if by some bizarre chance froggy Kevin reads this, lol flowers!
but yes flowers. After browsing through some crafting blogs, I made some paper flowers to make myself feel better. click for awesome lightbox fullview~ Rose, carnation, carnation. Last one looks a bit off since I forgot to make an extra cut on the petals. I'm really liking the contrast created by flash, should try using it when photographing brunch too, saves an extra step in photoshop XD Oh yeah, all photos on blog are slightly psed (unless otherwise stated). Mostly for sharpening, colour fixing, general better looking. Wish I had Xiaxue's ps skills, life would be easier haha.
Right, flowers. Rose and carnation petals. I bought all the supplies in China during a visit loooooooong time ago (prob 05?). The business card of the store is in the first pic, though I doubt the store is still open. If anyoneeeee knows where to buy this kind of wrinkly paper in Toronto, please leave a comment! They're usually sold twisted up into ropes.
Group photo ;D (clickkkk) Tallest carnation was made yeaaaars ago. The bouquet would be much larger if I haven't given them all away, gotta work on replenishing my stock XD
I have brunch photos (from last week), but I'm just too lazy to transfer them onto computer. So they'll come bundled with next week's~
On the world cup note, YEAAAAH SPAAAAAIN! Though I'm only a supporter of them cause I dislike the Netherlands, grr Brazil should be up there instead of them. Went over to Jason's with bunch of people to watch the game. Our focus was on the fouls for the actual 90mins of the game. that's gotta hurt @_@ It so deserves a red! So many yellow cards. "pinnnnk card!" And so FIFA ends.
Back to food. This is the result of my labour: View To go to in a larger map Google map'd a whole list of places I want to eat at. 16 in total as of now. Om nom nom nom nom.
Mannnn camp was worth it! The waking up was brutal, weather was murderous, but we learned sooooooooo many cool stuff. (long post, sit tight)
but first my rants :] waking up: lost sleep is supplemented by napping on subway trips there and back. I've developed a skill to lightly sleep and yet still be mindful of the stations being announced. Though I would still never commute my way to university.
weather: majority of the week was unbearably hot. I'm not kidding, I have to wear long pants and the buildings (GB and SF) are not air conditioned. To add to that, my course has a lot of tours that involves walking outside "orz Then again, I'm just bad with the heat. On the last day (today), it decides to rain like crazy. I appreciate the cooling and all, just not the getting soaked from knee down with an umbrella.
so now the part that makes the previous paragraph all worth it. Monday: intro, general energy stuff, relation to buildings. T'was an okay day, group work was fun though. My group absolutely sucked at conversions ;D
Tuesday: Building envelope, and heat/moisture/air transfers. Again, lots of conversion. People weren't kidding when they say that engineers eat math for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Got to play with an infrared therometer *u* Visited HART HOUSE, it is the most amaaaaazing student center ever. I would go to UT solely for this. I don't have pics of the place, but yeah, it's amazing. It contains 2 gyms, a swimming pool, library, art gallery, great hall (modeled after the one in King's College aka where the Harry Potter great hall scenes were shot), and a restaurant that was voted the best place to have lunch in Toronto (Gil, we're soooo going there ;P). Just awesome!
Wednesday: Awesome, awesome day. First the instructors (they were so nice!) showed us some cool videos of The World's Greenest Homes:
(rui was awesome enough to show me this earlier) Also New York's Paltz Dome and Hamburg's Eco House In the afternoon, we designed our own low energy houses, incorporating passive/active strategies and guidelines for occupancy behaviour. (click on the images for full view and descriptions. Sorry for crappy quality, cell cam) It's pretty amazing as we only had around 2 hours to plan and build the entire thing. My lovely group members cut out the foam using xacto knifes (props). Here's an extensive features list: sky lights (coverable by PV cells in summer), light tube, optimized windows (glazing and orientation), adjustable roof with solar panels, precipitation collection system (with the turbine xD), and well insulated envelope. It would be awesome if this was an actual house, I'd love to live in it.
Thursday: missed T_T woke up reeeeeeally light headed, so opt to stay home and rest.
Friday: Toured a church near Sheppard&Bayview, it's amazing as well. It has coloured glass as skylights, which is pretty and saves electricity! A whole bunch of other eco features as well (like a hydroponic living wall!). The most innovative feature was how they hide the distribution system for the HVAC, amaaaaaazing. Played jeopardy in the afternoon, despite the questions being about stuff learned on thursday, my group still managed to win! :] I was the only one who knew the answer to final jeopardy harhar *ego*
in short, DEEP is an amaaaazing program. Definitely worthwhile!
First day of DEEP camp! I'm in Environmental Engineering's efficient buildings of the future.
my first impression: the buildings on the campus are so nice *u* (at least on the outside, inside's..normal). second thought: Frick it's so hot "orz There's no AC in both of my classrooms and we made/will make quite a few trips outside.
Anyways, I learned some pretty cool stuff today. Topics of the day were why we need (energy) efficient buildings and what energy is. Let's define energy! It is "A thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work. The most common unit is joules". Other terms I learned includes site&source energy and embodied&operational energy. The most confusing thing? converting units "orz I had to go from feet to meters to megajoules to kilowatt hours. Also from speed to calorie to joules to milliliters <_<"
Looking forward to the rest of the week haha. Civ eng seems haaaard xD
ED of Sarai-ya Goyou, which I personally like better than the OP, but that has a better sequences..gahh.
Anyways, good ending to the anime, everything in full circle :] Matsu's surprisingly insightful, I'll just leave it at that. People who haven't watched it yet, please do. It's not OMGWOAHTHATSAWESOME, rather it's perfectly paced and fitted together.
on the other hand, chocobo racing sucks "orz lightning dodging sucks, whatever other mini game I have to play to get ultimate weapon sucks. blaaaah.
first off: ^that's my life for the past few days and probably will continue to be for a while. I'm notoriously slow at jrpgs. Plot's been interesting so far, I'm guessing Rikku is Yuna's cousin and Tidus will somehow get sacrificed in the final battle.
secondly: OPI for sephora: Teal we meet again. What's with nail polishes and punny names? Focus on the gorgeous colour of the polish instead of my poor application skills please. I need a better tool than a cottan swab to fix mistakes.
lastly: Meant to post this with the Saiyuki post, the lyrics sorta relate. I apologize for the bad quiality, the ones on youtube either have crappy video or crappy sound ._."
Original plan: I wanted to eat desserts, Janice wanted to go downtown. Modification 1: Wanted to avoid G20, so going to Eglinton for desserts. Modification 2: More people tagged along.
Final result: La bamboche (Manor rd&Eglinton) Out of all the lovelies available, I had a mango passionfruit macaron, yuzu (japanese lemon) macaron, and earl grey cake. Mmmm macrons. The middle bottom one is the manga passion fruit. The cream of the macarons are heavenly, as well as the entire earl grey cake. It's now tied as number 1 with tiramisu.
point: SO DELICIOUS <3 If you guys are ever in the area, go try one of the forementioned items. They are so worth it.
