My father and I left early at Gimli, so before heading home we decided to stop by at Selkirk.
I haven’t been to Selkirk, but my father went here before to go fishing. We stopped by at the Maritime Museum and again walked around a bit. Read the rest of this entry »
My father and I have decided to go somewhere this week. It’s the last day of October, and winter’s coming soon, so we opted to do something. We ended going out of town. Destination: Gimli.
Gimli is a small place, and it’s not far from Winnipeg where I live. We visited Harbour Park, walked around a bit. It’s freezing cold now so it was a bit hard to take photos. Read the rest of this entry »
Facebook is a good source of news. A month ago someone has sent me an invite to attend the Indonesian Food Festival 2009 here in Winnipeg. Since I am off during the weekends, I asked my father if he’s interested to go. To make the long story short, my family (sans my mom) went there this afternoon. It would be nice to learn something about my Southeast Asian neighbouring country, Indonesia.
It was a well-attended event. The location’s small, but just enough to accomodate the people who went there. The food’s good too. I shouldn’t be surprised that a lot of the food served there were similar to some Filipino dishes. I tasted my very first Indonesian coffee (coffee’s free btw). It’s actually good, but surprisingly the coffee grains don’t melt on the water. Hmm. Read the rest of this entry »
After writing my midterm, I skipped my Organization and Staff Development lecture to go to Pantages Playhouse and once again embrace my artistic side by attending the Winnipeg Arts Council’s 25th Anniversary Lecture featuring 3-time Booker Prize winning author, Salman Rushdie. His talk carried the theme “Public Events, Private Lives: Literature and Politics in the Modern World.”
Pantages was packed. Wow. It feels so nice to be surrounded by people who love the Arts and Humanities like I do. The lecture started with a performance by the Prairie Voice, singing a classical version of the song “If We Were Worthy of the World” from his book, “The Ground Beneath Her Feet.”
He’s a very interesting and smart man. His lecture was insightful, timely and at the same time funny. I took notes, because I am an epic geek. I was able to have my copies of “The Satanic Verses” and “Midnight’s Children” signed, and a guy ahead of me was nice enough to take a picture of me with Salman.
