I wasn’t excited to hear Imogen’s voice pitched up as a hiphop sample [the anti-Whatcha Say post]

Imogen Heap’s most well known song, “Hide & Seek” is possibly one of the easiest songs to remix. This is because it is a straight up acapella that anyone who’s interested in remixing it can just slap it on some beats and bomb sounds and voila! “Hide & Seek” remix.

And of course here’s Jason DeRulo.

2010: So Far [pre-Valentine's thoughts, and Up In The Air]

37 days into the year of the twenty ten and things are going rather well. Valentine’s day is coming up and the club I DJ at has a ‘Valentine’s Day Sucks’ party to commemorate the day. And get this, there are 10 prizes for “a romantic dinner for one”. Funny. Hopefully I get to DJ it and pull out “Kelis – Caught Out There” of the hat. Classic anti-lover’s day jam.

What is love anyway?

Websites I Like #01: Chairwhore

So I’m gonna’ start a new series of blog posts called “Websites I Like”, whose premise is already in the title. As a user of Google Reader, RSS is important in the Reader experience because the content on the content is centralized into one place, and can be easily customized the user’s liking. Anyway aside from this technical blahblah this is a segment about the sites I follow! GO!

#01: Chairwhore

Address: http://chairwhore.blogspot.com

OK so the title may be a little NSFW but the content is extremely G-rated. It’s basically a website with pictures of chairs. Yeah. Pictures. Of Chairs. If you thought you’ve seen it all, then look again.

These are the kind of chairs that you probably would never get at your regular Wal-Mart establishment or respected chair store. There’s ALL KINDS OF CHAIRS, really.

There are the regular ones that we’re all most familiar with.

The Different ‘Faces’ of Facebook

Being an avid user of Facebook and frequently reading up on tech news and on software, I found out that there are a bunch of Facebook extensions and software out there that totally bring very different and new experiences to the table. So here are three that I’ve spent quite some time with. AndLet’s look at some of Facebook’s… different faces. Pun central! Click on the pictures to get a larger sized look.

Facebook Lite

This one is very simple. It’s officially from the developers of FB and it goes hand in hand with the regular FB. Simply typing in lite.facebook.com will allow you to access the site. And upon first glance you will notice that it is stripped down to just the absolute bare minimum. Using FB Lite is a real pleasure. Extremely minimal design, no annoying ads, no annoying Farmville invites, and everything is so simple to use probably a monkey could use it too.

A Major Balancing Act

2010 is proving itself to be a bit of a balancing act for me.

Like I mentioned in one of my previous posts, I have become engrossed in doing a variety of things. School. DJing. Designing. Not having a girlfriend. You know. The usual.

I exited my Fundamentals to Marketing class just about 20 minutes ago and I’m sitting here in the prestigious (debatable) Harriet Irving Library where the ground floor has a high ceiling and some rather pleasing modern interior design, opposed to some of the other buildings (not naming any names here, *cough Head Hall* )… which are creepy at night.

Things I’m juggling while doing my balancing act:

1. Five (5) courses at school and keeping up with them;
2. DJing occasionally at the Social Club;
3. Practing DJing and publishing mixes;
4. Figuring out where my money goes, or went on some days;
5. Updating my Tumblr and Twitter accounts;
6. Keeping up to date with news on film/graphic design/electronic music through the great and awesome Google Reader;
7. Cooking at least three times a week;
8. Keeping up with excellent TV shows such as Lost, Dexter, The Office, Parks & Recreation, 30 Rock and Supernatural; I rarely remember to catch these shows when they air so I subject myself to marathons, which are a pretty bad idea;
9. Planning events (Deep Sunday parties, get-togethers, Bulgogi runs, and what have you); in fact after writing this I’m scheduled to meet with Taaryn and Fran to plan their birthday party;
10. Coming up with ideas to shoot short comedy skits for fun;
11. That book I’m thinking of producing and perhaps getting it published.

Now isn’t that a lot of things to do?

One thing that certainly has changed for the better is that I’ve began waking up before 8 o’ clock and having a good breakfast. Unlike chocolate, which to some is the breakfast of champions.

Dangling your baby over a balcony VS Driving with baby on lap

So my friend Colleen was telling me that she got into a debate with her room-mate over whose actions were worse, namely

• Michael Jackson’s baby dangling fiasco; or
• Britney Spears’ error of sitting her baby on her lap while  driving, THRICE.

Although both are terrible baby situations there is definitely one worse than the other.

I hand the big fail whale on to Britney Spears because you’re driving and driving is pretty much distracted by the road to be focusing on your baby… And at least with Jackson’s dangling moment, he looked like he was gripping on to the baby pretty tightly.

