The fascinating aspect of working in customer service, for me at least, is the opportunity to speak to hundreds of different people every day. And in a city like Montreal or London, there is the added incentive to interact with a really diverse population ( Read more... )

A couple nights ago, the Habs (as the Montreal Canadiens ice-hockey team are fondly called) thrashed the Boston Bruins 5-nil in a Quarterfinal playoff to secure a place in the Semifinals. Considering the fact that the Habs have missed out on three of the last five playoffs and have not won the Stanley Cup since 1993 (even though they are the most ( Read more... )

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My sis got accepted into McGill! Now all she needs is a big fat scholarship and her bro, which would be me, to get a similar looking paycheque in Montreal and it'll be partay time come September. :)

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The boys and I visited a new shisha cafe called Riham earlier this evening. The hubble-bubble was a dollar more than Kafein's but apparently ( Read more... )

Yesterday morning as I was lying on the ground having just woken up for the umpteenth time thanks to jet lag and its after effects I thought I felt my building rumble and shake a significant amount. I dismissed it as a scary dream and remember feeling quite scared/worried because for a second I thought the building was gonna fall apart with me just ( Read more... )

Less than a week after leaving Montreal, the city experienced one of its heaviest snowfalls ever! 41cm fell on Friday, December 16 ... 3cm more than what fell on 27 December, 1969 but 2.2cm less than the record of 43.2cm on 4 March, 1971. More than 200 flights were cancelled - six days earlier and it would've affected me too!

According to CTV, " ( Read more... )

The tentative dates for my (family's) Dubai Trip are the following: Wednesday 21 December - Sunday 25 December.

Any of you who will be around, lemme know, I'd love to go out for dinner, shisha, an outing or something! I know I've already touched base with dubaiwalla.

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Yesterday there was a demonstration outside the Royal Victoria Hospital, next to ( Read more... )

What an evening! As usual I went for another session of sucking out those wonderful dollars from nostalgic alma mater. An hour and a half into my four-hour shift and things seemed to be going along fairly well. I still was not able to muster up a credit card gift and bitched to my neighbour how I hadn't received a single one since the beginning of ( Read more... )

I'm done with midterms! It is a relief, but I am certainly not looking forward to my results. I don't think I did terrible in any of them but I could certainly have done better. That's always going to be the case though, so yeh, whateva. Que sera, sera ( Read more... )

Two recently notorious events have dragged the highly-reputed university that I attend into the national spotlight.

Last month there was a major uproar after an 18-year-old freshman football player publicly alleged that he had been hazed by senior players (i.e. sexually assaulted). Hazing is considered to be an initiation activity carried out by ( Read more... )