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27 noviembre Goodbyes and hellos!Hey all,
It is with great regret that I annonce that I will be closing Paul's blog for a while. I'm sorry that I have to come to you guys with such news after a five month absence, but it is what it is. Fear not however, for I'm starting new blog altogether. The name is Fan View, and the idea behind it as been explained over there already. So fear not. I haven't completely deserted you. ^-^ ( As if any of you care. ) I will keep this blog up for a months or so, after which I will probably delete it. And also, I'm not totally putting the nail in the coffin either. Paul's blog might come back as to deal with more personnal subjects eventually. ( Let's just say I'm putting this blog on ice, while I'm thawing another project out. And for it to come back with the same name and make proper modifications, I need to delete it, wait either 30 or 60 days, and start up again. )
It saddens me to delete this blog after 2 years and a half of hard work ( Well 'hard' is a bit of a big word. ) and effort, but I couldn't bare continuing this blog while part of it being invisible. So I hope you'll join me in my new journey. The new place is:
I want to thank everybody who accompanied me during these two years. Like Laners would say, you guys were all 'Fantabulous'. ( Or at least, it sounds like something she would say. ^-^ ) I hope to see you guys there. And besides, I'll be sending out friends requests. ^-^ You guys take care, and I'll see you when I see you.
Until then, this is me signing off.
 27 julio Again with the upgrades!Hey all, It's that time of year again. You guest it. The time of year where Microsoft decides to make changes to Spaces and fracks up everything in the process. I say this because now, when I try to go to my blog by passing through MSN, I can't see my blog entries. That's right folks, I can't see my Windows Live Spaces entries with Windows Internet Explorer. ( Bill Gates is probably rolling over in his grave at the irony of it. Actually, he's not dead. Hmm... then I guess he's rolling over on a pile of money then. ) I can everything on my space though, like my gamercard, my music lists, my friends list, even the little gadget that let's me embed YouTube videos including the featured video. The only thing that is missing, are my blog entries. ( And the thought is accuring that most people who use IE won't be able to see this rant. It sucks really. I guess I'll have to do something about that. ) This current rant is brought to you by FireFox. Yes FireFox. For all your 'when-IE-doesn't-work-properly' needs. Laners told me that the same thing happened to her space, and she apparently rectified it by fiddling with the Media Player. Apparently, a technitian at MS told her to put her player on anything but 'invisible'. So, for some reason, the 'invisible' factor on my Media Player is somehow affecting the area where I type my blogs. I figured: "Alright! This ain't the first time that some hack jobs have been done over at Microsoft. I'll bite!" and proceeded to fix the problem. However, I was wrong. Apparently, that isn't the problem. So I'm back to square one. ( It's a good thing that I can do it with FireFox. I just descovered now that I could. But the problem is, I always enjoyed using IE for my blog editing needs. I was the only thing that explained it being in my computer at all. Well, that and the computer navigating thing of course. ) Lucky thing that I can use FireFox, cause I was seriously thinking about changing blog space. ( I'm gonna see how many times I can write in FireFox before Windows want to sue me. ^-^ ) I was thinking about using Blogspot like my friend Heffem. I was also thinking about combining my two blogs. Anyway, the answer lied with FireFox. So in anycase, that was my little update. I should have something for you soonish if I can find a way to write about it. So you guys take care and have a nice week-end. ( And I'll see if I can put my little image here. ) Until then, this is me signing off. ( Yay I can!!! ^-^ ) 16 julio So, when will we have sugar sections?Hey all,
I just read a bit of news the other day and I just had to talk about it. Turns out that Kellogg, like many companies in the food industry, want to change the content in their line of cereals for kids. In other words, to avoid lawsuits, they decided to tone down the amount of sugar, fat and calories in their products. They also decided to cease making commercials directed to kids for their cereal containing sugar. And if the nutritional normes fixed by their "Global nutrient Criteria" aren't met, they'll take the cartoon characters off their boxes. I shit you not!
Like Joe Camel, Toucan Sam is an advocate of death. Tony the Tiger secretly wants kids to be fat. Lucky's charms are actually unlucky. And Cap'n'Crunch is actually a pirate in disguise and his ultimate goal is to give scurvy to young scoundrels. The only one that truely made sense is the silly Rabbit who was always trying to get the Trix away from the kids. He didn't want them for himself, he was thinking about the children. So because of parents who can't manage their child, and by this I mean refusing to give them a second bowl, lovable pop icons might be getting the boot. ( Funny Ronald is still alive and kicking. )
These are fracking cereals for fracks sake. Not cigarettes. Everybody thinks that because you have an addiction, it's ultimately the company's fault. News Flash!!! an addiction to food is not a physical dependancy, it's a mental one. You're the only one to blame for your own fat ass. I can understand why companies try to change the nutritional values of their products, but some people seem to think that since their favorite food as suddenly dropped the calories and/or fat, then it's ok to eat more of it. I'm sorry, but it doesn't work that way. If you don't want your kids to be fat by eating Froot Loops, then limit them to one bowl or just don't buy the fracking cereal in the first place. And if they annoy you by crying because they want a second bowl, then parent your child. Tell them why they can't have a second bowl. Kids are, apparently, smarter then they look. ( Or so I've been told. ) And if they keep annoying you, then pop in Austin Powers 2 or 3 and ask them if they want to look like Fat Bastard when they grow up. That'll learn them.
It's fracked up really! I don't know what's up with all this "You have to be healthy" bullshit. I remember that several years ago, nobody even knew what Trans Fat was. Now all of a sudden, it kills people. WTF?!? Now, everything is Trans Fat free. ( Even stuff I never even knew had fat in them. Like water! ) Even stuff that's sugar free is a potential hasard, like Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi. The sugar as been replaced by a product that they just discovered kills people called aparatha.... asmapa.... asparama.... that shit that kills people. And it kills people in the worst way too. It gives them cancer. ( Oooo cancer. PH34R!!!1! ) The fact of the matter is, there's alot of different things that give you cancer or is just plain unhealthy for the human body. We just don't hear about them much since they're apparently usefull to us. For instance:
So basicly, what I'm trying to say is, pretty much anything we do will lead us to our death because, well, we're supposed to die. We're not immortal. ( And no amount of bowls of sugar free Count Choculas will give you immortality. ) And you really never know what will happen in the next five minutes. I mean, you could be eating the best foods and keeping healthy for five years straight, and then life decides to throw you a curve ball and you get hit by a swerving truck while walking on the sidewalk. Yeah I know, it sucks balls. Just live your lives to the fullest and let the chips far where they may. It's ok to eat just as long as you don't indulge too much into just one thing. Diversify your diets. For the kids, give them regular cereals during the week, and give them the sugar kind during the weekends as a treat for eating healthy during the week. And don't bend the rules, stick to it. Social services aren't going haul your asses in for not giving any Cocoa Puffs to your children. ( They'd be pretty coocoo for doing so. Heh! See what I did here? I made a funn... I'll shut up. )
Until then, this is me signing off. 10 julio I'm baaa-aaaack!!! ^-^Hey all,
I'm finally back!!! Actually, I've been connected to net since last tuesday, but I coudln't liberate myself long enough to write something on here. ( And I'm still unpacking too! Sheesh! ) Last week, my parents and I were all out painting and cleaning my new appartment. At some point we had to take a break cause we were loosing our fracking minds. The sheer exhaustion made tensions flare. So we took it easy for three days. There's still some painting to be done, just nothing really pressing though. In other words, the main bedroom, ( My room. ) the kitchen cabinets, ( Which I won't touch quite yet since my father might come back and fix the kitchen counter. ) and the door frames. ( Which I might do pretty soon at some point if I can stop being busy. ) But what was most pressing was done. I mean the color in the living room was really an awefull pink ( I know what you're going to say and no Naomi doesn't go for that color in the living room. ) and the guest room was, well, not really well painted. And the paint in the hallway/kitchen was a) chipped, b) badly separated, c) oldly colored or d) alll of the above. It seriuosly had to go. The bathroom was renovated not long ago so I didn't have to touch anything there. ( And every women that as stepped in it are all jealous of it. ^-^ ) But seriously, I thought I had enough with one weeks vacation to get settled in, turns out I was wrong.