To end the post I suggest you look at Mr Bean’s skills of driving WHILE getting changed.

what have i been up to?

Outside, it is cold enough to kill a few unclothed humans… But fortunately I am within the confines of the Harriet Irving Library at UNB, which is occasionally warm.

GOOD. GRIEF. 2010. It was only 3 and so years ago that I first stepped onto Canadian soil and got everyone shook about my age. I was newly 17 at the time, unfortunately sporting a terrifying ’stache and people estimated me to be 26. And I remember clearly on New Year’s Eve 2006, my cousin showed me how to carry out this manly activity called shaving. Epic indeed, because Jesse had a good laugh out of it later.

Such a difference now is compared to 3 and so years ago.

• Back then I had a girlfriend. Now I don’t. I’m as free as a bird although I believe I’m married to my ambitions.
• I was in Engineering for a year at the start. And now I’m in Multimedia, taking a marketing course, and a variety of film courses.
• I was living with relatives back then. Now I’m on my own in an apartment residence (where it is, honestly, quite awesome).
• I had this really awesome friendship with a friend back then (let’s call them a superfriend), but now that superfriend is less than acquaintance. TRAGIC! And this is where I figured out that people come and people go, unfortunately.

Cataloging and describing all my memorable experiences from the time I left for Canada would probably be boring (kinda like how people catalog what they drank the previous night at their best friend’s wedding party which they had to drink through cause it was awkward central, which I’ll admit to doing from time to time), so let me just point form it out…

• DJed my first Last Class Bash [2008]
• DJed my first Halloween event, dressed up as an emo kid [2007]
• Directed a pretty special film [2009]
• Started designing posters [2007]
• Worked with Ford Motoring Company [2009]
• Involved with the rebranding of Symphony Music School [2009]

Honestly there’s just way too many keypoints from the last 3 and so years, which probably highlights the fact that I should’ve had a steady blogging routine… But agh!

BY THE WAY, RUMORS OF MY ENGAGEMENT ARE ENTIRELY FALSE. FALSE FALSE FALSE I WANT YOUR FALSE.

Anyway 2010 will be exciting, but I cautiously say so… because I have my head wrapped around too many projects.

• Deep Sunday 4 & 5 (yes I already have Deep Sunday 5 already kinda’ planned out).
• Writing scripts and actually getting around to filming them… more about that later this week.
• I’ve got this idea for a photobook and am looking to have it printed professionally before summer rolls around.
• March Break with my cousins in Toronto [hopefully if my finances hold up]

Aside from that. My family is moving to Canada as well.

Phew that’s a lot of talk for a couple of minutes of thinking. But I think this was a proper way to re-launch this blog.

how to spice up a boring day

I guess that no one’s had a boring day until they’ve had a tuba blown into their ears.

yes, you can be amazed AND depressed at the same time.

Because of the following kid:

This kid right here, whose age is less than the total number of fingers I have… has written an iPhone application. It doesn’t help that headline from this site reads:

“Nine Year Old Kid writes the iPhone Application”

What does that mean??? THE iPhone Application???

“Nine Year Old Kid writes the iPhone Application”

operating word here is: the

What does this mean? He’s written an iPhone App that has the cure for cancer? Hmm…

Judging from the supplied picture it doesn’t look like the iPhone Application everyone must have by the time summer rolls around; I mean, look at those janky shapes and terrible color schemes *I’m secretly trying to one-up myself, but I’m also crying on the inside*. But I’m sure by the time he’s like… 9 and a half (okay, fine, ten), he would’ve written an iPhone application that can manage the lighting system in the house and remotely operate and maneouver his Dad’s vehicle (btw, this has already been done by a team of programmers).

Let me see, what was I doing when I was nine?

Possibly the following action:

I only got 4 minutes to write a post.

So I got four minutes to write a post. Cue Madonna. Justin Timberlake. What exactly are they singing about. 4 minutes to save the world? ‘Not Exactly’ by Deadmau5 playing on my computer. I have 20 minutes actually to reach my 9am design class. It’s our last day so Ms. Beckley has this tradition of sharing donuts with us. I have to shower soon. Because I was up all night finishing projects for 3 classes, and studying for an exam this Saturday at 9am. Seriously 9am exams on Saturdays should be a-bolished. And another thing I have to talk about… this damn crazy week! I have 3 projects due this Friday…

i) 2000 word essay on impact of media on culture (20% done);
ii) final project for Computers/Music class (70% done);
iii) portfolio for design course (50% done);

and then my exam on Saturday morning… which has 3 essays in it and 50 MCQ.

this week is pretty brutal. ok time to shower cheers.