Veggie Garden

Few years ago when my family first moved to this new house at Richmond Hill, we were excited about having a backyard of our own. My mom and I both loved flowers & veggies garden. We quickly went and bought some baby veggie plants and sowed them in the ground. Just few days later we went out to check on them and found most of them eaten by some unknown animal!! We were furious and started asking our neighbors to see if they had similar issues. As a result it was the bunnies problem!! They loved veggies (duh~~!) and so they chewed all our little plants in no time!


(Mind you, these are the actual bunnies outside my house!! I caught them red handed one night when Ron was driving me home! In fact I see them around all the time during summer!)

Ever since then we didn't put anymore veggies on the ground. The dream of having a veggie garden remained a dream. This pass winter however, I told Ron about my dream. I asked if he could build me a big wooden crate so I can have my veggie garden away from the ground. Ron was not very into gardening so he didn't really know what I was talking about until Spring came and I brought him to Home Depot to show him other similar planting crates. By chance we bumped into these huge aged whisky barrels. They were sold at a good price Ron wouldn't have to go through the trouble of building anything! So we bought them without much 2nd thought. Even though they seemed all ready to use, we still had to drill some holes at the bottom for drainage, buy loose rocks to put underneath and inside the barrels (4" inside 4" outside). So this pass weekend Ron spent more than 6 hours buying rocks, digging up a section of the grass to settle the barrels, drilling holes, and putting top soil in every barrels.

Finally today after work I rushed home and planted all my seeds and plants.




Thank you my dearest for making yet another dream of mine, come true.

I believe

Since I was about 13 years old I started hanging out particularly with those that were singled out by others. I always tried to stay connected with a group, then reach out to those that everybody thought they were "weird". For many years I always succeeded in making friends with them, eventually they were always accepted by my group of friends.

When I first immigrated to Toronto, I was the one being left out.

I remember vividly just second day of school nobody would play with me anymore. "You did nothing wrong," one of those girls came to me months after admitting , "but I couldn't afford to loose them as friends either so I had to do what they did to you. I am sorry. You take care of yourself."

I never doubted myself or did I fight back. I was just very much alone.

A year later I went to a different high school than them. I had a new start. I finally had my own group of friends.

From then on I told myself I would tried my best to NEVER leave anyone out.
I would go the extra mile to reach out.
I believe everybody has a story, and nobody is "weird".

I carry this belief for many years and I act on it. I gained lots of friendships and my heart was ever bigger. My belief was rooted deep down. It was almost a sure win for me no matter who I reached out to.

However in the past few years I've put myself higher and higher over many things, including this. When I work very hard for a living everything is becoming all about me. My time, my space, my friends, my desire. Whoever does not fit my schedule my style is OUT. I have no more patience to listen, I do not reach out to anyone anymore. Nothing deserves more of my attention than me.

What have I become?

Pretty Fences

Yesterday Ron & I were at RONA looking to buy some equipment / supplies for my house's front yard. By chance I saw these solid wood fences on sale for about $5. They were nice, sturdy and already stained. I thought it was a good deal so we bought their remaining stock, total of 8 sections. While we were installing them this afternoon, few neighbors passed by and gave nice comments. First it was a pair of mandarin speaking old couple, then it was a father with his daughter. The father actually thought we stained them ourselves. I went to Home Depot & plant centres for years now, I had never seen fences as nice. Hopefully no one (esp. kids around the block) come and take them.

Animal Crossing 2

Gloria came to visit acting like an angel with the yellow ring on her head.

By the way, that's my house you are looking at. Notice my ceiling to floor windows. It's BEAUTIFUL! haha...

Animal Crossing - DS

I have never been this addicted to video games until this past Christmas my bf (now fiance) bought me a DS. In case you don't know what's a DS, it's a portable Nintendo console. I am pretty sure you know what's a Game Boy, right? Well, a DS is an advanced version of it, so to speak.

To those that know about the game "Animal Crossing", I did something really stupid funny tonight and I just had to write about it.

I was bored waiting for time to pass so I was digging around for no reason with my shovel. I had always wondered if I dig a hole and not patch it up, would the hole stay there forever? So I was about to dig one to see and by chance Walker the dog passed by. I came up with the idea of digging around the dog to trap it! That way if I saw the dog somewhere else after a while, I would know the holes patched it by themselves!! It took me a while to dig holes around the dog faster than it walking. I did it finally. Just to be safe I even dig "few layers" of holes around those that trapped it. Below is the illustration:



Few moments later I was wandering around town and suddenly, I saw the dog also wandering around not too far away!! How did it get out??!?! I ran to the "scene" and saw all my holes still there! So I guess whoever that programmed this game was smart enough to not let people like me tortune the poor dog...

Flower Garden 2

Rubun was asking me to post some pictures. Here are some of them. These are the only blooms so far. Some kids actually thought they were weeds. Well I don't blame them as they just came out among the grass. Every year whenever I see them I know Spring is really here. These are one of the first flowers to bloom in Spring. They are very hardy plants but they don't last long.

Last night Ron also installed a support fence for the roses. Hopefully the branches will grow "up" instead of sideways.

Flower Garden

Trash has been gathering between the shrubs and plants in front of my house during the whole winter. Finally the weather today permits me to do some cleaning after work.

Last summer my brother & I paid $100/month to have someone water and maintain our lawn. It was fine until one day the gardener decided to throw out all my pot plants which took me the entire summer to grow. In fact one of them was a rare plant that I wanted for a while but was always too expensive to buy. Eventually I found a good deal and bought one home. It didn't even lasted 3 months. I was so piss I almost cried.

This summer Ron & I have decided to take care of the lawn ourselves. So today I spent 2.5 hours clearing all the garbages, pulling out some of the weeds, trimming the rose branches, planting 4 new flower bulbs, and getting rid of some dead leaves.

It's a lot of work to upkeep a garden but I enjoy it a lot. It gives my mind a good rest and an opportunity to be artistic. Hopefully my flowers will bloom nicely this summer.