I ran this town

Lining up with Simon Whitfield at the start of the 10K run was pretty cool. The coolness lasted like 1 minute when I got dusted, but still, starting a run with an olympic gold medalist was cool enough...So finished in around 50 minutes or so, don't remember exact time. Not bad considering I was aiming for under an hour since I haven't trained at all. The rain before/during the run didn't help either, but at least it wasn't pouring during the run. If I do run in something like this again, I think I'm going to try and train for it.

Formal 05:
Evening went pretty much as expected, except Kelvin getting his first kissES (by man and woman) in the same night. Limo ride was cramped, but it was limo regardless. Arrived at Liberty Grand, looks the same as it looked last time I was there. Massive picture taking leading into dinner. Crappy food as expected, mass cooking, whatever, didn't expect anything good anyway. More pictures, slideshow, dance, etc etc. Went pretty much the way things are expected to go. Awesome to see everyone all dressed up and stuff. Now formal is over, kind of a signal of the beginning of preparation for exams, and then off to university. 4 years of HS over, flew by like it was yesterday when we all first walked through the halls of Campbell. Getting lost going to all our classes. Now we will all go our seperate ways, many will not meet again, while some will crossed paths. Never-the-less, fun times will always be remembered.

Sports Thoughts:
London Knights, Memorial Cup champion, amazing how they shut down the most powerful offence in the form of the Rimouski Oceanics in the finals...What a season by both teams, watching the mem.cup makes me not even miss the NHL...Doc Halladay, another near flawless performance, looks like he's back in his CY Young form of '03...My wildest dream could not have dreamt of having the Suns high-power offence completely shut down by the Spurs, great defensive play by Tony Parker in shutting down the QB of the Suns offence. Spurs have too many weapons, with no drop off when their second string players come in, while the Suns rely too heavily on Kid Canada, hopefully Sun can win the next one or two to at least avoid the sweep. Spurs will be hard to in the finals against either Miami or Detroit

Long Weekend

Had an extra long weekend, as I decided to go to full day Friday to the Unite in Worship conference. Awesome workshops by both Terry Neudorf and Phil Dooley. Ended the night off with an awesome worship plus powerful message by Phil. Had a chance to talk to Phil Dooley after one of his workshops, and got to share a few things with him. Great guy with a heart for God, and a passion for empowering students and youths to do ministry. Also had a chat with Joel Houston in the congress centre lobby after his sound check. Got him to share a bit how God led him to what he's doing right now, and how it was being a pastor's kid especially with a big church like Hillsong.

Random Thoughts:
Was talking to a friend over the weekend, and an interesting point was brought up. You know how sometimes you have people that cares for you, and you know they genuinely cares for you, and that’s great, kudos for finding such a friend, the world needs more of them. But also there are times when you just know that the person is only pretending to care for you. Please take off your mask, save your time and the person's time, and get on with life. While there are those two types, you also get this one where one person will only show their thoughtfulness in an attempt to win someone's heart. And on the flip side of the coin, you always have people who are short-sighted chasing other things in life (example: a hot guy/girl) to neglect their friends who have been there through the ups and downs. Even pretending to go to sleep or go to work so they can concentrate on the other person. Quoting my friend "People change, circumstances change, attitudes change."

Sports Thoughts:
Going to be short. Great game between Rimouski and London, best hockey game I've watched all year, great to see London bounce back after struggling first period, that is your finals for the memorial cup......Still upset over Glazer taking over Man Utd., I honestly do not know how the UK's Securities Exchange Commission can allow several hundred million of debt be written onto a corporation books, end of the Red Devil's era is fast approaching......Hoping Joe Johnson will be back soon......Wade struggled in game one, will see how he plays in game 2

Nitez

Thank You Reggie

Thank you for the memories.

Crappy Day

The day started off with a stupid power outage, which caused my DSL modem to die, so now I'm without internet on my PC for 3-5 days until Sympatico sends me a new modem. I guess thats the good part, the modem I am using now is like 4 years old. So I'll have use the wireless on my laptop to "borrow" signals for the next few days unless someone can lend me a DSL or dialup modem. And then I just got a call from HP, saying how my warranty does not cover the cracked screen, so now I have to pay $250 to get it fixed and shipped back and all that stuff. If I ever found out who threw their bag on top on my bag, they'll hear it from me. Let see if it can get any worse.

Glazer Taking Over Man Utd.

