T&T Opens in Ottawa

It was mass hysteria in the Ottawa Chinese Community.
Why? It was the grand opening of T&T Supermarket. For those that don’t know its a large Asian supermarket chain. Mostly catering for the chinese/asian community that you can’t get in normal supermarkets.
I went with my mom and there were already people waiting in line just to get into this supermarket.
The supermarket is located on Hunt Club/Riverside.

I thought it was going to open at 9:30am but found out on the sign that it was a open ceremony and the actual doors opening was at 10:30am.
It was a cold day and people were kind of getting restless. I find it funny hearing the chinese people say a snarky comment in chinese which I understood IE its too cold out, we have to wait outside, what’s taking so long and etc.

There was a lion dance performance which I think took mostly the 1 hour.

Finally the doors opened and it was basically insanity.
Felt like Boxing Day but mostly for Chinese people.

Thought it was funny that while the Lion Dance was happening and moving to the other side of the building, alot of people were bringing in the shopping cart.
Finally got in by just going under the red line.
No doubt that it was big.
I didn’t get what I wanted to buy considering the vast of people going crazy for they want to get.
The only things missing from the ones in Toronto is the assorted bean curds they have which I went back on Sunday and they finally have it now.

I noticed alot of media was: A Channel, CTV (CJOH) and CBC Ottawa.
Felt like everyone from the chinese community of Ottawa came for this grand opening.
Made me wonder if Somerset was a ghost town while all the chinese people went T&T crazy.
Alot of people are worried now that with T&T Somerset will lose alot of business.
But I can see hipster people who live on Somerset will shop at some of the stores but the Asian community who don’t live on Somerset won’t drive up to Somerset. With parking so hard to find and more people living in suburban areas.
Its a great supermarket.
Just the location where it is place kind of baffles me which is right near a aviation camp.
Wow for T&T

2009 Ottawa Zombie Walk

This year was another great day for the Ottawa Zombie Walk.
Right now my feet is killing me from the walking.
The turnout was good.
The only difference was the Ottawa Police was keeping an eye and try make things go smoothly well on the Zombie Walk.
Because last year there were some complaints and apparently some destruction in the Byward Market.
Seem to go off without a hitch.
It gets people together and just have fun.
The only thing that was missing was last year, someone was actually making a film before the Zombie Walk started.
I guess they didn’t do it this year. It would have made a great start for this.
I happened to take some photos of the people either smoking, taking photos or on their cellphones
Here are the photos:

Club Saw: Cultural Equity Production fund

I am kind of thinking about doing this but I would need to purchase a video camera right?
Here is the details:

Ottawa Zombie walk 2009

Its this time of the month that people will be dressed up as zombies.
I went to my first one last year and it was a interesting thing to see.
I took alot of photos, maybe this year I will do the same.
Date: October 25th
Time: 3pm to 6pm
Where: Beechwood Cemetery
Click here for the Facebook event.
Here are photos from the 2008 Zombie Walk.

Tang Wei speaking cantonese

Surprised to see this.