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I took this picture at the Beaver Lake in Stanley Park where a lot of wild ducks are living. While my cycling, I stopped at a bench beside the lake, and watched this wild duck swimming, walking, making and drying its feathers up, and flying away. I think they are a great animal because they can swim (sometimes dive), walk, and fly without any machine like humanbeings. I really envy their talent. Not that all, they are very beautiful and delicious.
Stanley Park is really a great place which has two courses for cyclists. One is the round course along the seawall and the other is the maze running through the forest. We can enjoy the scenery of the sea and the forest. These days I'm adicted to the forest maze. It is so great that I can find a new path almost everytime I visit there. I want to conquer all the paths in the forest before I go back to Japan.
This morning, I was awaken by a strange noise outside the bedroom window. As my room is on the 12th floor, no sound except of rain and wind can be heard. But the noise was different from both of them. It was like a rubbing noise and I felt someone is out there. So, I opened the curtain to find a man washing windows. When I was young I used to think of geting this kind of job because it was very cool and lucrative.
This is the cyclamen which I got and put into the old coffee cup three monts ago. It is still growing with little care except watering once a week. As I am a boy, I was not interested in flowers. But I can now understand why girls like flowers. Though they don't speak and move, they are pretty just as they are.
I'm now coding my new system using PHP which is one of the most popular computer languages for making web systems. I've been using it for about two months. Different from natural languages like English or Japanese, computer languages are easy to master because they have little exceptetions and because they are extremely logical. In order to learn PHP, I've been using this book and the online documents in the official site of PHP. These documents are written mainly in Englihs but they are so well designed that I can easily understand and use them. I found that PHP is by far more powerful language than I had been thinking, and I feel I can make any systems I want. I'm happy because I can use such a great software and documents for free.
This afternoon, when I was cycling on Lions' Gate Bridge, I happened to see a traffic accident including three cars. Fortunately there was no injury, but the traffic was completely jammed for a while. This time I couldn't watch the exact moment of the crash, but I have once watched the scene in Japan. I remember it just like a slow motion video. I know that when cars crash, they look like cardboard boxes and make a noize just like cardboard box crash. And the front glass is broken into thousands of grains which splash like fountain. It is of course misery, but a little bit beautiful.
While I am cycling around Stanley Park, on the way between 2nd Beach and 3rd Beach, I always see these monuments. They are made of small rocks built up like towers. I'm not sure how the rocks are jointed each other. I think a kind of adhesive or cement is used. And I don't know who is, and for what reason making them. As they are often broken by strong winds or waves, it must be a taff work to maintain these monuments.
Tim Hortons is a popular donuts shop in Canada (or North America). I go there at least once a week. My favorite menu is Snack Pack which is a pack of small donuts called Timbits or donut halls. They are small donuts which can be eaten just in a mouthful. As the name is telling, they might be surplus parts of regular donuts. There are three kinds of Snack Pack; 10, 20, and 40. And it costs $1.5, $2.5, and $4.5, respectively. I often get Snack Pack of 20 and enjoy it for a few days.
I took this picture today in Stanley Park. It is snow! Can you believe it? It is still September. Surely it has been cool these days, but it was never icy cold. The lowest temperature was 8 degrees. There's no snow even on the mountain tops in North Vancouver. Inspite of all that, this is snow. What happened here? This snow was spread about 30 meters along the road in Stanley Park. I could find no snow in other areas. SO, my hypothesis is this; Vancouver is a popular place for film taking, and some movie guys took a snow scene here, and they left artificial snow.
I'm still working. I'm making a web system which was supposed to be launched on the begining of this month. Why was it late? I know the reason for that; just because I became a very lazy man after a twenty-month break. As I need a concentration, I switched all the light in my room off except a small light stand, so that I can't do anything but working. I'm now surrounded by working stuff such as a laptop computer, programming manuals, a ntoebook, and Tim Hortons. So, all I have to do now is typing my idea into the laptop computer.
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