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100 Excuses People Have for Not Blogging

// December 23rd, 2007 // 15 Comments » // Online Experience, Personal

Yep, I’m making a list (checking it twice), feel free to add at the end, no matter how ridiculous they are!

1. I have a life off-line
2. University application is too hectic
3. I want to focus on my grades
4. Nothing interesting ever happens to me
5. MY ISP died
6. My neighbour died
7. I got grounded
8. Wordpress/blogging software is being stupid and not letting me log in
9. My fingers were severed in a work accident
10. I got paper cuts on all ten fingers
11. I was kidnapped by Martians
12. I was too busy … drinking Starbucks
13. … watching Law & Order Special Victims Unit
14. … checking my RSS feed
15. … complaining about the International Baccalaureate Program
16. … planning my next bank heist
17. … laughing at e-Drama
18. … making a living
19. … trafficking goods
20. … smuggling illegal immigrants
21. … finding smilies
22. … visiting Snark
23. … visiting Vindicated MB
24. … chasing boys
25. … running away from boys
26. … running away from one boy and chasing after another
27. … trying to cure cancer
28. … trying to get on the set of the next Harry Potter Movie
29. … proving that Santa Claus exists!!
30. … shoveling snow from the driveway
31. … shoveling the neighbour’s dog’s crap from the driveway
32. … making out in an elevator
33. … downloading Christmas music
34. … listening in horror over Jamie-Lynn Spears’ pregnancy
35. … condemning stupid teenagers for getting pregnant
36. … wrily smiling over Nicholas Sarkozy’s latest womanly pursuits
37. … laughing at George Bush
38. … stumbling on Stumbleupon
39. … surfing Youtube
40. … thinking how stupid, shallow, and superficial Asian dramas are
41. … yet watching them anyway
42. … gasping at the special effects in the Golden Compass
43. … enduring another 4 hours of LOTR 1
44. … shopping for Xmas presents for boyfriend
45. … organizing the yearbook committee
46. … Facebooking
47. … playing wii
48. … designing yet another corporate website
49. … touching up on my resume
50. … making long lists

I decided to bold the ones that apply to me (you didn’t think they all were relevant, did ya?)

Add more so I can make it to 100!

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Question Mark

// August 12th, 2007 // 11 Comments » // World for the Week

If you hail from Canada, you would have heard by now the big news making the headlines: Free-Tibet Protesters Return Home After Chinese Detainment, or some variations of that. These six protesters apparently unfurled a huge banner on top of the Great Wall, with the writing “One World, One Dream, Free Tibet 2008″. This acts as both a mocking of the Olympic 2008 celebrations and a mission statement of the “free Tibet” organizations that want to give the Chinese province of Tibet independence.

All the Western World’s heard about Tibet are the so-called human rights abuses and the whole Dalai Lama fiasco. To address the latter, the Dalai has agreed to the one-China policy and is welcomed to return anytime his fancies. So what the heck are the protesters trying to do? Both my grandparents and my dad have worked in Tibet on business trips. They don’t talk about the alleged human rights violations and disssent movements happening left, right, and center. No, the only complaint they have about the place is how much the goat shish kabos made them puke afterwards (the blood wine didn’t agree with my dad’s stomach). I guess I’m caught between my Oriental upbringing and my Western influences. One thing I really hate to see is this Olympics game which I’ve so looked forward to turn into a heated political arena. The New York time may be the most accurate…

For about as long as the modern Games have existed, they have served as a stage for politics as much as sport. Berlin 1936 was Hitler and Jesse Owens. Helsinki 1952 was the beginning of the cold war. Mexico City 1968 was the Black Power salute. The blood of 11 slain Israeli athletes stained Munich 1972. Moscow 1980 meant boycotts, as did Los Angeles four years later.

I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what this One World One Dream turns out to be. In the mean time…

*Goes to wave little FREE QUEBEC flags*

In other news, the I-35W Bridge in Minnesota is no more. Makes you wonder where all the capitalist tax dollars went eh? Eight people are confirmed dead, among whom is a 23 year-old nursing student who moved to the States from Somalia in 2000. Such a young life, such a bright future, extinguished.

Over in Utah, still no sign of the six trapped miner. Yikes. I’m glad they’re still drilling because I’m still hopeful. My heart goes out to the friends and families.

Half way around the world, the Taliban is still holding 21 young Koreans hostage. Two have been killed already, and two sick women are said to be released in the next few days (rumour, unconfirmed). These are students were on a Christian good-will journey! How cruel can one get?! The families must be miserable knowing they could see their sons and daughters as soon as the U.S. gives the word. But of course, hostages in exchange for Taliban prisoners is a no-deal as the U.S. believes the trade could initiate more future violence. I don’t blame them but I wonder how the stand-off is going to end… probably when the Taliban kills everyone off in a bout of anger. The injustice of it all.

Time for a piece of less-gloomy news, “Greenpeace activists cut a 61-metre-long question mark inside a crop circle in an Abbotsford, B.C., cornfield Wednesday morning, in protest of the absence of genetically engineered food labelling in Canada.”. Or the way I heard it, “un point interrogation” (was watching the 11:00 pm French news on Le Telejournal Colombie-Britannique). It’s quite a nice piece of artwork. Greenpeace said they’ll pay the damage to the farmer whose field they used, lol.

Lastly, what’s this new rumour going around the Angie and Brad are breaking up? Well they can’t! Hollywood can’t lose their poster adoption couple! How can they realize their dream of populating their own country if they break up?! Tsk tsk.

P.S. - Changed themes. Permalink headaches continue. Anyone know how to remove the index.php from the links? I take it out and all the links are broken (yes I tried changing it on the Options page as well). So now… as a precaution, all the links are the FULL path … huge headache. I also added a page on the Juvenile Justice System and a Colour Palette.

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Becoming Jane

// August 10th, 2007 // 4 Comments » // Friday Flicks

At a friend’s insistence, I went to see Becoming Jane last weekend. There was only one theatre playing it and it was all the way on the other side of town. I liked the movie quite a bit, and couldn’t help writing a parody for the romance. Yes this contains quite a bit of spoilers, but you know how all these stories end! I was very giddy at the HP cast: Julie Walters (Mrs. Weasley) as Jane’s mother, and Maggie Smith (McGonagall) as Lady Gresham. Jane Austen was played by none other than the lovely Anne Hathaway. The movie paled a bit in comparison to Pride and Prejudice, ah well, the author never seems to be as interesting as her writing.

Read it here!

(Oh and an added bonus to the movie, Tom LeFroy is played by the same guy who plays Mr. Tumnus the goat on The Chronicle of Narnia, so I pretty much spent half the movie wondering where I’ve seen him before and why I keep imagining snow and lots of fur when I try to remember…)

On a sidenote, if you Last.FM, this list of tools would come in handy! I’ve also added a button board for your plugging pleasure!

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