Hamster On A Piano!!

November 13th, 2008

HAHAHA!! Thank you Bella Hanton for showing me this!
Some of you may think it is the dumbest thing in the world, and I would normally agree with you, HOWEVER, if you have ever owned a hamster or played with one you could appreciate the humor in this video. The producer of this video is obviously someone who thinks outside the box and tries to turn random situations into hilarious events by adding his own custom written music to it. Very original, very creative.

What If…

November 12th, 2008

Life should not be about “what if”. What if slavery was never abolished? What if our parents never met? What if… If we keep living life around what if, then we will always be questioning is this the life we are suppose to have? I am a strong believer in everything happens for a reason and we are all actors in this film called life. We should live life for now and not yesterday. The past is there to remind us of what we have done in our life and to show us there is still more to be accomplished.

Oasis - Champagne Supernova

November 12th, 2008

What is the real meaning of Oasis - Champagne Supernova? That is the question asked by many over the past couple of years as they heard this song and tried to make sense of the lyrics.
I have heard this song in the past, but never really felt any connection with it until one day at a house party (September 2008), where my roommates, myself and my fiance attended, the song was playing. Shayne Lucishyn, Josh Wood, Jordan Kyte, Joanna George and myself stood there in the hallway and sang the words of this song. It is only then that I realised this was actually a really good musical piece of art.

“Champagne Supernova” is one of those Oasis songs with lyrics that sound like gibberish, but if you take some time to think about them they do seem to make sense. First of all, I have never read any interviews in which Noel Gallagher explains the meaning of this song. However, I do know the unusual situation that inspired its creation. One night Noel and his then-girlfriend Meg returned to Meg’s house after a date, and Noel noticed an unusual sugar jar Meg had in her kitchen. It’s pictured in the CD booklet of “(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?” on the page containing the “Champagne Supernova” lyrics. This jar had a lid with a small blue, plastic man hanging from it, just above the level of the sugar in the jar. While looking at this little figure hanging from the lid of the jar, the line “Someday you will find me caught beneath the landslide” entered Noel’s head. Immediately Noel locked himself in Meg’s kitchen and wrote the now infamous song.

So, what do the lyrics actually mean? After having listened to this song hundreds of times, I have come to the conclusion that they refer to life’s fragility when one chooses to live dangerously. In the case of Oasis, this may refer to their undeniable drug use. The first verse, “How many special people change? How many lives are living strange? Where were you while we were getting high?” seems to be referencing those people who are priviledged (i.e. special people), but choose to live “strange” or dangerously despite their wealth (priviledge). By asking “Where were you while we were getting high?”, Noel is asking someone who lives a more normal, subdued life what that type of life is actually like.

The next verse, “Slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannon ball” seems to be a clear reference to someone who isn’t seeing things from a clear perspective (someone who takes unnecessary risks even when he should know better). Someone who is on drugs would view someone who is actually walking very slowly as walking very fast.

The chorus, “Someday you will find me caught beneath the landslide, in a champagne supernova in the sky” can only refer to death. Finding someone caught beneath a landslide would be the equivalent of finding them dead, and the reference to the landslide being in the sky indicates a reference to heaven. Thus, this person knows he’s living a dangerous life and that his lifestyle may one day kill him.

The next verse, “Wake up the dawn and ask her why a dreamer dreams she never dies. Wipe that tear away now from your eye” seems to be saying that someone who is so engulfed in his dangerous lifestyle believes he is invincible (i.e. he dreams he will never die). By stating “Wipe that tear away now from your eye”, this person seems to be saying to his loved one, “Don’t worry about me. I’m invincible. Stop crying.” Then the chorus kicks in and this person starts to realize that maybe he isn’t invincible after all.

The next verse is very powerful, stating “People believe that they’re gonna get away for the summer. But you and I, we live and die. The world keeps spinning ’round, we don’t know why.” This means that people believe that they can choose to do dangerous things and then just quit anytime they want (i.e. get away for the summer means doing dangerous things for a while, and when the summer’s over they can quit). However, this person realizes that he’s not invincible and that real people do “live and die”. “The world keeps spinning ’round, we don’t know why”, seems to be saying that, no matter what happens, the world will continue to turn whether we live or die.

Other links to people trying to define the song:
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Music: Trapt

November 11th, 2008

Lately, I have found that a lot of music is coming out that is really dry. I have found it to be quite the task relating to any of the new releases within the music world. TraptHowever, a few bands have made a connection and I have found it difficult to listen to anything outside of this class of singers.

