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I went to Bell World, Rideau Centre. Talked to the sales-guy and asked around. Looked at the brochure.
Finally I found a plan that seemed to suit me. Ample text messages and sufficient minutes – long distance and short distance both – per month. The phone that came with the package was also nifty. Had camera, bluetooth, spiffy colours and everything. I was happy with the whole idea. So I asked for the price citation.
The plan…$35 per month.
OK.
The phone…$49.90 sans tax.
OK.
“Thanks for your business sir.”
“You’re welcome, thanks for your help Derek (the salesman).”
“Sir, apparently there are certain laws that apply to any credit purchase of yours since you’re a foreign national.”
“Owh, okay. What type of laws?”
“The one that requires a $500 deposit down-payment.”
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Actually Derek, I’ll come back next week.
If Petronas sends me my cheque before then =.=”
KAMBINGGURUNLIMABELASPETALALANGITSANGKESUMA.
Every now and then, this blog will regurgitate a relatively reflective post, usually due to a special event witnessed/experienced by the author…like this one here, or maybe even this one.
Here’s another addition for the record. And this time it’s a bit different, for it actually occurred to me when I was unconscious and possibly in the throes of REM sleep.
Yes this is about a dream I had very recently.
Early this evening I arrived back at Brooks Residence of the University of Ottawa, having spent much of the weekend away in Southern Illinois participating in the annual Malaysian MidWest Games. Although I had slept for a significant portion of the 22 hour drive back, yours truly still felt depleted in terms of energy; a Statistics class was going to commence at 5pm, and I decided I needed my wits about me for that brain churning session, thus I grabbed my blanket and curled up for an hour’s nap at 3.45pm.
As is wont to do with dreams and their ilk, I found myself visited by entirely random visions in the last few minutes before I was due to wake. I’m sure that all of us have had that sensation before-being straddled in the middle of an incredibly realistic dreamscape, experiencing thoughts made “real”, meeting illusionary acquaintances, only to find oneself shaken roughly awake by the ridiculously annoying twangs of the alarm clock set to stun nearby or the droning snores of one’s roommate.
And then when you do wake – amidst all the heavy fluttering of eyelids and grating vocal chords – you discover that the degree of your dream retention is ridiculously abysmal; trying to mop up an ocean with tissues would be easier.
On a whole, I have had many weird + frightening dreams before. I have seen one of my own characters from my Legacy of the Fallen series appear on my doorstep and attempt to murder me, hell bent on seeing the livid body of its creator buried six feet under -
Then there was that one where I spent my entire REM session in absolute terror as I watched my own brother get trapped in a burning house – our burning house. I remember the Irving of the reverie ran around the entire structure, feverishly looking for a way in but failing miserably each time. Screaming in despair, he watched as the flames licked the entire establishment down, and when they finally died down and people were able to inspect the ruins -
The clothes my brother had worn were arrayed neatly in the middle of the house – all that was left of him. They were completely unscathed, and would have been near perfect…save for the fact that my brother was not wearing them.
I awoke from that dream, in the middle of my bunk at RMC, crying.
I thought those escapades were scary enough in their own right; this post was not written to say they weren’t, but to acknowledge the fact that there are some other figments of my imagination which can rattle me harder when they appear in my dreams – better than the fear of death it seems.
This evening, I dreamt that I finally returned home to Malaysia. I had spent 20 months overseas in a foreign land, and was finally able to reap my reward – that of a four month break on familiar soil with familiar people. I think the fact that this component appeared in my REM thoughts is a subliminal idea of what keeps me going daily @.@
The first inkling I had that things were wrong was when the dream took me to the touchdown at KLIA. My parents were there to greet me…and they literally did that. We said hi, and that was it. No hugs, no profound joy at reunion after years of being apart. No emotion, all dead. My siblings weren’t even there, and when I saw them later on in the dream, they deserved Olympic medals for setting new heights of indifference to my persona.
Dad asked me where I wanted to go for lunch-where I wanted to have my first local meal back home in 20 months. I opted for a simple fried char kuey teow at some random mamak stall. Oh the horror-tak sedap!! The thing tasted like celluloid dipped in brown sauce with plastic shrimps and rubber vegetables @.@ I would later try my favourite chicken rice balls in the hope that they would be better…I might have as well sampled my own balls for all the good they did to my tastebuds.
