TO for Toronto
Over the weekends, we went up to Toronto which was about an hour's ride away from Kitchener-Waterloo when you are driving at 160 km/hr.
Unlike Kitchener-Waterloo which felt really safe (Yew Jin enlightened me that K-W is a retirement area and that will account for all the old folks i saw the past week!), Toronto had a sense of danger lurking. Maybe for one, i am not used to seeing so much 'creative energy' on the streets, every free space was maximised and utilised with spraypaint and even on the trucks.
21/07
Anyway, we went up to CN Tower at about 10 pm. Once on top at the Observatory Tower, i was awestruck as my vision swept over the entire city dotted with lights. It was said that on a clear day, i could even see the Niagara Falls which was probably 3 hours away from CN Tower. The wind there was so strong, it almost swept me off my feet. And all those who know me surely knows that to sweep me off my feet is no mean feat. The gust of wind was hell strong! I was vaguely afraid that my cardigan would act as a semi parachute and send me flying away and i was glad for the wire netting all around.
We cruised around John Street and Adelaide Street to go clubbing afterwards as we wanted to experience clubbing in a different land (and because i showed my male colleagues pictures of the women taken at some well-known clubs and when all they saw tua neh-nehs, they made up their mind to go). However the streets were filled with rappers-lookalikes, busty blondes, gothic femme fatales and WWF wannabes. The whole place looked menacing. Police patrolled around the areas with horses and harley davidsons. We could not find a club to go into actually as it was late and the clubs were closing.
23/07
In the morning, we went over to Harbourfront Centre which was filled with yachts and sailboats and a great big schooner named 'Kajama' with 75 years of history. We took a leisurely one and a half hours cruise on the blue blue waters looking up at the blue blue skies and the white white clouds. My heart went pink pink with excitement.
We discarded the car at some carpark and bought daypasses to sit on the streetcars (the electric trams) and take the subway to Eaton Centre to do some shopping.
24/07
Went on a two and a half hours ride (because someone told us it was grand) to Grand Bend (it's a beach) and it's not at all grand! This is one of the times i felt East Coast Park is more beautiful than other beaches. The only attraction about the Grand Bend was the colourful village stores along the sides of the road leading to the beach. The drive was pretty scenic though with a lot of cows and horses and haystacks. We passed by a small town Stratford which was very peaceful and i bought Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince in the 7-11 there (i finished it in less than 4 hours).
Habis. Now is monday morning and me is working. Till the next.
Unlike Kitchener-Waterloo which felt really safe (Yew Jin enlightened me that K-W is a retirement area and that will account for all the old folks i saw the past week!), Toronto had a sense of danger lurking. Maybe for one, i am not used to seeing so much 'creative energy' on the streets, every free space was maximised and utilised with spraypaint and even on the trucks.
21/07
Anyway, we went up to CN Tower at about 10 pm. Once on top at the Observatory Tower, i was awestruck as my vision swept over the entire city dotted with lights. It was said that on a clear day, i could even see the Niagara Falls which was probably 3 hours away from CN Tower. The wind there was so strong, it almost swept me off my feet. And all those who know me surely knows that to sweep me off my feet is no mean feat. The gust of wind was hell strong! I was vaguely afraid that my cardigan would act as a semi parachute and send me flying away and i was glad for the wire netting all around.
We cruised around John Street and Adelaide Street to go clubbing afterwards as we wanted to experience clubbing in a different land (and because i showed my male colleagues pictures of the women taken at some well-known clubs and when all they saw tua neh-nehs, they made up their mind to go). However the streets were filled with rappers-lookalikes, busty blondes, gothic femme fatales and WWF wannabes. The whole place looked menacing. Police patrolled around the areas with horses and harley davidsons. We could not find a club to go into actually as it was late and the clubs were closing.
23/07
In the morning, we went over to Harbourfront Centre which was filled with yachts and sailboats and a great big schooner named 'Kajama' with 75 years of history. We took a leisurely one and a half hours cruise on the blue blue waters looking up at the blue blue skies and the white white clouds. My heart went pink pink with excitement.
We discarded the car at some carpark and bought daypasses to sit on the streetcars (the electric trams) and take the subway to Eaton Centre to do some shopping.
24/07
Went on a two and a half hours ride (because someone told us it was grand) to Grand Bend (it's a beach) and it's not at all grand! This is one of the times i felt East Coast Park is more beautiful than other beaches. The only attraction about the Grand Bend was the colourful village stores along the sides of the road leading to the beach. The drive was pretty scenic though with a lot of cows and horses and haystacks. We passed by a small town Stratford which was very peaceful and i bought Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince in the 7-11 there (i finished it in less than 4 hours).
Habis. Now is monday morning and me is working. Till the next.
posted by One Little Twit at 10:38 PM
10 Comments:
hm..sounds like similar streets after streets to me. not as appealing as Niagara eh..:)by the way...were u gorging urself with donuts while travelling??
plenty. could die. There is donuts everywhere. Opposite the office, few near the apartments, all shapes and sizes. siao liao.
DONUTS!!!!!! *drool* i lurve lurve lurve donuts (which accounts for my size hahaha)..hope you're enjoying yourself there!!!
can borrow ur porter liao!
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i wan to go toronto!!!!
ha! found you here! nice to know u r stil blogging. somemore u flew to toronto liao!!! din even say... *sob*
must go visit (my office's) OCAD k? http://www.ocad.on.ca/
i was in canada in april.. and stayed just next to Harbour Front Center in Toronto. The hotel name is Radisson Admiral.
But we lost the CN tower photos.. and it was snowing very heavily the mornign we went up so we couldn't c anything at all
-smiles
Wow, Toronto looks nice, I better make sure I go there in August - yeah, planning to take my A-Pa and A-Ma to Niagara Falls, so might as well detour to Toronto. What is the speed limit in Canada? You want to die ah, drive at 160 km/h, that's almost 100 mph!
I miss my time in Canada. It was so clean and friendly.
Whoaaa, you're in Canada?!
Whoaaa, you're in TORONTO?!
NO WAY! WHOA.
It's me... formerly known as Netherus
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