[snooty accent start] Yeeeeeaaas, I simply hopped on a plane and winged my way to delightful Toronto to attend a private gala event this weekend. MUCH better than that oh-so-common Toronto International Film Festival that's going on there. [snooty accent end]

Ok, ok, all joking aside, I had a BLAST this weekend! I guess it was a combination of being back in my home town with all my friends there. It was sad to leave. I took oodles of photos (that have been posted ;).

Ok, I've been putting this off for a while. But I'm still lazy, so I'm simply posting the contents of a letter I just sent a friend of mine :P

You know, I've been putting this off soo long, and now I have 4 weeks worth of stuff to talk about ... and I just can't even figure out where to start from :(

- Omar Z.

So my friend Ravi is a fashion photographer and he told me about a neat trick he did with a photo of his. He took a color image and made almost everything black&white; except for what he wanted the eye drawn to.

Hehe, so now I decided to mess around with photoshop and see what I could come up with :D

So I took a picture of my niece Anum at (my sister Reema's friend) Shermeen's wedding and turned it into this.

Then, I took a picture of Shermeen at her own wedding and turned it into this.

And finally, I took a picture of my sister Saher (with Anum) at Shermeen's wedding and turned it into this.

Wicked, eh?

Here are the steps to what I did:
1 - Open image in photoshop (duh!).
2 - Create a new layer and copy the 'background' photo into the new layer
3 - Desaturate the top layer (make it B&W)
4 - Add a Layer Mask to the top layer
5 - 'Paint' on the layer mask wherever you want the colored image below the B&W layer to show through
6 - If you're reading this, you're an idiot for thinking there's a sixth step :P

- Zuberio

So I went to the MamboMosaic and UnitedSalseros fundraiser last night at 6 Degrees nightclub (used to be Berlin nightclub - 2335 Younge St.). Now, normally I wouldn't really have much to say about a salsa night out. I mean, how many times can you say 'I danced with many beautiful women!'? But last night was different ;)

So I went to the 2006 Fan Expo on Friday with my buddies Terry and Tom :D It was so much fun!

Lets see .... I got to meet and fall in love with and take a picture with Morena Baccarin!! (the actress who played 'Inara Serra' on Firefly & Serenity)

Oh! And I got to meet Ryan Sohmer of Least I Could Do fame :D And of course, I got a picture with him and his trusty illustrator Lar Desouza :D:D

- Zuberio

Ok, so I haven't really been doing any new posts for the past month ... So sue me :P

First, I went to a wedding in Ottawa for my good friend Mohsin and his blushing bride Nida. I've got plenty of pictures of that event here. Hehe, I'm probably not going to see Mohsin again for a year ... now that he's got that whole wedded bliss thing happening.

Woho! I finally managed to unlock my Samsung SGH-S307 (Rogers) Cell Phone :D And I did it for free!

Ok, So I bought this phone a couple of years back for $200 [I learned the hard way that if you get a free phone - you get what you pay for(Eg. Motorola C333)]. And I tried looking for the unlock method a year ago, but I couldn't find it back then. I guess, now the phone is so old (but still tiny!) that people aren't trying to make money off unlocking it anymore :)

Now for the details

So my buddy Mohsin is getting married in August, and we all decided to go paintballing in celebration. Somehow, someone found an outdoor paintball field that's not too far from Mississauga (if you call Milton not too far).

It's called Ultimate Paintball.

Just a word of caution ... take some insect repellent when you go there .... I've got 3 mosquito bites on my left hand and 4 on my right ... and 3 on my head.

- Zuberio

So I decided to meet up with a friend for Lunch at First Canadian Place today. And lo and behold, they were having a free Jacksoul concert! Ahahahaha, excellent.

So my buddy and I stood shoulder to shoulder with all the curious suits; eating our lunches and listening to some live music. Hehe, a very spiffy lunch that was :D