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Crowd Lu in Vancouver

a70 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:43:36 +0000

I admit I’ve never really listened to many of Crowd Lu’s (盧廣仲) songs before. His music is certainly not what you call mainstream, but after tonight’s concert, I am definitely a fan! He’s such a creative singer and composer and musician!

Awesome props to UBCTA for putting this show on! I am incredibly proud of what they’ve accomplished. It’s like a dream come true :-)

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Dazzling

a70 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:38:08 +0000

Church behind the yellow and pink

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Stories from an Intersection

a70 — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:22:08 +0000

Stood on the intersection of two streets, and there were lots of untold stories. Although I did not hear any of them, I was there to document their moment.

Story of a street performer

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Story of a father and child, after buying a Miga plush.

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Story of a lady walking down the street. Perhaps to her dinner date.

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Stories of a guy with a cup of coffee, the guy smoking, or the guys with the skateboard.

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Story of a guy on a stroll with his dog.

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Story of these friends, perhaps just after getting off work.

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Story of these bike riders, each with a different life, but share the same interest.

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Story of this lady, perhaps picking out the perfect bouquet for her mother on her birthday.

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Story of these pedestrians and cyclist, who might be headed home for dinner.

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Story of this cab driver who might have only had one customer the entire afternoon. It has been a slow day with the nice weather.

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And finally, story of this scooterist, perhaps late for her high school reunion…

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Early Cherry

a70 — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:37:21 +0000

The cherry blossoms are about a month early this year!

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Granville Street Lantern Forest

a70 — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:44:45 +0000

As you can see (from the lack of people on the streets!), this is going a while back in January. Three weeks before the Olympics started in Vancouver, LunarFest started on Granville St, between Robson and Georgia, displaying 2010 lanterns made by Taiwanese children as part of Cultural Olympiad. Being a Taiwanese Canadian, it was great to see something displayed so prominently to the world while the Winter Olympics was on. A description of it can be seen on the second photo.

In addition to the lanterns that the elementary school kids made, there were also bigger themed lanterns by Canadian and Taiwanese artists in what’s called “Love, Life and Light”. They look even better at night, which I will be posting later!

Lantern welcoming year 2010

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Part of Cultural Olympiad

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Streets were pretty empty for now

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Remember this girl?

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Save the Earth

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Beautiful Formosa

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Taiwanese Opera!

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Honeycombs

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They even have benches setup for you to rest!

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Made from recycled bottles!

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The Umbilical Cord

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Mukmuk World

a70 — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:14:01 +0000

Mukmuk says “Welcome World!”

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Mukmuk says “Ooo it’s a shame the Olympics are over already! Goodbye!”

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Mukmuk so cute.

Hockey Gold Rush

a70 — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:34:49 +0000

A sea of red is what you would’ve seen on Sunday if you had been on the streets of Canada. It was just before 3pm that Sidney Crosby had scored the winning goal of the most highly anticipated hockey game of the Olympics. Canada had beat the USA 3-2 in OT. Even if you didn’t own a television OR internet, it would be pretty darn hard for you to not have known the outcome of the game, as you could hear the shouts of people in the neighbourhoods and streets, and honks of cars everywhere. I must admit, the whole city must’ve exploded. What a heart-stopping game!

It marked the last gold awarded at these winter Olympics, but some say it’s probably the only gold medal that mattered (hey, I didn’t say that!). Let’s face it, we’re a hockey nation – we wouldn’t have it any other way. So let the celebrations roll!

These were taken after I left my house to go to the mint to trade for a lucky loonie – and of course, they had run out of them. So instead, I strolled along the streets to see people spontaneously singing the national anthem, giving high fives and taking photos with strangers, and waving the maple leaf flag.

Not only was everyone celebrating the gold medal in hockey, we were celebrating an all-time record of 14 golds, 7 silvers, and 5 bronzes. It was a proud day in Canada!

Hockey is Canada’s Game – you got that right!

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Streets were quiet in the morning as people glued to their tv’s

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Sea of red

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A truckload of red hockey fans

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Traffic was at a standstill, horns honked everywhere

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High Five!

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It’s a good day in Canada

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A national hero today!

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Dancing across Georgia – you don’t see this everyday!

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Some are dressed… well more interesting than others

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The party never seems to end

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2010 Winter Olympics Ladies Figure Skating

a70 — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:59:10 +0000

Since the Olympics are in town, and it’s probably once-in-a-lifetime that it will be so close to me, I had to attend at least one event! I lucked out and bought tickets in time to see the Ladies Figure Skating Free Program on Thursday, and it was amazing! Seeing the top athletes in the world compete for gold, silver, and bronze live, now that’s priceless! Although you get all the commentary and replays and close-up angles, I found that seeing a sporting event live is more about the atmosphere and seeing the overall picture.

At the end of the night, “Queen” Yu-Na Kim of Korea got the gold with a world record score (surprise!), Mao Asada of Japan taking silver, and Joannie Rochette of Canada winning bronze! Here are some photos from the upper level!

Yu-Na Kim skating a flawless program for the win

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Tickets!

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Spectators rolling in

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Looks like other Russian athletes are here to cheer on their teammates

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With Glowing Hearts!

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Quatchi was out with Miga for some photos!

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We’re in!

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Lots of photographers on hand

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Elena Glebova of Estonia

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Anastasia Gimazetdinova of Uzbekistan

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Sarah Hecken of Germany

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Cynthia Phaneuf of Canada

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Kiira Korpi of Finland

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Cheltzie Lee of Australia

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Julia Sebestyen of Hungary

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Min-Jung Kwak of Korea

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Carolina Kostner of Italy

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Laura Lepisto of Finland

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Ksenia Makarova of Russia

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Yu-Na Kim of Korea!!

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Finishing off the program and lots of gifts thrown

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Mao Asada of Japan

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Canadian support!

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Joannie Rochette of Canada!

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Out for bronze victory lap!

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Mao Asada bowing for the Silver

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Yu-Na Kim winning the Gold!

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Proud winners! Congratulations for their great skate!

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Big media attention

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IBC

a70 — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:43:06 +0000

International Broadcast Centre – where all the television magic happen for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

Busy intersection for cauldron visitors

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Golden Rings

a70 — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:32:25 +0000

The Olympic rings on Burrard Inlet turns golden for the 6th time. Ashleigh McIvor wins the first Olympic Ski-cross medal ever, since apparently she wrote an essay for her English class on why ski cross should be in the Winter Games when she was in her undergrad at UBC, then got an approval from the IOC in 2006 to have it included in the Winter Games! How wicked is that?!

Team Canada Medal Count: 6 Gold, 4 Silver, 1 Bronze

Olympic Rings turns golden on barge

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