This is absolutely the most ridiculous thing I have seen in the sporting world in terms of transfer of ownership. This dude, Malcolm Glazer, who already owns the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL, comes and makes several takeover bids for Man Utd., given that I am a huge Man Utd. fan, so I might be a little bias, but I'm sure many individuals out there will also agree with what I'm saying. Now the takeover bid from Malcolm Glazer is ridiculous. Now the actual bid is one problem by itself. If the takeover bid came from purely his own money, then that is fine, but Glazer has to borrow half a billion pounds of sterling to complete his bid. Not only does he have to borrow half a billion to complete his bid, he is charging half of that borrowed money, which translates into almost half a billion Canadian to the club! Now for those who are lost in all this, that means the half billion Canadian that is charged to the club must be paid off by the club. So Man Utd. will be buying itself out of the creditor - for Glazer to become debtless. Now some may argue that Glazer will be like the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, whom after buying the club, dumped truckloads of cash into the team, which of course, resulted in their first EPL title in 50 years. However, here is the problem, Glazer is NOT Abramovich. For Glazer, this is all about taking over the richest team in the world in all of sports. This is about personal gain, for his own financial situation. Not only will Glazer not put money into the team, heck, there is a possibility he will sell off Old Trafford Stadium, or increase ticket prices just to increase revenue. It makes me sick to my stomach to think that Man Utd. will now be owned by someone who does not understand a single thing about the team he's buying, nor the sport it plays, nor the culture/people surrounding the sport. All he is buying it for is for the fame, and for the money. This has the prospect of becoming Leeds United the Second. Beginning with falling out of the picture in European soccer, and then maybe even falling out of the EPL. As a supporter for Man Utd. over the year, how they've produced good young players for their team, this takeover by Glazer will certainly put a dark cloud over the bright sunny sky that used to be over the Old Trafford Stadium. The future of the most popular and richest sport team in the world looks to be jeopardy.

Sat May 14th

Wow, Seussical is over...2 weeks of 12 hours school days are gone. Honestly, even though this was really tiring, really had a blast doing it, and learned so much (including smoking an amp). After the blog on Thursday, yesterday's and today's show got loads better. Yesterday, through thick and thin, was nearly flawless. Today's a couple of screw ups here and there, but nothing major, so I'm pretty satisfied. Hats off the everyone (cast, crew, backstage etc etc).

I felt so sick when I woke up this morning, I think it was because I've been getting only 3-4 hrs of sleep a night for the past week or two. And plus I only hate like a small lunch all day yesterday. Felt so bad that I had to call in sick at work, a Saturday with only 5 people is not good, but I probably would've thrown up at work instead of my house if I did go in (it was all liquid that came out). So slept a bit longer, and still didn't eat until I just got home just now. So I guess when I woke up again, felt better so I ended up going to the CCSA Umpiring Exam as I need to get carded. I wasn't going to go earlier as I felt sick, but since I felt better, decided to go and get myself carded hopefully. So after that just went back to school and did Seussical. Awesome to see Pris came by to watch the show, also had a couple of surprises when other friends came to watch as well. Overall, day started out bad, but I guess it did go better.

Onwards!

Sports Random Thoughts:
Whats with the Jays this year? Either they're hot, or they're cold. I guess as long as they stay around .500, not much complaining there....That was a close game between Russia and Canada, 4-3 for Canada even though they were up 4-3. Czech is up next and really want to see Canada win, we'll see what happens...Missed the Rock's championship game, watched some of the highlights, it looked like an amazing game, what an awesome year for them despite many people counting them out after their trades in the offseason, looking forward to next year already...Canada going to be hosting the IIHF World Jr Hockey Championship every 3 years, I guess thats going to be good news for those people like me who already made watching the World Jrs our annual Christmas tradition, would love to see one being played in the T-Dot one day...

Thats it for today, signing off....

First Show

First show today, I guess it didn't go as well as I was hoping it would go. Had more problems then I expected. Seems like a couple of mics are having problems, don't know if its because of frequency or something. Hopefully it'll better tomorrow. Also got some feedback from a scene, not too happy at myself about it, gotta remember to check the levels tomorrow. Other than that, general complain was the voices were not loud enough towards the middle of the crowd. Hopefully that will be better tomorrow also.

I still stand by my initial stance, that the sound board should always be in the room, and not up in a booth. Being in the actual room allows the controller to hear first-hand of how it sounds like, much better than going through windows and/or monitors which changes alot of things.

The crew kinda got annoyed at the orders people were giving in the middle of the show when nothing could be done about it during the show, sometimes people just need to chill and just let us do our job, its not like we will turn a blind eye to any problem we see. Onwards!

