How's Toronto!

How's Toronto!

           So as many of the people know, I moved to Toronto around 8 months ago. Of course, a lot has happened in those 8 months. Let's go step by step to cover it out.

First, we boarded the flight and had all that drama of going through the airport and security checks. The flight was pretty comfortable for butcher class (economy class). Then we arrived at Toronto Pearson Airport, collected our baggage and arrived in our new home, a 650 square feet one bedroom apartment. Personally, I liked it. It made life very easy and practical. Dad was studying in the York University so naturally, we shifted into the university apartments. I made friends with dad's colleagues and would chat with them for a long time.

The school over there was called Elia middle school. I didn't like it much because it was a hi-we-don't-care-much-about-studies-so-go-play-and-waste-your-time kind of school. My time there also decreased my mental abilities and my will to hard work. But I made some very good friends over there and maybe it was because of them that the bad vibes of the schools didn't affect me too much. So, that way I learned another lesson, to try not get affected by the bad vibes and not get affected by materialistic pleasures.

Overall it was a great time at the university apartments and soon we decided to shift to a better location within Toronto. We hunted and hunted and finally found a good location near St. Clair Avenue and Bathurst Street. Here's a pic of the building that I live in now.

It's called the Heathview and it's great living here. The school is called Forest Hill Junior and Senior Public School. It's one of the best elementary schools all over Toronto. They use Google Classroom for almost everything which just makes life a ton easier. Plus we also get used to electronic devices. They also give us many activities and assignments to do, to keep us busy. It's great being at Forest Hill and I am very proud to be a student of it. So that's it, life is great, it's awesome, Toronto's awesome. As long as the CN Tower, Toronto Blue Jays, Toronto Raptors, Tim Hortons, and Toronto Maple Leafs are still up, so is Toronto.  

Harsh.

Eightfold path.

Monday, December 7, 2015

Dear Diary,

  People are so mean in this world. Today we were playing a game at recess and by mistake I hit him one of my friends in the head with a snowball and he complained about me to my younger cousin who is in his class. Now when they hit me with a snowball I just let it go and the matter is closed over there. What I don't understand is that everybody including me is self-centred and I personally don't like it. It may be because in a way we become selfish about ourselves which isn't a good thing.

 I am gonna answer one of the DMAQs (Dad's most asked questions), the question was that if you could solve one problem in all of this world, what would be it? Today I have got my answer, it is to make everybody stop being self-centred. I am telling you, if we could solve this problem, all the problems on this Planet Earth shall disappear. As I told you about Problems full form that Problems are Purposeful blah, blah, blah, we can install that basic meaning into our lives and, believe me, I can forsee it from sitting here that our lives shall be so much better.

One of the things I like the most is the eightfold path by Lord Buddha. Although I have not made any attempts on applying that path in my life but I whenever I read it I am filled with so much peace inside me. Even as I write it down I have filled with som much peace. They are:
1. Right Understanding (Samma ditty)
2. Right Thought (Samma san kappa)
3. Right Speech (Samma-vaca)
4. Right Action (Samma Kam manta)
5. Right Livelihood (Samma-ajiva)
6. Right Effort (Samma Vayama)
7. Right Mindfulness (Samma Sati)
8. Right Concentration (Samma-samadhi)

Notice that every point starts with a right which is another substitute for "near to perfect". Thus in just a few words it lays out the whole path of life we should follow. To shorten a long explanation its just genius.

Food for life.

Sunday, December 6, 2015

Dear Diary

   You know life is full of surprises. Sometimes they can be good and sometimes they can be bad. I once read a poem which explained the cycle of good times and bad times. It said in very simple words that after you have been through a bad period of time it is sure that you good times are on its way. Speaking of good times right now I am in my good time period. I am relaxed and I am enjoying my stay over here.

Today I had a very good idea about a mobile phone that I wanted to design. Here's a picture of it:

I know it's a very crude drawing but in reality if it is produced it would look great and revolutionary. My dad was very excited when I showed him this thing. I am also excited about it too. I was also thinking of a name, but I don't know what to name it. I thought of a few, but none of them interested me. So I am still thinking.


If there is one thing in the world that I like it is thinking. You can say the force that keeps me alive is thinking. I like to keep thinking about why a thing happened or how can we solve a problem. For me, The definition of PROBLEMS is Purposeful Roadblocks Offering Beneficial Lessons to Enhance Mental Strength. This is what I consider as my food for life.

That's all for today folks :).

One of the best moments of my life.

Saturday, December 5, 2015

Dear Diary

So as I said next stop Stardom, I first read that over here in a comic-book and I laughed so much that my stomach started aching. Reading comic books is a way of my life. Although I haven't read Archie or any other old days classics but I have of course read Tintin, Calvin & Hobbes and last and the best Big Nate comics. They are the funniest and he best. I have almost read all of them. 

Today at school we did draws for our secret Santa game. I got my partner, but I am not telling anyone who it is because it is supposed to be kept as a secret. As they say, that secrets are supposed to be kept secret. or secret Santa we have to get gifts that are at least $5. So I wanted to do it and I signed up. It will be a very good experience for me. 

So nowadays I am also doing an enrichment course because I am very good at math and to keep me challenged I have to do these. So yesterday I got my first booklet of about six pages with 6 questions each and today I finished it. It was that easy. I love doing math! It's one of my favourite subjects besides science. By the way, we had an assembly today and I and a few other people who won Science fair in their category got $15 worth of gift card from Mcnally Robenson. I felt very good when I got the prize. It was one of the best moments of my life :).

