Let me begin by saying Eid Mubarak. For those who didn’t realize tomorrow is Eid ul Adha. This Eid (there are two in total) commemorates the sacrifice that Prophet Abraham was willing to make of his son Prophet Ismael. It also corresponds to the time of Hajj which is a pilgrimage to Mecca that is to be made for those physically and financially able atleast once in their lifetime. This Eid will be special God willing. Our last few Eids have been horrendous, spoiled by school and work and deadlines etc. This Eid falls right in the holidays. My plan for tomorrow is to go to house to house to house and eat. Festive ain’t it.

877 Waverly

The food here is fabulous. It’s Italian. Come with a good appetite but don’t be in a rush. I had the seafood risotto. It was fresh, flavourful and intensely filling. It had calamari, mussels and shrimp with fresh tomatoes, onions and asparagus. Tipu had some chicken pasta dish. I’m sick of chicken. I’ll eat anything but chicken right now. Anyways, his was good too. Wild red tomato sauce, thin sliced chicken and cheese.

The environment is cozy and sophisticated. Since the food comes slowly people have a lot of time to sit around relaxed and catch up with loved ones.

The main pleasure was their chocolate cake. They don’t make it themselves, they have it outsourced but it’s honestly the best chocolate cake I have ever had in my life and I’ve been around when it comes to chocolate cake. The cake is called “Death by Chocolate” and it has ten layers of chocolate!!! There’s a ganache layer, there’s this crunchy cookie layer, there’s a mousse layer… you get the picture. My Lord!!! It was amazing.

5/5

109-2810 Pembina

Went there for an afternoon snack w/ Deema and Aziz and Leen. Each samosa is $2. They have veggie, chicken, beef, bison, shrimp and paneer (brown ppl’s cheese) stuffings. It was pretty good. The samosas were not greasy. Perhaps they bake them? Great place for a snack. You can get combos with salads and choley (i guess that’s chicked peas) to build a meal. They also have molo or mobo or something like that which is dumplings.

It’s worth the price because they’re generous with their fillings. Sometimes if you go and ask for a meat samosa at other places they’ll feed you a bunch of potatoes, peas and some beef. However this place really loads up on the meat. I tried bison for the first time. I’ve been wanting to try it for a while but wasn’t getting the opportunity. It’s kind of ironic that the first time is in a samosa. It didn’t bother me too badly but I don’t think Tipu or Deema will ever try bison again. Mind you I don’t really have a sensitive huge-mammal-protein palette. I can’t tell lamb and beef apart. I know I have had goat but I don’t know when so perhaps I can’t distinguish that either.

Seating is like Subway. You get your stuff and seat yourself. Owners are from Bhutan. They have a catering business too so if you like their stuff you can get it mass produced for your next gathering.

5/5

It’s a documentary about Al Gore and his lifelong learning and communication about global warming. There are a few points that he articulated very well. North American gas emission standards for vehicles are a joke and all the belly aching that North American car industry is doing is only going to bite themselves in the ass in terms of global market shares. Change is very necessary and can be fruitful. Scientists have standards which they must abide by when publishing, news agencies do not. It’s an important film to watch. I like how he wove other issues into global warming to draw parallels and show further insight. He gave the example of tobacco. He said even after the surgeon general gave out warnings of it being a carcinogenic his family still farmed it but after his sister died from lung cancer the family immediately stopped. He showed how pro-tobacco groups initially tried to create doubts about the scientific findings but the truth eventually was accepted. It’s very much what’s happening now, lobby groups are successfully creating doubts in the minds of consumers about whether or not it’s a real problem to promote the same harmful life choices. He also shows global warming from many different angles and consequences. In general the movie is about how only the political initiative of voters will ever bring this issue to the mainstream.

5/5

1) In general boxed chocolates are stupid. There are exceptions but generally speaking they are stupid. If boxed chocolates are the way adults enjoy chocolate then they really need to lighten up.

2) iPod/iTunes is beyond stupid and leaning towards retarded. I realize it’s a business and crap and they have to prevent illegal exchange of music and what not but seriously. I don’t understand why so many people put up with them.

3) Coupons are stupid. If you want to give a discount then suck it up and give the discount. Don’t come up with all these retarded clauses to prevent the consumer from actually trying your product/service.

4) Cutting the underside of your tongue.

5) Waking up on the wrong side of bed.

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