The Beach & Harbor Front

Well, it's that time again. School is just around the corner, and I feel like summer just started yesterday. I am going into my 11th year. One of two important years that will dictate my future academic life. For some reason, I am not as excited for school as I was the years before. This round, I feel a bit exhausted and nervous.

Enough about school. During the summer, I visited Harbour front, Bluffers Park Beach, Woodbine Beach and Canada's Wonderland. Not too bad, I hope? The following are some pictures that I took. Enjoy!

The CN Tower

Harbour front: Lake Ontario

The dock

A ship near Lake Ontario

An underground black market Downtown

Group photo at bluffers park *Taken by: Kevin Li

Korean food *Taken by: Kevin Li

Korean side dishes *Taken by: Kevin Li

Canada Day *Taken by: Kevin Li

Searching

I've been wondering for a while time now, hoping to realize what I want to be/what I want to do with the rest of my life/ what career path I want to go into/what style of living I would want. 

I have some ideas of what I strive for but it's still very foggy when I go into depth. 

I read on a book that if you'll be able to find out what you want through time, sometimes that comes very quickly for people, individuals such as Steve Jobs who found Apple in his parents' garage when he was only 19. But others search sometimes for half of their lifetime for something that they are passionate about.

I haven't found my passion yet, but then again I'm only 15 right? 

Nuit Blanche 2011

 Nuit Blanche in Francais means all-nighter, aka code for party! It is annual arts festival held in downtown Toronto that starts at sunset and runs till the next morning's sunrise, so approximately from 6:30PM to 6:30AM. Artists from all over bring their authentic artwork for display, the quirkier the better!

I went with a few friends to check it out:

Photography by: Kevin Li

At first glance, this art piece doesn't really scream "I'M AN ART PIECE." But this creation is to reflect on the G-20 ( The group of twenty Fiance Ministers and Central Bank Governors) protest that happened in June, 2010. It brought massive damage to the downtown area, many took this as an opportunity to steal and gain.

Photography by: Kevin Li

Photography by : Kevin Li


Photography by: Kevin Li

Photography by: Kevin Li

Photography by: Kevin Li

Photography by: Kevin Li

Yummy pasta place!

Fashion Week at School?

Many Canadian students have been going back to school this week, particularly students that live in Ontario have been slowly trickling back after their long extended holidays.

Back to school week was supposed to be one of those intense fashion weeks. Everyone usually wears their best clothes to show off who they are. But the weather has been too cold to dress up, so I've been bundling up to keep warm. I just can't risk the chance of catching a cold, as I take extremely long to recover from them.

Lookbook.nu is one of my favorite websites to visit if I want to get interesting and creative ideas for my outfit, so I'm going to pick out some outfits that I think fit into the first week of the school. These are outfits that I would have loved to wear. (They're more on the summer to fall transitioning because it's getting quite cold here in Canada.)

The outfits that I would have chosen:

Tuesday: First day of school. Don't want to be trying too hard, pick something comfortable that you can walk in to find your way to your new classes, meet some old friends and have a few hugs here and there. Baggy sweaters are in for the winter and fall, (even though this is more of a long sleeved shirt you could also substitute this for a baggy sweater) But you can curl your hair or straighten it if you have curly hair to make it seem fancier. 

Wednesday: The slightly warmer day of the week. Simple, simple, simple. Sometimes simple things are the best. This is the casual sheek look, paired with a tank top, some sweats and converse.

Thursday: High waist shorts are really popular for the summer, so make the transition by wearing tights under to add warmth, black leggings under shorts also makes your legs appear thinner. A baggy old looking 80s sweater adds a pop of color.

Friday: Feeling feminine? No problem, a pretty up-do, along with a pretty little dress from summer, a thin belt to make your figure look more womanly, black leggings, a cardigan over and a pair of boots finishes your first week off!

Hope you guys have all had a great and warm first week! 

Rainy Days

Does anyone ever have those days where it's raining and humid outside and you just want to sit in your air conditioned homes and scroll down to the newest news feed from Facebook?

Those days where I feel like my hands are just glued tight to the keyboard or the mouse.
Those days where I replay songs over and over again until I could sing it fluently even though I don't speak the language.
Those days that I just lie in bed and let my mind run wild, often surprised about my head comes a stop to.
Those days that I just have a light migraine that isn't enough to bother me, but lowers me to a mood level where I don't feel like doing anything productive.
Those days that I could just stare outside my window forever.
Those days that I want to talk to someone but can't find the right person.

