While I threw up the recap post very quickly (was preparing it through the week), I had not originally intended on posting about the food we had. But NPY asked about it and I’m all to happy to throw this together while getting caught up on television shows from the week. I want to honour the week of cooking and dining and sharing in the way I know how–blogging about it.
Home-cooking Chinese meal
I really wanted to share the very homestyle-tasting bamboo shoots and mushrooms dish I learned to make recently. …

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It is with the heaviest heart ever that I have the time to blog and write this post because it means that NPY’s weeklong trip to Toronto is wrapped and he is back in Vancouver. After last October’s trip that was nothing short of disaster on all fronts, I needed to make sure this trip did not permanently scar him about the city that will, in some way, always be a part of me, my home-away-from-hometown. So these are the things that I did to make sure …

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What’s this High Park area of Toronto that people speak of? Most recently, I was listening to DNTO segment and one of the poems included in the Toronto Love Letters project was regarding High Park. Something like how it would takes years upon years to completely know it. Further, some tweets about cherry blossom festival going on in Vancouver prompted me to wonder if Toronto’s climate could also support cherry blossoms. It does and I did not have to go far, but to High Park to …

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In the past week, I learned about the documentary film Jiro Dreams of Sushi from an Angry Asian Man post and despite most stunning cinematography of the sushi-making, I nearly forgot about looking it up, assuming it was not accessible to me.
On Saturday morning, it occurred to me to look it up and my first local Google result showed that the TIFF Bell Lightbox was showing it several times during the day. The Lil Sis had heard our favourite morning radio show host, CBC Metro Morning’s Matt …

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I was totally delighted when I saw this Google Doodle today! In the top left corner of my Google search results–as I tend to exclusively use the combined search and address bar in Google Chrome–I spied that today was a Google Doodle Day and I had to know the occasion, as per usual. This beautiful and simple and geometric graphic greeted me in the center of the Google search page and as I moved my cursor to hover over the image, I had a feeling it was …

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I “watch” a lot of TV yet I don’t watch the screen. I’m hard-pressed to sit in front of the screen and do nothing and just absorb the story and scenery. I need to be cooking or cleaning or running or in transit between places. Which is why when NPY and I were watching the first two episodes of new series, Suits, and we even talked about it being filmed in Toronto (standing in for New York City), I forgot all about that conversation.
And then I was …

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Every morning I check myself out in the full-length mirrors on Bay Street, otherwise known was the gold one-way windows at ground level of the Royal Bank Plaza at Bay and Front.

******** This is a blog series complementing my regular blog posts with the original idea was to share our parallel lives, NPY’s and mine, while I’m in Toronto and he’s in Vancouver, 3,400 km away. For me, it’s been pretty fun because I’m this long-time blogger and enjoy repackaging parts of my life in “blog bites”. …

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I’m resigned that in the future, I have to live in the “‘burbs” and drive or (shudder) take transit to get to work. One day, I will have a live-in partner and we decide together where to live. Until then, I continue to be loathed to have more than a 10-minute walk to work, hah!
At first, I thought I’d get a Concord CityPlace apartment, perhaps even in LV’s building. But Lil Sis and I noticed the Pinnacle development and particularly their amenities. During a whirlwind tour …

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At some points, I really wonder if I did the right thing. Sometimes I use precedent as “logic” to justify an alternative I’ve already  decided to pursue.
When I got a job on Bay Street, the “life” was completed by also getting an apartment downtown. I’m the first occupant of a new high-rise completed just a few months ago. On a high, high floor because I wasn’t going to compromise after living on the 1.5st floor of a 30-year-old building for six years.
I pay about $100/month more in …

When I visit a reasonably large city, I’ll raid the tourist shops searching for two souvenir items in particular both with the city’s subway system map screen on them: a shot glass and an umbrella. I suppose I don’t need too many umbrellas so I’m open to other paraphernalia that is useful like notepads and bookmarks. In recent history, I have been to London, Hong Kong, Beijing, and New York and only been successful in London. I like my subway merchandise to look official and not screened on crooked in someon’s …