Pop Quiz:

Who ia America's biggest oil supplier?

Answer will be posted in a while.

Occupation Breeds Hatred:

I am absolutely sick of reading about the problems America and Israel are causing in the Middle East.

Do they not see how common sense works? The more they oppress the Palestinian people, the Palestinan people are more likely to support terrorizing the Americans and Jews!

They also forget that they are the ones with fancy war toys while the Palestinian people have none, therefore their only justified means of fighting back is firing improvised missiles and sending suicide bombers to fight against the American/Zionist oppression.

I think the International Community should step in and tell America and Israel to stop oppressing the Arabs.

I know Hamas' charter calls for the destruction of Israel. That is fine - who would not call for the destruction of their oppressors?

The International Community should give America and Israel a taste of what they are doing to the Palestinian people by imposing an international embargo against America and Israel, including withdrawing all foreign investments.

Five Minutes Makes A Difference:

Last night I left work around five minutes after 1700 and the subway station at Wall St. was packed up to the edge of the upper floor! I ended up having to miss two trains until getting onto the third one.

Today I made sure I left at exactly 1700. Got to the station and then onto the first train that came. The car I got onto had plenty of space. Completely different crowd compared to yesterday. Now I gotta make sure I get out just before 1700!

Another note: my foot is feeling better than yesterday. If u do not know what happened to my foot, it simply was full of pain swollen on Sunday for no reason and still hurts today, but seems to be getting better now.

United 93:

Today Sir 236 and I watched United 93 with open caption at Lincoln Centre.

Overall, I think the movie was pretty good. I just felt that they should have included more about the aftermath of the crash, such as what happened to the people who lived around the crash site and include the recuse efforts that occured.

And maybe include some kind of bio about each person on the flight. Overall, everyone should watch the movie if they have the opportunity.

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More Reasons to be Happy!

I finally got my paycheck! Now I can stop living off my credit card!

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I am a Happy Man Now!

I am a happy man now - team USA is out of the world cup! Am glad a tiny country, Ghana beat them!

For the record, that shall serve as a punishment for not letting Edmonton win the Stanley Cup.

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Interesting Interview:

New Lexicon Proposal:

Deaf-im·paired (dêf-m-pârd) adj.

1. Having a diminished or defective sense of being Deaf, but not deaf; able to hear.
2. Completely incapable of deafness. n. (used with a pl. verb)
3. Persons who are deficient in Deafness. Used with the: The Deaf-impaired are provided with no audio or interpreting special services at Deaf events or schools.
4. The politically correct term for people who can hear, the term hearing is considered offensive to Deaf-impaired people.

Four Weeks:

Yesterday I went to the LAG airport to bid adieu to FrecklesFly and headed home. Connie's roommate, Debra finally "moved" in after returning to New York City last week. So we had our first dinner together and Debra is an easy going person so things will be fine.

I finally paid rent (thanks Peter for loaning some money to pay for rent) and while calculating how much rent I owed Debra, I realized it has been four weeks since I moved to New York City!

Time sure goes by fast! In one or two weeks I hope to finally have a new laptop after getting my first couple paychecks and taking care of my credit card (still have not gotten my first paycheck since June 15).

Once I get my new laptop, I will be busy updating my job search documents and sending out copies in case my emplyment here does not get extended.

Another thing - FrecklesFly took the camera so there will be no more photojournalism from me for a while. At least you can enjoy my textjournalism. :)
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Smell the fresh air!

I feel like I am inside when I am outside and I feel like I am outside when I am inside!

A day as my nose:

The first thing in the morning I have to inhale and smell all the spewing and reeking trash set along the sidewalk.

If my master goes out to get lunch, I have to sniff all the toxic compounds coming out of the cigarettes being smoked along the sidewalk!

Even in the evening if I was lucky enough not to have to take in the cigarette smoke, I have to deal with the smoke on the way home.