One band in particular which I really enjoyed listening to is Trapt. I first heard them about four years ago with a song called “Head Strong” which I really fell in love with. Since then, they have been dropping amazing hits that I have been loving.

Here is the Chorus from my favorite song (Headstrong):

Back off I’ll take you on
Headstrong to take on anyone
I know that you are wrong
Headstrong we’re headstrong
Back off I’ll take you on
Headstrong to take on anyone
I know that you are wrong and this is not where you belong
I can’t give everything away
I won’t give everything away

Here are a few more of my favorites from Trapt:

Real Life Hulk Or Real Idiot?

November 11th, 2008

I would just like to state that this guy is a jackass. I mean, what is he thinking? The best part is, he has a medical certificate to prove his strength AND the president pardons him from prison and recognises that he is Superhuman. This guy is apparantly so dangerous that he cannot enter the army because he might hurt someone? Aside from that, his wife’s insides must be destroyed from 15 times a day!

Ok, so lets breakdown the maths here:

• 4 Wives.
• 35 Children.
• Married 24 times.
• Has sex 15 times a day.
• Has 260 horsepower = 35,000 men power.

Simply amazing. If this guy wasn’t full of shit, I would totally envy him, however, I just have to give him pitty.

What do you want to be remembered as?

November 11th, 2008

Someone asked me today, what do you want to be remembered as?
I stopped and thought about it for a second. To be honest, I don’t want to be remembered as anything, you want to know why? That question is pertaining to me being remembered when I die. I do not want to die.

A couple of months earlier, I wrote an article saying that I want to be remembered as a person that did good things. As sure as the sun will rise, my thoughts and mentality has changed. I have always been a guy of science and technology, and advancements would provide the means for us to live forever.

Some of you are probably thinking I am crazy, but with the help of science, we don’t have to die. I strongly believe NOTHING is impossible. I absolutely mean that. One day, pigs will be able to fly with modifications to their DNA or constructive surgery, who knows, the possibilities are endless with science.

One hundred years ago, do you think people would have believed anything about today’s technology? NO WAY. I am firm on believing ANYTHING is possible. ANYTHING. Do not argue because I can prove you wrong with the history of time.

Protesting Gay Rights.. (Prop 8)

November 11th, 2008

I personally thought this was hilarious. Others may not share my humor, but everyone is entitled to their opinion, right? If gays are should be allowed to flaunt their ways, I should be allowed to laugh at them. Just as it is their right to be gay, it is my right to make humor of my surroundings if I please. Do not misrepresent me, I am not against homosexuality. I am against the gay guys that dress in their fairy outfits and go out of their way to show that they are gay. I am happy you have something to be proud of, but why FLAUNT IT?

I would like to be a narrow minded a-hole and say I am all for Proposition 8, however, I will be equal to the Nazi or KKK when they tried to eliminate Jews and blacks. The only reason I am against Prop-8 is due to the fact that I was born in a society that frowned upon gays and taught us in school and through our own religion that it was wrong. Truth be told, people should be able to live the life they want, without fear or control to an extent. The only problem is society governs what we can or cannot do. Civil rights movements, we are often and correctly reminded, are not linear projections moving inevitably into the future. One step forward, two steps back.

The truth is, my heart breaks for the gay couples and their children who had a five-month window in which their families could celebrate the ultimate expression of commitment and love our culture knows. There was nothing academic about any of this for them. They don’t really care whether they get to marry by court decree, or legislation, or proposition. They simply want the protection, security, and support they believe marriage gives them. They want their families and communities to understand how much their relationships mean and how fiercely they will fight to protect the children they love.

Want to hear the funny part? Same-sex marriages can be associated with black inferiority of the early 1900’s where whites didn’t give blacks the rights they deserved as human beings. In California where the proposition 8 legislation was taking place, over 70% of African-Americans voted for it! Yes, 70% of the black community supported NON-GAY marriages. How selfish of a people who once endured the same hardship. Read about it here.

On the flip side, Jeffrey Harmon raises an EXTREMELY valid point that makes me approve proposition 8!! Part of me wants to agree, part of me wants to disagree.

I agree with the conservatives: “marriage” is an institution of religion, a sectarian concept that the secular state has no business redefining.
Government institutions should offer only civil unions and let the God-fearing fight to define their word “marriage” on the open fields of the culture war. This debate does not even belong on the ballot.

Jeffrey Harmon

While there are strong similarities between the gay rights movement and the civil rights movement, believing that gay unions are equal to heterosexual unions and that opposition to gay marriage is equal to the discrimination of race is a misconception.

