Change

Wednesday night is now Toastmaster's night for me, this was my 2nd guest attendance.  Tonight's table topic was "Change" from table topics to the speeches.  I was able to participate in the table topics portion of the club meeting.  I was asked "if you were given the official title of "tax master" where you set all the rules on taxation, what would you change to our current system?".  The question caught me off guard, there's so many things that needs to be changed and implemented in not only on the local city level, all the way to the federal level here in Canada to build a sustainable society with sound economics based on equality and social justice.  

Of course, I went over the 1 minute time limit, I could of gone on and on all the things I would do to make Canada even more great.  Even the world.  Humans as a species have the capability and resources to live peacefully with our environment and with each other.  Yet the current system is made for a few to have a lot and many to suffer for that.  We as a global entity can eliminate many difficult issues such as war, famine, disease, poverty etc. but the efforts to accomplish such monumental tasks are being diverted for vanity and vain pursuits.  This brings in mind to the future painted by the recent movie Looper all too possible, a grim world filled with crime and the status quo is continued into the second half of this century.

Back on topic now.  Change, I've been going through a lot of changed recently and it at times are all overwhelming.  But I go on with hope and a positive attitude to work hard and when the moments present themselves for happiness and laughter, seize upon them and enjoy.  When sad moments visit, take time to reflect and look within myself, learn from failures and mistakes, so in future challenges and difficult times, an effective way of dealing with them have already been figured out by past experiences.

Time for ZzZ, good night.

OmG half of October is gone!

Soon to be Halloween eeeee!  Where has the time gone?  Too busy to even notice, a good thing :), been doing a lot of concept work.  Time to transfer the ones I like into actual 3D models.  Gonna be a indoor fall/winter this season, hope to get a few snowboarding trips in though!  Ciao for now.

RIP - Reality Check - 2wheels no airbags

Been a rough week for motorcyclist in Toronto.  This morning, some 30 year old died on the Gardiner, somehow managed to smash into the center railing.  I don't know the facts, but the description before the crash sounds like he was breaking in an engine by hard rev'ing different gears and slowing down after.  Speed was a factor as he lost control.

After reading about it at thestar.com, a link to the article below also has speeding as the cause.

I know of this intersection as our softball team played there a couple of times this past Spring and Summer.  It has a stop sign, so the most likely cause of this crash is (in my opinion) the rider was speeding, too fast to stop in time.  It's too bad, he was 24 and at his prime.

So lessen of the day.  Don't speed, I know I do, but I only do it within my comfort zone and according to the conditions.  I know it's never a good idea to go above the posted speed limit, especially since I'm on 2 wheels and 0 air bags, but it can also be argued the other way around.  Safer to go with traffic than impeed it.

RIP - condolenses to their families.

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1255382--motorcycle-driver-dead-after-morning-crash-at-glengrove-and-marlee-aves

No work done today, congratz to Alan and Joanna Kwok on their big day.  Best wishes and have a great honeymoon :).

Today is Labour Day in Canada.  Cheers to all the hard working people out there making this country what it is.  A place of free speech and religious freedom!  O Canada!  Rock On!

Spent the evening at the CNE with a bunch of friends.  Good times and positive energy all around.  I must say, after so many seasons of going to the EX, it's still has it's charms.  Too old for the rides but the games are still lots of fun especially when you share the moments with people that matter.

That's the ending odometer for August 2012, lets see if I can crack 10k this season with some long distance rides up North, especially for mid September to see the leafs change colours :).

Back in action!!

London 2012 was fun.  Now back to business!  Top gear go! :)