追憶 the Way we were.., Cloudy Cloudy Lake Ontario & Downtown Toronto Oct 1 2009

Today..
I liked to be in the Distillery District for the galleries
sipping lovely espresso from the very old cafe of Balsac.
I liked to wander around the old market of Kensington
trying some of the oldest but best shops in town for vintage jeans,
quality cheese, fresh bread, and even live concert if I was lucky..
I liked to walk around the beautiful campus of
U of Toronto looking at the Victoria style buildings
fully covered by colorful leaves of ivy..
I liked to drink at the patio in the middle of Yorkville
smelling the sweet mood of refraining luxury in town..
...
...
But what I did was just watching the cloud..
the thick & closely layered clouds and clouds in the sky
carpeted far beyond the horizon while drinking some glasses of beer.

Bye now..
Bye today..

couldn't be better.., Don River Toronto

무자게 이쁜 넘.. 페라리 F430 Spider, Yorkville Toronto

내가 잘가는 시내 산책코스 중 한 곳인 요크빌에 세워져 있었던 페라리 스파이더 F430..
녀석이 하두 이뻐서 벨도 없이 가서 마구 찍었었다.

명품을 감상하는 것은 언제나 즐겁다.. 자동차던 예술작품이던 혹은 사람이던.. ㅎ

이곳 토론토 시내의 요크빌 지역은 가장 땅 값이 비쌀 뿐아니라
명품점들과 고가 미술품을 취급하는 다국적 옥션 갤러리들이 많다. 

어제 부터 시작한 2011년 TIFF 토론토 국제 영화제를 위해 안젤리나 졸리, 브래드 핏 부부와
죠니 클루니, 마도나.. 등등 거물급들이 토론토에서 밤을 지내고 있는데..

이들은 주로 이곳 좁디 좁은 요크빌 내에서 식사도 하고, 커피도 마시곤 한다.
이곳을 오늘 내일 거닐다 보면, 이들을 지나치면서 마치 아무렇지도 않은 듯 ..
hi there~~ 하며 지나칠 수도 있다. ㅎ

여행.. 그리고 생각.. , Chennai Express India 2005

The people at the crosswalk watched me
as I took a pose to take some photos of them.

Then I wondered that
how many people could be affordable to take this express train for travel,
how many people could have a chance
to get out their home town to see more, to experiece more..
to get to know there is much bigger world than where they've been living..

And I wasn't quite sure that which lifestyle is happier..

I'd been travelling a lot
and sometimes I even thought that 
I'd been living on just a tiny little planet called Earth.

However.. does the dimension of physical coverage of space really matters in life..?
.. though it depends on lots of things..

No matter how big scale our life might span,
the depth & richness of our life might not proportional to the the spatial coverage..

So I might envy people who has been living in the same place for a long time
generation after generation with the all the same trees, flowers 
and grasses getting older and matured together with them..
with all the same color of moon waxing and waning with same trajectory..




What a lovely tree with the grand shadow in the late afternoon under the beautiful sky..

The train went up to the mountain right after the departure of the Mumbai Station
and I had a good chance to have such a great view of the mountain ranges
and all the different trees and green field of Western India.

Watching people in a long que wating something always gives me
a kind of nostalgic feeling though I don't know why..

Venders selling light food for passengers were nearly all males
and they were selling some Indian traditional snacks like fried Indian style dumpling..

stay holistic.. as much.. :p

My Frozen Image of Seoul 2004..

Marinated Salmon Steak, Woodlander Hotel SK Jun 11 2013

Today's Special for my restaurant is Grilled Salmon marinated with soybean & maple syrup..
It was yummy, yummy. :-)

내가 요리한 오늘의 스페셜 요리..

보기 보다, 너무 맛있었다. 그저 Fish & Chips 류만 대하던 이곳 사람들의 탄성을 자아 냈다. ㅎ

연어를 간장과 메이플 시럽에 하루 정도 marinate 를 한 다음, 
그릴에 표면이 조금 굳어질 정도로 굽고, steamed rice 를 편평하게 깔아논 위에 올리고, 

레몬과 오레가노를 넣어 creamy mushroom 베이스로 만든 소스를 위에 살짝 뿌리고..

각종 야채를 강한 화력으로 잠시 pan-frying 하여 곁들인다.

purple onion 슬라이스와 레몬 슬라이스로 마지막을 장식하면.. 끝.. 

Good Oldies in Mechanical Era, Coldwater Ontario Oct 4 2008

I love these machines. Up until only a couple of decades ago, we had been relying on the purely mechanical devices for farming, transportation or whatever tooling.. 
All of a sudden though,digital world based on semiconductor technology took over all the slow moving, romantic and labor requiring world of mechanics.. All those efforts of oily sweat have been being replaced with just a couple of actions of pressing buttons. Suddenly everything goes so fast.. as fast as light as electrons fly. Decision making goes faster and faster with the backup of all the tremendous amount of information pouring every second from every other countries in the world. Opinion leaders welcome the era of knowledge workers out of labor intensive society. We are forced to using more brain cells than muscles. If we are not diligent enough in utilizing our body, our bone-with-muscle system will degenerate soon so we might have enormous size of brain with tiny bird-chest with long tail for lowering center of mass for the stability of still up-lift walking as we believe & respect Mr. Darwin.. I miss the era of steel and wood on top of our own sweat or effort..