| Wednesday, December 28, 2005 |
| astigmatized |
Can you Guess Who it's a mystery?
Um...Does your person wear glasses?
Yes!
It's Dano!
That's right you win!
yeah so after checking out my eyes at the optometrist i learned that 'sides from my near blind near sightedness, i also have minor astigmatism too on the side which contributes a bit to the blurring of the vision. Funny thing is that although this was news to me, apparently I had this for 5 years and my eye doctor just neglected to tell me until now. It just kinda slipped out...like "yeah so i'm gonna send out an order for new lenses for you to counter the slight changes in your right eye so if you can just see Viktor at the desk to set a pickup time that'll be great and you have astigmatism." So yeah man and since my eyes are still getting worse, i can't do up the laser treatment yet which means that if i ever plan to go surfing in the near future, either I'm going to have stumble about blind and no doubt get my ars kicked mistaking girls for my surfboard or rawk pescription goggles and still get my ars kicked for being on the beach and not at a dungeons and dragons convention. Being diagnosed with astigmatism might explain for the real clear slivers and small white chunks that i sometimes see every so often and when i try to follow them with my eyes they just zip away. But i never saw that as a problem, but moreso a dumb impossible to win game that i play with myself in trying to catch the slivers. Like in my wonder years, blinking everytime we passed by a streetlight in the car while my dad or mom was driving...Game was fun in neighbourhood zones but once we hit the open road and my dad can sometimes floor it, my eyes would get reaaal tired... which probably explains the eye problems now...that and those retarded magic eye pictures that i could never get (i mean how do you "unfocus" your eyes? I bet you nothing was ever there at all and it was just a trick to make gullible ppl look stupid... Everyone who says they can see spaceships and horses? Liars and are in on the prank. And for the rest of us trying to play the game in figuring out what's secretly (not) there like.."yeah now that i flip my eyeballs inside out and look a little to the right with my left eye while blinking with my right, i can kinda make out darth vader" meanwhile everyone else in the room is snickering. Didn't think i'd find out about ur tricks and lies diiidddd you? conspiracy theory's my gamme!). Bahhhhh! On the bright side, if i get reaaaal blind, maybe that'll be enuf justification for my dad to get me a "seeing-eyed" dog.
...and astigmatism also means that i see dead people. Woogie Boogie Nyuukeeeaaaa! |
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| Monday, December 26, 2005 |
| love me the 680 news |
so on our way home from the annual wong family christmas dinner, i caught this on 680 news:
Newscaster: ..."this marks the first time in almost 25 years that Hanukah is being celebrated on the same day as Christmas. With more on this story, we go to our special correspondent, Rabbi __________."
Rabbi ______: "Yes, this is a very rare occasion that both Jews and Christians can celebrate together on the same day. Because it is so rare, this makes this day very special."
Newscaster: "Thank you. And in other news..."
Thanks 680 news. I needed a rabbi to tell me that that something rare is special. Quuaaalllity use of sources there. If i ever setup a news show I'd get mike tyson to be my insider for all my news claims cause if you even try to disagree with him, he'll come over to your place, nibble on your ear a bit, and eat your kids.
a model of journalistic integrity |
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| Friday, December 23, 2005 |
| king kongacrappa |
| Safe to read. No spoilers. Cept that Kong dies in the end. But if you didn't know about that than I should probably let you know that Jesus rises from the dead in the Passion of the Christ. Whoops. Honestly, there's a whole lotta good that can be said about this movie and a whole lotta bad. Now if you watched this movie, jack black caps off the movie with a pretty memorable quote at the very very end. Only problem with the quote is that it's absolutely retarded. If you haven't seen it, go watch it, if even just to hear that one quote. And then come back here and we can talk about it. Seriously, it's one of those movies that eveyrone has to see. Like Starwars. No matter how retarded it is and how bad the acting is, you have to see it so you can tell your kids that you saw it cause starswars and kingkong and titanic will be the only movies that they'll recognize from ur generation. Like my mom and dad telling me about all these obscure bands they listened to but the only ones that register are the Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel. Do it for the kids so you guys can have something to talk about over the dinner table. Making connections to the obligatory "drug talk" with the kids will be much easier when u make reference to peter jackson being high as a kite when making this movie. |
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| Wednesday, December 21, 2005 |
| a few of my favourite (kinds of) blogs |
I had a chance to catch the tail end of the sound of music a couple days back which got my thinking about what are a few of my favourite things... and that's blogs. So many different types, and here I outline my favourite kinds:
1) The metaphorical Blog: these are the ones that don't really tell you anything about the person, how he or she's doing, but might give you an idea. These ppl often post song lyrics which apparently are supposed to reflect the current state of mood that they're in. How Lifehouse lyrics get to so many blogs is a mystery to me. I mean is Lifehouse really that good that u must post "you and me" on ur site or a similar type song on ur site? What kills me are the ones with mp3s or midi songs embedded into the site once u load the page... and it's ALWAYS a slow jam. When did everyone become so romantical? How are you going to have Utada Ikaru's First Love song playing on your site when u don't even understand Japanese? For all you know, she could be talking smack about your mom in the verse while you sway gently back and forth to the infectious musicbox piano key hits. We need to get original and upload some good ole Metallica to midi. Can you imagine how the guitars would sound for Unfrogiven in midi? that would rock my world and instantly make that page a bookmark for me.
