From: Kiev.Lo@f49.n134.z1.fidonet.org (Kiev Lo)
Newsgroups: k12.chat.senior
Subject: Re: Born in H.K.
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 17:06:04 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:134/49 - The Student Exchang, Calgary Alta

 -=> Quoting Jason Wong to Kiev Lo <=-

JW> Nope! I'll be going to study at a Cancer Centre. I'll be studying
JW> Radiation  Therapy. It's not a university program but we will be taking
JW> correspondance courses with 2 universities. When I graduate in 2 years,
JW> I'll be working with high energy electron accelerators and other
JW> radiation producing equipment to treat cancer patients. I'm quite
JW> interested in health care. Maybe I'll try to get into medicine again.

Wow!  It sounds interesting enough just to work with e- accelerators.
I imagine it must take a lot of training before you can get your hands
on this kind of expensive equipment.

JW> We were planning to visit Edmonton later this summer (no skiing eh?),
JW> but  my mom couldn't get the holiday time. Actually, I wanted to go to
JW> Banff for some skiing (I'm just a beginner). But I don't think my mom

Actually, did you know that Sunshine Village opened up for a summer session
in July(?) last year?  They were paying the snow machines overtime in order
to do that.  I didn't go though.  But I heard it was pretty good except for
the mosquitos cuz people were wearing their boxer shorts and bikinis.

JW> would let me. Have you ever been to Banff for skiing? How long are the
JW> slopes there?

I go to Sunshine (in Banff) about 3 times a year.  And maybe one visit to
Louise.  I prefer Sunshine over Louise becuase it has better powder.  I'm
learning to ski moguls and the moguls in Louise are more packed and a lot
harder to ski for learners, where as in Sunshine, the black runs are not
as steep as those in Louise and moguls can also be found on blue runs.

The runs are shorter in Sunshine.  They have long runs in Louise, but some
of them are pretty dangerous (in my opinion).  In Sunshine, the fastest
time I skied from the Great Divine to the buttom was around 5 minutes.
When the same run is skied at a morderate pace, it can take from 15-20
minutes.  So I guess it's not too long but okay for normal skiers.

JW> Actually, I don't collect sports cards either. I also can't understand
JW> how  people can spend so much for cards! People are starving and
JW> they're spending money on cards! What!! You don't watch hockey!?!? Are
JW> you a Canadian or  what!?!? You've have to watch hockey to be a true
JW> Canadian!! I personally like the Montreal Canadiens. I think they're

Nah... I tried to have a reasonable dose of it on TV for a period of time
but I quitted after a week.  I just don't like it, that's all.

JW> pretty friendly. Tennis? I LOVE tennis! It seems like you like tennis
JW> too. Do you play a lot? I haven't been able to  lately. I've just

I don't really play tennis considering I haven't played for about 2 years
now.  But I love watching it though.

JW> played once this summer! How depressing! Yeah, I watched  some of
JW> Wimbledon. I don't like Andre Agassi;I think he's arrogant and
JW> spoiled. I do like Michael Chang because he's a fighter and he never

I agree.  I don't particlarly like him either.  Haven't there's a player
called Michael Chang though.

JW> gives up!! I like McEnroe's style; serve and volley. My favourite
JW> female player is Steffi Graf. Now she's got power. Especially her
JW> forehand! I don't know if you've notice (if you play), but it seems
JW> like the more you practice,  the better your backhand gets. Usually,
JW> backhand shots become easier than forehand shots.

Really?  It must be the lack of practice.  I found backhands hard because
I play squash all the time (probably... I don't know, that's what people
told me) and I also have the same problem with badminton.

JW> Well. YES! On a sunny day, when I look over the lake (Ontario, I live
JW> on   the "mountain"), I can see a yellowish brown layer. YUCK!!! I was
JW> told that most of that is from the Coal burning Hydro plant that's
JW> about 60 Km south-south west of Hamilton. I think I'd prefer nuclear
JW> power!

Ouch!  I'd prefer nuclear fission too!  That's pretty bad you know.  By
the way, did you ever follow the tracks of the ITER fusion tamer in UK,
I saw on the news about half a year ago that they succeed harnessing
fusion for about 20 seconds or so.  After that, I never heard any big
breakthrough in this technology.

JW> Oh yeah, I think you're right! What's he doing with a castle? Well...
JW> he  was probably ripping off Canadians back then too! He probably got a
JW> bunch of immigrants to build it for him! Have you ever noticed how
JW> politicians spend taxpayers money so generously! I mean they only go to
JW> the finest hotels and restuarants. I heard that Otto Jelinek spent
JW> $15000 to make buttons for his staff to congratulate them for
JW> "successfully" launching  the G.S.T.. Pretty stupid....as if he was
JW> "rubbing it in our face"! HE didn't do much to launch it, it was the
JW> merchants who successfully launched it!!