The days spent around the house were a random mess of indifferent family members, a dog that did not recognize me (and seemed hell bent on keeping it that way), and the overhanging feeling that I was not wanted in the household any more.
You’ve been away for too long.
You’ve moved on.
We’ve grown up >.<
Gone were the usual evenings of playing sports with my dad in the evenings – an event that my persona
in the airplane home had so dreamt of doing; all the “surprises” and “gifts” that I had brought with me from the land of the maple leaf were treated as formalities…the kamu beli kami tak kisah, tapi kalau tak ada kami marah kind of perception.
I had spent many months alone in Canada…who would have thought the same treatment would be extended to me even back home. If anything, it was worse-knowing that a familiar surrounding is familiar to only you, and not vice-versa with a conglomerate of some convoluted incarnation of reverse perception-left the dreaming Irving all empty inside.
Is this still your home?
Did you also think it always would be?
At this point, I remember, I woke up from my dream. My alarm clock was buzzing loudly – 4.35pm, almost time for class. But my thoughts were full of what I had just seen, and I actually wanted to see more of this microcosm of fear. I closed my eyes again.
I saw three childhood friends riding their bicycles near the place where I used to play with my friends in the evenings when all of us were growing up. I had not seen all of them in years, these two boys and one Eve descendant. At that very precise moment I realized that they had changed in so many ways; I saw that they had moved on-were married and had their own children…oh why did you not tell me this was the way things are now; this I asked them.
Only one of them admitted he remembered me.
The other looked like he was trying to forget. The third ran away in absolute denial.
So so lonely.
Old flames and recollections passed over the brow of my dream avatar. He read the newspaper: the country had changed beyond his wildest dreams – gone were the familiar faces of stoic leadership, the incumbent glories of governments once acquainted with. Indifference from the surroundings turned to hate, and hate to rejection.
I found myself longing for Canada, for the shade of the maple leaf.
And the knowledge of this emotion shocked me the most. I awoke fully at last; beside me my alarm clock lay buzzing still, singing a tune of the real world to my blundering senses. Just like when my characters in my novels hunted me down, and with sensations similar to when I watched my only brother disappear in incendiary pain, I felt the emotions of the dream extend into real life.
And I pray none of you will ever experience such desolation ever. The scariest part was that it was fleeting; that it was all imaginary..but yet, you know that deep down, it was all real.
“Even meaningless imagination is the driving force that creates you.”
-Rewrite, Asian Kung-Fu Generation.
People have actually already started asking what I’ve been up to so far over the summer holidays, and I admit that updates in the form of blog posts over the past few weeks have been as common as Mariah Carey wearing shorts in Malaysia (XD).
Well, in so far as I’m concerned, the summer break has been somewhat refreshing thus far-it feels good when one has the license of sleeping in every now and then, yet at the same time maintain that “student feel” through the usage of summer courses and/or a job (God willing). But anyway, the highlight of the break so far has been none other than an awesome weekend event I went to last week.
People, I can now say that I have attended the infamous University of Waterloo Annual Debating Death Trudge!! =D =D Dubbed DDT VI: The Undiscovered Gov, this event was the latest addition to a running tradition of early spring debates organized by the University of Waterloo, and it promises to display a manic side to debating that you may have never seen before:
“Debates begin on Saturday morning and continue to Sunday morning. The break is announced at breakfast. Only the strong survive.”
So reads the event description on CUSIDnet lol. Prior to May, my decision as to whether I should participate in DDT VI was still very much in the air, as I wasn’t sure if I really wanted to splurge CAD 200 on a generally non-serious debating event lol. But the one phrase that lingered in my head, the words that finally allowed me to decide that I would be going to Waterloo-Kitchener were the ones uttered by some random unknown at one of the last EDS meetings of the semester: “Everyone should try it.”
