… bike lanes on Bloor!

Reportedly 1500 cyclists were out yesterday, and I was one of them, to participate in Bells On Bloor: The Musical Ride. We rode from High Park to Queen’s Park along Bloor Street to send a message to the City of Toronto: Bloor Street needs bike lanes.

A familiar Critical Mass chant could be heard as we neared the end of the ride:

We’re not blocking traffic
We Are Traffic!

Create. Connect. Transform.

Originally uploaded by Infuzion Photography

Getting ready for Center of Social Innovation‘s "The Party to End All Parties", being held at their second location (720 Bathurst Street, and Bloor) on Fri May 28, 2010. 400 tickets sold out.

CSI is "The home for world-changing innovators, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada!"

These awesome shirts are for sale at the party, and are produced by Me To We. Half of Me to We’s annual profits are given to their charitable partner Free The Children.

I’m volunteering at the event.

Once in a while I like to participate in internet memes, especially if they’re a good way to learn fun and interesting facts about people I know.

So here’s one that was forwarded to me via email by my good friend Mary. Let’s begin…

Three names I go by:
1. Anfernee
2. Anf
3. Tony (but only for family members and pre-university friends)

Three jobs you may not know I have had in my life:
1. Front counter at McDonalds (“Would you like fries with that?”)
2. Mystery shopper (mainly for fast food places like KFC and Pizza Hut)
3. Call Center team leader at HP, managing 8 staff.

Three Places I have lived:
1. Sydney, Australia
2. Toronto, Canada
3. Montreal, Canada

Three shows that I watch:
1. Survivor
2. Lost
3. Californication

Three Places that I have been:
1. Maui, USA
2. Queenstown, New Zealand
3. Bangalore, India

Three people who e-mail me regularly:
1. Maria
2. Maisy
3. UWS Boyz (my university friends’ mailing list)

Three of my favourite foods:
1. The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated by Timothy Ferriss
2. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
3. In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan

Three friends I think will respond:
1. Tara
2. Nicole
3. Manila

Three things I look forward to:
1. Successfully automating my income using principles from the 4-hour Work Week
2. A deeper exploration of Tantra
3. Travelling to South East Asia at the end of the year

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I LOVE EVERYONE AND FEEL SO BLESSED FOR EACH DAY!

Now here’s what you do
Copy and paste, delete my answers and type in your answers. Then send this to a few good friends and family INCLUDING the person who sent it to you. The theory is that you will learn a lot of little known things about each.

Let’s see who responds!!!

Bagels, fresh, soft, puffy bagels.
Sundried tomatoe, chocolate, garlic, sesame,
Blueberry, bagels, Fairmount bagels.

Spread on some Liberté cream cheese,
Or spicy hummus, or nutty goodness.

Sweet and sour explosion of kiwi, banana,
Strawberries, orange, fruit salad extraordinaire!

Rich coffee fresh off the metalic Italian Moka stove pot,
No instant here we go for the great stuff.

Familiar faces and new friends, smiles all round,
warm tummys, joyous.

Don’t forget the maple syrup!

A flurry of colour,
A symphony of voices,
Gypsy music,
Delicious smells, and
A melody of life.

Amazing flavours, merci
pour les oeufs frits Lydia!

Love. Brunch. Montreal.

(originally written April 5th 2010)

Image courtesy of Bike Pirates Toronto.