Reason is that I'm still unpacking. ( Well not now obviously cause I'm typing here, but I think you know what I mean. ) I think I still have like fifteen boxes in my room still. My PC is still on my dressing desk ( Or is it a dresser. ) in my room. It's supposed to go in the living room. Well I'm still debating that in my head. You see, I had originally planned on putting the PC in the guest room. But it turns out that I don' t have enough room. So now I either have the choice of putting the PC in the living room or in my room. And believe me when I say I have a lot of space in my room. Appart from the hallway/kitchen, it's easily the largest room of all. ( And girls, I have a double closet. Not as cool as a walk-in, but way better then a normal closet. Naomi is very happy about that. ) But the problem is that I want a network cable to run from my computer to my Xbox which will be in the living room. ( That will enable me to watch Heroes and Galactica on the big TV. Yes I have two TVs now. Long story. ) If I put the PC in my room, I'll have to run a cable all through the appartment. But if I put the PC in the living room, then I loose some space. Decisions, decisions. Anyway, I'll stop boring you with stories of the PC placement.
Otherwise, I'm doing good. It's kind of weird being alone in a big appartment like this. I keep expecting one of my roommates to come in my room with some news about a new videogame that's going to come out or a movie review that they just read about. Or just come in an ask if I want to play a game of Smash Bros. with them. ( God it's been ages since we last played that though. ) I guess I have to wait a bit more to be truely settled in, or comfortable with the idea of living alone. LOL. To think, maybe after a couple of months, I might not want to live with anybody at all seing as how I'll developpe my own little routine. ( God I hope not. I do want someone in my life. But I don't think that a lot of people will agree with the fact of me watching old Godzilla movies to get to sleep. Yes I do that from time to time. For some reason, it helps me when I can't sleep. Actually, it's any movie really. It's just the old stuff make me sleep fatser. ) Also, there are of course a couple of plus sides to living alone. One, being able to walk around your house commando. I've always wanted to try that. I guess I shall soon. ^-^
Well anyway, I won't waste your time anymore. I'll try to come back soon with something else. I've recently read something that I got to rant about. That is, of course, if I can find some time during my unpacking. Take care and I bid you au revoir.
Until then, this is me signing off.
26 junio My last entry..... for a little while! ^-^Hey all,
So this will be my last entry for a couple of weeks. Yes I'm knee deep in boxes, and wanted to take a couple of minutes to write something. ( Clearly I'm bored out of my skull. ^-^ ) While I was going through my stuff, I came up on some drawings and whatnot that I did during college. In all of that, I fell on a list that I wrote just out of boredome in one of my class. I 'm amazed that I still have it. This list consisted of taking names of videogames and make puns with stuff that you could find at the grosceries. Today, I shall present to you this list. ( Don't worry, if you don't understand now you will soon enough. ) Keep in mind this is maybe ten years old or more so there's no new titles. And some titles come back more then once. So here goes:
Quik
Dragon Butter Ball
Keebler Instinct
Clamato Trigger
Killer Instinct Golden Grahams
Donkey Kong Country Crock
Minute Rice of the Triad
Sim City 2000 Flushes
Mortal Kodak Film
Earthbounty
OldDoom
WWF RAW Meat
WWF Royal Rompble
Judge Bread
Cereal K-Men Vs SteakFighter
Rutabega Man
ButterBall Z
Mega Man V8
Eartworm Jam
Best of the Breast
Aero Bat
Baïsel Fury
Pie of the Beholder
Velveta Fighter
I remember that I did others before these, but I gave them to my roommate a while back and I think that he just got rid of them. Heck, I don't even remember I had them. I apologize for the quality of some of the puns. I never said it was gold either. Just thought I'd share. ^-^ Anyway I must go. Time for sleepeez. I should be back in a week or so. If all goes well, I should be back here around the fifth or sixth of July. Oh and happy belated St-Jean, and have a good Canada day as well. ( Better known here in quebec as national moving day. ^-^ Long story. ) See you guys soon.
Until then, this is me signing off.
14 junio WTF!?!?!Hey all,
Ok! I really don't know what the hell is happening, but if this goes on, my hits on this space will have double by mid july. Not that I'm complaining or anything really. But it's cool to see that I don't get hits just from my friends and Baidu.com. ( I'm guessing the equivalent of Google but for asia. ) Most of the hits I get these days are from something called RSS. And I get more or less a hundred hits daily. I went on Wikipedia to read about RSS and it seems to be a type of software, or something of the sort, that let's you know when the webpages you like get updated. So I guess... Rock on RSS?!? Thing is though, unlike spaces, I don't know how many people get to read me. Or rather I should say that it's a lot of people that I can't get feedback from. I'm guessing most of them are probably not on spaces and are probably using Firefox or something to read me. ( T3h Firefox r0xx0rz! )
Like I said, I'm not really complaining. I guess now I feel a greater pressure to write better $hit or just write better period. And at the most inoppertune time also. You see, we're nearing national moving day here in Quebec. ( July first. ) And this year, I'm fracking moving. And I fracking hate moving too. The packing, the painting, the lifting of heavy objects, the unpacking. Ah frack! And the setting up of a decent entertainment center too. So if you've learned one thing about me today it's that I hate moving. During all that time I won't be able to update my blog much. So I'm afraid that I'll a bit boring the next few weeks. Add to this, the bloggers cramp I've been having lately. So really, I feel this is the worst time to have an audience. But I'm not complaining. I welcome everyone. ^-^ ( Just be lenient on me for not updating much ok. Please! )
So yes, like I said earlier, I'm moving. And moving out alone this time. Which basicly sucks for the same reason that it rocks. By this I mean the fact of being alone. I mean it's gonna be cool to come home and totally be alone. ( I've been wanting to try walking around the appartment in nothing but my birthday suit. ) But at the same time, it's gonna suck a bit. See now, I'm always coming home to someone. Or someone always comes home if I get back home and I'm alone. So it's the option of talking to someone when I get back home that rocks. If I don't want to talk to anybody, I just go in my room and stay there for a while. It's loosing that that I don't like. Plus, I've been noticing that ever since I've been living here, the only phone calls I've been getting are from my mom and credit card companies who want me to join up with them. Occasionnally I get a call from the phone company and the newspaper bugging me to subscribe to them. ( I won't talk about people calling for some dumbass survey. They be evils. Evils I tell you! ) Granted most of my friends write to me by e-mail now. I mean, it is the way of the futur. But unless it's a special occasion, nobody is going to call me up to do something for the week-end. ( And granted again that the person I hang out with the most lives under the same roof as me. ) But I fear this might bring me to stay home and not do much. I guess sometimes I feel I haven't quite grown up yet. Like I'm not quite an adult yet, but not quite a teenager anymore. And by admitting my new self, I feel even more like I'm back in my teenage years. ( Seriously, I can't walk into a mall without thinking about buying stuff for my girl side. ) That's another thing too. I'm not sure bringing up Naomi to the others was a bright move. I mean most of my friends seem to be accepting of me. But deep down, I don't know how they really feel about it. The other night, I went out with one of my friends for a couple of beers. Before we went out, we weren't quite sure where to go. I suggested that we go to Cléo, the other drag bar. And needless to say that I wanted to go out dressed. ( She was part of my birthday party. So it wasn't that much of a shock. ) But when I suggested that to her, she called back after 5 or 6 minutes to tell me that she didn't feel quite comfortable yet going out with me as Naomi. Or at least alone with me. Still, I felt tears welling up in my eyes as the flood of thoughts of everybody, saying the same thing to me, came pooring in my head. So I'm wondering if I'll ever be able to really be Naomi with my friends. I don't know why I'm talking about this here and now. I guess it's the flow of writing. I still have like so many unanswered questions. I'm still very confused about all this. I wish I could just pick a gender and get it over with. LOL. I'm also thinking about starting my japanese courses again as well. It'll give me something to do. But they be expensive. One of the reasons why I stopped in the first place. ( Well that and I felt that I was at a stand still. I figured why pay if I'm to be stuck at the same place. ) I guess I'd also need a special friend too. LOL. I'm not one to talk about this often if not ever, but I need to get laid big time. Anyway, I've ranted for long enough. I should start on my packing. ( H4T3!!! ) You guys take care ok?
