A 42-year-old Taiwanese man died of a stroke triggered by over-excitement from watching the movie “Avatar”. Film blogging sites have reported complaints of headaches, dizziness, nausea and blurry eyesight from viewers of this film. Funny, a Cialis ad warned of the side-effects when taking it, which include headache, dizziness, upset stomach, back pain, muscle aches, flushing, and stuffy or runny nose. Seems like watching Avatar is like taking Cialis.
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American Idol’s Simon Cowell turns down a $100 million US of‑
fer to stay on the show. Conan O’Brien gets $45 million to agree to let Jay leno get back to the Tonight Show. Nicolas Cage discloses he paid the IRS $70 million and still will have to pay another $14 million in taxes. Now just recently, Brad and Angelina are said to have signed a $330 million separation deal. If these celebrities’ millions are like truckloads of coconuts, compared to what I earn, mine’s not even peanuts - it’s more like a pinch of sesame seeds.
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Another police boo-boo? Last week at about two in the morning, Vancouver police raided a home and arrested a man. The man, of chinese origin and who did not speak any english, suffered cuts on his face and a swollen eye. A formal police statement admitted that the man did not resist arrest - funny, either his face just have hit a brick wall by itself or the cops probably woke him up from his sleep by poking their batons on his face. What’s more hilarious -or perhaps awesome in their sheer stupidy - is that the police got the wrong address and was on the wrong house. Hey, wake up, hit - bonk! Oops, sorry - wrong guy.
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In the past two winters I have been digging my car wheels slipping and stuck in the snow. That’s it, I said to my wife, this year I’m putting on four brand new snow tires, no, not all-season tires but real winter snow tires. So just before winter this year I got a good deal and had four tires replace my balding all-seasons(yes- for good deals on tires go online to DiscountTires.com, installation is a jiffy and they have many locations across the border.) Of course, just when I’m ready for snow, there’s no snow!
In the same way I feel sorry for the coming winter Olympics here in Vancouver. Last two winters we had so much snow, no olympics. Now we have so much olympics, no snow. Imagine if we had the games last year or before that we could have saved a lot in event venues. Speed skating event on Hastings street, luge and bobsled down the Upper Levels, or figure-skating in Trout Lake. And admittance would have been free, too.
With everything around us being olympics this and that, I, for one, would be glad when this will all be over. I’m beginning to hate the fact that the city organizers are actually using this event to corner advertising revenues and bilk the people into buying anything with an olympic logo. It’s all about money, really.
One good thing about all this, though, is that our company is asking everybody to stay away from the office during the games. Either “work from home” or take a vacation during those weeks, the memo said. Well, I’m not taking either - I’m doing both. My wife and I decided we’ll both be working from Hon... I meant from Honolulu. With telecom-muting, who knows where you are, right?
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