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Friday, December 26
toronto - a white christmas turned grey 1:05 AMToronto has by far the warmest climate we've experienced, and by warmest I mean -7 degC! HAHA. No really, "cold" has evolved to a whole new level for us after experiencing temperatures/windchills all the way down to -48, and I foresee difficulties getting used to Singapore's weather again (though undeniably I'm indeed looking forward to sunny weather and more daylight hours). But if only my aircon back home can go all the way down to 0 degC..! Haha.. I reckon 16 will still be quite warm for me for a start, hmm. And on a random sidenote, I think I've experienced so many different winters in the various parts of Canada that I prolly can write a Wini's Winter Survival Guide in Canada or something la, hahaha.
Anyhow, Toronto's climate is moderate for Canada due to its southern location within the country and close proximity to Lake Ontario. Yet Toronto winters sometimes feature short cold snaps with strong windchills; snowstorms mixed with ice and rain can also result in really heavy snowfalls. In fact, we are fortunate enough to have escaped the storm that'd occurred just a few days ago, and is now moving on to Quebec or something (lucky us we're done with that)! Heh. Temperatures these days in Toronto are not that low, and somehow this'd resulted in the city experiencing incessant rainfall instead of snow, making everything seem rather dreary and gloomy. In fact, the streets of Toronto are lined with slippery slosh and ice, rather than a pure white sheet of fluffy snow, making our dream white Christmas a grey one. :(
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Christmas Eve
We'd spent our Christmas Eve evening in Toronto looking for food, literally. Apparently there weren't many restaurants nor food places open, so our hopes of reserving a place for a warm and cosy Christmas dinner were dashed. I guess we were really disappointed initially knowing that our Christmas wasn't as nice as previously perceived, haha. But everything worked out well in the end, we finally found a diner and had a rather decent meal in a friendly ambience, heh.
Wet weather and sloshy roads on Christmas Eve
Toronto's a place with high immigrant influx, and we actually discovered lots of Asian food places while walking around! Here we see a shop featuring Singopore noodles, which is hilarious. Haha.
Downtown Yonge, and our nice Christmas meal where Huilin and I shared most of our food, just the spirit of the season!
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Christmas Day
To our dismay, almost all shops and food places are closed on Christmas Day in Canada, particularly cos people spend time with their families and stay home! So we couldn't do any form of sightseeing at all (yes, even the tourist attractions were closed)! Yet lo and behold, we found out that Chinatown was still fully open (in fact, the only place that's even open), so off we went to seek good food and cheap deals! Haha.. :)
We were attracted to a signboard which had Singapore chilli crabs, mee pok, laksa etc., and it turns out to be a place offering Singaporean/Thai/Malaysian cuisine..!
Dim sum for breakfast, my long-craved century egg porridge!
Pompidou and Jinsheng (affectionately known as Ah-Pong and Ah-Jin these days), and woots, wife biscuits (lao po bing) and green bean pastries! Yummmmmy.
Interesting stuff - foot reflexology sign with gross hairy feet (!!!), and a Chinese police signage
After Chinatown we sought to explore Toronto on foot, in light of the good -7 warm weather, heh. We could only visit the open parks and spaces of course, but the weather was so good we didn't mind taking long walks, admiring Toronto's sights even though everywhere was just empty and quiet in general.
Queen's Park Legislative Building
University of Toronto campus
Downtown Toronto and the Gay District - check out the picture on the left, which depicts books for "comrades", haha. Nude bars are also abundant in the city.
So yep, that's Christmas Eve/Day for us in Toronto, simple yet interesting in its own way. It's Boxing Day tomorrow, which signifies a day of shopping in light of crazy sales. According to Laura, we must prepare ourselves for the battle against the most aggressive Canadian shoppers..! I can almost foresee a day of auntie-ness and kiasu-ism at work, haha. :D
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