I know some people are going to be boycotting the Olympics because it’s in China, but think about the athletes. I’m sooooo excited about the Olympics that I’ve contemplated how Ram and I can get a TV for two weeks! lol With the time difference it’s going to be hard to find somewhere to watch the shows. Hopefully I can catch at least a few events.
Go Canada Go!
Here are a few tips I had that I think will be useful for [Persian] girls marrying Tamil boys:
1. Make sure your hair is neatly done up. It doesn’t have to be in a bun but it should probably be up.
2. Make sure you have tried on your sari before hand, make sure the blouse fits and be observant about the areas of your body that will require that extra attention (Read: wax*) for the day of the ceremony. (*You’re Persian, the sooner you accept it the easier it will be.)
3. Have someone who knows how to put on a sari pleat and iron the sari and help dress you.
4. Try on the earrings before hand, make sure they are not too big and your ear hole can accommodate the earrings.
5. When walking to the place of the ceremony, you should kick the pleads with your feet ever so slightly so that you do not trip on them as you walk.
6. During the ceremony make sure your sari’s head piece isn’t caught under you when you sit down, it should fall over your shoulder and over the chair you are sitting on.
7. If you will be changing into a white dress make sure one of your friends helps you put on the dress and avoid any contact with the red powder that will be on your forehead and Thali.
8. Ask someone if you can wipe off the red powder of the Thali off after the ceremony so it doesn’t get on your white dress. Ram says that you aren’t actually allowed to wipe it off… Anyways just be careful. Also I think the powder should wash out if it does get on your dress. I’ll let you know once I pick up my dress from the dry cleaners.
9. Make sure your blouse is not too tight that your bra leaves imprints on your boobs, especially if you have a low cut white dress you are putting on later.
10. Have some body tape on you incase of last minute adjustments you need to make so you look perfect in that white dress.
11. If you have to wear the Thali forever, you will notice it will pluck your body hair, or head hair once in a while. That’s what you get for being Persian and marrying someone who’s Tamil. hah
Ram and I got married over the weekend in Ram’s parent’s backyard. Everything about the day was perfect, no doubt thanks to Ram’s parents, brothers, The Cousins, and my family and friends.
you may or may not have a very special email there waiting for from Ram and I. Do it now!
I did my CIP presentation today and it went alright. I’ll just have to make some changes to the final paper and then you may all refer to me as Master Shima. ha ha..
Even if someone were to read my mind and figure out what my ideal course would be they wouldn’t have done a better job. I’m so very excited about this one class.
Actually, I must say, it has turned out to be an excellent start to my last year at school. Excellent! I hope it doesn’t all go downhill from here. Well, I do have to meet a certain politician who shall remain nameless next week… so I’ll have to reassess next week.
Yesterday I found myself at Bathurst and College and so I decided that I’d walk to Lansdowne. I didn’t know it would be such a fruitful walk. On my way I found many things, but the most important was the discovery of the West End Y. I had originally thought that it was located some where in Etobicoke. So could you imagine my surprise? After I got home and after double checking with Ali I told Ram about it. I think we might look at getting a membership there.
I’d always been a little sad about moving out of my old neighborhood. I never thought Lansdowne could measure up to my suburban ghetto. I think one of the reasons I thought this was because there was no YMCA within a subway/bus ride. But I no longer have to fear. I’m so excited. It’s actually pretty sad that I could be so happy about the discovery of a Y! I can’t wait to have kids and to take them there.
There’s no Karate program there, but I won’t hold that against them. I’m so excited. I think the first free chance I get I’m going to take Ram and get a tour of the facilities and sign up! :)
Congrats to all the ES-ers who convocated this morning. Had I stuck to my guns I would have graduated with all the lovely graduates of 2007. Leave a room for me in the pictures, I know how to use photochop reall good. hah.
The National had a special report on the first ever Canadian Citizens. Rumor has it that the first set of citizens to be granted Canadian Citizenship was 60 years ago tomorrow.
I remember when we became Canadian Citizens. I was just young enough so I didn’t have to write the test, but I was old enough to remember the ceremony. It was a much anticipated event and probably one of the biggest milestones in the Canadian portion of our lives.
One of these days I need to sit down and write down our Canadian story, it’s a lot more intricate and interesting story than you would ever imagine. But for all the hurdles they made my parents jump, it was all worth it.
Happy Canadian Citizenship day everyone! :)
As of 10 minutes ago, I am proud to say, that I survived one term of UT’s Master’s of Science in Planning program. I haven’t received my marks yet, but grad marks are all skewed anyways and aside from one class, I’m not too worried about not ‘passing’.
Portfolio Designing time, here I come.
I need to go and personally thank him!
So turns out I didn‘t bomb Mike Stone‘s class, assuming that he put in the right grade, I‘m not so sure he did. I have one complaint though: 313… we worked so hard… soooo hard… and yet that obviously doesn‘t even show in the end. err. fine. whatever. I can move on, cuz Richard Gere is the greatest prof in the world who‘s saved my ass one too many times.
I‘m quite relieved so if anyone wants to celebrate my :P final year gpa that is sufficient enough for UTs standards for apply to grad school, be my guest. name the place and time and I‘ll bus there! :P