Until then, this is me signing off.
01 junio I love this Fracking show!!! Hey all,
I come here after being touched by the gods. I have seen their light and must spread their good news. LOL. Okay maybe not that bad. But I fell in love with yet another fracking series. I'm talking of course about Battlestar Galactica. But not the version from 78. The recent one. I haven't seen the old one, but for some reason, this one seems to be the better version. The story for the two is basicly this. Humans create machine race called Cylons, Cylons turn on their creators. Go into hiding. Then come back to finish the job and nearly annihilates the human race. Only a small fleet of ships survive, including the Battlestar Galactica. Their mission now is to find their way back on the planet of the 13th colony, the planet Earth.
 The cast during the first season.
From top left to bottom right corner: Starbuck, Appollo, Boomer, President Roslin, Admiral Adama, Dr. Baltar and Six.
I guess in a way, this one seems more actualised which serves for it to be much more believable. ( As much as a Sci-Fi show can be actualised. I think you understand what I mean though. ) But like I said, I can't really make such claims without seeing the original series. I guess what I like about it is that it looks like what the futur would look like in a way. ( I guess I'm only making sense to myself right now so I'll shut up. ) There's also some philosophy aspects to it. Not to be taken in real consideration cause it as to do with their world, but I guess I'm a sucker for discussions of existence and "why were we put on this earth?" type of $hit, even if it has nothing to do with me.
 "You mean to tell me that this cylon baby shits green like real human babies? Are you mad?" Gaius Baltar
Ok not actual quote from the show, but I couldn't resist.
The thing I really like about this show is that they swear without really swearing. The writers created their own little swear word that closely resembles our four letter word. And is used pretty much as a substitute for it. I'm talking about the word "Frack" which is used in every flavor possible. "Frack you!" "Shut the frack up!" "Frack me!" "Mother fracker!" In essence, the writers like to swear alot, so they decided to replace "fsck" by a word that the sensors wouldn't be able to go against. Clever ain't it.
 Trust me, this makes sense when you watch the series.
So do yourself a favor and pick it up. Come on! You know you want to. I'm up to season three and I still can't put it down. And your not in for something long either. Rumor as it that next season might be their last. I don't think it as to do with ratings more than they decided to end the series on a good note. Which is good considering the swill that some series writers try to get down your throat just to prolong a series indefinatly. Seriously, I've said this before. If you know you have nothing else more to say with your show, end it. Start on another one if you must. But at least end the first one on a good note. The japanese have been doing this for a while now with anime. To great success. Some of the best series are the ones that ended at the 26th episode. Granted some of them had animated movies after. But that was all. But I digress.
 I say again. Watch it. Thank me later. ^-^
Until then this is me signing off.
BONUS:
This is for my buddy Ry who had an untimely demise here on spaces. I hope you still read me. These are for you.
 The beautiful Grace Park. She plays Sharon "Boomer" Valerii and *SPOILER* Number Eight *SPOILER END*. She's probably my favorite. And it isn't because she's asian... Alright, who am I kidding? It is because she's asian.
 Watch out!!! Cylons on mopeds, however cute, are a dangerous combo!
 The beautiful Tricia Helfer who plays Number Six.
  I couldn't get any 'Maximum' style pics of Katee Sackhoff who plays Starbuck. But I have to admit that out of all the girls in the show, she's the one that looks the best in the uniform. I fact, I think she's kind of sexy in it. But don't tell her. ^-^
 Last one is for the ladies. Sorry Ry, have a public to maintain. Plus I think he's kind of cute too. -_^ I mean look at that bod.
  Jamie Bamber plays Appollo. I think I've given the ladies reason enough to go watch the series. ^-^ 19 mayo ... You'll understand soon enough. ^-^
Hey all,
It's been a while since I wrote here. For that I'm sorry. And since there's a pile of dishes to be done today, I decided to talk to you about a game that I played recently. It's not really a new game. The first inception came in Japan in 2001 for the Gameboy Advance. It had been re-editonned when the Nintendo DS came out, and somebody had the bright idea of bringing over to North America. ( It sounds like I'm being sarcastic, but trust me I'm not. ) I'm talking about noneother then:
 Yes! You read right. A videogame about an attorney. I can hear the questions you're asking: "But Paul, what do you do in this game?". The answer is quite simple. You fight cases in court....... Yes, you read right again. You play defence attorney, Phoenix Wright, defender of the innocent. I swear, if the japanese can make a cartoon about baking bread interesting, they can certainly do the same with a videogame about court. Mind you, the court in this game is I'm guessing loosely based on the japanese court system rather than the US. I say loosely because all types of hilarity ensues and it doesn't seem like the court proceedings are respested to a 'T'. ( I mean at one point even the witness start yelling out objections. I've yet to see the judge pull out an objection. But I just started the second one now so... it could happen. ) But I guess that is what makes the game interesting. It's clear after the first case that this game follows the 'Shonen Manga' style of storytelling. At the end of a case, for some reason, you always seem to reveal who the real culprit that commited the crime that your client is accused of. The culprit is usually almost on the witness stand when you do.
 This is how te game looks with the dual screen.
Of course all of your time is not just spent in court. Phoenix is somewhat of a PI at the same time. You go around the crime scenes and the police department to sniff around for evidence that will help you defend your client. This is the only amunition you have as you use this evidence to try and find the contradictions in the witness testimony. You are also able to press the witness during his testimony so he can reveal more info when their testimony is air thight. Again, all this is to find the contradictions. Of course all this sleuthing can be a bit tedious at times. Good thing you can save at any moment of the game though, and not just at the end of chapters, otherwise it would've really been a bitch to play. The cases are cleverly written for the most part. Most of the times you already know who the culprit is, but the fun is trying to find a way to put him on the spot by defending your own client. If you like games with action, this might not be for you. But if you don't mind reading a lot, ( And the occasionnal mistakes here and there. ) and you love stories about detectives and courts and whatnot, then this game is for you.
 Pull my finger! PULL IT!!!!11!!1!!!1!
The game doesn't really use the DSs to it's advantage though. Of course you have to keep in mind that this is a re-edition to the fisrt one which was done for GBA. They reprogramed it so you can use the stylus of course, but it's nothing that you can't do without using the buttons. They did a neat little thing with the mic where you can yell out 'Objection' when you present evidence. But all it does really is to serve at making you look like a fool when you're in public. You really don't use the DS to the max until the last case which a bonus they added for this version. And even then, you kind of use it sparsly. But of course the lack of usage of the DS capabilities doesn't really damper the fun facter. ( At least for me. ) The only problem with this game is it's rarity. It came out a couple of years back in limited quantities. You can always start with the second one which helps you out at the begining like the first one. But you might be at a lost character wise. All in all, I give Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney three and a half objections... I mean thumbs up out of five.
 Until then, this is me signing off.
Current music: Aural Vampire, Rentrer en Soi
02 mayo When Brains Fart: part 11 ( Internet losers edition. )Hey all,
This may or may not reach the intended parties, but I just have to speak out about it since it really pisses me off. This goes out to those who go around spaces trying to get people deleted for their personnal pleasure. To those who spam honest peoples comments with frivolities with the hopes that the person they attack cracks and delete their own space. To those who need to crush other peoples lives just to bring themselves joy as they have no life or their own. To those people, I say a massive:
Fsck you!!!1!!1!
 These people are the cancer of spaces. And for some reason we can't get rid of them. I know that by talking about them, I give them reason to continue. And I give them reason to come and attack me as well. ( Assuming of course they get to read this. ) But something has to be said. I mean it sucks that we have to pay for the idiocies of these fscktards. By this I mean that some of us loose contact with friends that we've made along the way on spaces because they either a) got their space deleted or b) delete it themselves because of the pressure these a$$holes give them. I recently lost one of my friends because of these ignoramuses. Thank god we're keeping contact by e-mail and MSN. But other people have lost touch with their friends as well. Some without any chances of keeping in touch.