In addition to all the smoke I process, I have to inhale all the exhaust fumes as my master crosses the street!

The city air surely is not safe at all!
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Is it a Debit Card?

In the United States, their bank card is completely different. Their cards automatically come with two options for getting money or paying for goods or services. Living in the states, I have been involved with several debates over what these bank cards should be called.

The first option is to choose debit; you will be asked to provide a pin number. This is obviously the safest way, but costly because you get charged bank fees each time you use the debit option. In Canada, this is the only option and there is no fee for using debit.

The second option is to choose credit and use your bank card like a credit card, but you are not borrowing any money from the bank, you are simply deducting money from your checking account. You are asked to sign the receipt. Obviously this makes it unsafe even to have a bank card - anyone can use your bank card to make purchases.

I saw an advertisement for Bank of America and they call the bank card a "check card" which makes more sense than calling the card a debit card!

Now we say it is safe to say America's bank cards should be called check cards.

Finally the argument of American's bank card being called a debit card is closed.

Royal Wedding:

Here is my latest post - I have been away and rarely had time to use my computer, but grabbed the time to upload and get some pictures and clip onto my blog. I probably will not be reading my blog for a while since I will be busy with work and spending time with FrecklesFly before she leaves for CA for the summer and until I get a new laptop.

Last weekend I went to New Hampshire for Sir Keramati's wedding. The wedding was hosted at Searles Castle, a beautiful castle located at the top of a hill surrounded by trees and a nice creek/pond.

To keep things short, I'll allow each picture to show part of the wedding weekend. Any questions, email me - if you do not know my email address, then you cannot ask me questions. :)

My trip to NH was delayed several times, this is the first delay - an auto accident from idiots who did not know how to drive in the rain. But hope you noticed that I tossed in the American flag in the end for my American friends (special note: fire trucks with flags attached to the back usually travel .09% slower with due to more air drag) :)

Facked up Peter Pan bus getting to New Hampshire for the wedding! Eventually a priest gave me a ride to the bus station so no worries.

Prepping for a quick drink!

The groomsmen

The groomsmen with their weapons drawn

The bridemaids

The King and his son, Tristan

Finally a married couple!

The King and Queen

Group picture

195 and 200

Tristan, the next King

The Royal Cake

Dancing

Flower bonquet tossing time

The end of the wedding.

Entering Boston

Thank you RIT:

Thank you RIT for preparing me for my future!

For those of you who do not know what RIT is, RIT is the acronyms for the University, Rochester Institute of Technology. To me RIT was a place that was supposed to prepare me for my career. I have completed all my academic requirements and I am currently working on completing my cooperative requirements.

That is pretty obvious, why else would people go to college or universities?

Living in New York City, the weather apparently is similar to the weather in Rochester. It rains every other few days, and the weather has been humid, cool, windy, etc. I have not seen snow yet, but who knows the winter is similar to Rochester. Anyways to my point, today it was raining most of the day so I took my umbrella - the one RIT made me buy so I could be prepared for walking in the rain on my way to work.

It was already falling apart and I had only used the umbrella no more than five times, but what the fack, RIT was supposed to prepare us by providing the knowledge, necessary skills and material (through the book store) we need for our careers. Look at what is left of RIT's material I got for work after only three days of usage in New York City.

Facked up umbrella evidence No. 1

Facked up umbrella evidence No. 2

Facked up umbrella evidence No. 3

Facked up umbrella evidence No. 4

Facked up umbrella evidence No. 5

If anyone is reading this, do not depend on RIT for preparing you with the necessary material - do not trust even the text books they sell at the book store, buy them from the internet!

America by the numbers: No. 1?

Got this link from natech's blog. Asked several friends if they saw his post and they apparently did not so am posting the link here, but the credit goes to natech. Natech also asks if the numbers are creditable - I question that too, but if you are from another country and live/lived in America long enough, you would be confident enough to agree with most of the statements and numbers.

