Guess what it is

What is the object in the picture below? The person who gives the right answer first wins....the knowledge that they guessed correctly first!

finally a post

I have been up to lots of stuff, but been too lazy to post. So instead I will just show a picture of an event I went to recently, and talk about it later.

Here's a guy that I saw at the Ukrainian Festival in Bloor West Village. I thought he looked kinda cool. It is much better full size, so please click on it.

Boring update

Here is, for your reading pleasure, an update of the things I have done in the last while. This is a boring kind of post, I know, but it's been a fun week.

So, beginning on, let's see...Wednesday, what did I do wednesday? Oh, I went to a BBQ for a friend who's been in England for a year or two or something and is back for two days. On Thursday I went to the doctor and he told me 'NO ALCOHOL! NO CAFFEINE! EVEN DECAF!' boooooo :-( No Alcohol or coffee may make GSM a dull boy...but I think I'll be alright, I'll just have to practise being naturally high. then Thursday night I went to meet my friend KEPs law buddies at the Pilot, that was pretty fun! (Apparently I was a hit...go figure). Friday night I hung out with my ex- ex-, and it was really quite nice. We went biking on Toronto Islands, then ate some yummy Gelato at Solferino's (best gelato in Toronto I think), and then ate some savoury crepes at Cafe Crepe. A nice afternoon. The best part I think was that I was able to talk to her as friends about our summer together quite comfortably, and just as a nice time in the past. On saturday I rode my bike up to Albion hills, where some of my friends were participating in a 24 hour race (tag team! yikes), and rode back...it was a nice ride, except for the rain and the massive chills I was getting near the end. I had to stop for an emergency Mars bar, because the rain was not cold enough to explain my chilliness, I think I was massively low on energy. Then that night, after watching a silly chinese comedy (subtitled in english) about smelly princesses and deodorant, I went to the Madison with some other friends, which is always fun. And today, I went to my second Toronto Photography Meetup Group event, which was a BBQ on Ward Island. It was really really fun, I met some very cool and interesting people (who know SO much about photography!). I have learned more about photography in the last few weeks even just reading the TPMG message board than I had in years prior. And they are mostly pretty cool and funny people. I will definitely be going to other events.

That's the weekend!

The Perfect Girl

My friend was over to pick up my light set that he needs for a mountain biking race he's doing (24 hours tag team...yikes!), and as we're both single we began talking about what features we look for in girls. We ended up with quite a large list. The perfect girl must:

• have good chemistry with me
  
• enjoy physical activity (of all sorts!)
  
• be able to effectively participate in said physical activities
  
• have a logical mind
  
• have a quirky sense of humour
  
• have no major psychological problems or depressive tendencies
  
• be easy to talk to
  
• be a polite smoker if she smokes
  
• not be a girly-girl (i.e. breaking a finger nail should not phase her), but a bit of ditzy-ness is ok, to me I think...these two statements seem to contradict each other, but girly-girl does not equal ditzy-ness
  
• be adventurous
  
• have at least an undergraduate university degree, or be on her way to one.
  
• enjoy nature and being outdoors
  
• enjoy many of the same hobbies as I do, or at least similar ones that I could be at least mildly interested in.
  
• have granola-girl tendencies, but not be a full-on granola girl (although it might seem shallow...hairy armpits are a turn-off)
  
• adore me and follow me wherever I go...heh, ok, maybe that's a bit much.
  
• be laid-back and easy-going, and not sweat the small stuff, such as how I squeeze a tube of toothpaste, or where something goes in the kitchen
  
• be willing to compromise and make the relationship work.
  

These were the requirements that both of us had. Now my personal requirements (that differ quite a bit from his), and things I thought of after, are that she should

• be asian
  
• be willing to smoke up once in a while, but not be a pot-head.
  
• be thin but not so skinny that you can see her bones and doesn't have any nice curves left :-P
  
• enjoy travelling and learning about other cultures
  
• enjoy learning new languages
  
• preferably be non-vegetarian...I like cooking and serving yummy rare steaks, and it would be awesome if she would eat it!
  
• be outgoing and talkative...there's nothing better than being with a girl that likes chatting and meeting new people just as much as I do.
  
• like my friends, and I must like hers.
  

I'm sure I will think of other things as time goes on, but that's it for now! Is it too much to ask?!

Let's see....

I have no photos to post recently....quite upsetting. I would be posting some from Oregon, but they were all scanned like crap by Black's Photography, which I maintain is run by a bunch of little kids that don't know anything. Even on the second scan they screwed it up, despite the guy being friendly and helpful.

I recently found out about a group called the Toronto Photography Meetup Group, which is really just an informal collection of people interested in photography that (surprise surprise) meet up ever once in a while to take photos and socialize. It was pretty cool...I met a guy there that I've known about for years and years, I met him only online in the chat room associated with the first photography web site I joined (www.usefilm.com). All in all it was pretty fun, and I will hopefully be going out to more events...and buying a new wide angle lens some time soon :-P

ciaociao
GSM

My Sushi!

Last weekend I made sushi for a party my parents had. Everyone seemed to like it. Here is the evidence!

Hello hello

been a while since my last post. I've been busy and sleepy.

I got an email from Mel today....it made my heart race still. She is in Vancouver leaving for Indonesia tonight. She really wants to still be friends....and I haven't decided what to do about it yet. On one hand, she did make me pretty miserable and angry a lot of times. On the other hand, I have a hard time staying angry, and we do have a shitload in common, and have fun doing stuff together, and it would be a shame to lose that. Maybe she could end up being a really great friend and we'd be better off that way? At the moment that seems too weird...I can't imagine talking to her about my future girlfriends! :-S But doesn't that happen sometimes? you date someone and then end up being just really good friends?

GSM

obligation

I feel obliged to post something...for my three loyal readers to not get bored...

Meadow

The meadow in which Mel's cabin was in Oregon. It was so nice. My 50 mm lens does not do it justice, nor does my camera's lack of remote shutter activation, causing it to be blurrier than desired.

Bittersweet Imagery

I have all these photos from Oregon to process....they evoke memories which are painful at the moment. I may have to wait a while to do the rest. And plus the scan that Black's Photography did is quite shitty.