Think you know world geography? Then I challenge you to take this online quiz. The goal is to name all the sovereign countries in the world in 12 minutes. Hint – there are 196 of them. http://www.jetpunk.com/quizzes/how-many-countries-can-you-name.php At the moment …
Last week I was browsing through the Richmond Archives online trying to find Christmas-y photos of Richmond past. I didn’t know what I was looking for exactly, but I was hoping to uncover a photo of the Santa Claus parade …
While some people wake up at 5am to brave the malls on Boxing Day, my day after Christmas tradition seems rather low key. I’ll sleep in late (10-ish), enjoy a morning coffee with my parents while reading the Vancouver Sun. We’ll then …
Merry Christmas everyone! Having just spent the past 48 hours visiting my family, stuffing myself silly, and drinking myself merry, I figured I’d share with you a moment from the other week at the ANZA Club during the infamous annual Guided …
I first visited Prince Rupert in September 2010. I surprisingly never wrote a blog post about it, despite the trip being one of my favourites. I blame it on trying to navigate a new job at the time. Nevertheless, this …
This evening I went to The Acorn, a new vegetarian restaurant in Vancouver which is considered one of the best new restaurants to have opened in 2012 . Unlike Vancouver’s other exclusive vegetarian restaurants, The Acorn provides top notch service, …
One of the most fascinating photography collections I studied during my art history years at UBC was the Faith Moosang-curated exhibit of the photos of C.D. Hoy, a Chinese-born British Columbia pioneer who made a living as a photographer based …