Freaking post-secondary schooling.

PROTIP: When attempting to advertise your self, do not over-emphasize the amount of money in scholarships person x has won last year. This will just demoralize and depress others.
i.e. "It's thanks to studentawards.com and these forums that I was successful in winning over $200,000 in scholarships, including the TD Canada Trust Scholarship, Millennium National, etc. among others."
Thanks studentawards.com, because EVERYONE is able to get out of university debt free AND have enough for a down payment of a house. Not to mention, everyone gets interviewed by MacLean's for their opinions of the school system. Because it's definitely possible to have a 99 average and be part of 50 demanding extra-curricular activities legitimately.

Sure, I'm just saying this because I underachieve, and blah blah blah but honestly, it's not possible for everyone to do actually do so much without lying or have misleading statements. Also, hasn't anyone actually noticed it's the same few group of people who win every scholarship? I mean, when you've already covered full tuition + living expenses for your four years of undergrad AND have enough to pay for an executive MBA at some ivey league school AND can buy a decent car then something's not right.

The funny thing about this is a large portion of these people will end up working for underachievers.

On a side note, what is with people and big-name schools? I'm one of the few who has spent nearly every single lunchtime listening to a person from a liaison team from an university talk. Today, all of a sudden, Queen's comes and about half of the grade 12s come AND some grade 11s show up. I couldn't even get a booklet because of this mess and people who don't even care about making an informed choice and have probably already chosen their major/university get booklets. Whoopdifreakingdoo. Now I have to order one from them which will take at least a month to mail which is a month of me being depressed about society.

There was more I wanted to type but I forgot what. I might add more on later.

Total Propaganda

OK, this won't be too too long, since I have a math test tomorrow, but after social studies class today, I just felt that this had to be said.

So we're learning about all the different philosophies in social studies right now, mainly socialism, capitalism, conservatism, and liberalism, with a bit about Marxism. I am just amazed, and somewhat baffled by the hostility towards socialism. Honestly, I'm in the "normal" social studies class, so these people know next to nothing about socialism and Marx and Mao, but when the topic comes up, they act like we're learning about Hitler or something. And the material does nothing to correct this. The books and sheets we get consistently depict(albeit subtly) socialism as this dictatorship and communist leaders as these insane power hungry people. It's so ingrained, "dislike" is probably becoming too indifferent to describe these people's attitudes towards socialism, communism, and by proxy, China.

So let me clear the air right now. Socialism and communism are miles apart from dictatorship, in theory, yes, I agree the applications are a bit too similar for my liking, but the idea was Utopian, and if the fault lies anywhere, it lies with corrupt officials, so stop acting like it's Satan worship or Neo-Nazism or something. Another thing, call me brainwashed, but Mao was not this cruel dictator the western world constantly depicts, yes, he had his faults, but he was a revolutionary first, a politician second, and frankly, there is no doubt that he did more good for Chinese peasants than bad (especially early on). Look up the Chinese civil war on Wikipedia, and you'll see what I mean. And the thing about communist brainwashing in China and stuff, don't even start, cause it happens just as much in capitalist countries.

This leads me to another topic, China, which has been consistently painted in a disgusting way by Western Media. Let me give an example. The west has always been against China's one child policy, but a while back, China released data saying that the policy reduced the population dramatically, greatly benefiting the environment through less release of green house gases. So what's the problem? One of the west's biggest beefs against China is environment policies. In the face of the afore mention fact, the west still condemns the one child policy in China AND the Chinese environmental policy, even though the former has helped the environment. So whatever China does, it'll always be painted as this evil communist state.

Now, I'm not trying to change your political beliefs or anything, partly because since I was born to a middle class, I like liberalism better than socialism anyways, but I do want you to get some adequate information before condemning a certain belief(This applies just as well to religion, re: Islam), especially communism, which is completely misunderstood, because the bias is bordering on discrimination in many parts of Canada right now.

That's all, folks...

