Category Archives: At UBC

Now that I’m here.

Pop the bubble.

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There was an 8.9 magnitude earthquake in Japan today.

I’m sitting in the cafe at Buchanan and I’m looking around wondering if any of these people know? How long does information take to reach us?

As a member of the Global Citizens Committee at Totem Park I’m making an effort to inform myself. I set my homepage to The Globe and Mail in hopes of catching some headlines every time I open up the internet. But I can’t help but feel naive, uninformed and trapped in a bubble.

I have so much respect for people in International Relations and people who keep up with the news. For the next 7 days I’m challenging myself to read the news every single day.

How many of us are living in a UBC sphere? Caught up with midterms, essays, gossip, parties, personal health and work. How long does it take to think about the world around us?

How many of us are oblivious to what’s going on? Can you explain what’s happening in Egypt? Libya? Japan? Pakistan? Who even knows what’s going on with Canadian politics.

Read the news. Just do it.

I don’t think I can even hold a Rubik’s Cube in one hand.

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So I have no idea how Sittinon Sukhaya, one of my favourite contestants at last night UBC’s Got Talent managed to solve Rubik’s cube in approxmiately 20 seconds, one handed WHILE EATING A BANANA in the other. Blew the audience away.

Here’s his audition tape:

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Whoa. There was some other amazing performances of the night. Talented beat boxers Rob and Matt. Matt actually lives in my house, met him later in Magda’s. Gotta love late night food runs.

There was some great performances. I was in awe by the violinist and piano duet, Kaine Newton, who just mesmerized the audience with their nimble fingers. As well, Unlimited Dance Crew rocked the stage and made me want to again take up breakdancing. B-girl Nicky. Waddap!

The show ended with Razzmatap, a tap dancing troupe full of UBC Alumni. It was great seeing so much alumni come out to the event, as a student living on campus sometimes I forget that once you graduate you don’t just stop being part of the UBC community. I enjoyed the ending tap performance and thought of my Mom who is taking up tap dancing (inspired by her daughter-yours truly) and am definitely sending her a video for a little inspiration.

Part of me thinks that the emcee stole the show, providing very very humourous commentary to the evening.

Overall, it was awesome and I can’t wait ’til next year’s. Until then, keep practicing and we’ll see you on the Chan Stage.

Who wants to go shopping?

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So it’s Shopping Week at UBC!

But not the type of shopping week that would make Becky Bloomwood go nuts. Instead Shopping Week means free classes at the UBC Rec Centre and Aquatic Centre for students, so that they can try out a class for free before actually signing up for the whole year.

So, in theory this sounds all great and dandy, right?

Too bad, if you even want to get into a class this means you have to go 30 minutes before class even starts to line up! And of course as it happens the classes you want to go to are when you have actual class during the day.

Anyways, make the most of it readers the free classes don’t last forever! I’m might try out Eagle Claw Kung Fu again, what better way to spend Friday nights then learning how to kick some @$%.