poom poom

i took hemita to masala mehndi masti festival yesterday. she enjoyed it because they had soca and reggae music - hemita lives in scarborough and so became our family west indian (similar to how i'm the family white girl). the soca singer had a song called poom poom (it refers to a part of the female anatomy). oh dear is right.. there was also a demonstration for the laughing yoga club. the lady's motto was "if you have to fake it, fake it 'til you make it!" true in so many ways.

we decided to have dinner downtown, so we took a street car from exhibition place to union station. since we thought the ride would be fairly empty, we sat in separate rows. part way through the ride an old german woman got on the bus, walked straight to the back and sat right beside me. then once arriving to the queen's quay stop, the woman says fairly loudly, "here comes the invasion!" because a whole slew of people filled the street car. she asked me about my bus pass because she had never seen the gta pass before. as hemita and i were walking out the doors to head out on the street, she yells to me, "are you coming?" indicating the elevator to go down. i guess she was hoping to talk with me some more, but fortunately hemita and i were very hungry.

ooh.. expos

no not baseball. are the montreal expos even around anymore?

on sunday i'm taking my little cousin (i call her little even though she's 14 and catching up to me in height) to a south asian festival happening this weekend: masala mehndi masti. since the ttc doesn't have a route planner and the mmm website has been hacked, i went to the exhibition place website to find out how to get there. (the website is pretty ghetto by the way.. they use frames!) anyway, on their events listings they have some pretty interesting expos coming up:
- the everything to do with sex show is happening in october.
- the toronto psychic expo is happening in october as well.

i'm not sure how much entrance costs because the websites are not very informative. but those shows would definitely be very entertaining to attend!

sugar daddy-o

i don't get it.. i don't dress scandalous - low cut, tight shirts, mini skirts, hot pants, and the like are not part of my wardrobe. yet guys.. i mean old creepy men honk and wave at me on a regular basis (around 2-3 times a week). this has NEVER happened to me before; not even in ottawa! the only people who have ever done the honk and wave while i'm walking or standing somewhere are people i know. bleah. even an old creepy man driving a garbage truck honked and waved at me while i was waiting for a bus. when this first started happening, i would do a check over: is there a big stain on me? am i indecently exposed? do i have a sign on my back that says "single and desperate"? i mean really.. what the fuck? i've come to the conclusion that there's some brown girl out there who looks exactly like me who 'services' the old creepy gentlemen's club of the greater toronto area.

i'm ready for the looney bin

yeah, my aunt's driving me nuts. the past ten days my uncle and cousin went on a trip to the maritimes with their guru, so that left my aunt and i at home. i'm not insured on the van.. my aunt has a driver's licence yet doesn't drive (yeah, i don't get it either). so whenever she wants to go somewhere.. "oh reena, you can drive" no i can't - not insured. "oh reena, you can drive us around the corner to the grocery store." no i can't - not insured. bah.

while i'm obviously watching tv, she sits down, picks up the remote control, and starts flicking through channels. not even waiting for the commercial break. urgh. i can't imagine when the new fall season starts in october how insane i'd become.

two more months.. two more months.. next month i am definitely starting to go condo shopping.

oh brother.

brother: mom wants me to send you pictures of the flowers
me: what flowers?
brother: from the garden
me: why? are they big?
brother: well one of them is
me: or to make fun of me because all i have to look at here are apricots.
brother: rofl

why can't it be a strawberry tree?

i realise strawberries don't grow on trees, but i'm sick of apricots. i don't really like them to begin with, and having that tree in the backyard doesn't help. aunt b (dad's sister) and my cousin came over on tuesday after work to help take down more apricots. they brought an odd contraption they had to help cut the branches - it was a pruner attached to a long stick with a string to pull when you want to cut something. i had good laughs with them because aunt p (dad's sister-in-law) told my cousin to climb up the tree, he said he was afraid he'd fall out, my aunt b would reply with "and he doesn't have life insurance.." hehehe :)

a very newton moment

my uncle and aunt have a big apricot tree in the backyard. big apricot tree means a lot of apricots. lots of apricots means i'm sick and tired of those damn fruits. part of the afternoon on saturday and sunday i spent picking apricots. my uncle and my cousin are on a week's retreat with their guru, so it's just my aunt and i at home, so she uses any opportunity when someone comes to visit to get them to help pick apricots and take the bunch home with them. on sunday, dad's cousin came to visit because his parents (my grandfather's younger brother) is visiting from england. so again with the apricot picking. one of my cousins, jayna, kept stepping in fallen apricots - i had to hose down her sandals afterwards. at one point, my cousin ricky was just standing there and an apricot fell on his head! i haven't laughed so hard in the longest time :) risha, jayna and i were laughing for over ten minutes straight, with tears streaming out of our eyes. so hilarious :)

i finally have wifi again!

on friday night, my cousin and i went out to buy a wireless router and i installed it the minute we got home. i finally can go onto the internet whenever i want, wherever i want.

my first two weeks at work have been quite good! i was taken out to lunch four times, which was nice :) the people who took me out were more than willing to considering our lunch is only 30 minutes long, so taking out the newbie meant you could stay out for a good hour.

i've had my ups and downs with the ttc bus system. standing at the wrong bus stop, waiting forever for a bus that never showed up, paying a double fare for a ten minute bus ride.. at least my last bus ride for the day happens to be with a cute bus driver :)

i think i'm sick of weddings..

two down and one more to go - tomorrow. *sigh* wedding season is ridiculous. i might have another one to go to next weekend which i'm trying to get out of, but i might not be able to. my uncle, who i'm living with, was invited to a wedding but he's most likely not able to go, so i may end up as my aunt's escort/driver because she doesn't drive. we'll see. *cross fingers*

on a completely different note.. the busing system in toronto totally SUCKS.

my head is going to explode..

i finished my first week of work! it had it ups and downs.. the ups were at work, the downs were getting to and from work - not to mention the start time. i've stuffed so much information into my head this week i feel like it's expanding to the point of explosion. anyway, the biggest highlight was playing in the lab with the different products. i felt like i was in chemistry class all over again (with the exception i was an only student and the "teacher" was cute - married, but cute).

my mum's pushing my dad to get me a car - to the point that she's prepared to go to ultra-nagging mode. she doesn't like the area i work in (rexdale). it's not the safest neighbourhood at night. my dad says that because i work across from a firestation i should be safe.. i guess he doesn't think about me travelling down finch day-in and day-out.

the people i work with are extremely nice, which makes it an odd environment to work in. i guess i'm not used to being anywhere where not one person is unhappy to be there.