Yummmy Food

A couple of my good friends who are recent graduates and young professionals always seemed to be hooked to the food network. Personally I hate cooking, I seem to have a week stomach for blood and raw food even though I love the end products. Every time I look at a recipe books or watch on television they always seem to do it which such ease. Ye the second I touch something raw a bad feeling comes to me. Cooking is a survival skills, we all need to eat to survive. But real cooking is an art. From the décor, the aroma, the initial taste and the long lasting satisfaction its just so amazing. Everyone should take advantage of programs such as summerlicious and winterlicious and enjoy amazing food and you will for sure to agree it can be art.

Sometimes even the name of a food can make you drool. How does a Warm Chocolate Praline Tart sound like? It really does sound like a piece of heaven. Would making a Hazelnut, Coffee, Chocolate Bomb make you a terrorist? Maybe to the obese? There is something spectacular about fine dinning and culinary art which just impressed me beyond words. I really think that food can be a very power tool, not only can it solve world hunger, bring peace to nations it can also be use as a powerful control tool. There must be a reason other than video games why children are all obese, and I’m sure the smell of McDonalds fries aren’t helping any.

Phone Cards

I have used my fair share of phone cards, dialing the local number, putting in the random pin and then getting to call someone for 100mins, which really turns out to be 20 mins. I hate how most phone cards have all these hidden fees, and random charges if you do not use it all within the same call. If I pay $5 and you tell me I’m going to get 500 minutes then make sure it is 500 minutes and let me talk for that time. If its not going to be 500 minutes I rather that you be honest with me and just tell me its going to be 200 minutes. I think that the average consumer rather get the actual value of the card rather than have large unrealistic values for their phone. Also why is it that the convenience store sells me a $5 phone card for $5 and that in china town the same card (which isn’t fake and works just as well) sells for $3.I still laugh ever time I remember this cop who stopped he’s randomly on a busy Toronto street and got out just to buy this $3 phone card. I actual question if he gets paid to do that, so that people like me would trust the phone card stand and buys the cards. Lastly, does anyone really know how they pick the phone card pins? There must be a way to decode it….let me know what you think.

Yours Truely

Recently I’ve been talking to a bunch of people about their loved ones who have passed away recently. There are two things which seem to be the same no matter who I talk to, so I figured that I would share it today with you. The first is that the pain never goes away. No matter what religion or beliefs you may have, the pain of loosing someone close to you never goes away. It doesn’t matter how long it has been, it doesn’t matter what has changed in your life it will always be sorrowful. Sure time does help, I mean everyone had tons of different things happen to them and over time you learn to adapt to life without them. But in reality there will always be days, occasions where you will miss the loved one. This may not be a bad thing because their memory lives on, and what they were to you will live on. However, it would be interesting to see how many ppl are sad and lonely on days like Christmas, Dilwali and Eid.

The second things ties into the first, and it is that most people wish they could have done more for the person. We are all guaranteed death but unfortunately we never know when that is, so it important to appreciate the people in your life who mean most. Appreciate people you love, appreciate ppl who care about you, appreciate people so that you will not say I wish I had done this or that. I know its hard don’t get me wrong, but I think that in life if we truly love someone then it is our duty to make sure they know it and that they feel loved. It can be as simple as sending them a card and reminding them how much you mean to them or picking up the phone and telling them. I urge you all to go to the dollar store the next time you are at the mall, pick out a nice card (doesn’t matter if there is no special occasion) and mail it to people you truly love. It will cost you less than $2 but it will mean more than anything.

On that note…Dadima, Didi and Buggie you are three people in the world who mean the most to me and I love you with all my heart. Thank you for being in my life, you mean more than words can express.

Happy 75th Birthday!

Promises

I’m sure we have all made promises in our life. Some of which were probably simple things and other things which were more serious. At the same time I’m sure that at some point everyone has broken a promise. Of the more serious promises or commitments how long is one bound to that? I mean there are such high rates of divorces, best friends who no longer talk, family who hate each other. So is a promise really forever? It is something you should really hold on until the grave or are there situations which even if you promise its only pending certain conditions?

I’m sure we have all been in situations where we made a packed with someone for something drastic or just important but then they didn’t follow through with it. It reminds me of younger kids who promise to dye their hair some crazy colors, and one person shows up to school the next day with pink or green hair and the other comes in and says I though you were just joking. Is that breaking a promise? Is it looking out for oneself? How the person who is stuck with pink hair for months feel? I think the same thing goes for friendships, family and partners, when does what one have the right to cut off other people from their lives in order to advance their life? When does it become being a bitch and breaking a promise of support and love and when is about self progress? People often say if that person jumps off a bridge will you, so where is the line of being that person’s support and being the stupid person who also jumped? Is there every really a good reason to break a promise? Or are promises no longer excitant in our greedy world and so it really is everyone on their own? There must be significance to the saying, only when times are rough do you know who your true friends are.

Cities

The other day I was bored so I did this online test (http://www.brainfall.com/test27_1.php) which is suppose to be able to predict what city I should live in. Its an interesting concept that by answering some lifestyle questions they can put me in certain categories and find a city which fits that type best. So apparently I should pack my bags and go live in Rome… and do what the Romans do? Their reason being, “You should live in Rome. You avoid conflict and take life a little slower than most. Rome's sun, culture, food, and siestas are a perfect match for your easy-going attitude.”

I guess this is a good thing, I mean I do enjoy chilling and taking life easy. I mean why be stressed? But really how much does a city have to do with a person? I mean obviously some cities are better for certain work industries and smaller cities/towns have less commute but what is really different between Toronto and New York and Los Angeles? We are all adaptive people and each city has things to offer, but even if you’re a hardcore clubber and you go to a small city you will find the spots to hit up. Maybe it won’t be so glamorous but eventually you adapt and that becomes home. I know environment does encourage certain things but still it’s the people of the place.

Cell Phone Reception

Cell phone reception is an odd and very annoying thing. I have had my current cell phone for 3 years (hurray my contract is done). Throughout the contract I have been in various large urban cities including, Calgary, Ottawa, Toronto, Waterloo among others. While living at these places I had the joy of having 0 to 3 bars maximum. However the other week, I went to a mountainous normally private ski area. In the middle of nowhere and I had an amazing 5 bars on my cell! It wasn’t even like there was a tower anywhere either. What is up with this?

Shouldn’t reception be in relation to where you are and what is needed? I mean in my room on campus I wouldn’t even get reception at times (no I wasn’t in a basement). Even when I was working in downtown Toronto, there were places I couldn’t get reception. I really think that companies in Canada need to work on that. I hate it when I’m roaming anywhere in the US that I get so much better reception than anywhere in Canada. Why is it that Chicago, Bismarck or even random towns in Wisconsin should get better coverage than large Canadian cities? We should all petition to have them send out better reception. We are all getting cancer from cell phones and wireless stuff either way, we might as well get good service while we’re at it. Stop selling the government and ppl the rights to listen to our convos... start letting us have clear and reliable connects to make our calls