First of all, thank you for all the nice comments on my previous entry. I think in my post I sounded more extreme and stressed than I actually was lol..but I have good news.
I love how things seem to always happen at the right moments for me. Life just did a complete 180. Yesterday I just got a new internship that I really really love - at a luxury PR firm! They do luxury lifestyle, travel, real estate, and fashion PR - all industries I love. I hope I'll eventually be able to work there because even though I've been assigned a lot of tasks to do, I still really enjoy it and it doesn't seem like work at all. Plus I can work from home! I'm already planning ahead and thinking of travelling and working at the same time. And as a bonus - my boss is extremely nice :)
Right now I mainly manage all their social media; I update the company blogs and keep their Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr active by posting everything related to the luxury industry. It's exactly what I do everyday anyway (for my personal accounts). It's funny in my previous post I was saying how I felt guilty for not doing anything for months (besides being online all day), now I'm literally doing the exact same but I have a reason to. I'm excited to start on our company's luxury travel blog. You may know I have one already that I've been neglecting (not because I don't like it though) so now I'm glad I "have" to do one. Love the thought of researching luxury hotels and cities everyday.
The other thing I've always wanted was to create a business of my own. After trying to think of a good business idea for months, my friend & I finally have one. Credit goes to him for the idea though. I think it has a great chance of succeeding. We're meeting this weekend to plan it more. Looks like I'm going to be a lot busier from now on, but a good kind of busy....it's nice that I'm feeling super productive for once hahah.
Ah I seem to be writing more and more on my posts these days. Thank you if you read the entire thing. Moving on.
Last night my friend & I went to the Nikki Beach opening night at The Spoke Club !! They come to Toronto every year for our film festival. I've been looking forward to the opening for weeks, since I went to the one last year at the rooftop of Bell Lightbox & had a really fun night.
We arrived at The Spoke Club, they checked us off the guest list and we walked in. Was much less of a hassle than last year. Took the elevator to the top floor to find a huge crowd/line of people waiting to go up to the rooftop patio. A few min of everyone trying to squeeze their way to the front of the line, we found ourselves by the bouncers..I looked and realized one of them worked in my building before. He recognized me as well and let us up.
I wish they did it at the same venue as last year (the rooftop of Bell Lightbox is by far my favourite in the city). I found The Spoke Club's to be too small and it didn't have a great view. But it wasn't too bad, I really loved the music! Sorry these photos I took were kind of bad. Might try to go again so I'll take better ones next time.
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Hello. Today is "back to school" for everyone still in school, and for the first time I'm not one of them! yay! (I've graduated this year for those who are new to my blog) Life has been quite uneventful though. Ever since I came back from my Eurotrip I've been trying to decide what I want to do in life. It's stressing me out, and the longer I'm not doing anything the more I feel like I'm wasting time. Even though I'm not doing anything, I can't even relax. To be honest I think I just feel pressured to feel guilty because in society it's looked upon as just being lazy. I want to do so many things but they are a bit hard to achieve right now, though I don't want to settle for anything less. So I have been doing a lot of planning for what the next step will be.
Last week I went for drinks with a friend I hadn't seen in awhile. I told him I felt like I was going through my "mid-life crisis" at 22 years of age as he burst out laughing. Understandably..as I know I'm just a bit extreme hahah.
I just want to travel again, and keep moving around from city to city every 6 months. I don't like falling into the same routine and the same life in one place for too long, because then it feels like a trap restricting you from pursuing your true passions. I also want to spend an entire year painting/doing art in a high-ceilinged-exposed-brick hard loft. That is one of the things on my bucket list. Anyway enough rambling. Some random photos taken from the past few weeks:
A few examples of the artery-cloggers you can find at CNE. There's also others like deep-fried Mars bars, deep-fried oreo cookies, deep-fried cheesecakes, deep-friend coke, Krispy Kreme burgers, bacon & nutella cones, eclair hot dogs, etc. I usually try to steer clear..CNE food is literally like a heart attack waiting to happen.
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These little macaron-looking things are called Luxemburgerli. They taste similar to macarons but trust me, they taste a LOT better than any macaron I've ever tried..and you know I love macarons. They are made by Sprüngli, a Swiss luxury confectionery manufacturer. One of my German friends (who lived in Toronto at the time) gave me a lot of suggestions of where to go during my trip. He recommended Sprüngli for breakfast. I'm ashamed to say that it's rare for me to start a day early enough for breakfast. So on the day I dropped by Zurich, I came to Sprüngli for lunch and a box of Luxemburgerli.
If you are ever in Zurich, you should definitely come to this place. Make sure you go to the one on Paradeplatz - that's the main one. They have a very nice patio and an upstairs cafe with great food and extremely stylish Swiss people.
This is the Sprüngli on Paradeplatz.
Everyone in Zurich dresses really well. I noticed a lot of LV and a lot of H. Great example: man who accidentally got in my shot is using a LV damier graphite bag and Hermes belt. Ok, I admit I may have tried to get him in the shot intentionally.
I walked all along Bahnhofstrasse, their main street, and saw more Birkins than I could even count.
Here is the restaurant/cafe at Sprüngli. I took forever with the menu as I wanted to order so many things. I finally decided on a green tea, smoked salmon and a bowl of muesli. The smoked salmon tasted like regular smoked salmon but the muesli was so so so so good. That was the first time in my life I ever tried muesli and I loved it. It was so filling I wasn't even able to order dessert..I was SO tempted to order them just so I could take some photos of them because they looked so pretty:
They had a huge dessert menu but I resisted.
I remember when I was sitting here eating, there was an old man at a table in front of me. I vividly remember what he looks like. He looked really cute (in an old man way?) and was one of those people who literally has a permanent smile on their face. He smiled at me as I sat down, and kept smiling the entire time as he read the newspaper. He looked like he came out of a fairy tale. That's the best way I could describe him. He was also really well-dressed, like everyone else in Zurich are..
After I finished eating, I went back downstairs to pick up a box of Luxemburgerli. I really liked these gold champagne ones!!
I got a few champagne flavoured, and I think apricot, & totally forgot what the rest were. The texture and taste are in my opinion better than Laduree macarons (which I also love!). The flavours are very strong. Like eating one champagne flavoured one tasted like I just had a big sip of champagne.
After Zurich I went back to Lucerne. Totally lost track of time, as all the restaurants were closed by the time I was ready to go for dinner. So the box of Luxemburgerli became my dinner that night along with a pretzel I got from the train station. Does that sound depressing? It was slightly; the thunderstorm occurring at the time didn't help. But the next morning I was off to Paris!
PS - I just found out you can purchase Luxemburgerli from their online shop. They ship worldwide! I might just give in and order a box one of these days...even if they won't taste as good after the flight over.
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