Nathan Ng

Randoms #2

So a few quick blurbs to keep this updated.

I’ve been following The Daily Show and the Colbert Report throughout this whole American political campaign and though their opinions and their statements are made to blatantly to make fun of the press and the politicians, I’m finding more and more truths to what they have to say.  Honestly… a lot of their sarcastic statements are actually very down-to-earth and true.  why should we (Edit: Oh gosh, I’ve turned American) vote someone into office if the people just find them funny.

Oddly enough, Canadian politics are hardly ever spoken about.  (It was a while before I even FOUND OUT that an election was coming up).  And I’m finding that Stephen Harper is running our country GOOD-ENOUGH that our politicians and our media don’t make much comedy out of it.  Heck, I barely know anything about Canadian politics and I’m satisfied with it (which… might not be a good thing).  I just hate the heck out of Stephan Dion for unknown reasons.

Let me quote these few sentences from John McCain, cuz I laughed so frickin’ hard.  And note, these are all taken out of context and out of order, and totally should not be taken as advice or whatnot, but STILL:

“The fundamentals of this package are good, they’re strong”
“It shows the incredible influence of lobbyists and special interests”
“I think that this plan will produce a profit”
“Its insanity and obsenity because its a waste of taxpayers’ dollars”
“The taxpayers will be paid back first, which is an important provisionist bill”
“This is inside the belt-weight chronism of the worst kind”
“Coming back to Washington, getting the Republicans at the table”
“These pork-barrel projects, these outrageous procedures”
“Improving the bill”
“Its terrible, it really is corrupting”
“And I believe it will pass”

Jon Stewart: (Shows picture of Gollum):
“We LOVES the bill, we hates the bill, we LOVes, HATES”
“That is an UNFAIR JOKE” (shows picture of Gollum and John McCain in very similar portraits)
“Its an unfair joke, because Gollum is an old man on his quest for ultimate power and…”

HAHA.  Oh so great.

My last comment: Apparently, (story from the media) people still seem to believe that Obama might be a Muslim!? That just absolutely BLOWS my mind.  JUST because of that, I’d totally hate to be on the Republican side, because it just seems like anyone voting in that regard is the most ignorant person alive. 

Anyway, that’s my quick political blurb.

Randoms #1

Alright I’m going to stop my long picture blog posts, because, quite frankly, I’m getting tired of writing articles.  So I’m going to post random shorts of fanatical nerve movements inside my brain.

1) I WANT AN HTC TOUCH HD.  OR AN XPERIA X1.  OR A T-MO G1.  OR A BLACKBERRY STORM.

2) New Macbook Pro leaks?  Dock on the TRACKPAD!  Pretty cool, kinda unsure of how its gonna actually play out.

3) Sweeeeeeeeeet (Look underneath).  The stuff they have in here is actually really useful for helping you to decide. Why doesn’t Canada have something like this? Then again, we don’t have Arnold either – for better or worse lol.
 

4) HEROES was FRICKIN’ INTENSE.

Second Week: Lessons Learned

Here we go again.  I started work, and there were a whole ton of things I discovered.  Keep in mind, CDS told us we were going to be ‘culture shocked’.  Really the only shocking thing so far was the sheer number of boxydelic Scions and gorgeous Maseratis.  There are quite a few things that were interesting though.

1) Canadian telecommunications SUCK (I assume everyone knows already).  I discovered that Americans don’t actually have to pay long distance fees.  You can call from California to New York and it’ll all just be local minutes.  WHY MUST YOU OVERCHARGE, TELECOM OVERLORDS.

2) American car rentals are sweet.  Since its paid by car size, you can switch cars anytime you want.  My roommate had a Sebring for the first week.  Not bad, but eh, in the end its a Chrysler.  So on the weekend, he traded for this:

Yeah, fitting 3 people in the car isn’t the greatest thing in the world.  But hey, we’re in Cali.  We got ta look good.

3) I really, really miss Tim Hortons.

Final comment: remember how I was raving on about zero clouds?  well they finally hit.  Mornings are now cold, clouds are in the sky, and evenings are cold.  Granted, anywhere from 12 – 4pm is still mad sunshine, but damnit, for the other 20 hours of the day, I’m getting friggin’ Toronto weather =/.

First Week: Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned from America (from a Canadian perspective, obviously):

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1) $1 McChickens own everything. If I were to create the supposed company that owns all companies, I’d name it “One Dollar McChicken”.

2) Nice cars are essential to awesome lifestyles. If you were ever a mayor of a city, and you needed something to boost city morale, increase tourism, and create (an illusion of) a higher standard of living, the answer is simple: buy your citizens nice cars.

3) Americans love blue WAY more than Canadians. The logic is as follows: Canadians don’t wave their flags around. The Canadian flag is red and white. The American flag is red, white, and BLUE. Americans wave their flag ALL OVER THE FRICKIN’ PLACE (they literally sell them in home depot!). By process of elimination, Americans love blue. This one really isn’t a lesson though.

4) Silicon chokes the world.  Torontonians (and probably most Canadians) are probably more environmentally conscious than Californians. From the media, I would have thought that Americans were dead-focused on being green and saving the environment. Heck, all the presidential campaigns are fighting for our sources of fuel. In Toronto, I’ve grown up with recycling and the 3Rs have been so ingrained in me, that throwing a glass or plastic bottle into the blue bin is natural. In California, I don’t have an actual recycling bin… anywhere. Now, most people who know me know that I’m not exactly the most environmentally conscious person in the world. But even I feel bad about throwing a glass bottle of pasta sauce, into the GARBAGE! This baffles me.

5) Clouds suck. In other words: ZERO CLOUDS ROCK. Sorry I take that back. I would actually really love a cloud right above my window *fans self*.

More lessons later.