the 28th at 28

All are welcome to the third annual halloween bash at 28 Cecil St. on October 28, 2006, anytime after dark.

Bring friends, bring costumes and bring yourselves.

Print and post the flyer. Forward the email. Be afraid!

bani and the block party

so bani had a birthday party and it was pretty fun. we got loaded and when we came back we called up to the people on the third floor of the house across from 28 cecil and they invited us up for some hijinx. we're all now fast friends. they ended up coming to the block party we threw the following week. here are pics from both nights.


everyone at the red room

maybe we have all been drinking 

ayham, have you been drinking? 

lanterns and rock

went to the chinese lantern festival at ontario place with jin. it was the tackiest, most expensive overrated cultural event of the season. kinda just like china. i couldn't really figure it out. everyone there was chinese, they seemed wowed by everything. they did a great job on the lanterns but the perfomance we witnessed for 5 minutes was terrible as was the food. i had a good time though. the best part of the night for me, however, was seeing ratatat at lee's palace afterwards. they rocked like you could never imagine. i thought all their stuff was electronic but they really play that shit. the crunchy distortion, bopping heads, tapping feet, it was great. see the pics.


cute little guy. c'mon over here buddy. c'mon, don't worry. everything will be just fine. i won't hurt you. wanna carrot?

the chinese lantern festival was pretty cool. even though it was pretty sucky. figure that one out. 

monkey, monkey, monkey 

bbq in the beach

another fine day spent at the beach. can't even remember why we went. it was fun though. we burried jesse in the sand and invented a new sport. see the pics.


monkeys

haha, we buried jesse in the sand and made him into a mermaid.

care for a game of footbolf? a game jesse and i invented. quite fun actually.

tai's birthday

for tai's birthday, kris planned a little surprise. we had cake and acted silly. i also took advantage of this cool setting on my new camera. ayham's appartment is all painted yellow so i was able to make that the only colour picked up by my cam. they look prety neat. check em out.


happy birthday tai, enjoy your cake

some pic of a crazy girl i met on the street when i was going to get munchies. she was photography student and i was showing her how to use the apperature for different effects.  

a pic of jesse looking like a host on SNL

zoo with the family

so my dad and bro came into town and we spent a day at the zoo. i can't remember the last time we were at the zoo all five of us. it was a great day. it threatened rain the whole day but managed to hold off until we took a late afternoon lunch. it didn't rain again until we were in the car on the way home. perfect! a lot of the animals were pretty animated too. i was glad to see the hippos actually move. they are like giant sausages with legs. my only grievance with the toronto zoo is that it is sooooo spread out. maybe they were originally supposed to get more animals and then didn't. i don't know but it was a lot of walking. i mean, they don't even have penguins. but they do have a lot of other crazy things. check out the pics.

fun at the beach

i forget why but went to visit my mom at the beach and then tai met us up so we all just strolled the boardwalk like a large multicultural family and went out for dinner, had a lot of laughs and took some pictures. check em out.

jamie got a new camera

so i got a new camera. if you remember, mine broke while falling onto the road at 5am on new year's in montreal. ayham brought it back from the uae and i like it. it is the same model as my old one but upgraded a few megapixels and with a few more options and a giant three inch screen. anyway, i just took a lot of photos all week. here are a sample. there are more if you click here.

dave's cottage

in the dark i can smell the alcohol on my breath, the air inside the sleeping bag recycling through me. there is a tense calm and then the bell rings. three times the muffled ding, ding, ding sounds out over the calm lake, rattling the silence of dusk in the forest. i take a fateful hop forward. stumble. tumble into the mass of bodies in front of me. a boot is pressing against the back of my neck. the heat is overwhelming. the air inside is mostly carbonmonoxide. i lunge again. worm wars has begun.

my first experience at dave's cottage and subsequently my first worm wars. had a blast. tai, ernest, and some girls, jonah, shona, jesse, sol, jordy, dave, i and others i can't remember right now. bonfires, drums, poker, swimming, sailing, canoeing, rowing, trolling, catching small mouth, barbecue and friedman family reunions (?). see the pics.

canada day

canada day in ottawa...it is a tradition for me that has been going on quite some time. last year was the first year that i spent canada day in another place (yangshou) and coming back this year, i feel like it is different. i invited a bunch of buddies from toronto, threw a party with my sister at my dad's house in almonte, partied at the chez hourani, then did the fireworks and magic place bit. downtown was dead compared to previous years. maybe because of the overcast weather. anyway, it was still a good weekend. i went fishing with my dad and bro and met up with ben and other people. some good pics. i don't know what i will do next year. we'll see. pics are here.




jesse(f), l to r - adam, kim, chris, tai, me, frenchie (behind the leaves), muguet, john

the fireworks even made designs like this heart 

bang! pow! yipee!