What I think.

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Dear Diary

         You know one advantage of coming to Canada is that I have started liking to go to school. In India, one school day was equal to six hours of complete boredom. Over here things are always fun and easy to understand. Every day you wake up you feel like you want to go to school. You don't feel like "oh no I forgot an assignment to do!" and because the teacher will scold me I don't want to go. The last person I want to get scolded by is a teacher. 

Nowadays we do dance in gym period as a part of fine arts curriculum and, believe me, they are pretty hard to do. I don't exactly remember their names because they are pretty long. A few of us do it very nicely including me, but a few of us don't get it at all. It's that hard. Some easy ones are the chicken dance, the bunny hop dance and the macarena dance. Personally if you ask me do I like it, I would say yes because it's good to know different stuff and it helps create your understanding of different cultures.   

You know I do a lot of stuff on what my dad wants me to do, for example, my taekwondo black belt that I I got, partly for writing a blog and most of the time he asks me to write  a mail to him every day. Every mail of his sent to me is preserved like a diamond in a safe. He keeps giving me new projects and keep trying to fulfill them. 

You know at school people call me the walking know it all. I don't mean to brag about anything but yeah it feels kind of good. If you look at it from my perspective it's everything that I studied in India now if the studies are way more relaxed over here then I have a clear advantage over everything. There is no hard work from my side so technically I shouldn't get any credit for it. What I know is the normal curriculum of India. So technically I should be in grade 8. That's what I think. 

When I compare myself to a special needs student I find that I have few qualities like them, though, I am a proper student without any disabilities. I wonder what's true.

My parent's hard work.

Tuesday, 1 December,2015

Dear Diary, 

        I was thinking about something today while we had a free period. I was thinking that we coming to Canada and all that has happened till now I have started being independent a lot, I have started taking care of my studies myself, I have started to take initiative to clean my room, try eating new things like subway, pizza, etc. Which in a way mom feels worried about maybe because she doesn't trust me enough to take care of myself, for example a few days ago I had started losing some weight all of a sudden and mom got worried about it. 

But my main question was that if I didn't get the correct teachings from my parents I wouldn't stand a chance in this country. For example if my dad didn't teach me about moral values I wouldn't have any friends because over here friendship is actually being friends rather than being just friends for namesake. Then my mom inserted the meaning of being a good human being, to being respectful to other people and being kind also. But most important one that both of them did was giving me a lifestyle which was both easy and beneficial for me. I sometimes miss old friends from India but when I look back I don't have the will to go back and stay in India, maybe because I have changed from what I was before I came here. Another thing how my dad helps me is by sending me inspirational stuff through gmail. For example today he sent this to me.

Further, my characterization of a loser is someone who, after making a mistake, doesn’t introspect, doesn’t exploit it, feels embarrassed and defensive rather than enriched with a new piece of information, and tries to explain why he made the mistake rather than moving on. These types often consider themselves the “victims” of some large plot, a bad boss, or bad weather. Finally, a thought. He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors—though never the same error more than once—is more reliable than someone who has never made any.” 
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder 

And that is what helps me, by drilling things that I don't understand in my brain through persistence. 

Today I asked a few of my friends what they do on the internet, and I have been hearing this answer for a while, you know what it was, same old video games and listening to songs, etc. and I felt kind of nice because I write a blog everyday and thus improve my writing skills and all that stuff but most importantly:

                       I write because I like to write!

The Phenomenon I don't understand.

Monday, 30 November 2015

Dear Diary

1.      Today something very awkward happened today, we had to group study and I went to ask a group that if I could join them. You know what I got for an answer, they said that I was too smart to join them. I was baffled! I ended up sitting alone and studying but I found that being smart also has its drawbacks, which I thought weren’t there. I don’t mean to say that I am the smartest kid in my class but yeah I didn’t expect to hear such an answer.

2.      Today I started playing a game which I hadn’t played in a while: Asphalt 8 Airborne. I love this game very much because it kinda fits into me. I told you I am a lot into cars and that stuff so basically I love racing.

3.      As I was talking about drawbacks, another one of winter is that Its very snowy in here so I cannot bike which is one of my favourite sport.

4.      So now what do I do, I just keep thinking about what to write in my blog, it has kind of become a way of my life and I like it because I get to write my feelings somewhere, otherwise imagine yourself in between a desert with nobody and nothing, how would you feel, I would certainly feel depressed because it’s a human nature to socialize, to interact, to be friends with people.

5.      One thing I don’t understand about this world is that when you read the biographies and autobiographies of great people they all were born in a poor or mediocre family. For example I was reading about Thomas Alva Edison known by all as ‘Genius’.He was the son of a U.S refugee who had taken part in the Mackenzie War of 1837. Now if you read about him you see that he was relatively poor but in his whole lifetime he had done so much work that he has 1093 U.S. patents in his name. Another great example is the 16^th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. He was also born very poor in Kentucky. He suffered the most setbacks in his life than anyone else I know but still is regarded as one of three best presidents of the U.S. He suffered the loss of three sons out of four, which took Lincoln into melancholy and his wife later after Lincoln died was admitted to the mental asylum.

6.      Still leaving all of that behind he became a great President. I never understood this phenomenon of the great people being poor at first. Well looks like I might be a great person according to my graphs of ‘the phenomenon I don’t understand’. J