| Sunday, January 29, 2006 |
| in defence of my defence of robby |
i know in our super speedy culture writing a post about babcock's firing is weak. As in last week. But a couple of things for the keeds. Me writing this post does not mean that i have some form of unhealthy emotional attachment to our former raptors GM, it's moreso me saying, "whaaaatt is up?" basketball and nonbasketball fans. I'm past the point now where I think i need to defend babcock's moves as a GM for our Canadian franchise. But i don't know man, I'm just kinda bummed about how everybody from the sports fan to the sports critique is really praising this firing thinking that this is a positive step forward for our raptors franchise. And you know now would be the time to insert a really deep proverb or truth but i gots none right now, cept this bitter taste left in my mouth... this bitter taste that cannot be sweetened even with the biggest spoonful of nutella. Oh no friends, this bitter taste cannot be fixed with a shot of proverbial sugar a.k.a. bringing in a real fantastic credible GM to take the helm. It's just knowing that when something goes wrong, you gotta get rid of it. Because Robby might have made some questionable moves, we gotta can him. And you know this ain't a good message to be sending to the keeds. In an age where the term "till death do us part" is a running joke, where we throw criminals in jail to rot or sentence them to death for breaking the law, we gotta ask ourselves if this is really what we want of life? is it better to discard than save? And i know talking about a sports firing might seem a little trivial... but what happened to robby isn't so much an isolated move but moreso a small tumour of the selfish deteriorating cancer that is this selfish culture that we live in. And i know. Basketball is business and what happened just happened because it's the nature of the beast. But isn't it a little unsettling knowing the message we're sending to the keeds? The weather forecast doesn't look so bright. |
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| Friday, January 27, 2006 |
| in defence of robby |
yay raptors! it's about time we got rid of that know-nothing pretentious sorry excuse for a general manager! Now we can back on the road towards nba credibility! yayyyyyy!
couple problems i have with the firing. First, arguably the main reasons why he was canned was becuz of past mistakes: the VC trade and drafting Hoffa. If you wanted to can your GM because of these two moves alone, fine, but wouldn't it have made sense to see his termination a lot sooner, say about a year ago when Vince was packing his bags in exchange for picks and scrubs? Why wait till now to pull the trigger. If we look at this past season we can see a lot of corrections/good moves that Robby made:
1) traded Skip to my Lou for Mike Jones...er James. No argument of who won that trade
2) drafted promising rooks in Charlie Vanilla, Joey Graham, 2 Euro boys who we'll see next year maybe and signed Jose Calderon. None of these moves are considered bad
3) brought back Matt Bonner on a small 2 year contract: This one is a toss up
yeah yeah? so yeah his most recent moves of this season have looked decent and shows that maybe Robby can turn the corner and turn out to be a decent GM. Too bad we won't get to see what he can do. But this all makes things very interesting for the next GM to call toronto home. Whoever this mystery man is is going to inherit a pretty decent looking franchise jam packed with potential-budding youth, a lot of cap wiggle room next year as Jalen comes off the books among others to make some trades and signings, and a budding superstar in Chris Bosh to build around. If you ask me that's a dream job. Never mind the losing right now cause that's bound to happen with a young team, and may i remind u that we are very young but there have been glimpses of things to come with our most recent win streak. So whoever's going to be our next GM is going to get lotsa love from fans and media cause he's walking into a potential goldmine. Kinda like how JP Ricciardi inherited a real good base of young talent from Gord Ash when he took the helm of the Bluejays.
So friends, don't hate Robby. He's done some good. He's drafted well (with the exception of Hoffa). He's cleared cap. He paved the way for the future. And now we robbed him of his baby. Shame on us raptors fans. Shame on us. |
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| Thursday, January 26, 2006 |
| whateguan |
this was sent to me courtesy of one chris kong who writes some serious funny material: check Chris on the peng-yous list. So anyways, this is an email transcript that was forwarded to me by chris that was circulating within the qkids circle. Goodtimes. But on the serious, I am serious on the locking. Don't front. - BBoy ChinaLock (yeah? yeah?)
