My 2 cents

In Layman's Terms: Inflation

2011-10-20T13:39:00.002-04:00

It would seem as if the public’s cry for control over increasing prices fall on deaf ears, or at least our leaders do little to convince us otherwise. As the political realm gears up for another round of unfulfilled promises, one issue that will rear its ugly head is the burden on the common man’s pocket.

Be it budgeting for chicken instead of lentils (after Musharraf’s infamous solution) or the grand larceny at the pump, what matters most to people is how far their hard earned rupee could be stretched.

With all the talk about possible relief in the past budget for the poor or the lack of, it is imperative to understand the concept of inflation and how this menace has plagued our economy for as long as it has. Also, we must understand what our leaders can do to rid ourselves of this problem, and whether they can at all.

Inflation is the upward trend in general level of prices of goods and services in an economy. An inadvertent upside of the rising inflation is the reduction in unemployment. Inflation and unemployment are two of the most closely watched indicators of economic performance.

The price of oil and petroleum related products have soared in the recent past, and as such, this has created a supply shock that has sent inflation through the roof. Worse yet, such supply shocks receive monetary validation from the state bank through increase of money supply (i.e. printing money). This in turn causes the prices to go up even further, making each rupee less valuable.

State bank of Pakistan can control inflation by controlling the quantity of money. State bank can lower the rate of growth of money supply, creating an excess demand for money. This in turn would spike the interest rate, reducing real aggregate demand and also any inflationary gap. Much to our dismay, this is easier said than done. Reducing inflation takes time and incurs significant costs.

A direct result of reducing inflation is a decline in the national income, caused by greater unemployment. A dip in the amount of jobs created in the economy is severely frowned upon, as we already suffer from a huge brain drain, the effects of which, is a topic for another day. Also, the temporary increase in interest rate translates into lesser borrowing and as a result, reduced economic activity.

Therefore, reducing inflation is a catch 22 situation. It is one that requires short term pain for long term gain. The real question is whether we can tinker with a fragile economy, already on crutches. Whichever policy we choose, the only thing certain is that we will feel its effects.

For that special someone!

2008-08-08T03:18:00.002-04:00

Poem:

A prince traveled across the seas and into the wards of the world;
His quandary was he was incomplete and was growing old..

The sands of time would remind, nothing but his troubled mind;
Irate, he drew his sword, nothing getting through to him, not even a word..

A wise saint read his mind, concluding but a woman was his find;
He proclaimed, "There will be someone, worry not oh prince, the night will see the sun"

The prophecy but came true, he found his day in the night;
The perfect damsel for the troubled knight..

Merrier things became, so precious was this beautiful dame;
As if a new day, a new earth, a new moon begun!

birthdays?

2007-08-11T17:44:00.000-04:00

The following excerpt is from the infamous comedy series Seinfeld. For those of you who don’t know about the show, it’s about a few friends trying to go about their routine life and the problems they face, to which many of us can easily relate. In one of the episodes where George meets a Chinese lawyer, I couldn’t help but indulge myself in a comical yet very captivating thought about how people treat birthdays. Those loiters who are bored by now can amuse themselves with the music player at the bottom of the page. So here it goes:

[Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and
how little we've grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday a better
self will emerge, with each flicker of the candles on the cake, we know it's not
to be, that for the rest of our sad, wretched pathetic lives, this is who we are
to the bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably; happy birthday? No such thing.]

Birthday off course can be a grim reminder of how life just went on by another year. Instead of beating ourselves down for wasting another year, I’m sure the religious ones amongst us would concur that we should be thankful we got to live another year. Are we not responsible for how we choose to indulge ourselves and how we spend our time? Sure, you must deal with whatever luck throws your way, but who is to blame for the guy who spends all his days locked in a basement just because he is too lazy to get out or has a serious confidence problem? Where does the blame lie when a girl becomes obsessive about non-issue things like some stranger not wanting to be friends with her?
How our days go by depend largely in part on our priorities and what we stress about. I’ve seen many people enjoy their lives even in the toughest of times. So is it always luck or is it us too? Are we just robots leading lives according to a script written for us or do we make things better or worse for ourselves?

