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.