Asian Express: October 2010

Alright all, I have been in Toronto for 3 weeks now and I love it! The people are friendly and polite. It is very multicultural; if you were blindfolded and brought to Toronto, you would not be able to guess where you are. I’m talking black, white, yellow, brown; all the different colours of the racial rainbow.
Diversity goes hand in hand with food, American steaks, Vietnamese beef noodles, Hong Kong duck, Italian pasta, Greek gyros, Indian curries, Irish Nachos. Although the one thing I truly miss (other than KK Malaysia) is baked beans. The Heinz beans here just taste funny and weird.

I have started work at Cineplex, they are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the perks of the job is that I get to watch all movies I want for free! Yes indeed, IMAX, 3D, VIP all the different flavours and I also get to invite a friend but there is a limit. The conversation with my manager went like this.

Manager: You can watch all new releases in VIP leather chairs, 3D movies or at the IMAX theatres all around Canada.
Me: That is awesome, can I bring a friend?
Manager: Yes, your card is valid for you + 1 but there is a limit on the amount of movies you can watch
Me: Oh really, I know it was too good to be true
Manager: You are only allowed to watch 4 movies a day
Me: bahahahahahahahahahaha................
Manager: hehe
Me: bahahahahahahahahahaha................

So yeah, I will make sure I do not exceed my quota of 4 movies a day.

I really can’t remember what I’ve been doing for the past 3 weeks, all I do is go into downtown, take photos and find new places each time. Oh I went to a bar called Panama and it was on the 51st floor with a rooftop terrace. Although not as nice as Las Vegas but definitely was good to have a glass of wine overlooking the city.

Yesterday was the 8th annual zombie walk which I contemplated partaking in but I’m glad I didn’t as it was freezing! The streets were filled with brain eating zombies and hunters. You could definitely see the effort that some people put in whereas others were piss poor. Is it wrong to be turned on by emo looking zombies? I stopped a zombie girl and said “You’re beautiful, let’s go for a beer” she looked at me and thought I was making fun of her and gave me the zombie growl “rraaarrrggghhh”. Emo girls are great.

Weather in Toronto is getting colder every day. Someone said to me last week “You lived through the Wellington winter, skipped the summer and coming to Canada for another winter. What are you doing?”
I never actually thought about that but it made a lot of sense, I’m basically skipping summers! Blah who cares!
Toronto pics available here but I will post the good ones along with zombie videos.

Sam

Dundas Square - 9.5 MB
Zombie Walk 1 - 10.5 MB
Zombie Walk 2 - 2.8 MB
Zombie Walk 3 - 1.7 MB