That’s it for my useless drivel. Now, what’s your take?

we should try this with japanese..

2007-05-18T23:42:00.001-04:00

Deja Vu anyone?

2007-05-18T23:35:00.000-04:00

300 - Message for the Queen!

2007-05-09T17:27:00.000-04:00

Right, right...raaaaaaaaaaaaight!

2007-05-05T00:04:00.000-04:00

When is right actually right? Or is that becoming more of a self-set standard than a rule. It’s not right until its right for “you”? Leaving the black and white, more and more just fade into those grim and dim shades of grey. When it comes to most of us, we break and bend rules but immediately shoot it down if we are at the receiving end of it. When everyone is gunning for the others’ heads, understanding or empathizing is nothing but a far cry. How do you hold one accountable for such behavior? And what if the supervising or controlling authority is at fault itself? Crooked cops anyone? Or more like a drunk cop asking you for a DUI test. Off course god forbid should anyone say anything about those overly myopic control freaks.

Top 10 Urban Legends

2007-05-04T11:19:00.000-04:00

source: about.com

10. The ATM Reverse-PIN Trick
The most-forwarded Net rumor during the final months of 2006 purported to offer a tidbit of esoteric knowledge about the workings of ATMs, namely that there is a hidden safety feature whereby users can quietly alert police of an attempted robbery by entering their PIN (personal identification number) backwards. Let's hope no one has tried it. The reverse-PIN system does exist on paper and its inventor claims it would reduce crime with widespread use, but the technology has yet to be implemented anywhere in the real world.

9. The Brown Recluse Spider Bite
Topping the "Gross & Disgusting" category this past year was a set of images purporting to document the progressive deterioration of a wound caused by the bite of the poisonous brown recluse spider. The unretouched images do depict symptoms consistent with a severe case of arachnid poisoning, but they could also be associated with gangrene or necrotizing fasciitis. Not for the squeamish!

8. Crikey, Steve Irwin's Really Dead!
An urban legend came true on September 4, 2006 when Steve Irwin, TV's famed "Crocodile Hunter," died after suffering a stingray attack while shooting an underwater documentary off the Great Barrier Reef. Having made a career of putting himself in harm's way by getting up close and personal with a variety of dangerous wild animals, Irwin was no doubt accustomed to hearing premature reports of his own death. So were we. Unfortunately, this time it was for real.

7. The (Ongoing) Attack of the Camel Spiders
The ever-popular Middle Eastern "camel spider" returns to the Top 10 this year after being bumped in 2005 by rumors circulating in the wake of the tsunami in Asia and Hurricane Katrina. It's not the close-up image of the pair of fist-sized, khaki-colored critters that arachnid experts take issue with; it's the exaggerated claims concerning the species' predatory prowess. "With a vertical leap that would make a pro basketball player weep with envy," the caption reads, "these bastards latch on and inject you with a local anesthesia so you can't feel it feeding on you. They eat flesh, not just suck out your juices like a normal spider." Uh-huh.

6. World Record Grizzly Bear
Look here for authentic photos of one of the biggest bears you'll ever see, but don't believe the tall tales accompanying them. Weighing in at a not-quite-world-record 1,000 to 1,200 pounds, the Alaskan brown bear bagged by off-duty airman Ted Winnen was undoubtedly ferocious, but not a man-eater, contrary to email reports. An additional image purporting to show the remains of one of the bear's human victims was unrelated and attached after the fact. View at your own risk.

