼搭都不對，不過來了一個星期，公車也比較熟了，今天出去前把路線都看好，之後也不會浪費太多時間，也不能什麼都拿來跟溫哥華比較。

看完了博物館後去河邊散佈，然後在去市區逛街，很方便的！（感覺是來玩的）在urban outfitters買了一件裙子和短褲（還發同一個東西價錢和溫哥華差很多）。chapters和溫哥華的一樣大，也是進去了出不來。。。

對於渥太華，現在還在摸索和探險當中。希望在離開之前能夠把它變成“我的”城市！接下來這幾個月我會繼續努力的玩 （根本就是來玩的）。

I'm a global adult now

• Bahrain ^[40]
• Cameroon
• Chad
• Egypt
• Honduras
• Lesotho
• Madagascar ^[41] (minors are emancipated upon marriage)
• Mississippi, United States^[37]
• Namibia
• Puerto Rico
• Singapore (Only for casino entry age, voting and marriage)
• Swaziland
• United Arab Emirates

So I just checked, I have reached the age of majority in the remaining 13 countries listed above which has the oldest threshold of 21 years. Meaning, I'll be an adult everywhere in this world, that's something worth celebrating I think. Maybe I'll treat myself a shot of Baileys tomorrow.

昨天第一天去報到，經理說員工生日時都會被請吃好料，順便問我生日什麼時候。 她萬萬沒想到我生日就是上班第二天，應該很後悔。 然後今天的午餐是燒羊空心粉。

我萬萬也沒想到生日居然會在這裡過，我連蛋糕要從哪裡買也不知道說。 昨天突然想到我將要21歲的時候，心裡想的就是 “該死的！青春要流失了！” 今天提大統華的袋子拉到肌肉，更深深體會到身體已經沒有以前靈活了，“crap!"。

渥太華天氣最近很好，每天都是晴天，早上出去心情不錯，晚上因為很涼快所以睡的很舒服，要是能這樣下去就好了。因為是”公務城“，所以每天去市中心看到的都是白人白領，還是有點不習慣。除了少數的公車司機以外，大部分的人都對我很好，不會看到我就跑掉。 沒有山，沒有海，沒有clubs，很多辦公大樓還有公車就是了。

嗯。。。 今年的生日感想是。。想不到什麼就是了。 每年過生日都是很忙碌的時段，都沒有時間好好寫剛想，都是讓它悄悄的加一歲。今年也不例外。

好了好了，我要先去睡攪攪。

Ottawa Day 1

Every time I arrive at a new and different place, I always think to myself "I want my bed", "I want Mimi", "I want my Downtown", "I want my parents", "what the hell am I doing here again?" Same thing this time. Give me a while, I'm sure I'll think about Vancouver and Taiwan a little less each day.

Ottawa is smaller than what I'm used to, but it seems like quite a nice place. I've settled in a 1-room apartment 20 minutes (bus ride) from Downtown. The neighbourhood is quiet, something that I'm also getting used to. We had dinner in Downtown, so I had a chance to take a look. It was much quieter than Vancouver on a Saturday night. I only saw one club, and it had no lineup. The streets and the restaurant didn't have a lot of people, considering that it's a beautiful Saturday. But again, it's only my first night here, and first impression shouldn't be taken seriously, ha. Tomorrow I will head out to buy some more things for the apartment with my brother, and get a new mobile plan perhaps. I'll also have the chance to tour the City more, hopefully.