NYC was so fun! I can totally live in that city. My favourite areas were Soho, Greenwich Village, and Chinatown. The city has so much character and energy, i love it! My dream is to move there someday...
The New York Library that was in Ghostbusters, Spiderman, etc.
Time Square!
Found a chair in the middle of the street in ghetto Queens (no offense to anyone that lives in Queens)
I miss Antigua already...the beautiful white sand beaches, sunny warm weather, friendly people, the laidback culture, caribbean food, ting (this awesome lemon soda), and a whole lot more. Since I was staying with my friend's family it was neat exploring the whole island and just being immersed in the local people's culture and way of life from taking the ghetto buses, biking and getting lost on the road, hitching rides on the back of pick-up trucks, and talking to random black folks. Random strangers would come up to me and call me Jet Li and asked me if I knew karate. Asians are very rare over there. Oh, and we almost got called on the cops after we snuck into an all inclusive resort and started eating all the food and ordering drinks. It was fun while it lasted. Interesting how all the beaches and resorts are all white people but in the towns, everyone is black, obviously. I'm glad I stayed in town rather than being isolated in a resort. I think I got a better perspective on the country and just how people live in the country and experiencing it first hand. Here are some pics...enjoy!
This is the resort where we snuck into and almost got called on the cops. It was so worth it.
So last night I went on a trip. It all started out at Finch station. My nose was runny from being out in the cold winter night so before boarding the subway I went to get some toilet paper in the washroom to blow my nose. As I was coming out, I heard someone say, “oh yeah, give it to me, baby” and got all confused. Then as I was walking out, I noticed four feet in a single stall! These people were having sex! While going down the escalator to the subway I yelled to Henry, “There’s people having sex in the washroom!” and this blonde woman in front of me turned around and gave me the most distasteful look ever. Then on the subway, these four middle-eastern siblings probably from 3-7 years old sat right in front of us in these colourful winter clothes and they were speaking Farsi or something and it was as if I was watching a real life cartoon. Then the cartoon turned twisted as the kids were strangling each other with their scarves trying to reenact Saddam Hussein’s hanging while making a ruckus in Farsi. Another cartoon character popped up to the left. It was a random punkish-looking man who was wearing this ridiculous red fur type coat. He kinda looked like that Sesame street character snuffleofogous, that big red elephant except with a human head popping out of the costume with hooker boots on. Everything looked like a cartoon. It was kind of like a Scanner Darkly yet more realistic. And then there were all these emo yuppie kids at Einstein’s. They looked like kids from Dawson’s Creek or Felicity or something. And we were in the ventilated smoking room surrounded by glass walls that was no longer a smoking room. We were the only ones inside looking out and the glass wall was a metaphor of how disconnected we were from those white emo yuppie kids. One of the emo kids in their group got up from the table and started taking pics of the group as if it was for the yearbook or something. And the Tucan Sam looking kid who’s gender was very ambiguous would stand up from the chair and table nonchalantly in order to get the perfect shot with his oversized emo photographer camera. He looked like Tucan Sam because of his beak of a nose. There was also this nerdy Chinese looking kid in a suit, except he wasn’t Chinese. He just looked Chinese because of his geeky 1970s brown suit, thick black rimmed glasses, flat Alfalfa hair and very pale skin. Oh, and we were served by an emo pirate looking magician. He would say things like, “I’ll be back momentarily.” Who the hell says “momentarily”?
And that was my trippin’ trip.
I’m observing my surroundings with such open eyes and analyzing everything, its nuts. Man, the stuff from last night was strong, I’m still a little messed up right now. But that is ok. I was listening to the sermon at church and it was so deep and meaningful as well as beautiful. Very powerful yet relaxing at the same time.
And I just watched the news in this messed up state of mind and the stories were so ridiculous! They had a report on the progress of Robert Pickton, that pig farmer in B.C. who murdered prostitutes on his farm held parties on his farm called “Piggies Palace.” How messed up is that? And they also had a news report where this hunter shot a duck in its beak, wing, and leg and put it in his fridge. Then his wife opened and found the duck still alive and rescued it. What the hell is happening to this world? What’s even more outrageous and ridiculous is this story:
Aussie private eyes paid to use brothels
January 21, 2007
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) – Sydney municipal officials have paid private detectives thousands of dollars to have sex with prostitutes to gather evidence needed to shut down illegal brothels, an Australian newspaper reported Sunday.
Nine local councils have paid private investigators the equivalent of C$23,150 over the last three years to go undercover and root out the illicit trade, the Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported.
Nick Ebbeck, the mayor of Kuringai council, which is reported to have spent C$6,440 in the last month employing detectives to have sex with prostitutes, said extreme measures were necessary.
"We have to employ private investigators to actually go through with the act and come up with reports that will suffice in a court process," he was quoted saying
"On numerous occasions over numerous days and times they had to fulfil the act."
He said the evidence given by the investigators was successful in closing two illegal brothels this month.
Licensed brothels are legal and relatively common in Sydney but a number of unlicensed premises operate throughout the city. Some councillors have complained the burden of proof for shutting down illegal brothels is too high
Nevermind worrying about the burden of proof for shutting down illegal brothels, but shouldn’t they know that paying cops to have sex with prostitutes is some twisted oxymoron? And whats even more absurd is that there are actually licensed brothels! Geez, a brothel is a brothel and the whole point of paying cops to have sex with hookers is to make unlicensed brothels go out of business while licensed brothels are left alone? This story is just wrong on so many levels. WTF has this world come to??
And why is xanga so dead now? Well, I’ll always remain loyal to you, Xanga. Even if that means I only post once a month. I hope you guys enjoyed reading this…and others I hope some certain people will have never read this.
P. S. This video is friggen hilarious! Its so random, whitty, and satirical all at the same time. Just genius! I especially enjoyed the kid near the end that whispers “Buffalo.”
