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1.31.2020

734. Recent Life

Chinese New Year/Year of the Rat macarons from Laduree! I'm so happy a Laduree location has opened in the PATH..a few minutes walk from me. My favourite flavours are the Strawberry Guimauve and Marie Antoinette.

Here are some photos from the second half of January:

We went to a small skiing/snow-tubing place a short distance away from the city a couple weekends ago. I've only been skiing once in my life and am pretty bad at it. So just did the tubing this time lol.

My dad's birthday lunch at Chotto Matte.

Their washrooms are super dark with fluorescent lighting..so my shoes literally glowed.

One of the books I'm currently reading - A Gentleman in Moscow. I really love it so far. Will post a review once I'm done with it.

Clockwork at the Royal York.

Last weekend we went to watch The Gentlemen. It was such a good movie! I loved the concept.

The best place for schnitzel in the city - Country Style Hungarian Restaurant. The place is really cozy and authentic, and the portions are HUGE. They only accept cash though.

Another book I recently finished: The Inner Life of Animals. It's part of a trilogy by Peter Wohlleben. I read The Hidden Life of Trees first which was really interesting (I posted about it previously). This Animals one wasn't as informative but it was still entertaining.

Chinese New Year dinner

Another dinner at Chotto Matte (I seem to have gone there a lot this month)

Another one I'm currently reading: The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. It's ok so far.

Breakfast at George Street Diner - a really popular, old-school diner close to me that I've only recently discovered.

My friend's birthday dinner at Terroni.

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1.15.2020

733. Christmas Part 3 & New Year's

Finally the first post of 2020! I haven't had much time to blog these days (or motivation) unfortunately as I've just relaxed during the holidays, then got quite busy with work after the new year. Also I've been in my reading phase so I've just been doing that a lot in my spare time. Here is what we did over Christmas and New Year's Eve. This was my building's NYE decorations. They always go pretty over-the-top with them but I love it! (The bottom part of my building used to be a bank many years ago (the headquarters of TD) so that's why we have a vault downstairs). The first year I moved in here, I celebrated NYE in my lobby. I remember that was quite an eventful night as there was a shooting at the party in the vault (I think it was 2-3 shots fired and nobody got hurt though). I didn't see it happen as I was in the lobby but I did see the guy run out with a gun.