Saturday Jo wakes me up asking if I want to get dim sum on Sunday. I tell her that I was planning on going to the pride parade and asked why don’t we go today. After a bit of pleading I eventually convince Joanna to go get some dim sum on on saturday. So about an hour later we find ourselves at the dim sum place outside market village.

This dim sum place is quite nice. Whenever I go dim sum its usually the place inside market village or this place just outside. Both are fine, I am not some kind of dim sum connoisseur, I just love my Har gow and other token dim sum dishes.

After we finished lunch we went over to Curries for some reason. Joanna likes art but is too lazy to fold me fancy origami polygons or draw me pictures of Tony Tony Chopper. We only stayed in Curries for a short time then made our way to market village and walked around for a bit. We stopped by Ones and stared at a few puzzles and random giant slippers. Once we got bored of Market Village we made our way to Pacific mall.

Joanna was in a shopping mood and wandered about looking at various bags, nail polish, and other junk stuff like that. She ended up buying a bag, some nail polish, and some other stuff I can’t quite remember.

When I got home Elaine was feeling bored so I downloaded Confessions of a Shopaholic and we sat down and watched it. The movie was surprisingly good. I expected the movie to be a piece of crap but was pleasantly surprised. The main character was quite funny and Justin told me she is married to Sacha Baren Cohen!

After the movie we went to Kenly’s noodle for dinner with Adrian, Derek, Ryan, Vanessa, Mitchell, and Jimmy. Dinner was a feast like always. Adrian loves to hook us up with mad discounts.

After dinner we came back to my place and talked for a little bit. Nothing too crazy though.

Sunday was the pride parade. The pride parade is always crazy. We got their pretty early and secured some decent spots at the front of the line. However, just like last year, our little space was stolen by other aggressive watchers. By the time the parade started me, cheryl, and moiya were at the front, while Jon, Justin and Chris were like 3 or 4 people behind us.

I took a lot of photos as always. I am still going through them but you can see them here and you can see photos from the dim sum trip here

I need to go through and reorganize my photos. I also need to do more backups. I really should stop buying books and just buy a 1 TB hard drive or something.

In other news I bought two random math books, one of which is about solving polynomial equation systems, and the other is about partial differential equations of elliptic curves.

This day was so damn good, but lets rewind to yesterday though.

Yesterday was a pretty hectic day. I was doing a lot of bug fixing. Bug fixing is very tiring. You need to sit down and try to consistently reproduce a problem in the program, then go through the actual code and figure out wtf is going wrong.

Anyways I was doing bug fixing till around 6:00, but then my old manager from MyThum was leaving the company so I decided to head over to his going away party. They were having it at the Bier Market. This place was quite nice.

Once I arrived I met up with a lot of my old coworkers which was very cool. I haven’t seen a lot of these guys in over a year. It was a very chill event, we just talked about all sorts of random junk. MyThum was a wicked company.

Everyone headed home at around 8:00 ish. I quickly went back to the office to continue trying to resolve some bugs. I stayed for about 3 hours. I fixed one bug but introduced another (this would only become apparent the next day).

At around 11:00 I went up to the rooftop patio and just talked with my coworkers. BumpTop and Xtreme labs are awesome places to work for. Man I love start ups, the environment is a lot more relaxing, fun, but at the same time VERY fast paced.

I left work at around midnight, made my way to Ram and Shima’s, talked for a bit then passed out.

Today was more bug fixing, my initial fix from yesterday introduced a new kind of bug. Basically the whole day was devoted to figuring it out. It was pretty bad on my part.

Anyways after lunch my Sigma 30mm came in finally. Sadly though it had a $50 tax attached to it, so I had to pick it up after work. I was very very sad about this.

At around 5:00 I made my way to The Rex to hear Sara Dell perform. I saw her first set and it was stellar. She is so pretty. I was entranced. At the end of her first set I went up and bought her CD then headed back to work to continue doing a bit of bug fixing.

I did about another 2 hours of work then headed home. Tomorrow I will probably be leaving hella late. Anyways after work I met up with Cheryl and Moiya. They were finishing up dinner and were debating about what to do next. Someone mentioned dessert so I suggested Futures. I wanted to go back and get that mudslide cake. So we made the arduous trek from yonge and dundas to bloor and spadina.

It was a pretty long walk. Anyways when we got there we got a chocolate truffle and Mango Raspberry Cheesecake. Both cakes were superb. We all joked around and did a few asian poses.

After dessert we went to BMV. I finally bought the complete collection of stories by Beatrix Potter for about $13.

Now I am going to get some sleep. 5 hours to be exact… Tomorrow will be a long day.

This was a pretty eventful weekend. Friday I got dinner with Kevin, Wilson and Elaine. We went to some korean place on sheppard. Kevin was convinced the waiter was attracted to him.

