Budding photographer

Categories: Exploring the World, India, Photography

Watch out Testino – my pictures are in demand too… ok, ok, so what’s got me waving the gauntlet?  A few weeks ago Greg Cruey from Asia for Visitors contacted me and asked to use some of my pictures from Flickr – I was quite chuffed to know that someone likes my pictures enough to … Read More

parlez vous francais?

Categories: All things Cultured, French, Random Thoughts

Voici est mon premier blog en francais (comment on dit ‘blog’ en francais?) J’etudie francais pour 6 annees mais je ne parle pas bien.  J’ai étudié a la Universite d’Ottawa – Il est la plus ancienne bilingue universite au Canada … mais je n’ai pas appris – J’ai seulement appris dire ‘Tabanac’, et ‘merde’, et … Read More

Stockpickr

Categories: Social Networks, Stocks, Technology

I’ve been playing around with Stockpickr for a few weeks after reading about it on TechCrunch.  I like it so far although I’m not sure if I really trust it. While I like that it gives me an alternate source for info and that it gives me the opportunity to glimpse into the portfolios of … Read More

Oyster Boy – 4 stars

Categories: Restaurants, Toronto

This is an awesome restaurant! it’s a small tiny place on Queen St West near Shaw, across from the Candy Lofts. Here’s an exact map of it. I personally think that Toronto needs more of these intimate, cozy, and hidden away gems. In contrast to the over-designed, soon-to-be tacky looking places popping up all over … Read More

Woo-hoo!

Categories: Miscellaneous

760!! and a 6.0! not bad for 1 month crunching!

new RIM blackberry

Categories: Stocks, Technology

so RIM’s shares have jumped over 10% today apparently based on rumours that they’re putting out a new device… wacko… RIM is now trading at a 56 P/E ratio. Here’s info on the device that I got forwarded from AK today. To be released shortly and likely will be called: Blackberry 8900c. Basically, take the … Read More

Pop culture

Categories: All things Cultured, Random Thoughts, Toronto, VidClips n more

We went to go see Aladin a few days ago – a pretty good show, even though we received the tickets for free… I’m not sure if I would’ve paid the $49 that they normally ask. Actually, I’m positive, I would not… but I would pay $20-$25 for one. It’s worth it just to see … Read More

Book Review: The Successor – ***1/2 stars

Categories: Books

I got my wish – a great read, that I could just get lost in. I read this book in a matter of days, but not because it was simple – Kadare’s writing style is actually different than anything i’ve read before, with…

What’s Funky?

Categories: Random Thoughts

I got a message from jimdwalton on myblog asking me how I define funk . so I thought i’d give it a try… While I think originally it meant some kinda smell – the first thing that most people think of is music – big in the 60s and 70s and couldn’t be defined when it emerged – … Read More

My third post with Windows Live Writer

Categories: Miscellaneous

i’m trying this out again and adjusting the date to see what happens. I’m setting the date for 5 days earlier – Dec 5 at 12:02pm.  another gripe i got with Live Writer though, is how long it takes to start up.  almost as much as starting up Word.