comparisons

I like how without even living your own city you can do all these comparisons between the cities. Potentially between your current city and the city you want to be in in the near future.
So yea I compared TO and Mel and well they're not that much different=)

so this is more statistical based and compares living costs which are updated pretty regularly
http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/comparison.jsp

and this one just compares some random facts that seem to be out of date in some points
still a fun read=)
http://www.versus.com/en/toronto-vs-melbourne

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Latte Art

I bumped into this article and somehow got hooked on the idea to check some of these places and see if they can actually make some decent latte art.
I'm failing at my crusade a tiny bit as I am not consistent with taking evidences in forms of photos. but that will be fixed. So far two places have been checked.

my reviews are of course on Yelp but here are few more notes:

1. Bulldog coffee
somehow I expected way more out of this place... it closes at 7pm that's already a minus... but oh well. What I wanted was the bulldog face in my cup! but I guess it only happens to the lucky few who get served by the owner... the two student looking servers who served us didn't look too experienced in latte art so I just got a simple heart (was so sad that didn't even think of taking a photo)

2. Manic coffee

mmm the ice cream

and this place by far exceeded all my
expectations! hipster atmosphere was in the air with tons of people working on their macbooks (ok there was one dell owner...) but what surprised me is stand with a huge variety of ice cream made on the spot... the only few words that need to be said: chai latte ice cream....mmmm.....
also photos! my cappuccino came with a cute art on it and the cups are designed in such a funny way=) I just want this set at home!=)

squirrel!

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Nuit Blanche

2013.10.06 Nuit Blance, a set on Flickr.

ok so this NB was really not as great and impressive as the one year ago and two years ago. We started at 2am (perfect timing to avoid insane crowds) and few of us lasted until 5am.
Few of the installations that we visited:
Metro Square:
Tanks

Nathan Philips Square:
Forever Bicycles by Ai Weiwei
The Rose is w/o why

Along University avenue:
(X)Static Clown factory
My virtual dream
A quack cure
Hybrid Globe

Bata Shoe Museum:
Ad Astra
Light Scape
RevitaLight

While in line for Virtual Dream (we didn't have enough energy to stand in the "participants line" that was averaging 2hrs wait time and went into "observers line" instead that was about 30min wait) we chatted with few guys in front of us and they apparently did a very thorough research on the topic of this particular installation and while they didn't believe that actual "brainwave reading" technology is used for the installation they did share interesting for me information about existing toys that read brain waves.
Just watched this video and it's pretty impressive - Mattel's MindFlex toy and it's 2009 video?... man we do live in the science fiction future...

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Rainy Day

sometimes rainy day turns into a photographic treasure. mistiness left after all the moisture in the air. a bit of darnkess combined with long exposure. fast moving lit up objects and a bit of patience.
this photo wasn't taken today. but today definitely was a loooong rainy day. because of that my so expected trailblazer club's ride in barrie was cancelled. We were supposed to ride 75km along the abandoned railway tracks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Simcoe_Railtrail

I joined the club just last week but it was on my to-do list for aaaages ever since few friends who are captains there told me about it. This is a great incentive. It allows vision impaired people learn and enjoy cycling and is a great social club in general. Really hope I can make it to the Rouge valley ride on the 5th of october!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=006AqhjV9XQ

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how to get to listen to an adventurous travel story

huh... so I went to buy my climbing shoes.
who knew they are ALL made of leather? I hadn't... until I read that on the sticker attached to the shoes
so I went:
- Ooooooh... I can't climb!
the store clerck:
- what's that?
- they are all made of leather!
- ? mmmm why?
- I can't have leather shoes....
- vegan?
- uhum
- Oh never even thought about such a problem... well yeah they are all made of leather...
the other clerck:
- here are some vegan ones - pointing to 4 pairs
the first clerck (Adam)
- oh cool then=) Yeah my friend is vegetarian... it's very hard to be one
me:
- it is apparently for climbing
adam:
- not only. when he went to the south asia trip he had to start eating meat again cuz such countries as Laos don't serve vegetarian food or even if they do then the food is cooked in the same pan where meat was
- oh so you traveled too?
- yeah we spent 6 months in asia - great place...

and the story went on for 1hour until the store closed=)
the moral of the story: be vegitarian/vegan and it will make ppl tell you cool stories=)

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Response to the Surprise BDay party!=)

Millions and millions of thanks/merci/gracias/спасибо/дякую/danke to all those wonderful people involved in the party organization and video creation!!!=)

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surprise BDay party

That's an aaaaaaamazing Video BDay present from Anf (director/producer and idea generator) and all the friends to my 24th Bday!=)
It was accompanied by a major surprise party at Garry's. Which was so totally unexpected by me, that I wasn't even able to understand what's happening for the first few moments=)
So the 8th of November me, Jazz and Edmond celebrated our BDays on my surprise party where everyone was wearing reeeeeeed=)
I was too drunk with excitment and endorphines so I don't really remember what was happening and what did I say and do=P
But it was great great great!=)))

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I'm a famous ZOMBEE!!!=)

Thanks to my famous photographer friend Kayvan I became famous...hmmm... I mean my zombie face became famous to TO=)
hahahaha=)
The photo was printed on York Uni's newspaper cover page=)) LOL!=)

