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11:24am: Waypoint Alpha
I’ve come to a conclusion that people who live in their own cities barely go out enough to see parts/most of it during their life time. I’m not saying everyone, but a good majority of people. I’ve come to this conclusion from trying to get people to take me out to all the “cool tucked away secrets” around their community and was very let down.

Toronto: I’m the one usually playing tourist guide so I have no complaint here.
Montreal: Have no worries here sine Pouya gets around and takes me around.

India: Bangalore: My friend’s little cousin who’s been living there for 25 years couldn’t tell me where the closest laundry mat was. Hell, anything outside of a 5 sqkm radius was open country to her. At one point I had to navigate back home through memory and compass….it was CRAZY since I couldn’t speak any of the three native languages there.

Hong Kong: My cousin who lived here for 20 odd years couldn’t tell me any cool places to go and nibble at. Which was very disappointing since the main habitable part of the island itself is only some 15 kms long. Today I walked 10 kms and found: a very good pizza parlor, a ridiculously high end bike store, three different Thai resturants and 2 Indian restaurants I want to eat at.

Its getting to the point that I’m just meandering around foreign places on my own discretion *which is pretty dangerous with my sorely innocent persona. Can’t stand doing nothing! Also can’t stand not doing something new each day….. need ADVENTUReS and missions@!

10:11am: On the next Christmas list I would like to have a helicarrier.
Sometimes I wonder how Whedon looks like when he sits infront of his computer formulating the script for The Avengers. Does he have witty moments of enlightenment and squeal with pride as he
writes an awesome comeback for Stark, or what was his reaction for Loki's demise at the hands of the lovable enraged Green giant. Because when you strip away the form-fitting suits or the
chissel pectorals...the characters are brimming with whedoness...as if whedon can do stand up theatre all by himself and simultaneously portray 5 different characters.

The movie was pretty descent filled to the max with entertainment. There will be a need of second, third, and a healthy dose of 10th viewing as I go through the
scenes one at a time to catch all the fine details that the animation team did for all the CGI eye candy (especially for Iron Man's suit).

It was also a little dis-heartening to see Coulson going....a very Whedon thing to do..but necessary. Although the surprise won't last too long if he reappears in any future films by Marvel.

Two extra school of thoughts:

1. If super heroes have high pain thresh hold, what would falling off a building and landing on hard concrete feel like to them on a pain scale of 1-10? 2.5?

2. Do insurance company have hero insurance. Or would they blame it on the villains instead..collateral damage.

12:49am: Pros of heart coronaries
Someone would die very happy after consuming a Pizza Roll Chili Cheese Casserole. Even the picture online induced a psychosomatic dripping salivation.

8:16pm: GET BACK TO WORK!
Oh...another three part series add on to the Halo franchise? Won't Master Chief start to get tired of his body being used as a play thing...or...his suit starting to smell funny inside? Like there's never cut scenes of him taking a doughnut break or a squat on the can.

9:29pm: What's on your screen?
Seems like we’re going to live in a world of screens in the not so distant future. *well the ones in the city with income to purchase tech goodies.



I can almost taste the possibility of a FTL drive.

Edit: I just tried watching the entire sequence without audio. Man does it feel even more realistic when there is no ambient background soundtrack. Also, the software better have such innovative animation as portrayed on the clip.

Another train of thought of for this short film. Is there another message that in the future an unknown force will be mining all the "time" we have. Every possible spare moment it seems like they're doing something....sometimes necessary and sometimes unnecessary...but again...we'll be all living within a screen.

1:15pm: Squishyness is the theme

8:35am: Saving face...long gone *for me. Like trying to repair broken hymen?
I've never taken much concept of "face" culture, although after two days of funeral dramas, I think I'm getting a sense of "face". I checked over wikipedia and yet their definition still seems socially distant to me? Hmmmm I think the last bit of my "face" was shredded and atomized into the Canadian landscape long time ago...or that I've stopped caring and became even more un-Chinese xD

I'm also wondering if Asian culture doesn't have a sense of sarcasm because of social face concept. Since sarcasm is more like roll on teasing with westerners, to a Chinese person it's just outright insulting (parentaly tested and proven).

