Nuite Blanche

Categories: All things Cultured, Exploring the World, Toronto

Picture taken by Mute* Just to prove that Toronto isn’t lackin in culture – the city pulled of one the coolest events ever yesterday – I’d have to say that it definitely ranks in the top 3 if not the absolute top event i’ve ever been to. Nuite Blanche just took over the downtown core yesterday … Read More

TIFF 2006 Movie: Mainline

Categories: Miscellaneous, Movies, Toronto

Rating: 7.5/10 ok i have to admit i’m weak – if i was in the position of the family in this movie, i think i’d be tempted to help the child commit suicide – i don’t think i would be able to watch the agony and misery they’re going through. This movie seemed to go … Read More

TIFF 2006 Movie: Saraphim Falls

Categories: Movies, Toronto

Rating: 3/10 This movie sucked – first I wasn’t expecting much to begin with since my friend had told me that Saraphim Falls it was a slow movie about two cowboys in the early part of the century – i imagined a brokeback knockoff and wasn’t expecting too much. It stared Pierce Bronson and Liam … Read More

TIFF 2006 Movie: The Namesake

Categories: India, Movies, Toronto

Rating: 9/10 When I was backpacking around India earlier this year, a lot of people told me to read The Namesake but being the lazy guy that I am, I didn’t want to carry the extra weight (the book probably weighs over a pound if not two…). So when we went to go see this … Read More

Book Review: Baby Khaki’s Wings

Categories: Books, Kenya, Uganda, Zanzibar

Baby Khaki’s Wings: **** (four stars) This turned out to be the best book to read while out here. It a collection of short stories which take place in various East African and Canadian cities and are very Ismaili centric (specifically Ismailis from East Africa) – many of the stories I could relate to – … Read More

Video of the week – Jul 23 ’06

Categories: VidClips n more

check this clip of gandhi that telecom italia used – but i don’t get how the italians understand it… kinda low to try and commercialize gandhi, but on the other hand i don’t see how this helps sell phones anyway… (sorry you gotta link out for this one) http://www.ad-awards.com/commercials/directory/categories/ telecommunications/telecom_italia/commercials-15-69.html

Video of the week – Jul 9 ’06

Categories: VidClips n more

Last week was a vacation on the Videos (hey, everyone else seemed to take a holiday for Canada Day, so i did too…) but this week’s video is going to be an all time classic it’ll be talked about in football lore for ages Zizou is still the greatest – but listen to french commentator … Read More

Cost of Living

Categories: Exploring the World, Toronto, World News

man – i just took a look at a recent Mercer report about the cost of living across of the world. http://www.finfacts.com/costofliving.htm Toronto is about 20% cheaper than NYC and more than 30% cheaper than London. and although everyone keeps saying that there is a difference in costs, there isn’t that much difference in the … Read More