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July 28, 2005 2:59 AM

I see dumb people!

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by    in Rants

As sad as it may seem, our world is filled with stupid people, and I don’t mean 1 or 2. There’s millions! How this part of the human race managed to survive is beyond me. What’s annoying is that they don’t have enough common sense to smarten up! It pisses me off so much that I want to beat them with an inch of their lives!

There are things that they find funny but no one else seems to get the joke but them. Apparently they don’t understand the concept of a joke because if they did, we would both be laughing. And because they think, if they actually do think at all, that it’s funny, they continue to do it over and over in hopes of getting through. You know? They want to convince you that the joke that they are telling is actually funny. If I didn’t get it the first 10 times what makes you think that I will laugh at it the 11th time? What part of “not funny” don’t you understand? The part where I don’t say “ha ha ha” or the part where I stare blankly?

One time he wanted to convince me that one complete inning of baseball has a total of 3 outs. Now, I’m no baseball fanatic but as I recall it, a complete inning consists of the away team and the home team getting a chance at bat. So, the away time goes and 3 outs later, the home team goes. The home team goes and 3 outs later, the away team goes again. But after the home team gets 3 outs, that’s the end of the inning. So if you recall from grade 2 math, 3 + 3 = 6. A number plus itself does not equal itself. As far as I know, the only number when added to itself to equal itself is 0. Here, I’ll prove it algebraically:

x + x = x
2x = x
2x – x = 0
x = 0

Eureka! How simple was that?

Throughout my college years, I was lucky enough to get stuck with a couple dumbasses. It seemed as if they’re mission was to make my life miserable. They did whatever their little minds can possibly conjure up with in order to bug me. They were just plain stupid. I don’t think Mohawk should have let them in. I mean, they didn’t even know how to do their work. They would rather hack into someone’s MSN and impersonate the victim in order to get the work from someone else, rather than doing it themselves. And they seem to hang onto stupid ass jokes. One time in class, my friend was reading the papers and the teacher told him to put it away, so he folds it up and places it in front of me. The teacher saw that it was still out, so he specifically told me to put it away. I didn’t know he was talking to me so i said “oh!” So they decided to use “oh” against me somehow. I don’t know how but I’m guessing they think that no one else says “oh!”

Oh! I’m guessing I’m the only one on this planet to say “Oh!” As far as I know there are a few hit songs out there that says “Oh!”

Ciara says “Oh!”
Omarion says “Oh!”
David Matthews Band says “Oh!”
Monica says “Uh Oh!”

If saying “Oh!” is somehow bad, I’m glad I say it a lot. I don’t think I go a day without saying “Oh!” So, if their mission was to somehow bring me down, i think they’ve failed. Oh! Wait, they didn’t just fail, they miserably failed. I honestly think that some people should get a life because I’m too busy living mine to be bothered by stupid things like this. There are too many crazy things going on in this world that I don’t have time to put up with them. I have to put up with enough lunatics at work but I get paid to do that. So unless you dumbasses pay me to talk to you, I suggest you go bother someone else. Oh! Wait, why don’t you bother each other! I’ll give you a lollipop if you leave everyone else alone and talk amongst yourself.

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July 26, 2005 10:17 PM

Blame it on the rain!

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by    in General

What a crappy ass day! A day that started out nice and quiet turned into a disaster. It rained on and off this afternoon but with my luck, it juss started pouring as soon as it was time for me to go to work. Not even an umbrella could have saved me from what’s to come.

Raining

As I exited my house, I could see that I was gonna have some trouble getting to work dry. As soon as I stepped onto the sidewalk, my shoes were starting to get soaked. I got to the corner and decided to wait there because on the opposite corner, I can see cars splash the puddle and sending the water at least 4 feet up into the air. I ain’t standing over there, no siree bob.

