{"id":90,"date":"2006-10-15T22:47:53","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T03:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/10\/90\/"},"modified":"2016-08-19T23:06:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T04:06:27","slug":"90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/archives\/90","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t wait for the Raptors season to start! I got to see the preseason Nets game, with Vince Carter back in town again. There was a funny moment when Jorge Garbajosa, who is the first person to wear #15 since VC left town, checked into the game. Vince stared at his jersey for a bit, then gave a smile to the broadcasters, as if to say &#8220;where&#8217;s all the love for me gone around here?&#8221; Also, the lights went out for a while so it was different watching them play in near darkness. It&#8217;s gonna be a much more positive season this year with all the changes made.<\/p>\n<p>After the game, I went to the home of one of organizers of <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/vitt\/\">VITT<\/a>, a yahoo group for vegetarians in their twenties. Her mom showed a bunch of us how to make various Indian breads including roti, stuffed roti, puri and kachori. Afterwards we got to eat them all&#8230;it was rare opportunity to have a homecooked Indian meal, and I loved it!<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, I also got to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utopiacafe.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Utopia Cafe<\/a> this weekend. Although there&#8217;s a wait (the place is so small), the food is really good. It&#8217;s very veggie-friendly, and my meat-eating friend enjoyed his meal very much too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t wait for the Raptors season to start! I got to see the preseason Nets game, with Vince Carter back in town again. There was a funny moment when Jorge Garbajosa, who is the first person to wear #15 since VC left town, checked into the game. Vince stared at his jersey for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3ksha-90","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":72,"url":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/archives\/72","url_meta":{"origin":90,"position":0},"title":"Manhunt!!","date":"June 16, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Went to check out this for the first time today. 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