I was on the subway today, coming home from work, and there was this couple in the same carriage as me, standing and essentially making out. Both were good-looking, and within each others leagues, plus or minus. The odd thing about them (not the making out; if you haven't seen people make out on the TTC, you've never been on the TTC) was the guy; as he's feeling the girl up and she's swallowing his neck, he was looking around, seeing if anyone else was watching them. It's like he wanted desperately to brag "Look at me, I got a hot girlfriend and you don't, so take that, bitches!" and, in absence of doing that, was hoping people were getting jealous. I'm not sure if that was his motivation for getting together with the girl in the first place; to get attention. Sure looked that way. Also looked like it failed miserably. I saw another, similar, couple at Square One, yesterday while comign home from work, a hot asian girl sucking face with a pimply asian geek. When not snogging (and man, were they going at it. You'd think the girl's biological clock was down to its final minutes) the guy was similarly looking around, seeing if anyone is noticing him with this girl who would normally be above his league. I hope he knows the only reason he scored her is cause of asian incest, and not any other reason, otherwise he's in for a world of emotional pain. And because he was hoping people would notice, I'll stand and laugh at him instead of feeling sorry when he does go down that road. Becasue I'm mean like that *pops Vicodin pill*
Another disturbing thing I see on the TTC; every Friday, I take the train south from Finch instead of up from Yonge as I do on Sat and Sun. And at Sheppard-Yonge, I encounter a group of private school kids who load onto the train. It's a funny thing about this group; they're about 80% white and 20% asian. When they get onto the train, all the white kids go to one side of the carriage, where they talk obnoxiously loud about how Jake's like, so embarrassing and Kathy's like, totally different now, while the asian kids go to the other side, where they sit, silently, with this haughty "I'm too good for the likes of you" expression on their faces (If you've never seen this look before, think Blue Steel done by someone in all seriousness. If you don't know Blue Steel, google it up or think Zoolander) What disturbs me about this social arrangement is how, without fail, this segregation occurs. The whites and asians don't even mistakenly acknowledge each others' presence. I would say it's not natural, but this is the way it has been for years and years. But our generation was supposed to change that, yet every friday I see proof that it's not happening. It's not like these kids are willfully racist, as they don't have a problem sitting next to any other person on the bus. They seem to be more subconsciously racist, which is even more dangerous. And the parents of these kids, whites and asians alike? What exactly is their motivation for sending their children to a school like this? I know what it is; this is exactly what they're aiming for. I hope I'm wrong. I really, really hope I'm wrong.
And now onto things I don't see on my commute. First up, Christopher Reeve. It's really sad that Reeve is dead, because now that the stem cell debate has been blown open all over again, his presence is really being missed. Michael J. Fox is good, but Reeve was Reeve. And Reeve and Fox together was the best combo fighting for stem cell research in a while.
I wonder when they'll make a biopic about Christopher Reeve (with the stuff they churn out these days, and with biopics winning big at the Oscars, it's pretty much a guarantee at this point) and who they'd cast in the role. Maybe Ben Affleck again? Who knows.
Speaking of movies, the apartheid drama Catch a Fire opened recently. It's funny, people have almost forgotten about apartheid, yet still remember Nazism. At its core, both followed the same principles. So what makes one so much more atrocious than the other? The number of people? Do you mean to tell me that just because x people are persecuted in one system and x+2 people are persecuted in another, that system 2 becomes more horrendous and system 1 not so much? Why did apartheid exist in the first place; isn't that the kind of thing the UN was set up to stop? Well, the UN has become a running joke now, and will continue to be as long as names like Ban Ki-Moon and Louise Arbour are bandied about as Secretary General instead of names like Nelson Mandela or Romeo Dallaire.And if the private school children on the subway are any indication, that change is still a long way away.
Hell of a long and somewhat depressing blog. Hope this makes up for the months of inactivity.

Friday are when my Humber midterm marks officially get submitted. I have a rough idea of how things will look, and so far, so good. Let's just hope I can keep it up, knock on stainless steel. Why stainless steel? Get with the times, people :P
Speaking of getting with the times, I find the recent uproar in the Canadian press over Peter McKay supposedly referring to Belinda Stronach as a 'dog' in parliament. Putting aside the argument of whether or not this actually happened--I'm pretty sure most of the people on all parties were asleep at the time; there is a reason CPAC is not a very popular channel, you know--the attention given to it is rather ridiculous. A bitter ex? Now I've seen everything! What's next, cop eating a donut? And somehow, the opposition has managed to spin this into an attack on all women, as if Belinda Stronach is somehow representative of the average Canadian woman. Because, you know, the average Canadian woman is the daughter of a multimillionaire entrepreneur with blonde hair who has affairs with popular married hockey players. I walk down my street, I see ten of them. The most absurd part of all this? That this is the most important issue in canadian news right now. Seriously. This is important? Is there no real pressing issue for these elected government officials to handle? Is everything in the country in tip-top shape? Okay, then. Let's work on stuff that actually affects people then, eh?
More later. I'm suffering from a combiantion of writer's block (blogger's block? Blogblock? Blogck?) and lack of time. Enjoy!