Once there was a gap between the cars, I made a break for it, only to be blocked by a 3 foot wide puddle, which I tried to over jump… and failed miserably. My foot landed in the puddle and is now even more soaked. Of course, since I tried to jump over it, my landing made a splash and now my socks and the lower part of my jeans are wet too. Once I got passed the traffic and the puddle, I thought that’s it, no more obstacles. Man, was I wrong. I had to cross the field and it’s been raining for a while so this field is like super wet, it’s like a swamp. Crossing this got my socks even wetter but it gets worse. I get to the corner and I’m standing there not realizing the there were cars in front of me. I figured, they’re at the stop so maybe the splash won’t be that big. But I forgot that there were other cars behind the one in front of me and that by the time they get to where I was, they would have probably gained momentum. Splash! My jeans are now wet up to my knees, so I take a step back. Splash! I’m now wet from my theighs down, so I take another step back. Splash! For Pete’s sake! come on, i took 2 steps back, wasn’t that far enough! Nooooo, now I’m soaked and wet from the waist down.

I finally get to work.. drenched from my waist down and walking around as if I juss crapped my pants. Throught out my shift, it rained but not as hard as it was when I was walking to work, nooooo, why would it, I’m not out there to get wet so what’s the point? But when it was time to go home, guess what happened? The rain started to pick up again and I have to walk home really slowly cuz my pants are heavy fromt he water it’s retaining. What the phack! Grrrrr!

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July 24, 2005 3:12 PM

Timbiting

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by    in Humour

It has recently come to my attention that a very terrible crime is happening everyday. It is causing injuries to innocent by standers. A very tragic drive-by that leaves the victim in shock. This act of violence is known as Timbiting and I myself was been a victim.

Timbits

Timbiting is the act of throwing a Timbit at an unsuspecting pedestrian. If you’re the one that’s throwing the Timbits, I can see how that might be funny. But if you’re the unsuspecting pedestrian, you would probably be thinking “WTF?”

Back in my high school days, I was worked for the HSR one summer day. I started work at 6:00pm or so and I didn’t finish until midnight. Later in the day, the guy I was working with went on break, so I was left at the bus stop by myself. It was already starting to get dark and things were cooling down. That’s when it happened.

First, I saw a bike coming down the hill at high speed. As he passed, I was thinking of how fast he was going because he was coming down from the Jolly Cut. While my attention was focused on the biker, I heard another car coming down the hill, so I turn to look. All I saw was a bunch of round object flying at me. I was so surprised that I didn’t move.

What also surprised me was that I didn’t get hit at all. There I was, sitting on the bench and something like 10 Timbits flying at me. I didn’t move a muscle and I didn’t get Timbitted. Was I lucky or what? All I did was laugh because these guys in a car drove by and wasted their Timbits. I think it cost them $1 or so but didn’t cost me a dime. I laughed at their misfortune.

But I don’t think the act of Timbiting stops there. I’ve had golf tees being thrown at me. So the possibilities of throwing stuff out of a car at an unsuspecting pedestrian are endless.

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July 21, 2005 12:30 AM

CSI: Hamilton

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by    in General

I’ve got a new case at work. Someone’s been going around vandalizing the elevators and I’m gonna find out who! Maybe not today… well, definately didn’t find out today, and maybe not tomorrow, but one day! Even if it means that I ride that eleveator 24/7, I’m gonna find out who… somehow. I’ve got a plan… so far it’s not working, but it’s still too early to tell. I’ve got some suspects… even though some of them turned out to be wrong, but that only means I’m eliminating the ones that aren’t doing it. And When I found out who is doing this, I’m gonna put graphiti all over his face and draw curly mustaches on him!

How do I know it’s a guy? Well, so far, all the clues suggested that. The most obvious would be the graphiti that was left in the men’s washroom. The letters sorta match. I’m not a hand writing analyst expert but the similarities are pretty close. Currently, there are suggestions to say that there’s more than one culprit because the style of writing is a bit off. The way the “G” is written is a little bit different. So, if there’s two suspects working on this, that’s gonna make things even more complicating because I can’t keep track of who what when where how.