America by the numbers: No. 1?

Just to be sure, I did not create this post to express hatred for America, but simply to provide information. Knowledge is power.

Saturday June 4, 2006

New York that day at 11:30 waiting for Buzzair to arrive.

We headed off to McSorley's - the oldest bar in New York City. Very simple bar, two types of beer available, ale and porter along with our snack - crackers and cheese and onions (I am copying the way they said it in the menu in case you are thinking I am making some kind of grammar error saying and twice).

An alien tree we found on the way towards my place. Is it an alien tree or chemical infested tree? We could not tell.

We decided to check out the bar on the corner of Amsterdam and 109th stree. Was a good bar, good beer for USD$4 a pint, they also offered cans of Pabst for USD$1.50.



After the bar, we headed to my place so Buzzair could meet Connie and had our bottles of Aggorant Bastard.
Evidence Aggorant Bastard was not for the faint heart. But it is important to note that I made sure Buzzair got home safe.

Facked up night:

On Friday night, I had one of the worst time finding the location for the Deaf Professional Happy Hour and meeting Connie. It felt like I spent four hours travelling all over the city on the tube.

The metro system was facked up because of the rain, I was surpised to learn that the rain can distrub the trains so they were always shutting down or stopping the trains on the way uptown and downtown.

At least I got the chance to take a picture of the Empire State Building with its patroitic colours of the United States of America flag.

Lost & Found:

Thanks to Buzzair for finding it and returning it.

Just another picture:

My first day at work!

Today was my first day at work, I was supposed to be working at 388 Greenwich Street, but they transferred me to their offices at 111 Wall Street. Four Deaf people are working at the Wall Street offices, but they are in different departments and do not work on the same floor.

Upon arrival, I was taken to the top floor - the 24th floor of the building to meet my supverisor and the security there is amazing. I never imagined that they would be serious about security. My day was not that heavy, they were all busy rushing to get their end of the month reports completed so my day was literally focused on reviewing their policies and procedure handbook. I am hoping I will get some real work by the beginning of the week next week.

So why is there a picture of my shoe? The story begins yesterday after orienation, Citigroup treated us to a night out at the bar on Greenwich St. The bar was a nice place and I was surpised to see Beligan brew on draft so it was nice to have some Beligan beer (Chimay). On the way back home via the subway, I some how got lazy and did not walk carefully, resulting in the bottom of my shoe getting caught and ending up being deattached from the bottom of my shoe.

I spent the whole day wearing it and hoping it would not get worse and after work I found the most tiny store in New York City - it was the size of maybe the kitchen at my old apartment (7o Loden Lane), but it had a sign saying "shoe repair" so I went in. The store was packed with so many jewish artifacts and the man was wearing a leather jewish hat (that was the first time I ever saw a leather jewish hat). He looked at my shoe and immediately started ripping it up before I could ask how much it would cost to have it be repaired and verify he accepted credit card payments so I was stuck until he repaired my shoe.

When he was done, he just pointed towards east telling me that there was an ABM machine, the other problem is... I am BROKE so I was not even sure I had enough money in my bank. I had to try four different ABM before going back and asking the man if there was a HSBC bank nearby; he pointed to the west, but towards west was a empty alley with nothing, but garages.

I went ahead and walked down the alley and found another street and saw Bank of America so I tried their ABM and finally with luck got a 20 dollar bill - reducing my bank account to only USD$0.19! So, that is the story behind this picture - he also polished it for five bucks so in total for this facked up shoe I spent fifteen dollars. Not bad I think because I thought it would be expensive.

The Tree At Home (not New York):

Tonight, there is a thunder storm brewing and it is hovering above New York at this moment. I wonder if this storm actually came from Canada. Last night there was a storm and one of the trees in the front lawn got hit by lighting. My brother took this picture yesterday and said the town came today and cut it down.


Hasta La Vista Tree - in the fireplace...