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Toronto is huge. It's a giant concrete field with intermittent green spaces, but they are perfunctory. It's not like in Montreal where the green spaces and the concrete don't clash, but compliment each other. There are also streetcars here, whose tracks take up a large portion of the wide roads. I have to stop jaywalking or one of these days I ( Read more... )

"By 3 methods we may learn wisdom:
first, by reflection which is noblest;
second, by imitation which is easiest; and
third, by experience which is the bitterest."

Everyone, please watch Up the Yangtze. It's by a Montreal-based filmmaker called Yung Chang, about the life changing effects of the Three Gorges Dam in China. It brought tears to my ( Read more... )

Beth says:
ugh ew
Beth says:
tim hortons is NOT a bakery
Beth says:
it is a whorehouse

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I just wanna use your love for toniiiiiiiight....

“Modern capitalism…encourages individuals as consumers to avoid an awareness of the inevitability of their own death by promoting the pursuit of a bewildering array of consumable and ‘life enhancing’ products that will provide you with nirvana in the here and now."

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Today I was sitting in my economics class, almost about to pass out from exhaustion and boredom, when I suddenly realized that there was a little ant scurrying around on my notebook, subsequently keeping me awake and mildly amused for the next few minutes. Then I eventually got bored and had to get back to taking notes, so I gently flicked it off ( Read more... )

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Soy sauce invaded my phone and killed it. Oh, the humanity ( Read more... )

I can't believe I actually made a journal out of that. It's based on a Douglas Coupland novel that I read when I was fourteen and a half, I think? I'm too lazy to fact check right now. The point is, I am getting nostalgic for that name again. I guess I'll think about it and see ( Read more... )