5. Mr. Rogers, Trained Assassin?
Believe it or not, some folks are convinced that the gentle, soft-spoken children's TV host Mr. Rogers hid a secret past as a trained sniper for the Marines (or Navy Seals) — nevermind that he spent his whole life in broadcasting, studying to become an ordained minister on the side. Nothing in Fred McFeely Rogers' biography suggests he ever entered military service, let alone underwent training as an assassin. Hard as it may be for cynics to accept, Mr. Rogers was exactly who he seemed.

4. Ashley Flores Is Missing
It all started as a little prank on MySpace.com, say Ashley Flores' friends. But once they'd launched a bogus rumor to the effect that the Philadelphia teen had been kidnapped and was still missing, they were at a loss as to how to stop it. Half-a-year later, it remained one of the most-circulated hoaxes on the Internet in 2006.

3. Bill Gates Is Sharing His Fortune...with YOU!
This logic-defying email hoax is now eight years old and still going strong. As originally composed, the purported message from Microsoft founder Bill Gates promised $1,000 to each and every person who helped him beta test his new "email tracking software" by forwarding the missive to everyone they know. Subsequent versions included phony news reports about mergers taking place between AOL, Microsoft, and chip manufacturer Intel. Do I need to add that not a word of any of this is true?

2. Breast Infestation
The image is bizarre, allegedly depicting the symptoms of what began as a "breast rash," then developed into a full-blown infestation of larvae with tiny worm-like creatures peeking out of gaping crevices in the patient's skin. "Ladies, please wash all bras and underwear before wearing them," warns the cautionary e-tale accompanying the photo. It's largely hogwash, of course, but the surprising grain of truth is that there is, in fact, a medical condition known as furuncular myiasis of the breast — basically, an infestation of fly larvae in the living tissue!

1. Quick! Add Your Cell Phone to the 'Do Not Call' Registry!
As I noted two years ago when our current top-circulating Net rumor first took off, the only thing Americans hate more than unsolicited phone calls from telemarketers is the prospect of receiving them on their cell phones. Sparked by announced plans to compile a universal 411 directory of private numbers — an idea that still has yet to get off the ground, and may never do so — this email alert urging recipients to add their mobile phone information to the National Do Not Call Registry before it's too late hasn't lost an ounce of steam since it went into circulation in 2004.

Kelis ain't got nothing on him.. ahahahaha!

2007-03-24T03:32:00.000-04:00

What's in YOUR mail?

2007-03-05T01:40:00.000-05:00

CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - Two packages containing human body parts - including a liver and a partial head - that were intended for a lab were delivered to a home instead and officials said more than two dozen similar packages could be dispersed across the United States.

The body parts, sent from China, were mistakenly dropped off Thursday at Franck and Ludivine Larmande's home by a DHL driver who thought the bubble-wrapped items were pieces of a table.

"My husband started to unwrap one and said: 'This is strange, it looks like a liver,"' Ludivine Larmande told the Grand Rapids Press newspaper.

"He started the second one but stopped as soon as we saw the ear.

"Something wasn't right. It was scary and I'm glad I didn't open them."

The body parts - which are preserved - were for medical research, police Lt. Roger Parent said.

Source: CBC
Comment: Hmm, so chinese heads and body parts are good for research? lol!

Bang Bang

2007-03-03T01:45:00.000-05:00

Is this your phone number ?

2007-02-16T18:26:00.001-05:00

Old but interesting nonetheless!

-x-x-

1) Key in the first three digits of your phone number into a calculator. (do not use your area code number)

2) Multiply by 80

3) Add one

4) Multiply by 250

5) Plus last four digits of your phone number

6) Plus last four digits of your phone number again

7) Minus 250

8) Divide by 2

Is it your phone number?

Where did i go wrong.... How to Save A Life

2007-02-12T16:52:00.000-05:00

Slap like you mean it..

2007-02-10T03:53:00.001-05:00

Daddy's Got Moves?

2007-02-10T03:31:00.001-05:00

Have your mind read!!