So I'm sitting here wondering what the hell we could do to put an end to these retards and frankly, other then bitch about it, I can't think of anything. The thought of going to the internet authorities had crossed my mind. But according to the MSN Code Of Conduct, I assume I can't do $hit because nothing as happened to me personnally. ( I just wish one of them would say that I'm a "faggot". Then MSN would delete their a$$es faster then they could say 'Wha'in tarnashon!'. Corporations tend to work faster when certain groups are attacked. )
I can't understand what compels people to act like total dip$hits when they know that people can't physically hurt them. These people think that we're stupid and have no lives for posting our thoughts, feelings and ideas up on these blogs, so what they do is spend all of their energies trying to shut us down. Be that as it may. Personnally, I just think these people are just jealous of us. Jealous that we're able to voice opinions, ideas, thoughts, feelings, anything that they feel shouldn't be expressed at the risk of being perceived weak. Tell me this. If you certainly think that we have no lives, why do you feel the need to spend all your time and efforts just to attack us? Doesn't this just prove that you have no lives as well.
Someone once said that MSN spaces is like going back to highschool. Well seems like the bullies are included...
Untile then, this is me signing off.
10 abril Happy Birthday to Blog!!!Hey all,
That's right! Today is the birthday of Paul's Blog. Yes that's right. Today Paul's Blog is two years old. Dam time flys when you're having fun. So, since it's my blogs Bday, I decided to change back the background to it's original color. I.E. the green matrix like scheme that I always loved and regretably had to change. ( Once again I shall be known as the lean green machine. Mwahahahaha!..... er... maybe not. )
I also decided to reprint my first blog entry. Just to have a trip down memory lane. And also to see if I've evolved any since my beginings. So without futher ado, here it is:
So in two years, I can say that not much as changed really. I still blog about videogames, movies and music. And I think it's clear that I affirmed myself as being a geek rather then a pseudo geek. I still don't like country and/or Celine Dion. ( No really guess which one is personnal. ^-^ ) Sadly, I am not with Vero-chan anymore. What can I say? Long distance suxorz. And I think it's pretty obvious which language took over in this blog. Not that I'm denying my Quebeker roots or anything. I guess the biggest changes since the inception is that I've started fiddling with a new media format. And of course the admission of an new/old passion and the blogging about it. Admittedly on another blog of course. And also, something cool happened while I was on this blogging adventure. Something that I really didn't count on but was quite welcomed. I made some new friends. Friends that I'll probably never meet in person, but friends that I know are real, decent and would be a whole lot of fun to be with, even for just one evening. People that don't really judge me when I express an opinion about something, but still add their views on the subject at hand. People that had my back when I did my coming out. People that I enjoy reading and am anxious to see if they've writen something down even though I don't always leave a comment when they do. ( Sorry about that! ) Those people are:
Elana: aka Comic Book Gal. Laners is probably one of the first blogging buddies I had here on Spaces. As soon as I read a couple of entries from her space, I was hooked. Witty, well writen, sometimes loaded with pop-culture, other times with a powerful message. Most of her entries leaves you thinking for a while. And she's a wonderful friend to boot. She's always willing to listen to me on MSN about my alter-ego. To some, she may seem as the most cynical bitch sometimes, but once you decide to get past that tuff exterior, she's a girl with a heart of gold. ( I should know, I'm the same. )
Ry: aka gpRYme One who follows Laners blog will eventually stumble upon Ry. Ry is my broseph in pretty much all that as to do with everything geek. He's much more knowledgable then I am when it comes to comic books. An even better gamer then I am. ( He has a gamer score of 9675 vs a 1445 on my part. However I totally have him beat on the 200.6% map acheivement in Castlevania: Symphony of the night. ) Quite knowlegable when it comes to anime. ( He knew who Lupin the 3rd is. ) In a way, he's the Yin to my Yang when it comes to geek stuff. ( Or is it the Yang to my Yin. Whatever. )
I've been reading Baron for quite some time now. And if memory serves right, it's through him that I met Laners. And it took a while before we got to be friends. ( I usually consider someone to be a friend after we've exchanged several comments back and forth, and when both parties have a link leading to each others space. ) Baron has some pretty though provoking stuff in is blog. But he doesn't blog all that much anymore. He as moved on to a different medium with YouTube. And in a way, he's the one that kind of inspired me to start a channel. Him and a couple of people he subscribed to, namely boh3m3. I just think what he does is pretty entertaining. Thanks again for showing me the ropes. And even though my intro his wicked as you seem to think, the rest is crap, so you don't have to worry to much about me upstaging you. ^-^
Laura: aka Madre Italiana Laura is one bona fied domestic diva. ( Even though Laura is not her real name. -_^ But she has her reasons and I respect that. ) And she's a hot mama to boot. All kidding aside, she's a single mother of four kids doing the best she can without the help of her deadbeat ex-husband. Actually, from what I can read on her blog, she's doing just great. In fact, I don't know how she has the energy to deal with all of them, and still try to have some time for herself. She's a great person and a great friend. Sometimes I wish we lived closer so we could just hang out and keep oursleves company when we feel down. And she's very supportive of my alter-ego. She even suggested that I should try black hair. ( I'm still working on that Bella! ^-^ ) She truely is an amazing women. Of course, there are a couple more who went missing in action like Toasty Fox, Catherine, Andrea and Willy Wonka. I miss them. If your reading this, come back. ^-^ It's weird though. I never thought that I'd be maintaining something like this for so long. I mean when I was younger, I wanted to start a journal but I only kept it up for about a month or two. I've been keeping this blog for two years now. When I was at school I dreaded writing essays for my classes and I used to count the number off pages to get to the minimum amount required. And yet now, I find that it's a joy to write sometimes and that I may write too much for you guys to handle. Or rather I feel that when I write too much I might bore you. Especially since the font size that I'm using isn't that big. In anycase, I'm still happy to be here and I'm probably going to be here for a while still. After all, there will always movies to see, music to hear and games to play. I think that as long as I have fun doing this, I'll never stop. As soon as I feel that it becomes a chore, well that will be the day that I hang up my keyboard, so to speak. ( Hence the reason I sometime take little breaks. But really, during those little periods, it's mor elike bloggers cramp rather than feeling it's a chore. ) But for now, I'm having to much fun. Anyway I must go. Until then, this is me signing off. 09 abril When Brains Fart: part 10 ( Fsck Microsucks!1!!!1! edition. )Hey all,
How are you all doing. I'm pretty great. Aside from fact that Microsucks is at it again with blog modifications. WTF?!?!? Are they in line with big screen monitor makers? Fsck what the hell is this $hit. I come up here to type something and realise that the fscking font is as small as fsck. Jesus Christ guys. We don't all own 21 inch monitors or put our fscking PC view on our big screen TVs. What the hell are you guys thinking. I just hope this is a temporary problem. What do you guys want to render us blind or something. Jeez!
PH34R!!1!! PH34R T3H M!CR05UCK M4N4G3R!41 D3C!5!0N5!!!11!!!!
I managed with the last blog modifications last summer, or the summer before that. I can't remember really remember. It's not too bad considering that I could always change the font each time I write a new entry. That's not really the beef I have. The beef I have is that all of my past blog entries have been modified with that god damned font. And I can't go back and modify them all. So now, when people want to read my past entries, they're gonna think that I enjoy writing in flys feet. ( Translated from the french expression: "Écrire en pattes de mouches.". )
Microsoft really does suck!
Until then, this is me signing off.
Update:
I'm realising that I've been an ass and that the problem either lies with my PC, or my version of Internet Explorer. ( Even other sites that aren't related to MS. ) Still in one of the cases, Micro still sucks. And I'm edging towards the Microsucks alternative cause I've looked at my blog with Fire Fox and everything is ok. Seriously guys, what up?
