Samomatic

The last Pedestrian Sunday of this year was marked with various types of music, performances, food, and random happenings.

Here are a few pictures of the people.

There was also a petition for increasing bike lanes around the city. I believe they are pushing the car to Queen’s Park today.

Happy Halloween everyone!

*9:45AM on a Saturday, I am half awake in my bed*
Dad runs in: “You have someone at the door for you”
Me: “Huh?” (think to myself…well I don’t remember doing anything bad yesterday so I am probably ok…)
I walked to the front door and a young 20something looking oriental guy is at the door. I open the door and it took me 1 full second to realize it is my long lost friend from Windfields Junior High!

Jin-Baik, or know as Justin to some, was my elementary and junior high school buddy. Him, Justin Medina, and I used to walk/bike to school everyday, explore the woods, light things on fire, tobaggon down random hills, crawl into the sewage system, fall into a river in the middle of winter, play deadman and foot hockey during lunches, and fake wrestling.

Here are some old pictures from our Gr.6 fieldtrip to Mansfield. Oh the good times!

Jin-Baik moved away to Richmanhill in the middle of Gr.8 and we had 1 telephone conversation. The very smart me managed to lose his number and we have since lost touch. I have tried to search for him on Facebook or ask other Windfields people haven’t had too much luck. The good news is that he is going to be in town for the next few months so we have some catching up to do…..and stuff to light on fire. :)

Working in downtown Toronto is definitely interesting. Everything is within walking distance and I like just strolling around after work.

I like Chinatown because it is so chaotic. People ignoring traffic lights, shops extending out of onto the sidewalks, people screaming out “Cheap Vegetables”, and plenty of ymmy snacks from the bakeries.

PDEng is as horrible as it ever. The workload isn’t heavy so far but for our latest assignment, a reporter style opinion piece, a ‘pass’ requires 100% and we have to resubmit it whether it passed or not. Something doesn’t make sense but I have concluded that PDEng is about making student suffer rather than learn after the previous 4 servings.

After all the food had been bought the weather report predicted thunderstorm for Saturday and Monday. Well we deicded to try and if the weather gets too bad we would turn around. On the way to the park we visited the slowest McDonald’s in this planet, it took us about 45min to get our food….nothing fancy, just hot cakes.

About half an hour into the hike it started to pour, there were about a dozen slips and falls hiking on the mossy rocks.

The rain stopped after about an hour and the sky wasn’t as dark. Here we were resting on a bridge (note how Kenny is eating in every picture).

At the campsite everyone stayed busy with cooking, setting up tents/tarp, finding suitable bear bag location, filtering water, finding firewood and starting the fire. Dinner was couscous with vegetable sauce, dessert was smorse and gorb.

By 8pm it was pitch black and we were just sitting around the fire. It felt like 2am after a long day of hiking and the surrounding was so quiet.

“Mmmm…taste like VICTOR-y”, In the morning we had to pack everything back into our packs and off to another 14km.

Lunch time consist of tortilla, cheese, cold cut, gorb, crackers.
Kenny made this heart attack peanut butter + nutella + gorb tortilla combo for me. :)

Kenny’s ripped pants, he was changing at the highest point in the park!
He was still wearing it when we got back to Toronto for dinner…

It was a fun trip, definitely tougher than the canoe trip. We didn’t come away with too many injuries and it only rained for that 1hr in the beginning which was very fortunate. I felt sick on the way home, maybe eating that 3 day old oily samosa wasn’t such a great idea.