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On 1/20/06, Kevin S. Hagino wrote:
Yo! Con, i really like the beat to this instrumental~ I can already picture different poses on the chairs and stuff. Maybe we'll bring some to the 7:00
sesh and mess around with stuff? I've been thinking about getting shirts done for everyone. It'd take about 3weeks to process and maybe a $20-25 investment from everyone. How'boutit? It'd make the final show look really legit and plus...i wanna walk away from qkids with something from my last year!!! Any thoughts for designs?
>>Kev
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>>> > >From: Jordan Wong
>>> > >To: "Kevin S. Hagino"
i can get darren to so some simple graf stuff and possible get my friend
lena to do the silk screen for teh shirts. all we would need is to buy the
shirts. i'd of course have to talk to them bout the details first. we could also get darren to lock for us in the show but then qkids would be "cute" dancers. hahaha
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>>> > >jordan
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>>>On 1/20/06, geoff goodson wrote:
I would love to incorporate a locker into the show! But, we'd have to get
that started right away and know that the guy is commited. Locking makes
me giggle like a school girl tee hee hee
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>>>From: Jordan Wong
>>>To: geoff goodson
>>>Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:51:28 -0500
hes not really a locker, hes just cuuuuuuuuuute hahha
- jordan
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> From: ready2battle@hotmail.com
> LOL....i laughed out loud when Geoff thought that Darren was a real
> locker..hahaha
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From: Chris K.
man, somebody's gotta forward this whole ordeal to darren
yea, he's cute, but he's still a baaad man.
sorta like bruce willis.
...in die hard 1988
but THEN in look who's talking in 1989...
but THEN in die hard TWO in 1990
BUT THEN in look who's talking TOO in 1990 (TOO!)
BUUUTTTT then: die hard WITH A VENGEANCE (1995)
but THEENNNNN: rugrats go wild (2003)
and finally: Die hard 4.0 (currently in pre-production(!))
so there you have it. Darren is serious.
perhaps not a serious locker, but a very serious man.
take it from me, someone who has never been taken seriously
Darren is serious.
seriously cute! :P (teehee!)
-chris
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from: darrengenewong@hotmail.com on Jan 26
Serious in the demeanor. Serious in the studies. Oh and you bet i'm serious in the locking.
peace qkids
darren |
| posted by DarrenGene @ 12:58 AM |
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| Wednesday, January 25, 2006 |
| do you believe in magic? |
David Copperfield in one of his latest illusions plans to impregnate a virgin through immaculate conception on stage for the world to see: Source. I like where David's going with this. I mean, he's got a pretty impressive resume of past tricks...he moved the statue of liberty, escaped out of alcatraz, flew, but i guess he was running out of ideas so he decided to check out the bible and duplicate some of the miracles that have taken place there for some inspiration. I mean, c'mon now, impregnating a virgin without touching her sounds like a pretty neat idea. Too bad we already figured out how to do that through in-vitro fertilization but hey, can't knock dave for thinking of what seems to be a pretty neat trick. What Dave needs to do is find a way to not only impregnate a girl on stage without touching her or shooting any bodily fluids in her direction, but to use his "magic" to speed up the labour process so she gets knocked up AND gives birth to a healthy baby on stage, have the baby grow somemore and witness the horrors of puberty, the horrors of the midlife crisis, grow old and die all within the one hour TV special time slot. Then and only then will I become a member of his fanclub.
and in other news I read that FRIENDS, yep the main cast of FRIENDS is coming back for 4 one hour special timeslots. And in addtion, yes they're doing another spinoff. This time with Ross, Joey, and Chandler. To these news events I have but one thing I'd like to point out: Apollo Creed in Rocky 4 came out of retirement much after his prime to fight an exhibition match against unknown Soviet Union champion, Ivan Drago only to die on the mat. How many times does Apollo have to die over and over again until we get the point?
RIP Apollo Creed.