It’s hard to figure out who’s doing this because security can’t be everywhere all the time. I mean, all it takes is for this person to get into an elevator alone and take it up one floor. As soon as the door closes, he can get to work. Once he gets to the next floor, he’s free to go. And if someone else gets on the elevator after him, they won’t notice the graphiti until the door closes. The only sure way to catch this person is to get cameras installed in the elevators but by the time the cameras get installed, the culprits might be long gone. Or maybe they juss won’t write stuff in the elevator no more and move to another area.

I’ve been up and down the floors and I’m slowly running out of suspects and running out of ideas on how to catch this person. But when I do find out, somebody’s gonna get a hurt real bad!

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July 14, 2005 3:37 AM

Love is love

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by    in Reviews

“Love is love” is the title of a chinese movie that I recently saw. Stephen Chow is in it. He’s the guy that plays in Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle.

This movie was about a couple from the rural who struggles to make it on their own in the big city. From the start, they had nothing but the money that the wife’s little sister stole from the dad. They ran away and eloped because the father disagreed with the fact that they are together. The father wanted a better life for his daughter and hoped that she finds a rich husband to support her but instead she fell for the bus boy who works his restaurant.

When they get to the city, they find themselves a house, nothing fancy, juss small room. The room didn’t even have a door so they used curtains. The landlord was charging them $800 a month. That’s a crazy price for juss a room. Well, the kitchen batchroom and hydro was included in that price, but that’s still crazy.

After getting a house, they go and find a job but not juss any job, they wanted a good job. So the guy at the employment place tells the husband to apply to a jewelry company. The husband manages to get in but there’s one minor problem. He needs a $20,000 bond if he wants to work for the company. They ask around but no one is able to help and the father is already objecting to everything, he’s not gonna help either. It seems like all hope was lost until the wife somehow manages to come up with the money. She says she won it in the lottery but the husband doubts that. It’s later known that she’s been doing work as an escort to get that money.

As the movie goes on, you see the couple making their way up the ladder of society. Eventually, they get into an expensive high rise and are living it large.

But later on, work takes up a lot of the husband’s time and he misses their wedding anniversary. Things gets worse when the boss’s daughter gets transferred to Singapore and because the husband has been such a hard working assistant, she would like him to tranfer with her. He wants to refuse the transfer but the boss’s daughter doesn’t want to accept that answer. The husband tells the wife about the transfer and a fight breaks out between the two. That’s where the subtitles stop so I have no idea what they were saying but it ended with the wife leaving to go back home and the husband going to Singapore. But before the movie was over, of course, they ended up back together.

The movie shows what one person is willing to do for love. The couple started out with nothing but each other and throughout the movie, all that mattered was their happiness. It didn’t matter that they were living in a poor area of town, it didn’t matter what kind of job they had to do in order to survive. All that mattered was that they were happy with each other. It juss goes to show what people are willing to sacifice for love. It’s like nothing else in this world matter but the love you have for those who are close to you.

The way that life was viewed in this movie is almost like the way I view life. There are more important things to life than money. A lot of people are trying to make it big not realizing that life is made up of the little things. Yes, life does have a lot of negative things going on but you have to try and take an optimistic view of it.

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July 12, 2005 9:29 PM

On top of the House: Part II

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If you ever get a chance to go and get some work done on the roof, take my advice and pass!

The part where you are on the roof is good because you’ve got that nice view and everything. But it’s the aftermath that is back breaking!

I’ve spent pretty much the whole day cleaning up the mess that was left over from the old shingles. From 12pm until 10pm, I was loading up the van and then unloading it. And we’re not even done yet! There’s still another load left to do. But that load might have to wait until next week because if we take that to the trash station in Dundas on the weekday, it’s gotta cost us for a certain amount for a certain weight, but if we dump it at my dad’s workplace, it’s free.

All of this hard work got me thinking. Why is it that the hard working people are that, a hard worker? It seems like the hard workers have to keep on working hard in order to have it easy. Meanwhile, the ones who have it easy are the one who aren’t work that hard at all.

Why is it that my dad has to get up at 5am to get to work by 6 and work his ass off at his work place to make ends meet while other people are allowed to get up 3 hours later, have time to get coffee and then get to work by 9? That doesn’t make any sense at all!

