haircut 2006
S and I got our hair cut at tornade today. she asked a few of us if we were up to getting our hair cut for six bucks, and apparently I was the only one up for it. so it’s either an asian thing or an engineering thing, we both aren’t sure. mentor/teacher, coiffee, coiffeuse-in-training anyway, tornade is a hair … Read More
mmm milk beverage!
ok, I don’t know when lactantia came up with this, but now you can buy “milk beverage”. so… instead of grabbing something else (aka ‘real milk’) when I noticed this, I felt like I just *had* to buy it! (I’m not the only one attracted by sketchy labeling, am I?) sketchiness was further exacerbated by being in the strange greek … Read More
emails
“jw i am sleepy and tired. i biked today.i need a blinky light and a new lock. i hope you stay in mtl this summer so we can play frisbee and bike. sv” that was the extent of an email I just got, but it made me smile. this is a good week for people doing simple things that make … Read More
spring!
who could not be in a good mood today, a sunny spring day? on my way to pick up some chocolate croissants (the best I’ve had in the city) at van horne bagel on victoria, I saw my first scraggily squirrel scampering about… and this pic, on my way to school: setting up tables outside! (so what if it’s on … Read More
happy birthday SD!
here is my present to you: (for those who can’t tell: it’s a picture of a dog with little booties and goggles and a monkey on it’s back. duh.)
pics of 峨眉山
I’m finally posting a small fraction of the pictures taken in the verdant mountains of sichuan province. sichuan has my absolutely favourite style of food, and was where I’ve seen the most beautiful scenery of my life (of which this monkey is not representative)–as we entered the province by train, the bustling chattering car was silenced for about an hour … Read More
rebellious lawyering
so I’ve been meaning to write about the reblaw conference I went to a couple of weeks ago (don’t mind the horrible-looking website), because it gave me fresh inspiration to study law again, and reminded me why I quit my job to come to law school. about a dozen of us headed down for the conference, which was held over … Read More
happy birthday tiananmen
The last of the men who threw paint at Mao’s portrait in tiananmen during the protests in 1989 was released from prison yesterday, now mentally ill from beatings and solitary confinement. He was originally imprisoned for sabotage, counter-revolutionary propaganda, and “very avant-garde views on art”. Some friends and I went to tiananmen last June 4 to see if there would … Read More
moot suit
everyone is freaking out at school (I mean, more than usual)–all because we have a factum to prepare for tuesday (the prof called it our ‘valentine’ for her, the humour of which was lost on us). Anyway we get to moot it in a few weeks, which should be fun. And what exactly do I get to research? … Aujourd’hui, … Read More
separatist restos in montreal
I really miss this kind of food–there are muslim restaurants all over beijing, whose specialty is lamb, lamb, and lots of lamb. After I came back I tried an older xinjiang restaurant on côte-des-neiges, and was refreshed by the waitress and her distinctive accent when she greeted us in chinese: the xinjiang people are both beautiful and multilingual (as most … Read More