Data Recovery

That’s it.  I admit defeat.  After 7-8 attempts at trying to restore the photos that I “lost” from the third and fourth day of my cruise, I’m done trying — I need to use my SD card again for more food and fun adventures this weekend, so I’m quietly saying good-bye to those 100ish photos that I will never see again.  RIP photos.   Continue reading

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Weekly Photo Challenge: On Top

CN Tower, Toronto.  August 2011

On Top of the world’s 6th tallest free-standing structure, the CN Tower!

This was after my friend Rachel and I walked around the edge of the CN Tower for EdgeWalk (walking 356m or 1,168ft above ground)!  Continue reading

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Snow in April! Second year in a row!

Light dusting of snow on April 15, 2014

Some of you are going to hate this post, but it doesn’t matter because it’s all in your perspective and how you want to handle the “curveballs” that life throws you.

This morning, many Torontonians woke up to a white and wintry view outside their windows.  “Where’s my spring?!” Continue reading

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Monument

The Carnival Glory and the Ruby Princess parked right beside each other at the port; looks like two monuments to me!
April 2014

Upon disembarking from the cruise to an excursion in Mexico on my Caribbean cruise this past week (that’s why there’s been no new posts for the past couple of days — sorry, guys, I know that some of you had been checking back for new ones, but I’m back now!) and heading back to our Ruby Princess cruise ship, I saw this view!   Continue reading

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Yakitori Kintori

Located at 668 Bloor St W in Toronto

The first time I heard of Yakitori Kintori was when I received a twitter invite from them!  From their description, I noticed that they are the same creators as Guu.  That meant NEW RESTAURANT in Toronto!!  Woohoo!  This was back in February.  Since its opening, I’ve noticed other friends checking in and also blogger reviews on urbanspoon.   Continue reading

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A Goal is a Dream with a Deadline

My Dreamboard!

Or more specifically, as quoted by Harvey MacKay,

“A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.”

If you don’t set out to do what you dream of, how can it be realized and achieved?  Similarly, if you don’t have dreams, what are you aiming for in this lifetime?   Continue reading

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New favourite HK-style cafe: Blue Ocean Cafe [Defunct]

Thai Style Tom Yum Soup with Seafood and Rice Noodle

I’ve seen on urbanspoon that Blue Ocean Cafe has some great reviews and had placed it on my wishlist to try out sometime.  It just so happened that I was at Peachtree Centre looking for a place to eat and saw the restaurant.  Yay!  Maybe I was biased from the online reviews that this restaurant would be good, but I was already impressed when I walked in.   Continue reading

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Tian Xin Place — Shanghai Cuisine

Located at 5 Glen Cameron Road in Thornhill

Mmmm Shanghainese food is comfort food to me! 🙂  The last time I was in this plaza by Yonge Street and Glen Cameron Road in Thornhill, I noticed that there was a Shanghai restaurant among the primarily Korean restaurant dominated plaza.  It’s the same plaza that the Home of Hot Taste and Piggy’s Restaurant is in.  This restaurant used to be called Shanghai Xue Yuan but is now rebranded as Tian Xin Place.   Continue reading

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Thai Cuisine at Khao San Road [Moved]

Located at 326 Adelaide St W in Toronto
Picture taken the first time I passed by and wanted to go in, but there was a wait time of 1 hour!

Khao San Road!  Not only is it a famed street in Thailand, but when you say these three words to foodies in Toronto, they will immediately know that it is a very popular Thai restaurant in downtown Toronto!

The very first time I wanted to try this restaurant, I was with Holly and Joyce after we had finished one sweaty workout session at Flirty Girl Fitness.   Continue reading

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold

Good old Milliken days

Hmm, what an interesting topic for this week’s photo challenge!  Threshold:  The moment before something exciting happens like a door opening or a flower about to bloom.  Well, here’s my interpretation of it!  What do you think? ^_^

This picture shows one of the last days of high school with my two close friends and I.   Continue reading

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