Finally!
We are out of that one bedroom apartment.
We are so out of that building we call “Hell with fluorescent lighting”.

We just moved to a garden home, in a beautiful town called Orleans.
Tracy and I could not wait, we drove around here every weekend.
We have so much room, even the dog has his own.
A three bedroom house, a patio/yard, a furnished basement, garage, a full kitchen and a bathroom inside the Master’s bedroom.
OH YEAH!!!

It is such a good feeling coming home.
I mean, when I get home, I “am” home.
No driving in circles to park and no elevators to wait and take.
We were on the 15th floor, 14 actually, because there was no 13th floor.
I never really understood that “no 13th floor thing” with buildings.
Is it really that bad of a luck?
Or are they trying to fool Satan if he ever comes by for a visit?
Yeah like,

Hey! What in the Heaven?
This building does not have a 13th floor!!!
That just foils my clever, evil plan!
I guess I’ll just have to raise their rent every year.
Bwahahaha!! Hahahah!!!

Anyways..
I would like to thank my ever sweetest Tracy,
for helping with the lifting during the move.
It was just her and me moving everything.
Freakin’ 8 months pregnant and no complaints lifting the bed and everything.

Strong, that woman is.

You really get to know who your friends are when you move.
Also, you know how you are treated by your family as well.

When my Mother moved,
the whole town was there to help her out.

When my Brother moved,
the whole gang was there. I even had to cancel our long weekend plans.

But when I moved,
it was just Tracy and me.
Though most of my students offered to help, I did not take advantage of them.

Apparently, I moved in a bad time for everybody,
either they had plans or they were working.

Is there really a good time to move?
Don’t you just “move” and that’s it? If anybody knows.. please educate me!

Though in a way, I am glad we did it on our own.
It just means that I do not owe anybody anything.

For those of you who know me, I have trouble saying “no” to anyone,
even if it would be an inconvenience for me.

So, if the occasion arises, I could just think of when I saw my 8 month pregnant lady,
lifting boxes and furnitures..
I could just easily say,

“Hmmm.. I am so sorry, we just can’t.
You kinda picked a bad time.”

That’s it? The weekend is over!
How annoying is that?

Plus I spent almost half of it at work.
Too many things to do. So many things to complete.

Anyway,
Tracy and I have this unwritten rule that whenever the weekend comes,
we will always try to make the most out of it.

Which means we will do absolutely nothing!

This also means that none of us will be going near the kitchen to prepare anything.
Because the weekend only means one thing.

We are going out to eat!
Oh yeah!

Don’t get me wrong,
Tracy is one mean cook.
She makes me some serious Southern Food that will make my mouth drool like a St. Bernard.
She also learned to cook some Filipino foods with perfection.
MMMmmMmMmmmmmm…

So anyway, when we go out, we eat at the first restaurant that pops into our head.
Well, it really depends on how hungry we are, and if our hunger will last the trip.

Which always brings us back to either McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King
or whichever has the most Artery clogging fat.

Hey! Speaking of McDonald’s.
I noticed this new fagly “Lighter Choices” on their menu.
You know, the whole salad and healthy eating bunch of crap.

Since when did this start?
I bet you some Martha Stewart wannabe, wrote a letter to Ronald McDonald,
or whatever the owner’s name really is,
and said:

Dear Ron,
I am writing you on behalf of all the concerned citizens of this country.
My friend, Richard Simmons, and I thought of suggesting a “Lighter Choices menu”
to add to your “Suicide Heart attack on a sesame seed bun meal”.
Please consider our proposal.

Yours in health,
Martha.

Oh my God!
This is an outrage! This is what they feed the cows before they slaughter them.

So we were there waiting for our turn. I did not have to think.
It’s a Big Mac all the way for me.

But to my surprise,
guess who ordered the lighter choices menu meal number 1?
My ever dearest Tracy.

I looked at her, all amazed,
while all I could say was “Good luck”.

This thing came in a fancy plastic container, complete with a lid and everything and
a complimentary pack of birdseed for you to sprinkle all over it.

She did like it anyways,
we just have to go and get her some Slurpee on our way home.

That is how brave she is folks.
She will try anything at least once.

But me? Noooo…
I am a “meat” kinda guy.
And I mean, just let the cow stare at the oven in terror and stuff it on my plate.

