Big Brother

So it's known I don't live in the best area of Toronto but today it has been acknowledged with the prescence of a police camera.

Toronto has been adding these police cameras to 2 types of places: where there is major traffic such as Yonge and Gould and where there is a lot of crime like Jane & Finch.

And the Newest addition is on Gerrard and Horticulture Ave, right on the edge of Allen Gardens. This isn't a busy vehicular street and not many accidents happen here, insuating the crime possibility.

Now Allen Gardens is part of my daily walking routine. I take this route sometimes at 3 in the morning.

So does this new police camera make me feel safer? or does it just make me feel more unsafe that I know that there's so MUCH crime happening here they have to add 24 hour surveillance on the area?

I'm going with the first option. Now that the presence of the police is there 24/7, there hopefully will be a reduction in the crime. Or maybe the crime will just move closer to my apartment...

Let's hope not.

Ugh Another Weekend

Here it goes again. Another weekend full of projects and work.
THIS is not how a real weekend should be. Weekends are for relaxing and enjoying life. TGIF? Not at all. The weekend is probably busier for me than any week day.
Although, I do get a small break this wknd (even though I don't have time for it). It's Jacko's good-bye party, cause she's going to Africa for two months. Insanity. But awesomeness.
Now Africa would make for a good vacation. Safari through the grasslands.
Just gonna take a moment to think of what that would be.
No stress from school or work. Just fresh air, a blue sky, and a vast wilderness full of life. Although the stress from getting attacked by a predator lingers.
Moment over and back to reality.

Fog and clouds have pervaded Toronto for the past two days and apparently it affects me. I've felt like absolute shizat for those two days, with nausea and dizziness.
I just need a clear day. One that I can sleep in and eat a full breakfast of bacon and eggs. Do some easy work like readings at Starbucks. Watch a pirated movie in my big lazyboy. Get chicken wings at our pub for $3.99 a pound. Go to MickeyFinn's and drink with a big group of friends. Crawl back to my apartment and fall into my bed. And sleep.

If only.

Conquering the Piles & 'Hulk'ed Out

So I finished all the items on my things-to-do list for this weekend.
Feels good.
And I was able to go out for dinner once, go to church, and go rollerblading at Harbourfront. Now THAT is time management.
And now I'm off to help a fellow student with a powerpoint presentation for our project which is due tomorrow. Who doesn't know how to use powerpoint? Sheesh.

Here's some pics I took from a few weeks ago. The "Incredible Hulk" is being filmed in Toronto, right by Ryerson and Yonge Street was transformed into Harlem, New York.
With the Famous Apollo Theatre...

A bus that the Hulk threw a car into...
Film crews and equipment...
And an interesting set props which had to be clearly distinguished from the real garbage cans on Yonge Street...

To Get Through the Piles

Organization is KEY to getting through a ton of work.
And it definitely helps getting over the procrastination factor.
So I've implemented in my work this weekend. And it's helping.
Except for the fact that I'm writing another post, so technically procrastination still ensues.
One of the things on list of things-to-do is create a powerpoint presentation for my parents' 25th Wedding Anniversary party next month. This pic might go in it. It's when we were in Florida in 2000, which is only 7 years ago...and we look pretty friggin young. So I was 13...although it doesn't look like I was 13, but maybe 10.
And I'm not gonna lie, we were friggin cute kids.

Procrastination Station

It's a nice long weekend with a pile of work to do.
And the procrastination ensues...

Nuit Blanche Explored...A Bit Late

As I promised in my last post, it's time to talk about Nuit Blanche.
Yesh, I've been a bit of a slacker on this blog. BUT I will try to keep up.
So Nuit Blanche was on the 29th, over a week ago.
And it was amazing. An eye-opening experience.

And Jacko joined me so it made it even more fun.
This was the first exhibition we saw. It was at Ryerson's Lake Devo. A display of toilets with mist creeping over the water. It actually was really nice, even though it used an unusual medium. My interpretation: The over-use of water in toilets. [A totally wrong interpretation but that's all I got.]
We then headed on over to Church Street. And got a giant dose of freakiness.
This lady was dressed in a wedding dress holding a dead skinned goat. I have no idea what the heck this freak was doing. And my interpretation: She is insane.

Next on the agenda was a stop at the Bata Shoe Museum. Here was an exhibition called "Footprints" which I really liked. First I enjoyed the irony of the place of this exhibition because it's placed in a shoe museum and it's about our ecological footprint. Brilliant, really.
So we traced our footprints onto these earth-friendly sheets and then they were displayed throughout and on top of the building to give viewers a grasp of how everyone's ecological footprint creates such a giant imprint on the world.
We headed over to U of T, pretty much the sweetest campus ever. And there was an exhibition on an alien spaceship landing. The exhibition itself was lame but it gave an opportunity for some sweet pics:

I like them.
So there were a ton of exhibits all over the city and it was a pretty amazing night.
Definitely going again next year.