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November 13 Out of Your LeagueWhen I was growing up in Hong Kong, I attended an all-girls Catholic school. Located right next door was an all-boys school. With nearly 3,000 girls and boys located in such close proximity, you'd expect a lot of "stuff" going on between the people in the two schools, right? But nothing can be further from the truth. I have never heard of anyone from our school having an interest in, much less dating, one of the boys from the other school.
The reason? We consider ourselves way out of their league.
You may think it strange that girls aged 13 to 18 would be such snobs or understand such concepts as "social class". But it was in us. We knew.
You see, ours was (and still is) a prestigeous school. Theirs was, should we say, less prestigeous.
One only has to look at the two schools' respective pages on the HK Education and Manpower Bureau website. Whereas our school's page features a picture of a student playing the piano and another playing the cello, their school's page features a bunch of students playing rock paper scissors.
The boys knew what we thought of them (and how little we thought of them). So they try to get our attention by throwing dusters at our girls from their classrooms they passed by on the way to the bus stop.
Instead of shrieking and running away, the girls stood their ground, counted the number of floors and windows to identify the classroom from which the attack had came from, and collected the dusters as evidence. Our school filed a complaint and several boys received reprimands.
We were mean girls, even back then. November 11 Remembrance Day NOT Holiday in OntarioI think it's ridiculous that Remembrance Day is not a holiday in Ontario. Of all the secular stat holidays, I think this is without a doubt the most important one. Why do we celebrate Victoria Day and the nameless "civic holiday" in August but not Remembrance Day?!
The only other province that has not designated Remembrance Day as a public holiday is Quebec. I say let them be the "distinct society" on this one.
Let us remember the veterans who fought for this country and for the freedom of men and women everywhere.
November 03 Concubine Hello KittyPrince Tomohito of Japan has a bright idea: let's bring back concubines! That's a better idea than to let Princess Aiko succeed her father Emperor Akihito, who has no male child.
Chorus of men: Us too! Us too!
Concubines? I'm sure that it's a fine idea in Prince Tomohito's mind. But, that is not going to help baby production if it is the men who are sterile, is it?
Hier production is merely a pretext. Japanese men like Prince Tomohito want to keep women in their traditional role as baby-machines and out of positions of authority / respect / ceremonial importance such as the throne.
And I suppose if the desire to protect "unique tradition and history" is a good enough reason to devalue women, it is a good enough reason for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's annual worship of Japanese war criminals at Yasukuni Shrine.
Such is Japanese tradition and history. My condolescences.
November 02 IQ test should be required for driversAlmost got ran over by a
person with an IQ of 69
driving a
4-door silver Volkswagen Golf
bearing Ontario license plate
ALLN 247
at the crosswalk at Harbord and Major Streets in Toronto.
After turning left (North) onto Major Street s/he took a right onto Sussex Street.
The Streetcar stopped to let us cross at the crosswalk. This asshole in his base model Golf was a few cars behind the streetcar and decided s/he was too cool to wait his/her turn to make a left turn. So s/he sped onto the opposite lane and drove the 1/4 block on the wrong side of the road in order to turn left onto Major Street as we were crossing.
S/he was lucky that s/he did not hit us. After we're done with him/her, s/he'll be lucky to still own that car and would probably never be able to afford auto insurance again.
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