the sea of love

Distracted from doing school work, I decided to make the DIY heart bokeh for my prime lens!
I used left over cardboard from the build it yourself pinhole camera, it took like 2 minutes.

Result:


The effect is that the .. normally circular bokeh would be in heart shapes! It's still bright outside for now.. so this is a picture of my night light in the hallway. lol

Very exciting! I'll maybe take more pictures later when the sky is actually dark :) Yay.

Oh, I've also started shooting in raw format. We'll see how that goes, it eats up memory like no tomorrow but at least I have two fairly large memory cards!

tonights going to be a good night

On thursday I was bad and I grabbed a 24 and started doing the crossword on it. Newspaper is leisure to me, picking one up is deadly because I know I won't be studying any longer but instead, would be reading the newspaper or doing the crossword.

It's so hard to resist though, newspapers are everywhere around campus! Anyway, back to Thursday - I was so surprised I was able to finish so much of the crossword. Back in... grade 11(and 12?), he and I used to do the 24 crosswords everyday. He would bring one in every morning and we would pass it back and forth in class/lunch to work on it together. Okay, so he claims I got mad often, and I did.. it is frustrating working with someone that is 23082309 times smarter - someone who fills in all the word spots before you even get to any. But anyway, on Thursday, I finished most of the crossword by myself and was so proud! I had never done it before, I swear this is the closest I've gotten - and ever will.

Today I sent him a picture of the unfinished crosswords and just like.. 2+ years ago, we worked on finishing this crossword together again! I'm not going to lie, I was a little mad when within seconds of receiving the photo, he filled in 3+ words already. It was the same kind of jealousy I felt back in the day, LOL. Anyway, eventually he still needed my help ;) We finished it; "we're a good team".

Some things never change <3

(1000) days

Early morning this morning! Breakfast at Markham Station, I hate eggs but I guess I like every other breakfast food :P

(lol, i wrote that but never got the chance to post it cause i was getting too tired!)

It was our (1000)th day, Sept. 21. I thought of dedicating a whole post.. or something. I wrote like half and felt bragging-ish so that will likely not happen anymore :P


a friend like no other <3

are we humans or are we dancers

Woke up early to head downtown for CTEP orientation. Boring but got free lunch! Oh.. and I finally met my first utsc friend! Makes me want to go the Athletic Centre to meet people.. haha

Walked through campus again, always such a sad time now. :( I regret not feeling more grateful last year of such a beautiful campus :( The new facilities and just everything. Ughh, couldn't find textbook at bookstore and walked back through campus to Yorkville area.

H&M sale was still on, I've gotten a lot of things from there lately. It's so easy.. things actually fit!!

Then we headed to Summer's. Trying to find the place was struggles but holy,. was it worth it. The ice cream was like heaven.


I ordered Toronto Pothole. SOOOOOOOO GOOD. and the waffle cone!!

Then walked to Flo's Diner, the little spiral staircase up to the diner was cute. The interior was so cute also, they also had a rooftop patio type thing however we wanted to see the inside!





We both ordered the same thing: Turkey Burger with mushrooms, caramelized onions and feta cheese topping with a side order of fries + coleslaw.



The burger was okay. The toppings were really good except the actual turkey patty was too hard and dry. Fries were pretty good too!

Walked down yonge to tiff events at yonge+dundas. Nothing really going on except for the free outdoor screening.



So tired, need to start doing homework tomorrow. :(

School today was bad. I hate utsc so much already.. I can't imagine 4 more years here. Makes me want to transfer again except.. I don't have the money to move to queens :( Gotta suck it up.

I wanted to make a video of how shitty the place is. My classes are mostly in the basement of some old building. nice and dark with concrete walls.. if you think your school sucks, you don't know utsc. ... There is no phone reception anywhere. I was sitting right beside a window and barely could get one bar of service!!

Went out to Main St. tonight. It was nice.. <3


Cafe Mocha.. I can never decide what to order and sometimes I don't feel as spontaneous as other times.








Need more nights like this!!

the soles of your shoes, all worn out

Had quite the day today.. I got my long awaited haircut, brought a textbook, met up with friends, had frozen yogurt at Cefiore, then thai at some thai place.. forgot the name, sold a textbook then home!
Too much walking... went from yonge + bloor to university + college to spadina + bloor. Wow that makes it sound like not much but I had to lug around 4 textbooks for most of that journey :(


yayy


green tea yogurt with pineapple, mango and kiwi toppings :) soo good.


finally!


Then we walked across the street to this thai place.. it was so dark and squishy inside!


I ordered pad thai (chicken) because.. what else is there to order at a thai place? haha. I like pad thai anyway! :P

Tiring day, first day of school tomorrow at 8am! :( ughh.

giving you a reason to stay

So today I finally cut my hair! It's been two years since I've been to a salon to actually cut my hair and.. its grown so long. I finally couldn't take it anymore.. though I wish I could've had more to donate. So I chopped off.. like 12 inches I think of hair. or even more.. there was too much measuring and discussing at the point she was cutting it. But anyway, defnitely longer than 10 inches.. just so I can donate it to an organization that makes wigs for people with cancer and have to go through chemotherapy + loss of hair.
I haven't decided what .. organization yet, either the pantene one or locks of love. But that can wait... I'll just have a big strand of braided hair lying around for a while.

So ... here it is:

I tried to smile cute to make the haircut look better. haha. :)

we were always meant to say goodbye so stick around

the actual pictures! in an album

This roll has been my best one yet from this fisheye.. probably because I actually have people as subjects this time. :D
love love the fisheye :)

do you know what's worth fighting for

I haven't updated in so long.. last two weeks of work ended. I guess I was just lazy and nothing's been going on esp. since now the boyfriend is gone. haha. loser :(
Work's been tiring, this last week - we went to centreville at centre island. It was pretty fun, who knew a little kid ferris wheel would be scary? The 6 year olds weren't even as scared as I was, I swear :(
I was also able to finish my roll of fisheye, finally!