Dinner was pretty good, this place doesn’t have the potato or fish cake sides though which made me very sad. I love those side dishes

After dinner we went and got some dessert at some place next to destiny. After sitting down for about 2 minutes I realized I left my film camera at the restaurant. So Wilson and I headed back to the korean place while Elaine and Kevin saved our seats. It was very clear that kevin was not comfortable sitting alone with elaine but regardless peer pressure prevailed and he sat and talked to elaine. As soon as we got out of the restaurant I called philip to tell him to take his time meeting us at the dessert place.

After retrieving my camera we continued to sit around and talk at the dessert place. Nothing too crazy happened during dessert. When we finished dessert Philip, Elaine and I went back to my place, and we waited for kevin to bring Ghost Town.

Ghost Town was quite funny. Ricky Gervais is a genius. I feel like I should watch the original office now.

Saturday I helped Ian make a website. It was a good few hours of random coding. After we finished we played a bit of rock band. God I love rock band. The game is too great.

Once Amy and Ian left I got some dinner with Nelson, Mitchell, Jimmy and Derek. We went to some random steak place. It was an…. interesting meal. About 1/2 way into the dinner our conversation diverted into talking about 2 girls 1 cup. Needless to say it was a very gruesome conversation.

After dinner we headed back to my place and just talked for a good couple of hours. A bulk of the discussion was centered around grade school and the stupid shit we did, and also high school.

Sunday was a looonng day. Cheryl called me at 10:00 and asked me to go downtown. She wanted to get a tan and I was pretty bored at home. So I got up and made my way downtown.

It was crazy hot on Sunday. I was wearing a hoodie also. Anyways we went to bay bloor radio first since I needed to pick up my replacement cable. After waiting almost 3 weeks for this cable it turns out AKG sent them the wrong ones. So now I have to wait again.

Once we finished at bay bloor radio we walked south towards St. Lawrence Market. For some reason cheryl really wanted to see the market.

We stopped at a small sushi place and got some lunch. Here cheryl and I talked about random junk. One particular conversation that came up (again) was “Is it easier for women to find a boyfriend than it is for a man to find a girlfriend?”.

After lunch we continued our trek south and eventually made it to King and Yonge. Cheryl had to go to the bathroom so we stopped by my office. I showed her around, we played a bit of rock band, sat on the patio for awhile, then continued towards st. lawrence market.

Right before reaching St. Lawrence market though we decided to watch a movie at Rainbow Cinema’s. We saw Taking of Pelham 123. This movie sucked. I told cheryl we should watch Hangover but she wanted to see Pelham 123.

After the movies I walked cheryl to the subway station then went off to meet my brother, Shima, and their friends. On my way their though I bumped into some random Hamilton women who seemed lost. She was asking for a place to eat so I named a few places and she would keep coming up with excuses as to why she didn’t want to go, then would go on to say that Toronto has no restaurants. Eventually I managed to free myself and found my way to the distillery district.

The distillery district is very nice. This was my second time going. We got dinner at Mill St. Brewery. Over the course of dinner more and more familiar faces showed up. It was a nice dinner. Shima mentioned she liked my pouffy hair, whereas Roshanak said chop it off and then she will help me find a girlfriend. I think I will let it grow out a bit more and once again contemplate the decision of straightening it.

After dinner a few of us went out to Future Bakery and Cafe. This place was awesome. Nina ordered some crazy truffle cake. I finally know a nice place to get desserts downtown.

After dessert I made the long trek home. Luckily Steph was heading north so she dropped me off at Finch station.

And so concludes the weekend. Hopefully my brother can process my various rolls of film soon. I want to see how these photos are turning out. Also my lens should be coming in tomorrow or the day after. Its current status says its out of the foreign customs thingy. I hope to god I don’t get any random duties attached to it. That would hurt oh so much.

Please stay tuned for wicked ass iphone applications.

Paul is intense. He worked laboriously on Findit Off Campus and implemented facebook connect. Now you can “login“http://finditoffcampus.com/user/login to our site without having to sign up. Also there are ways of sharing your listings with friends or inviting friends to use our service.

So now my loyal readers, I give you but one task, try logging in with facebook connect and tell me if you have any random problems. If you are daring try sending invitations to your friends and see if THEY can login okay.

Any feedback on the login process would be GREATLY appreciated. We plan on expanding in the near future. If people can please be as brutally mean as possible and note every single problem with the site that would be the mark of a true friend.

Currently things I plan on fixing are

• Sorting search results (I know this is a big one, but I need to learn a bit more rails to handle this)


• Improving load times

There are a few other minor aesthetic changes that will be happening also. I may change up the way we list properties.