What happens when you have 2 trigger-happy people on a trip? Too many photographs! :P After a selection and screening process, I managed to pare down my family’s holiday photos to 1996 (that’s from both my camera and John’s). I’ve selected some highlights from that ponderous collection to be shared in my online album. So […]
Category: Everyday Thots
Snow. Finally!
Rue St. Antoine in Montréal After all that waiting, we finally got to see a bit of Canadian winter! It snowed overnight and we woke up to a winter wonderland. We checked out Vietnamese food and Montréal’s Chinatown, as well as Vieux Montréal where we visited Notre Dame and Pointe-à -Callière, Musée d’archéologie et d’histoire de […]
Windows
Cathy viewing snowfall in Zibin’s living room Going on a 5-day family road trip to Montréal and Québec… Happy New Year everyone!
Christmas Tree
Christmas Tree I never cease to be impressed at how resourceful and arty-crafty my mom is. In the space of a few hours, she whipped up a Christmas tree. Ok, so it’s only a few inches tall. But she improvised and after a few handy twists of some wire, and a bit of scissors and […]
New Friends, Old Friends
15 years ago, near the beginning of what has become one of my oldest and sweetest friendships, a 12-year old Enling wrote in my autograph book “New friends are silver, old friends are gold.” (I wonder if we’re still gold, and when we’ll be approaching platinum? :P) Of course, all old friends were once new […]
Christmas with Maestro Kunzel
Sleigh-bells ringing. Horses clopping. Frosty the Snowman, and Rudolf the Reindeer, and good ol’ St. Nicholas too! It was that and more at A TSO Pops Christmas. It was a delightful evening with Erich Kunzel, who happens to be a wonderfully charismatic and humorous conductor. There was a good mix of songs (from American Christmas […]
Redacting Papers & Wonderful Professors
The last several weeks (I’ve lost count of how many) I’ve been primarily occupied with writing, then submitting, then revising, then submitting, then revising… you get the idea. There are 2 articles that I’ve been working on for publication. One of them, An Examination of Project Work, is a more academic/scholarly article meant to be […]
Exam Fever
After a 5-year hiatus, Zibin’s back in school and it’s finals week. It’s been a long time, but some things are still the same. When he studies, it is so easy for him to get into the groove and to stay focused. I’ve always envied that about him. Even from Toronto, I can sense the […]
Best of Both Worlds?
Screen pic of my MacBook after installing Windows XP Pro SP2 via Parallels Desktop I’ve installed Windows XP Pro SP2 on my MacBook now, courtesy of Parallels Desktop. So now I can run both Mac and Windows applications simultaneously without rebooting the computer. And if I put the virtual machine into full-screen mode, it looks […]
Wanting Wonka
Can you imagine waking up to the heavenly aroma of warm chocolate melting over the stove? That was the reality for Melissa and me this weekend… cos Wanting was trying out a chocolate truffle recipe in a magazine for a party she was going to. All that rich and amazing chocolate melting and then cooling, […]
Journey of the Heart 