Deepayan/Uberhero/Confidence Man/Cleo/Eric/other personalities to be added later
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
The day after
In a little while
I won't be blown by every breeze
I won't be blown by every breeze
- U2, In a Little While
¶ 7:03 PM 1 Comments
Well, the TTC decided to go on strike yesterday to get a long weekend...I mean, fight for better working conditions. I never understand the reasoning behind a strike by government employees, be they TTC workers or public school teachers or any other public sector. It's like they're saying the government doesn't appreciate us, so let's punish the people who do. I had nowhere to go yesterday and that makes me a lucky minority. This is definitely not the way for them to go about gathering support; I just wish the employees would've understood that. But then again, that would entail them understanding that the union is playing them for fools. Obviously (and sadly), that's not happening anytime soon.
In other news, there's still a genocide going on in Sudan, but that's secondary news on that continent to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's superbaby, whose initial saliva is expected to cure cancer and whose first words are going to disprove Newton's second law of motion...wait, what? It's not actually expected to do any of those things? What? It's only going to look good? Is it a human being or a wax statue? Hmmm....it's funny how even the media can wear blinders every so often. Stuck in Namibia for four months awaiting the arrival of a baby, not one major (or minor) network finds the stamina to hop over to neighbouring South Africa and put together a major report on how that country is developing 16 years after Apartheid. Not ot mention the bounty on the baby's picture; $5 Million US. Really? Cause I've got some old baby pics of me that I'm willing to let you have for half a mil instead. I mean, honestly, it's a baby; to the best of my knowledge, all newborn babies look the same. I suppose the tabloids are expecting this one to look different, have extremely pouty lips perhaps. The real question is How on earth do they have $5 million US to spend on 1 baby picture? This is contrasted quite starkly by the fact that Pitt and Jolie asked for and willingly received complete privacy from the Namibian media; apparently they don't consider the baby that special.
Well, those are all the ramblings I have time to put onscreen today; more to come eventually sometime.
In other news, there's still a genocide going on in Sudan, but that's secondary news on that continent to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's superbaby, whose initial saliva is expected to cure cancer and whose first words are going to disprove Newton's second law of motion...wait, what? It's not actually expected to do any of those things? What? It's only going to look good? Is it a human being or a wax statue? Hmmm....it's funny how even the media can wear blinders every so often. Stuck in Namibia for four months awaiting the arrival of a baby, not one major (or minor) network finds the stamina to hop over to neighbouring South Africa and put together a major report on how that country is developing 16 years after Apartheid. Not ot mention the bounty on the baby's picture; $5 Million US. Really? Cause I've got some old baby pics of me that I'm willing to let you have for half a mil instead. I mean, honestly, it's a baby; to the best of my knowledge, all newborn babies look the same. I suppose the tabloids are expecting this one to look different, have extremely pouty lips perhaps. The real question is How on earth do they have $5 million US to spend on 1 baby picture? This is contrasted quite starkly by the fact that Pitt and Jolie asked for and willingly received complete privacy from the Namibian media; apparently they don't consider the baby that special.
Well, those are all the ramblings I have time to put onscreen today; more to come eventually sometime.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
And I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very mad world mad world
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me
And I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very mad world ... mad world
Enlarging your world
Mad world
¶ 7:21 PM 1 Comments
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
And I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very mad world mad world
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me
And I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very mad world ... mad world
Enlarging your world
Mad world
- Mad World, originally sung by Tears for Fears
covered by Gary Jules and Michael Andrews
covered by Gary Jules and Michael Andrews
Friday, May 19, 2006
Love Song for no one
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err
The title of this blog, of course, is blatantly lifted from a John Mayer song (a very good one, more so in this day and age of Ashlee Simpson and Nick Lachey) For those who have yet to hear Mayer, he is an excellent guitarist, arguably the best among his generation of musicians.
Moving along, I ended exams on May 9th and began summer classes on May 16th, enjoying my 1 week of summer rather better than I expected. I made my first ever foray into Pacific Mall and was rather impressed, despite noticing that it was East Asian fob central. East Asian fobs are not aggressive fobs, unlike South Asian fobs, (who will act like fobs even if they're born here) South Asian fobs view any sort of attempt to enter their perceived domain as unwanted intrusion, amybe even for the purpose of invasion. Where they get this idea, I do not understand; thankfully, they don't act on it besides a few words here and there. Yet.
Of course, it may be possible that East Asian fobs also have this mentality, and that you must be East Asian to see it. But it didn't seem like it to me. And besides, a lot of non-East Asian people know of and regularly visit Pacific Mall; no South Asian store or mall has that level of popularity.
Well, back to my activities, summer school is not turning out too badly. I had my first bio250 lab on Tuesday, and our lab TA, much to my surprise, has a sense of humor. This was confirmed by the fact that I was about to draw water from his waer bottle, thinking it was ethanol, and he said "That would be kind of funny" I'll allow you a moment to let that sink in.
The class also seems fun; the one class I did attend (there were two, but I was sick for the first one) our professor spent the pre-class time talking to the students. So far, it has cracked up to be all I expected; the first test, however, will be the real barometer. Oh well, we shall see.
And that's all the time we have today, folks. Tune in...sometime in the future, same place, time unsure. Drive safe, Ladies and Gentlemen, and enjoy your long weekend. ¶ 1:19 PM 0 Comments
- Mahatma Gandhi
The title of this blog, of course, is blatantly lifted from a John Mayer song (a very good one, more so in this day and age of Ashlee Simpson and Nick Lachey) For those who have yet to hear Mayer, he is an excellent guitarist, arguably the best among his generation of musicians.
Moving along, I ended exams on May 9th and began summer classes on May 16th, enjoying my 1 week of summer rather better than I expected. I made my first ever foray into Pacific Mall and was rather impressed, despite noticing that it was East Asian fob central. East Asian fobs are not aggressive fobs, unlike South Asian fobs, (who will act like fobs even if they're born here) South Asian fobs view any sort of attempt to enter their perceived domain as unwanted intrusion, amybe even for the purpose of invasion. Where they get this idea, I do not understand; thankfully, they don't act on it besides a few words here and there. Yet.
Of course, it may be possible that East Asian fobs also have this mentality, and that you must be East Asian to see it. But it didn't seem like it to me. And besides, a lot of non-East Asian people know of and regularly visit Pacific Mall; no South Asian store or mall has that level of popularity.
Well, back to my activities, summer school is not turning out too badly. I had my first bio250 lab on Tuesday, and our lab TA, much to my surprise, has a sense of humor. This was confirmed by the fact that I was about to draw water from his waer bottle, thinking it was ethanol, and he said "That would be kind of funny" I'll allow you a moment to let that sink in.
The class also seems fun; the one class I did attend (there were two, but I was sick for the first one) our professor spent the pre-class time talking to the students. So far, it has cracked up to be all I expected; the first test, however, will be the real barometer. Oh well, we shall see.
And that's all the time we have today, folks. Tune in...sometime in the future, same place, time unsure. Drive safe, Ladies and Gentlemen, and enjoy your long weekend. ¶ 1:19 PM 0 Comments