Which I could not help agreeing with =D
Apparently a sizable portion of the EDS felt that way as well: John Sergeant, my partner for NorthAms who was also a University of Waterloo alumni was quick to set up plans for us all. In the peak of preparation, there was supposed to be five of us on the trip down: John Sergeant and Philly D., as EDS 1, kolego Oscar and myself, as EDS 2, with Alex Amar as our representing adjudicator. Unfortunately, circumstances got in the way and in the end, only John Sergeant, Philly D. and myself were ultimately able to go =( This turn of events left me without a partner to debate with, and for a moment the prospect of judging was staring me straight in the face – something I wasn’t exactly keen on, truth be told >.< Nevertheless, at 10.00 am Friday the 9th, I still found myself strapped in the rented vehicle bound for Waterloo (this vessel I later chose to dub the ‘EDSmobile’ XD) with John and Phil, all excited and raring to go =D
Some 700 km/7 hours/two Metallica + Iron Maiden + KoRn albums later (yes it’s THAT far away @.@), we arrived at the University of Waterloo campus, which I found impressively large (and easy to get lost in) at the very least (note that I have managed to do this at MANY universities, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS and the University of Toronto among them…thankfully this did NOT happen at uOttawa when I first arrived XD + =.=”). We were soon joined by representatives from Trinity College of the University of Toronto, York University, and Wilfred Laurier University which happened to be just down the road.
Very random shot entering the Waterloo region.
Upon registration and thus seeing familiar faces, I managed to catch-up with Jeremy Larkins from York, a truly amazing guy + debater I got to know at Dalhousie Nats 2008 earlier this year-it was great to see him again. Truly, that awesome round we had against each other at Nats worked wonders for us lol!! Even better, the two of us would later vie to out-do each other as many times as possible over the next 24 hours as the tournament progressed =p + XD (more on this later! =D)
It was also here that I met the person who would be my hybrid debating partner for the weekend: Dafne, the DDT Tournament Director, introduced me to Jesse Beatson from Trinity College of the University of Toronto. Jesse had initially come down to judge, but decided to throw his plans astray after – in his own words here – he “saw how happy I (Irving) was at finding out that I would be able to debate over the weekend after all.” XD + =D
The partnership is formed! =D
As a side note, Jesse is also a first year student at the U of T – majoring in philosophy. Due to our mutual love for puns and ridiculously inane things, we also decided upon a team name that pretty much summed up our academic endeavors and possibly foreshadowed how we would handle the tournament…we formally became Trin/EDS The Philosopher’s Stones.
XD?
After registration, all of us were bundled away to begin the first two rounds of public speaking…a tournament which I had also arbitrarily chosen to enter @.@ Those of you who know my personal history of general oration will know that public speaking happens to be a venue which I used to despise a LOT and had once sworn to never participate in ever again. But somehow, I had the random urge to participate in this one lol @.@
Since this is technically the start of the DDT, I will now provide the usual match-up information; note that this time they are divided into three sections: Public Speaking, Debating, and Family Feud-the latter being a made-in-Waterloo event where two teams are merged together into a huge, ambiguous conglomerate and made to square off against another amorphous mass of debaters. The catch is that both teams are arguing for the same side of a motion and the event is conducted gameshow style, complete with hosts, intimidation tactics and active jury voting lol!
Other things you should know is that the DDT is essentially a style tournament for debating, i.e. no serious cases, extra marks for humour and wit, and also a looser interpretation of the rules and case logics. If this is somewhat ambiguous still then hopefully the event split here will clear things up; I also included highlights if every round to illustrate how crazy it was on a whole LOL!! =D
PUBLIC SPEAKING:
Round 1: THW Remove The Letter “I” From The Alphabet (YES, ironically I got the alphabet which appears the MOST in my name lol @.@)
Round 2: This _______ Is A Work of Art (participants are given a random picture on a projector and asked to describe how + why it qualifies as art. Note however, the pictures aren’t exactly from Van Gogh or Picasso XD)
Round 3: Describe Your Ideal Supreme Court.
FINAL: THW Assasinate Animals.
