Friday, January 15, 2010

coincidence/ ideas/ charity

Jan. 10 Coincidence: Yesterday I was talking with Justin.

J: So is the Jay Leno show still on?
Me: Yeah, it's really cheap to make (compared to prime-time dramas.)
Then I was reading the newspaper there, and there was a article about how the show isn't doing that well. An average rating is 4.73 million viewers, while a CSI:NY repeat gets 10.3 million viewers.

Then today I went on Yahoo news, and it says the show is canceled by Feb.12. I was kind of sad, though I don't even watch the show. I am a fan of his when he was on the Tonight show and saw his monologue every night. I don't watch his prime-time show because I want to watch my dramas.

Jan. 11 Crazy day: The Soup place called me today and I worked from 11:30am-4pm. Then I went to the call centre and they told me all my shifts this week are canceled. They said next week it will get really busy. I then took the bus back to the Soup place and worked for another 1hr and 15 min.

Good: There is some good news. One co-worker at the Soup place is going on vacation for the whole month of March, and one co-worker is cutting her hours for one week. I should be picking up all their shifts.

The Handmaid's Tale: I saw the first half of this movie on TV. It came out in 1990 and was based on a book by Margaret Atwood. This movie is so depressing. I'll rent to see the last half later. I heard about this book when I was studying MA's book Oryx and Crake in Eng.101 in 2006. I also saw her talk about her book at that time.

Interesting how these two books both remind me of the TV show Dark Angel and 28 Days Later. They're all set in a post- apocalyptic world. Handmaid's is set in a futuristic world where pollution has ruined the earth, and made most women sterile. The Handmaid is the one who is supposed to get pregnant and carry the baby for sterile couples. After watching one hour of this, I feel so emotionally drained and depressed. Now I must go and write about something else to get my mind off this.

News: I read in the Journal that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), the Canadian version of the CIA is poor at gathering information. It was described to be like "fortune telling."

Onto lighter news, did you know that Maximum Fighting Club will be held at the Winspear Centre? Yeah, you read that right. Mix martial arts events will be held in something high class like the Winspear. I read it in the Journal. MMA events is often held in the River Cree Casino.

Glamorize: I was reading about 16 and Pregnant, and someone said that Gilmore Girls glamorize teen pregnancy. The character Lorelei gets pregnant at 16, keeps the kid and raise it has her own, and 16 years later, she is best friends with her daughter. The daughter is also a well-behaved kid who is an overachiever. She's the perfect kid.

It's bad to glamorize something as bad as teen pregnancy. Rappers glamorize violence and drugs. It made me think about my script The Fighter. At first it may glamorize crime and violence, but then it gets really bad.

Jan. 12 Good: Today was good because I worked at the Soup place from 10am-4pm. It was kind of interesting. I quit to work at the call centre and then they get two new workers. Yesterday two workers didn't show up, that's why I was called in. Today two workers didn't show up, because one was sick and the other had a day off. When I was working there before the call centre, I always thought they should hire one or two people because someone often doesn't show up. I got some hours.

DVD: Another good thing is that I got the new Flash Gordon dvds from HMV. However, when I put them in my PS2, it still didn't work on the same episodes. I then tried out all the FG discs, and they didn't work. I tried my She Spies and The Jamie Kennedy Experiment, and they worked. It must be my PS2. I then asked to use my sister's portable dvd player and now the FG dvds work. I still have to watch all of them to make sure it works. The answer is that FG dvds don't work on my PS2, but it works on my portable dvd player.

Pook: You know that store Pook that sells toques that are made of socks. I had a feeling they were here temporarily because I read in 24, they're packing up to go and sell their stuff at the Vancouver Olympics. On Sunday they closed. I talked about them to Justin who works right by them at City Centre, and he had a problem with one of the guys there. He comes in and is always asking for something.

Analyze: Entertainment has made me think. In the movie Daybreakers talk about how vampires are drinking up all the human blood, and the vampires will be starved to death. Flash Gordon is partly set on a planet called Mongo. That planet is running low on water. Both movies are giving the message of: "Don't waste your resources."

I read that Natalie Portman doesn't like doing romantic comedies. She says that in those kind of movies, the woman has to have a job in fashion to wear nice clothes and her goal has to be marriage. Not all movies. The Wedding Planner with Jennifer Lopez is about her being a wedding planner. She was in Maid in Manhattan where she's a maid.

Weird: Did you know that Aaron Carter is a part-owner at a pizza place called Slice. He was on Dancing with the Stars and I read that he owed a $1 million in taxes. As long as he's not making music that's good.

Tiger: I read about this guy from London, Ontario who owned a tiger. It had mauled a 10 yr-old boy before. Now the tiger attacked and killed the owner. Here's the lesson: Don't own tigers as pets.

Saying: I was reading my horoscopes and it said: "Attack your goals with greater conviction."

Crime: I read in the Metro that the police stopped a man who had a handgun in City Centre Mall. It happened around 3pm at the ground level escalators of of the mall. There are 3 escalators: 1 by the LRT station, 1 by Ricky's Bar and Grill, and 1 by the Bay. I didn't see anything.

Ideas: Patrick was watching some Jersey Shore. I then thought about: "What if there is a TV show about security guards?" It's a drama. It would be unoriginal because it's about law enforcement. There is lots of action and drama in City Centre mall. Instead of security guards at a mall, it could be somewhere else. There are already two comedies about mall security guards: Paul Blart: Mall Cop, and Observe and Report.

Shore is about seven Italian- American twenty-somethings living together. I thought: "What if there are seven Asian-American twenty-somethings living together?" Have you even seen that before? Those Real World and Big Brother shows are a variety of races, ages, different professions hanging out together.

Race: On CNN they did "Black in America" and there was "Asian in America." CNN talked to these three Asians and they said something about how they are the "ideal minority." Lots of Asians are doctors and lawyers. I remember my mom saying about have you ever seen an Asian person that's homeless? She said that in China, having a home is the most important thing ever.

Here's another: Have you ever seen an Asian girl who got pregnant as a teenager? When you think of pregnant teenager, you think Caucasian or African- American. I did read on a reliable source on the internet that Asian teenage girls do get pregnant. But have you ever seen one? Race is one of those taboo subjects.

Charity: Rihanna is trying to get a bone marrow transplant for this Nigerian Olympic athlete. She has had two successful public pleas for bone marrow for two other people.

Jan. 13: You can go to www.redcross.org or www.GreaterGood.org to help the people in Haiti who has been affected by the earthquake.

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