Random Back to School Post

Well, looks like this is the last chance to post something before school starts, at which time I'll probably be too busy to post, and I didn't want to have a zero post month, cause that's just disgraceful. So here's a random slew of thoughts...

I got my TIMETABLE today. It's pretty crappy. Essentially, I have bio and chem 1st term (along with some random pointless classes that doesn't give out homework...), and English, Math, Social Studies, and Physics 2nd term. To make it even worse, bio isn't even Pre-AP, so it's really unbalanced. I'll probably need to get a lot of the classes switched around and add on French. Actually, just from looking at this, it looks like I'll need to change my entire 1st term, which is a relief, because if I don't, 2nd term is going to be hell. Unfortunately (or fortunately, I can't decide), I probably need to give up on English and Social Studies AP and just take normal for those, it kind of sucks, but oh well, I wasn't planning to take those AP in grade 12 anyways so no big loss. Although, I heard the Social AP teacher is cool...So yeah, my first draft timetable is so dumb, it's not even worth being considered as a real version, I'll probably get a better one sometime next week.

Back to school means no more staying up until 11 on Tuesdays to watch HOUSE M.D.. Which sucks. It is a really great show. House is probably the best show on tv nowadays. It's funny when you want it to be but also got enough drama for a prime-timer. Finally Fox comes up with a great show(no offense to the Simpsons, but I gotta say House is the better show, now that the Simpsons have grown a bit repetitive, which only to be expected after so many years, but House is new and fresh), too bad it's on Tuesdays. I gotta recommend that if you can, try to catch it. I know it's hard to imagine anyone who was in Stuart Little to be sarcastic and witty, but Hugh Laurie really pulled it off. Some of his lines are absolute gold that not even the great Horatio from CSI Miami can match: "You want a better anagram for Gregory House: huge ego, sorry."

Stumbled across this ramdom, but damned funny website a while back http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html. It's like the most complete check list for EVIL SUPERVILLAIN hopefuls. I just could not stop laughing when I was reading this. My favourite is probably, "The artifact which is the source of my power will not be kept on the Mountain of Despair beyond the River of Fire guarded by the Dragons of Eternity. It will be in my safe-deposit box. The same applies to the object which is my one weakness", or "I will be neither chivalrous nor sporting; I will use my superweapon of mass destruction as early and as often as possible", or "I will not tell my Legions of Terror 'And he must be taken alive!' The command will be 'And try to take him alive if it is reasonably practical.'" I think honestly every single cliche has been covered. I have to say, the "I will not turn into a snake, it never helps" one is a bit strange to me, I've racked my brains but still can't remember who turned into a snake! Great list though, the full list is now over 200 items long, just great. Ever since I read the list, I can't watch a movie or read a book without going back to it and thinking "uh oh, mistake number 24", or something along that lines.

Wasn't until I got to school today for registration that I realised just how many people had watched HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX. It was really a shock, most people who weren't even fans of the franchise went to see it, and predictably, many people thought it sucked! And I just have one question: WHY?! Why would you go see it, especially after Prisoner of Azkaban and Goblet of Fire? The Philosopher's Stone and the Chamber of Secrets were alright, (even if Harry was a moron in the ending of the 2nd movie "Let's hope Mr.Potter will always be around to save the day." "Don't worry, I will be." WTF is that? And the "There is no Hogwarts without you, Hagrid." line almost made me vomit), but PoA and GoF were crap. PoA stunk less but had the "He was their friend!" laughably feeble attempt at a rant,


Note: I realise it's a parody, but they have the real scene at the beginning and I couldn't find a better video.

so was passable at least until the half-way point. But GoF??? Pure, unfiltered crap! Where do I begin? There's the "You're father's vile and cruel and you're just pathetic" insult. (seriously, THAT's the best he can do? and who the hell would be insulted by that? I mean, even the book had a decent attempt at a yomama joke...) Then there's Dumbledore, who looses out on the academy award for Most Pissed Of to Hermione, who was apparently PMSing or something... That's not to mention the crowd surfing scene, I didn't know whether to laugh or puke at that point. So after the series that gave us such gemss in film making, why would ANYONE who isn't sleeping with a Harry Potter bedsheet and a Harry Potter action figure actually go see the newest movie? From what I've heard and seen in the trailer, it's just another in a long line of extremely quotable films. ("Who are YOU, and what have you DONE with Hermione Granger"? that's the crappiest version of the line I have ever heard, regardless of the context)


