The Majumdar Family

Billets pour Green Day sur eBay tickets for Montreal show for $50 – general admission

Robin — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:41:27 +0000

Well, I found out a couple of days ago that Green Day are playing tonight in the Old Port … dans le vieux port de Montréal. I don’t know how much the tickets originally sold for – but the show is sold out. Green Day is a band I like a lot and their music [...]

Frankfurt Airport completely closed due to Icelandic Volcanic Ash issue

Robin — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:23:25 +0000

So, here I am in Germany to visit my grandmother (who passed away four days before we were to leave from Montreal)… my mom & I made it fine to the small town in the Southern Saxony province in Germany after our flight to Prague (via Heathrow in London) on British Airways. Of course, two [...]

R.I.P. Gertrud Mehnert – Auf Wiedersehen, Oma : dealing with grief

Robin — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:45:41 +0000

So I woke up around 7:45am this morning. It was a dark and (very) rainy morning in the Montreal area, complete with lightning. I started the coffee machine and then washed up and logged on to check my email and a few sites. I saw my mom online on MSN / Skype… I was already [...]

Santa Claus fixed Star Wars Darth Vader watch for Tristan – with help from dad ;)

Robin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:58:08 +0000

Well, I just managed to completely fix Tristan’s beloved Star Wars watch. A few months ago, he had forgotten to take it off his arm when enjoying the whirlpool bathtub at my mom’s place in the country… he was almost inconsolable upset and in tears when he realised that the watch was seemingly kaput for [...]

Forklift disaster video : I thought I made little mistakes

Robin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:16:24 +0000

When I was in my late teens, I got a job (from a temporary HR staffing firm) to work in a large warehouse of a major Canadian retailer. Anyhow, I had to operate a forklift for the first time in my life and of course “winged” my way through it. I wound up making some [...]

Future trip with Zachary & Tristan : Kuroshio Sea Tank at Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium

Robin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:09:24 +0000

Well, yet another place where I hope to one day visit myself and introduce Zachary and Tristan to the wonders of our world. Credit to Jon Rawlinson for this superb production on his Canon 5DMKII camera. It’s nothing about the camera but more about the talent of capturing the awesome scene. The song by Barcelona [...]

A rough Sunday morning : smashed Chevy Venture windshield

Robin — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:49:56 +0000

OK, a bit of a breather over lunch after a hectic morning; 2 of my colleagues are out of the office while they take 5 days of training on Windows Server 2008. I just realized that I haven’t published anything here since the mid-Spring several months ago! Don’t worry, I’ll be soon retroactively sharing some [...]

2 for 1 Coupon for Harvey’s Angus Burger in Canada – until April 30th !

Robin — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:52:22 +0000

*Edit January 2010* : This coupon is expired – it was good until April 30th, 2009, but am leaving this up for reference purposes. OK, it’s lunch time so I thought it appropriate to share a most tastey promotion that Harvey’s is having for their delicious Angus Burger series of hamburgers. Until tomorrow, April 30, [...]

Bowling au Cosmos / Champion Lanes avec Tristan, Zachary et l’équipe AAA Gouverneurs de St-Hubert

Robin — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:25:24 +0000

Ahhh.. 28c dehors, soleil, pas de nuages et dans l’après-midi nous avons passé 3 heures au Bowling Cosmos en face de l’hôpital Charles-Lemoyne au Champion Lanes. Just for the record: Best score was me with 116, Tristan with 92 and Zachary with 61. L’équipe était pas mal tous la, en plus des familles et amis [...]

Gratuit : Laissez-passer pour deux dames au Lovers Brossard – bar rencontre

Robin — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:56:14 +0000

MISE-À-JOUR en 2010 : J’ai retiré le coupon de l’article car il n’était plus valide! Cependant, même sans le coupon, ça vaut la peine d’explorer Le Lovers (au moins une fois!) pour voir le découvrir. Alors j’ai obtenu un laissez-passer pour deux dames pour le bar-rencontre Le Lovers à Brossard. Je suis déjà allé une [...]