DEBATING:
Round 1: THBT Conversations Over The Internet Should Be Done Using ONLY Emoticons and Abbreviations
Gov: RIT The Threat Down
Opp: Trin/EDS The Philosopher’s Stones
Round 2: THBT Mr Speaker, You Should Push That Red Button (YES, I know, like so freaking arbitrary XD)
Gov: Trin/EDS The Philosopher’s Stones
Opp: Trinity The Indian and The Jew
*Notable Moments:
i.) Mitchell Gerskup from Trinity gave a speech with musical accompaniment XD
ii.) The Opposition ran a counter-case, imagining up that beside the red button there was a green one as well…and umh, we should press that one instead XD
Round 3: THW Legalize Necrophilia
Gov: RIT One Foot In The GRAVE
Opp: Trin/EDS The Philosopher’s Stones
*Notable Moments:
i.) Opp counter case: “But what if there are undead….?” XD XD
Round 4: THBT We Would Take Zac Irving’s Car On A Road Trip
Gov: Trinity The Indian and The Jew
Opp: Trin/EDS The Philosopher’s Stones
*Notable Moments:
i.) “Madam speaker, we from the opposition have a counter case for you-we would say that we would rather hire a paralyzed camel as opposed to using Zac Irving’s car!!!”
ii.) Once again, musical accompaniment from Mitchell.
Round 5: THW Sponsor A Government Funded Raccoon Hunt In Toronto
Gov: Trin/EDS The Philosopher’s Stones
Opp: Trinity Burqa Kings
*Notable Moments:
i.) The critter hunting program was called RACCOON-Regionally Aligned Culinary Culling Of Ordinary Nuisances XD
ii.) Zac Irving turned his speech into a reflective prose about his childhood…managing to guilt the government side to the point of not wanting to rebut/POI him lol @.@
Round 6: THBT In The Case of A Sex Change, A Divorced Couple Should Not Have Alimony Agreements Still Running.
Gov: York/Queen’s Dr. J.H. Gillis A
Opp: Trin/EDS The Philosopher’s Stones
Round 7: THW Implement A Sin Tax For Movie Adaptations of Novels…Because Adaptations Suck!
Gov: Trin/EDS The Philosopher’s Stones
Opp: EDS Freddy Kruger
*Notable Moments:
i.) “Have any of you seen that latest novel-movie adaptation?…it’s called The Golden Coma.”
Round 8: THBT Santa Should Diversify His Workforce To Include More Than Just Elves
Gov: Trin/EDS The Philosopher’s Stones
Opp: Marianopolis Old Enough To Be Your Children
*Notable Moments:
i.) “Mr Speaker, we would lobby for Santa’s workforce to be expanded to include the yeti, vampires, sasquatch, Abominable Snowmen, Adorable Snowmen, … and Russians.”
ii.) “When Russia needs to create more jobs, they expand the KGB…”
iii.) “Do you know what happens to these elves when they get old and can’t work? They get fired…in the back of their heads.”
iv.) “The more different people we have in society. the more problems we have…we should kill all Asians.” *insert =.=” Irving face here*
v.) (Opp) “If he is as twisted as you say, then Santa should not be allowed near children”, (Gov responds) “Why do you think the elves are there in the first place?” XD
Round 9: THW Build A Giant ______ (fill in the blank round…Gov decided on “sleeping bag, of all things =.=”)
Gov: WLU Team Awesome
Opp: Trin/EDS The Philosopher’s Stones
Round 10: THBT Upon Reaching 100 Years of Age, All Citizens Should Receive A Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Card
Gov: York Pre-Law
Opp: Trin/EDS The Philosopher’s Stones
*Notable Moments:
i.) Opp counter case: “No, the government should provide funding for plastic surgery instead, under the name of ANCIENT-Authorized National Clinical Incentive for the Essentially Not Tender.”
ii.) “I think we can tolerate a bit more crime.”
FAMILY FEUD:
The Berenstein Bears Family: 0 wins, 3 losses (XD?), 5 points overall.
FINAL RESULTS FOR Trin/EDS The Philosopher’s Stones: 3 wins, 7 losses, 75.95 points, 10th place overall.
Personal Speaker Scores (Debating): 38.5-38-38-38-38-38.5-38-37-39.5-38, average 38.15, ranked 14th overall.
Personal Speaker Scores (Public Speaking): 38.75-38.5-39.0, ranked 4th overall.
Family Feud Scores: 2-2-1, ranked 6th.
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Phew that was a long one @.@ But yup, that should be about it lol. At this conjecture I would like to point out that if you notice, my rounds chart for public speaking extended all the way to the final round-this is not an anomaly in where I accidentally included that round in my tabs report. The reason its there was cause I SOMEHOW ACTUALLY BROKE TO THE FINALS LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLL!!!!!! XD XD XD XD + =D =D And it was in fourth place LOL!!!!
