Bullets @ Pearson

After my 3-day-long-long-long-meeting in YOW....I came back to TO super tired...half-dead, half-sick....with a luggage that's 50% heavier than when I left (unfortunately not from shopping, but from the binder + 50-million pages of handouts + work-to-do's from the meeting). So I checked in my bag...coz there's no way I want to push it up the overhead bin inflight.

The flight actually arrived a little before schedule, which was great...but the wait for my luggage took forever.....after about 20 minutes, the carousel just stopped. Hubby managed to sneaked in the waiting area and wait with me...Some WestJet people came and took everything off that conveyor. Something must be jammed inside...it's past 8pm and I'm getting hungry....C'mon...hurry up!

Another 10 minutes...I asked hubby to walk around the carousel once more just to make sure my bag isn't already out. He came back with some news, "it will not be anytime soon," he said.... Two police officers arrived, a bunch of WestJet people gathered around..A lady from Transport Canada took out her patch-pad and start writing. There were about 20-30 bullets on the carousel conveyor. Just like that, in the open, not in any package or anything.

No one seems to be very alert though...there was not caution tape...we were not asked to stand back or anything, we just stand there and watch. We were not mistaken..those were real bullets..coz we were so close we could hear them talk! What amazed me was, after some questions and jotting down notes, the officers just picked up the bullets and put them in a Wal-Mart bag! Bare hands, no gloves! I mean ... that's not what we see on 法證先鋒?!? OK, I know it's not a murder scene..but, those are afterall, some kind of evidence to something?!?!

In less than 5 minutes after that, the carousel started moving again...as if nothing happened. Makes you think ~ is this just normal? Am I over-reacting? is it just my 孤漏寡聞 at play again? Kinda scary eh?

Anyways...the wait was tiring, but it was kinda interesting (should interesting be the word?) ...I mean, you don't get to see 20+ bullets everyday....you don't get to see any bullet....not that anyone would want to, but still! What a day! At least I was home in time to watch Pocoyo! =) Now I'd like my neo-citron and go to bed, my bed, my pillow + my multi-layer blankets! Oh yeeeessssssss!

Welcome Snowsie!

Snowsie just "showed up" at our house today and quickly became good friends with Snowbie.

You wanna know who's Snowbie? Here you go...

What a nice surprise!
Thanks cdN!

Now...we should start thinking...how shall we dress Snowsie when summer hits ~ guess she can't join us in the patio for BBQ eh? :p

Gingerbread House Building Competition

At lunch time today, we tumbled along a Gingerbread House Building Competition at Exchange Square. At first we thought it's just a kid's thingy, but it turns out to be a media event ~ the teams were from local stations: Omni, Global, CTV, etc... Quite an event with lots of people + reporters.

By the time we were there it was the last 2 minutes of the game...Omni 2's house was almost falling apart...which reminds me of the last time we did it in our place...hehe... (yes, ours fell apart too, the roof was too heavy before the icing dried!)

It was a lot of fun...I was taking pictures around and suddenly one of the lady asked, "Hey, can you email me those pictures... (she gave me her business card) … Arrhhh...why don’t' you take a picture for our team? Would you please?"

Her team member echo, "Yea, we are only on TV, we don't have a camera. HA!".

The lady was MairiAnna Bachynsky, a reporter for CTV...hubby noticed a few other celebrity anchors too...

Fun! And the houses were so creative! I think we should have a competition with b/s too!


A nice touch for the gloomy-wet-boring-sleepy study afternoon...