Random Sports Thoughts:
Whats up with this Glazer dude trying to take over Man Utd. man. Honestly, all he's doing is just trying gain control on Man Utd. and turn it into a money making machine. He doesn't care about soccer, he doesn't care about the fans, all he cares about is making money. I would hate to see Man Utd. being owned by him. Raising ticket prices will be one possibility already, or even selling off Old Trafford. I really hope that his bid to takeover is unsuccessful, or else it'll be a dark dark era ahead for the Red Devils. Its not like he'll be like the Chelsea owner when he pours money into the team. Glazer will just draw and suck all the cash from the team, and then sell it off. Sad sad day......In other news, looks like this year's Memorial Cup will be a good one. London Knights being the host, now with Rimouski Oceanic + Sydney Crosby coming, it will certainly be an interesting tournament....

Thats it for tonight...Signing off...

Annoyance

Ok, I'm sure I'm not the first person to write this, nor will I be the last, but I'm sure like many before me, and many after me, it is something that will never stop. I mean, don't you hate it when you do something/did something that annoys people, but its something that you do without trying to cause annoyance, and then the person doesn't tell you that they hate it, but instead go tell others. I mean, if its something that bothers you, then be a (wo)man just tell them straight up you hate it, why go through the trouble of telling someone else when it really won't do any good if the message is not passed on. Speaking of passing message on, its even worse when you ask someone to tell someone else your message. I'm sure you've played broken telephone, so save the trouble and running the risk of having misunderstanding, and tell the person yourself.
So thats my two cents for today, onward!

Sports random thoughts:
Nice to see Nash get the MVP, really think the voters might it closer than it really should be. No matter how dominant Shaq is, bringing the Suns to a 33 win turn-around is amazing, hats off the the Canadian kid. Coming off a sweet at the hands of the White Sox, hopefully the Blue Jays can do slightly better and take the series against the Royals. Scary incident involving Zaun on Sunday, hopefully he'll be fine and be able to spring into action, as I doubt that Jays will be able to get productions from Huckaby and Dominique (offensive and defensive) that matches what Zaun has been doing this season so far.

Signing off!

Another Long Week

One more day to go before the weekend, yay! So this week, to sum it up in 3 words, "it was long". Been working on Seussical the Musical stuff all week. For those wondering (especially edit =þ), it is a musical based on the works of Dr.Seuss. So like Cat in the Hat, the Whos, Horton, JoJo etc etc. Show is Thursday (12th), Friday (13th), and Saturday (14th) all at 7:30pm, let me know if you're interested in coming. Will be at school from like 7-9 tmr, so like 14 hrs, and then next week will be like the same thing again for the whole week. Oh man, since 2 years ago with West Side Story, don't think I've been at school for that much of the day.

Apprentice is starting to turn me off, this season is very weak (as in the competitors). It started out pretty good with the first few episodes, but it has been down hill ever since. It seems like they are doing it for the tv rating then actually looking for Trump's Apprentice like it is supposed to be, hope next season will be better. Amazing Race is still going strong, and coming off an awesome episode. Sad to see the old couple being eliminated, they definitely are the oldest team to have lasted until the final four in any seasons. Can't wait until the last couple of legs, with the contrasting styles between the teams. I still don't like the idea of having teams which are "famous" on this show, even though it may bring better ratings. Too bad there won't be a new season for awhile. I definitely think ever since they brought it back after season 4 (I think), it has been getting better and better, but season 2 is still my favourite.

Random Sports Thought:
How often do I go 2 full paragraphs without mentioning sports? Probably never. NBA playoffs, nice to see Jetsgo (aka Vince Carter) being grounded by the Heatwave. If Nets can keep the core of the team together (Kidd, Jefferson, Jetsgo), they might be a contender next year, still think they need a stronger supporting cast to be a legit contender. Would love to see Pacers move on to the championship game, and would be amazing to see Reggie end his career winning the title, but I highly doubt that will happen. Rick Carlisle have definitely put himself a step closer to being considered one of the all-time great coaches this year, bringing the Pacers to a sixth place finished even through all the things that Pacers went through this year with Jackson, Artest and O'Neil. Hoping to see Nash get the MVP, bringing the Suns from 50 loss season last year to now #1 in the West. Jays are playing well, same with the Os, but still not counting the Red Sox and Yankees out. Speaking of Yankees, how about losing 3 in a row to the D'Rays?

CCBA:
Moving up fast in the ranking, but I really don't think I can stay there. Just a rebuilding year this year, hopefully can have a decent finish and get a strong keeper list to carry towards next year. Quick pick-up of Bedard from Just, he's been hot as of late, and with the way the Os are hitting, Bedard should get solid numbers this season. Incredible to see Steve running away with his team, but I think like many GMs in the league, we're waiting for the fall on the Asian empire.

Thats it for today, been a long blog, you're amazing if you read down to here. "a person's a person no matter how small" Thank you Michael for putting that song in my head.

Signing off...