Chad Is Everywhere

Prasad's wife Swathi just gave birth to a 3kg boy at 3:32am. Yeay. Wife and baby are fine.

Well its been a few weeks since my last post. Reason being nothing much has happened. Except for rain, rain, and more rain. I have reached my saturation point. I'm over rain. But I knew that about Vancouver when I committed to it. It rains here, and I'm accepting it and moving on. I wish though that it would keep it to the weekdays. For once I'd like to go skiing on a Saturday. After all I did buy some new ski stocks, and brought my snow gear over here. Anyway this evening was one of the highlights. Another Ice Hockey game. Vancouver vs Colorado. It was a ripper. Only one fight to report. And that was in the first 2 minutes of the game. Below is how it ended. (Of note this is my first attempt at a You Tube video connection so please understand if it doesn't work.) Yep that's right Vancouver lost in a shootout. Anyway to share the excitement of a hockey game I'm also adding the introduction to the games and a few random photos. It's part of the spectacle. Any...

Hey I don't know whether many people are keeping up with this but Vancouver has their own countdown clock for the olympics. The olympics website is http://www.vancouver2010.com/en So what does this all mean for all my readers. Well it means you only have about 1090 days to get your sponsorship money in, to send me to the Winter Olympics. In return for your sponsorship money you will get the return of having sent Chad a long way away again, and photos of several Olympic events. I am accepting sponsorship monies from today via direct deposit. Bank details are available on request.

Yes I have learnt my lesson. As you may recall I used my last email to set in my mind plans for this weekend. Well the good news is that I was able to hold myself to those plans. Even if it meant getting up early on a Saturday morning to catch a bus to Cypress Mountain Ski Resort. Well anyway the result was, I should not have made such plans for this weekend. Or another way of looking at it was, one should always look to the snow weather report in the morning if you plan on going skiing. Why, you may not need to ask, but I will say anyway. Cause if it's pissing down rain, no-one should be skiing. And boy was it pissing down. Check out the photo below taken at about 11am in the morning. Boy wasn't that a wonderful session of skiing. Anyway it fined up a bit. As you can see from this 2 nd photo. And no this photo wasn't taken much later in the afternoon. This photo was taken about 12:30pm in the middle of the day. It went from horrible to miserable. Hence I forced myself out...

Yes I've been a bit tardy with the photos recently. But I'm making it up to you all. So what's the difference between living in a hostel vs the share accommodation I now have. The answer is space... I mean sure my space currently comes with its own personal photos of people I don't know, but hey thats not the issue. We have another weekend coming up... Surprising to some but we have many of these every year. And well this time, now that I'm nearly over being sick I'm going to try do some skiing. I didn't haul my skis down from the mountain for nothing. Or well this message will try to hold me to that thought. That and these photos from the other weekend up at Nakiska. Of note they don't allow skiers to go into the boarder cross event. Not that I wasn't up to that level, I chose to keep skiing :)

They must have known I was soon to move out of the hostel. I was set up. Why my conspiracy theory. Well upon returning from my excellent weekend at the snow, I arrived back late at the hostel (thanks to the consistently late Air Canada). I got put into a dorm room with 3 long stayers who were not so pleased to see someone else try to move in at 12am. Anyway one of them had a very bad cold. He was coughing and spluttering everywhere. And once asleep he took the title of the loudest chainsaw snorer I've ever heard. So the result was after a tiring weekend of skiing I had only 3hrs sleep in time for work Monday. By Tuesday I had the first signs of a sore throat. (I had though moved hostel rooms in order to get sleep) By wednesday, the day I moved out of the hostel into an apartment it was confirmed. I have a cold. Argh! I hate missing work due to illness but had to Thursday afternoon. And yes mother I've been to the doctor now, and I'm laying low to try shrug it off.