Why is it that my dad drives around in a ’88 GMC van, that is starting to break down while those who work, not even half as hard, are driving around in a brand new Mercedes?

Wouldn’t it make more sense for the hard working people to be paid more than those who aren’t working that hard? A mechanic, who gets up early to go to a job where he may get injured should get paid more than a man who sleeps in and goes to a job where he juss sits there. What is it with the other job that requires such a high pay? Is it the possibility of getting Carpel Tunnel Syndrome? Or is the due to the fact that the chair not high so that your sitting at the right angle?

No matter which way you look at it, you can’t possibly tell me that some politican should be making more money than some hard working police officer. One job has a lot more danger and is a lot more stressful than the other and yet the pay is less?

It’s things like this that makes me wonder how this world is being run. The government is supposed to be run by the people, not the other way around! If I was a politician, I’d keep my promise and if I don’t, I’ll resign, it’s as simple as that. I’ll even have that in writing so that I can’t back out. What good am I if I’m not doing what I was voted in to do? That’s juss wrong. I bet they’re in politics just to make easy money. The government takes enough of our hard earning money, we don’t need to give them any more! I’d like to see my tax money put to good use and not to pay off some politican who’s not even doing his job! Or better yet, I’d like to see my tax money back in where it belongs, in my pocket! But eh, that’s me, if they were in my shoes, they probably wouldn’t last a day without your chocolate mocca latte.

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July 9, 2005 9:51 PM

On top of the house: Part I

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For the last couple days, I’ve been working on the roof with my dad. The shingles needed replacing so my dad decided to work on that this weekend. I told him that I’d help him Friday but I forgot that I was schedule in to that day. By the time I got home, half of the old shingles were removed. The next step was to get the new shingles up to the roof. So my dad went and rented a hoist to get it up there. But in order for the hoist to work, we needed space to put it and the only space that was good was in the pathway between my house and my neighbour’s. Problem is, that pathway is filled with the old shingles. So guess whose job it was to remove most of those. Yup, yours truly!

Well, my brother helped too… First we moved the stuff back about 10 feet, but then we looked up and there were some wires in the way, so we moved it back another 10 feet. Let me tell ya, it wasn’t easy. You can’t use a shovel to dig thru there because it’s not like dirt. Cuz if you do use a shovel, it would be like shovel paper, all that paper is gonna juss slide all cause it’s flat.

Once everything was cleared we got the hoist in position and loaded the shingles. Those were heavy as hell! I think I broke my back while lifting those. And the hoist was a manual one where you have to crack it. After a couple dozen cracks it started to get harder and harder. The cable was soo tight that with every crank, it seemed like it was gonna snap. My brother ducked for cover every time he heard that noise. My uncle was there making fun of him for that.

So we hoisted the shingles and my dad up to the roof, later my brother went up and then I went up. The other adults took the ladder, which wasn’t that much fun. Going up the hoist was way funner. Although, it was kinda shaky and scary at first.

We worked until the sun went down, but I had it easy, I didn’t have to get started till I got off work and by then, it wasn’t that hot. I kinda feel sorry for my dad. He’s been at it since morning. My mom would wake me up around 7 saying I should go help my dad, but I had to get to work by 8:30. I’m not that crazy! I don’t wanna wake up at 7, work for an hour and then get to my job with a broken back.

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July 7, 2005 11:50 PM

Shooting star…

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You’ll never guess what I saw tonight! Oh wait, maybe you can since it’s the title of this blog. Well, you’ve guessed it, a shooting star!

I was over at a friend’s house because her sister said there was supposed to be a surprise party for their cousin. When I got there, surprise surprise, there wasn’t any party. I bought something but never got a chance go give it to the birthday girl because she wasn’t there. Turns out the party has been moved to Sunday. But I didn’t care if there was no party or not, I went over to visit and I stayed for an hour.

Come 11 o’clock, I had to leave because my bus transfer was going to expired and I didn’t want to ask for a ride home, so I left.