2006-12-03T03:22:00.000-05:00

Mind Reader

username: bk
password: int3rna1r3v13w

Oddities

2006-11-28T23:35:00.000-05:00

- Nude 'pothole' calendar creative, but won't help get Saskatchewan roads fixed
- Canadian man climbs highest mountains on seven continents in 187 days
- Indiana girl set mom's bed on fire, faked abduction of self, siblings: police
- 'Star Wars Kid' the most-shared footage on the Internet: U.K. tracking firm
- Lawman's long arm collars renegade reindeer in Norwegian Arctic
- 2 people arrested after $400,000 in stolen almonds found in Calif. warehouse
- Japanese TV host certified by Guinness World Records as world's busiest
- Brewery employees to donate week's beer rations to Canadian troops in Afghanistan
- Price of items in the classic song 'The Twelve Days of Christmas' rises
- Researchers show Mom's advice to 'sit up straight' to blame for aching backs

Things you CAN'T do when you're NOT in a pool

2006-11-21T18:38:00.000-05:00

Like the video says: Don't be that guy!

Folk Dance

2006-11-17T16:49:00.000-05:00

2006-11-14T02:12:00.000-05:00

Correct me if i am wrong but does that say....................

Oddities

2006-11-03T00:16:00.000-05:00

Source: CBC

Stephen Colbert publicity reaping fruit for Saginaw hockey team

Seattle school bus driver fired after obscene gesture at President Bush

Pennsylvania letter carrier attacked by squirrel is taken to hospital

300 unanswered prayers: Letters to God founded dumped in ocean off New Jersey

Germany investigates mystery of brittle banknotes; acid suspected

Florida man arrested after straitjacket jump into ocean prompts search

Ex-inmate trick-or-treating in jumpsuit prompts jail lockdown

Fla. police chief ousted for urging his 'jelly belly' officers to lose weight

Brooklyn high-school student causes stir with his Hitler costume

Hundreds of pumpkins mysteriously appear in small Colorado town

What do you see?

2006-10-25T02:08:00.000-04:00

Oddities from CP

2006-10-20T22:34:00.000-04:00

Source: CBC

Detroit man in erotic pursuit of mannequins arrested, again

Australian inmate sentenced to more jail after dieting to escape

Sheridan, Blair refuse to eat puppy chow at Dine with Your Dog Day

Scientists create a kind of invisibility shield by bending microwaves

Elderly Florida man survives stingray stab to the heart in 'freak accident'

Panda cub bites off part of American visitor's thumb during feeding

Apple says it shipped some video iPods with Windows computer virus

Phone tipster thinks judo class at Ohio gymnasium was hostage situation

Massachusetts school bans playing tag at recess over fears of injuries, lawsuits

Report: Chinese university requiring golf lessons for business, law majors

Top 5 Urban Legends of 2005

2006-10-17T14:55:00.000-04:00

5. Ciara's Sex-Change Operation
Among the most popular search queries here all year long was the question "Is Ciara a man?" — which may seem nonsensical if you've ever seen the voluptuous "crunk" singer perform onstage, but it's a quandary that nevertheless gripped a great many fans in 2005, apparently. The answer — from the diva's own mouth — is no, by the way. Actress Jamie Lee Curtis was unavailable for comment.

4. Telemarketers Want Your Cell Phone Number
Let there be no doubt, the only thing Americans hate more than unsolicited calls from telemarketers is the prospect of receiving them via cell phone. Sparked by announced plans to compile a universal 411 directory of private numbers, this email alert urging recipients to add their mobile phone information to the National Do Not Call Registry hasn't lost an ounce of steam since it went into circulation in late 2004.

3. Photos of Hurricane Katrina's Approach
This set of ominously beautiful images of massive storm formations was circulated under the pretense of documenting Hurricane Katrina's deadly landfall in Louisiana and Mississippi in September, but when we tracked down the photographer he told us the photos had actually been taken the previous year in locales far removed from Katrina's path.

