December 31st
9:18 AM
9:18 AM
October 11th
1:36 AM
1:36 AM
Since it’s Thanksgiving, I’m thankful for:
- Free all-you-can-eat sushi because it’s someone’s birthday, a tito and tita’s anniversary, someone else’s birthday, and Thanksgiving all in one day.
- Slacking off all weekend then staying up until 3AM the night before school.
- Zombie board games
- Taboo (and CV’s paper version of a GPS)
- Seeing my friends A LOT since the beginning of October
- Birthday gifts!
- Lengua, chicken inasal, and turkey dinners
- My last-minute birthday at Fireside with 15 of my closest friends… on a Monday
- Groping, lots and lots of groping (haha)
- Halifax this time of year ❤
August 27th
11:36 AM
11:36 AM
Niagara Falls, 2011.
May 23rd
7:41 AM
7:41 AM
If you’re Canadian…you should vote in the next election.
I’m not yet a Canadian. I just permanently reside here, so I can’t vote. But I totally would if I could so you, actual Canadians, should.
Also, that’s Winona from my FYP tutorial so yeah, instant reblog.
December 27th
3:06 PM
3:06 PM
On the MacDonald Bridge heading home from boxing day. A holiday where “penniless” people like me have an insatiable urge to BOX these consumerist asshats.
Love, jealous little me.
November 30th
9:12 PM
9:12 PM
a message from Anonymous
What do you plan to do after obtaining your degree? Do you miss the Philippines and ever wonder what it would've been like to go to university there?
An MLA spoke in one of my International Development classes tonight, and he said something along the lines of “go to school, take the courses you want to take, and then figure it all out.” That is basically what I am doing right now - taking all the interesting IDS, Sustainability, PolSci, and Philosophy courses Dalhousie has to offer. Along the way, I hope to figure it all out.
Specific (yet still quite vague) things I want to do with my degree (though they don’t need to be accomplished immediately after University):
- Intern/work for an NGO somewhere in the Global South, preferably a Latin American country.
- Become a corporate sell-out - kidding. Environmental consulting for a corporation I ~believe in.
- Government work in the international relations field.
- Intern for the UN. Lofty goal is lofty.
- Stick firmly to a cause and champion that cause until the day I die. If Martin Luther King Jr. is to Civil Rights Movement, Ilyana is to…
Do I miss the Philippines? Yes. All the fucking time. I love that country even if it frustrates me 90 per cent of the time. It’s true love; what can you do?
I’ve always wondered what it would be like to go to university back home, and I think it would have been awesome. I went to two different schools when I was in the Philippines; and people I knew from Woodrose now know people from La Salle Bacolod. It’s bizarre. I think it would be a lot of fun to be in the same city as my friends. Education-wise, I have a feeling going to school there would frustrate me and leave me dissatisfied. IDK, don’t shoot me.
I’m extremely blessed to have an education from King’s and Dalhousie. I don’t want to come across as a total dork, but I’ve learned so many things that challenge my mind and the way I conceive of the world. It’s not just university. It’s the whole experience of living in Canada. No experience has opened up my mind and made me more independent than moving across the globe. If I had a choice (which I didn’t 3 years ago), I’d choose what I have now. Without hesitation.
But fucking A. I miss my friends and extended family.
ETA: Why are you anonymous? I like your question. I would’ve sent you some crackers and Havarti.
November 26th
11:24 PM
11:24 PM
Taking pictures for my class’ big march
Plant the Seeds of Conscientious Eating: Feed the World, not your WalletTL;DR? It’s a march for global food justice. There are one billion people dying of hunger and one billion dying due to obesity or chronic heart disease related to overeating. Why the disparity?
The United Nations has outlined 8 goals that they would like to achieve to end global poverty by the year 2015. Millennium Development Goal (MDG, as they are called) number 1 is to eradicate extreme hunger and poverty, by halving, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1/day, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger, and to achieve full and productive employment and decent work for everyone including women and young people.
Inspired by Michael Pollan’s book “In Defense of Food”, and Jamie Oliver’s American food project, our class is tackling an interesting phenomenon that is affecting at least a third of the people in the world. Today, just 5 years away from the end goal of the MDG project, at least 1 billion people are dying from hunger, and about 1 billion people are dying from overeating. How are we supposed to achieve this crucial goal as a global population with such a vast dichotomy between the two portions of the population?
On November 27th from 930-11:15 a march will take place to help raise awareness around the two billion project. Please meet outside the Henry Hicks building, Dalhousie University around 930. From there we will be making out way down to the farmers market, which we should get there around 11:15. Once there everyone can go their own ways!
The solution: less cash-cropping; more hunger-stopping!
November 11th
12:08 AM
12:08 AM
Kensington Market, Toronto.
city of lights (by paul (dex))
I will be in this city in less than 24 hours, sharing a suite with my friends, and seeing Dan after two months of delayed text messages and bad Skype connections.
I also have some creative things in mind for this trip. Just you wait.
September 12th
10:53 AM
10:53 AM
Vacation snapshots, Summer 2010
August 25th
2:57 PM
2:57 PM
Quebec City (L-R): 1. A park in Levi overlooking the St. Lawrence River and neighbouring Quebec City, 2. Seafood pasta, 3. Délice Resto Lounge, 4. My dad, mom, and younger brother in front of a mural in Old Quebec, 5. The narrow streets and quaint shops of Old Quebec, 6. A church in Levi, 7. Pretty buildings and restaurants, 8. Mom and dad, 9. Château Frontenac.
July 13th
11:17 AM
11:17 AM
Oh, just life.
I work until 11PM tonight and tomorrow. But my vacation was approved so I’m free August 12th until the end of the month. Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto here I come!
