Pop goes the....

So on the past Tuesday, I managed to tear something under my patella (knee-cap). Somehow I tore my left knee when I knelt down to show the St. John Ambulance brigade members how to strap down a casualty on the back board. It was an intense sharp pain at first like I just knelt on broken glass, then quickly it went into a burning sensation for the next 10-20 minutes.

I'm lucky to have my bro as a chiro, he was able to quickly get me checked out and an ultrasound done. I'm now waiting for the report. It does scare me to think....what if I'm going to lose the ability to use my left leg? But even if it heals now, I do believe that it will come back to haunt me in the future.....way in the future.....when I'm old and feeling all of the symptoms of past injuries. *shiver*

In other news, started watching two new television series: Flashpoint and The Mentalist. Both shows seem to have their captivating moments. Flashpoint was filmed and based in Toronto, which is the main selling point for me I guess. The Mentalist is more of a Sherlock Holmes in the present day type of mystery/crime drama. I can't wait to watch the next episodes. ^__^

Cirque du OMG

OMG....I can't believe that I just went to LV and back. In that duration of 4 nights, I saw 3 Cirque shows. I went to see the 'O' show, Zumanity and then Mystere.

'O' (Eau) Show is a beautifully done show that seems very spiritual and emotional. The music and visuals all bring out goosebumps on me (or else it's the aircon). This is a first for theatre shows to have a large pool as the stage, and water being the main theme......it all works out. There are so-called intermissions in which two clowns go about and do small joke sketches. One of them being my favorite "Aye-Yai-Yai" clown.

Zumanity was somewhat a disappointment for me. The interaction with the characters pretty much start off in the front lobby. There I met many of the cast members strutting around in character. One of the characters freaked me out when he flapped his cloak right behind me with a loud "BANG" noise. Each of the acts weren't too entertaining to me. The only entertainment was really from the side stage jokes from the jokers/jesters. It was more of a standup comedy routine to me. Just with a lot of nudity and course language. I want to trade this in for a Penn & Teller show.

Mystere was a last minute impulse purchase. We got tickets at a discount price from the local ticket discount booth (yes, an official one, not a scalper....but I guess they're just a high end scalper). This was the original Cirque show in Vegas, since 1993. The stage was very well designed and the performers pretty much utilized the entire auditorium. I really loved the joker character who goes around and messes with the audience. Right off the bat, he pretends to be an usher and starts leading unsuspecting audiences around the whole auditorium only to place them in the wrong area. The huge baby was a great laugh too, he nominated a person to be his "Papa" and through out the show, he just picked on this "Papa" audience person. I had a blast at this show. But still, La Eau was better.

All in all, I think I'd want to see KA next if I got a chance. On a side note though, I think all of the sound tracks are great.

Use the Farce before it's gone

I just found out that the Royal Canadian Air Farce (LIVE) is going offline with their series finale on December 31st, 2008 as the New Years show.

I have grown up with watching it, with "Mike from Canmore" to "Celine Dion impersonations". It brought a lot of laughs and entertaining moments.

For a couple of years, I went to the live showings in the CBC building. They had great jokes that never aired, and as well they had the live band there with great songs. It is sad to see that it will be ending and that the new cast will not be continuing the legacy.

I hope CBC might push something out that will have Jessica, Alan, Craig, and Penelope.

Maybe I'll try to get tickets to the series finale. Hope I'll have time to go see it.

P&T BS! TTU

Recently I've been out of House MD to watch, so I've been watching some TVB episodes and I tried picking up Nip Tuck........where the Dr. Von Doom goes around doing different females on the show. Unfortunately it doesn't really appeal to me as an interesting show.

I've been lucky enough to run upon a show called Penn & Teller Bull$hit!. It is quite the fascinating show. For people that don't know who Penn & Teller are, you can either Google it, or you can just take my word that they are two world class comedian and illusionist. I've always enjoyed their humour and illusions on TV. Their TV show doesn't really do much about sleight of hand illusion tricks, but more of unraveling certain misconceptions about things around the world. It is similar to Mythbusters, but they do it in a more Michael Moore in-your-face style.

In each of the episodes, they deal with a different topic and try to debunk credibility from the side of the argument that they do not favour. I must say that everyone should take the show with a grain of salt when absorbing all the BS that is ditched out.

In the first episode, Penn explains why they use the word BS. Due to legalities, they cannot call people or groups "liars" or "swindlers", but it is absolutely fine to call it BS.