2. Bill Gates Will Pay You for Forwarding This!!!
Eight years old and annoying as ever, the Microsoft "email tracking" hoax, in all its many variants, must be the most forwarded prank message of all time. The secret of its success? None of the folks forwarding it know it's a prank. It is gullibility to this degree that gives proof to the old Internet saying, "There's a sucker born every nanosecond."

1. The Deadly Wave
At this point it should come as no surprise that one of the most widely shared photographs of the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami of December 26, 2004 also turned out to be the phoniest. Which is too bad, because despite the collage-like quality of the image and its implausibility, it was also breathtaking in a larger-than-life, "The Day After Tomorrow" kind of way.

Source: About.com

2006-10-08T18:51:00.000-04:00

Who should get a brain?

2006-10-08T18:44:00.000-04:00

So.. She has never been to JC Penney, eh?

Humour in the air

2006-10-07T17:10:00.000-04:00

What are their names again?

Now isn't that funny?

2006-10-07T17:04:00.000-04:00

Oct 4, 5:38 PM EDT

Woman Grabs Buttocks of Flight Attendant

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A woman was charged Wednesday with sexual assault after an altercation with a flight attendant on an airplane flying from Charlotte, N.C., to London, an official said.

Conan Bruce, a spokesman for the Federal Air Marshal Service in Washington, said the woman got into an argument with a male flight attendant aboard US Airways Flight 1494.

"During the altercation, she grabbed his buttocks," Bruce said, adding that he based that information on police reports.

When the airplane landed at Gatwick Airport, Sussex police charged the woman with disrupting a flight and sexual assault, Bruce said.

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Comment: What kind of man presses charges on a woman for doing that? If anything, his dream came true..hahahaha

Blog Gang

2006-10-04T14:36:00.000-04:00

For the bloggers

Icon Fight

2006-10-04T14:10:00.000-04:00

Click Here

Thanks: Jappanun

A lot a can can do!

2006-10-02T02:09:00.000-04:00

Earth no more??

2006-10-01T03:20:00.000-04:00

Two long tunnels bring together matter at near the speed of light

By BBC News Online Science Editor Dr David Whitehouse

Scientists have quashed suggestions that a £350m experiment planned for the autumn could cause the destruction of the Earth.

The director of the laboratory commissioning the machine says there is "no chance" of the atom-smashing experiment causing a disaster, such as a black hole that would devour the entire Earth.

Researchers have spent eight years constructing the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island in New York state. Its goal is to smash the nuclei of atoms together and study their wreckage to determine the fundamental properties of matter.

RHIC takes atoms of gold and swings them around two 3.8 kilometre (2.4 mile) circular tubes where powerful magnets accelerate them to almost the speed of light. When they collide, they do so in minute collisions that are 10,000 times hotter than the Sun.

Scientists hope to create a quark-gluon plasma, a fundamental state of matter that probably has not existed naturally in the Universe since the Big Bang.

Armageddon?

But could they create something else, a mini-black hole perhaps or a new form of particle with unknown properties that could expand and engulf the Earth? ...

to read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/399513.stm

Five For Figthing - The Riddle

2006-09-29T22:43:00.000-04:00

There was a man back in '95
Whose heart ran out of summers
But before he died, I asked him
Wait, what's the sense in life
Come over me, Come over me

He said,
"Son why you got to sing that tune
Catch a Dylan song or some eclipse of the moon
Let an angel swing and make you swoon
Then you will see... You will see."

Then he said,
"Here's a riddle for yah
Find the Answer
There's a reason for the world
You and I..."

Picked up my kid from school today
Did you learn anything cause in the world today
You can't live in a castle far away
Now talk to me, come talk to me

He said,
"Dad I'm big but we're smaller than small
In the scheme of things, well we're nothing at all
Still every mother's child sings a lonely song
So play with me, come play with me"

And Hey Dad
Here's a riddle for yah
Find the Answer
There's a reason for the world
You and I...