Not to mention the expense of senators, huh?  Did you (or anybody) ever
think about growing up to be a senator or somethin' of that nature?  Weird
thoughts... I guess.

JW> Speaking about bumbling idiots! Remember a while back when the NHL was
JW> considering expanding its league? Well Hamilton and Ottawa were the
JW> Canadian delegates bidding for a franchise. Well...Ottawa won. The
JW> funny thing is that they didn't even have a large enough arena to be
JW> home for  their team. My friends were saying that the team would
JW> probably have to  practise on the Rideau Canal when it's frozen! What a
JW> Farce!! Also, the sponsors for the Ottawa team are behind on their
JW> franchise payments!

Don't know much about the NHL since I don't watch hockey.  Interesting
story though.

JW> The higher part of the city is mostly residential, and yes, the value
JW> of  houses are higher here. I think it's because the crime rate is
JW> higher in the lower part, especially towards the steel mills. That's
JW> the poorer part of town. There are, and this probably applies to most
JW> cities, class  separations. For example, Central mountain is basically
JW> lower middle class (that's where I live), West mountain is Higher
JW> middle class, and East  mountain ranges from lower middle class to
JW> middle class. Lower city towards the north end are the lower class. I
JW> think this is just due to the fact that there are more housing
JW> expansions on the mountain, and only the more well-to-do families can
JW> afford them.

Cool name... Central mountain - is this actually an official district name?
I suppose the class system during Medieval Times didn't die out completely,
probably never will either.

KL> How do I like Canada?  I think it's alright as long as Qu(e)bec is part
KL> of it.  I got a friend who went to Universit(e) Laval in Qu(e)bec City

Damn!  Couldn't get the accents to work (ASCII 138), any idea?

JW> Yes, I do hope Quebec stays a part of Canada. They hold a great part
JW> of  Canadian heritage. I visited Quebec City a few years ago. I visited
JW> the tourist area...and it's beautiful. If you've seen pictures of old
JW> towns in Europe, then you've seen what that part of QC is like; it
JW> looks very European.

Yeah.  She sent me a postcard of the river in QC.  It looks exactly like
the pictures I've seen of Italian villages from my high school teacher.

JW> You say that it's too dry in the summer in Calgary? Well, it's better
JW> than the 95-99% humidity that we get here in the summer (although not
JW> this  summer). They have two temperature readings here. One is the
JW> regular reading. The other is the Humidex reading. Usually, when the
JW> actual temperature is  about 27 Celcius and the relative humidity is 90%
JW> the Humidex reading  shoots up to about 40 Celcius.that means that it
JW> feels like 40 Celcius! It gets so humid that it becomes hard to breathe
JW> and your sweat won't work, I mean it doesn't cool you down! It's quite
JW> dangerous. I'd prefer dry heat.

I guess I should be happy about where I am now.
 
JW> What does your dad do?

He used to work as some kind of engineer in China Light & Power Company
when he was in HongKong.  He's working with a RTU/SCADA company called
Willowglen as a SCADA engineer.  Basically what he does is to set up
computerized remote control equipments for use in 3rd world countries such
as Slovenia, India...etc.
 
JW> You don't like math? Are you the one that's planning to take General
JW> Sciences at University? Well if you are, get use to math. I think it's
JW> a required course. And it's a lot tougher because it's more
JW> theoretical. I mean they have a lot of theorems and proofs and so on! I
JW> hated it. I  did above average in highschool, actually, math was one of
JW> my better courses. But I hated math in University. Hopefully you won't
JW> have it so bad!

I'm looking forward to it. NOT!

JW> I'm just sleeping in and playing on the computer trying to find a way
JW> to send E-mail to Malaysia through Internet. I finished work on June
JW> 30. I worked at the Hamilton Regional Cancer Centre. I helped in



JW> researching a  new treatment for cancer...not a cure. There's a big
JW> difference! Research is not for me. I like working with patients. I
JW> also volunteer at the  Emergency centre at the McMaster University

Do you want to be a doctor eventually?  I was just reading through messages
you wrote another person about a week ago.  You mentioned that your father
died of cancer 2 months ago.  (I'm sorry to hear that)  Would this have been
the momentum that lead you into studying radiation therapy?

JW> Medical Centre. I like it. I think you wanted to ask what day I came
JW> over to Canada.  KL> By the way, 1974, the day you came over to
JW> Canada,.... The message got cut off there. Well..... I came over ( I
JW> think) on Aug. 23.. Talk about major jet lag.... as soon as I got to
JW> Hamilton, I slept for 16hrs straight! Had no problems adjusting to this
JW> time zone!

I was going to tell you I was born in '74, that's all.  I got cut off
because of this stupid 100-line message limit set on this message base
(for online message typers only).  I've been trying to get BlueWave to
upload my reply packets properly but failed.  Therefore, I have to type
messages up online most sometimes.

The weird thing is that the QWK packet (generated by BW) works but not
the native BlueWave ones.

Ciao

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K i e v


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