Anyways, eventough I promised no more NBA posts until October, I never imagined that there would be so much news in the association in the off season. Talk about the BOSTON CELTICS. How good are they going to be? I can't really say yet, but right now, they probably have one of the league's top trios in KG-Pierce-Allen, the only trios I can think of who can match this would be Phoenix's Nash-Matrix-Amare and MAYBE SA's Duncan-TP-Ginobli. I won't go so far to say that they'll go to the finals yet, but they definitely have a chance. I just wish I was still on the east coast so I can see more of Boston, they figure to be one of if not THE most interesting teams in the league. One quick note about the Toronto Raptors: I hope they trade T.J. Ford soon. He arguably was at his peak value last seaon, and Toronto should cash in quick as he has an injury history. Also, even after last season's success, I still feel that Jose Calderon is the better point guard for the Raptors; he just really seems to me like a Steve Nash clone(ok ok, that's a HUGE exageration) and plays better defense than Ford while costing the Raptors less. Sooner or later I think Toronto is going to need a bona fide primary point man who plays more than 30 minutes, I just rather that point be Calderon and not Ford, though I conceed I might be in the minority...

Anyways, that's it for now folks...

University *Sigh*

Anyways, I'm posting this partly as a response to n0n4m3's new post and partly because I just finished my future decisions unit for my online career/life manage course. I'm not worried about anything else yet, but university is really worrying me. For one, which one am I going to go to? That depends on my grades, but the thought of being stuff in Alberta for any longer than I have to really sucks. Then there is the problem of how I'm going to pay for it. If I stay in Calgary, I can probably get out of university debt free, a HUGE luxury. But if I go anywhere else, it'll probably take around $50,000 over 4 years. That is a LOT of money. Where in hell am I going to come up with that much money? I figured if I keep going at this job and do the RESP thing. I can have around $8,000 by the start of university. But seriously, where am I going to come with $40,000?! This is really a huge problem. In my education plan that I had to do for the course, I said that I wanted to go to university of Calgary so I can be debt free, and that's probably what will really happen. Cause I really don't have enough money to do anything else. Of course, I could just borrow money from the bank and then eventually declare bankruptcy, but needless to say, that's horrible. So anyways, anyone got a get rich quick and easy idea, tell me quick!!!

Oh, and another thing, BQ, we should get pic or banner or something, for the blog. Any ideas??? Oh, and it seems that our title is too long, since we only refer to it as OBESE, how bout we just go the KFC route???

That's it for now folks, sorry there's no videos. But you know, you could just youtube it up yourself, it's really easy...ya lazy bums...

It's the summer...

Summer is finally here, and what a busy summer it is. I have a lot of stuff going on right now, which is really usual for me. So far, I haven't had a chance to do what I usually do in the summer to relax after 10 months worth of school work: sleep in until 10 and watch 8 hours of tv a day.

The first thing I did when I finished my exams was to go out and find a job. This being Calgary, it wasn't too difficult and I had my pick of jobs. After 2 days of job searches, there were two jobs that really intrigued me, one was working at Wendy's downtown, and the other was working at an Inkjet cartridge refill booth at a mall near my house. The Wendy's job was great because all the shifts were during the day, and it paid pretty well, $9.5/hour, high even by Calgary standards. But, there were downsides, for one, I would have to work in the kitchens occasionally, which I wasn't too keen on. Also, the job was only a summer one because the downtown Wendy's was only open Mon-Fri, 7:00-5:00. And I didn't really want to have to take a train to go to a summer job. So in the end I decided to take the Inkjet job. It paid $8/hour, which is pretty low by Calgary standards. It's pretty boring because you sit there for hours on end with only a few customers, and when they come, they tend to come in droves. But still, it was close to my house, and really liked the fact that I could go hours without any real work, even if I have to deal with annoying customers often.

