It didn’t take long after I met Al to learn that he and his brother doesn’t know how to ride a bike. How is that possible?! Why would you not know how to ride a bike when growing up here in the West Coast? Anyways, I offered to teach them how to ride but their replies were always the same: “So and so tried to teach us in high school [...]
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We were asked by quite a few people when we’re going on our honeymoon and where. Long ago (ok it’s only about a year and a half maybe), we’ve decided not to go on our honeymoon right after the wedding because we wanted to get our own place (which we did) and this means we’ll need to pay mortgage. Both of us agreed that it’s be better to stabilize our [...]
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One night we wanted to have udon for dinner but I also have to prepare for lunch the next day. I don’t particularly like the idea of Al carrying a soupy item on the train so I decided to use the same ingredients for the udon and cook them in another way for the lunch box. The main ingredients I had were frozen prawns and snow peas that I’ve picked [...]
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After Al bought me my first SLR camera, the T3, I’ve been looking for locations to practice photography and Granville Island is probably on the top of my list. There are so many different things to shoot at Granville Island but the Market is where I probably snapped the most photos. It’s hard to resist taking pictures of the luscious fruits and vegetables. Just look at these berries, how can [...]
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Yes, you read that right. I will not be know as Jan Chau. Why? Well for starter, Jan Chan sounds much better. Secondly, I don’t want to go through the hassle of changing the last name on all my legal documents and IDs. Thirdly, if you haven’t noticed already, Chan and Chau is only one letter difference! Is it really worth all that trouble changing one letter? Nope, I don’t [...]
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