733. Christmas Part 3 & New Year's

Finally the first post of 2020! I haven't had much time to blog these days (or motivation) unfortunately as I've just relaxed during the holidays, then got quite busy with work after the new year. Also I've been in my reading phase so I've just been doing that a lot in my spare time. Here is what we did over Christmas and New Year's Eve. This was my building's NYE decorations. They always go pretty over-the-top with them but I love it! (The bottom part of my building used to be a bank many years ago (the headquarters of TD) so that's why we have a vault downstairs). The first year I moved in here, I celebrated NYE in my lobby. I remember that was quite an eventful night as there was a shooting at the party in the vault (I think it was 2-3 shots fired and nobody got hurt though). I didn't see it happen as I was in the lobby but I did see the guy run out with a gun.



On Christmas Eve, my boyfriend & I went for dinner at Akira Back.


Our favourite dish..the tuna pizza!





Christmas puzzle of Santorini! Unfortunately it's still maybe only 15% completed.


On Christmas Day we went to Gyu-Kaku (one of the few restaurants open)




Then a dim sum lunch with my mom.



A nice surprise from my friend who spent the holidays in Australia!



Making our favourite matcha cookies.


One of the books I recently read. I think I'll do a big post soon of all the books I've read lately (and my review)


For NYE we went for dinner at Chotto Matte.



Pisco Sours






My 80s aerobics style inspired outfit.


Another recent book I've just read.


One of my work spots.

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647. Recent Life

I'm pretty behind on my Recent Life posts again so here is a huge catch-up post of 40+ random photos!











~1 month later..the puzzle is finally complete!





Baking peanut butter cookies for the first time.




Last week we went for dinner at La Paella, a fairly new Spanish restaurant located in Leslieville. It was really good and (according to my boyfriend) the most authentic Spanish restaurant that we tried so far in Toronto. Due to timing we weren't able to try the paella unfortunately. Would definitely like to next time! It was also my first time going to Leslieville I think. It was a fun night.






After dinner we went for gelato then drinks at the Broadview Hotel:


The Broadview Hotel is a fairly new hotel here in Toronto. We were walking by and decided to go in and check it out. We ended up going to the rooftop patio and sharing a pitcher of sangria. We got a good seat with this nice view.







I've been on a recent matcha obsession. Last week I tried making matcha white chocolate shortbread cookies for the first time and they are so good!! I was really happy with the results. Everyone I gave them to had said they're probably the best cookies I've ever made so far hahah. I didn't mix the dough properly though so it was kind of crumbly and hard to shape..so that's why they look like they all fell apart. But the taste was good. I'll be attempting them again tonight so hopefully they come out looking better lol.








A nice dinner at Pearl Diver. This was the first time in my life ordering fish and chips. I never order this in the past because I don't like really fried things (besides fries lol) but this was really good. I just ate the insides/the haddock.




The obligatory shot.

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