Over the Canada Day long weekend, my parents took me to Edmonton. We didn't really do much, considering how gigantic the West Edmonton mall was. I have to say, I was pretty impressed. There were 3 parks inside the mall, and a skating rink. There were also 2 different food courts and plenty of attractions. It was pretty cool. It was a shame that the two roller coasters in the galaxy amusement were shut down for repairs though. But I did see a cool seal show, albeit without any traditional ball tricks. Then other major place I went to was Fort Edmonton Historic Park. The fares were pretty cheap considering how much activities they offered inside. And I loved the buildings they reconstructed, they looked really authentic, many of which actually had working water pumps and real wood burning stoves and stuff. There was also a historic Free Mason lodge that is still being used. We wanted to go to some activities downtown, but it was rained out, but it was still a pretty good weekend all around.On a related note, I was really impressed by the gas mileage on our Toyota, after driving to Edmonton from Calgary, the gas tank was still at least 60% full.

Started my online career/life management course today. Already fininished have of unit 1. Considering there are only 4 units I should be done pretty quickly. I kinda think it's a big waste of time because there are a lot of apparently useless stuff there, but I think I'll just be glad to finish the course when it's all said and done.

Started my driving lessons. First I wanted to take a few test drives with my dad in some empty parking lots before signing up for driving school so I don't look like a total idiot. Still got a lot to work on though, but my parking is coming along, even if I can't do anything else. One thing that was annoying me was the mirrors, I didn't really know where they were suppose to point to, so my blind spot was huge, but I'm sure they'll help me with that in driving school. And another thing that amazed me was how hard it was to line a car up exactly where you want it too. Hopefully, I'll be able to get my full license before next year.

Just a few more sports thoughts, the last until October:

-What's up with the New York Rangers? A lot of spending this offseason, kinda reminds you of a certain other New York team, doesn't it?
-A lot of draft day sliding for the NHL...
-There's a conspiracy going on to get Crosby the greatest team in the history of sports...
-I didn't like the fact that Phoenix got rid of both James Jones and their first pick for cash, come on, I'm sure you don't need money THAT bad.
-Zach Randolph to New York, Ray Allen to Boston, and Rashard Lewis to Orlando, looks like the North West are Oden-Durant territory now.
-Ray Allen and Allan Ray on the same team, cool!!!
-What's with the Houston Rockets getting so many guards when Yao Ming obviously needs help up front?
-Yi Jianlian will not be as good as Yao, mark it down. He's a good player, but no where near deserves the hype he's been getting.
-Kobe needs to stop complaining and remember who wanted Shaq out of town the most
-Shaq's show is awesome!!!
-Raptors are too good, even if MoPete leaves

That's it for now folks, enjoy your summer...

First Post of May, Woot

Wow, about a third of the way into the month and still not a single post, if this keeps up, it’ll be our lowest posting month since last November…but never fear, karlkarlson is here…

So let’s start off with a bit of entertainment news, which I don’t normally do. But this is so juicy that I just had to post it: Paris Hilton is going to jail for 45 days! Let me be the millionth person to say, “hahahahaha”. This is just too funny. And Reuters reported that there are petitions arguing for her to serve the sentence regardless of appeal. Of course, my first reaction to this news was: “Where do I sign?!” Unfortunately, I was too lazy to find it, but if anyone does find it, let me know.

