BIG breakfast at Beauty's Luncheonette

Hearty breakfast at 'Beauty's' on Mont Royal

:D

Ooops... this seems to be becoming some food blog. HAha...

CoCo Rico, la Malajube et la poutine a la Pool Room!

It's been a testy day of my french today... HAha.. seems like the whole world wants to speak to me in french today.

WEnt to CoCo Rico, this portugues chicken place for lunch at the Pleateau in St LAurent. WEll, we were supposed to go to Schawrtz (this place famous for smoked meat), but the Q was juz too long. We couldn be bothered and settled for the chicken place right beside Schawrtz. WEll, schwartz ended up becoming take out for dinner. HEHE.. HHEHe... I've been wanting to try this chicken place for a while! And lo & behold, its good! and.. cheap! HAha.. we shared a place of chicken and ribs. Love teh ribs! N guess what! they have custard in their portuguese egg tart! I love.... custard! HAha... Of course, i tried to order in french. it went all right i guess. HEHe... Oh, and i found this bakery that sells D-O-N-U-T-S. I sooo need to go back there to get 'em. HEHe.. OH, and we caught 'Cirque Du Soleil' on St Laurent. HAha.. literally...

CoCo Rico REsto
See that BIG suckling pig there?! the guy there is SLICING the pig. Yes, slicing it....

Roasted chicken , portuguese style
Fleshy ribs!!! The bread is juz 30 cents! Hha..
My custard filled egg tart!!!

The totally run down lookin Schawrtz. WEll, the best food are always in run down places yeah? hehe.. so they say...
Check out the chunk loads of meat in the display... HAHa.. doesn look so appetizing now.
can you spot a guy on a unicycle?!! whatever they call it...

WEnt for Malajube concert in the evening at Metropolis. Beer & i practically waited for 2 hours before they performed! well, some unkown amateur bands were perfoming be4 them. AT least the wait was worth it. Malajube is juz so awesome!!! yes, they sing french songs.... but i juz love their songs! i can understand, provided i read the lyrics. Couldn quite catch what they were saying in between songs, except lots of 'Merci beaucoup'... Hehee... Their playing is juz sooo tight, and they have so much chemistry with each other. They had 4 keyboards btw. HAha... and the crowd is juz crazy....! ANd Beer was sitting beside this old man who claims to be the dad of the keyboardist.... right.....


The crowd grew from this...
To this!
Malajube!
The lights practically blinded me. tsktsk...




Oh, not to forgot, my dear Butcher from Montreal Pool Room has changed his cheese! He used inferior cheese for the poutine the other time. But i gave him one more chance today, and its back to the good old poutine! HAah... the cheese that melts with the hot sauce and piping fries!

SNOW-Y pics

'Naked' tree!
Snow-filled balcony...

Garbage as well. Hehe...

Street outside house! Can you see how nice these houses are!
Cars buried in snow...
Junction outside house.

Was reading this stanze in 'Proverbs 3' and find it very comforting. Especially at a time when the Module Preference Exercise reminds me that i'm about to enter my year 3 sem2! Also, its a time when its scary thinking what's gonna happen after that cos i seriously have no idea.... WEll, lotsa ideas actually, but no idea how they're gonna work out. WE'll see:D


"My son, preserve sound judgement and discernement,

do not let them out of your sight;

they will be life for you,

an ornament to garce your neck.

Then you will go on your way in safety,

and your foot will not stumble;

when you lie down, you will not be afraid;

when you life down, your sleep will be sweet.

Have no fear of sudden disaster or of the ruin that overtakes the wicked,

for the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being snared."
- Proverbs 3:21-26 -

Lotsa snow!!!

Hui qin knocked on my bedroom door at 10am!!! (that's early for me btw) to see a heck lot of snow and snowfall! HAha.. seriously, it looked kinda scary... and i saw a lone soul walking on the streets. ITs cool and funny in a way. yet scary. HHE.e..

with courtesy from Mr Kent. Thats the doorstep by btw...

I'm amazed... with facebook

I'm amazed at the power of facebook. I can actually create an event and invite people that easily! It really saves the trouble of calling people.... and smsing them... then calling back again. Simply takes forever... Well, convenience probably comes at a cost of lack of that personal touch.

