Invite The World

Street view on Mars? 火星上的环回街景?

Click on the image to view a large picture…
请点击图片阅览大图…

OR, view the interactive panorama view from the author, Andrew Bodrov.
或前往由 Andrew Bodrov 提供的互动全景网页.

Page title: CREPA Walk with the Dragon 2012 in Rain
本页标题: CREPA 在雨中参与 2012中僑百萬行

Rain, rain, rain and many, many enthusiastic people – these are the elements seen in the 27th annual S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Walk with the Dragon event held on July 15 at the Lumbermen’s Arch, Stanley Park in Vancouver. The annual Walk is one of the premier fundraising events held by S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Foundation whose vision is to build “bridges” to promote social awareness and community involvement through the provision of quality programs and services.
雨，雨，雨和很多, 很多的热心人士 – 这些都是在7月15日在史丹利公园林柏民拱门举办的第27届中僑百萬行看到的景象. 中僑百萬行是中僑基金會 (S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Foundation) 一年一度的重点筹款活动之一, 而该基金會的目标是要建立“桥梁”，通过提供优质的方案和服务以促进社会意识和社会参与.

And the CREPA team has raised over ten thousand dollars for the event! According to unofficial information, CREPA has raised $10,391 this year and is qualified for the Gold Cup Award the 7th time in a row. In addition, the funds raised this year is CREPA’s highest among the previous all.
而 CREPA 团队在这次活动中更筹得超过一万元的善款！据非官方消息，CREPA 团队为这次活动共筹得10,391元, 並连续第7年得到 “金杯奖” 的资格. 另外, 今年募集的资金亦是 CREPA 在之前的所有参与中最高的一次.

CREPA is the short form for Chinese Real Estate Professionals Association of BC. To learn more about CREPA or about becoming a member, please visit the following link:
CREPA 是卑斯省華人地產專業協會英文名称的缩写. 如欲获得更多有关 CREPA 的资料, 或查询成为会员的方法, 请开启这连线:

www.crepa.ca

For information on Walk with the Dragon and the S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Foundation, please begin with the link below:
欲获得关于中僑百萬行和中僑基金會的相关资料, 请前往下面的连线:

http://www.successfoundation.ca/walk/

Getting into Canada Day!
准备共同参与加拿大国庆日活动！

In front of hotel Fairmont Waterfront
在酒店前留影

Vancouver 2010 Olympic Cauldron
2010年温哥华冬季奥运圣火

Vancouver 2010 Olympic Cauldron
2010年温哥华冬季奥运圣火

Entering Granville Island
进入 Granville Island 前留影/

“There must be over fifty thousand…”
这里应该有五万多吧…

People for the fireworks
前往市中心观赏烟花的人群

People leaving after the fireworks
人群离开时情况。

People leaving after the fireworks
人群离开时情况。

Guests of the Invite The World to Vancouver campaign are excited about the freedom that allows them to jump back and forth between the undefended international boundary between Canada and the United States right in the middle of the Peace Arch International Park. More detail at http://itw.cofatsui.com. “邀请世界”活动到访温哥华的客人正在游览和平拱门国际公园；他们对可以在加拿大和美国之间的不设防国际边界上不停地往返走动的自由感到兴奋。

Related links / 相关的连线

http://www.peacearchpark.org/
Google search results / 谷歌搜寻结果

Sorry about the extended silence of the travel plan of our guests!

Things are mostly set…
1. Air tickets are issued – and the arrival date is June 30, 2012.
2. Hotel rooms are confirmed – a 2-bedroom Garden Suite at Fairmont Waterfront Vancouver.
3. Other prize items are being processed by Tourism Vancouver.

Our guests will stay in town for about one month – there will be a total of five. We have been researching many points of interest and have booked some of them so far. Vancouver Island, Whistler, Okanagan and even Banff and Jasper are considered.

If you have suggestions of great spots to share please feel free to reply to this post so we could look into those (also as good reference for visitors of this blog).

Traffic and moving around could be a challenge, as we only have two cars but do not have a vehicle that could accommodate more than 5 persons. A 7- or 8-seater minivan would be ideal. Any sponsorship suggestions (arrangements) would be very welcome!

Will write again soon.

And again, my family, our guests and I are very grateful of receiving the prizes from the Invite The World campaign organizer and the sponsors:
-Tourism Vancouver (the organizer)
-Canadian Tourism Commission
-TELUS
-Lululemon
-The Vancouver Hotel Destination Association
-Downtown Vancouver Business Imporvement Association
-Vancouver Airport Authority

Grand prize providers:
-The Fairmont Waterfront
-Birks
-Bluebird
-Hawksworth Restaurant at the Rosewood Hotel Georgia

Wanna meet up for an inspection tomorrow? Your $450M renovation project is ready…

When I first texted the above news to members in my circle I got some questions back. So I would like to first explain a little bit before moving on:

1) The building to be inspected: BC Place in Downtown Vancouver. An event entitled BC Place Community Weekend is being held during the weekend April 28-29, 2012, and the admission is free. Pardon me if I have used jargon of our industry in real estate sale: I play the open house event as “house inspection” by owners of a construction work they had paid to complete.

2) The renovation project: The work to rebuild with a retractable roof that has costed British Columbia taxpayers $450M ($450,000,000). So the word “your” in my initial invitation would mean us taxpayers that could include you and me.

BC Place open house - a screen shot of the BC Place website

No matter what your comment would be on the spending, BC Place is part of our life and as part of the community and the Province, I encourage everyone to take a chance to enjoy a moment of it!

Link to photos:
Photo Album at Google+

For months I have been worrying about reaching the free storage limit of my Gmail account. It was approaching the 70% mark *and counting*! And you know what – the worry was so real that it in effect had made it a practice of mine to keep staring at the bottom-left of the Gmail screen whenever I log in – see image in green box below. (For me, deleting read messages from my inbox is not an option – I keep all messages since day 1.)

And today I have a huge relief! I just noticed that my storage usage has reduced to 49% only, and that the storage limit has increased to 10240 MB (10 GB) from its previous 7.5 GB. And this has in fact just officially happened on April 24, less than two days ago!

My current usage at the time of writing this post (image):

Competition is G!

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It was the New Year Day of the Year of the Dragon 2012 (Jan 23). I got an email from Tourism Vancouver advising me that I was the Grand Prize Winner of its Invite The World Campaign held in year 2011! I was thrilled to be “The One!” And that happening has led to the coming about of this Invite The World Blog. I plan to use this blog to record the activities and feelings of the invited guests related to their visit in Vancouver. In addition, and as outlined in the page About, my ultimate goal is to keep this blog as an vehicle to help bring up places, things and ideas to share with the communities where I live, and with the blog communities around the world. 当天是2012年龙年元旦日（1月23日）. 我从温哥华旅游局发出的电子邮件通知得悉, 我是她们在2011年举办的 邀约世界推广运动 的大奖得主! 我很高兴成为这个 “幸运儿”! 这事件最终导致本 “邀约世界博客” 的建立. 我打算用这个博客来记录应邀客人在温哥华的旅游活动和他们的感受. 同时, 亦正如在 “关于” 一文作出的介绍, 我的最终目标是可以维持这个博客网站, 並透过她将不同的地方, 物事和想法带出, 与我居住的社区和世界各地的博客社区分享.

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