OK, we just finished off Romeo and Juliet, and some of the class actually think that a)Romeo’s love for Juliet is real, and b)Romeo has changed during the play. That is just wrong for so many reasons. First of all, how is Romeo’s love real? The only real things he says about her is how hot she is, talk about judging a book by its cover. I’m telling you, anyone who falls in love in life 2 hours cannot be experiencing true love. Second of all, how the hell has he changed, sure he takes the poison as a sacrifice, but he probably read it in a book and thought it’d be cool to be together in the afterlife. And what is the difference between the love for Rosaline and Juliet? The only reason he got over Rosaline is cause she didn’t like him back, it’s like he’s on the rebound. Another fact that is not mentioned enough is the fact that Romeo suicides by taking a poison that kills him quickly and painlessly, but Juliet has to stab herself with a dagger! You tell which one hurts the most. By the way, my friends and I were discussing how Romeo is pretty much a criminal, here are the illegal things he does: trespassing(capulet party), stalking(how did he know where Juliet’s room was?), spying, trespassing again(capulet garden), murder(tybalt), statutory rape(Juliet is 13), illegal drug dealing(poison was illegal to sell or buy), violating terms of sentence by coming back to Verona, trespasses AGAIN(capulet tomb), tomb raidng, murder AGAIN, and finally suicides…not such a hero after all, eh.

Now onto my regular sports garbage, before I go on, for the eastern conference finals, I have Ottawa in 6 games, anyways, the western conference final is finally upon us. Since I picked the Ducks to go all the way, I have to pick them against Detroit. Ok, I was a bit shocked that the wings won the last round to be honest. But whatever, I still say they don’t have enough to beat the ducks, especially since Giggy is on a roll now (he has something like a .952 save percentage!!!). Pronger and Niedermeyer are just too good for them, and Mathieu Schneider hurt too. I really don’t think Detroit can win. I’m not 100% sure the Ducks can win game 7 in mo-town, so I guess I say Ducks in 6 too.

Rockets lost, so that sucked balls. (Yeah, I do watch them cause of Yao Ming, but there’s no shame in that, and I want all of you Chinese Yao haters to know that you’re just being a banana by haterizing on him.) I could see this series wasn’t going to go well judging by the fact that the Rockets could only win by a close margin in Houston by loose by so much on the road. So now, someone has to go. Let’s face it, with everyone healthy, this is as good as the Rockets are gonna get with these players. So either t-mac or yao has to be traded to make the team more balanced, or team owner les Alexander will have to open the piggy bank.

Contrary to popular belief, Phoenix CAN beat Spurs in a 7 game series, or at least that’s what I think. The spurs basically have 3 offensive weapons to hurt you and other wise grind it out, but the suns can counter that almost perfectly: kurt Thomas on tim Duncan, raja bell on manu ginobli, shawn marion on tony parker. If all three spurs are taken out, san Antonio has no chance.

I don’t get why the nba doesn't do like the nhl and reseed ppl, now they have the four best teams left meet in the conferences semis: Detroit-chicago, phoenix-san Antonio. I think it’s pretty save to say that the winners of this match will roll over the winners of cavs-nets and utah-gstate. But you look at the nhl, I think it’s pretty safe to say that sens, sabers, wings, and ducks are at least 4 of the top six teams in the league.

Finally, I’ll have my nba predictions: cavs in 5, pistons in 6, gstate in 6, and phoenix in 7.

Well, that's it for now.

LONNNNNNNNNNNNNG And Crazy Rant About How Horrible The Weekend Was

Editor's Note: Wow, I just realized that we're the #1 hit on Google for the entry "teemu salami injuries", I think that deserves a pat on the back...

Wow, where to start, there were just so many things to complain about. I'll just start with my job:

K, I tutor this 7th grader right? So his mom called a few days ago and told me that I needed to work on his English from now on instead of math. So great, I'm game. On Friday, I thought he was coming, so I had to cancel going to registration for my online learning thing. Guess what? He didn't show up, apparently, his mom was busy and told his dad to take him, but he managed to talk his dad into going to the gym or something...seriously, and you wonder why he's grades need improvement. So his mom called me Saturday to reschedule; fine, I guess I have nothing better to do on weekends. Whatever, I'm getting paid. So the kid comes over. Here is the exchange:

Me: Hey
Him: Hey
Me: Where's your English book?
Him: Didn't bring it.
Me: I see, but your mom told me to work on English with you.
Him: *shrugs*

