YJ's friend, Daryl has come from Imperial to hang out here. So she baked him a wonderful cake (there on the table)! And called our landlord over to light a fire and all of us just chatted till about midnight! :O That's Yanjun, Donald, me and Hailin! The three tenants from Singapore with our landlord!

Dean of Engineering - Adel Sedra - signing students' textbooks. I'm not taking his course but he's such a good teacher so I just sat in! We used his textbook in EE2005 Electronics. I was so awed to see him in person, let alone teaching Namratha's class! Oh and what I understood from him is wayyy more and better than what I learnt in year 2.

After the festival, they took us to Mississauga, where we went to Square One (a huge mall!), a Chinese Restaurant for lunch and then a Krispy Kremes franchise! And yeah ok, I didn't know anything about Krispy Kremes before that but after tasting a doughnut FRESH from the conveyor belt, ooooh my God. So GOOD. They even show the whole doughnut-making-process as you can see!

Us with the World's Largest Sap Bucket

Hailin and I with our pancakes smothered in fresh maple syrup. YUMM.

The pancake makers. There was a lil kid too! These guys must have made so much money that day! With crowds and all. And charging people $4 for two pancakes! If only the weather was good. I'd have eaten so much more :D

Went to the Elmira Maple Syrup Festival with Hailin's classmate, Steven and his wife Natasha/Ningyin. Who I later found out was Ningxia's sister! Ningxia my Cedar classmate! The world is so small. I love it. Anyway this place was ultra crowded and temperature was terrible! Sooo cold and not at all spring-ish! But man there was so much food and everyone was having so much fun! Really nice experience. Basically this is when they start getting maple syrup from the trees so they celebrate by making tonnes of pancakes and pouring oh-so-much syrup on them.

Went for a Ganesh-Kumaresh violin concert which was part of the Thyagaraja Aradhana festival. Held in York University in Toronto. And I went with Namratha's parents and her sis but not her! It was real fun :) Kutcheri was excellent! They played really nice songs and RTP was in Naatakurinji! One of my favourite ragams. This photo shows the elder brother Ganesh singing and Kumaresh playing the violin. He has a very nice voice! But most of the time, they play the violin together only.

This time Hailin and I went over to Audrey and Jasleen's house for dinner and dessert. They made dinner and we took dessert. Great fun! Probably our last one together since term's ending next Tuesday! :( :( :( So sad. Anyway that's Audrey, Hailin, me and Jasleen.

Waterloo Park at the start of spring. Can't wait for spring to properly kick in! It's gonna look beautiful.

At Silver Lake, just after grocery shopping (explains the giant bags).

In Waterloo Public Library. YJ and I decided to explore Waterloo on foot since the temperature actually hit 21 deg C! This was on Monday. And today (Thurs), it went negative again. Crazyyy! Anyway I looooved the library :) :)

Another awesome building in UofT. Victoria University?

This is actually a COLLEGE in UofT. One of the campus buildings! Isn't it beautifullll?! If my campus was like this, I won't be concentrating on classes at all, but taking photos 24/7!

Met Pallavi in Toronto for a weekend. We explored Eaton Centre and the area around it. Since the weather was not too bad and manageable, we decided to walk back to her room in University of Toronto. And during our one hour walk back, there was a sudden power outage and there was total chaos on the roads! So fun! :D See how people are walking and cars are going all over the place without the traffic lights working hehehe.

Yanjun had tickets to a music concert by UW's orchestra. We went to Mel's Diner for dinner. I loved the decor. It was like a proper American diner - the waitresses uniforms, the jukebox and the whole layout.

Swetha invited me to go with her family to the Toronto Sai Centre. This was at York University. The Satsang was really enjoyable and the whole thing was so peaceful. That's Swetha preparing the bhajans to be sung. She plays the Harmonium too!

Me with Grand River :D

A wonderful view of Grand River. This is the river after which lots of things in Waterloo are named. Grand River Hospital is the main public hospital here. Grand River Transit is the public bus system. I can't think of anything else right now but I'm sure there must be more! Beautiful no?

I think this guy's the owner of the pub. See how he's dressed in green! Suspenders, tie and a hat to top it off (pun! :D) - the spirit of St. Patrick's Day. Most people were dressed in green with funny little green hats. They represented green leprechauns. Coincidentally, this was the day Ireland thrashed Pakistan! Congrats to Ireland!