Everything's Amazing and Nobody is Happy?!

My mum shared this video with me, and she said that not too many people on her Facebook liked it. I tell her that I think that if they did not like it, it is because they either don't have a sense of humor or feel talked about in that video :p

It is quite funny, and I completely agree with him. Every now and then I am thankful for things I have. If you ever see my list of the things I am grateful for in my life, amongst many other things, I actually have the Internet, laptop and mp3 listed there. Also, I can't explain as to how many times I have rolled my eyes at people in the subway, especially the teenagers, when they get frustrated with their phones and blackberries. Sometimes hearing them talk makes me sound like my parents as I think to myself, what has happened to this generation, are they not thankful? and are they our "tomorrow's leaders" I do say this with a joke, realizing my dramatization of the situation..but you know what I mean!!

At the end of the day we all act as impatient :p and I am the first one when it comes to my slow computer... so I hope you like the video, it is a good laugh :)

The foliage of Fall

I wrote a post telling you how beautiful summer is in Canada and probably a post before that telling you how anxiously I was waiting for summer, and I also wrote a post showing you all 4 seasons in Canada, but I think I will take the time now to tell and show you how refreshing, leaf-kicking, messy and peaceful Fall is in Canada.

Fall is the season that has you getting out early in the morning saying “it’s good to be in Canada”. The foliage starts ranging in color from green to red, yellow and orange and the temperature starts dropping mid September, giving you some really wet cloudy days with a tease of sunny days, with a high of 10C, and some weeks of randomly fluctuating temperatures. Days start getting shorter with sunrise starting at 7am (after daylight saving time) and sunset starting at 10 to 5pm.

So here are pictures of my neighborhood which I haven’t showed you before, this is a park about 5 mins walk from my place and is where I first started peddling on my bike, by the small hill on the basketball court. Also, I walk through here at least twice, every day, on my way to school and back. Do pardon me for taking photos much later into the season after all the leaves have fallen. Fall is also a good time to take a good look at home designs as the trees are bare, something I also enjoy doing on my walks. So I thought I’d share with you some of my everyday life moments :)

Of course with that many leaves falling, someone has to rake them, so I have only had the time to rake that much last Sunday

And this is the view of fall from my window :)

The CN Tower experience

As some of you know I was working at the CN Tower last summer for a month or so, and just in case you’re wondering if I was one of them elevator people, as everyone tends to ask; no I wasn’t, I was working with Sharp Shooter Imaging taking “souvenir” photos that are superimposed with the Tower and Toronto skyline on the backdrop. Or if you were fortunate enough to afford a meal at 360 the tower’s famous rotating restaurant, you would pass by me to get your photo taken, with the restaurant as the backdrop.

All in all, it was a great job, a perfect summer job, at least for me, for 2 reasons 1)I was interacting with people coming from all over 2) I get to see beautiful Toronto skyline and Lake Ontario everyday; morning time, sunset and night time and I tell you, I never got tired of it. That I was working at the restaurant was extra lucky, some nights the view from there was just so breathtaking, although sometimes making me want to sob when I’d be exhausted and sleep deprived, just wishing I could be having a nice meal there with my special person or my mum. Also, in my opinion, working there, at least that summer, gave me a good feel of Toronto and its makeup. The people I worked with some students others not, but from different walks of life and backgrounds, which reminds me of back home. I just need to be around such diversity and that is most definitely one of the reasons why I am thankful that I ended up in Toronto.

To top it all, being an employee there, I had a special security badge that allowed me to get to so many other wonderful places for free/ with a good discount and sometimes with one guest; the AGO, ROM, Bata shoe museum, just to name a few and of course the tower itself.

After my last day at work and just before I had to give back my badge and all that comes with it, I had my CN tower experience and literally did everything you could do there. I went to the observation level, glass floor and the sky pod. I watched the 3D movie on the Ultimate wave Tahiti and rode on the motion theater ride called Himalazon :p and just before heading out I got my very own CN tower photo.

Mind you, since I have been there before, winter 2010, the photos of Toronto are from that winter, thinking about it now, it is a shame that I did not take any photos that day, since Toronto is beautiful in summer.

miniature CN Tower and Moose Mountie cop




Billy Bishop Airport





I really like this monument, right in front of Union Station
it is the statue of multiculturalism