| Tuesday, November 29, 2005 |
| spizzzooorrrttsss |
u know besdies social work, i wonder what it'd be like if i became a Toronto sports writer. I think my ability to talk about sports more than makes up for inadequacies in playing sports. I point the blame finger at my parents for enrolling me into too many music and arts classes and not throwing me into a house league. Ahh well. Let bygones be bygones. Here are my thoughts on recent events in the world of baseball and basketball for toronto's faithful:
Bluejays signing BJ Ryan to 5 years at 47 million
Huge signing. With the name BJ, you know it was only a matter of time before he returned home to the (BLUEJAYS...just in case ur head was somewhere else with reference to the acronyms in his name). Here's the next step in maturation for a good developing ballclub. We've got a decent core of kids who we raised in our farm and now we're just finishing the puzzle by adding some more pieces on the side...hopefully within the next few weeks we'll add a couple of more pieces by the name of AJ and maybe Giles. That would be a fun and competitive team to watch.
Raptors suck now
It's true, but i remain optimistic that it's all part of the big plan. Babcock even said in the start of the season, which was a pretty dumb move on his part, that we'd do worse than last season given our youth movement. So yeah, nothing totally unexpected here...we're just probably a little worse than we iniitally thought we were. But the kids look promising. Love me charlie vanilla and Calderon and Graham has some hops. Give them a full season together and we'll be looking a lot better. Take into account that we'll be pulling in two more first rounders in the next (but weaker) draft, bring over our overseas kids, throw jalen rose in the garbage can come contract expiry time and we got ourselves a whole new look. Best possible scenario I see is us developing into the Bulls who basically pulled the plug on their vets and started to play their kids. Albeit our kids are not as good as theirs but here's hoping we might have a similar impact. Until then, just bite ur tongue and make sure u take plenty Peptol Bismol after every loss.
Yeah man and for the Leafs.... just get the cylinder shaped ball thing into the hoop or mesh. Yeah. Go Leafs Go. |
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| you know that this year's Winter Crystal Ball is going to be a big party when ur parents call u at 5 in the afternoon, 1 month in advance to the actual date, that they already got their tickets and are wondering if you got urs already. WHAT THE HECK? that's just wiiiizzzziiieeerrrrdddd! |
| posted by DarrenGene @ 5:18 PM |
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| Monday, November 28, 2005 |
| eric nei is in need of some serious sensitivity training |
(earlier at around 1:30pm)
Katz: "coming up the stairs...everything smells like pee" (in reference to the stairs leading up to our apartment smelling like pee)
(later at around 3PM)
Eric: yeah man, i was downstairs earlier today and there was a guy outside talking to another guy and yeah man, he smelled homeless. Now everything down there smells homeless!
Therefore according to Eric Nei, the term 'homeless' is synonymous with 'stale urine'. INTERVENTION!
sensitivity training subject in question |
| posted by DarrenGene @ 3:25 PM |
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| friends...whatchu gonna do without ur friends |
just wanna take the time to say that i am very blesssed by my friends here in the kingtown. Was starting to feel a lil left out since both eric and peapea had their own hot chocolate bins (and a lil tempted to swipe a couple mugs from their treasury as well I might add like i did from josh when he lived with us) but alas, katz superfriend zhang drops on by without much warning and gives me my own jugolic bin with cookies on the side...Wat a good friend. Katz u are no longer friend but superfriend! But yeah very blessed indeed which prompts me now to outline my kingtown friends not trying to be too shallow chronological friends table (and i realize I am bound to miss and so if u're reaidng this and are like...yo! what the heck! i thought i was ur friend, why didn't i get mentioned? don't hate! appreciate! hmmm u know what? on second thought this might not be sucha good idea afterall cuz what if i fail to mention your name and you really like me as a friend but because u don't see ur name here, u'll be all like...Yoh. Screw that! I'm never inviting that punk to any of my movie nights or birthday parties ever again and i'll be sitting alone in my apartment wondering if the cake was sweet and heavy or light and bouncy. So in favour of me eating cake and no feelings being hurt, i will refrain from the friends table. But that can't stop me from doing shoutouts:
SHOUT OUtS tO: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ (pick ur initials here)
friends....how many of u have them...
friends....the ones u can depend on...
friends.
Oh yeah, been meaning to do a blogtag thing cause i got hijacked on that by vels and bern. So in no particular order, 5 random things that u don't know about me... but should.
1) always eat the fries before the burger
2) if there are any forks lying around, i use them to stab at the fries to get em down my mouth
3) chicken wings and potato chips and NES controllers don't mix. I will testify on this.