One of my old classmates was trying to figure out how Chinese people lived without sarcasm and my closest example of what sarcasm would feel like was if someone sarcastically calling an individual fat, who is fat? As I joke to my friends teaching overseas. If you have an extra bad kid, drop some mild sarcasm on them and their ego will tank like the Titanic.

10:46pm: Bow down to your silicon gods!
Holly crap people here in Hong Kong are tech addicted. I don’t understand (or if there is any) the visual appeal of carrying an iPad around…it’s huge..and is out of place when juxtaposed with the rest of the human body. I say it'll be more hip to walk around with a brick cell phone from the 80s.

1:38am: Bits of human anyone?
This is the one year anniversary when my dad cuts himself with kitchen utensils. What a great way to celebrate it by re-cutting himself and making a trip to the emerge department again. Too bad I wasn't home to enjoy such grisly event..but my mom freaked out a bit and grabbed my abdominal trauma pads to cover up a 2 inch laceration........

3:04pm: “Will read your rhythms and shock you, for $25”
Whoot, head is really clearing out of the fog and the renew sense of wanting to learn is back. Okay…I’ve probably complained a couple dozen times on this site that I probably hate Cardio because it really bent me over and shoved a couple of leads up my bum hole.

Freakishly enough I’m starting to enjoy it…….reading ECG lines.

I remember hearing from; it’s like trying to learn a new puzzle which causes a good amount of grief and sadistic torture, but once you understand it…..you just feel like reading another line rhythm and see what’s really killing your patient’s ticker. Q waves!!! Inverted T waves!!!! Tombstoners….all bad.

Sadly enough, I really want to buy a portable 12-Lead ECG machine ..or maybe even a Lifepak 12 which comes with defibrillators, CO2 sat monitor, and a load of other goodies. Only problem is that a refurbished one runs for 7500 bucks off of ebay. But but….you know how cool it is to pull one in a little red wagon or have it set up on like a lemonade stand or make out booth.

4:48pm: *Blink *Blink...*squints at the light
Man....I feel like I just survived a front line artillery barrage..and somewhat lost my edge during the fray. End up failing three of the five classes; meaning remedial time!

I wasn't planning on failing this many....since I can commute long distance for two..but three...hmm..this is going to be interesting, will need to illicit the help from parents now.

I have to say, this program is intense!! I knew I was going to get myself into the shit but I wasn't expecting this type of burn out....haven't felt this mentally destroyed since...high school lol *yes I was one of those strugglers. But man...those extra 4-9 months on a regular paramedic program does make a difference.

Will need to perform soul patching.

11:38am: This job is nothing but fear..fear of the unknown
Trauma Scenarios….Trauma Scenarios….rocking rocking…….rocking……………………..holly fuck there are sweat patches everywhere xD

After four months of practice..it comes down to 36 points totaling 90% of this course'S marks.....fuck fuck fuck....

Will see if I join the other bodies at the bottom of OCHT reject pond! D:

Edit: Heard back from my friends who've done their exams this morning.

- One has already failed....so she will need to do the remedial testing next week.
- One has passed after the addition of his other two quiz marks........

GAHHHHHHHH

10:35pm: A tad of fresh humor for the exhausted mind
The first day of school back in September one of the head teacher told us “If you don’t have a sense of misplaced humor, you have about 15 months to build one.”

After a grueling week of tests followed by exams next week…our teacher was putting our humor to a litmus paper test. I couldn’t remember how it started….but it did.

A little kid is complaining about his feet getting tired during a long walk in the woods. The pedophile complains back “yah yah…well what about mine when I’m walking back alone?”

Good thing the class broke out into an extra long laughter.

12:20pm: Painfully accurate

4:14pm: When Santa Sports prison tattoos...so watching this!

11:37am: Pop culting wilderness survival? = More dead people
“archery enrolment rises after premier of Hunger Games” shudders as a bunch of squealing tween comes swarming in to get their hands on a bow and a quiver of pointies.

After watching Hunger Games last night I just wanted to curl up into a ball and insert “Battle Royale” into the DVD player to wash away all the innocence and poorly injected romantic narratives from my brain. There was something unsettling about the film's lack of directional narrative? At times the potential to build a more meaningful and fuller narrative was dropped to start another scene segment.

