Tag Archives: 2013

2013: Year in Reflection

Posted on December 31, 2013 by stenoodie

This is the obligatory blog post that summarizes my year in 2013: – First off, 2013 was definitely a year of travel. I visited: Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Jia Men, China in February-March Beijing, Xi’an, Shanghai, and Shandong … Continue reading →

Posted in Life | Tagged 2013, accomplishments, memories, reflection | 6 Comments

Weekly Photo Challenge: One

Posted on December 22, 2013 by stenoodie

One: One of the thousands of trees that are covered in complete ice from this weekend’s ice storm in Toronto. An amazing sight of what nature can do, but also amazing how it caused complete destruction and damage and power … Continue reading →

Posted in Weekly Photo Challenge | Tagged 2013, frozen trees, ice, ice storm, picture, postaday, power outages, Toronto, weekly photo challenge, winter | 3 Comments

DiSCOVER. Trip to China. Day 9. July 24, 2013.

Posted on October 14, 2013 by stenoodie

Today we went to Daming Lake and Confucius’s mansion, temple, and cemetery. Daming Lake was nice and lunch was really good too since the presentation of the food looked really nice and there was a live performance too. The rest … Continue reading →

Posted in Travel | Tagged 2013, China, Confucius, Daming Lake, hot, Mon Sheong, Qufu, stamp carvings, summer, tourist, travel, Trip to China | 16 Comments

CNE 2013 — Crazy food edition

Posted on August 23, 2013 by stenoodie

Last night I attended the Canadian National Exhibition, CNE for short, with 4 other friends in search for the weirdest and wackiest food creations. CNE is an annual end-of-summer fair that is half carnival and half food fest. Actually, it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Food | Tagged 2013, annual event, bacon, bubble tea, Canadian National Exhibition, cheeseburger mac, CNE, deep fried cola, deep fried Twix, food, food blog, Food Building, foodie, Jalapops, Nutella, Spice cream cone, summer, Taco in a bag, Toronto, unique, YOLO | 7 Comments

Captioning the Asian Film Awards with Jade King

Posted on July 8, 2013 by stenoodie

On March 18, 2013, I attended the 7th Annual Asian Film Awards with Jade King in Hong Kong. I met up with Jade at 11 that morning to get to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. I was beyond … Continue reading →

Posted in New Experiences, Steno | Tagged 2013, Asian Film Awards, Asian Film Awards 2013, captioning done by stenographers, captions, closed captioning, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Asian Film Awards, Hong Kong stenographers, Jade King, job shadowing a captioner, Kong Kong captioners, live captioning, live captioning events, shadowing, simultaneous interpreters, stadium captioning in Hong Kong, steno, stenography | 7 Comments

TO Food Fest 2013!

Posted on June 24, 2013 by stenoodie

I attended the second annual TO Food Fest yesterday in the blistering heat. The event features well known food trucks and eateries selling their most popular yummies in a food show. It’s sort of like the night markets except during … Continue reading →

Posted in Food | Tagged 2013, babi on a bun, camel burger, first TO Food Fest experience, food, food blog, food trucks, foodie, grizzly bear pizza, line-ups, lobster roll, Scarborough, shrimp ceviche, summer, summer food festivals, TO Food Fest | 3 Comments

Snow in April 2013!

Posted on April 11, 2013 by stenoodie

I like to be egotistical and think that because I was away from Toronto during its wintery season that I missed the snow and cold temperatures so Mother Nature is giving me a taste of what I missed. Snow in … Continue reading →