Summer “Staycation”
When I came back from Toronto a couple of weeks ago, I wanted to immediately buy a laptop and kickstart my freelance career once again. But I didn’t anticipate 2 things: the laptop that I wanted to buy may get an upgrade very soon 3 kids (nephews and niece) would move into my apartment this […]
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Paintings
Took my young nephew and niece to breakfast this morning. There was a small art exhibition by a few Mexican artists in the mall, we spent a fair amount of time looking over the paintings again and again. I was particularly captivated by the series of acrylic paintings of birds (cardinal, blue jay, and a […]
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CN Tower
Did what most tourists would do and gone up CN Tower this afternoon, I don’t think I’ll ever get bored of seeing the city from high above. Stopped by St. George on my way back home to make a quick visit to the building where I used to work for my last co-op term, it […]
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BTBC
Went to Sunday worship, then lunch, then went back church again for some basketball. This is the same routine for the 3 Sundays I was here. In fact, this was pretty much the same routine for most of the Sundays in the 10+ years I attended BTBC. I know I’m soon going to miss my […]
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Past Family House
Took a stroll around the neighborhood where I lived for 4 of my primary school years. Walked around my primary school and the adjacent park. Then I took a seat under a tree shade and sketched my past family house just across the road. There is a funny feeling visiting long forgotten places and seeing […]
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Downtown Toronto
Went downtown for the first time in this vacation, it’s so inconvenient to get to the vibrant city center now that I’m staying way up North in the suburbs. Had a veal sandwich for lunch at St. Lawrence Market, briefly visited GBC (where I learned to sketch), then sat in a small park across the […]
tagged: architecture, art, canada, career, cartooning, nostalgia, school, sketches, travel
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Metro Toronto Zoo
Spent a leisure afternoon at the zoo. Was planning to make sketches of native fauna, but there were only a handful of animals at the Canadian Domain, and most of them could not be easily sketched. Aside from the bounded animals, there were many chipmunks running all over the places. I also had a glimpse […]
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Visiting UTSC
Visited my research supervisor at UTSC, he treated me and the entire research group for lunch! Really glad to see everyone again. With the peculiar character of our supervisor, I had many happy and yet productive hours spent in my year of study there. Happy to see the lab prospering, the world can use more […]
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Crazy Weather
The temperature was close to 40 degrees (with humidity accounted) in the afternoon. Had to stay indoor where air-conditioning is provided, so I went to the mall to shop for a wedding gift for my friend in HK. Luckily, I found something that’s not “Made in China”! The Ice Cap tasted particularly good in the […]
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