i think this will unofficially be the last post on this blog. i've had this blog for 13 months, and finally have come to a point where i don't want to write in a blog anymore. it'll still be here at the same address, and in case something big happens, for example if i get married, then i may post an entry. if you've read anything of the blog so far then you'll know that that event will not happen anytime soon! ;)
bye bye all and thanks for visiting! :D
...that i had straight hair! :( so i cut my hair again yesterday after like 5/6 months, and the hairstylist made it so beautiful and straight! but as soon as i came out of the air conditioned salon, i could feel the ends starting to turn. and by the time i walked home (simply cuz i didn't want to wait 25 mins for the bus), it had all gone wavy again :( made me sad. and after showering etc., I tried to recreate the straight head of hair, in vain. i just can't do it as well as the hairstylist. by the time i've finished with one side, the other side that was already done starts turning up. so disappointing. it's a cut that works with the curl as well, but i want it straight-straight. no fair :(
in the last 2 1/2 weeks, i've been to the gym once. very sadly, i can see myself not going anymore. i even packed my bag to go today, but my stupid data's been giving me trouble and not computing with the stats software that i'm using. the dangers of using a small data set is slowly but surely becoming apparent. i was supposed to get my analyses done this week, and write up chapter 5 next week. at least chapter 4 finally got the thumbs up from both profs!
my money situation is going downhill everyday. i don't know how i end up spending almost all my monthly earnings before i even earn it! well, my rent is almost one bi-weekly paycheque, but i've been consistently eating into my savings, whatever meagre amount there is of that. not a good thing. i really need a job that pays better than my research assitantship, and soon.
why can't we have salon-beautiful hair all day, everyday?
i'm getting lazy, so my update will be an excerpt from an email to my dad. it might be a bit out of context since my dad already knew abt my trip, but my blog readers didn't. it's better than no update at all.
"Came back yesterday [Tuesday] from a trip which took us to New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia. So now I've seen 5 of the 10 provinces! It was a pretty exciting trip, but most of the time it rained, which was a bit disappointing. We didn't go to any of the cities, and in Nova Scotia we were up north, so nowhere close to Halifax. [This reference is there because my dad wanted me to visit someone in Halifax.]
In New Brunswick, we went to the Bay of Fundy which has the highest tide in the world. 50-foot tides come into the bay, twice a day. When we were there, we went all the way to the water, and saw the tide actually creeping in. It was a really cool feeling, but kind of hard to explain! [Insert is the bay at the village of Alma, which is where we saw the tide come in.]
Other than that, we saw the Cabot Trail in the Cape Breton Highlands of Nova Scotia, which is a beautiful mountainous/coastal drive in the north of Nova Scotia. If you Google (Images) 
Cabot Trail, then you can see some pictures of the road. It was absolutely stunning, but it was raining and cloudy most of the drive, so it was a bit sad. There's also places along this route from where you can go whale watching, and I really wanted to do it, but since the weather was bad, and we didn't have a lot of time, it wasn't possible this time. Maybe next time when I go to Nova Scotia or somewhere else on the Atlantic (or Pacific for that matter), I'll try to go whale watching.
The last interesting, yet scary thing, is that we saw a moose in the middle of the road on the drive back. Because it was at night, we didn't see it until we were about 5 feet close to it, and then had to swerve to avoid hitting it. The moose is one of the largest animals I have ever seen! It was at least about 10 feet high and was standing smack in the middle of the road, and didn't even move when the car braked and we went by it! It's extremely lucky and thanks to Allah, we are all still alive to talk about it. However, this is not for you to worry about because it was really something unpredictable, but only letting you know of this huge part of the adventure. All in all, it was an awesome trip!"
i guess the email mentions nothing about accomodation...talked to my dad about that on the phone today, actually...but basically we camped at night wherever we could find a campsite when it came time to call it a day. we spent a night in each province, and two nights were spent driving from and back to toronto. the night in PEI, we got totally soaked in torrential rains, and the night in nova scotia, we stayed in the tent in a thunderstorm! the first night at the fundy national park, we barely made it before they closed registration. it was basically a driving trip, but lots of fun. sad thing is, upon my return from the trip, i learnt about some seriously unnecessary drama going on in dhaka re: cousin's wedding. probably not worth mentioning on the blog because it has nothing to do with me, but i'm just kind of upset by the whole fiasco. just have to really wonder what ppl are thinking.
finding it terribly hard to concentrate on work, but that's not new!