Well, I am having one of those days.

CNE: The Ex!

So I checked out The Ex this week, it's a once-a-year event held in the Canadian National Exhibit centre. It runs from August 19th to the 5th of September. Here are some events that I encounter while roaming around:

The entrance area. It looks like a carnival doesn't it? ( The qualities of these photos are not the best because they were taken on my phone camera. )

The thrill rides are extremely over priced, six something - a bit more and less of Canadian dollars for 30 seconds of  your life. If you really want to go somewhere where various roller coasters dominate the landscape, go to Canada's Wonderland!

Excuse my bad photo taking skills, the background was suppose to say "Hairspray" but instead it says "Airspray". I'm quite talented at creating random transformations of perfectly normal things, aren't I? It was a Ice Skating Show featuring Canada's own 2010 Bronze medalist Joannie Rochette.

More of my wonderful photography

The grand opening of the show, everybody grooved along with the popular party song of We Will Rock You - Queen.

A peak of the star's arrival on the ice!

Trippy ? I think so. Does anyone know what these are called? I think they're meant to be kept on the balcony.

Sand sculptures!

A stone sculpture. They are created by finding the balancing point of each rock. Anyone else see that face on the top of the rock? I thought it kind of looked like an alien, therefore I added a space effect.

Fantastic smelling flowers, the store said "All natural", but the flowers themselves smelled a bit processed.

A fancy dressed English man in our 21 century. I guess the vintage look is really coming back hard and fast.

Beautiful colored lamps, I would love to have one in my room.

Super dog show, what is so great about it is that 40% of the dogs in the show are adopted from the Humane Society and animal shelters.

But during the visit I found that there were so literally tons of companies of all sizes, big and small, advertising their products. The irony in this is that we were paying to go there. In a sense, are we paying for advertisements?

All in all, it was a great experience, I hope those of you who can go will go visit before the annual event pulls its curtains on the 5th of September

Vanilla Yogurt Anyone?

So today, I was dying of hunger at lunch time because I hadn't ate anything since 9 in the morning. Lemme tell you, I was s-t-a-r-v-i-n-g. Well, not literally. But I was very hungry. So I decided to pop my head in my fridge and see what's good to eat, and also that takes no effort to make. That's usually what I'm looking for when I open the fridge. I saw Danone's Silhouette yogurt, a mysterious name right? ( Or not.) So I went right ahead and grabbed the pack, I absolutely despise vanilla yogurt, unfortunately I opened up the wrong one...

How vanilla yogurt looks like in my head

Right when I was about to stick it back into the fridge, my mom's evil figure appeared at the kitchen doorway. "You opened that, now you gotta eat it." She said with a wicked sneer. ( That's what she sounded like in my head, at least). So now I'm here typing this, as I eat this disgusting, vomit-like vanilla yogurt. But don't get me wrong, I like the vanilla flavor, just not vanilla mixed with yogurt...

What's your favorite flavor of yogurt? Well, mine's not vanilla!

You. Yeah You, Go On Exploring, Don't Stop

I tried to reorganize my chaotic closest today. It contained many strange objects ranging from a five cent coin to a Tommy Hilfiger sock to a empty Nestle water bottle. Anyways, you get the idea, it was a disastrous sight. While I was flipping through my grade five worksheets consisting of how the hierarchy of the Canadian government, I found these lovely items that brought back memories like a everlasting flood.

In this treasure box that my friend had give to me in grade 4, I stored coins that my dad had brought back from his trip to different countries, though they were mainly in Europe.Gawking at these beautiful and exotic coins, they made me wonder, what is it like there? The three countries that I'd love to visit the most are Greece, France and Italy.

This necklace was a friendship necklace that we had purchased from Aldo, for Angela, Esther, Grace and I. To this day, I still wear it a lot, and this reminds me of our best-friendship.

These medals are from mostly for athletics and academics. I  keep them safely in my disastrous closet. They remind me of how hard our team had fought, or how much work we had put into to deserve these medals.

To some people, money, cars, houses are everything. To me, sure, they're important. But aside from family and friends what the most important thing of all to me are memories that were made. Whether it's happy or sad, it never fails to bring a smile to my face.