Posts from ‘June, 2011’

I’m on a roll now. I’ve managed to ruin Nutella for several people, now I’m onto another spreadable weirdness known as Vegemite, brought to you by the denizens of down-under, Australia. When I first heard the name, I immediately thought it must be a combination of vegetables and termites. Sounded appetizing already. I actually ran [...]

Welcome to the days of text messaging where capitalization is slowly becoming obsolete. I found this beautiful gem of a reminder that proves that capitals are INDEED important in the English language: “Capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse, and helping your uncle jack off a horse.”

I bought some cashew butter recently because… well, because I can. And I was curious. Almond butter is delicious and nutty and almost “light” tasted compared to peanut butter, which I still love, but cashew butter is basically like dessert. I made the mistake of eating it for the first time at 7:00 AM and [...]

Here’s a little story for you. The game is: guess the age of the author. Email me with guesses, or leave a comment! It was an arranged marriage. She didn’t love him, he didn’t care. It was all based on the money of his father’s business. She felt uncomfortable with it. “Do it for your [...]

When the weather is nice, I take out my rollerblades, find a smooth bit of view-inspiring pavement, and start sweating. If you’re in Montreal, I have found no better path than the Lachine Canal 12.3 km path. Just watch out, at one point if you don’t cross the bridge to the other side, the pavement [...]

After 1 year of preschool, 7 years of elementary school, 5 years of high school, 5 years of Bachelor’s stuff, and 1 long ass year of Masters stuff, you would think that somewhere along the way, through 18 years of schooling, I would have managed to play THIS song at the year end: Sadly, it [...]

What a lovely Wednesday evening… finished my work by 10:00 pm (yup, working two jobs… still barely paying the rent… something is wrong with how society is structured… I’m digress , happy to have a couple hours for photo editing, made some tea, snuggled up to the computer (ok, not really) and then… *insert ominous [...]