2)The Spiritual encourager blog : These sites are also metaphorical in nature. A simple Bible passage is posted and that is it. They're usually posted because they were some form of encouragement to the writer and she/he felt it was a good idea to post it to encourage others. I'm in no way knocking this approach because hey, at least the writer is posting about something that is eternally significant, but verses can be pretty cryptic. I'd be more interested in how you interpreted such passages in your life and how you responded in turn.
3)The hater-ation/Ranter blog : This extends to hating about everything about their significant other, their hate for others who have significant others, their hate for themselves because they don't have a significant other, and just generally hate all around. To be honest, reading such entries makes me LOL (except i'm not really LOLing...I'm just thinking LOL cause LOLing at your computer? who actually does that? Hey if you do, that's cool...that's just not me, so when you spot me saying LOL, check me in my fakery cause I'm probably not LOLing and would need a good rebuke for lying). These blogs are all about creating drama where there should be no drama. I love ppl who hate on wannabe gangstas like they're all wise old men who have been gangstas and have the street cred to say: "Hey son. Stop dressing like a G, cause I was a G and I know that you ain't one." It's the "realness" critics, the "relationship gurus", the "hopeless romantics" that all come out and show their true colours in such blogs. Being a fellow hater myself, to the extent that I just like to laff about everything because this world is just a funny funny place with funny funny ppl, i gotta give two thumbs up (with some serious cut-eye on the side) for offering me minutes of fun.
4) the What Just Happened blog : After getting thru an entry of these kinds, you're just left there scratching your head thinking that maybe the mushrooms you ate in your pasta might have actually been shrooms, which is why you're so dazed and confused right now. These are the most completely random blogs in the universe of bloggery which my consist of math tangrams for the oct 15th entry followed directly by a grocery list the next day. People who are typing away on their keyboards for these blogs have to be certified geniuses cause an ordinary person's brain does not operate in that manner... but then again there is no real fine line between insanity and genius... sucess seems to be the determining factor between the two. If you visit such blogs regularly, get in tighter with the blogwriter cause she/he is brimming on some Beautiful Mind Action and you just might be the Jennifer Connelly to the Russell Crowe if you play your cards right.
yeah so these are my favourite kinds of blogs. I by no means am claiming that I have not dipped into each archetype because to a certain degree I have posted incredibly random things, posted obscure bible verses that spoke a certain brand of truth to me, hated on others and hated on the fact that I am being hated on by others, but what I have NEVVEERRR done is post song lyrics. I don't know why. Songs do speak to me. I just never felt compelled to post a set of lyrics...until now. So here goes. Enjoy my faithful blog reader! Peace to K-town.
R&B singer R. Kelly was arrested in Florida in 2002 on 21 counts of child pornography. The arrest was based on a videotape allegedly showing R. Kelly having sex with an underage girl.
My minds telling me no but my body my body's telling me yeah baby i dont want
to hurt nobody but there is something that i must confess to you
Chorus
I dont see nothing wrong (Wrong) With a little bump and grind with a little
bump and grind I dont see nothing wrong (wrong ba ba baby Hey)I dont see
nothing wrong (wrong) I dont see nothing wrong with a little bump and grind
with a little bump and grind i dont see nothing wrong (wrong)
Verse
(lookie here) See i know just what you want and i know just what you need girl
so baby bring your body to me(bring your body here) im not fooling around with
you baby my love is true with you with you is where i want to be i want to be
girl you need someone someone like me to satisfy your every need.
Bring that badboy back to the chorus yeaaaahhh |
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i have beeeen eating sooo much foood.
When I'm at home making dinner in the ktizzzown, I'd usually do up half a cup of rice, 2-3 cups of veggies (assuming that they're in the frozen form), and slab of meat be it fish, chicken, or beef, and call that a meal. But ever since I got home I've been eating for two... and it doesn't help that my parents have been taking me to all you can eat sushi places (i'm heading again tommorow...this'll be twice since i got back on the saturday, not including taco sushi which i hit up with ET peeps after church). I knew it was coming too. When I first walked thru the door my mom said i looked too skinny and said that she was going to fatten me up good before i head back to school.
