“Motorists face a penalty of six points against the licence and $394.50 (first offence) for illegally passing a school bus.”

School Bus Safety Awareness week is extremely important in this town where incidences of vehicles passing school buses illegally while picking up or dropping of their kids are extremely high and frequent. I am pretty happy to know that the fine for the first offence alone is so high because motorist needs to take care of the children on the bus. Last year alone, we’ve seen so many incidences happening with the school children and school buses. It is too frightening to let your kids go onto those buses.

By the way, in Canada.. school buses are free to use for kids attending school all over the province, unlike in Asia, we do not have to pay for transportation. Pretty cool eh..?

One has to wonder if the loonie is gonna continue to fly high for awhile.. if it is a good or bad thing for us.

“The soaring Canadian dollar was one of the main topics of discussion during a local business luncheon last week that featured a presentation by James Westlake, group head of Canadian banking with RBC Financial Group.”

If you are buying properties in the U.S. of course it would be very good news for you. But if you are making US dollars and spending it in Canada, then like us, you will be concerned. In fact very concerned. The Canadian dollars is still going strong against the US dollars as far as I am concerned today, as to whether the US dollars will bounced back in 2008, no one even dares to predict or speculate. I don’t really know what to think of this money situation, but it sure doesn’t work in favour of us right now, not only because of our business and the tourist that we depend on in this town.. but other online businesses and businesses that we have in other part of the world.

If you are trendy, hip, in the in-crowd and very much into the night scene of DJs, music and nightclubs and want to know where all the the buzz is these days, you’ll have to check out PMBuzz. They just launched the grandest and hippiest party of the year to celebrate the launch of their social network - a nightlife social network, hosted by none other than Perez Hilton. Surely that tells you how grand it was. Are you screaming now..? that you missed the most highlighted event ..?? Well .. no worries, PMBuzz is here to stay. It not only brings you celebrity-event coverage & offers an unbiased look into the hottest, trend-setting establishments, people and parties that NYC has to offer, it is a place where you can join the in-crowd and get connected to all your hippy friends and get to know first hand where and when the best events are happening around NYC.

At PMbuzz.com DJs & Entertainers out there can help you boost your fan base and connect with your fans on a very personal level by letting the folks out there who are not familiar with you hear your latest mixes. PMBuzz can also help your fans track you from one gig to another, that way you never have to lose any fans again. It is absolutely free for all DJs & Entertainers out there to use PMBuzz.

Of course we cannot leave out the best clubs .. for without them.. how are we going to have a night scene, right? Well, clubs owner and PR folks, you can now reach out to your patrons and attract new ones right here. PMBuzz is where everyone goes online to find out what and where they can have the best and most fun times. Social networking focusing exclusively on nightlife is what PMBuzz is all about. A great place to advertise, promote and showcase your clubs.

This afternoon, Keegan (babysitter) came into the store..and handed me a gift. A very thoughtful one.. i’ll have to say. You see I love home fragrance oil but because we haven’t been to Halifax for so long, I can’t get any here locally… because there is no Body Shop here. And Keegan knowing that.. since i’m outta it for a few weeks now.. she bought me something similar to what i am used to.. from the Body Shop.. orange flavour.. and from her own pocket.. not expecting that I will pay her back for it.

Now you tell me.. isn’t she thoughtful..!! We are indeed very lucky to have Keegan. She is never whiny.. nor does she demands for anything. She does her job well.. and dependable. And she is only 17..! alot of those that we’ve hired before isn’t even half as good as she is. I only thank God.. again.. and again.. for Keegan.

Looking for a penguin suit for Chloe for Halloween, we found this instead.. for her.. but she didn’t really like it… and insist on being a penguin. We didn’t have any luck with it, so we probably should look online for it soon. So no Pebbles from Flintstones this year.

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Many years ago, when my mom was working in the hospital, all the provided was a white uniform, irregardless if you were a nurse or a cleaning lady in the hospital, it was white. But things has changed considerably in the hospital, in fact i noticed the first changes in the children’s ward in the hospital. The nurses and even doctors at the children’s ward had nice fancier scrubs than all the rest in the hospital… but that was many years ago of course.. and now, in every hospitals, you will see that for every individual department in the hospitals, the staff wears appropriate scrubs according to the specialty of the ward.

Scrubs from Katherine Heigl Scrubs, are not only comfortable but very stylish as well, they even have winter scrubs, that are not only in a pretty shade, they have move-friendly side slits, for making sure that the nursing staff will not be restricted when helping a patient. Medical Scrubs, are no longer in boring white or dark colors anymore, they can have them in peach color as well. And they come in all sizes for your Nursing Scrubs, prices are even more affordable if you buy them in groups. With Halloween round the corner, how about looking at some peaches Halloween scrubs to cheer up those that are sick in the hospital.

My mother-in-law wears scrubs too, but i assure you, she doesn’t work for the hospital. But it is so comfortable during the hot summer.. we should get her some from Katherine Heigl, so she can go into the gardens not only looking chic but extremely comfortable as well.

This is for the benefit of Barb from Lil’ Chumsy Mom who wanted to see the BKT that i cooked.. for chloe with expensive mushrooms from our dear Mr Choo..! sarcasm intended. Yes.. i do make BKT with whatever i can find to throw into a slow cooker.. although it ain’t authentic.. it is good for cold nites.. like now.. for winter seems to be coming earlier this year. It is very cold at nite.. and it’s chilly during the day time.