Cavalcade of Lights, Toronto トロント

Once again, the cavalcade of Lights is on. Every Saturday until, Christmas, there will be a concert and fireworks display outside of City Hall.

TORONTO トロント カナダ

TAKAYAMA 高山市

Takayama is one of the best place I have ever visited in Japan. Nestled in the mountains, it is known as Little Kyoto in the mountains. There are many minshuku and ryokan in the town and they serve delicious kaiseki style meals. The town is also very different from others in that the local government likes preserving it the way it is. So you will not see any Starbucks, McDonalds or 7/11 here. What you will find is small town charm and hospitality and lots of delicious local foods. These include Hida beef, and Hoba Miso.

CREDIT RIVER.. SALMON RUN MISSISSAUGA

SUSHI DAI 寿司大

Sushi Dai in Tsukiji, Tokyo, Japan

Mt Fuji climb

Mt Fuji climb. Me and my friends scale Japan's most famous mountain on July 26th. It was a nice clear day. We saw really nice unkai and goraiko. We stayed at a hut at 3250m called Gansomuro. It was 9000 yen for two meals and a sleeping space.
We continued our climb around midnight and got to the summit for the sunrise (at 450am)

HOKKAIDO 北海道 JAPAN

Went to Hokkaido. Visited Sapporo, Otaru, Asahikawa, and Furano. Farm Tomita in Furano was very nice.

地獄谷 Jigokudani, Hokkaido

Went to Jigokudani for onsen. Here's a short video of the area.

SOUTH KOREA

Went to South Korea, and ate a lot there too. Shopped in Myeongdong, and Insadong a lot. Tried silkworm for the first time. It wasnt very nice tasting. :)

TOKYO

I was in Tokyo for a bit, and went to a maid cafe with friends. Also took in the sights and ate a lot.

OTARU 小樽

Otaru is a really nice little town in western Hokkaido, along the coast. We went there for great seafood and nice sceneries.

Mt Fuji

Climbing Mt Fuji was a great experience. Here is the descending part of the climb. This was on July 27th, 2008.

MT FUJI

Otaru

FURANO

Sapporo, Hokkaido

Terminal One, Pearson Int'l, Toronto

Sky Walk, Toronto

NEKO

Sunset in Mississauga

Baby rabbits

Meatless Barbeque

Kariya Park 刈谷公園

Sakura

CORNY

KARIYA PARK, mississauga

NIAGARA FALLS

Went to Niagara Falls today... everything was literally frozen

SNOW SNOW

There was so much snow this morning, I couldn't use my car. Where is my red car???

The New and the Old

I bought a new CPU last weekend. Intel Dual Core with 1GB of RAM and 250 GB HD. The old one was a AMD Duron with 256K of RAM and 18 GB HD.

Mediterranean Yogurt

The high fat, high cholesterol Mediterranean yogurt: Mango and

orange flavoured

Museum

Museum Station is being transformed into a "museum".

So far, the wall has almost completed its facelift

Global Warming

After receiving more than 40cm of snow already this winter, we got really warm 11C weather for a few days and all the snow melted away...

Happy New Year

Woke up on the first day of 2008 to 15cm of wet snow!! Arrgh!