$300 discount on Tony Robbins UPW 2009 in New Jersey / New York – yes the location is revealed!

Robin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:49:41 +0000

Well, just 3 days left before the Tony Robbins Unleash the Power Within 2009 show in the New York Area… scratch that – I’ve had many attendees confirm to me that the location of the event is indeed in New Jersey. More specifically, it will be at the Meadowlands Expo Center. Some other people have [...]

R.I.P. Frédérik Monarque (1989-2009)

Robin — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:57:58 +0000

J’ai appris la triste nouvelle hier que Frédérik Monarque, âgé de seulement 19 ans, est décédé lors d’un très violent accident automobile à Saint-Bruno dans la nuit de vendredi à Samedi matin. Je ne connaissais pas Frederik, mais il était le neveu d’un collègue de travail… C’est certain qu’il est difficile, voir même impossible, d’accepter [...]

Tarifs pours vols et urgences familiales Air Canada bereavement sympathy airfares for family emergency

Robin — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:33:32 +0000

English further down Je discutais l’autre jour avec une amie / collègue concernant les tarifs spéciaux offerts par les lignes aériennes pour des cas de voyages reliés à des urgences familiales. Ces tarifs sont généralement seulement disponibles pour des voyages internationaux et dans le cas d’un décès ou “décès imminent” …. J’ai réalisé par la [...]

Now the light fades out, And I wonder what I’m doing in a room like this…

Robin — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:15:42 +0000

It’s cold outside And the paints peeling off of my walls There’s a man outside In a long coat, grey hat, smoking a cigarette Now the light fades out And I wonder what I’m doing in a room like this…

When routine bites hard … And ambitions are low

Robin — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:39:07 +0000

When routine bites hard, And ambitions are low, And resentment rides high, But emotions won’t grow, And we’re changing our ways, Taking different roads….

Continental CO3407 plane crash in upstate New York – dozens dead

Robin — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:41:05 +0000

Well, it is 00:40 EST and I just finished cleaning up a silly mess of broken glass from the floor while walking from the bedroom back to the kitchen to refill my water glass. As I was muttering about the mess, putting a little bandaid over the miniscule little scratch on my foot and trying [...]

CTV W5 show on Nigerian 419 scammers, Royal Bank complicity and fake checks

Robin — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:32:00 +0000

An interesting CTV W5 show tonight reports on how the Nigerian scammers are now using fake checks – many from Canadian banks – to further enhance their deceptive ways. It’s still a bit amazing that people would be gullible enough to believe that a $26,000 check from an unknown party for an unknown reason can [...]

Obama on smoking in the White House : Not on these grounds …

Robin — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:41:20 +0000

So, Anderson Cooper of CNN AC360 asks Obama tonight if he has had a smoke since he entered the White House. BO answers, after fleeting eyes,…. “not on these grounds” … which means basically that his entire security detail has to follow him off the official 1600 Pennsylvania Drive property whenever he gets the urge? [...]

Watching Strangers in Paradise on The Fifth Estate or … Helen Fisher on ABC 20/20

Robin — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:22:58 +0000

So, cooking is done (South African beef chili curry) and I’m relaxing trying to decide which romance oriented news / documentary / show I should be watching. I’m flickin’ back and forth between Dr. Helen Fisher on ABC 20/20 ; she’s Chief Scientific Advisor for Chemistry.com a big dating site with an awesome domain name [...]

Varicose Vein stripping Surgery Video … Vidéo de chirurgie de varices – éveinage

Robin — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:25:43 +0000

OK it’s lunchtime again and I realise this is probably not the most appetizing content to enjoy while dining, but I thought I would share this (graphic) video of how varicose vein stripping surgery is done. No, it isn’t a video of my actual surgery (hmm, 30 incisions would make for a long video) but [...]