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Today, the Toronto district school board announced that in the upcoming year, a new school with a special curriculum will be in action. It is an African-focused school where officials claim would increase African teens to stay in school.

Personally, I think that’s completely bull shit. Sorry for the inappropriate words, but if I weren’t controlling myself, that’d be a handful of cursing words compressed into one. Separating by color or ethnic background is not going to help, we have seen that. Yes, it might solve some problem in the short term, maybe, just maybe the students would stay in school longer. However, that doesn’t advertise the traditional Canadian advertisement of ‘Multiculturalism’! In fact, this is so bad that it comes close to racial discrimination!

I have always believed in multiculturalism. I have this belief not because I was taught it exists by my elementary school teachers, It was because I have personally experienced it! In my high school, there was no formulas used to calculated how many student of a certain ethnic background must be in the same class, nor were there limitations to which ethnic background the course material must stay within. It was just school, knowledge was taught. It doesn’t matter if you were African, Chinese, Desi or White! We were classmate, schoolmates, learn to cope with each other and learn each other’s culture!

Of course in a math class, you would expect the teachers to teach math, and in a religion class, teaches religion. However, the learning of life has no such limits we call books, what might be rivals today might be best buddies tomorrow. Why must we bring in our ethnic stereotypes and our million tones of racial hate into the classroom and sour the future?

For the record, I have friends from all continent of this planet. And I also have friends in most famous religion. I’ve learn to adapt to their culture, and realized that it was my naiveness that stirred up some past problems with some on their parts.

These are my views, what’s yours?

Har Gau are made of shrimp filling and a near see through starch skin. So there are two major parts that a small dumpling is made up off, the filling and the skin.

The Filling

In any dumpling, the inside is where the flavor comes from. It is protected by the outer shell, and therefore isolated from whatever type of cooking style the dumpling is exposed to, aside from the simple fact that it is being cooked. In Har Gau, the fillings are made of full shrimps, usually around 1/4 inch to 1 1/2 inches long. It is no longer a Har Gau if the fillings are mashed, in this case it is another type of dim sum called Read more…

Okay, before I actually start reviewing places and their food, I must explain  several rules that I go by. All of my suggestions and reviews are mostly personal. So what I found to be excellent might not be an equivalent to some people. Hopefully, if that is the case, please write and explain.

I have been a fan of Dim Sum since I was a kid. Infact, it is my ideal Brunch. A cup of Iron Buddha and an order of yummy Siu-Mai and a dish of Ja-leung.
In my point of view, there are several segments that makes up a decent rating.

The taste of the food.
The smell of the food.
The delivery time of the food.
The atmosphere of the restaurant.
The services and attitudes of the waiters/waitresses.
The price of the dishes.
The stability of the food.

Howdy all! After several days of considerations, I’ve decided to add a brand new  category. This category deals with the most important thing to humans, aside from sexual intercourse, food. The new category is ‘All About Food’, obviously all writings in this category will be about food.

I hope this section would be interesting to all of you and do feel free to drop a line after reading any of my writings.

It snowed again today in Toronto. Luckily, it is not inches this time. In fact it is most likely disappointing to eager school children who were looking forward to a snow fight.

This time, it is one of the more dangerous type of snow. It wouldn’t stay on the ground as simple white fluff. Instead this time the flakes would melt as it  touches the warmer ground. It is this process that the danger lies. It is below zero outside, and as the snow melts, it might freezes again and therefor forming black ice. With snow that continues to fall, this piece of ice would be covered up and careless drivers or pedestrians might slip on it.

When you are driving or walking in the winter, unless you are sure it is dry land that you are passing on, be cautious and arrive safely at your destination.