You know you’ve found a keeper when: He wakes up more than an hour earlier than he normally does to have coffee and a morning chat with your jet-lagged brother. He makes a simple board game side-splittingly funny for your entire family with his corny antics and doesn’t care when he loses. Your mother confides […]
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My 'Keeper'
You know you’ve found a keeper when: He wakes up more than an hour earlier than he normally does to have coffee and a morning chat with your jet-lagged brother. He makes a simple board game side-splittingly funny for your entire family with his corny antics and doesn’t care when he loses. Your mother confides […]
A New Year
It’s 2007. There’s one thing I missed about crossing over to a new year, and that’s writing in my journal. See, since I started keeping a diary when I was about 9 years old, I always made an entry on the 31st of December no matter how infrequently I had journaled during the year. There’s […]
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!
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Zibin & I at Buttermilk Falls Go ahead. Laugh. We’re rolling on the floor right along with you! We took a rapid succession of action shots in this series which I hope to make into a GIF file eventually. Snow was falling. Us in half a dozen such crazy positions. It would make a really […]
Geek Squad
Cars outside Best Buy in Ithaca. Employees had matching ‘Geek Squad’ windbreakers too! ************** 6 pillows. 4 comforters. 2 hours at U.S. customs. 5 hours on the road. 6 people. 1 bathroom. Just some numbers for our trip to Ithaca.
Random Fancies
A reflection that happened to catch my fancy while drinking from my favourite mug
I'm Dreaming of A White Christmas
Having a white Christmas has always had an effect on me, not that snow makes Christmas any more beautiful than it already is, but it always remind me of the magic of Christmas… Of God being with us… After a full term in Cornell, during which God has blessed me abundantly,I am here in Toronto […]
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 […]