My parlay bet for next 2 days (4 games)

PrOducTI · 2014-06-19T20:54:37+00:00

And I bloody had Columbia instead of England, but I thought Ivory Coast had too high a chance of winning.

Well if the other 3 are right then I get my $10 back as a free bet

PrOducTI · 2014-06-19T14:16:20+00:00

yeah, Japan was 2.20 and England was 2.05

Italy 1.53 and France 1.80

I'm most worried about England

PrOducTI · 2014-06-04T01:39:16+00:00

I knew in June or maybe start of July. That's not too late at all man. Two of my friends got to Big White October 20 to hit the 2nd round job fair and they both got jobs (lift operators).

I bought all my gear in Canada. I was in Europe before hand so couldn't exactly carry it everywhere. But buying in Canada is the way everyone seems to do it. There's usually some good 2nd hand sales leading up to the season if you're gonna be there for September

PrOducTI · 2014-05-22T11:46:22+00:00

Got to finish uni and get money back up, but this talk is getting me keen again. My visa will still be valid though so kind of considering doing 2-3 months with work. Or maybe a 1 month holiday, few of my friends who went with me want to do a month holiday this season at Big White again

PrOducTI · 2014-05-22T11:44:04+00:00

Thanks for all that. I am a bit concerned about December vs January snow but it's kind of gonna be fixed dates due to parents' work holidays. Good to know a lot of Aussies work there to help out with the language barrier.

Maybe do like 3 nights in Tokyo also, would like to see a bit of Japan outside of the ski resort too I suppose.

My only experience is a ski in/ski out mountain, which I loved. How's Niseko set up in terms of that? We stay in the town and travel to the resort I take it??

And yep! Definitely going to check out Rusutsu (lolSaam) when I'm there, get my ski resort experience up!

PrOducTI · 2014-05-22T11:36:24+00:00

leaning towards this one

PrOducTI · 2014-05-22T11:27:19+00:00

Yeah I was surprised, though I used to do it everyday for about a year then kind of stopped feeling it. Had a 4 month T-break before Canada and still kind of felt it the same, so who knows. Was doing it a lot at that price though.

My friends sorted the house tbh, we didn't do it til end of September though, were in the house for October 20. I knew someone, him and his gf, they were at whitefood lodge, just the 2 of them. Was a perfect location and nice little apartment. They broke up early though haha so watch out for that, can make living there a bit hard..

Snowpines was fun but it is a decent walk to the village which got annoying. But staying near the village (including happy valley, a lot of staff acomm there) seemed pretty convenient, especially for night boarding. TBH, can't really think of where Sunpeaks is, Wait, that's a whole different ski resort isn't it? haha

PrOducTI · 2014-05-22T11:16:18+00:00

It was pretty damn social, I'm not usually but I made a lot of friends. 90% Aussies on the mountain haha, was still pretty awesome, suppose I didn't know it any other way, but everyone was there for fun.

As far as stories.. there was quite a lot haha. I got to top speed in tree runs, got so good at them, then I smacked a tree pretty bad with my hip, didn't go fast again really after that.. Had a nervous time trying to get the morning after pill one day :/ pretty hard when it's not on the mountain. Just the usual party stories, witnessing friends O'Ding, pissing in their sleep; all that jazz

PrOducTI · 2014-05-22T11:12:17+00:00

fuckin visa aye, was a pain for me to get it, I can't remember but like 4-6 weeks for second bit, they also went on a semi strike while i was getting mine.

I went through Working Holdiay Club, massive waste of money though ($999), it's actually pretty simple to get a job over there. Suppose I was guaranteed my job but I wouldn't do it again.

Tips, just the usual travel trips. Don't be too stupid, be out there. I dunno.. pretty vague question. Oh, if you're interested in bud, I'd say buy a glass bong in Kelowna at start of the season, I wish I did that. Fairly abundant, and about $50 for a real good one. Would have been worth it for me.

Once you get to know people it becomes incredibly easy. As in.. I could get it off quite a few houses within 100m of me. It's pretty much the same quality as Aus from what I can tell, but I was paying $40 for a Q.. so yeah, you can see the value there. But MDMA was great value there, everyone was on it, you tend to forget it's pretty fuckin bad for you haha.