Other Update:
Turns out that I may have jumped the gun on this one. Apparently after I visited a certain site with IE, the site decided to change the default font size in my IE browser. Sorry Microsoft! My bad! You may wonder why I'm not deleting this entry all together since there asn't been a brain fart anyway. Well, this is what's good with me. I can admit when I 've made a mistake and take the brunt of it. And also, there was in did a brain fart. 'The circle is now complete.' Turns out I did the brain farting with my über techno skillz of not. Well met Microsoft. Well met... 24 marzo Sudden YouTuber!!!Hey all,
So yeah, I just opened a YouTube channel. Like I said in my first video I'll be using t as a supplement to my blog. So not only will I be putting up videos of my favorite groups in the YouTube window, but I'll be putting up some of my videos from time to time. Ijin't jhat veird jya! The reason for it, well basicly there's some stuff that you can't do in blog form that you can do in video. Or rather I feel that some of my ideas might flow better in video. ( But don't worry, I'll be maintaining my blog as much as I can as well. ) And who knows, this might be a new toy that I'll discard in a couple of months. Who knows really. Anyway, you can peep my first video right now. Just stop the music and hit play. Enjoy! And let me know what you think.
Until then, this is me signing off.
14 marzo The Marrow of A Bone get!!! Hey all,
I know what your saying. 'OMG! Two entries back to back. Is this the end of times?' No. It's just that I downloaded Dir en grey newest album yesterday and I wanted to share. Yes I downloaded it. Bad Paul I know. But in my defence, last time I went to HMV and ordered Withering to Death, Dir en grey's first album that's available in North America, was june 2006 and I still haven't received a call. So fsck 'em. I'm sure if I do the same thing for this album, which is also available in the states, I'll probably receive my album whe the lord or savior comes back. You try to do good and support your favorite band, but it just backfires on you. I hate this. I know what your saying. Most of the profits from the albums don't go to the artists, that I know. And record sales don't really determine if a band will go to your city. At leats not directly. It really sucks that if I wanted to see them, I'd have to go to Toronto. Not that I hate Toronto, it's just I'm not ready to do a 6 hour trip just to go see one band. On a tuesday. For an hour. Ok I'm lying. I would do it. But the thing is, the show would have to be on a week-end so I could take friday off for the trip and to reserve a room, watch the show, then come back the next day. I think I might have to stick to my original plan of seeing them in Japan. ( Not go to Japan to see them. More like schedule my eventual trip to Japan around their show so I can see them. )
But enough of my ranting. Back to the album. From this album you can see that the members of Dir en grey are trying to appeal to the north american audience. And they do so without losing their sound too much. In other words, this album is probably their heaviest yet. But it doesn't sound like their imitating other bands. Early in their career, even though they embraced the Japanese pop rock image and sound, you could see that they thrived to be much more darker, much more heavier than there fellow J-rockers. As they went along, they changed their image loosing alot of japanese fans in the process, but gaining fans slowly but surely in the rest of the underground world. ( Including me. ^-^ ) Just last summer, they toured with Korn in the Family Values 2006 tour, and again they came during febuary in North America for their Inward Scream tour. ( Which I'm kinda pissed about because in these two tours they went to Toronto and not Montreal. ) So you could say thet they're slowly winning their gamble. Does this make this album any good. I'd say yes. Although I do hold 'Vulgar' in high regards, I have to say that 'The Marrow to A Bone' comes in as a close second. Once again, they go all over the place like they always do. Look I'd really like to explain it to you, but I'll let this guy here do it because he does so way better than me. Trust me when I say that you'll be on a rollercoaster of sound when you listen to this album. The single 'Clever Sleazoid' is very good. It's a shame though that Kyo as to scream the lyrics. It's as if he's trying to hide his english. ( Yes, in this single he sings mostly in english. ) But the end result is very good. ( At least for me. ) So to sum it up, I give 'The Marrow to A Bone' four thumbs up out of five.
I'll be putting up Clever Sleazoid to play in the background soon. It's just that now it's getting late and I have to go to bed soon. Or maybe I'll put up the Clever Sleazoid video and put another song instead. Anyway, I got to run.
Until next time, this is me signing off.
Update:
I've put 'Clever Sleazoid' as the background song and the 'Agitated Screams of Maggots' PV on the tube. It's the second single of the album. I just hope I won't get in trouble with the MSN police.
 13 marzo 300 wo mimashita! ( I've watched 300! ) Hey all,
So I went to see 300 last week-end. I must say, I was served. 300 is the tale of the Battle of Thermopylae in which king Leonidas of Sparta accompanied by three hundred of his men face overwhelming odds against the Persian army. They were only three hundred against an army of over a million soldiers. ( Heh! Kinda makes me think of the same odds that I face in Dynasty Warriors. But I digress. ) After seing such courage, the Greek army eventually decides to fight off the Persian invaders. Don't think I just spoiled the movie for you cause you could've picked it up anywhere in any Greek history book. It's as much a spoiler as if I would of said that the Titanic sinks at the end of the movie. Besides, what really makes this movie great is the visual effects. ( Filmed in part or mostly in Montreal. W00T!1!! That's what I heard of course. )
 Sufficit to say that I had the exact same feeling as when I watched Sin City, wherein I felt that some scenes or shots were directly ripped out of the comic. And what to say about the glorious gore. Well it's not as much as I thought it would be, but of course after watching Izo, nothing really is. ( I swear! Izo = Most. Violent. Movie. Ever. ) However, even though 300 received an 'R' rating for the states and '18A' in the rest of Canada, here in Montreal it only got a '13+'. Go figure! In anycase: "Teh mooving pictures are l33t!". And besides, the way the scenes are shot and the rich environments are well worth it. I swear, by the way this show looks you could swear being in ancient Greece. The story, a romanticized version of the tale is probably the weakest aspect of the movie. But I think it's really just a minor gripe on my part. I'm not saying that it sucked, I'm just saying that for me it wasn't as solid as the rest. The whole part with the queen, after Leonidas went to battle, felt like it was filling in some time rather then develop the story. Or maybe it was just for some pacing issues. You know, to give people breaks in between the violence. But like I said, the story didn't make the movie any less enjoyable for me. I give 300 four out of five thumbs up.
Until then, this is me signing off.
 07 marzo The songs in the key of life... sort of.Hey all,
It's blogligation time! That right, I got blogligated to do this because I read it. Hence blogligation. Which means you must do it too either on your blog or in the comments section. Muhahahaha! Er... right, so shall we start. It's pretty simple really. So simple that I'm going to let Laners explain it to you. ( What? She explained it very well on her blog and I have nothing to add. Also I'm lazy. ^-^ )
So, the rules are pretty simple. You open your music library, click the "shuffle" button and press "play". For every category, you type the song that's playing. Once that's done, you move on to the next category and hit the "forward" button on your media player and type the song that's playing, and so on, until you're done.
Sometimes the songs will be spot on, other times they'll just be good for a laugh. Either way, it kills time, right?
Ok..let's begin: Told you it was pretty simple. So anyway, here goes my answers. Fair warning, most of my music library are Japanese songs. Hell, all of my MP3s are japanese. Except maybe for one or two albums. And I've got videogame and anime soundtracks in them too. So if you see that you don't know any of the songs, well let's just say you're not going crazy.