Maybe I’ll be nice enough to give props to the descent acting by Jennifer Lawrence, but her character’s persona of being a survivalist, stubborn and only the love for her little sister does not really provide a good palatable foundation for star crossed lover…or maybe cause there is the lack of chemistry…or maybe I’m getting callous myself too xD

Oh another stone to throw at the film. Wilderness survival, was….slacking….? Camouflage might've helped or that THE DudE NEEDED STICTCHES! Not some freakish healing balm, which was marvellous by the way. I was a little surprised during the scene where Katniss was tracking her friend through the fresh blood trail and the girl sitting in front of me was becoming squeamish by all the blood…well someone won’t do so well in the wilderness.

If I ever walk into a time machine and punch in the year 2067 and the future of Manhattan city comes out in the form of color vomit like Capitol City **will try to curl up into a ball again. But no fear since there is probably two more films to come fourth.

OH AND MORE STONE....what was with the shaky camera angles and rapid quick cuts......was it supposed to build up scenes of tension and anxiety? If it was.....not enough tension and anxiety.

5:09pm: Shut up and stop asking question..here's the answer to your size issue
Cool multimedia thing about the relative size to the Universe......super trippy when you're tired and exhausted.

http://htwins.net/scale2/

12:20am: No one can hear you scream on a bicycle *seriously@!
Hehe thanks to George Takei

9:31pm: Tongue tied
I heard through the grape-vine that there is now an Indian news anchor in Hong Kong whom speaks perfect Cantonese. HOLLY SHIT..is her Cantonese terrific...and sadly I can barely understand all the big words she is using!

1:11am: Making of space heroes
Feel like you have enough credentials to go into space? Here is the hiring brochure for NASA's ISS astronaunt space program.

http://astronauts.nasa.gov/content/broch00.htm#toc

Since it's very expensive to send anyone into orbit; they're pretty bias on what type of specialty subjects you possesse......and they're very very specific on the types of sciency background too......so no film majors in this case or:

- Degrees in Technology (Engineering Technology, Aviation Technology, Medical Technology, etc.)
- Degrees in Psychology (except for Clinical Psychology, Physiological Psychology, or Experimental Psychology which are qualifying).
- Degrees in Nursing.
- Degrees in Exercise Physiology or similar fields
- Degrees in Social Sciences (Geography, Anthropology, Archaeology, etc.).
- Degrees in Aviation, Aviation Management, or similar fields.

Imagine how cool it would be to send Werner Herzog into space! He'll create the greatest world IMAX experience.

12:23am: Our future....all so fragile
while nibbling on a delicious slice of pecan pie on Friday and Saturday evening...some of my old university friends can't help but notice all the young un-programmed U of T students congregating at Futures bakery. Their innocence, ideas, naivety, intelligence, and creativity....in due time..in due time.

After that I proceeded to drink heavily with my friends who are steaming along in their PhD.....seems like nothing changes :P

11:51pm: Extreme brain leaks


Found it pretty interesting..and only through Pouya of course.

What is the first thing you'll teach your robot.....followed by Australian advertisement that I thought should be used for every university selling itself out on TTC advertisement adds.



**Hmm would work pretty well for EMT college too......trip your friends over to be used as live scenerios >:D

12:28pm: Always..and remember....to HYDRATE
Today I have discovered the proper balance of water prior to caffeine beverage intake. The spiral into oblivion has begun. Drug dependency has started.

1:03pm: Wood pulp under my fingers


Lovely award winning short.

3:22pm: Tasting the light.....*delicious with a hint of bitters
Blargggh, full burnout mode from last week was rejuvenated by an awesome weekend. Saw Pouya’s band album debut and had a terrific family style lunch with all his band groupies.

Interesting thing though…Mich gave a book titled Notation 21 to Pouya which is filled with….a different form of composition, as in composition notes which looks more like circuitry boards or anime drawing, rather than note compositions *gasp do I even dare to say PoMo?



Anyhow, we thought it would be a joke to ask Pouya to play Death Waltz. Silly us, we should have pulled out something more difficult….such an insult to a genius mind. Frig..can’t believe he actually sight read the first three lines. My head was oozing CFS just looking at all the quotation “Based on a Cro-Magnon skinning chant” xD and “Adagio cantabile with a rock tempo feel.

It’s interesting how this song actually sounds like.




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