October 2011
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Nature Sunday.
Today’s main character is small but deadly. It is the blue ringed octopus.
The blue-ringed octopuses live in tide pools in the Pacific Ocean, from Japan to Australia (mainly around southern New South Wales and South Australia ). Although they are only the size of a golf ball, they are one of the world’s most venomous marine animals. Each tiny octopus carries enough venom to kill...
4 Aunt just passed away yesterday =[
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My strawberry plant is in intensive care right now, I don’t think it is getting enough sunlight =[
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Nature Sunday.
Yay!! More Mushroom this week!!
The Bird’s Nest fungi (Nidulariaceae) are widely spread in most ecological regions. They are often seen growing on decaying wood and in soils enriched with wood chips. Obviously, the name comes from its appearance- which resembles a nest completes with small eggs.
Like other fungi, it lives as a network of dikaryotic mycelia in humid wet area. After a...
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BOX 47 Studio Launch.
Last night I went to Box 47 Studio Launch. It is a studio/ gallery of different art and sculptures.
My friends Cass and Kara are two of the featured artists. They have been making jewelries and furnitures out of reclaim materials. Click here to find out more about their amazing works: KARCASS.
Here are some of the things they made and reclaimed.
The show has a great turn out and...
alcohol can really affect people!….. more updates on Cass and Kara’s show tomorrow.
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More Richard Childhood.
Yay!! More parts of Richard’s childhood none of you want to hear about.
So, some of you might know, the new tin tin movie is coming out soon, In animated 3D!! Yay? not quite, I don’t know how it will go, but from what I saw from the trailer, the characters are drawing in a realistic way, so they are not quite human but not too much of a cartoon at the same time. Tintin ended up...
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Plant updates.
First of all, mango is the freak of nature =P.
It has been growing nonstop. Each morning when I check on it, it would look a little bit different. Also, it has super long leaves. The leaf on the right you see, is around the length of my finger. Its length is pretty much the same as the plant’s height. I think the plant is growing out of the mooncake container, I need to find a bigger home...
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Ballet Night.
Went to see the Guangzhou Ballet Troupe tonight. It is their first appearance in Toronto and they are performing “Return on a Snowy Night”. 風雪夜歸人
“Return on a Snowy Night” is an adaptation from the stage play of the same title by famous dramatist Wu Zuguang in the 1940’s. It is a tragic, forbidden love story between a Peking Opera singer, Wei Liansheng and a...
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Gloooooomy!!
Nothing much has been happening lately. The weather has not been very nice, gloomy and rainy all week long. Not a single day with a decent sunshine. My plants are definitely growing slower.
Just a brief update on how I am doing. By the way, going to see the Guangzhou Ballet tomorrow night with Alice! At least there’s something to look forward to. More updates tomorrow.
Oh, how I missed...
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Nature Sunday.
This week I bring you the Horn Shark.
To be honest, the horn shark is not as rare or as unusual as the other creatures I have posted before, but it doesn’t mean that it’s not interesting.
The horn shark ( Heterodontus francisci ) is a species of bullhead shark, family Heterodontidae. It is endemic to the coastal waters off the western coast of North America, from California to...
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Weird Fruit.
I had some grapes today and they are very very tasty, but the thing is, they don’t really taste like grapes nor do they have the texture of grapes. At least, they are not like all the other grapes I have tasted in the life.
The grapes I had today are very crisp, kind of like a mix of apple and grape. I mean they are soft, but crunchy at the same time. It’s hard to explain.
Maybe my...
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Thanks Giving at Distillery.
My friend Alex came to Toronto from Ottawa with his roommate this weekend. I was going to have lunch with Alex, but at the same time he was gonna go to Distillery District, and there simply wasn’t enough time to do both, so I decided to join them to go to Distillery (I hope I wasn’t intruding. =/)
It’s nice to see Alex and Katie again =], they also introduced my to Sean and...
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Richard's Germination Experience.
So for the pass 2 months, I have been experimenting with some of the fruit seeds and hoping to grow my own mini fruit garden.
It is actually harder to germinate seeds than it is said on the internet, probably because I am an amateur and I live in an apartment in downtown Toronto. It is not exactly the ideal environment to grow things, and Winter is coming (yes I went there, George RR Martin...
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Nature Sunday.
This week’s Nature Sunday, I bring you this interesting insect from Madagascar.
It is called the Giraffe Necked Weevil (Trachelophorus giraffa). The insect only lives on Dichaetanthera cordifolia and Dichaetanthera arborea (a small tree in the family Melastomataceae) on the island of Madagascar.
The giraffe weevil is sexually dimorphic, which means both sexes of the organism have...
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Stifling hot and smells like death and decay.
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King of Apple.
The news is flooding all over the internet.
Then I realized I have been using Mac for 8 years.
Voting?
Gasp! General election tomorrow… I have no idea what I am doing
Studying simple politics online =/
I have been wondering for the longest time why is there so many Japanese on my youtube page….then I found out for some reason my location is set to Japan =/ which is weird because I have never really changed my setting…hmmm…
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Sick Beats during Nuit Blanche.
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Nuit Blanche 2011 Part 2.
The post is getting too long so I split it in half.
Part 2 of my Nuit Blanche adventure starts from Nathan Philips Square down Yonge Street and ends at Union.
City Hall- Flightpath Toronto 2011 by Usman Haque, Natalie Jeremijenko
This year’s city hall is by far the most memorable. With all those fog, laser and people flying around, it’s an experience that cannot be described by...
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Nuit Blanche 2011.
It’s that time of the year again- where crazy arts are spread all over downtown Toronto and everyone is using it as an excuse to party all night. It is the time of the year where you get to see just how insane torontoians are.
(click on logo to see website.)
Our first stop is to see no. 36 AirSHIP by U of T - Space Suit Studio, unfortunately we didn’t know about the change of...
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Nature Sunday.
This week’s Nature Sunday, i wanted to show you the Violet Sea Snail.
The Violet Sea Snail (Janthina janthina) is found in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and eastern Tasmania. It is pelagic, which means it lives at the surface of the ocean.
The funny thing about it...
Just got back from Nuit Blanche. Stayed till 4 am this year and my feet are killing me right now, but it’s ok because in my experience, this is the best year yet.
Will definitely upload some photos soon.
Going to pass out now.
Dream.
Richard dreamt of making a pizza in the shape of a roller blade. The wheels and the shoe are in different flavours.
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Milestones
Dinner with my dearest Miss Paper and Miss Wonderland at Milestones AMC.
They have both been like sisters to me for the past 8 years and I am grateful that they are both in my life.
The food at milestones is ok, but not great. And it seems like their food are slight on the salty side.
Seafood Fettuccine- the sauce is pretty good actually, but I found the tomato and (ginger bits?) a bit...
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Class of 06
Today is the 5th year anniversary of Class of 2006, but I decided not to go since it’s the same day as Nuit Blanche. (but that’s really an excuse since Nuit Blanche is never good.)
anyways, have fun guys.
Come, fill your glasses up
To Ridley, to Ridley, to Ridley!
Come, fill a loving cup
To Ridley, to Ridley, to Ridley!
and, yes…. that’s a beaver on our school...