OPENING CREDITS: Rusty Nails - X Japan
( Pretty energetic song. It could work. )
WAKING UP: Memories with Lucrecia - Masashi Hamauzu ( FFVII: Dirge of Cerberus OST )
( Makes me think of a sweet song you hear when you wake up in an RPG. Wait... )
FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL: Strange Chameleon ( Acoustic ) - The Pillows
( Seing as when I was in highschool I didn't want to be an outcast, I think the title to this one is dead on. )
FALLING IN LOVE: Sony-San - Polysics
( Fits if it's a japanese New Wave kind of love. )
FIGHT SONG: Bacteria - hide
( This actually fits in pretty well. )
BREAKING UP: Mustang A Go Go !!! - Dragon Ash
( Hmm, nope on both accounts. )
PROM: Higeki Wa Mabuta Wo Oroshita Yasashiki Utsu - Dir en grey
( Don't really know what it means. Something about tragedy and eyelids. But the song could fit for a prom. A really gothic theme one though. )
LIFE'S OK: Orgasm - X Japan
( Hey, my life's ok when I have mine. ^w^ )
MENTAL BREAKDOWN: Family Damacy - Yoshihito Yano ( Me and My Katamari OST )
( Oh yeah! )
DRIVING: Through The Night - Outlaw Star OST
( Kind og appropriate. Especially if your driving a space ship. )
FLASHBACK: Saku - Dir en grey
( Works if it's a twisted flashback that needs a real heavy song. )
GETTING BACK TOGETHER: Amnesia - Gullet
( You kinda have to get Amnesia if you're getting back with someone that caused you pain, which was the reason you left him/her in the first place. )
WEDDING: WRO March - Masashi Hamauzu ( FFVII: Dirge of Cerberus OST )
( This is like saying your putting the Empire march from Star Wars at your wedding. )
BIRTH OF CHILD: Xavier - The Pillows
( I always though it was a nice name if I ever have a son. )
FINAL BATTLE: Mazohyst of Decadence
( Doesn't really fit at all in either sence. It's to slow to be a final battle and song is about abortion. Should be switched with the Flashback song though. )
DEATH SCENE: Seki Ray - Gackt
( I'll just say yes. )
FUNERAL SONG: Sunnymaster - Polysics
( Fits if it's a japanese New Wave kind of Funeral. ^-^ )
Wow, some of them fit and others... well, not so well. It was fun to do though. I wish you could hear the songs for the ones that fit. Even though the words might not be appropriate, the style of the songs are. And sometimes with the songs that don't, for some reason the title does. This is really funny the way it turned out. Ok, so now it's your turn since this is a blogligation. Do it either on your blog or in the comments section. Anyway, I must go back to my adventuring in Zelda.
Until then, this is me signing off.
28 febrero Wii have a we!!! Wait... Hey all,
NEW CONSOLE GET!!!
Yes, we finally got our hands on a Wii. My roommate just up and decided to buy one last week. And I've been having trouble putting the controler down. In fact, I think I've played more than my roommate. But that's only because I bought Zelda a couple of months back and I've had a major aching to play it since I bought it. And also, the game is that good. I'm not only saying that because I'm a huge Zelda fan. Except for the gameboy versions, I've played practically all of them. The only one I didn't finish was Majora's Mask, but it didn't feel that much like a Zelda to me. ( The groundhogs day thing really bummed me out. ) Look, I won't go into the details of the games here because the series as been around for a little more then 20 years. If you're from the same generation as me, and you never heard of Zelda, then you might have been living under a rock. Simply put, our hero Link saves the princess Zelda from the evil Ganondorf. Of course, a lot of changes were made to keep the series fresh, but that's pretty much the idea in a nutshell. So basicly, what I'm trying to say here is that I give The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess five thumbs up out of five.
Now back to the console itself. For now, I really have nothing bad to say about it. Except maybe for the Virtual Console though. If memory serves well, we were told that most of the old NES and SNES games on this would be free. We would only pay for big titles like A Link To The Past, Metroid, Mario 3, etc. Also, a big chunk of the NES and SNES library was supposed to be available at launch. Turns out not so much. But we did gain the Genesis and Turbo Graphix Virtual Console so there is some good. Other then that, the console really doesn't have any real flaws. The wii-mote, which everybody was really skeptical about at first including me, works like a charm. Not only does it sence your every movement, but it can tell if your turning it upside down. The Wii also let's you create a gamer account... of sorts. While not exactly like the gamer account from the Xbox 360 which tells you which games you played, the acheivements you've gained, and the players you encountered online, the Miis are somewhat your gamer identity for the Wii universe. The Miis are little characters that you create to resemble you which can be used afterwards in certain games like Wii Sports and certain channels. ( Yes this is very Nintendo. )
Speaking of channels, these are by far the most interesting feature that sets the Wii appart from the competition. ( Well, appart from the 360. I haven't tried the Playstation 3 yet. And looking at the price tag, it looks like I ain't gonna try it soon. ) There's the Mii channel, where you create your Mii. There's the picture channel, where you can look at the pictures from the memory cards of your camera that are compatible with the Wii. ( Instant slide show anyone. ) There's the shopping channel where you download new software like a new web browser and this where you buy games for the Virtual Console. There's the Weather channel. Yes people, you heard me. A weather channel. What up?!? You see what the temperature is around the whole world. I mean seriously, how cool is this? There's also a News channel where you can read stories from around the world from the Associated Press. There's a Voting channel which... well sucks basicly. It's kinda like a survey thing and you know how surveys aren't that important. And the questions aren't that meaningful either. Who really cares if my favorite color is Red or Blue. But this channel as the advantage that you can go and answer these questions when you want and not be bothered at the most inopportune time. ( *DRING DRING* 'Good day sir. I was wondering if you could answer a few simple questions for our survey? I trust I'm not bothering you right now on this Sunday morning?' 'Well I was just fscking my girlfriend... but what the hey!' ^-^ ) So just by that, this channel redeems itself. I'm pretty sure that as I type, Nintendo is working on other stuff to put there. So in anycase, I give the Nintendo Wii, 4.5 thumbs up out of five.
Until then, this is me signing off... and going back to play Zelda on Wii.
15 febrero W00T!1!!11!!! Babysitting + No more go to laundromat!!!Hey all,
Yes you heard right. I went babysitting for my best friend Kitty last friday. It was all good, the baby is still alive folks. It wasn't too much of a hassle actually. I thought it was going to be hard, after all I have no experience what so ever with 8 month olds. But Kitty made sure that my sitting would be as pleasurable as possible. Both her and her boyfriend were going for supper for about 3 and a half hours. Little tyke slept through half of it. While he slept I watched part of the second season of In Living Color. ( Very good by the way. ) When he woke up, I took him with me and we played a little bit before I fed him. ( Not breast fed him. Kitty took care of that before she left. I just gave a bit of cereal and mashed corn. ) While I was feeding him, the parents came in. It was about 9h30. Kitty finished the job of feeding him while I talked with her and Bas. Unfortunatly, ( Or rather is that fortunatly. ) I didn't need to change him. He was clean as a whistle. The father took care of it when he was playing with Bam. ( Yep, my nephew's name is Bam. Like Bam Margera from Viva La Bam. ) Mouhahahahahaha, no cleaning job for me. ^-^ For my services, Kitty offered me supper for sometime in the near futur. Which is good, I love supper. ^-^ So with that...
BABYSITTING: LEVEL 1 ACQUIRED
It's not recent, but here's a pic of the little bugger.
 Alsoooo......
We've got a new washer. Yes, I can once again do laundry in the comfort and warmness of my home. I say warmness because I had to go there last week when it was -100 degrees. Minus ridiculous with the wind chills. So anyway, the exquersion to get said washer was quite a feat in itself. Since we don't have a truck, or know anybody that owns a truck in the immediate vicinity for that matter, we had to go rent one. So off we go, me and my roommate Fly, on a sunday morn to go rent an Econoline. We get there and we tell the clerk that we're there to rent. The looks at us and asks: "Do you have a reservation." We both looked at each other, wondering if either of us had reserved, then we looked outside at the plethora of Cubes and Econolines and went: "Like... what! All of that is already reserved." See, we went there not knowing that they also rented cars. She looked out and said: "Oh you need something to move. Yes, those you don't need a reservation." Fly and I let out a sigh of relief which was short lived. The clerk tells us that all we needed was a credit card to freeze 500$ from and a drivers license with the same name. Which was a slight problem since Fly had the credit card, and I the drivers license. ( My card is loaded because a certain girl in my life is expensive. ^w^ ) She said that it's ok but she would have to freeze a thousand intsead of 500. "Come again?" I asked. She said she could bring it back down to 500 if we took an insurance of about 12$. We agree cause you know, we needth teh truck. After typing in the information from the credit card and the my permit, she realises that we both live at the same adress. Which apparently if we had told her this before, the amount she needed to freeze would still be 500$. Me and Fly look at each other with the same look that we have when both of us are thinking: "WTF?!?" So she takes the credit card and proceeds to freeze the amount. It doesn't work. Fly's card ain't full, but it's almost full. He's supposed to have this credit margin though, but I'm guessing it's not enough to cover 500$. I look at Fly with an expression of "We did our best." on my face. But the girl says to wait. Apparently, the 12$ didn't just serve to bring down the cost of the 1000$ but also the cost of the 500$. So she tried a second time, but this time with 250 as the amount. It worked. Fly looks up in the sky as if the gods had answered his prayer as the clerk is finishing up the transaction. I'm taken aback by the whole situation. I'm like: "WTF?!?! Is it customary for this company to make up rules like this as they go along?" But I don't say anything cause I want that truck so we can do what we need to do.
