September 15, 2011

TIFFing it up!

TIFF has a magical way of waking up the city and keeping it alive with buzz for 10 days straight. There are screenings happening everywhere across the city followed by celeb-filled parties until 4am in the morning. They make a really good use of different theatres at unique venues; some of my favourites include Ryerson Theatre and Elgin Theatre. I’ve been really lucky this season to score tickets to a few screenings. So far, I’ve been able to watch Your Sister’s Sister (thank you @womenspost) and with much thanks to @Torontoist, I’ve seen Life Without Principle, Jeff, Who Lives at Home, have tickets to the upcoming Violet & Daisy, and ending the week off with Tyrannosaur. I have to say a big thank you to Torontoist for sending extra tickets over along with priority passes to their VISA lounge after dealing with a less than pleasant situation when trying to pick up my tickets the first time around. Needless to say, they’ve got themselves a happy camper :D

I’ve also got to count and thank my lucky stars this week (and perhaps pick up a lotto ticket or two), as I found out I won the Drake Hotel – Chinatown photography contest! Since coming back from China, I submitted a photo from my vacation and luckily my shot was chosen out of the pile of submissions! I decided to take my friend out on a VIP experience tonight to celebrate her upcoming birthday, and also because she’s never been to TIFF before. We started the night with a fancy schmancy dinner to experience Drake’s Chinatown. While the prices are a bit more on the upper scale, the experience and the food is so worth it! You can see pictures below of some of the dishes we ordered. This Chinatown menu will only be available until November 18th so hopefully you’ll get the chance to go out there and try it! Menu can be found online here.

As soon as we finished our delicious dinner, we headed on over to Elgin Theatre to catch the world premiere of Jeff, Who Lives at Home. For TIFF, it’s typical that you wait in line for at least 1 hr to 1.5 hrs before the showtime. It was awesome because we got there 15 minutes before the showtime, and were instantly granted line by pass with our priority access cards and got amazing seats in the reserved section. Not too shabby for a Wednesday night! …. alright, who am I kidding – it was an AMAZING night out. Thank you Torontoist and Drake for making this night possible!


August 11, 2011

Thirsty Thursdays



Enjoyed a really relaxing night out starting with a massage followed by dinner planned last-minute with most of my girls. Was really nice to be able to see everyone before I head off to the motherland. Gotta love summer nights on the patio, catching up on what’s happening in everyone’s lives. Definitely a night that was much needed in the midst of a busy week. So many big milestones are coming up! With friends and family members moving away to places like New York, Hong Kong and Nova Scotia for more schooling, makes me wonder what my next big step is going to be.

With Trip to China wrapping up in September – October, I have every intention to take a break from my extracurriculars and just focus on work and life….. who am I kidding?! Anyone who knows me will know that’s going to be a pretty impossible feat. And of course, there are already a few opportunities that have come out of nowhere, including a few speaking gigs in the industry, as well a chance to dip my feet into the world of fashion and helping out a good friend by volunteering to organize an upcoming event. It never ends .. and that’s the way I like it, uh huh uh huh :)

August 4, 2011

Are you filling your life with mistakes and miracles?

“Life is only worth a damn because it’s short. It’s designed to be consumed, used, spent, lived, felt. We’re supposed to fill it with every mistake and miracle we can manage, and then we’re supposed to let go.”

- Pierce’s mother on Community, “The Psychology of Letting Go”.

Absolutely love this quote. Puts life in an interesting perspective when you think of it as filling it with mistakes and miracles. So often you stop yourself from saying what you truly feel, doing what you would absolutely love to do – and for what? You put yourself in this box and hold yourself back because you tell yourself that’s something you should do. There is no right or wrong in life. You can go through your whole life with walls put up all around you, to protect yourself from falling or failing, afraid to venture away from what you are comfortable with. But with those walls, you also block out the exceptional that can happen to you. There’s something quite beautiful in the saying that “You gotta give a little, to get a little”. It’s only when you let go of the boundaries you’ve set up for yourself, that you open yourself up for the next great thing.

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