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Econ downturn means more random daily phone calls...
Usually it is random charity ask for donations or a simple phone scam, but according to Sears, their new way of combating the bad econ is to hire more people to talk on the phone. Last week alone we got called more than 3 times and asked if we want our furnace and air duct cleaned.
Bad Econ = Sparkling furnace and air ducts... who would have guessed...
Next, we put glitter on them so they are both sparkly and glittery, YAY!!! Time to decorate the inside of the inside of your house, a place where you will never look at. Maybe that will be the next big thing for those RONA and Home Depot commercials; Glitter up those tubes people, you can do it, we can help :)
Summer's wind brings along its snow...
Taraxacum... its seeds flying around everywhere
An odd sight nevertheless... along with the violent sneezes it may cause for many out there; in the time of Swine Flu... can only act as more of a catalyst, an instrument of fear.
When we own no land, we grew to adore the prettiness of nature's parachute; Yet taught to hate the inconvenience of it when we have a lawn.
Are we happier beings as the ones who owns nothing? Better beings even?
Word has it that Hollywood is bringing Buffy back.
This time without Whedon... and more or less a reboot of the franchise.
Not original at all, but absolutely daring. How dare they :(
Fanboys/girls shall rip them into pieces, studio will lose alot of money, and generations will wonder why fix something that is not broken; especially when Whedon's season 8 comic series is still on going.
Although I won't mind if they end up doing a movie adaptation for Fray, tackling it with a whole Bladerunner philosophical and artisical kind of way. Now that would be something.
Everybody knows that when you hear the siren on the highway, you either have to pull over or yield the right of way for the emergency vehicle. So now what about among themselves? Is there a rule or some sort of hierarchical system where say the ambulance shall yield to whatever else? Now I do not doubt that there maybe indeed have rules about that, but who is to say in such situation, which side has a bigger emergency?
Now there's an incident that just happened in Oklahoma where such questions are being raised. So basically what happened was that both the police trooper and the ambulance were on the highway, and when the ambulance didn't give the troopers the right of way, they got stopped and questioned.
The trooper had its siren on, while I am not sure if the ambulance did, but the ambulance was in fact rushing somebody to the hospital, although the patient wasn't in a life-and-death situation. Before I get any deeper into the incident, let's take a step back and think.
So the trooper did had its siren on, which means the cops were responding to an emergency call. But they had the time to come back and stop the ambulance, what's up with that? I can understand that an emergency vehicle may stop for something else if that something else appears to be an even bigger emergency, but to stop an ambulance because they didn't give them the right of way? Now it would be hard to rule out personal vendetta.
After that, they realize that the ambulance did indeed had a patient in the back and they are on their way to a hospital. So at this point the cops do understand that the ambulance is going for a sort of emergency run, but they asked the paramedics to come out and process to "talk" with them. The patient in the back along with her family express their concern, and that they wish to be driven to the hospital first and asked if the police would agree to continue their "conversation" with the paramedics at the hospital.
Although not being fully explained, but from the video that was recorded by one of the people in the ambulance, we do understand that the police refused to let them go just yet, which led to the direct confrontation between one of the paramedics and the cops.
It is hard to decide who had wronged who, but I am sure we can say that the lady who was in the back of the ambulance, along with her family, perhaps are the biggest victims in this incident. Helping and serving the public, kinda ironic. I am still a bit surprised that there appears to be no "professional courtesy" between the cops and the paramedics, especially when cops rely on paramedics quite often. Let's hope things wouldn't go so horribly wrong for that cop in any of the near future.
Video here
Summer is here, and I have moved back home
Which means there is no more beer drinking time with my buddies... or happy hour. Parents don't like their kids drinking alcohol beverages, my folks at home are the same. I think one day I might enforce the same rule on my kids too, if I were ever to have any that is.
As the title suggest, I am talking about man's best friend. By now I am sure you have already figured out that what I am about to claim.
Beer - Man's Best Friend
Could be for woman too...
but I thought they have already picked Diamond =P
I am not encouraging drinking, I am simply stating the... well making a statement, that Beer is Man's Best Friend. I am not encouraging binge drinking either. I am simply talking about the idea of drinking A bottle of cold beer on a hot summer day, slowly sipping it while watching TV or whatever. Apparently researches have shown that binge drinking makes people feel more depress, while slow sips of beer actually makes one feels happier. Yeah that's right, now go tell your wife and kids that daddy is only drinking because he wants to feel happier, but he can only slowly sip through it instead of gulping it down, because his shrink said so.
With that being said, a beer gut must then be a sign of happiness; with gravity pulling the folds downward thus making a smiley face, who is to say it's not. So the next time you are at a beach and your fat gut is making you feel self-conscious, try to think of it as a layer of happiness. It makes ones glow, much like a pregnant lady :)
Karate Kid 0 - Shaolin Monk 1Sometimes I wish I have the balls of steel...
In a world where people play dirty, sometimes being able to take a hit while maintaining a straight face seems like the best ability/skill one can have; especially if you work as a professional football player, American or European.
Pain isn't necessary a bad thing, but walking it off still ain't too humane. Having the guts to say what needs to be said and do what needs to be done does take a lot of courage.
Sometimes I wish I have the balls of steel... or more courage...
Yet another TV rant
The Fall season seems to bring a few of my fav. "casted away" TV people back on screen
Katie Cassidy (the one true and only Ruby from Supernatural!!!) is back... sadly on CW. Her presence on Supernatural had been greatly missed, and the brief appearance on Taken only to be killed doesn't do her justice. Too bad her new show is the new-gen version of Melrose Place, since most likely I am not going to watch it.
Mischa Barton's departure from The O.C. had haunted me for years, now she's finally coming back... but again on CW with a new show that is aiming for the 12~35 female demography... and again it seems like I am not going to be watching it.
Lost's pretty boy Ian Somerhalder is also back... on yet another CW (WTH CW... I hate you) show that is also intended to grab the attention of little girls... so no I guess I am not watching that either.
Last but not least... Mark Valley... the quickly killed off John Scott from Fringe and Eddie from the super awesome yet quickly cancelled Keen Eddie... is coming back with Human Target, loosely base on the DC comic... Human Target. With Tricia Helfer, the super hot Number 6 from Battlestar Galatica, in the pilot... finally a new show that I can hardly wait for. Let hope the show won't suck or get cancelled, afterall it's going to be on FOX :(
