My New Boyfriend

Meet Jasper. He's my new 1.4 lbs boyfriend ;) We met at work and it was love at first sight. He was picked up by 3 other people though...younger at that (what a tease!), but he decided to come home with me :) He's still in training mode, because he knows who wears the pants in this relationship!! But I think he's a keeper ;)

*The real story: He was found wandering the parking lot around my workplace. He was picked up by 3 highschool-ers who couldn't leave him by himself. They wanted to give him to the shelter as none of them could keep him. But they made a pit stop by my store, where I heard and saw the little guy and was convinced that he had to come home with me! But no matter what, there's no question that I wear the pants in this relationship :P

A Posting Hiatus

Okay, okay, I've been lagging in my posts again - and it maybe it'll be another week or two before I can play catch-up with my photo blog :( Busy, busy, busy bee I am.

Upcoming postings to look forward to:

• My community assignment
• My final project/personal project - some people may already know what I've been busy working on, and may have been a participant ;) Thank you!
• New York, New York
• Vancouver & Rockies 
• Misc. stuff...TBD :P

But in the meantime, enjoy a picture of my dinner from Saturday! Veggy good food + good friends + perfect weather = great time! 

*added later: By the way, guess who got herself some tickets!! Yahoo!! 

Viva la Vida!!

OMG! Guess who's coming this summer? Must. Get. Tickets. Now.

An unexpected pedestrian

I thought I'd also throw up a fun picture I took for the street assignment. Quack, quack! She was a real gem to shoot. Probably one of my best models ;) Her & her partner actually came right up to my camera lens as I was snapping away. Almost 2 minutes after this photo, the couple tried to cross the nearby road, and was *almost* hit by a crazy young driver. I'm glad he noticed that the ducks seem to have a larger human-shaped object tailing them with a camera and stopped. Hurmph.

The Street

Wow, days sure fly by quickly. It's already June?! When did that happen?? That just means one thing though - it's almost summer! Yay! Well, let me clarify, since those who know me, know that I HATE summer. So *ahem*, what I meant is "yay!" for the tons of events going on in the summer & hanging out w/friends, but "hiiiisssss" & "BOOOOOOOOO" for the damaging, horrible, burning, scorching, crazy hot & un-forgiving sun. 

I mean, I like warmish weather just like everyone else and feeling re-energized by the sun's golden rays :) BUT, sometimes those rays are like evil, killer laser beams targeting my pale, ghostly skin. You would think that I would appreciate some sun and get a tan, yes? No, my friends. The sun only does one thing to me: burns. I don't look that far off from the crustaceans found in your local Red Lobster platter. Yah, I'm sexy ;P

Anyways, enough with that! On to the photos :) These photos were taken for my "street" assignment. I think the pictures are self-explanatory, but for those who like to know the backstory, these photos were taken somewhere along Yonge Street. I managed to capture some photos of a homeless woman while I was walking around downtown before class. Every once and a while, she would shout in her tiny voice, "Change? Change?" to the people passing by her - people who didn't even give her the time of day.

The second photo was taken a few hours after class when I somehow ran across the same woman, in the same position, sitting at the same corner, still calling, "Change?". Once again, people walked by her. My classmates kind of wondered whether she actually sat there for a duration of (must have been) 6-7 hours (that was the time frame between each shot).  I managed to go up and give her whatever change was in my pockets during the day, but I kind of wondered whether it still sat untouched in her cardboard container later that night.

The End of an Era

(if you look closely at the photo, I like how there's two elderly men heading towards the Beer Store at 4PM - haha!! The Beer Store is blocked by the sign, in case you're wondering)

Okay, so I meant to post a while back re: my next assignment, but I'm going to sidetrack for a bit - since it is my blog! ;P So I'm dedicating a post to what I call an end of an era. No, not really for the Loblaws (or "Loblaw") Company, but for my own neighbourhood Loblaws supermarket store. May 28th marked the last day for Store #1002 and next year, it will turn into a No Frills - which is a chain that Loblaws also owns (I'm pretty sure there's a more business term for what that is). Ha, interesting huh? Kind of like the Banana Republic --> GAP --> Old Navy syndrome.  But still, it's no Loblaws :(

Now why am I dedicating an entire post to supermarket you ask? It's just a grocery store, right? Go shop at Dominion! Bah!! Well, this store has also been my "home" for 8 years. Ignore the fact that I probably haven't worked there in the last 5-6 months due to scheduling conflicts, but yes people, I worked at Loblaws...in the Photolab to be more specific.

It was in the Photolab where I met some of my closest friends to date, and to think that we're all going to be separated is sad. I don't think we'll ever lose touch, but it's not the same :( So perhaps it isn't really the store that I'm mourning, but the people and connections made there that I'm going to miss the most.

So farewell Loblaws! I will miss shopping with you; to my co-workers/friends, I'm only a phone call away :) 

The Familiar - Part Deux

In my first post, I mentioned that the kitchen was a meeting place for my family to go chit chat about our day. Well, the kitchen just so happens to be the place where we eat! Duh. What better way to document something familiar to me, than to take photos of my weekend lunch :) Mmmm...spicy ramen (with an egg added in for good measure!) Spicy MSG noodles + soft boiled egg = one happy stomach :D

I managed to take a before & after shot for your viewing pleasure. Trust me, the before shot was not easy for me to take, as I was uber hungry :P 

A friend also mentioned that I used a Japanese spoon vs. a Chinese one to eat ramen with. I'm telling you, the Japanese sure know how to create awesome utensils. Did you ever run into the problem of having your spoon fall into your noodle bowl? Well, I did and it sucked. Imagine having to fish that thing out with your chopsticks. Soup & noodles flying all over the place...not a pretty picture :( Well, extend the spoon handle and add a hook = problem solved!!! Go figure. My ramen eating experience has never been a problem ever again :)

Bon appetit!