I said,
"Son for all I've told yah
When you get right down to the
Reason for the world...
Who am I?"

There are secrets that we still have left to find
There have been mysteries from the beginning of time
There are answers we're not wise enough to see
He said... You looking for a clue I Love You free...
The batter swings and the summer flies
As I look into my angel's eyes
A song plays on while the moon is high over me
Something comes over me
I guess we're big and I guess we're small
If you think about it man you know we got it all
Cause we're all we got on this bouncing ball
And I love you free
I love you freely

Here's a riddle for yah
Find the Answer
There's a reason for the world
You and I...

too tie-rd for hockey?

2006-09-28T02:13:00.000-04:00

What has tie been upto lately.. hahaha

Image Source: CBC

A Quote to register

2006-09-24T22:46:00.000-04:00

Here it is:

It's not what you don't know that kills you. It's what you don't know that you don't know that does you in!

Oddities IV

2006-09-22T20:04:00.000-04:00

Source:CBC

Farm discovers healthy four-legged fowl among its 36,000 hens

Australia's "Catch Me If You Can" thief facing four-year jail sentence

Motorized parachute stuck in power lines for 8 hours; pilot escapes injury

German student dons suit of armour to infiltrate China's terracotta army

Florida casino pays $290,000 jackpot even after win found to be mistake

Home to world's largest naval base lifts 56-year-old ban on tattoo parlours

Panda bites drunk Chinese man, man bites panda back at Beijing zoo

Man charged with impaired driving after slow-speed tractor chase in Nanaimo

Bangkok seized in military coup, PM ousted

2006-09-19T16:36:00.000-04:00

Thailand's military commander ousted the country's prime minister in a bloodless military coup that swept the capital Tuesday night.

With Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra out of the country, tanks circled government headquarters in Bangkok as dozens of soldiers seized control of television stations, declaring a provisional authority pledging loyalty to the king.

Commander-in-Chief Gen. Sondhi Boonyaratkalin said he's taken control of the government, revoked the Constitution and declared martial law.

An announcement on national TV ordered all troops to report to their duty stations.

Meanwhile, retired Lt.-Gen. Prapart Sakuntanak said the seizure would be temporary, and power would soon be "returned to the people."

While news channels such as CNN and the BBC were cut off, army television broadcast images of the king and patriotic songs associated in the past with military coups.

for more: http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca

Brain Candy II

2006-09-15T19:00:00.000-04:00

Everything happens for a reason.. and many events and ideas in our lives are related.. If you could go back and change one thing about your life, you have no guarantee the rest of your life will turn out the same way.. it might be totally different. Bear in mind, coincidence plays a major role in how things turn out in one's life.. there is no certainty that those coincidences would co incide again.. or happen at all for that matter.

How often have we heard, "that one thing changed my life" .. certain events stem out of previous actions or ideas practiced .. getting a good job because you decided to finish university, for example.. although it is still quite possible to attain such stature without having done a pre-requisite but it is highly unlikely for it to occur out of the blue.. more often that not, our present is our future's raison d'etre.

Pictures say 1000 words

2006-09-09T15:05:00.000-04:00

Poor lion - must have forgot her bday

Bumpy Ride

Men swear

Oddities III

2006-09-08T17:57:00.000-04:00

source: CBC

Carolina Panthers fan gets pickup truck after joke goes awry

Organizers apologize for burlesque show at Australian conference

In Argentina, loyalty to famous soccer squad now truly cradle to grave

First Flutie Flakes, now Doug Flutie gets his own Wheaties Box

London, Ont. mother goes on strike; fed up with unruly, untidy kids

Kansas bartender finally gets money from $10,000 tip; has eye on car

Salvadoran authorities find 4 cellphones hidden in prisoners' intestines

Baby boom? Giant pandas at zoos in United States, China give birth to cubs

Yellowknifers liken last paved link in national highway network to Last Spike

Vermont town lets nature take its course: hopes coming cold will end nude spree

Joke of the day

2006-09-08T17:54:00.000-04:00

What's the difference between a goldfish and a goat?