Ahhhh.. the aftertaste of death!
I love the way it guzzles down my Esophagus,
My intestines grinding the protein out of it’s wits.

Our ancestors would say,
“We didn’t fight our way to the top of the food chain for nothing”

That’s how it is supposed to be,
and that’s the way I like it. uhuh uhuh!

Well, to sum it all up, I think what I really want to say is,

We love the weekends.

And I hate Martha Stewart.

Happy 4th of July to my peeps in the states.
Hope the holidays were fun for everyone there.

Though it’s a bit sad how the Americans celebrate their most important day
with fear in their hearts.
Paranoia has always been in the air since the Sept. 11 tragedy.
Security has never been so tight.

But sometimes, security and prevention is not enough.
I am sure you have heard about the shootings in a Los Angeles airport.

This guy came in and started shooting everyone in his sight right by the Israel El Al Airlines.
Killing three people and injuring four others.
Terror does strike anywhere, anytime.

But, come on!!
How can a guy with 2 guns and a 6 inch knife enter this airport?

Why? I’ll tell you why?

I bet you he was dressed nicely with a coat and tie or something,
looking like an average businessman or somebody who looks important.
I know security does not check these people.

Like,
“Hey that guy does not have any turban on his head,
or any other foreign kind of clothes.
He can’t be a terrorist.”

(tsk tsk tsk .. mistake number 1 guys!!)

For all you know it could be that quiet person living next to you.
Isn’t that what they all say every time they interview the neighbors?

“He’s very private. We never hear any noise from his apartment,
except when he bursts his villain type of laugh..
Bwaaahahaaaaaaa… Bwaahhaaaaaahhaaa!!

I bet you my landlord is one.
I am sure he is the devil.

Canada is 135 years old today.
I have been living here for 8 years now.
Maybe it’s time to call this land home.
Since I have lived a quarter of my life here.

Hope everyone had a nice Canada Day,
though it was hotter than HADES for the whole long weekend.

Except for me,
I spent it all studying this Flash program.
I hate it, I hate it , I hate it.

May everyone had their barbecues flaming and their beers flowing.

Isn’t it funny how the last hour of work on Friday is the longest?
Then in return, Sunday night is the shortest?

The weekend was gone faster than a pizza at a “Weight Watcher’s Convention”.

Anyways..
I just wanted to share how my (short) weekend went.

Tracy and I just watched some of our DVD Collections and
we decided to watch “ROCKSTAR” from Warner Bro’s.

It’s a story about a guy, played by Mark Wahlberg,
who was the lead singer of a tribute band to a legendary metal group called “STEEL DRAGON”.
He then became the band’s lead singer, he becomes popular,
he gets to bang all the girls, he became his lifelong dream,
he became a Rockstar.

I admit, I wanted to be him.
Didn’t we all?
Didn’t you scream on top of your lungs, singing your favorite tunes in the shower?
Didn’t you almost had a wreck because you sounded really good driving,
while the other “Rockstar” in front of you suddenly stepped on his brakes?

This movie has a very good soundtrack as well.
With songs from KISS, BON JOVI, MOTLEY CRUE,
INXS, TED NUGENT, THE VERVE PIPE and EVERCLEAR,
you know this CD is going to rock!
And I LIKE ROCK!

STEEL DRAGON was actually a band formed for this movie.
Consisting of:

• Jeff Scott Soto – (Yngwie/Talisman)
• Mike Matijevic – (SteelHeart)
• Jeff Pilson – (Dokken)
• Jason Bonham – (Ozzy/Black Label Society)
• Zakk Wylde – (Ozzy/Black Label Society)
• Nick Catanese – (Black Label Society)

Check out a review of this album here.
My favorite song is “We all die young.”
The song Mark Wahlberg sang for the audition in the movie.

I highly recommend this movie for those of you who grew up in the world of 80’s rock.
I am so inspired to play another tune and add it to “Chorus”.

But I want to play a song that has power in it.
A song that has an Umpfh!
A song with gutbucket riffs!
Faster than Yngwie, Crazier than Ozzy,
Louder than Guns N’ Roses, Scarier than Marilyn Manson,
Sexier than Britney Spears, More Catchy than KISS,
and More rebellious than Judas Priest.

Sexier than Britney Spears????