When I got outside, I can see the bus coming, so it searched frantically for my transfer but couldn’t find it. By the time I found it, the bus had already drove by. As I stared at the passing bus with anger in my eyes, something drew my attention upward to the sky. At first I thought it was a plane but then it’s slowly vanished like a firecracker would after it was burnt. I was in awe at my timing. I missed the bus and then I saw a shooting star. What are the chances of something bad happening and then something good? Pretty slim, I’d say.

I was hoping I wouldn’t have to use any money to take the bus back home, so I went back into my friend’s house and used the phone to call bus check. I was in luck! The next bus would be in juss in time. My transfer expires at 11:15pm and it was 11:04 and the next bus would be here in 11minutes. So I went back outside and waited. I could see buses at the stop light, a couple blocks down, but none of them were going straight. Most of them were turning left or right, or going away from me in the opposite direction. With 1min left before my transfer expired a bus was heading my way. Oh no! It’s stuck at a red light. I look at my watch, it was 11:15pm. My transfer has officially expired. I was kinda bummed because now I have to pay $2.10 if I want a ride downtown. But before I took out my money, I’d figure I try out my luck and pretend like I didn’t know it was 11:15. And guess what? My luck came through this time. I had just made it. Moral of the study, set your watch at least 5min early, just in case!

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July 6, 2005 2:45 PM

TD Visa wants their 24 cents

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by    in Finances

I got my monthly visa statement today and to my surprise I owe TD Bank 24 cents. And they want their 24 cents by the end of the money or else I’m in trouble. Oh no! Where, in the world, am I gonna find 24 cents? Do I look like I’m made of money! Damn!

I don’t know why they bother sending out a bill for something that low. They should juss pay for it themselves rather than hunt me down for pocket change. Yeah, I know it adds since they have millions of clients. But how much would that be? Let’s make a rough estimate.

Canada has 32,805,041 people in it. With an unemployment rate of 7.6%, that leaves 92.4% of the people are employed. Now, let’s posulate that 1/4 of that number are kids who shouldn’t be working, so we’re down to, crap where did my calculator run off to… down to 69.3%. And let’s posulate once again that another quarter are the old folks who are retired, no wait, there’s not that many of them, so let’s cut that in 1/2 as well, so we’re left with 60.6% of the popuation in the work force. So who’s left, oh yeah, people on social service, I’m guessing that’s like 1/3 of the people so we’re left with, approximately 40%.

According to my calcuations, there are 13,122,016 people working. Now out of all those people, not all of them are with TD. TD CanadaTrust owns 21% of the banking market. So again, the number comes out to 2,755,623. And let’s pretend each one of those customers owes TD 24 cents, that would mean TD would pay out $661,349.52. TD Bank Financial Group had $333,000,000,000 in assets, as of January 2005. So the $661,349.52 that me and the rest of the clients owes them is pocket change. It’s like the cost of a timbit to them.

I’m gonna wait a while and not pay off this bill and see if they charge me interest on it. If they do, that would mean that I would be charge 1 cent every 2 month. That’s too much money! I better pay them off now before they send hired goons after me.

**Most of the figures aren’t real. I’m too lazy to do a thorough research. If you wanna find the right numbers, be my guest.

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July 4, 2005 4:05 AM

Deep impact

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On July 4, 2005 at approximately 1:52am a space craft, code named “Deep Impact” launched its impactor on a collision course with Comet Tempel 1. This event took place near Spica in the constellation Virgo. If you’re not into astronomy, Virgo would be somewhere in the southwestern sky, roughly in the same area as the moon around this time.

Comet Tempel

The impactor was totally vapourized by the comet. But before it was destroyed, it managed to take a bunch of photographs, at least 3sec before its destruction.

Comet Tempel impact

After the separation of the impactor, Deep Impact started its flyby mission and recorded the impactor’s course towards Comet Tempel 1. The comet is about 7km wide and the impactor is about the size of a coffee table. So you can image the kind of damage this coffee table size impactor caused on the comet. The impact between the two objects caused the comet to slow down a fraction of its speed. Imagine you’re driving down the street and you hit a bug, that’s how much slower the comet would be going.

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