Habitat for Humanity at 140 Pinery Trail
This past Saturday, I participated with the Toronto Trillium Lions Club in our first volunteering event with the Habitat for Humanity to work on one of their current build sites. “Habitat for Humanity Canada is a national, non-profit organization working towards a world where everyone has a Continue reading
Light Café
On Friday evening, my girls and I met up for dinner at Light Café. I had seen photos from Light Café pop up since last summer on social media and since then had always been intrigued to go to try it out. It’s a Taiwanese-inspired café with savory items like hot sandwiches, mini pizzas, salads, soup, and baked potatoes as well as lots of Continue reading
Holt’s Café located at 50 Bloor Street West in Toronto
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of visiting Holt’s Café for a private tasting with my friend to try out items from their brand new menu. Holt’s Café is located inside Holt Renfrew, the “chain of high-end Canadian department stores specializing in an array of luxury brands and designer boutiques”.
To find the café, when you enter the department store from the front entrance, go up one level on the escalator, Continue reading
Lone Star Texas Grill located at 930 Dixon Rd in Etobicoke
The first and only time I had stepped into a Lone Star Texas Grill was all the way back in university, which is really about ten years ago. I remember that visit as fairly lackluster and since then hadn’t had a strong affinity towards Lone Star Texas Grill and their many Continue reading
Club 1806 (at Southern Accent after 10 pm) located at 839 College Street in Toronto
I had noticed this event float up on my Facebook feed a couple of weeks before the event on June 2 and I was highly intrigued by it. It advertised $1 food dishes after 10 p.m. at Southern Accent. They were promoting the “newest chapter in Southern Accent’s illustrious history” with the opening of Club 1806, “a speciality bourbon bar, with live music, fresh oysters, Toronto’s first Manhattan ‘Your Way’ menu, bourbon flights, ‘Boilermakers’ (beer ‘n’ bourbon) pairings, and a late night New Orleans Tapas menu every Thursday, Friday, and Continue reading
Il Fornello located at 214 King St W in Toronto
Last night, we had a media tasting thanks to jojoinstameets at the King Street West location of Il Fornello. This location of Il Fornello was actually the very first Il Forenllo that I had visited back in July 2010 (my pre-blogging days) for a dinner before my friends and I attended a musical. Needless to say, this location is also in the Theatre District and Continue reading
High Park, Toronto. May 2013
I feel like a similar challenge of “transient” has been done before. Nevertheless, I thought of this photo that I took when I visited the cherry blossoms four years ago at High Park. Cherry blossoms are always in transient and that’s why it’s so hard to actually capture them. They’re always changing and there’s only one week in the year where they’re at their peak bloom Continue reading
Adelaide Eats located at 150 York Street in Toronto
Adelaide Eats is back for another year! (It used to be called Front Street Foods.) It’s located at the second floor terrace of Adelaide Place, overlooking both Adelaide St. West and University Ave. It’s an outdoor food market and there are several vendors from local restaurants or catering companies that participate to sell their featured items and Continue reading
Taste of Toronto 2017 located at Fort York at 250 Fort York Blvd in Toronto
Last year, I attended the Taste of Toronto 2016 festival for free because I had won tickets to it from Raymond. Even at the close of last year’s event, I had said that if I happened to win tickets again for 2017, I would attend. I previously had absolutely no plans to attend the festival this year because I had attended last year already and kind of knew what it was like and thus I wasn’t as Continue reading
Toastmasters in Toronto
Yesterday, I had my second session of Toastmasters (Youth Leadership Program version) and I was able to do my first speech!
Before the one hour-ish session, I prepped at home by writing out what I was going to say through my stenograph. It always helps me to organize my thoughts to have it written down on paper first. I knew what I was going to talk about for my Icebreaker speech. I was going to talk about Continue reading
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