After a quick inspection, we take our leave. We get to the friend's place whom Fly bought the washer and dryer from. ( Yeah, he decided that since he's getting a new washer, might as well get a new dryer. Well, partially used. Like one year though. ) As soon as we arrive, we exchange pleasanteries, we talk for five minutes, and we get into the action. We had to take down some door because the appliances were in some sort of closet which hid them from the rest of the appartment. Trying to be real carefull too because the doors are also mirrors. After we're done with the doors, we start to unplug the dryer. All goes well, we get it to the truck no problem. Next we attack the washer. Shut off the water valves. As Fly unscrews the tubes that lead to the washer, we realise that one of the water valves doesn't shut off well. ( If the VISA gods were with us earlier, the utility gods weren't. ) There's still a string of water coming out of it. And since Fly's friend doesn't sleep in that place anymore, we couldn't leave it like that. So we start looking for a water main that will shut off the water for the appartment, but ended up unsuccessful. Fly's friend brings a bucket so the water doesn't ruin the floor. We start making calls to see what advice we could gather. Shutting off the water main was pretty much a reoccurring suggestion. I ask if she could get a hold of her landlord. SHe said that she was trying to for the past month but was unable. Finally, Fly gets a falsh of genius in is head and onscrews the nob on the top of the water valve. Starts fiddling with a vice grip on a little part of it, and managed to shut it off. Amazed, we congratulate him and get back to work on moving the washer. After all was done, we put back the closet doors and the sliding door through which we moved the appliances. Say our good-byes, then head back home. I had to drive on rear to get out of the alley in which we were parked. I know it's nothing but I rarely do it with a truck.
FLY :
PLUMBING: LEVEL 1 ACQUIRED
MOVING: LEVEL 6 ACQUIRED
PAUL :
MOVING: LEVEL 15 ACQUIRED
REVERSE DRIVING WITH TRUCK: LEVEL 2 ACQUIRED
We get home at around noon and we decide to go get some food. After eating, we bring the truck in front of the house and proceed to bring the appliances inside. Then we take the old dryer that was left and load it in the truck cause we're bringing it to Fly's ex. We got rid of the washer a couple of weeks before. So we head to Fly's ex. Take out her old dryer and put it on the side of the street, then bring in the new one. Well, her new one. She offers us beers for our trouble. Pff, who are we to refuse beer eh? So we sit down, chat, chill, drink. Next thing we know it's 4h30. The rental place closes at 5. No problem. So we say our good-byes, hop in the truck and head towards the rental place. we get there at around 4H50. Barely made it. We proceed to give the truck back. The clerk asks if we filled the truck up before bringing it back. I say: "Yes, well no, I mean, the needle is still at 'F'. So I didn't think we needed to." The girl says that we still have to fill it cause the truck can do 50 kilometres before the needle decides to move. We go out, get the truck to the nearest gas station, which luckily is the next corner street. I get out of the truck and I start pumping the gas. It came as no surprise to me that after only one minute of fueling, the gas pump stoped. I turn around and look at the meter to see how much I had pumped in it. Three dollars worth people. Yes, I turned back for a fscking 3 dollars worth of gas. That's about 4 fscking litres. I start swearing. To add insult to injury, the rental place was closed when we got back. Not totally closed, cause they were still serving people inside. They were just not admitting anyone else inside. I swear some more. A clerk outside taking back rentals yelled out to leave the keys into the pigeonhole besides the door. I ask: "And if we want to pay?" He answers: "It'll be taken off your credit card." So I swear again, put the keys in the pigeonhole, then head for the bus to go home. Once inside the bus, Fly looks at me and says: "Ray, the next time someone asks you if you filled the truck, you say YES!!!" ( I want to thank to few people who will get this reference. ) Then we start laughing thinking that it was all worth it since we won,t have to go back at that goddam laundromat for a while.
FLY :
LAUGHING AT MY ASS: LEVEL 12789364 ACQUIRED
PAUL :
ME SWEARING: LEVEL 'INFINITY' ACQUIRED
Well that's all folks. Tune in next time for.... something else.
Until then, this is me signing off.
25 enero One word survey.Hey all,
I've just been blogligated. So I must do what I must do. Here goes.
Survey Says: You can only type one word. No explanations and no thinking. Whatever pops into your head, as long as it's one word.
Yourself: Rock
Your Partner: Unexistent Your Hair: Growing
Your Mother: Cool Your Father: Also Your Favorite Item: PS2 Your Dream Last Night: Forgot Your Favorite Drink: Beer Your Dream Car: Lancer
Your Dream Home: Loft
The Room You Are In: Mine Your Ex: Golddigger Your Fear: Creepers Where You Want to be in Ten Years: Naomi Who You Hung Out With Last Night: Roommates What You’re Not: Judgmental Muffins: Chocolate One of Your Wish List Items: Wii Time: Nine-ish The Last Thing You Did: This What You Are Wearing: Jeans Your Favorite Weather: Fall Your Favorite Book: Fantasy Last Thing You Ate: Pizzaghetti Your Life: Fine Your Mood: Neutral
Your Best Friends: Fly, Zarn, Kitty ( Not cheating. Friend is plural. )
What Are You Thinking About Right Now: Words
Your Car: Unexistant
What Are You Doing at the Moment: Writing Your Summer: Meh! Relationship Status: Hiatus What Is On Your TV: Nothing What Is The Weather Like: Cold When Is The Last Time You Laughed: Hour So, that wasn't so bad. Oh, and it's not just cold here. It's frigging cold. Temperature is supposed to drop to minus 28 tonight with the wind chills. I was supposed to go out and do my laundry but it's too cold. ( What? I work in the cold all day in my station. I'm allowed some respite. ) Hope to see your answers soon.
Until then, this is me signing off.
21 enero When Brains Fart: part 9 ( PETA edition. )Hey all,
So the other day I go to work and roughtly near the end of my shift, I see something in my station that really pisses me off. Which prompted a related message on my MSN. A lot of people, of course inquired as to why I was pissed. Well I'll tell you why. See, there was these couple of activists from PETA or "Save the animals from being tortured" type of group who were protesting and racking up signatures for a petition in my metro. Normally, I have nothing against that. In fact I think it's kind of sick what people do to animals in labs. So I have no problem with it per say. However, where I do draw the line, is when they start showing stuff like this in a public place.
PH34R!!! PH34R TH3 !D!0T5 5H0W!NG TH!5 T0 P30PL3!!!
Kinda gross ain't it. ( If I remember correctly, the first link is exactly one of the pictures they had. And notice that I had a lot more taste than to post this picture here. And even if I did decide to put it up, I have a feeling that the MSN police would want to shut me down. ) To be honest, I'm not really offended by the picture itself. And I'm pretty sure that most of the adults that walk in my subway station, although disgusted by them, may not be offended. But there aren't only adults that pass thru the station, there are some kids too. Therein lies the problem I have with this whole situation. So I decide to go confront the one of the persons doing this. I ask him if he as a permit. To which he replies no, and that he didn't need one because what he was doing was freedom of speech. I start snapping at him. I tell him that it isn't right because young children can see these pictures and be traumatised and that it's not fair to show them stuff that they can't yet comprehend. ( A 6 year will just see a bloody puppy. He/she won't really grasp the concept as to why there's a bloody puppy in the picture. He/she will probably be disturbed by the pics. ) He answers that it's not fair that those animals are being held against their will and yaddy yaddy yadda. I answer back with something like: "This sucks balls. I'm a gamer. And it sucks that we gamers get blamed for every violent actions of our generation for something that is a choice, and it's ok for you guys to force feed these very graphic pictures to adults and kids alike.". As I said that I pointed to a kid that had a weird look on her face while looking at the pics accompanied by her mother.
