Holidays Over!!!
I am back from my 2-weeks' holidays in Canada and USA. It was my first time to take a long and gruelling flight to faraway countries. In which I hate to ride on planes for long hours. But after flying back and forth to Canada and USA (From USA, I had to go back to Canada to catch my flight home to Singapore as it was much cheaper.), I think that I am getting used to long journeys.
Geography fantasises me a little. It is very interesting and eye-opener for me to learn about Canada and USA. I flew to the
state province of British Columbia(BC). Although the capital city of BC is
Vancouver Victoria, I never knew that there are other cities in BC too such as Surrey and Richmond. But these towns are quite small and suburban though. I stayed in the city of Surrey, about 30 mins's drive to Vancouver. The biggesst city in the province of BC is Vancouver.
The city of Surrey abounds with nature. There are a lot of farms and even a salmon hatchery. As it is inconvenient for me to go down to city of Vancouver (there are no buses or trains near my place of accomodation.), I stayed in Surrey most of the time. But I was very happy and did nothing but to seek solace in nature and enjoy chilly weather too. To recuperate from my burnt-out life due to work.
I bunked at a Christian nature conservation organisation, Arocha, by couresty of my friends who work there.
At the organisation, I met people of different nationalities who work there. They are from Brazil, Uk, Thailand and Canada. Some of them are on internships. Some of them stay at the organisation.
Even there is a staff who cycles from Vancouver to Surrey. It astounds me because it is quite a long, long and long distance to cycle on highway along rows of farms.
End of "Holidays Over!!!".
The Big Apple, here I come!
Tonight, I will be embarking on my trip to New York, the Big Apple!!! For three days. Looking forward to it.
A Life in Vancouver's Nature Place
Photo of red maple leaves is taken by my friend.
Photo of cow is taken by my friend.
Taipei Airport
I am now at Taipei Airport, waiting for my transit flight to Vancouver. As I am typing this post, it is 7.20pm. My flight will take off at 11.55pm. Sigh! Nothing to do at airport.
The airport has nothing fantastic to boast of. There are very few but sad choices to offer for food - Subway, Starbuck and a stall selling beef noodles. i settled for Subway teriyaki chicken sandwich for dinner. Ambled in and out of duty-free shops, spraying whiff of many different brands of perfumes on sample cards.
Here I am, typing about the airport.
Ur figure turns me on, babeh
Plagiarised from soneone's blog:
Example 3c
Ms Jones has 10 books that she is going to put on her bookshelf. Of these, 4 are mathematics books, 3 are chemistry books, 2 are history books and 1 is a language book. Jones wants to arrnage her books so that all the books dealing with the same subject are together on the shelf. How many different arrangements are possible?
Solution:There are 4! 3! 2! 1! arrangements such that the mathematics books are first in line, then the chemistry books, then the history books, then the language book. Similarly, for each possible ordering of the subjects, there are 4! 3! 2! 1! possible orderings of the subjects, the desired answer is 4! 4! 3! 2! 1! = 6912
Mathematicians! who! work! with! probability! are! highly! excitable! people!