I'm now beginning to realize that that's the mission of all mothers in my family: to fatten up their kids. It's true everytime my grandma sees my dad (but my dad is legitimately skinny being the frikken ironman marathon runner that he is...and no im not jealous). I believe my mom said the same thing to my bro and he ain't even that skinny. You know i don't necessarily have a problem with my moms telling me that she's going to feed me good, but why does she wanna fatten me up? Is this because she wants me to be nice and plump before she sticks me in the oven? Do your moms tell you this as well? Honestly, I don't think i've gotten skinnier and my weight's been pretty consistent for 5 straight years. I think her telling me i look skinnier might be a front... that is unless of course the family pictures she's been developing have been stretching the pictures a little too sideways or the digicam picture viewer that she rawks makes people seem a little chunkier and shorter than they really are. But tha can't be the case either cause she's never in the past 3-4 years, said that I look like i'm taller (damn you milk and your lies). And yeah, there's the whole obsession with looking healthy with Chinas and what healthy really looks like (my chinese middle name means good-health just to show you how big a priority that was for my parents for me....nope not to be handsome or damn sexy...to be healthy)... this has the makings of another retarded Seinfeld post where i rant about nothing....i'll stop here and carry on with the rest of my weekend.
So yeah besides the excessive eating, I'm setting up interviews for my thesis with pastors and revs from emerging churches, and they've all been real receptive about doing these interviews...even offering to take me out to lunch and pay for my meals in doing em... I suppose that kinda generousity is expected out of church shepherds, but it's real nice to be on the receiving end, especially during the crazy Christmas consumer rush.
And yeah, on another note, I've been doing pretty good in avoiding the consumer rush (except when it comes to food at least). I only hit up Fairview once and that was to pick up a pair of some real nice leather mitts to keep the paws warm. Think I'm going to do the shopping for the family online this year...maybe book a show for my parents thru ticketmaster.ca, and get something nice for my bro. Don't know yet, but it's been the least of my worries. I've had some good times so far: Watching Narnia and almost watching Kong the next day with good friends, playing hockey with ET boys and Eric Mok, making a ruckus at Gavo's baptism, chillen like a villain with my always dependable, sometimes off the top with the ethnic hate boys (and manda =p), watching raptors games again on the tv set, putting gradschool applications on the backburner....yeah man goodtimes
And more fun stuff to happen during this week including Kong (finally), illuminate and ET parties, and winter crystal bizzaaaallll
And on a totally random tangent, just a quick question. If you had a plant that you grew and nurtured for 3 years but in the third year, started to grow mega ugly...like a twig with a couple of leaves on the top, wouldn't you chuck that? I sure would. Ugliness is grounds for chucking. There I made my case Kat Zhang.
Peace to K-Town (and dano: I'm eating for both of us here in your memory haha) |
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| Thursday, December 15, 2005 |
| phonetag |
so right about now (5:28PM) i'm waiting by the computers at mac-correy pressing the refresh button on my email box hoping that my thesis supervisor will hit me back. This afternoon was all about phonetag, email tag since we've both been working against the clock trying to get ethics approval for my undergrad thesis that im working on regarding postmodern churches. He's all over the place, I'm all over the place and now that everything's done, all i need is his signature and then i can drop this sucka off and head home with a smile. Real nice guy, but impossible to locate. He's the kinda guy that when u try to schedule an appointment with him, he emails you from india 5 hours later letting u know he'll be back shortly. arrrrgrggghhhh but yeah all i need to do is find him then everything's gravy. I love how in mac correy too, when u go upstairs everything is windows so u can check to see if the person u're looking for is on the 3rd or 5th floor as well. Wish me luck or im going to have to make a homecheck! peas
(5:38 update): cmon now. If you're a prof teaching about new communications technology there's no excuse to no pick up ur phone or answer ur emails. Work with me here ryan (name changed to protect identity). let's go.
(5:38: 32 seconds): yesss i type that fast while still looking down at the keyboard. I've grown impatient and hungry within the last 32 seconds. I'm going to call his home now
(5:40): why is no one picking up? why won't you return my calls? was it something i said? was it something i've done? I'm starting to feel the irrational/violent veins pumping...
