Your First Winter - Just for Laughs!!

[shells]

I like the way he handles disagreements.

I grew up in a very thrifty family, and before I knew him, I was a student trying to manage my school fees and living expenses at the same time (which meant I got alot of my stuffs from the thrift stores like Value Village, etc...) and I didn't mind 2nd hand items too. After I moved in with him, he made me threw out ALL those stuffs I got 2nd hand (I was so pissed and upset, coz I thought it was very wasteful).One time he threw out a whole bunch of my things while I was at work. We fought alot because of that. He said those are old and made me look ugly, and took me shopping for new clothes, jackets and shoes, saying if I don't look nice and presentable, then I'm not going to find a job. All the things I bought had to be vet and approved by him first ;D He will not hesitate to tell me point blank, "YOU LOOK UGLY IN THAT."

 

[shells]

If you have a smartphone, download your local transit app. Calgary Transit App has saved my life. Okay, not literally, but close.

I usually text my bus-stop number to the transit line to find out what time the bus arrives.. but sometimes the bus is late (or doesn't even come for that schedule at all).. it just drives me crazy.. especially if it's snowing heavily. They should have sheltered bus-stops everywhere in Canada considering it's so cold here!

In some parts of Singapore, we are starting to have indoor bus-terminals (passengers wait inside an air-conditioned complex) with automatic doors that you walk up to when your buses arrive. I wish they have that in Vancouver(but heated)! My SG apartment is in a relatively new neighborhood, and there are wide sheltered passageways on the streets that connects you directly from the train stations to the grocery stores/food courts to the apartment so you can basically go out rain or shine (without an umbrella) and not get wet. I miss that aspect.

 

[amikety]

I usually text my bus-stop number to the transit line to find out what time the bus arrives.. but sometimes the bus is late (or doesn't even come for that schedule at all).. it just drives me crazy.. especially if it's snowing heavily. They should have sheltered bus-stops everywhere in Canada considering it's so cold here!

In some parts of Singapore, we are starting to have indoor bus-terminals (passengers wait inside an air-conditioned complex) with automatic doors that you walk up to when your buses arrive. I wish they have that in Vancouver(but heated)! My SG apartment is in a relatively new neighborhood, and there are wide sheltered passageways on the streets that connects you directly from the train stations to the grocery stores/food courts to the apartment so you can basically go out rain or shine (without an umbrella) and not get wet. I miss that aspect.

I completely agree. It blows my mind that there's bus stops without even a bench. As someone with a lifelong, chronic medical condition with my feet, a bench is really nice. The thing about the App, however, will at least tell you if a bus is running that day/time (so you aren't waiting for a downtown express route on a Sunday). The Calgary app also shows you all stops in a certain radius (1, 2, or 5 km) so if you're lost, you can find a nearby stop. I've used that before!

We do have a few heated bus shelters - there's one at Somerset station in southern Calgary. However, it's barely kept warm - and not because the door opens frequently.

 

[NicAnn]

I grew up in a very thrifty family, and before I knew him, I was a student trying to manage my school fees and living expenses at the same time (which meant I got alot of my stuffs from the thrift stores like Value Village, etc...) and I didn't mind 2nd hand items too. After I moved in with him, he made me threw out ALL those stuffs I got 2nd hand (I was so pissed and upset, coz I thought it was very wasteful).One time he threw out a whole bunch of my things while I was at work. We fought alot because of that. He said those are old and made me look ugly, and took me shopping for new clothes, jackets and shoes, saying if I don't look nice and presentable, then I'm not going to find a job. All the things I bought had to be vet and approved by him first ;D He will not hesitate to tell me point blank, "YOU LOOK UGLY IN THAT."

I grew up with mom hand sewing alot of my dresses and buying things from thrift stores too. I can so relate! That is so sweet of him! He wants you to be his beautiful queen.

 

[shells]

I completely agree. It blows my mind that there's bus stops without even a bench. As someone with a lifelong, chronic medical condition with my feet, a bench is really nice. The thing about the App, however, will at least tell you if a bus is running that day/time (so you aren't waiting for a downtown express route on a Sunday). The Calgary app also shows you all stops in a certain radius (1, 2, or 5 km) so if you're lost, you can find a nearby stop. I've used that before!

We do have a few heated bus shelters - there's one at Somerset station in southern Calgary. However, it's barely kept warm - and not because the door opens frequently.