This would be my first ever break achievement in a CUSID sanctioned tournament and I openly admit it is not much: it comes in a tournament where hardly any bigshots turned up, and the tournament itself is not taken seriously most of the time lol XD + @.@ But hey, it’s a start innit? It was a nice way to finish the 2007-2008 debating season – with a break for the EDS at the Waterloo DDT =D The EDS actually managed two breaks at DDI VI – John Sergeant powered his way into a fifth place break finish as well, adding to the North Ams break he achieved last January =D Hopefully this is the start of better things to come! =)
Righto, here we go-photos!!
RANDOM:
The church where we billeted for the night.
Jeremy Larkins of York University, Public Speaking Round 2.
Trin/EDS The Philosopher’s Stones!!! =D
Jesse Beatson with the thumbs-up as we listened to Mitchell’s musically aided speech XD
The campfire + marshmallow session =D
Amir Mohareb, York University…I think I blinded him for a bit with my flash after this pic XD
York University + Marianopolis + Wilfred Laurier University.
CUSID members.
Irving (uOttawa), Jeremy (YorkU), Andrew (U of W).
PUBLIC SPEAKING FINALS:
Jeremy Larkins, 7th place breaker.
John Sergeant, 5th place breaker.
Ngeh…Me XD
Zac Irving, 2nd place breaker.
Dafne took this shot of me in the finals-thanks lol! =D + XD
Public Speaking Champion-Andrew Choat, University of Waterloo.
FAMILY FEUD/JEREMY VS IRVING IMAGES:
FACE-OFF!!! XD
Damn he won LOL!! XD
Family Feud Finals.
Talk about intimidation lol!
MORE RANDOMS:
DDT VI Finals: Trinity Burqa Kings VS York/Queen’s Dr. J.H. Gillis A
The breakfast on Sunday (look for me!).
Philly D., John Sergeant.
The hybrid dream team XD
Wargh I think that should suffice for now lol. Damn this post is actually turning out to be as long and tiring as the DDT itself was lol. Anyway, the DDT proper was won by York/Queen’s Dr. J.H. Gillis A, manned by York’s Amir Mohareb and Queen’s Robert Embree, defeating Trinity Burqa Kings 7-2 in the finals on the motion THW Ban Summer (like, literally…XD?). The Dysfunctional Familty took home Family Feud championship honors, and Andrew Choat claimed the Public Speaking title for the University of Waterloo.
Looking back, that was one wild weekend @.@ It was the first time in my life that I had stayed up for over 24 hours, and I have to say that this was definitely the best way to do so lol-debating my butt off with friends and new acquaintances, all the well enjoying the heck out of myself =D Other random personal records do include: not showering for around 72 hours straight (and smelling like it >.<), and being farthest out west from Ottawa since I officially arrived in Canada lol. Also, I managed to see the ridiculous truth in the unknown EDS senior’s words that “everyone should try it“-where else would you be able to participate in a wild night of non-serious debating, experimental speaking and just letting your life go lol =D + XD
Damn I had a really good time-CAD 200 well spent lol @.@ To sum it all up – since words invariably fail – all I can say is that to those who didn’t make it out there, I sincerely think you missed out on loads of fun lol…so do come next year ahahahaha!!! Bagus gila sampai aku sanggup buat promotional pitch kat blog aku seyh XD XD
A special shoutout to the DDT VI organizers from the University of Waterloo: Dafne, Tim, Thor and the rest-it was an awesome show!! The only regret I have now is that this was only my first DDT (this is almost a crime lol!) and that at the very most, I will only be able to make it to DDT’s VII, VIII and IX during my tenure in Canada =’D + =(
Thus the crucial question arises-will I be trying to make a return for next year’s early May edition of DDT, even though the summer of 2009 is definitely my clear planned return date to Malaysia – after 20 months of being overseas, away from home and family? It’s still too early to tell I guess -
But still, don’t be surprised if you hear that I’ve postponed my trip home for another week to participate at DDT VII lol.
=D?
Cheers people!