(5:44): that's it. I'ev had it. Prof. tomilslot (name changed to protect identity) is the invisible man. I'm not in the proper mental state to continue with these sherades. Unguarded empty pop cans beware. Hulk smaaasssshhh! Oh well, at least i get to head to "wok IN" with jordan and dano tonite and then watch kingggg konnnggg take on t-rexs! oh snap! maybe this'll beat narnia night last night (which i really enjoyed)....irrational/violent veins subsiding... all is well. Serenity now
(5:59): was halfway on way to home when i decided to call his home again. Success. I can drop off forms at his house. Now back at Maccorrey doing my part of the signing and updating about the latest. Hopefully this'll be the last post about this. Pray that i don't get attacked by squirrels or rhinos on my trek to his home
Peas for good
(6:00): my prof is also a prof about surveillance practices with new forms of tech. I will change his name to protect his identity as well as my own academic future just in case this blog becomes published in sociolofy today |
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| kobe again |
thanks to ken tang for this one. harhar |
| posted by DarrenGene @ 1:46 AM |
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this stuff doesn't hehlp u concentate better. it jstu make your fingersa alk jitttery so yoiu can't tyoe good. say no to redfull |
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| gotta love him |
Kobe makes the best pictures. Enter in your own caption for this picture. I'll start then you:
Janeero: Hello... yeah listen Kobe... i know i fouled you on that last play and all but...
Kobe: Shut up.
Janeero: uhhhh...
Kobe: Just shut up. You had me at hello. You had me at... hello. (cue bruce springstein's secret garden here) |
| posted by DarrenGene @ 1:28 PM |
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| Friday, December 09, 2005 |
| question... |
what's right/wrong with this picture?
I'll take the first stab then you. Kobe's shoes need to be outlawed. |
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| Wednesday, December 07, 2005 |
| reeeeeee-flect |
So i've been pretty conflicted in the past 48 hours about social work and why exactly I'm applying to social work programs right now. Figured that social work would be the "logical" progression after finishing up an undergrad in sociology for the following reasons:
1) Sociology is the study about how the world we live in is bleeding from all orifices is and social work sees itself as the itsy bitsy band-aid
2) Since both disciplines are the object of crude jokes u wouldn't say in front of your granny with a dash of pity at medical conventions and legal cocktail parties, i won't have to throw away my list of snide scientists, doctors, lawyers, and professional charlatans that i plan to assassinate when i make the transition from sociologist to social worker
3) They both start with Soci... like socicannibalist
after some digging into what being a social worker is all about, especially with regards to child welfare, I've come to realize that many of the stereotypes of being a social worker are shockingly true:
1) The pay is low. Median salary is 30-35 gs. A small minority of supervisors and social workers of social workers see double that but that's about as high as that goes.
2) Social workers working in child welfare do face the risk of bodily harm... from the parents of the kids u've decided to remove from the home for safety issues
3) there's a high turnover rate for social workers due to not being paid enuf, not being prepared for the harsh realities of the job, beauracratic mumbo jumbo, and developing cases of depression.
So all this got me thinking. Is it all worth it? Is social justice and change high on my list of priorities that i'd be willing to forego personal riches of a more money-laden job? Do i really care THAT much? Now I realize I can read and read and read and still not know what being a social worker is really about since I'm looking in from the outside but my initial impression is like this job could turn out to be like watching a Passion of the Christ movie marathon over and over again and skipping over the part where we know that Christ overcomes the grave at the end.
Then just recently while reading an article for an essay I'm writing (yes i still have work to do you insensitive monkeys) I came across this quote which floored me:
"We simply cannot transform the world without in the process of transforming ourselves. We cannot stay fabulously rich and still pretend that we are committed to eradicating poverty. If doing away with inequality means - and does it not mean this? - that our privileges must be shared equally and universally." - Brain Murphy (Inter Pres)
and in light of all the biblestudies that alvi and I have been leading about not living for ourselves, it really got me to thinking to what extent do i take this... being committed to others, living a life not of my own... seriously?
you know and u pray for this sort of thing that God would do whatever the hell he wants with you and that u just learn to be submissive... man what if God's calling me to do this and the "perils" of the job is making me not want to listen?
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| Sunday, December 04, 2005 |
| oh my goodness |
so yeah im applying to the university of hawaii for social work this year. So recently, they just put a promo video about campus life over there and man... it's goooood times like watching saved by the bell reruns.
Favourite part in the trailer:
Dan: heeeeyyyy K-dawg!
Kamuela: hey dan-dawg!
Dan and Kamuela: Woooof!
best promo ever. And as Dan would say, "it's the bomb yo". Cross your fingers for me. It might be me in next year's promo giving props to my boys K-dawg and Dan-Dawg. bark! |
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| Saturday, December 03, 2005 |
| praise and prayer |
| man i just wanna say that i had a lot of fun last night at the fellowship's praise and prayer. Real hard to hear anything cause everything was so loud but just singing with one eye open and watching ppl with eyes shut and arms raised expressing their love to an awesome and loving God and then getting retarded with shouts of praise later did it for me. Everyone going nuts over a rockstar named Jesus. Goodtimes. But yeah man. It's so encouraging to be in a room with ppl who seem to love Jesus so much which even the more motivates me to carry out that love outside the walls of kingston hall. Rock on |
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