If the state legalizes gay marriage, then suddenly marriage changes from a protected belief of a small minority, to the false impression that the state (which is an extension of the people) believes that it is morally acceptable to practice homosexuality.

As individuals, law abiding homosexuals should be entitled to every inalienable right held by any heterosexual; but as couples, gay relationships no longer hold an equal stance to the synergy of a heterosexual relationship. The answer lies in procreation—the primary responsibility of a family.

The gay agenda wants to redefine marriage as simply commitment, honesty, affection, and warmth between two loving individuals. If so then it simply becomes an equal protection issue and the gay couple argues they are being discriminated against for a relationship they claim holds equal commitment and value to the heterosexual relationship. This argument breaks down because it ignores posterity and procreation. Children are what differentiate the marriage contract from all other consensual adult arrangements. The state has always had a keen interest in the bearing and rearing of children. Indeed that is why the state got in the business of registering and recognizing marriage in the first place.

The point, both legally and historically, the gay family can ONLY exist as a product of government policy and modern science, and a dependence on the natural family. It is very clear that there is no natural procreative ability between gay partners. The procreative ability between heterosexual couples is, by contrast, perfectly natural, and dates back to the start of recorded history. The natural family would continue whether the government or science became involved or not. Thus, we see that a homosexual relationship is not naturally equal to a heterosexual relationship.

The Declaration of Independence proclaims that we are endowed with unalienable rights, “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”. John Locke, called this “natural law”. Natural law is not a creation or product of the state, but was to be protected by the state as these are the natural rights of all men inseparably connected to being human. Gays may argue that they are in the pursuit of liberty and happiness, yet there is no logical means by which they are naturally in the pursuit of life. Indeed we may argue that the gay movement, by its very nature, is a movement in pursuit of death, its own extinction, for without the intervention of the state and modern science, homosexuality results in the termination of posterity. Thus, from the perspective of both science and state we can see that the union of man and women, with their resulting children compared to the gay union are polar opposites both in origin and fruit.

What about couples who are infertile? Many married heterosexuals choose not to have children, and others cannot because of medical problems or physical handicaps. But gays fought furiously to convince the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from their books as a “disorder”, or medical problem. The majority of the United States will now agree that homosexuality is not a medical problem or disorder. Even in perfect medical condition, a gay couple cannot procreate without the help of a third party. Therefore homosexual relationships and heterosexual relationships are inherently, and naturally, unequal. Gays should NOT shunned because of their beliefs and tendencies. Nor does this fact infringe on their God given rights. The argument is that the two relationships are very different from one another and for that reason they should be defined differently.

Guy Protesting Gay Rights? Not. Sorry everyone, I found this hillarious
Guy Protesting Gay

Underwater Home?

November 9th, 2008

I have always wondered, when would be the day that we branch out into the Ocean for our homes. Afterall, 2/3 of the world is a body of ocean. I have thought about the pros and the cons and to be completely honest, with over population hitting record heights, its going to be too soon before we are living ontop of each other. Anyway, it would be my dream to live under the ocean. Check this out: http://www.poseidonresorts.com/poseidon_main.html

If you are interested in more 21st Century living expectations, have a look here: http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-36923.html

Underwater Suite - Poseiden Hotel - Fiji

Everything in Life is a Lesson!

November 4th, 2008

I am constantly taking in what people say or do. I am always listening and trying to understand why things are said or done. Everything in life is a lesson. One that will benefit me if I could only remember it at the point where I am about to make a mistake. Imagine having the knowledge of every human being’s mistakes and what lesson they learned from it. Imagine how different the world would look. Just imagine. What a beautiful world. It never gets boring, it never stops impressing. It is so random, that we can never tell what is going to happen next because there are so many actors in this life, that with one change in the script, the end changes completely.

Scientology…

November 3rd, 2008

I was in the airport traveling back from Miami to Barbados when a lady approached me as I was using my laptop and asked me if I knew how to work her phone. I looked at the phone and noticed it said “Please Insert Sim Card”. I instantly opened the back of the phone, re-adjusted the SIM and then powered on the device. Within seconds, the phone was working and the lady had thanked me. She went along her way and left me to do my work on my laptop. Several minutes later, the very same woman approached me and asked me if I knew what Scientology was.. I played stupid and said “Nope, what is Scientology?”… She then handed me a DVD and told me, I think you should watch this on your flight. I looked at her and said, I was joking, I know what Scientology is, and as a matter of fact, I am a student at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. I am majoring in network security. She looked baffled, so I continued by informing her that I was a proud supporter of Anonymous and I condone any action by Scientologist. Oh boy, did this piss her off. She turned from an angel into a devil in a matter of seconds and started saying some pretty creepy shit. Being that we were in an airport, I didn’t want to get myself in trouble, so I put on my headphones and blasted music so I wouldn’t have to hear her crying about the illegal activities involved with Anonymous’ actions. With that being said, she proved how much shit Scientology is. My first encounter with a scientologist and she didn’t even try to explain how they are good, rather, she attacked just because I said I supported Anonymous?
Anyway, check this link out: http://gawker.com/5074201/anonymous-v-scientology-protest-turns-ugly

