New Camera!

Yea! I got myself a new camera :D

It's a Canon Rebel T3!

Got a great price for it that came with a 75mm-300mm lens for a much better price than Futureshop or Best Buy were asking for.

There's a better version called the T3i (Yah apparently a single letter signifies "much better") but that "i" cost an extra $300-400 and is honestly built more towards professionals and as my work is not at the level where people are paying me to take photos of them or for them that this would be a moot point of spending for me.

However, so far it's quite nice and hope to maybe throw some shots of mine up here.

Summer is upon us!

So it's finally come about has it fellow Vancouverites eh?

Summer that is. Not that silly voting we did to choose which pile of lies we pick to follow for the next year or so.

Anyways where was I? Ah right summer!


So finally our weather has moved from rain, rain, rain, and construction to sunny weather or at least as sunny as we get it on the west coast.

Internet and Usage Fees

I'm assuming some of us have heard how the people in charge of the internet and the workings of it in general have wanted to put in a plan that would:

- Allow major companies to lower their bandwidth to a level and charge extra for bandwidth over a limit, it also lets companies "buy" bandwidth in bulk and then sell it to us.

To those not knowledgeable of what this means it pretty much equals to this:

-If you download a lot of music
-If you download movies
-If you download anything for that matter
-...and if you do all of the above

It will allow them to say that because you download so much more than the grandmother who uses it to check on cheese scone recipes...you have to pay $60 more per month or some other amount.
Now I don't know the exact details and I understand that their argument is that the internet has become extremely well used in this time of age and now people and companies are straining to keep enough service up for the population.
But what I dislike was that they didn't try other means to gather funds. They never though of something of deals with internet companies, maybe even a slight increase of a dollar or two to prices. Heck, maybe even some kind of more expensive internet plan but give them a slightly faster speed for being some kind of member or something.

Pretty much my argument is that to get money they went about it kind of sleazy like.

So to those who wander in; What's your opinion?

Wine; The Cool Thing or the Old Thing?

I've been working at this wine store in Coquitlam, Westwood Plateau for about 8.5 months now.
In this time I've met people who drink $200 Champagnes to the $5 Yellowtail from way back when.
Course at the same time I've met the young new generation (Wow "young"? I really must be old at 22 now) and always wondered how many thing about wine now.

When I was growing up I always had the thought that wine was for the rich and the famous, the snobs, and the guys who are trying to show off to their lady friend.
However, now a days it seems wines have really flourished culturally as well as general quality, especially in Canada. Now a days you can find a decent red wine in Canada, a rose that doesn't taste like a bottle of sugar, and cabernet merlots which used to be scoffed at by the French years ago. What's more interesting is you're finding the younger crowds going for them too!

Now I'm not saying that the younger crowd is becoming more sophisticated. Sadly, we still love our sweet coolers and our cheap Smirnoffs (No offense m'dear) and whatnot. What I am trying to say is that the younger crowd is going for wine more and more often in these years instead of a sixpack of beer or other alchoholic drinks

I think that if this keeps growing it could bring about a big change in how people look at alchohol as the new generations beging to seep their way into the wine culture and heck at least red wine is better than drinking tequila or other hard liquors right?

Caffience and Others ways to stay awake.

Considering I worked at Starbucks for a few months and otherwise have quite a loving for the caffeinated bean I thought I'd right a lil something about coffee and the assorted other ways to stay up.
(Do note I'm no expert and I don't have a ton of experience so take what I say with a grain of salt)

Coffee for me has always been something to "help" stay awake. I never use it as a crutch to stay awake past healthy limits. That means if I've been up 18 hours straight and if I stayed up another 4 I could finish some homework...I'd totally just go to sleep and not force myself awake with coffee.
For me coffee is a nice beverage with breakfast or anytime really to perk yourself up though at times I drink it because I like the taste of it and nothing else. On that note I really should get myself a canister of decaf insta-coffee one of these days.

How do I like coffee? Usually a mild roast, cream/milk, a spoon of sugar and that's it. Though I'm notorious to have my head turned by the odd Mochafrappuchino which is purely from the lovely chocolate taste and the fact they put coffee in there too.
Another type of coffee I've liked for some time now is a type of instant-coffee. This stuff is asian of origins as it's made with types of asian roots ground into the instant coffee. Usually it's ginseng and others with some other types of ginseng or something else that keeps you up. Though I've heard that the ones I've been drinking is classed as the ones "for men" and there's others "for women". Apparently, the two types are kinda your pre-sex beverage as it supposed to perk you up and energize you for the activity. As for the validity of this? No clue, it tastes like nice coffee and that's it. So no proof on the Coffee Viagra there.

As for coffee's hill billy cousin the energy drink? Not much to say here really since the most I've tried has been the Starbucks's energy drink and Jolt Cola. Other then that I've seen the new stuff has that dangerous chemical that artificially speeds up your heart rate. So I've mostly turned down the stuff for it's safer alternative coffee.

Once again into the trenches of blogs!

A long time ago I had a Live Journal page. That was kind of a random posting board of my rants of everyday life which was kinda sad looking so I eventually gave it to the Executioner to deal with and it went *Poof*.

Considering I have so many things going on now a days I thought I'd head back into the whole blogging thing and hopefully have this blog a bit more filled out with material the odd person might find useful or just interesting.

I will have this said once and only once, though I expect to have to say this many times more, this is just an internet blog. I'm not one of those jerks who goes around revealing secrets, backstabbing people, or just plain being an idiot. So don't expect any juicy gossip from my relationship or anything along that lines.

I'll also mention the fundamental rule of these king of blogs: "Don't take it seriously."
I'm possibly going to go on odd rants about why girls wear those yoga pants so tight it gives them nutritional fibre or why do guys still wear super baggy jeans like their stealing kitchen sinks or whatever so have a read and have fun.