Monthly Archives: August 2010

Another Jam Packed Weekend – Saturday Update

Another weekend full of going out….again! And it’s only Saturday! I think we only ate at home once or twice the whole 2 weeks that mom was away! On Friday night we spent about 4.5 hours steaming chair covers, putting them on about 150+ chairs, and tying the knots behind them. There were 5 of...

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2010 Toronto International Film Festival

It’s MIDNIGHT MADNESS at TIFF! I love everything about it except 2 things: Carmen doesn’t watch horror, and many movies are shown at midnight on weeknights =( Here are the top movies I hope to go see this year for the Midnight Madness portion (in order of preference): 1) Vanishing on 7th Street – Starring...

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Meet GF1 and His New Baby Brother LX5

Carmen picked up our new Panasonic Lumix LX5 today (+1 for Alan). We had the LX3, but Ada took it out of our hands so we can try out this new baby. LX5 improves upon the already near perfect LX3 by increasing (one of my major complaints) the optical zoom from 2.0x to 3.8x. The...

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Japanese Dinner

Today we went to the Japanese restaurant at Market Village. I forgot the name! Anyway, it’s a small restaurant that’s only accessible from the outside and right beside Hollywood restaurant. We ordered the 4ppl combo with a whole bunch of stuff, including lobster sashimi! We also ordered a box of Uni….super yummy! We also got...

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Another Jam-Packed Weekend

As the mid-August weekend comes to a close, let me recap the stuff we got to do these past two days. First, we had the honour of attending Carmen’s long time schoolmate Lisa and her new husband Bernard’s wedding at the Shangri-La on Saturday night. We had a lot of fun and the Emcee was...

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