I really hate them now. Watching that video really upset me seeing that woman and man being treated like that. Had I been there, I would have helped those people out and attacked those power hungry security guards. What bastards. Abuse of power.. Sigh.. Rent-a-cop much?

“Educate yourselves! Google: Operation Snow White; Hernandez v. the commissioner of the IRS; whyaretheydead.net; Kyle Brennan; Martine Boublil; Kaja Ballo; Shawn Lonsdale; and then go to whyweprotest.net to see what you can do to help us fight against this dangerous cult of greed.
Also, please notice that the other Anonymous protester being tripped and knocked into a vehicle and then thrown to the ground was a petite woman. This cult bills itself as the “most ethical people on the planet.” Help Anonymous show the world the truth!

Knowledge is free.
We are ANONYMOUS.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us.”

So What Do YOU Do?

August 15th, 2008

On a daily basis, I get people asking me what I do as a hobby or to earn a living. Obviously my response is, I am a web developer. Either the person knows what you are talking about or they ask “What is a web developer”..? My response is, I am program and build websites for companies.
What is surely ALWAYS the response at the current moment our days later is “Oh, you are a computer genius, arn’t you? Can you fix my computer or fix my email”?

Long story short: No, I don’t want to fix your f*****g computer!!

So What do you do?

A Leopard Cannot Change Its Spots…

March 10th, 2008

I am sure we have all heard the sayings (or idioms as they are correctly called) that a Leopard cannot change its spots, a tiger does not change its stripes, or a wolf doesn’t shed its skin. The direct translation of these sayings are that a person does not change his nature or who they are. I am sorry, but I do not believe this. It is completely bullshit.

Firstly, all of these analogies are directly corresponding to a less dominant and intellect limited species. It is also directly affiliated to the fact that a species or natural being cannot change the way it looks.
Let me have a poke at making one of these sayings; “A white man cannot change his skin to black”. [That wasn't too hard]

Of course, these sayings were created in the past when civilization was at its infancy and everything in life was translated into a simple phrase. It is almost like Shakespeare but much easier to comprehend (if you have a little cerebration). The most upsetting thing is that most of the people in this world generally believe a person cannot change who they are.
It is basically saying a person who is evil was born evil?
No! We are all born equal and it is our social upbringing and life experiences that dictate who we are and how we think. If I was raised to be taught that no one can be trusted because of the experiences that life brought me, who is to say that I cannot one day begin to trust again due to new experiences?

Yes, sometimes the memories of the past haunt us and make us who we are, but more dominant memories play a bigger role and help overpower those older thoughts. I agree that much of what is basic is still there, but under a layer of change, sort of like a change of clothing. I think only severe amnesia could make a person into another person, different down to the core. Hence my initial argument, our experiences make us who we are, its not something god-given.

People who go into the service often come out with much more discipline in life. My father for example has told me that serving in the army has changed his life completely. He has a much higher appreciation for life and he is much more discipline.

It is no surprise that someone who goes through a near death experience changes as a result. It is more surprising if they do not change, unless the insights gained from the near-death experience were also gained previously. For example, a religious person who has had their religion confirmed by the experience would probably change less than someone who found the experience very unexpected.

People grow, and change everyday. To not grow and or change would be like standing still while the rest of the world moves. Some changes are for good, some are bad. If you look back at your life you shouldn’t have the same attitude or goals that you did 5 years or 10 years back. If you do then you need to move on and start growing before you get stuck in the past. However some people don’t like change. They are afraid of it. Nothing is more comfortable than the familiar. It is very hard work and most people aren’t willing to do that kind of work so it’s easier to stay the way they are. Life changes all of us in one way or another, some for the better some for worse. But to an extent that is your choice in what it does.

The whole point of this composition was to indirectly argue to a certain person in my life that I can change. It is my past experiences that have made me who I am, and only through newer experiences with you, can I begin to change into the person that you say I cannot be.
The one thing I hate is being told I cannot do something. I am who I am because of my past, it is up to my present and my future (you) to make me who I will be.