The Take

As I sat in the movie theater, it started to occur to me. here we are, sitting in a VIP room, watching a movie about the struggles of people over seas. I sip gourmet coffee that was served by the attendant, and ponder this. the struggles depicted in the movie, are real. the conversations are heartfelt and…. well, it did a lot to constrast the current situation in Argentina to the current situation in “our part of the world”.
how do you find a job in a country where the rich are using their power to squeeze the money and resources out? when a grown man, is brought to tears by a factory owner — who with complete disregard for the humanity of his workers — decides to close up and sell off all the equipment?!
in the developed world we have come to accept these things as realities of the competitive market and just shrug our shoulders when we hear about such things. I was grappling with these thoughts when I looked up at the bus station and all I could see was bright neon signs telling me to buy, use, consume various products and services!!

I wasn’t even looking at the street… Yonge street was behind me. in front of me was the bus terminal with people going home and busses pulling in, or moving out.. how can you take time to think when you’re attention is constantly being demanded by flashier and brighter “neon” signs.

I also added a new background.

Toronto

man, the city of toronto is alive. and it has a surprise for you every where. here’s a building (could have been a store at some point) I stumbled across on Queen st.

despite what I’ve said over and over, this city is interesting. I’m beginning to like it. the parts where every street has its own character and the people will stop to talk to you.

Graduation

yesterday we all gave each other a collective “pat on the back”! the administration put a disinterested effort. they congratulated us for spending countless hours working on make-believe projects, and ridiculous sums of money on non-existent – or grossly lacking – services.

well done lads!

NOTE:this post was written at the said date, but I’m posting it a week later.

Coffee

no, I haven’t been drinking too much coffee, but my new hobby is extremely fun! grinding the beans, waiting around for the coffee to brew and the taste…… this way of making coffee is probably wrong, but so far I’ve been putting off going to the one source on coffee-related lore and learning.

Also, there’s some progress in the webpage source area of the projects.

Food

Imagine this : you’ve set up the BBQ. it starts to rain. no biggie. it then starts to hail. little pebble sized ones. still no biggie (I guess) the stomach wants what the stomach wants. then the hail drops get bigger and bigger.
where I come from, making “kebob” is too important to be put off by a little bit of natural inconvenience! so everything went ahead as planned. holding an umbrella over the BBQ so the skewers wouldn’t get wet. and in the end it turned out to be one of the better meals I’ve had in a while!

cheers