Ironic quote the day before his last match: "Maybe you don't know what I'm talking about now, but believe me you will when it's over. You will when it's over." |
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| Monday, January 23, 2006 |
| I'm alive |
| because of this, i get to keep all of my junk. Apologies all around. The water situation in our home is apparently back to normal after 2 days of weird colours. Our landlord came in to check it out this morning and found nothing and probably thinks we made up the story, which brought me back to the bugs bunny and tweety show where in one episode some guy comes across a dancing and singing frog which'll will only sing and dance for that one dude and nobody else. I know what i saw and I'm not crazy. But yeah, this morning i got off to a bad start to my new start at life. While playing with nunchucks i managed to knock myself in the eye and dislodged my contact lens deep into the crevices of my eyeball. For a good 15 minutes i tried to get my contact back into my iris and because of this struggle i now have what seems to be a permanent red outline of where my contact was trapped (the dangers of gas perms). In the afternoon i went to head out and fulfill my civic duties as a citizen to go out and vote. But after waiting in line for about 20 minutes, when i finally got to the front of the line, they told me that I had went to the wrong polling station and that i needed to go to another location and wait in line again.... which sucks, and as much as i want the communist party to get a seat, i'll have to wait till next year cause i'm not really feeling like lining up again. A bad start to a second chance of life but i'm looking forward to a strong second half of the day. |
| posted by DarrenGene @ 6:45 PM |
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| Sunday, January 22, 2006 |
| this might be my last post ever |
true story. 5 minutes ago I'm in the washroom brushing my teeth. The water's running at full pressure and i'm rinsing out my mouth. And then things start to go weird. Suddenly the tap starts to spit water out in uneven jerks. I fiddle with the cold and hot knobs to try to correct the situation. I turn down the cold knob and the water flow becomes normal again except for one thing. The water turns piss yellow. When i hit the cold knob and fully turn it off the water turns, i keed you not, rusty brown and then red. The water that is coming out of my washroom tap is red. Not blood red I might add but more of like a raspberry kool-aid. So I shut off the taps and i flip them back on. Again with the spitting action and then everything's back to normal. I let the water run a bit so i can finish rinsing out my mouth. At this point, it's kinda late and housemates are sleeping so i don't feel it's right to wake em and tell em about the water, but I've seen this scene happen in many movies. We have normal bath water turn into green ooze in Ghostbusters 2, we get tap water from a sink turn into muddy swamp water in an episode in Supernatural. What happens in the end? You die. A ghost or demon is angry with you and takes your life. Now I've managed to escape any ghosts that have it in for me tonight up to this point as i type away at this entry but there's no guarantee I'll be in my bed tommorow morning. So, if I'm no longer here and the cops find my body floating in Lake Ontario, Jordan gets to keep my turntables since he put dibbs on them in an earlier posting, katz can keep my chronicles of narnia collection, jon lee can get my leftover food cause he likes to eat, and you, since you're reading this right now, you get claim something that's currently in my room, other than my beloved guitar, Korea. A special request please, that we (Korea and I) can both be cremated together and that our ashes will be tossed into the winds on the beaches of Honolulu (maybe some of me will fly into Jack Johnson's hair and stick to his head like dandruff and I'll get a chance to live the life of a rockstar that is until he decides to wash his hair. If I'm gone tmw than like Tamia, I'm Officially missing you.
Thanks mom and dad for raising me. Goodbye cruel world |
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| Thursday, January 12, 2006 |
| just a random entry about my thoughts on the counterculture of christianity today |
some legitimate lol-age here
It's been interesting to see how Christianity has emerged in Canada to become the big ole punching bag that it is now in today's culture with creationism being sharp-shootered in science labs (I see you Jordan putting up that kickass tribute to the Hitman), the Bible being power-bombed for being deemed irrelevant to deal with current issues like same sex marriages, and the beat(down) goes on...
An example of the biblical beatdown or moreso ommission: During the Christmas season, i managed to hit up a Cartoon christmas special, Disney's Recess, and during that one hour special they managed to give shout outs to Santa, Hanukah and Kwansa. Didn't catch No mention of Jesus though, cause I guess that's like swearing now and if it's Disney, you can bet that the G rating does not permit course language.
But yeah, it seems that Christianity has gone or is going counter-culture. Here's some food for thought: Is it easier to sell weed on campus now than it is to sell Jesus? Kanye gets some good jabs about top 40 radio or corporate america not being too fond of Jesus in Jesus walks but that's the lone ranger right now to the Leeggaaallliizzeee It ala Seana Paul, the Smookkkeee Weeed Everyday al a Dr Dre Next Episode (they got the Next Episode 2006 now), and our beloved Afroman who laments about his day of nothing because he got hizzigh
Here's some thoughts running through my cranium turbo about how Christians are responding though:
On the own hand you can be a laid back cool Christian cat and not let anything faze you. You can leave the political lobbying to the more intense brothas and sistas rocking the jesus freak wristbands at the cost of maybe being charged as being complacent or even hypocritical. And on the other hand, you can defend your faith by the (proverbial or literal) picket sign and march onward as a Christian soldier and be called a fundamentalist waging another high holy war. Action or inaction, it seems that flax will follow. And there we go, we got ourselves a counterculture, but it's not necessarily a counterculture as a unified culture that is opposed to the culture it is in, but moreso, the leftovers that culture as being postmodern pop oriented techno culture, no longer wants.