Yes, that's the problem I have with these people. Because we gamers get blamed for every violent action caused by a person of our generation, and heaven help us all if a violent videogame should fall into the hands of kids. But PETA are ok cause they're showing poor animals get tortured to help sensitize people and kids as well. If we believe Jack Thompson, the gamers will bring the apocalypse or some $hit like that. According to him, games are tranning kids how to kill people. But the thing is, people have a choice to play videogames contrary to the force feeding that PETA do. And parents have a choice to watch what their kids are playing. Look, I know that my point got lost somewhere. But I'm just fscking tired to hear people say that videogames bring out the worst in people. I acknowledge that videogames are violent, and that not all of them are for kids. But there is a videogame rating system that, I'm sorry to say, parents and retailers don't give a ratsa$$ about. ( The former because they don't want to be uncool parents or are to lazy parenting and the later because they don't want to loose any sales. ) As I'm writing this, people like our buddy Jack, are trying to pass a law to ban violent videogames. If you don't believe me, look at this $hit. It's a trailer to a documentary on videogame violence. And guess who's in the line up. Our good buddy Jack. Like I said, I'm tired of this $hit. I'm tired of being looked at weird by "normal" people when I tell them I play videogames. ( And not the "your a geek look" but the "is he violent look". Ok probably never happened, but I'm sure that if I was 13 again, it would happen. ) And then in PETA's mind what they do is perfectly normal.
Until then, this is me signing off.
15 enero It's begining to look a lot like.... Christmas?This blog as been brought to you by...
 The white kind
Hey all,
I don't think I told you guys, or if you heard it somewhere else, but it finally started to snow here in Montreal. About a couple of weeks too late if you ask me though. I mean it should've been snowing at least a week before Xmas and the normal temperature should've been around a chilly -10 degrees around new years. Not sleet during Xmas and 5 degrees the day after new year. Totally weird temperature this year. If you guys don't know yet, here in Montreal we have temperature that is equal to those hot sunny days of Miami during the summer and sometimes we rival the blistering colds of the Yukon. ( I may or may not be exagerating. Depends on the point of view I guess. ) But usually, we get each point of the weather spectrum for only one day and this is mostly due because of the god dam humidity. We live on an island, what do you expect. And we get them usually in their respective seasons. But now the temp seems to be all screwy. I'm starting to wonder if global warming is really having an effect on the planet. Actually, I don't think, I kinda know. But I guess all we can do right now is sit and look. Oh! And do our part of course. Right, almost forgot that. ^w^
But now it's snowing so all is well. Well not really cause I have to shovel this white shit. And trust me, I'm not complaining just because I have to shovel at home. I live in an appartement building, somebody else does that. No. I have to do it because it is require in my job to do it. And I have five, count them, five exits to shovel with more or less ten centimetres of snow each. It's not like last year though, with the 45 or so centimetres the week before christmas. That was hell. I had to do my exits two times. At the end of the day, I totally had to crack out the Tiger Balm before going for a snooze. Today wasn't a Tiger Balm day however. But it's good practice for the other snow storms that are sure to come eventually.
In other news, I've totally been blogging a lot more. I'm actually surprising myself. Expect another addition of "When brains fart." later this week. ( Laners already knows what I'm going to talk about here. ) I guess I'm making good on one of my resolutions I talked about over at my sister site. I assume the rest is yet to come. ^-^ In any case, I'll see you guys soon.
Oh! If you guys want to laugh, go watch this. I laughed so hard at the first question he asked him. ( Ry, great potential for "Lazy Sunday". ) Anyway, I'm off.
Until then, this is me signing off.
14 enero This blog as been brought to you by... The purple kind.
Hey all,
Yeah I'm starting to feel a lot better. Prospects are high as to me eating again today. And Gatorade is the new "flat 7up". Seriously! Last time I had diarhea, I was told to drink up Gatorade instead of "flat 7up". ( "Flat 7up" = 7up with no fizz. I can't stand regular 7up, so imagine without the fizz. Beurk! ) So I decided to try it with my gastro and it helped a lot. Especially with the "me not dying" from dehydration part. Try it next time you have diarhea, you'll thank me. ( Just don't worry if your excrement turns out to be atomic green in the aftermath. )
So yesterday, since I had nothing to do, I played a bit of Samurai Warrior 2 and some versus with my roommate on Gears of War. That was pretty much all I could do being sick and all. I was actually wabbling a little bit while I was walking from my room to the living room and the bathroom. Plus I had a mega headache. It's a shame though, cause yesterday I missed one of my friends birthday party. And I was looking foward to going too. In anycase, I feel better now. Later I might go to the grocery store and get some food. ( And maybe get some yogourt capsules from the pharmacy. What, I hate yogourt. ) Plus, I'm gonna have to go to the laundromate anyway to wash my sheets and other stuff. Something I really don't feel like doing. How come when your sick, those things don't get magically done?
Until then, this is me signing off.
13 enero Sucks to be me!Hey all,
It appears I have Gastro.
My life sucks!
Until then, this is me signing off.
31 diciembre Happy New Year!!!Hey all,
Just popped in to wish you all a happy new year. I'm sorry if I haven't been on lately. See, my roommate just got his Xbox 360 and a lot of my free time as been spent on the new console of the house. You can clearly see this on the side of my blog where my gamer tag is. If you want, just add me to your friends list. ^-^ I've already added Ry and we've sort of tried to play Gears of War together, but I don't know if we quite worked out the kinks. But it's all good. Anyhoo, I'll talk more about the new console later on. Right now I have to go and get ready to go to my aunts. We're having supper and I guess the "reveillon" as well. And I can't wait to watch the "Bye Bye!!!" this year.
For those of you who don't know what the hell is "Bye Bye!!!", well basicly put, it's the review of the year seen thru the eyes of french canadian comedians. This show was on hiatus for several years, mostly because the last couple of years that the show was on, well let's just say that it sucked. This year however, not only marks the return of the show but also the coveted return of Rock et Belles Oreilles. You may not know, but these guys are almost like the Beetles for us Quebekers. They've been on hiatus for a about eleven years. However, all of them have kept working on different solo projects of course. Some more successful then the others. So, in a way, the bar as been set really high this year. I just hope for them that the show doesn't suck. But the thing is, these guys are known fort their politically incorrectness. So the show might be very good, but it will probably get blasted by the critics the next day as being to crude or some shit like that. That's very much like us, even if the show is a complete success, leave it to some quebekers to find something wrong with it. It's our nationnal pass time, bitching that is. ^-^
In other news of me, well, my bus trip to Edmunston and back was uneventful despite the freezing rain going to, and the snow storm coming back. I say snow storm as if it was drastic. Fsck, we've seen far worse white shit storms then this one. ( After Xmas it becomes white shit. ) Also, Laura is MIA. Laura, girl, if your reading this, WTF! Where did you go, one day your threre, the next day you leave Spaces. I'm not devastated or anything, it just sucks. I always look forward to read all of my friends blogs, even if I don't always leave a comment. So I guess I was just disapointed that she left us without saying good bye. Anyway, I'm off. But before, I want to wish all a,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
 May the new year bring you health, joy and prosperity.
Until then, this is me signing off.
Current Game: Gears of War
22 diciembre Merry Christmas!!!Hey all,
I know it's early, but when it will be the day, I won't be in front of my PC to write this. So I'm making good use of the little time I have before I leave to take the bus to wish you all a very merry Christmas. ( Except for Laners who I wish a "Bah humbug". Ok I wish you a merry Christmas too. ^-^ ) So anyway, have a good one and maybe I'll have something good to say when I come back next tuesday.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!
 Until then, this is me wishing a Merry Christmas... and signing off.
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