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Celebrate Life

15Sep09

One thing I love about Toronto this time of year is it’s festival time and there’s lots of them! Not only that, there’s just so much happening around town that there’s always something to do. On the other hand if you want to chill on the front porch with your house mates and have a [...]

Documentary Australia: The Naked Lentil.
Picture this… a restaurant whose philosophy is that “the customer decides what they want to donate for the food they’ve eaten, they decide what it’s worth and give as they feel…” Furthermore this restaurant “aspires to provide a new model of community organisation that addresses social isolation and provides support and [...]

So a group of us are heading to Presqu’ile for a tramping trip this weekend. We’ll be leaving tonight and will be back on Sunday evening.

From the website it sounds like an interesting place:
A mecca for birdwatchers every spring and fall, this peninsula south of Brighton is a major flyway for migrating birds, home [...]

Well we did it. “We” being my team “Couchsurfers Combating Climate Change“. The team consisted of Alex, Rodney, Darrel, Neesa, Esther, Jan and myself. We’re all active members of the Couchsurfing community.
It took me 18 mins and 01 secs to ascend 144 flights, 1776 steps. Then there were the additional 9 flights to get [...]

Changes

11Apr08

Change was always part of the plan when I decided to move to Toronto and the act of actually getting up and leaving Sydney was a very big change in itself. This past week however has been particularly powerful in the change department.
So what’s changed?
1. I started training for the WWF CN Tower Climb.
I’ve [...]


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