I can't fathom how they charge so much for the fares, and still say they are making losses and increasing fares. Are they making "losses" because, after paying their management high salaries, they don't have enough to break even for operating the system? And I was very shocked how there were no gates at all at the skytrain stations here... you would NOT SEE THAT in Asia. If you cheap out at first by not incorporating the gates from day 1, then you need to realize that it's going to have bad consequences with tonnes of people cheating. When you "make losses", then you are not going to have the resources to maintain it by keeping it heated, among other things.

 

[shells]

I grew up with mom hand sewing alot of my dresses and buying things from thrift stores too. I can so relate! That is so sweet of him! He wants you to be his beautiful queen.

Haha.. my parents grew up during the World War II, so they are the types who wear and use everything until there are holes in them, or broken beyond redemption. Just because the war is long over, doesn't mean they would change their habits from then. We are strongly against wasting anything. Love my fiance for wanting to make me look good.. but hate him at the same time for being extremely wasteful I feel very guilty.

 

[shells]

I had to ask someone which parking lot was that one (pointing to it) south or north? :-X

I don't know if it's plain stupidity or no sense of directions, I always have a hard time figuring out North South East West when people try to give me directions... hahaha! I will just ask, "can't you just tell me a building or gas station nearby, or is there a bank there?" Make it so much easier!

 

[Amazingsho]

Since I never had it, I was always wondering, what a man would be like just standing in -55 windy condition for 1min ? :

 

[amikety]

I don't know if it's plain stupidity or no sense of directions, I always have a hard time figuring out North South East West when people try to give me directions... hahaha! I will just ask, "can't you just tell me a building or gas station nearby, or is there a bank there?" Make it so much easier!

Do you have a smartphone? You can get a compass app

 

[lunas]

I don't know if it's plain stupidity or no sense of directions, I always have a hard time figuring out North South East West when people try to give me directions... hahaha! I will just ask, "can't you just tell me a building or gas station nearby, or is there a bank there?" Make it so much easier!

and I thought I was alone. When I drive around I just use landmarks and If I'm by myself (nobody watching! aha) I use my GPS ;D

 

[Canooknic]

I don't know if it's plain stupidity or no sense of directions, I always have a hard time figuring out North South East West when people try to give me directions... hahaha! I will just ask, "can't you just tell me a building or gas station nearby, or is there a bank there?" Make it so much easier!

My North and South are backwards! When I was in England I always knew which way was South but now I have to reverse whatever I think. If I want to head North I have to think what way I think it is and then go the opposite way!!
When I in the UK I gave directions such as "go right until you get to HSBC, turn left at The Red Lion pub" etc. I tried to do that for someone coming to our new house it was impossible because it would have been "turn left at the field, until you see a different field"!!

 

[shells]

I have a smartphone lah.. But I can't always manage to get the address of the destination that I'm going. I always try to print out my directions on google maps first... Been misled by google maps at least 3 or 4 times before. :'(. Took me on merry go rounds!!! One time during the winter, I was going to a volunteers' meeting in downtown, but thanks to google maps, I got off at the wrong area (alone by myself + fairly new to the city, super dark at 7pm + raining and cold + notorious area for lots of drug addicts and homeless people), every few steps bump into someone asking me for money... Boy, was it ever nerve-wrecking?!! I must have walked about 25 minutes before finding my way out of that area. It felt like eternity to me.

Canooknic, North South East West knows me.. But I don't know them. At least you can still switch your north and south around . I only know left hand side and right hand side... And even then, sometimes I have to raise the hand I write with (I'm a leftie), in order to clue in, and tell people the direction. Hehe.. Sometimes I'm blur like an octopus.

 

[NicAnn]

I'm real bad with sense of direction too. I hope I never get caught in a bad blizzard! I don't have GPS at this time, well at least I have a cell phone.

 

[shells]

We saw our first snowfall for 2012 in Vancouver yesterday!!! It snowed like crazy again last night.. Traffic is insane!! :-\. I'm all wrapped up again!

 

[steaky]

I don't know if it's plain stupidity or no sense of directions, I always have a hard time figuring out North South East West when people try to give me directions... hahaha! I will just ask, "can't you just tell me a building or gas station nearby, or is there a bank there?" Make it so much easier!

It's very easy to figure out North South East West in Vancouver. When see the Mountains in North Vancouver, you will find North. Or you can use the sun for direction.