This one is for peaceful_one, who was busy preparing to leave for the UK during my period of gushing. And partly for me, who has terrible memory, and would like to record this before everything fades into a faint image of blue eyes and green pastures ( Read more... )

From Sunset to Sunrise on October 4, 2008:
For one sleepless night, experience Toronto transformed by artists.
The familiar will be discarded as the city becomes the artistic playground for a series of exhilarating contemporary art experiences.
Black pleated skirt, boots and army green collared shirt beneath my black half-sleeved top. I drape on my ( Read more... )

When we first arrived in Canada, my dad was a gardener for old man Pete. Mr. Pete, as I affectionately called him, was an artist who refused to starve. He was a painter at heart, but became a successful entrepreneur owning his own warehouse. What I inherited from that atmosphere was an obsession for the classical, and my dad- an obsession for ( Read more... )

I was kneeling before the robed man, hands clasped in prayer with rows of temple goers kneeling behind me. A lady was introducing him as our honoured guest Teacher-monk who grew up in a Tibetan monastery, earned a doctorate degree etc etc (i.e. he's holier than me). I have to say that he was one dashing monk. On his left was his fledgling Bhikkhu, ( Read more... )

I logged into my old account today. I've written a total of 191 journal entries, but only three surfaced to mind. There was a boy from the Old World with appreciation for calligraphy and eloquence. I wrote sparsely about him. The boy who reminisced aloud to me and Jade about that other Jade who was furious with her ex-boyfriend only to realize that ( Read more... )

"She looks just like her Uncle ( Read more... )

Are YOU ready for one of the FASTEST and TALLEST roller coasters on EARTH?!

ANIIGE: Yeahhh!

All bravado. The cousins and I were lining up for this ride Top Thrill Dragster the 14-year-old and I weren't exactly aching to hop aboard. She gaped in horror as her eyes followed the zipping train up the 420 feet hill. "Turn your eyes away from the ride ( Read more... )