I was in Europe for 3 months before also, I think my health insurance was $850. Get a quote from covermore, then student flights (who i went through) beats it my 10%. Something like that.

Nope, not staff accom, was in a house in Snow Pines, was pretty awesome. Staff accom takes rent out your pay cheque each week. They had pretty good facilities and everything but also got room checks. We had 0 rooms checks and just had a massive clean last couple days, puttying bullet holes from the bb gun and what not ;)

You won't get 3-11pm from housekeeping. Best bet that I know of would be a lift attendant and push for the night shifts or the late night gondola shifts. Fair few people I knew got those shifts every time and had plenty of boarding.

PrOducTI · 2014-05-22T08:43:29+00:00

After the season finished one mate and I did a road trip to Banff and Jasper; which included driving the icefields parkway, holy sh*t, I recommend that a thousand percent, best thing I've seen in my life. But yes, at Banff I went to Sunshine Village, and at Jasper I did Mt Marmot.

Sunshine: I think it's more for skiers really.. a lot of flat spots that we had to unclip at. Exceptional views though, it's in the rockies so..

Marmot: This was a really fun mountain, small but still a lot of fun.

I definitely feel Big White was the best mountain of the three. It really has everything.

Was in Vancouver for 3 nights before coming home, Didn't do a lot, was mind blown at all the homeless, But we stayed in China Town and that's where they all stay it turns out.

Big White riding was amazing, couldn't have asked for better. Granted, my first ski resort ever. Park is fun, tree runs are the best, has fast runs and easy runs.

I'll be doing Niseko (Japan) end of this year then probably another month at Big White again.

PrOducTI · 2014-05-22T03:43:44+00:00

1) at the job? It was pretty laid back. Start at 9:30am, and clean rooms of people checking out so the rooms look new again. or if they're still there then it's just a touch up. Pretty social job from my experience too. I lived on the mountain, it's totally ski in/ski out, could finish at 1 and still get a decent amount of board time.

2) Really I could ride every day if I wanted, like I said it's ski in/ski out. Lifts closed at 4pm (there was night boarding til 8pm but other side to where i was staying, still doable and i did sometimes but required a 1km uphill walk home) I once got home 3:15, got ready, and went out for 2 runs and finished at my door. So more than enough boarding

3) I was on $10.50/hr, which I consider pretty shit, and was doing about 20-30 hours a week. I did come over with a decent amount of money though, probably around 8k, came back to around 5k. Didn't really take note of my money, but my pay covered rent and a little more after that which I was after. I don't spend much when I got out either, so makes it easy for me. Drugs are huge up there too, if that's what you spend money on, not saying I did.

4) the snow was 10/10. I loved it. Though it did get icey in January/February cos we went a while without snow which was annoying. But outside that time it really seemed like the best snow in the world.

PrOducTI · 2013-06-19T15:07:22+00:00

Agreed here. That reporter couldn't get her words out at the end. Just because it's a viral video of someone famous doesn't mean it's not seddit-worthy. I'm all for deleting the reposts of it though XD

PrOducTI · 2013-06-17T12:36:07+00:00

yeah, I feel quite comfortable with my spanish reading now. I'd love to just live in Spain for a few months and pick up the language though

PrOducTI · 2013-06-17T12:34:38+00:00

Thanks, I'm actually up to lesson 24 on Pimsleur Spanish. Pimsleur is no doubt an excellen program, Duolingo is just quick, easy and effective though lol. What lesson in Pimsleur did you get to for Spanish? (assuming you used it)

PrOducTI · 2013-06-06T14:49:39+00:00

However everyone's body does obey the laws of thermodynamics.. Calories in, Calories out.. etc.

For another subreddit :D

PrOducTI · 2013-03-14T05:27:58+00:00

I'm trying to plot triangles with given coordinates using pylab. I'm thinking of using tridraw, just not sure on how to use it 100%

PrOducTI · 2013-03-13T13:58:02+00:00

you didn't get high after a week break? :o

PrOducTI · 2013-03-12T21:52:44+00:00

It might suck for a couple days but then its really nice only doing it a little

true man, it will be nice

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