Canadian Quirks
1. Almost all local tourist shops in town are run by non-locals - mostly enterprising sikhs, vietnamese and hongkongers.
2. When a police car or ambulance drives on the road, all vehicles on the both side of a dual carriageway automatically come to a halt beside the kerb. In Singapore, we follow behind the ambulance for traffic-free speedway.
3. There is no central mount in a dual carriageway. This is to facilitate safety measures during winter when snow will cover roads and vehicles might whack into raised kerbs accidentally.
4. Everybody says hello to everybody here. This guy said hello to me in the toilet. While we were pissing. I played cool, contracted my bladder and left the loo halway through the osmoregulatory process.
5. The only self-professed 24-hour shop in Delta, Surrey closes every 11 pm.
6. It is true that Canadians don't think much about the Americans. And vice-versa.
7. Contrary to popular belief, there are people jogging in 2 degrees Celsius. Most just walk.
8. The maple tree is not found everywhere.
9. You cannot squeeze maple juice from a maple leaf.
10. The equivalent of Carrefour is The Canadian Superstore, a big-ass hypermart which kicks the butt of every hypermart-wannabe here.
11. Star Wars figures here are cheap. Period. On good pre-Christmas sales, you can get three basic figures off the rack for ten Canadian bucks at Zellers.
12. The downside : Most of the figures are Senator Jar-Jar Binks and Emperor Palpatine.
13. People here drive miles for hours to visit friends everyday. Here, we swear quietly when we need to drive a relative back home to Woodlands, a mere 25 km away.
14. Garage sales are bigger than the Great Robinson's Sale. You can get a fridge for ten bucks if you haggle right.
15. Prata cost seven bucks. And the meat in the curry looks like artifical protein carved out from Fusarium.
16. Bathing is optional here. Heaters are a must.
17. Normal shoes don't work while walking in snow.
1. Almost all local tourist shops in town are run by non-locals - mostly enterprising sikhs, vietnamese and hongkongers.
2. When a police car or ambulance drives on the road, all vehicles on the both side of a dual carriageway automatically come to a halt beside the kerb. In Singapore, we follow behind the ambulance for traffic-free speedway.
3. There is no central mount in a dual carriageway. This is to facilitate safety measures during winter when snow will cover roads and vehicles might whack into raised kerbs accidentally.
4. Everybody says hello to everybody here. This guy said hello to me in the toilet. While we were pissing. I played cool, contracted my bladder and left the loo halway through the osmoregulatory process.
5. The only self-professed 24-hour shop in Delta, Surrey closes every 11 pm.
6. It is true that Canadians don't think much about the Americans. And vice-versa.
7. Contrary to popular belief, there are people jogging in 2 degrees Celsius. Most just walk.
8. The maple tree is not found everywhere.
9. You cannot squeeze maple juice from a maple leaf.
10. The equivalent of Carrefour is The Canadian Superstore, a big-ass hypermart which kicks the butt of every hypermart-wannabe here.
11. Star Wars figures here are cheap. Period. On good pre-Christmas sales, you can get three basic figures off the rack for ten Canadian bucks at Zellers.
12. The downside : Most of the figures are Senator Jar-Jar Binks and Emperor Palpatine.
13. People here drive miles for hours to visit friends everyday. Here, we swear quietly when we need to drive a relative back home to Woodlands, a mere 25 km away.
14. Garage sales are bigger than the Great Robinson's Sale. You can get a fridge for ten bucks if you haggle right.
15. Prata cost seven bucks. And the meat in the curry looks like artifical protein carved out from Fusarium.
16. Bathing is optional here. Heaters are a must.
17. Normal shoes don't work while walking in snow.
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18. Women here play soccer too in a domestic league. And Ice-hockey. And Bryan Adams perform at half-time.
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19. You eat more at night than in the day. Maybe this has something to do with very little daylight in winter.
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20. Vancouver is one heaven on earth where the escape is just perfect; so perfect even some bloggers can lose touch on blogging for more than a month.
posted by joe at 7:18 AM
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