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September 4, 2010 Saturday, start of 12 amazing days in France. September 3, 2010 Friday, bedroom and dining room furniture delivered. Dad found this great store (ZF Furniture @ 3814 Victoria Park Ave). The pieces are simple, solid and, of course, espresso stained :) August 27, 2010 Super chocolatey dessert and wine at Cafe La Gaffe to celebrate closing new condo. I spent thirty minutes thinking: Didn't I go to high school with that girl? Amira ended up approaching me. August 18, 2010 Wednesday, start of 5 day rainy canoe/camping trip in Algonquin with S, his friends, his friends' friends, which include Tonia, who I know from Waterloo. August 15, 2010 Sunday, eggs benny with Denise at Lola's Commissary. Perused S&M festival as we strolled down Church Street. August 14, 2010 // 33 Saturday, Vendy purchased a huge purple dry bag for the canoe trip, while S acquired a bug jacket fit for a nuclear facility. August 12, 2010 // 32 Thursday, one of S's friends is singing at Babaluu, so we enjoyed jazz + dinner. August 7, 2010 // 31 S: I procrastinate too much Wendy: Well ... I'm impatient July 28, 2010 Wendy to Eric @ 2:42 pm: I have a last minute request. My parents want to see this place before I make an offer. July 25, 2010 Thursday, Stephen's bday at Noir. Eating in the dark makes one very aware of what people are talking about at the next table! Sunday, brunch with Steven at Cora's. He is visiting Nova Scotia with Haina over the long weekend, so I shared my hiking recommendations. July 17, 2010 // 24 Grocery shopping in Kensington Market. Magical apartment next to a church steeple. July 7, 2010 // 22 There is a new climbing gym near my parents' place. We got a great deal on membership! July 5, 2010 Wendy to Eric @ 10:33 pm: I'm looking for the following.
It would be nice to have the following.
For example: http://www.realtor.ca/PropertyDetails.aspx?PropertyID=9557774 July 1, 2010 // 20 Another radiant Canada Day. Another breezy stroll through Sylvan Park. Another delicious sushi dinner. But not the same. June 30, 2010 Casual dinner at Negroni Panini. Finally met Rachel's James. To compensate for his upcoming ibanking job, he spent the last few months in Chicago. To keep him company, she is also studying for CFA exam. P.S. Vendy loves strolling through the streets northwest of Bathurst and College. June 28, 2010 There is a monthly female actuarial AVP lunch at Manulife. This time, it's just Ailenne and me, so we tried to figure out all the people we both know from Waterloo. June 24, 2010 At Pricing Officer/Valuation Actuary meeting, I met Kim, who is in charge of valuation at our Indonesia office. She is a friend of June's from Waterloo. Small world! June 19, 2010 // 18 This year's Through The Garden Gate event took place in The Beach. Because of the ravine, the gardens are interesting vertically. Who knew there are backyards full of fruit trees and purple flowers within fiften minutes walk from my parents' house? June 17, 2010 // 17 Picnic at Sunnybrook with dessert from Thobors. June 16, 2010 Seafood dinner with Steven at Chiado. OW is lending him to OSFI for a year. Guess which company he is focusing on? June 13, 2010 Wendy piles goat cheese on omelette with bitter greens and prunes. Dad: I didn't eat goat cheese for the first forty years of my life. Why do I have to start now? Wendy stirs chicken and cauliflower in tomato puree with cinnamon and cumin. Dad: The kitchen smells funny. Wendy :( Wendy dips garlic shrimp in mango puree, linguine in sun dried tomato pesto and bitter greens in orange ginger dressing. Dad nods. Dad: We should try pickled herring. Wendy stacks pickled herring on cracker glazed with grapefruit marmalade. Dad :) wendy :) June 12, 2010 // 16 Snapshot: Randomly alighting at the optimal streetcar stop for Hibiscus Cafe. June 10, 2010 Middle-Eastern tapas with Denise and Stephen at Mezzetta. The puree of flame-roasted eggplant, garlic, dill, mint and vinegar is really yummy. June 9, 2010 // 15 Snapshot: Drawing a transcendental curve with two tail-on shrimps. June 5, 2010 // 14 Snapshot: Midnight Cinnabon @ Union Station. June 3, 2010 // Thirteen Snapshot: Constructing obstacle course for bathtub salmon. (S's mother served salmon for dinner.) Smiling @ Angular Momentum May 29, 2010 // Twelve Vendy highly recommends The