Finally done with my ATOC 250 natural disasters term paper! And juz completed the final and last assignment for 'Cognitive Behavioral Therapy'! HAha.. did that in 5 mins! i'm getting efficient. HHEH. relatively though. One more term paper from "Deviations in child psychology" to go.. then, its exams! then... its california!!!

Oh.. and i've got free lodging in San Jose, California! HAha.. totally love Hong Ye & his fren! I'm always a sucker for free accomodation. Hehee.. I cant wait to get to california and bask under the sun WITHOUT the constant swift of cold airs at -10 degrees celcius!

I'm so excited about the talk on "Cross-linguistic differences in the manifestation of language impairment in children: How are they related to the underlying cause?" tml! It's organized by McGill's School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, in one of the research seminar series. It's somewhat related to one of the modules i took under 'Language & Cognitive Processing'. Apparently, McGill constantly has such talks and seminars and such everyday. Seriously, they have a whole list of ongoing events everyday in the downtown campus. For example, lotsa FREE music concerts (JAZZ concerts!) in the Schulin faculty of music. Gosh, i think i'm becoming so auntie with all these 'FREE-stuff' talk. HAHa..

P.S. time for X'mas card making! So exciting to shop for stamps and paper at Omer de Serres!

Free pizza & T-shirt!

I totally L-O-V-E Mcgill. & Microsoft as well. HEhe..

Today, we dropped by at 'Wong 1050' for the Microsoft talk. Apparently, they were having free pizzas! HAha.. well, the talk was interesting though. Basically they are McGill graduates currently working in Microsoft who are here to carry out recruitments. People in the room were basically engineering students. And the females made up four. HAHa..

I learnt that there is actually a form of advertising: through gaming. Basically, there's actually this company called 'MASSIVE' which basically advertises for clients through video games such as 'Guitar Hero', 'Halo' whatsoever... Its like when you play those racing games for example, you'd realize these insiduous appearances of big brands like 'Coke' etc on the billboards?! yes, thats what
'Massive' does. Getting out these brands onto the video games. Apparently, their selling point (as compared to other mediums of advertisment such as TV) is the target group of the video gamers as well as the 'impressive' statistics (people juz adore numbers and percentages) of advertising reachability to the masses. But then again, watching the video of a stimulated game got me thinking how much of this advertising materials is actually retained in the gamer's brain?! (think 'short term memory limitations'). Seriously, the gamer would most probably be concentrating so hard on the game and strategy whatsoever, how much of this information is actually retained at the end of the game?! HAHa.. i juz cant help thinking of such stuff. Then again, their objective might juz be to create some form of impression towards that product.

Oh, Hui Qin and i got a free T-shirt from Microsoft! HAha.. didnt manage to grab the X-BOX though. Some Daniel Dude won it anyways. HAha.. it was some raffle lucky draw thingy. I'm satisfied with a stomach full of pizza ( had 3 slices! HAha) and a cute little t-shirt!

it says,"Hey Genius we want you". Hehe...

Finally got my MAlajube tix! HAH.. so excited to see them live!

MIdnight surprise!

LOgged on to MSn tonite and found a pleasant surprise! My little cousin can use MSN! HAha... You would find him answering me with 'one-word' answers. And a 'y' abbreviated for 'yes'. And those weird motion emoticons which juz scares the hell out of me. HAha.. well, he's trying. And i'm so glad to see him engaging in something related to language. It's a start at least, an informal way of getting exposed to language. Hopefully it doesn deviate to singlish. HEHhe..

I was asking him what he wants from disneyland. And the conversation went like this.

** says:
who do you like from disneyland?
Goh says:
ok:P
** says:
snow white....
** says:
winnie teh pooh
** says:
mickey mouse
** says:
donald duck
** says:
minnie mouse....
** says:
?
Goh says:
winnie the pooh
** says:
ooooh
Goh says:
toy
** says:
same as chryst?
** says:
HAHAH
Goh says:
:P
** says:
what if i buy you a winnie the pooh book????
Goh says:
no:(
** says:
arent you getting a little too old for a toy.....^o)
** says:
haha
Goh says:
no.........
** says:
hahhaha
** says:
ok
** says:
i'll see what i can do:D

It's juz so cute how he says 'no' when i ask him about getting a book. hehe.