*Sigh* Fine, I guessed that I'll have to do something else. So I had him do a haiku and a limerick to see where he's at. Anyways, the poems weren't great, but he said that they were just starting the unit, so I let it go. Then, I asked him to do a paragraph. After 10 minutes of coaxing, he finally agreed. The paragraph was only 5 sentences, yet it still took him like half an hour. During which time, I was looking up a lesson plan thingy. Anyways, he finishes the paragraph, with horrible hand writing I might add. I let him read over the lesson plan and let him see what is wrong with his paragraph. Of course, being done, he refused to correct it and insisted that it was good. By the way, I was already a little pissed at the attitude. But whatever, I told him to do another paragraph, this time it was a bit harder, he argued for half an hour and still refused to do a paragraph. Fed up with the crappy attitude, I explain to him why he had to do it, but the guy just threw it back into my face. Fine, I'm done, I asked him what he wanted to do if not a paragraph, and he told me he wanted to do an online activity. Great, right? But you have to understand, there was no freaking way I was going to let him go on the computer when he's just going to get off-track and go on hotmail. So for the next half hour, we argued about his attitude problem, we're not even done and the mother tells me to let him out. I asked whether it'd be a good idea to let him go even though his not finished, but the mom just told me to continue next time. Great, the guy gets that stupid smirk on his face to remind me that he got saved by mommy...again...Whatever, I'm done, if he doesn't want to work on English, he can explain it to his mom, from now on it's just math.

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Another thing I had to do this weekend was work on melodic scales and a few songs...so needless to say, that sucked. Don't get me wrong, I get the whole thing about doing scale helps playing, especially the runs, but I don't really see the point of memorizing all 12 melodic ones. Some of them are just so little used. The songs I was working on weren't too hard, Blue and the Gray, a piece called Viva Espania, and a passage from a piece called Sleeping Place of the Stars. So the actual songs weren't so bad, but what pissed me off was that I would have to go play 2 concerts next month, all on PD days. It just sucks. We're playing for the Graduation, and the year end concert is the night after. Seriously, that's just horrible. I can't even do anything that weekend now.

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K, so I missed out on summer school last year cause I had to move right. Well, no way it happens again to me. So I registered last week. But what caught my eye was the online course that runs through July for CALM(career/life management=career/civics). So I got a form from the counselor and everything. Then I found out that the online course has to be registered in person in some really far away place. And guess what, the registration office hours are Monday to Friday 9 to 4. Really, that is just a bit much for me. Who works like 6 hour days? Not only do you go to work at 9 and get to sleep in, but you have to get off at 4? You must have some union. Glad to see tax dollars getting paid to hard working citizens.

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So then I still have a slimmer of hope for a good weekend, sports! But that too was dashed. Rockets, Raptors, Mavericks, Ducks, Sens, they ALL lost over the weekend, the Raptors and the Mavericks TWICE! But there were basically 2 loses that really pissed me off, Mavericks on Friday, and Rockets on Saturday. The other ones were bad too, but the Sens and Ducks lost very close games, and let's face it, the Raptors are just so inexperienced, especially without Garbajosa. But the Rockets and Mavericks were just disgraceful.

So the Mavericks got totally blown out of the water on Friday. The game wasn't even as close as the final score indicated. They were just totally lost. They lost their composure. And Dirk Nowizki was just bad, not even close to MVP form. No wonder they lost. The Warriors were just way too fast for them, just swarming the Mavs. And the thing is, Dirk's +/- rating is so low right now, I don't get why Avery Johnson just doesn't take him out. I know he's suppose to be the man and everything, but can't you see that he's just not a good match up for this team? Geez, I say either go small and beat the Warriors at their own game or go San Antonio's way and impose your will, if you can. But don't go to a small line-up, but still leave Nowizki on.

