Invite The World

This might be belated information but just in case some of you are still not aware of the changes…

Recently there have been some changes made to the HOV lane on Highway 1 in Metro Vancouver area. If you only occasionally use the busily under construction highway, the following information might be of advantage to you for your next trip:

• The end point of the East-bound HOV lane has changed. It is now ended at close to Exit 44, just before getting on the Port Mann bridge towards Surrey.
• The effective time of the HOV lane has changed. Current effective time is: 6 a.m. through 7 p.m. Monday through Friday. That’s right: There is NO restriction on the use of the HOV lane during Saturdays and Sundays.

New Port Mann Bridge under construction, viewed from 116A Avenue:

I have just set up my Google Plus profile today! What an experience and what a feeling!

I’ve been using Google’s Gmail for long and only in the recent years to notice that many new “add on” services were coming out of Google. And all of a sudden I just came to notice that I was sooo outdated from those social media stuffs. I have had a Twitter account and a Facebook account for quite some years already but have only been rarely posting to them. After having read few books on social media recently, and especially having made up my mind about doing something with my International Mahjong® stuffs, I now decided that I should be more participating in the online community. I have so far set up two blogs and my profile at Google+. To many of you this might just be a piece of sesame; but it’s already a lot to me. However, it’s really fun!

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As the Grand Prize Winner of the Invite The World Campaign, my ‘obligation’ is to invite four people from around the world to visit Vancouver. [My 'obligation' is indeed my honour.] As revealed in my previous post, I have decided my guests to be my relatives in China and in Hong Kong. Visitors from China are required visa to enter Canada. To many of you applying for a visa would seem to be a matter of filling out few pieces of document and submitting them to a Canadian Visa Office overseas. But to people who know very little English (or French) the lots of paper work could be a disastrous work.

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