4) In pictures I am finding that i usually only have one look so i'm trying to break out of the mold and make faces now which might make ppl think..."yoh. Why is he screwing up the pictures with those faces" and I'll be thinking.."yep Im screwing up ur pictures but at least u won't know that I only really have one look"
5) Believe that a clean house is a happy house. Yep. It's a little sad... so when I come over to ur place and start asking u questions like..."hey is everything alright?" and u're perfectly fine just know that it's because I'm secretly judging the state of ur happiness and wellbeing by the state of the mess in ur house/room. So get to ur cleaning or i'll be forced to give u an "it's okay, things are looking up" pat on the shoulder maybe with a sympathetic hug on the side.
And who do i wanna tag? You!
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ (pick ur initials)
peas (which came before peter owen cause i was doing this in highschool) |
| posted by DarrenGene @ 2:40 PM |
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| Sunday, November 13, 2005 |
| things that make you go hmm |
~ when you realize that the pale yellow caulking around the toilet in your washroom isn't really yellow caulking
~ when you find nasty squiggly hair... inside your guitar case
~ when you eat a truckload of fibre-ous products and don't have to go
~ when you ignore getting up to go pee in the middle of the night cause the house is cold and to decide to hold it in till morning and wake up in the morning with no need to pee (and yes the sheets are dry and still white)
~ why Pirate oatmeal Peanut butter cookies are called Pirate oatmeal peanut butter cookies
~ why people try to ruin ur pirate cookies by saying that the peanut butter has traces of rat feces in there
~ why rats would ever want to drop feces in something so good as peanut butter |
| posted by DarrenGene @ 1:06 PM |
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| Wednesday, November 09, 2005 |
| update |
| yoh this new umbrella of mine is a beast. If you live in kingston and were outside today at around 3:30, we were probably caught in one of the worst rain/wind/thunder storms yet this year. Hold up. Now aren't you supposed to put your umbrella away during an electrical storm? Not this puppy since it's all plastic (the shaft might be metal tho but it's reinforced by solid wood-looking plastic). But mang. The wind was out in full force today and seemingly hitting at all directions at once making it real hard for someone to position themselves and their umbrellas in the direction of the wind to avoid inside-out-itis. So many-a-times, i got strong gusts inside the umbrella but it was on point. The plastic beams which support this umbrella do give (there's considerable flex) but that's kinda like steel ladders (which are supposed to bend (not break) under pressure). So i arrived to the lib half-dry (pants were soaked good) but with a phat smile on my face knowing that my multicoloured rain stopper passed its first big test. And just to add, it dries reeeall quick too since the fabric is like dry-fit (or nylon). I'm wondering how everyone else is holding up with their waterstoppers. Kat? Kev (did u get urs yet?). Anyone else? Lets have some testimonials. |
| posted by DarrenGene @ 5:25 PM |
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| Tuesday, November 01, 2005 |
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I'd say I'm a pretty impulsive person when it comes to spending money. After all, it only took me a couple of hours to decide one night that i wanted to buy an acoustic guitar (and she's worth every penny). So yeah, it was drizzling this afternoon so i decided that i needed an umbrella and dropped 30 at the campus bookstore for one of those gaudy tricolour sport umbrellas pictured here ----->  .
Now this might seem to be an impulsive and expensive buy but let me tell you that the 30 spent today was longtime coming. First of all, as much as the rain makes my hair look sexy (haha) giving my strands that lustre and shine from being wet (and if u know me i don't do gel on the daily), it gets ur clothes wet and then u smell like a wet dog making u feel like a wet dog. I'm no scientist but being wet and cold i think increases your chances of getting sick with colds and aids (taking into account that my immune system is as effective as the Leafs defensive line). So yeah, I'm not a big fan of rain or raine (as in mada of OLP fame) making umbrellas a very necesary accesory.
Don't get me wrong, I've had umbrellas up here in my 4 years but they all broke cause they were cheap metal and they couldn't withstand the wind. Most of the time umbrellas when they catch a gust of wind, turn inside out, and that's happened a few times, but i remember on my way to class 2 years ago, the stem snapped in 2 and the head of the umbrella was carried away by the wind. If u're going to make umbrellas so thin it's gotta be made of adamantium or something. After losing Kato (my latest umbrella...which originally belonged to brother's friend Tommy Kato but he neglected to pick it up) a couple of weeks ago, it was only a matter of time before i got a new one.
Yoh but let me tell you about this tricolour tank. Firsttly, the colours are fruity making the umbrella look fruity but given my previous history of fruity (literally for one) umbrellas, it was a logical progression. And this umbrella is a tank... at least it weighs as much. The shaft is solid wood (no puns or metaphors intended) and the spindels or supports are reinforced well. Although, today wasn't a particulary windy day, i tried, rather than pointing the umbrella in the direction of the wind as i used to to prevent the umbrella folding inside out, i did the opposite to see if it could take it while maintaining structural integrity... no shakiness here. And as i was walking home, i caught jealous eyes a staring from owners with their dinky little KIA's of umbrellas with spindles sticking out through the nylon fabric. Suckers. No more trying to stay a step ahead of the wind. I got rain on the lockdown now. |
| posted by DarrenGene @ 2:43 PM |
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