The Rockets got destroyed too. It was just so bad. They have nobody on the team capable of doing anything but Yao and Tmac. One play said it all: there was a break away in the 3rd, I think, and two guys, probably Alston and Head or something are against Fisher, but neither wanted to take the bucket, after like 5 passes, Fisher stole the ball! What the hell!!! Fisher is tiny and very old, why wouldn't you just take it to the hole!!! It's like the entire Rockets team are just waiting for either Yao or Tmac to score, it's disgraceful. And there was no urgency either, the team just seemed so relaxed and didn't care about heading back to Houston 2-2. The coach wasn't great either. I think JVG is a great coach, but I really thought it would have been a good idea to bench Yao to start the 4th, for similar reasons as the Dirk argument. If the Rockets miss the 2nd round again, I'll be so pissed. And if it happens, someone needs to be traded, either Tmac or Yao, cause let's face it, this is about as good as this group is going to get what with everyone healthy and all. So here's hoping.

K, I'm finally done...p.s. I guess it wasn't all bad, I got to see Brady Quinn's freefall...

Literacy Test...

Yay, tomorrow is the literacy test, if you're reading this Karl, shut up...
But seriously, what a waste of time, I mean, "Which button do you press to navigate through the site?" "A. Site Map B. Francais C. Documents D. About Us"..
So at least it's a shortened day.. YAY

If I fail the Literacy Test, I'm gonna be so pissed...

On a side note, the Sens lost to the Bruins yesterday...


PS Sympatico blows, 3 months and they still don't know what the problem is... so we switched to Rogers, the like most expensive internet company EVER!
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OB!/LB

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Wow, I'm actually so pissed... First, I forget to bring my TIPS assignment to school. Then, when I get home, I can't find my TIPS assignment. The TIPS took me like 3-4 hours to do. So I have to totally redo it... Not cool at all, I don't even have the assignment sheet...

So, NC lost to Georgetown, with like 2 minutes left, they were ahead by like 6 points and they still lost... That is not cool. At least Kansas lost, even though Karl said they were gonna win. So Ohio State FTW...

But um.. no real topic for this post...
Also, my math mark dropped from 97 to 92.9 in 2 quizzes.. WTF...
So, um.. yea that's it.

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Exam Over!!!

Stupid lazy boyang...you do realized that you've went from daily post to bi-weekly post to weekly post to bi-monthly post in a span of less than 3 months, right? And don't say you're studying for exams, cause I know you're not.

Anyways, I'm already done my exams, so I have a whole week of nothing coming up. I had a social study exam last Friday, and a math exam today. They were both pretty easy, except for these 2 questions.

Social: In Canada, what is the main difference between rights and freedoms?

a.rights can be restricted by the government
b.freedoms can be restricted by the government
c.rights are entrenched in the constitution
d.freedoms are entrenched in the constitution

and

Math: If x and y are the 2 acute angles of a right angle triangle, write y as a function of x. (and I don't remember the choices for this one)

So, overall, the tests here in Calgary are much easier than the ones in Ottawa. (They count for more though: 30% of the final) And I only have 4 exams this whole year. (there is no French exams)

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Hillary Clinton annouce that she's going to run for president...so that was the worst kept secret of the century, it was kind of obvious since she became a senator.



Her only real comp in the Democratic camp is Barack Obama. They both got a lot of star power, but I'd say Clinton's support from the female and minority demographic gives her the edge. Here's hoping that the next american president is a leftist...

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It was championship weekend for the NFL, didn't bother watching the Saints-Bears game, but I couldn't stay away from the Colts-Pats game. After the first quarter, it looked like we were gonna see this again,

but after a wild third, it look like the colts were finally gonna win. Now, I have to admit, I had my doubts, such as when Reggie Wayne tripped over himself...twice. But the Colts finally made it.(can't find any video recap, so go find your own...) So trust me on this guys, the Colts are going to win the superbowl!!! They prove the haters wrong, and their offense is just too good for the Bears' d outside of chicago. And I don't care how many people say great defense wins championships(I'll save my Phoenix suns rant for the NBA playoffs), the Colts and Manning are just too confident after beating the Pats to loose to the Bears. Granted, their special team is horrid and the punt return coverage just sucks, but when you have guys like
Dallas Clark effective and Manning throwing them the ball, you can't loose.

Note: I couldn't find any good videos, but chances are, you didn't finish that post to read this...