-> A goldfish mucks about in a fountain!

(Hint: 'Ruck Fules')

Amazing

2006-08-30T00:04:00.000-04:00

A must see..

credits: Alan Becker

Flash_Fight

World's fastest diesel smashes record

2006-08-29T18:04:00.000-04:00

(source: CNET)
Andy Green has broken the world record for speed in a diesel car by more than 100 miles per hour at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah on Wednesday. Green drove Britain-based JCB's JCB Dieselmax, a computer-designed car with an engine normally used in backhoe loaders. After reaching a speed of 328mph on Tuesday, he completed the test by averaging 350mph over two runs on Wednesday. The old record, set in 1973, was 236mph.

Driver Andy Green is a Royal Air Force fighter pilot who turned to breaking land-speed records. In 1997, he became the only man to travel at supersonic speed on land by driving the ThrustSSC at 763.035mph on the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.

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Comment: I am getting excited! I can't wait to get a hand on that ThrustSSC.. just pray i come out alive! (ha ha ha)

More Oddities

2006-08-24T15:36:00.000-04:00

source: CBC

Is that a grenade in your suitcase or are you just happy to see me? Man lies about carrying a grenade in his luggage

Aussie dope: doctor spared jail time after his pot crop turns out to be a dud

Famed Chicago 'cancer' fish, Bubba the Grouper, goes belly up at 24

Australian demolition worker finds $17,000 Cdn in silver bars under house

Malaysia begins push to clean up public toilets with new 'restroom culture'

New restaurant bearing Hitler's name upsets Mumbai's Jews

-> Philadelphia man who wore burqa in pizza parlour robberies given 82 years

Church protests parking ticket for priest giving last rites at hospital

Brain Candy

2006-08-23T01:07:00.000-04:00

Often you wonder if you could have started doing something earlier. It could be your weekly workout at the gym; it could be new activities in your social life; it might even be a change of attitude towards certain things. You might have given up on some things or have done something really positive, and then you are left to wonder if you could have done that thing a long time earlier ... But where do you draw the line? How far ahead can we really get of ourselves? When does one become content with what he/she has? I guess making friends with everyone on earth and doing everything there is to do is all great but impractical, let alone impossible.

But does that suggest we sit on our backs and let it hit us as it comes... or could there be a balance between the two unusual, but all the while interesting, extremes... Do we let life be a ‘hypnotic flow’ and live every day as if it’s our last day... or do we pull ourselves back in hopes of savoring a slow baked turkey?

A bit abstract but surely something to get you thinking when you are sipping your next coffee or tea, (or milk for all the big and small kids reading this)

Movie: V for Vendetta

2006-08-18T17:46:00.000-04:00

The following is a short synopsis by yours truly.

This movie is not one of your regular types. V, the protagonist, is locked in an epic struggle with the British government for all the atrocities committed against rebels to their hard lined rule. Natalie Portman complements V as the heroine in the film.

V, a super being in certain ways, under a Guy Fawkes Mask, sets out to exact revenge on the supreme dictator Sutler, the high chancellor of England.

Parts of the movie reverberates the holocaust and Hitler’s reign. I am not surprised at the success this movie has had on rating charts.

Conclusion: Watch it. 2 hrs well wasted!

Oddities

2006-08-17T20:25:00.000-04:00

Source: CBC

Dutch zoo hopes to hook up two orangutans through the Internet

3 Moroccan immigrants plead guilty to U.S. marriage fraud conspiracy

19th century weather vane sells for $1.2 million at U.S. auction

Artist unveils revealing Hillary Clinton bust at Museum of Sex in Manhattan

Fred the honoured Undercover Kitten has died in a traffic accident

86-year-old Florida retiree pays $1 parking ticket he got in May, 1946

Quebec basketball team owner defends use of frog in team's new logo

Malaysian museum to let Ripley's Believe It or Not determine if ghostly exhibits are real

Motionless 85-year-old woman escaped detectors, locked in vault of Swiss bank

Fan who jumped from Yankee Stadium upper deck banned from ballpark for life

YOU ... might be a redneck!