Some of my favorite episodes are: Psychics, Feng Shui, and the Holy Bible. My number one favorite one so far is the one that I will not mention. ^__^

The psychics one, Penn and Teller debunk how psychics are totally BS and they use proven techniques called Cold and Hot readings. They use their unscientific experiments to show flaws in the different psychic readers they tape. P&T even hired an ex-con artist that was able to mimic a "psychic", showing that it wasn't really much of a trick to tell people what they want to hear.

In the Feng Shui one, they hire three different Feng Shui experts to see a house and to redecorate the house so that it will bring luck and fortune. Since Feng Shui is a standardized "working" calculated art, the three Feng Shui experts should come with the similar if not same results. In the end, all three of the experts came up with totally different responses. Some responses even contradicted each other. Maybe I can just say that they learned from three different schools of Feng Shui that taught different priorities in things. Much like Tai Chi or even Wushu.

P&T is definitely one of my favorite shows at the moment. I'm hooked.....Two Thumbs Up

Sheppards Pie

I've decided for my godmother's b-day potluck, I'm going to make Sheppard's Pie. Yes.....nice Golden Yukon potatoes, some veggies, mashed together, and then spread on top of a ground beef mixture. Either that or I was going to go with the Spinach and Cheese dip.....or I can just make both.

So once again we have arrived at another day that certain retail stores love, especially the flower, chocolate, and makeup stores. Major day to shower our mothers with our love and other company goods. I've always questioned this..........why do mother's get all the fame and glory...but then on father's day......it's just a tie...maybe a sock....or a tie clip......Father's have put a lot of effort into the making process.......just that there's the lack of carrying the child for 9-10 months.....but there is the errands...and the running around to do. I demand that fathers be paid the dearly respects........I demand we get makeup and pricy flowers too.........ok....come to think of it......it would really be weird walking around with the flowers.......hmmm...a bunch of guys strutting around d/t with a bouquet of flowers.....hmmm.......

Or better yet.....I think a nice home cooked 5 course meal would be good enough I guess....the flowers can stay in the vase.....

Digging my Grave

There are just some times that a hole should be dug and I should just jump in there and pull the dirt over me. Yes, today is one of those days.

I'm wondering if there was a full moon last night. There were multiple car accidents en route to work this morning. Not only that, people seem to be a bit more aggressive........weird.

In due Fairness

Alright, I guess I should at least make a post on Sai Moon

Sai·Moon (n. Sahi·Moon;)
- noun
1. Name of a person; Sai Moon Hing, character in a two novels that was a sex maniac, both were killed
2. The glutious maximus
3. A residential area during the Spring and Autumn Period

I'm actually out of ideas already...guess I'm not that much of something....sob sob sob.....

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If you missed this posting, then so be it.
As a small joke that this was, it would seem that it was in bitter taste.

Apologies.

Tippity-Tappity-Type

As my fingers cruise over the keys of the nc6400, all that you can hear are the tap dancing fingers around the room. The office has been converted into a dance studio of a few hundred people that all dance to a different beat. No one dance is the same one. Once in a while, the dancer decides to leap from the pad and over to the rodent where the dance is a solo work of art of shifts, scrolls and clicks.

I look over to my right and discover that the dance has somehow stopped there. The show has ended and the dancers have left the stage. The clock has struck 5 and one by one, the dancers file out.

I am left here to continue to dance. I feel that I want to continue dancing.......maybe to a different beat. A dance that has been continuing every day for the past days. A dance that will not stop till the pain goes away.

Today is brought to you by the letter V

Voluptiously Venting Vastly Varies....ok...I give up......geeeeze....

Well, today is the 2nd day of commercialism that is aimed towards all the pairs out there in the world. Truthfully, couldn't everyday be Valentine's? Wait...but then I'd go broke easily...or my significant other would just find me boring with no new ideas.........hmmm...so on second thought.........February 14th.....once a year seems good to me......

At the end of the day I'm another day older.....

We are nearing the end of the earthquake. Pieces are slowly going back into place and our shamble of sand will be replaced with a beautiful castle on the beach. At least that's what I'm thinking. It's been a very long journey and a long battle but I believe the war is not over and there is still a long looooooong tunnel to travel. The casualties have been noted and I'm still waiting for a phoenix to rise from the ashes.

