Mike_TOR89's Blog

Ahh... of all the fun things to do in Toronto, Buskerfest still tops my list every year. Hats off to all these awesome street performers and it's a charity event so remember to drop off a small donation you cheap a$$es. The street fest runs till end of august so catch it while you can!

P.S. Special recognition to Riot aka rodolfo lol. if you hadn't reminded me of photography I would never have tugged my camera along. Kudos dude. and shooting at night without flash is a biiitch!

Okay so school is starting soon and once again I'm expected to be the frathouse cook. It always get hectic but I'm planning on starting a weekly photo-blog for all the crazy and disgusting meals that are concocted at l'chateau romptons. But while I'm still sane, here's today's breakfast..mmmmMM yummy!

We are now on the last leg of the summer season and I thought I'd pay some dues to the stupid acts people perform on our roads. Including me.

Okay to start off, there are basic common sense rules that help keep everyone safe. They more or less have to do with courtesy and respect. i.e. don't cut people off, leave some space so people can merge safely, use your signals, don't swerve between lanes like a crackwhore, etc. Pretty basic stuff your mom would've smacked you over for.

Now the problem is, there are a lot of people on the road who just want to get where-ever quickly and willing to sacrifice a little bit of public safety to save themselves a minute or two of driving. They are who I call "obnoxious assholes" because they obviously don't care about the van carrying a family full of children.

If the roads are all clear and there aren't many cars then I don't have a problem with them driving like a maniac and risking their own lives. I do that too. But it cheezes me off seeing these idiots aggressively moving from one end of the road to the other, trying to beat a traffic jam.

Just the other month I saw a small car doing exactly that and ran a merging SUV off the highway and into a ditch. I don't think anybody was hurt but the asshole caused a 2 hour delay and made me late for work. And on top of that, he pretended to not see anything and tried to drive away! I hope the cops caught his ass and made urinals out of his car.

But even under clear conditions and empty roads I still see idiot moves. Like this one time I was driving behind a large 18-wheeler and I see the truck's right signal lights blinking. It was on for a good few seconds before the trucker started merging into the right lane and just as hecrossed the line, some idiot driving a 350z zoomed past me and right into the trucks path.

But this is what really ticks me off: the 350z had AMPLE time to slow down and let the truck complete his lane change. Instead the crazy mofo SPED UP and tried to beat the truck. I was fully expecting a collision and immediately braced for impact. But amazingly the trucker was able to see the little bastard and quickly moved back into his lane. So quickly infact that the cargo bin started tipping and lifting the wheels up. I really thought the whole thing was going to tip over and land right on top of me. But thankfully it didn't and the 3 of us survived that incident.

It's that kind of stuff that gets people killed and I see it all the time when I'm driving. I live in the suburb too so I have to drive a lot to get to places. There's no way around it and all I can do is be aware and do my part in keeping the roads safe. But truthfully, I'm just lucky some son of a bitch haven't murdered me yet.

Really though, aggressive driving like that is worse than driving drunk because you're fully aware of what you're doing. There's no alcohol to impair your judgement. You know exactly what is happening when you decide to make that asshole move.

There are also those idiots who drive with one arm and one leg dangling out of the window. But they are in a class of their own.

I've been grappling with this one thing for almost a year now and I thought I'd let it loose on AA just to see what people think. It's about a stupid love affair that started last summer so if you're not into drama and sleazy sex then don't read on. Anyway here's the story:

I was at a friend's wedding reception late last august and met a girl there who was totally checking me out. Being a fairly ugly guy I was feeling really flattered and ecstatic that a girl who was as attractive as her would take notice of a guy like me. I couldn't believe it...it felt like my ego was on steroids. The only problem though is that she was there with her boyfriend. Yeah.. :(

I realized that as soon as I sat down to say hi and she introduced me to her friends and then her guy, who BTW seemed like the most sincere and loving BF I've ever met. I felt SO bad as we all chatted away and I told myself I wouldn't do anything stupid to get in the way. As long as I did that, the night couldn't get any worse right? WRONG!!!

EVERY TIME she leaned over to kiss her BF I would see her staring at me with that lustful, seductive eyes of hers. It was such a damn awkward situation and I didn't know what the hell to do. Uggh I still cringe when I think about it.

Anyway, I don't know why she was doing that. Maybe it was all the booze she kept toasting to me but I couldn't believe what was going on so I tried to stay quiet about it and mingle with other people. When it was all done with and everyone was getting ready to go, she offered me and my sister a ride back to the groom's place and we all ended up exchanging contacts.

So a couple weeks later the girl and I started chatting on MSN (stupid I know). She tried to flirt with me a few times and being such a great conversationalist I deflected them easily with funny one liners..Ha Ha :)

I thought it was all innocent stuff but then a few days after that I started getting text messages from her while at work. Sh**, deja vu all over again...

At that point I didn't want to ignore her because I wasn't that type of guy so I tried to be nice about it. We continued chatting on MSN and it seemed like I was spending way too much time talking and texting to her.

Every night after work I would get her messages on my phone and when I got home I would find myself on the computer chatting with her. And the conversations we were having wasn't small talk...it was really profound, deep and intimate stuff. It was insane connecting with her like that over the internet and I felt as If I was stabbing her BF in the back.

It was even worse because she told me the guy had left to Edmonton (other side of country) looking for work experience as an engineer, so she was committing herself to a long distance relationship with him...All the while with me in the background.

Then the whole thing got elevated when she tried to arrange meets. Now this probably would've happened already if she lived closer but we were hours drive apart so I thought she was joking at the time. But then I found out through her cousin that she drove her boyfriend 5 hours to a city just south of me to drop him off at the airport. They have a major airport in their city already! what the heck is going on??

At that point I decided to be upfront about the whole situation and tell her how I felt. She kept trying to make it seem as if she didn't know what I was talking about and telling me how she's not the type of girl that easily opens up and let her emotions show...BS. We ended up chatting for hours into the early morning and I STILL don't know exactly how she feels about it all.   

I felt like sh** because it was 4am when she told me she had classes in a few hours. *sigh why would she even waste her time with me if it wasn't anything serious? Was she just being a nice girl the entire time? Since the wedding?

Anyway it got too awkward between the two of us and I haven't talked to her much since then.

I'm telling you all about this now because I want to know how I should have handled the situation right from the start. I can't help but feel like such an asshole and it tears me up that the dude she was with is a really great guy! :(

So that's it. Tell me what you think about the whole thing and what I should've done.

Oh and sorry I lied about the sex. I needed to grab your attention :) Good thing it never went that far though, whew.

Okay, so it's been a few days since I opened up an account and I wasn't expecting AA to be the same since I left. But it's still strange seeing like it is now--so different from what it was. The feeling's not any different to attending a high school reunion just to see everyone changed and the neighborhood with it. Weird how technology is able to add to the nostalgia effect today.

I guess the biggest change for me is the content. The chat which was the lifeblood of AA is no longer here/doesn't work and no one seems to be fixing up their pages like they used to. It feels as if this site serves to do nothing but be an ego boost for the opposite sexes. I understand It's always been like that on AA or ANY social networking site but there was always cool content to balance that out and people actually wrote things on their pages. Have to say, it hurts a little seeing how AA has degraded to the state its in now.

Hmmpf..I don't know why I'm blogging this. Not really blog material. just a little rant. I doubt if anyone ever reads this though.

Oh and happy Mothers day everyone! Mom if you see this..I swear I was gonna call!