so where do we go from here? Like the Black Panthers, Christianity might become the new buzzword for keeds some years up ahead and everyone will be showing their Jesus membership-card and their Jesus-torn jeans, and their Jesus tattoo, and rocking (gasp) Jesus tunes on their 8 track players (which will become cool again, just you wait) while parents will be waging campaigns to get and keep Jesus outta town cause "He's poisoning our youth!". Heh.
So what now? well I think, and backlash very much welcome here, as a Christian, i think i gotta be better in breaking the stereotype whatever that may be as a gaybashing, hate mongering, holier than thou but not really holier than tho, hypocritical, funkiller, pretentious hipster (although this one might be justified). Now finding the proper means to do that is the trickdaddy of em all. Cause hey, Hitler thought of himself as a well-intentioned dude as well and he didn't exactly spread love and joy to the world. But yeah man. Being a Christ follower in today's world just got a whole lot harder (well not really if we make true comparisons throughout history and we take the lens off of Canada). I like to talk about this stuff more witchu if interested. And when you realize that there is no proper way of ending a blog entry you just hafta go mehhhhh. |
| posted by DarrenGene @ 10:48 PM |
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| Wednesday, January 11, 2006 |
| jobbed |
| work update: yep the reason why I am still in the t-dizzot is for work purposes really so i can continue to carry out interviews in writing my thesis. For ethical reasons I am not allowed as a researcher to disclose the subjects I am interviewing but I've honestly been learning a lot from them and which is shaping to a degree how i think of church in both the theological and practical sense of the term. Just as a quick recap tho, I'm writing an honours thesis on the emerging church scene in Ontario... emerging not as just a typically new church plant but one that fits the criteria of doing things reeaaal different from your typical bethel. But yeah, the journey's been real enlightening (sides from getting lost in the whitest of white towns) and yeah, my supervising professor has taken a real keen interest to my work that he's going to sponsor me as a research assistance to carry out some further research so he can publish his own paper on the topic which means your boy gets paid for school. How do you like them apples? I'm gonna get published after all, except it won't be my name on the paper. Meh. |
| posted by DarrenGene @ 5:49 PM |
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| Sunday, January 08, 2006 |
| fun with dano |
darrengene.blogspot.com says:
happy birthday mang
[888] dano - YESS bday's at mcd's.., it's like i'm 8 again says:
thanks dude!
[888] dano - YESS bday's at mcd's.., it's like i'm 8 again says:
how's it going man?
darrengene.blogspot.com says:
good
getting ready to crack down on some work this week
but nice to spend an extended week back home
[888] dano - YESS bday's at mcd's.., it's like i'm 8 again says:
nice nice!
when are you coming back up?
darrengene.blogspot.com says:
how's ur special day?
i'll probably be back in on saturday
[888] dano - YESS bday's at mcd's.., it's like i'm 8 again says:
was yesterday man
[888] dano - YESS bday's at mcd's.., it's like i'm 8 again says:
but, it was good
[888] dano - YESS bday's at mcd's.., it's like i'm 8 again says:
ahhhhhh cool coool........., man., u've been at home for a loong time.., i'm so jealous
darrengene.blogspot.com says:
ouch my bad
msn names are deceiving
nah well everyone else is back so i might be the jealous one this week
[888] dano - YESS bday's at mcd's.., it's like i'm 8 again says:
ahhhhhhh whatever man...., but, do come back soon man!
darrengene.blogspot.com says:
the funny thing is that if i really wanted to, i could probably run this whole term outta correspondence
[888] dano - YESS bday's at mcd's.., it's like i'm 8 again says:
hahahhahaha
are you SERIOUS
darrengene.blogspot.com says:
with the exception of one class on friday, yeah man
[888] dano - YESS bday's at mcd's.., it's like i'm 8 again says:
oh my..........., ahhhh at least you don't have friday's off
dude......, i think you should do it
[888] dano - YESS bday's at mcd's.., it's like i'm 8 again says:
u could even get an early jump on teaching overseas!