So in the past two weeks, I've been going to the local University's concerts. There was a Violin Concerto, and tonight I went to a Piano soloist. Most of the pieces played were new age....modern pieces. It was not my cup of tea. I was very impressed with how agile the player's fingers were. They danced across the keyboard, and at times it was as if he was releasing all his anger and rage onto the poor keyboard. I do believe that he did an excellent job, but I'm not too sure I appreciate the score selection. There was one set of "studies", they were the American Prelude. The preludes had titles such as: Sadness, Tribute to Aaron Copeland, Tribute to....I forget. Very very interesting 3-5 minute preludes. His final selection was called Flaming...something......and I could see the fire coming from his hands and also the grand piano was dancing too...it was like watching the piano tuned up like one of those cars in a MTV I've seen. **Bouncy Bouncy**

Tomorrow will be a full day of training......I wonder if I'll be awake enough for it.

1-and-2-and-3-and-4-and......

So for today, in my lack of sleep state, I was able to go through a good 7.5 hours of SJA training. By the end of the period, I believe my mind was already in a mush state. I think I went into autopilot when I was asked to perform a series of "case scenarios". I went so badly into autopilot that I was actually physically doing a certain action, but my mind wasn't there at all to really do any controlling. I was in the state like in the morning when I get to work...I ofter think...did I lock the car door? I have no recollection of doing it, and I just feel so lost. Exactly the same thing happened to me when I was doing the case. I went to a point where the officer told me that I fell into his trap. I snapped out of my daze and all I could do was think..."What was I doing? Where am I??!?!?! What the F....?!" Ok, I was litterally thinking all of the way from the training facility to the station....what in the world was I doing....what was the case...what did I do wrong.......?.....damn I hate that feeling.

So I'm going to try to catch some shuteye tonight. Tomorrow is a new week..............and there was much rejoicing......

Zug Zug......

Yes...this is a REALLY early blog. I've been rolling in bed for the past 2 hours. There's just a lot of things I've been thinking of lately. Maybe due to the lack of sleep, I've been much less tolerable to annoyances and my brain also doesn't want to shut down.

I've been having lots of dreams lately, I don't remember a single one of them, but I know I had dreams. This is a sign that I'm not really sleeping, my brain is still quite active.

What does one do to calm down? I used to think that sitting down with a good book will do the job. Sometimes a bit of physical exersion can also do the trick.

My body really feels tired and wants to rest, but my brain isn't letting my body do that. I'm at the point where I think I might start hallucinating. WhuWasZat?...........

Urrrr?......Zug Zug.........wutchuwantmetodo?..........wutchuwantmetokeel?..........MRLLLLLLLLlllllllLLLLlllllll

The Hunt for Lost Domain

For the past 2 weeks, I've been going on a wild goose chase on the net to findout where my domain has gone. The original domain was regitered with company SUX (won't give the real one for reasons....). So SUX went bankrupt last year but just told us that our questions will be answered but another domain SUXOR. I've emailed SUXOR and they told me they actually are just a reseller and they've sold our account to SUXSUX. SUXSUX told me that they sold it to SUXMUCH. ........

So after a long chase, I finally asked my web guru friend Winnie "Who's the main owner? How can I find out?" She gave me the WHOIS link and I quickly pulled up a lot of valuable information.

I know how much I hate going on a tangent here but I really need to say this......OMFG!!!! I was able to pull up the original owner of the domain, the admin, tech, anyone that was linked to this domain. I know where that person lives, their phone number, their email.....and this was just typing in my domain at WHOIS. Isn't there some kind of privacy act that prevents this from happening? Or is there some bill C666 that says "all domain hosts and admins will have their private life broadcasted online."

Well, back to the chase. Finally I found from WHOIS that the base holder of my domain is TooKaus (company also masked for personal reasons....but you can guess it.....really you can...). So I emailed them to ask......who is one I need to contact to straighten things up with my domain. Alright, this is where I got a little pissed. I didn't get a response saying "Thank you for your hate mail, we'll have someone look into it and respond to you in the next decade." I just got dead air for a week and a bit. Finally I got a response today, I was all giddy and excited. They told me exactly who runs my domain. Now I can finally rest a bit waiting for my next email about how I should transfer my domain to another provider.........

I'm first on the list

Wow, this is very facinating. Maybe this is something to do with Google's searching ability. I think I'm the first on the list when I look for my name in Google. This makes it finding my blog pretty easy. Only problem is then........everyone know's who this is....dangit...ha ha ha.

Well, this is a bad turn of events then. I think I'm going to have to be careful what I post up here.....afterall...this IS the Internet. But who'd be interested in little 'ol me....

Tagged again?....WHU?

Alright, I just got tagged again with another list...I'll see what I'll do with this one.

