Saturday, August 13, 2022
And it's already July! More than halfway through the year. Yeah, I know, I know, it's such a cliche for everyone to say time flies, and "Huh, it's already past half the year?" All those type of stuff. Typical. But so evident.
Anyway, this month was my babe's birthday month! For Canada Day we decided to explore a bit more on Ontario, instead of just sticking with Toronto all the time. We picked out a lavender farm we wanted to go to but their hours were weird, so it was a lucky coincidence they were open for tours on a public holiday, as they weren't open on weekends. We drove to the small town of Erin, to Stonewell Lavender Farm, where we joined a small group of other people at our timeslot and learned about how lavender was planted, harvested and made into the various products, like tea, soap, perfumes, oils and the like. We learned about the unique differences between the various types of lavender, and how French lavender, despite looking much less impressive, had a much stronger scent when crushed. I also had the chance to cut one piece with the special tool they had, it's like an electric knife, moves back and forth to saw the lavender. Took some pictures, heard the tour guide explain more and we bought some lavender-infused items before heading off to eat in downtown Erin, which was basically one small road, lol. Ate in a diner, which had really good food. The cashier asked us what we planned to do for Canada Day, and we said we came here from Toronto to spend time here. She was like "You came here for a holiday?"
For the waifu's birthday, I took her out to Draco, a restaurant inside the Marriot Hotel in Markham. One of the locations I looked up as I was checking out fancy places. Nice ambience, and it was all round a very cozy dinner and evening, and we strolled for a bit in downtown Markham, which they're trying to develop nicely now. Love you babe =).
We also went to more wineries with Chloe, round 2. We went with Namita and her boyfriend Lathy. More drinks, more wine and trying out flavours, as well as a nice conversation with everyone. At one point, Onion, Namita and Lathy were chatting about our pets, Toshi for us, and their dog for them and gushing about how cute, stupid, adorable and loving they were. And Chloe was just... lol.
The waifu bought a Rubiks cube randomly and we thought we might as well learn it for the first time in our lives. We watched a few videos on how they taught us to solve the Rubiks cube with slight variations on the easiest algorithm to learn. I found it hard to follow halfway, but Onion powered through and learned it, teaching me, and combined with me watching the videos again, I finally solved it! Haha, at last! After 30 years of never solving it, and only doing one face at a time. Felt pretty proud and tried to record myself. About 3 minutes to solve it completely. Not interested in doing sub-1 minute type of challenges. Just solving it was enough for me, heh.
And well, more of the usual. Greg Bajien has passed away. From what I read, he just dropped dead of a heart attack after having a chat with his wife at home. Damn. He was a nice friend, chill dude in the metal community, and the few times we hung out till late at night were memorable. Lots of tributes and words from the Malaysian metal community. Aye.
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