Oh man.. this has been one of my longest “intermissions” in a while! I even broke my blog-at-least-once-every-two-weeks rule. Sorry friends! To make up for it, I’m going to post about what happened during the past few weeks and even throw in a couple of pictures here and there…

Nuit Blanche ‘09

On Saturday, my sister, her friends and I went to downtown Toronto to attend Nuit Blanche, which, according to their website, is a “free all-night contemporary art thing”. Basically, for one night, artwork is put on the streets of the city and in public places for people to see or interact with. It started at 6:55 PM and ended at sunrise. Here are some pictures of our night:

The first thing we saw when we went there was the huge Rabbit Balloon. It was placed inside the mall, which was a smart move because it rained a bit outside.

The city hall even participated in this cool event! It’s hard to see in the picture, but the lights make up the word “FEAR” and changed occasionally throughout the night. I heard someone saw it form the words “LOVE” and “FATE”.

We were walking down the street and saw a looong lineup outside of this old house. We got curious, so we decided to stand in line too…

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When we got inside, we were given a chance to tour the house and we saw a woman painting. We realized only afterward that she was actually the artist (Joanna Strong) of the colorful rubber band paintings displayed around the house. I looked at the price tag beside this painting, and it said $6800. ¡Ay, caramba!

It wasn’t part of Nuit Blanche, but we saw two beautifully designed store windows while we were there. One was comic-themed, so all the mannequins had anime eyes. I thought that was really unique. In another window (last picture), they showed designs from the 2009 White Cashmere Collection. I wish I could show you more pictures because the dresses were all so AMAZING! And guess what? The whole collection was created using only bathroom tissue.

School Newspaper

So the story is, many weeks ago, my school announced that students could sign up to be part of our newspaper’s executive team. Now, this is a big deal. Why? Because we have an award-winning newspaper (6 awards last year!) and so those who are part of the team have to be, shall I say, “exceptionally good”. They said that after the sign-ups were done, they’d pick a few to interview, and after that, they would finally choose those who are to be part of the actual team. I bit the bullet and decided to sign up for the webmaster position. I was like, hey, aren’t I kinda okay at making websites…?

One morning after I submitted the form, I received a note saying..

So I went to the interview, showed them my past layouts, discussed some ideas to make the site more popular, answered their questions, etc. At one point, they told me that they really want the school website to be awesome because we never won the “best newspaper website” before and we should aim to get it this year. *gulp* Yeah… no pressure.. he..he

They still didn’t announce who would be in the team, but today I got this:

So it was a happy ending. Hazel got into her school’s newspaper’s executive team and she lived happily ever after…

...uh no. Since I will now have two websites to take care of, I’ll probably be spending even less time blogging here. There is much to do ahead.. I need to brainstorm some layout ideas for the school site, design the layout on Photoshop, code the layout, find a way to show past newpaper issues in a pretty way, update it every other day, attract some traffic to it…etc, etc, etc..

I was thinking about blogging about more stuff that has happened, but this post is getting wayy too long. So I’ll save the rest for later and end it here.