Rules of the Game:
1. The tagged victim must come up with 10 different points of their perfect bf/gf.
2. Need to mention gender of target.
3. Tag 8 victims to join this game & leave a comment saying they've been tagged.
4. If tagged again, there's no need to post a 2nd time.

1. Taboo question....very dangerous to blog about
2. Target = female
3. again........tag usually ends with me.....so.......oh well
4. .....no response.

So there you have it, I'm IT and forever IT as it is.

Ok, just a bit more of my childhood here.
So back in grade 5, I used to have this wonderful APPLE IIe...yeah baby..those things ran off of floppies. So there were 3 games that I loved on there and (maybe someone will make a remake of these).
1) Number Munchers - you could choose from different menus: Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide. Then there is a 4 by 4 grid of numbers and a topic on the top. You have to munch the numbers that correspond to the topic (i.e. all multiples of 3). I was the master at this.........
2) Oregon Trail - yes, I believe many people have played this before. You start with a family (Mom, Dad, 3 children). You are moving from a location to the next. You only have a limited amount of resources, so you have to buy ammo to hunt, or buy food, or fix your wagon. I think I usually end up drowning at the river most of the time...or at least I lose most of the family.
3) Some Fish Game - You start off as a really really small fish and you eat and eat and soon you become a huge fish. Yes....quite simple that way, just need to remember that birds and humans are out to catch you.
So these started me off into my little world of computer gaming. From that time on, I've moved onto more graphically oriented games......like World of Warcraft!!!!! Tis burning.....tis BURNING!!!!!

Me Me.....wait...I'm not part of that club....

I guess that since I'm inhaling my lunch right now, I should try to blog...or reblog..for the......50 billioth time. I have these waves of blogs..then stop...then blogs then halt........
Well, this is my wave of blogs that I'm starting again.

Considering in the blog world, Monday may be considered "Me Me Monday", I guess I'll blog a bit of something about me.

As some people know, I'm not really a banana......as people may call "us"....aka Yellow out, White inside.

So this happened to me in grade 6. I remember my teacher Ms. O'Leary, she was our homeroom teacher. There was one lunch break when I was eating lunch with my friends Brian and Justin when Brian threw some joking comment at me and I just sat there and smiled because there was no point in retaliating. I just continued to eat my lunch. Ms. O'Leary caught wind of it and decided that she would speak up against that comment. So Ms. O'Leary walked over and said "Should you stand up for yourself?" So me being a very VERY sarcastic person, I just stood up and said, "Ok, I've stood up." and continued to smile. Alright, that was a BAHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhd move on my part. The next thing I knew, right after lunch, Ms. O'Leary said that I should see some teacher. So I took my books and walked over to the other teacher's place (her name escapes my mind).

Anyhow, the teacher (let's just call her Ms. Perry for now) sat me down and said "Ms. O'Leary says that you may have some trouble with grasping the English langauge." My looks betrayed me and I must've gave her the "WTF? huh?" look. So she quickly said "Just for the sake of Ms O'Leary, I have some questions for you." So on she went with metaphors, simalies, yadda yadda. We spent the whole afternoon dealing with "What is a green-thumb? What is the meaning of "standing up for yourself"? What is a noun?" yes, it was a bit humiliating I thought. After I got all of those "correct" as it seems, Ms. Perry finally asked me, "So why did you just stand up?" I told her "I was being playful and sarcastic." So she just laughed and sent me on my way back to class.

After that little experience, it seems that I was good enough to "help" the ESL teacher. I became a transaltor for Ms. Perry for the remainder of the year.

Wow, this brings back a lot of memories...........wish I was still a kid.....

Blog Tag, I'm IT....for now....

Alright, so my good friend Winnie has tagged me and I think I should just play along with the game here. I'm supposed to write 5 things about myself (supposedly that people don't know) and then pass it along and tag 5 other people. I have a feeling some people may have been tagged already..but I can still tag them again...and again...and again.....you get my drift.
Without further adieu......that's correct spelling right?.....hmmm.....

1) Although born and raised in Canada, my natural language is not English it is actually Cantonese.
2) I had to go to ESL for 2 years (because the teacher believed my control of the English language was not good enough) (I think I'll blog about this some day)
3) I think my tearducts malfunction.....I tend to cry much easier than most males.....I think......damn..Bamby's mother.....di....di....die....died......WAHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
4) Hukt on Fonix did not work for me, I have trouble saying things phonetically...hence my spelling isn't the best either....
5) Some people in Elementary school thought that I was from Hong Kong and still does not know that I'm born in Canada.

