My Shenanigans

I haven't posted for a couple of weeks. Well, a lot has been happening and I've been quite busy. I was looking for a new apartment to rent. I wanted a two bedroom place. That was quite a chore...looking for a 2 bedroom apartment in Vancouver that is within walking distance of a SkyTrain, within a decent budget and not in an old building is, well, hard! But I found a great place for $100 over my budget! I am really excited to move in .

I went on a weekend trip to a beautiful region of British Columbia. There is something to be said about a place where all you can see is trees until the horizon. British Columbia is absolutely beautiful.

I have also been busy doing my research work. I want to get as much work done just now because I have family visiting me for most of July. I am also taking a course this semester, which is nice, but is another "thing" to do. I want to get started with it's project too, so that I can finish it sooner rather than later!

Then I've been going to the gym, once a week. I am glad I got that into a routine of sorts.

Then I bought flight tickets back home and to Copenhagen for the Christmas break! I am excited about that too!

I carried two IKEA chairs for about a kilometer at 12:30am on a Friday night, recently. And I filed, refiled and will soon be re-refiling my 2006 taxes! Don't ask ... end result is good though. I get more tax credits than expected :D A lot of tax work has been going on recently, and I must say, I enjoy being part of this tax process. I got a well informed agent to file it for me (it is way too complicated and I need it all to be correct), but I like how we can try using credits from here and there and squeeze every last cent out of my oweings! If I had the patience for number crunching and form filling, I'd be a tax lawyer.

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C.

100,000 Dead; 2 Million Seriously Injured

Imagine a 100,000 people killed and over 2 million injured. I'm not talking about an earthquake or a hurricane. This isn't a tornado, nor a flood.

This is driving. And this is India.

In 2006 over 100,000 people were killed in car accidents in India. And over 2 million people were seriously injured.

India now has the deadliest roads in the world.

Part of the problem is that people are able to buy a licence rather than earn it through a test. Another reason for the shocking figures is that many drivers don't know what many of the road signs mean. A third problem is that infrastructure on the roads is so absent, its scary! There are no lane markings on the roads, and pedestrian lights for people to cross the road safely are rare.

Top that off with the boisterous attitude of a class that can suddenly afford a car and you get a hundred thousand dead people.

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C.