2006-08-15T20:14:00.000-04:00

Seeing how I have about 14 more days to spare untill I return back to my normal routine, I thought may be I should do something different than just play cricket or go to the gym.

Apparently, all my hangout buddies are still writing their exams, which is a real shame, because each missed day is day off from fishing, pool or hanging out at concerts or parties… There is nothing much on TV, apart from the sorry run the Jays are making at the playoffs… so before I let life pull a double whammy on me, I went to the nearest Rogers Video Store to rent a movie.

Now the collection at Rogers is, lets just say, not so up to date. I ended up searching titles of movies I have already seen. I didn’t give up though… I decided i better head to the comedy section for salvation… and that 2 min stroll to the end of the store didn’t disappoint... It was time to give Chappell a break, so I picked up this DVD titled “Jeff Foxworthy”… Now for those who don’t know anything about him, he is the white version of “Russell Peters”… Really, he is a red neck trying to poke fun at other rednecks, all in good spirit, mind you.

By the time my DVD player had clocked 40 mins, I was already rolling on the floor. What really cracked me up were his satirical “you might be a red neck” lines. I highly recommend this stand up comedy, because this is something definately worthy of appearing on comedy central. Now I think a few excerpts, if you will, from the DVD are in order.

Laugh Out Loud:

“If you go to the family reunion to meet women, YOU might be a redneck!”

“If you see a sign readying ‘say no to crack’, and it reminds you to pull your jeans up, YOU might just be a redneck”

“If your dad walks you to school because you are in the same grade, YOU might be a redneck!”

“If the UFO hotline limits you to one call per day, YOU might be a redneck”

“If your family tree doesn’t fork, YOU might be a redneck”

“If you have been on the TV more than 5 times describing what the tornado sounded like, YOU might be a redneck”

“If your richest relative bought the most expensive house he could afford, and you had to help take the wheels off of it.. you guessed it.. YOU might be a redneck”

Gentlemen, start your engines!

2006-08-15T16:30:00.000-04:00

These days it seems like everyone is writting a blog. And that got me thinking; why am i so behind of the game? I always wanted a place to dump my thoughts and may be hope it sounds even the slightest bit amuzing or helpful to someone.

Now y'all might be wondering what the abbreviation AK-47 confers and if i am just one of those geeks easily fascinated with fancy names associated with a weapon.. Not really the case here! AK stands for Asim Khan, my name offcourse, and i will let you figure out the 47!

There is plenty going on around me these days. I just finished my examz and i am sitting at home thinking how i will keep from boring the hell out of myself for the next 15 days, before i enter into what would be my last year in University. Yes, it's as true as it sounds, last year at University of Toronto. And, no i don't think i am a big star, but hopefully i might end up doing your taxes or pull you out of financial trouble when you turn 20. Now that might have sounded like a callous joke to many, but lets not kid ourselves, we are all in some sort of financial trouble in our 20s. And that's discounting what your parents are willing to lend you or let you have for free, atleast in the case of many Asian parents.

Now the word Asian and it's meaning is a conundrum all in itself. My fellow chinese folks seem reluctant to give up even an inch of that word and the rest of us are just left wondering how long it will go on for. Boy, if i had a penny for everytime a chinese girl reminded me 'Asian' was just meant for them. No, lets make that a dollar!

Now you are normally expected to write a long first blog but i think i am a little more merciful than those who share that grasp. With that being said however, I assure you there will be plenty more coming from this end, because this is one AK-47 that never runs out.

toodle-oo,

AK