Early Cherry
Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 5:37 pm # Categorized under Cityscape
The cherry blossoms are about a month early this year!
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Granville Street Lantern Forest
Friday, March 5, 2010 at 11:44 pm # Categorized under Artistic, Cityscape, People, Vancouver 2010
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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Mukmuk World
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 11:14 pm # Categorized under Vancouver 2010
Mukmuk says “Welcome World!”
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Hockey Gold Rush
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 11:34 pm # Categorized under Cityscape, People, Vancouver 2010
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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2010 Winter Olympics Ladies Figure Skating
Friday, February 26, 2010 at 11:59 pm # Categorized under People, Vancouver 2010
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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