When Serena was here, she made an observation to me that Ting & Mel really seemed to inject life into OPL, and of course she’s right. All that girlish banter…sometimes serious, often nonsensical… Heard today coming from the foyer and kitchen respectively of OPL1204, to the tune of Beethoven 5th’s distinctive motif: “Ann ann ann […]
Category: Everyday Thots
Season For Joy
It’s the first week of Advent, and there have been joyful moments in the lives of those I know, and knowing of those moments makes me so happy for them. :) Congratulations to Weiming and Yingjie on their baby boy Jingkai, born on Nov 19! He is absolutely beautiful… I can’t believe you guys are […]
New Blog
Not retiring ‘Animann’ just yet, but Zibin and I have decided to start a new combined blog that, hopefully, will evolve into our family blog in future if we manage to keep it up. You’re welcome to visit our new space at http://www.withjoyfulhearts.com!
Remembering Toronto's Class of 0T6
John, Yuandong, Thaddeus & Daniel Ting and I were just saying how we missed these guys the other day… and quite by chance I stumbled across this in my computer. Something John must have made quite a few years ago. Haven’t been in touch with Thad & Dan for a while… Qiuyan and Yiling too. […]
Word Games
From http://www.thefreedictionary.com I found more fun and educational things to add to my personalized Google homepage! Yes, Google is my homepage now because it’s so cool! I’ve got weather (both Toronto and Ithaca), calendar, e-mail, CNN and Toronto Star newsclips, wikipedia articles, words of the day, and now word games! Ok, this trencher(wo)man is going […]
No Nose for Wine
Lamie & I attended the ‘Quick Track to Wine Mastery’ wine-tasting class at the Gourmet Food & Wine Expo. We tasted 6 ‘archetypal’ wines that will supposedly help us to make sense of all the dizzying array of wines out there. The session was very informative, if at times baffling. Richard Best (a.k.a. “The Frugal […]
Catching Up
Me & “Baby Drool” It just struck me… my baby brother who has always been 4 years behind me in terms of most of life’s experiences is catching up! I suppose the gap started closing when we came to Canada, cos he skipped 2 years of high-school… so in a way, we became just 2 […]
Night
Yesterday, for the first time, Zibin and I drove from Toronto to Ithaca after dark. And I loved it. For more than half the way, there were no lights at all except those from other vehicles. Cars a distance away travelling from the opposite direction look as if they were hovering above the ground because […]
The Sleeping Beauty
Principal dancers Greta Hodgkinson & Guillame Côté of The National Ballet of Canada In an article on Nov 2, The Toronto Star described The Sleeping Beauty as “the jewel in the classical crown of the National Ballet of Canada“. After tonight, I have to agree. Ok, so I haven’t watched that many ballets. Only Swan […]
Journey of the Heart 