Stop's Farmers' Market (Saturdays eight to noon @ Artscape Wychwood Barns). May 24, 2010 // Eleven Close call biking on Front. Phew! May 23, 2010 Wednesday, joined Steven to hear NYTimes' Andrew Ross Sorkin speak about "Too Big to Fail". Gossip away! Saturday, Carl visiting. Niagara on the Lake + Wine + Herb + Denise + Benny = Great Time. Will try tarragon in my cooking. Sunday, met Wei's bunny pet. Waffles at Wendy's favorite brunch place, petit dejeuner. May 19, 2010 // Ten Snapshot: Walking through a forest @ AGO. May 16, 2010 Saturday, catching up with Jenny on King West. Brunch at Gladstone followed by fantastic gallery tour. Great conversations with CONTACT photographers. Sunday @ Gallery Grill, finally met Stephen's Sari, who is still in uni. Back then, I often felt that my head was going to explode with questions. Life now is serene. May 15, 2010 // Nine Snapshot: Left Left Left May 12, 2010 // Eight Snapshot: Realizing that the Fibonacci sequence begins with not one, but one pair, of bunnies. Smiling @ i ? u May 8, 2010 // Seven Wistful Wilderness @ Hot Doc: The Island of Tiengemeten is getting a makeover. Originally cleared to serve as agricultural land, it is now being abandoned to the elements, left to revert back to wilderness. A profound portrait spanning fifteen years of transformation, loss and lament. Snapshot: Brassica rapa chinensis + most accurate fortune cookies @ New Sky. Snapshot: Designing Hamsterland, a playground for nihilistic existentialists @ All Things Tea. Smiling @ flying objects May 6, 2010 // Six Snapshot: Ordering goat cheese @ Serra. May 5, 2010 // Five Into Eternity @ Hot Doc: Currently, radioactive waste created by nuclear plants all over the world is placed in interim storage facilities. These facilities are vulnerable to natural and man-made disasters that could render them unsafe. But Finland has a solution: Onkalo is a series of permanent underground storage units hewn out of solid rock. Here nuclear waste must remain sealed and untouched for 100,000 years in order to neutralize its radioactivity. The science is sound, but how does one anticipate the human folly of future civilizations? Snapshot: Salt flakes @ Green Beanery. May 2, 2010 // Four The Woman with the 5 Elephants @ Hot Doc: Swetlana Geier is considered the greatest translator of Russian literature into German. Geier’s survival through both Hitler’s and Stalin’s dictatorships echoes themes found in Dostoyevsky’s masterpieces. As Geier travels back to her birthplace in Ukraine, she visits her “stork well,” the symbolic source of her greatest pain and creativity, putting her past into poetry—the translation of which is her most essential, exact expression yet. May 1, 2010 // Three Wendy: Oh no! I did a bad job planning this date. S: Dating doesn't need to be efficient. Snapshot: Stalking 'crickets'. April 28, 2010 // Two Snapshot: Secret in our hands. April 25, 2010 Denise, Steven & Stephen came over for Wendy's first ever spring brunch. April 22, 2010 // One Francesco Alberoni: The experience of ‘falling in love’ shares the essential traits of any collective movement, which is a well-known sociological category, yet at the same time it retains its own unmistakable nature. No one would think, for example, to confuse it with such other examples of collective movements as the Protestant Reformation, the student protest movement of the 1960s, the Feminist movement ... Snapshot: "This is how the heart works" @ Urbana Coffee. April 18, 2010 Friday, tapas with Denise @ Torito. Amazing tripe stew. Shrimp in port wine sauce is such a buzz. Denise had two glasses of wine and two glasses of port ;) Saturday, veal sandwich and grocery shopping with June @ St Lawrence market. Picked up asparagus, mahi mahi and scallop for dinner. Grabbed fresh fig, dried fig, brie and crackers for next week's brunch. Sunday, beach walk with Tanya, who is heading to Manila next Wednesday. April 1, 2010 Tuesday, picked up new passport. Yay! 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:annecy, france
:#604 @ 25 the esplanade (note: light fixture will be replaced!)
:fav look for spring 2011: haider ackermann
:purple foxglove, a surprise // 16
:vendy's future living room inspired by NYTimes
:oh memory // 8
:secret in their eyes // 2
:easter 2010: volcan acatenango
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