The food here is delicious and stupid cheap. You can buy a litre of beer at a corner store for 2.30 pesos. Less than a dollar. My trip has been punctuated by visions of death. Today; while walking through the botanical gardens, I came upon a cat with a grotesquely snarling face and a litter of dead kittens that had tried to nurse from their ( Read more... )

The past four hours i spent drinking with a bunch of young chilean music students who have been very patiently teaching me spanish. My brain is fried but i know that tomorrow, more words will be familiar and if given enough time, ill figure them out. Too many languages swirl in my head. When i look for a word, in my brain, in spanish, i come up ( Read more... )

Ended up at a blues bar instead. The band was incredible. I realized how lucky we are to be able to just go somewhere and listen to such talent. The Alouettes are playing the Lions right outside my window. Its pretty loud.

Cars weaving threads of light to Niagara falls. More casino winnings, luck is beautiful. The king of hearts. Drunk poker, lots of water... falling. Dim sum a la carte with family. Am I a member of a large group? Decemberists fantastic, adorable violinist, like souls. Montreal, La Boom, young students, familiar ideas long-ago thought. A very ( Read more... )

In Toronto, hanging out with Celine and my cousins. My cousins are great. The Pagulayan bloodline is full of expressive, artistic people doing what most people do... Only better! Sorry, I just love them and haven't been able to experience them in their full entirety until now. I have access to the roof of this very tall building and have spent ( Read more... )

Its time i go. I always put it off for later. i have to break the cycle now. So in my mind at least i am leaving for Argentina on Sept 28th, less than six days to learn Spanish and say goodbye for the hundreth time to my friends. My near future is so tightly packed with great people that i can't imagine why i ever get so sad. I do know though ( Read more... )

So... I finally surpassed my best casino winnings by walking out with 1635$. Hee hee... Ha... Whaaaaa ha ha ha ha! The BEST PART is that i actually lost but the dealer messed up. I doubled down on a soft 15 against a 6 and the dealer said: " You better hope for a seven" and in my head i was like... Doesn't she mean a six... Surely enough a ( Read more... )

Back in Chetwynd, dear dear chetwynd. It is really beautiful in the fall. I like yellow trees. Oh and food... Now i'm hungry. Really i'm just killing time because it'll be awhile before i can get picked up. Finished Oryx and Crake and reading Garden of Eden now as well as two new guitar books. Met a guy named Mookie. Who would name their ( Read more... )

Well, I'm back in Van for a little while, having come here for a job interview that no longer exists. Wasted about 1200$ in transportation and lost wages in doing so. Went to the pub in Ladner this beautiful sunny afternoon so i can sit somewhere secluded to gather some thoughts. Ended up gathering nachos, beer and a few words from a book as I ( Read more... )

In the John going to Shitwind tomorrow. I have to work in a group with the most heinous cow on the planet who has TSS only worse. I put up with her because we get favours and extra packs cuz she is the foreman's girlfriend. Somehow i feel its wrong that everyone else is getting screwed and that i'm covering her slack job and not making any more ( Read more... )