From Blogger Pictures

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MP3 Experiment - Improv Everywhere

29ого было очень прикольное мероприятие, типа флешмоба=) нам всем разослали инструкции по мейлу, где говорилось что надо скачать файл с ссылки которую они давали, на плеер, взять с собой воздушный шарик и зонтик, одеться в красную\желтую\зеленую\синюю футболку, прийти в парк и включить плеер ровно в 2 часа дня=)

ну конечно же собралась целая толпа каучсерферов. я решила тоже такое дело не пропускать
т.ч. в 2 часа я уже была в парке как и 1000 других людей, которых оповестили об этом событии.
Плеер нам говорил что делать=) вначале все разминались, потом обнимались с человеком в футболке другого цвета, потом шагали под зонтиками, потом играли в живой твистер (это было самое классное - голос на плеере говорил типа - руку на голову человека в зеленом, стопу к стопе человека в красном=))такая была каша=))) а в конце была битва=) красные и желтые были против зеленых и синих=) воевали мы надутыми шариками - а потом все "погибли"=) на этом веселеь закончилось=)
это было очень смешно и эксперемент контроля массового сознания прошел на ура=)

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just a quick update of the last sunday=)
we went to a very mega funny event hosted by Improv everywhere
MP3 Experiment -
we had to download an MP3 file that was sent to us and then go to Riverdale aprk on sunday and turn on the mp3 file at 2pm exactly and then follow the instructions of the voice=)
we also had to wear red/blue/green or yellow tshirt, bring umbrella and inflated baloon=)

woha it was so funny=) we were doing stupid random stuff as marching under umbrellas, playing real life twister (everyone was a twister dot with a corresponding t-short color and the others had to by following instructions of the voice put their hands on the head/hand/shoulder of the person whose t-short colored was announced)and it ended with an EPIC battle between 2 armies - yellow/red and green/blue=)

fun-fun-fun=)

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SOME of the Crazy Bike Routes

Saturday 12th of july 2008
route (clarifications: from point B to point C and D-E I rode on TTC)

Total bike ride: 58.4km


that was one amazing ride with Kayvan, Amir, Roma, Anf, Milad, Sarvin and Vessal. Under the rain, through tunnels, high grass, water and bridges, with many broken bikes, lunch and then Merdad's music performance which I never ended up to see and mega crowded sidewalk salsa!

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Tuesday 15th of july 2008
route

Total bike ride: 47.1km
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How to make someone Vegetarian? Ride a bike=)
How did it start:
Amir's e-mal on 15th of July morning: "WOW If you go all that way by bike and get to work tomorrow morning I am going to be a VEGGIE :))"
Yeah and I made it(see the map above)=) and he made it to veggie for a week too=)

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There were many more bike rides longer and bigger in terms of participants(the one me and Nadja and "about half of Iran" took part(quoting Nadja)=)) but I haven't done as setailed analysis of the routes for those rides=(

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Nadja's sun tattoos

Вот что произошло после того, как Надя позагорала вся раскрашенная мастерами цирка ДюСолей

Загар оставил свои следы на ее теле - теперь рисунок перманентен=))



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Here is what happened after Nadja got some sun tan in her awesome bodypaint by CirqueDeSoleil artists.

Now thanks to the suntan this painting is permanent on her skin=)

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Das ist wass passiert mit Nadja nachdem sie eine SonneLohe bekam. Das ist eine SonneSpur von der Zeichnung welches wurde bei CirqueDeSoleil Artisten gemacht.

jetzt ist diese Zeichnung dauerhaft =)



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Aqui esta que paso con Nadja despues se bronceado en el Sol con una pintura por los artistos de CirqueDuSoleil

Ahora esta pintura es permanente en su piel =)

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озеро Онтарио. Ontario lake. Ontario See. Ontario lago.

Пара фоток с моего корпоративного лэптопа. День на пляже.

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Few photos found on my corporate laptop. A day on the Beach.

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Ein paar Fotos von minen corporate laptop. Ein Tag aus dem Strand.

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Algunos fotos de corporate ordenador. Una dia en la playa.

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my first CS gathering

my first CS gathering
Originally uploaded by BeeSmile

Моя первая встреча с каучсерферами Торонто, где я встретила будущих друзей
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My first CS gathering in TO where I met my future friends
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Meine erste CS Begegnung wo ich habe meine zuekunftige Freunde getrffen
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Mi primero CS encuentro en TO donde encontaba mis futuro amigos

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Thriller Dance!

THAT'S AWESOME!!!!!!!!
Today is a date when I've learned thriller dance from M.Jackson's video clip in one single day - in just 6 hours - to be more specific=)))
It's also a date when I participated in setting up a world Guinness record (the most zombies dancing Thriller dance on Halloween around the world!)
And it's a date when I understood that it's fun to be a zombie!!!!!!!!!!=))))))



"Cause this is thriller, thriller night
And no ones gonna save you from the beast about to strike"
Go and watch the best video clip ever again!

And whenever our dance will be posted on youTube I'll post it in here too=)
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha (devil laughter=))

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