5 Apr 10

No proof

I had a pretty awesome weekend but have no photos to show for it. I snapped a couple here and there and I’ll try to fill in the blanks with words maybe?

Friday night, a few of us attended a friend’s brother’s wedding.


Farah went disco-gaga with her glowstick-glasses


They planted a photobooth for guests to take silly faces for keeps


Mel, myself and Farah; too much food, too much whiskey and not enough bread pudding for me later

Saturday, I found myself in the East but was fed very nice cheng teng (a kind of dessert) so it wasn’t so bad.

Sunday afternoon, we went to Mel’s place for Easter Sunday lunch!


Her sister taught us how to make our own mock mojitos, delicioso


We ate laksa and rolled our own popiah

And watched re-runs of American Idol and Glee and popiahs became kueh pie tees and afternoon left and evening came around so it was time to go home.

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26 Mar 10

Been up to


Making tomato pasta sauce that turned out more orange than red


Drinking lots of fluids – oj on the left and chilled japanese green tea on the right


Sneaking up on Fboy playing with the christmas ball he managed to get off the tree


Using the pasta sauce to make dinner


Waking Fboy up to chat. He sleeps on the top of a cabinet in the kitchen. This is me looking up at him.

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24 Mar 10

Toronto, 2008

I’ve been neck deep in work, I almost want to say shite but this shite makes us money so it’s nice shite. Well I’ve just been a wee bit grumpy because, hmm, it feels nice for a few hours a day to be super productive but the adrenalin trickles down slowly as night creeps into early morning. Then it’s 6AM, oh no!

So at times like these, I either really want to spend all my money on a nice bag or I dream of travelling. The big urge to urgh, do something that would make me smile for ten days straight! I’m digging these out from my photo collection, I don’t have new material to share at the mo’. Photos from my visit to Toronto, Canada, back in 2008. Ben and I went to visit my brother who was working there then.


We took the Amtrak train from New York City’s Penn Station to Toronto, packed sandwiches for the 12-hour ride


This is New York’s side of Niagara Falls. The train ran through, Poughkeepsie, Buffalo… I stopped counting after a while.


We got in the city at night and the first thing we did after putting our bags down was to go get a tattoo. This is where I got my gnome done.


And this is Kayla, the first husky I’ve ever befriended and lived with.


It was Spring when we arrived so the plants were happy things, even this was beautiful and I took this outside my brother’s apartment, along the pavement.


Like nothing I’ve ever seen before; Kensington Market


My brother cooked dinner


We had Wendy’s!


I love beavers so I yelped at seeing this


And I yelped again when my brother drove into a drive-thru ATM (?) Never seen anything like that either.


We stopped by this quaint town on our way to Niagara Falls, I forgot what its called. I love this photo in particular because it just shows how touristy Ben & I are. Busy taking photos while the locals sit on a bench on top of a hill and feed on cakes and such.


My brother and I


The magnificent Niagara Falls, it’s so big and loud and unreal


After the Falls, we headed back to Mississauga and went to an all-you-can-eat-wings buffet with some of his friends!


We went to Canada’s Wonderland on our last day


Then we drove to one of his friend’s home in the outskirts of Toronto for dinner and his mom made pupusas, oh my, my taste buds died and went to heaven while eating it.

I’m sorry, this was long!

{Photos by Ben and I}

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20 Mar 10

Recent randoms

All shot on Fujifilm Superia 400 with my Canon EOS 66, it’s a bit of leftovers that never made it into a post!

Recent randoms
mcdonald’s makes me happy

Recent randoms
battlescars from one surf session in Bali

Recent randoms
the wall behind my monitor, with some of my favourite things on it

Recent randoms
ramen at Ippudo, still prefer Marutama

Recent randoms
not feeling the bright colours for 2010

Recent randoms
I call them chinese new year plants

Recent randoms
back at my folks’, my sister’s room

Recent randoms
and her ridiculous pasting of korean singers EVERYWHERE!

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19 Mar 10

New blender syndrome

It’s Friday but no hurrays from me because it’s gonna be a working weekend for me. I’ve been staying in most of the week trying to meet a pretty crazy deadline. The only fun thing I’ve been doing is blending fruits up! And making tomato soup and I’ll try making cauliflower cheese soup over the weekend.

The photos will feature my one and only glass cup and it’s feeling a little sensitive cos I chose to use another cup today, yeeeps.

New blender syndrome
Banana juice

New blender syndrome
Avocado

Lunch #1
Lunch #1 – Carbonara, tomato soup, slice of linseed bread

New blender syndrome
Watermelon

New blender syndrome
Mango smoothie

New blender syndrome
Banana smoothie before bed

Lunch #2
Lunch #2 – Fettucine with shrimp in cream sauce

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