All right, it's time for me to bounce these over to. Unfortunatly, I don't really read a lot of other people's blogs, so I guess........tag kinda ends here. Sorry Winnie....I'm a dud here. But thanks, I can maybe start blogging again....maybe...just maybe.......

This is getting too Silly!

It's been over a week since my last post.......actually, I think it's closer to 2 weeks right now. For all those that didn't know, my brother is now officially off the market. As of this passed Sunday (Sept. 3, 2006), my bro has a shiney ring on his 4th finger....OOOOOoooooo....AAAHHHHhhhhh.....

Well, I wanted to post this piece since two weeks ago because it was just too funny to pass up. There was a man that hijacked a car in the suburbs via the GTA style, run up to the car, open the door, fling the driver out and take the car. For those that don't know about the SUPER-DUPER-contrivertial game GTA (Grand Theft Auto), then you might not quite understand the whole "taking a car" thing. Anyhow, this guy grabs a car, drives it onto the highway, collides into the curb, get's out, attempts to jack another car, FROM THE HIGHWAY (going at 100km/h). After attempting to do so on 5 cars, he finally get's one and is then proceeded by a chase scene with cops, sirens and a helicoptor. Finally the cops catch up and catch the man. And the guilty man pleaded that he was only trying to get to his parole officer..........ok...at this point...I'm thinking.......right....you get to the parole officer in a stolen vehical.............lemme think about that one for a sec............YOU NUTZ?!?!?!?!

In other news, the iconic Australian gentleman ironically died of what he's famous for this passed Monday. The croc-man (Steve Irwin) was stung by a deadly poisonous tail of a ray while he was filming the reefs. A sad day indeed, I will miss him....and all the parody's that movies and SNL makes on him.

In the news today, there were two things that caught my attention. The first is, some mom decided to go on strike after she couldn't cope with her 3 kids. The kids refuse to help with house chores and does not heed to anything the mother says. Ok....lemme see here...........wouldn't her kids just do the same later in life.......if they want something...they'll just go on strike? This world is round.....what goes around.....comes around.

The second piece is some study perormed by the University suggests that scrubbing or cleaning ourselves (with water and soap) actually clears our guilt and sins. Alright.......hmmm......WHOO-HOO...........wait.........I know.....so it's the new confessions corner. Just walk into the privacy of the bathroom, stare into the mirror...and start SCRUBBING!!!!!

That's just silly....this is getting too silly......stop that...........stop it now......

Vulcan's vice grip on the computer

For the past few strips at one of my favorite online comic sites, they've been teaching the community about online ("trash") talk. A few days ago, they were discussing the difference between "newb" and "n00b" For anyone out there, newb's are users that are green to the field and need some lovin. n00b on the other hand are arseholes the love to trashtalk and just needs a good clear view of the backside of my hand. Today's venue was a a discussion about a way that online gamers use to show up other people in online shooter games. This is called (viewers discression is advised) "TEABAGGING". Well, I'd like to draw the attention to the final panel where the dude is holding a cup and dipping away. Yes.....dipping away.........very subtle....but dominates the rest of the panel. *crouch crouch crouch crouch crouch*

Alright, last night, after using my company's "discount" I bought cheap tickets to watch Lord of the Rings theatrical. I got really good seats, 6th row from the front, I was able to see all of the costumes in detail and the facial expression......and the backstage people getting ready.......stage right. There was some singing, dancing, slapstick comedy, lots of flashing things and confetties blowing around. The costumes and the stage was designed very very well I believe. Unfortunately, we only got the understudies for last night's show. They weren't all that good I think. The only really good actor was Smeagol/Gollum, he was at least a 11/10 on my scale. He was the only person that got the entire crowd to scream, whistle, cheer, stand. Legolas was a bit.........on the chubby and non-agile side (I think Orlando Blooms has really gotten into everyone's mind). Oh, I had one really really bad point to sitting so close to the stage. During many "elf" scenes, they wanted to have a bunch of "females" dancing...but I found out that 50% of them were drags.....yes.....guys in wigs and dresses and lipstick and stuff......kinda grossed me out a bit.
The story was very interesting. They did 80% of the first book, 30% of the second book and then the third book they totally just skipped and said that Frodo had the ring at the pool of fire/lava. Well, I guess they had 15% of the thrid book intact.
For anyone who's watched Clerk's 2, the dude did a very good representation of LotR Theatrical.............All in all, I think I'd give it a 6/10 doors for the good decorations and Gollum.