Well let me tell you why.

I am officially changing my name to “Snot and Sneeze Factory”.
Seriously!

How can the human body produce so much gunk?
I swear some of it is my brain.
No wonder my head keeps feeling lighter and lighter.

Either that, or it’s all these drugs I am taking.
Speaking of drugs, just to let everyone know,
that Nyquil is the drink of the devil.

That thing will knock you out faster than Lennox Lewis’ right hook punch.

Anyways,
I know I haven’t updated this in a while. Another reason for that is, (besides laziness)
I want to change the whole layout of this website
and convert it all to FLASH.
No more HTML, just pure FLASH.

My good friend Eddie V. got me into it.
Now the only thing I need to do is actually “learn” it.

But I am a Networker!
Not a Programmer.

I can’t sit down for hours debugging and figuring out those endless codes that go on a loop.

I need to plug CAT5 wires to hubs. I need to troubleshoot PC’s.
I need to stand up once in while to make sure my network is working,
or to get myself a club sandwich.

Either case, what I am really trying to say is,
I need someone else to do it for me. Hehehee!

Speaking of a cool website,
Another good friend of mine, Kiet L. just started his own too.
Give him a shout here.. ..ANGRY SOUL..

That site has some funky codes and a unique blend of creativity.
Hopefully he gets to teach me all of this someday.

Well, anyhow,
Hope y’all have a nice weekend now.

You know the problem with kids nowadays?
They are stuck listening to the boy bands and girl bands that dominate the airwaves these days.

With words like “Oops, I did it again.”
and “As long as you love me,”
or “It’s gonna be meeeyy.”

Oh Lord, No wonder they go back to their schools and shoot everybody.
They have no way to release their anger.
They do not know what loud hard rock music is or was.
Music that screams.
Music that Rock.
Music with attitude.

MOTLEY CRUE is a perfect example of this.
I only know a couple of songs by them because
I somehow always get distracted by the women in their videos.

But anyways,
I bought this DVD for Tracy as they are her favorite band of all time.

The show started as the two Crue sluts came out in their sexy clothes.
(I am not kidding, they are actually called Crue Sluts.)
Then Mick Mars (The Silent Shredder) came out on stage,
reving up his guitar for “Kickstart My Heart.”

Then Nikki Sixx came out, spitting out his drink towards the audience.
A talent I still need to perfect.

Then I realized that they have a girl drummer.
Samantha Maloney from Hole is substituting for Tommy Lee’s replacement, Randy Castillo.

This is going to be an interesting show since Motley Crue never had a girl drummer before.
(Well, maybe Tommy Lee, but anyways…)

Everyone is so pumped up to start the show.
The Amps are blasting like a pipe bomb exploding in your ears.
Then all of a sudden, Jon Lovitz came out.
Oh wait! No!
It’s Vince Neil.

Oh man. I wished the producers told him about this concert months before
so he could have at least lost some weight.

I know, I know.They are getting old and this might have been their retirement plan tour,
but nevertheless, they still put on a good show.

As Tracy did not stop with the Headbanging.
This proved once again that they are one of the great contributors of Rock!
Plus Samantha was kickin’ some ass with them drums.

Check out their new album “LEWD..”
and their new catchy rock song, “White Punks on Dope.”

I give the DVD a 9 out of 10.
9 for the Pure Maximum Rock Fun, and the -1 for the lack of girls flashing.

Randy Castillo
1950 – 2002

Today we went to see the Doctor and heard your heartbeat for the second time.
I tell you, it really is music to my ears.

It has been 16 weeks now and the Doctor said
that we should be able to know your gender by our next meeting.
Once we know what it is, your Mother and I will be going crazy on buying your stuff.

She would like to have a “stars and moon” theme for your room.
Oh by the way, your Mom is a nature fanatic.
(and just like being one with nature..she sleeps all the time. Hahahhaa!)

We are also going crazy on what your name would be.
We have a long list of names to choose from.
I personally like the name “Stratocaster”, but your Mom, doesn’t think so.

But anyways,
Just keep doing what you’re doing there okay?
You still have a long way to go.
Oh and by the way,
your Mom is anxiously awaiting to feel you move.
So what do you say we give her one good kick
when she least expects it one of these days okay?
I can’t wait to see the look on her face.