Crud, it’s been what, almost two weeks since my last post? >.<
The only consolation is that I can say it’s at least consistent with how I have been feeling lately. I feel…weird to be honest. It’s been awhile since I felt like this…in fact I don’t think I have EVER felt like this @.@
For some reason I am feeling ridiculously out of touch with things. This feeling has manifested itself in many ways, but the most prominent avenue seems to be via my summer courses, sadly >.< I am taking MAT 2377: Statistics And Probability for Engineers and ADM 1100: Introduction To Business Management this summer, and frankly, I haven’t felt the subjects yet, if you know what I mean.
Like, sure, I do the reading assignments and the suggested homework problems (so I do retain some stretch of credibility), but aside from that my commitment (thus far, at least) to summer school remains somewhat marginally less than what you would expect of me. To illustrate this point, I will admit that I actually thought of dropping the courses a few days back? >.<
And its only two weeks in >.<
Crap crap crap.
Studies aren’t the only thing though. This blog is another-I can’t remember such a long stretch in where I actively decided not to write anything @.@ Weehoo >.< My time management has also gone to the dogs lol; for some reason I keep spending my time doing nothing (it seems), from mindlessly playing Warcraft 3 and HALO in my spare time (when I could have been writing or reading something) and deciding not to go for jogs cause I just don’t have the drive. Argh, what is this coming from me >.< >.< >.<
On the plus side though, I can beat Warcraft 3’s “Insane” difficulty setting now, and I can handle some levels of HALO blindfolded I think…and with the difficulty setting at “Suicide” =p =p =p
You know what, I think I’m just burnt out. Is that a reasonable explanation? I guess it is…last semester was one of the hardest degrees of which I have ever pushed myself. What with managing to stay busy even though my class hours were reduced by fifty percent compared to my super-crazy Fall semester. And I guess I’m proud of that, although I do think that the resulting overspill kinda sucks, and I would NOT like to pay the price (Equivalent Exchange? @.@? *sebut sorang-sorang* “toka kokan toka kokan” XD XD) via my summer courses lol. Sigh.
At least the Winter semester results were ridiculously awesome =D
I also think I need some “me time” I guess. That’s what I find works best if I realize I appear to be out-of-touch with how things are, which appears to be the case now. A few days just having nothing on my agenda and just picking my life back together sounds good. How does this weekend sound?
I think that would be great. Yeah, that would be super cool.
I’m glad you agree. Let’s do it.
Let’s.
And that my friends, is a poorly executed yet acceptable example of a dramatic monologue.
PS-The next post will most likely be about the awesome University of Waterloo Debating Death Trudge which I went to last weekend. Yes Alex, I haven’t forgotten 
PPS-Ngeh ngeh ngeh, I hope you like the pun in the title Atif XD
PPPS-Also, lookit what I found:
(I Googled the term “random picture”)
XD XD XD XD XD XD
Hey people.
I’m back. For now, at least. Thanks for bearing with the multitude of exam/emo-based posts for the past few weeks. But now that I am a man free from academic duties (at least until MAT 2377 and ADM 1100 come to claim me over the summer), I will provide my first real blog post in quite a while…since the 5th of April, in fact @.@
Some of you may remember this post, which was a compendium of random pictures taken throughout my stay in Canada. Now the Silent Cartographer returns, maintaining the approach of utilizing pictures which aren’t necessarily the prettiest, yet serve the purpose.
Note that a recurring theme will be the EDS 24 Hour Debatathon, held earlier this year in the University Centre.
Cheers folks! =D
Right, here we go. Here’s where it all started -
BYTOWN:
The Hotseat.
The Pretender.
The Graben.
Also known as The Ottawa Valley.
The tale continues.
BIARKAN LIDAH BERTARI-MADA:
EDS 24 Hour Debatathon.
Red Rage Rouge.
Please, Donate For Charity -
- Oh, C’mon -
- Have A Hart.
(XD?)
Fully-fledged Combat -
- Australasian Style.
The story continues with the -
HOME STRETCH:
You may have seen this building…on Wikipedia.
Precipitation.
Beautiful Veins and Bloodshot Eyes.
Let It Die.
The Monolith of Marie Curie.
Desolater.
WW III, IV, V, VI.
When Ancient Ice Leaves Its Mark.
And now, a quartet to complete the set -
THE FOUR SEASONS OF CANADA:
Spring.
Summer.
Fall.
Winter.
“This is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please!”
‘William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria…’
- The Mouse, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland.
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