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Trip to Toronto

Jennifer Choo Sue Chin | September 2, 2011

27 Aug (Sat)
Left KL at 9.30am. Travelled 23 hours to reach Toronto at 8.30pm. On the same day. No sleep at all cos seats can’t recline. Robert picked us up and we headed home. Slept 6 hrs straight.

28 Aug (Sun)
Woke up in Toronto. 20 deg C. Very strong winds so very cold! Visited the freshwater seaside at Lake Ontario. Big lake looks more like sea! Then visited Twyn River Creek after some mini woods trekking. No sweaty feeling!!

29 Aug (Mon)
Woke up to 15 deg C. Brought jackets out but not too cold cos wind not so strong. Went to pick up rented truck wt Robert. Shocked to see a 25 footer truck the size of a bus! R drove it to an open parking lot to practice parking wt Jan n I as navigator! Haha… Imagine how tensed we were :-p Loaded truck with 7×900 pounds of 10″x5″ of dance floor boards. Tricky to get all into the truck but wt Jan’s packing skills, we managed! Drove 1 hr to Burlington. Prob starts with unloading!! Robert gets no help from 2 damsels. Luckily 2 hotel guys helped to unload. Rushed back to Scarborough as Christina has invited us for D&D at a Chinese restaurant. Asian line dancers started coming in and filled up the place! They danced to new n old dances and to dances choreographed by Malaysians n Singaporeans! Felt very proud of our choreographers! Taught Hey Ladies and they absolutely loved it. Think they danced it more than 5 times and requested that I teach the styling too. Amazing!!!

30 Aug (Tues)
Much warmer today with 25 deg C. Great day to tour downtown. saw the CN Tower n some other nice architecture in Toronto. Had lunch at Hard Rock & lovely food. Was having sore throat so decided to go home and rest. Evening out bargain shopping. Costume & party stuffs r so cheap no wonder there r so many themed parties!!

31 Aug (Wed)
Regina picked us up and took us for dim sum lunch and shopping at Vaughn Mills. Dinner with Peggy & Teresa at Amigos. Had a great time extending FB chats to lively discussions with both groups!!

1 Sept (Thur)
The day of the event! We left home early to set things up for the event in the evening. Will blog more later!!

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One Sweet Day, Carmen!

Jennifer Choo Sue Chin | April 6, 2010

I came back from lunch today and saw the devastating status message (I knew was coming but hoped that it never would) from Robert’s Facebook: Carmen has passed away after losing the battle to endometrial cancer since August 2009. :’-(

Carmen Mah, 55, was born in Trinidad and Tobago, and moved to Canada in her teens to pursue her studies. She’s of Chinese Hakka origin, but more Canadian than Chinese! She doesn’t know any Chinese besides some Hakka words her mom taught her. She is an avid flamenco, latin and line dancer. Lovely wife of Robert Mah and mother to Jeremy, Alicia and Melinda Mah.

We stayed on the opposite sides of the globe, she in Toronto and I in Malaysia. We’ve never met nor spoken to each other before. But we spent endless hours chatting on MSN daily, about everything under the sun, and every thing about dance. I learnt and gained so much from her. We clicked with each other immediately despite our age gap but having the same passion in dance and not a day passed without us not chatting with one another, that is, until she got sick. We would even try to communicate with and update each other even during our vacations, whenever we could find the internet connection.

We have always chatted about meeting each other. Either she was to visit me here in Malaysia or vice versa. We would chat about the things that we would do when we meet. We both thought our chats of meeting up would finally come true when a Line Dance event (WOW) would be held in Shanghai in Sept 2010. She was planning to attend with Robert. Up till January, Robert was still hopeful that the Shanghai trip would happen. But God has other plans and now Carmen is in a better place, dancing with the angels. I bet she’s teaching them to line dance!

Rest in Peace, Carmen. I will miss you always, and, I know we’ll eventually MEET, one sweet day!

I’ll always remember the medicines Carmen sent me all the way from Toronto when I couldn’t recover from my flu/cough and her “cure” for sinusitis which cured me eventually.

A beginner tango dance by Carmen Mah, taught by herself: Tango Perhaps?

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