darrengene.blogspot.com:
yea i've looked into that already
apparently, japanese language training goes for one month, after that, certification, i could be in japan in march till september
[888] dano - YESS bday's at mcd's.., it's like i'm 8 again says:
DUDEEe!!
i can't believe that you could actually do it......., that's amazing man....,
but......., i think u should come to kingston.., so we can hang out for one more term
darrengene.blogspot.com says:
so yeah, been thinking of that. Running it by the parentals to see if it's alright and they're thinking about it
yeah right now kinda torn
[888] dano - YESS bday's at mcd's.., it's like i'm 8 again says:
woahh! so this is for real? like it could really happen?
what do the rent's say?
darrengene.blogspot.com says:
they're not really for it at this point but they said if i get all the papers put together and show how i'd still be able to do the schoolwork, they'd give it more consideration
[888] dano - YESS bday's at mcd's.., it's like i'm 8 again says:
and u'd like to do it tho?
darrengene.blogspot.com says:
i think i would. Been back and forth to the Nova office this past week and i'm honestly getting sold to do it up
[888] dano - YESS bday's at mcd's.., it's like i'm 8 again says:
hahaha, they're good at what they do....
but what about the app to hawaii?
would you being in japan affect it at all?
darrengene.blogspot.com says:
yeah the thing is the contract would end in september allowing me to go to hawaii or ubc if i get into either....if they don't work out, i'd stay and extend my contract in japan
cause nova's good like that...u sign on a tri-monthly basis, not annually
[888] dano - YESS bday's at mcd's.., it's like i'm 8 again says:
hmmmmm........, i seee!!
and the school's wouldn't need to contact you about stuff? like.., acceptance.., ur parents' gonna mail it out for you to sign in japan?
darrengene.blogspot.com says:
that's the good thing about both schools i'm going to. Everything can be done online. Yeah, they'll send me acceptance packages in the mail and stuff and i can get my rents to send me that stuff to japan but they'll correspond with me over the net as well
[888] dano - YESS bday's at mcd's.., it's like i'm 8 again says:
dang man.., sounds like it could work...
what about rent in kingston?
darrengene.blogspot.com says:
yeah well if i do it, then i just gotta eat the rent in kingston which sucks
[888] dano - YESS bday's at mcd's.., it's like i'm 8 again says:
ughhh....., CELL GROUP?
our worship team?!?!
COME BACKK!!!
darrengene.blogspot.com says:
yeah been talking to sammo about the situation and yeah, he's pretty against it too but he says that if i really feel that i should go, then i shouldn't give up the opportunity
[888] dano - YESS bday's at mcd's.., it's like i'm 8 again says:
yeah, it IS a great opportunity..., u could fit in an awesome trip to japan before starting grad school
darrengene.blogspot.com says:
yeah so i'm going to stop lying to you now man
[888] dano - YESS bday's at mcd's.., it's like i'm 8 again says:
you're a freaking jerk.
darrengene.blogspot.com says:
hahahaha
I think this'll make the blog |
| posted by DarrenGene @ 11:56 PM |
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| Thursday, January 05, 2006 |
| i got laser eyes! |
not as in laser eye surgery but my updated contacts prescriptions has me spotting pennies on the sidewalk... on the other side of the road and hair on people's sweaters. It's a whole new world. A new fantastic point of view. No one to tell us no of where to go or say we're only dreaming. But yeah, the break's been good. So good in fact that I've decided to extend it for another week so I'm taking a temporary hiatus from school in order to make the break a whole month instead of just a measley 3 weeks. I figure that this way, the feeling of heading back to school will be even more satisfying knowing that i am going to miss it for another week. And plus, since i figure my eyes get even worse when i'm at school staring at powerpoint slides in lecture(s), I'm doing my eyeballs a favour by saving them from an added week of strain and drain. I'm going to try to pamper these boys blinking more at the computer screen and ingesting more carrots. Afterall, with great power comes great responsibility. Annnnd it's about that time to end this nerd post. |
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