GO CANADA GO!

While I can't say these Olympics have been very exciting for me, considering they are in Canada and all, I'm very happy and proud to see the great results that Canadian athletes are achieving. Two gold medals already! It took me awhile to figure out the CTV website for Olympic broadcasts/replays but I finally found it and I've been watching Maelle Ricker's gold medal snowboard cross run at least 5 times in the past day. To hear her story about how she wiped out and got a concussion (doesn't remember a thing!)in the Turin 2006 Olympics, and to come back and win the gold medal 4 years later is amazing. Her sunny surfer-like attitude also makes her very like-able.

Here's to all the Canadian athletes and Vancouver's weather: stay sunny, stay cool and good luck! Bonne chance!

Dim-summing with "Jook-sings"

My housemates and I (asian) took a friend (non-asian) to dim sum today. I had no idea it was his first experience but apparently, we weren't enthusiastic enough. Sorry dude! That's what happens when you go dim-summing with a bunch of "jook-sings", a Cantonese term for CBCs (Chinese-born Canadians). Genetically, we're Chinese, but culturally, we're definitely more Canadian. Sure we know the names of some of the dishes, but we aren't experts in the art of Chinese delicacies. And we're dragged by our parents to go dim-sum enough times that we kind of lost some enthusiasm for it. Besides, I personally am not much of a dim-summer, especially not downtown. I find the food far superior uptown, and the hygiene is much better. I'm a bit of a snob, I know.

It was a pretty funny experience though, since a lot of the ladies that were pushing around the carts of dim-sum spoke very broken English (and they assumed we spoke English only since we had the non-asian with us). We heard things like "srump" (shrimp dishes) and "deep-fried jelly" (deep-fried taro). Ah, what a multicultural city we live in.