Amazing Race: Heroes Edition

Continuation of the Amazing Race: From Jakarta, Indonesia to Ontario. First to depart was team Leanne and Mar.

The first clue was hidden at the back of the Chevrolet Equinox vehicle they used to get there. They drove to the Ingersoll Assembly Plant. First to sign up for the task was team Const. Taylor and Const. Courtney. However, it's team Dyland and Kwame who finished the task of step by step assembling of parts for the car's door and was inspected to be "correct." The daunting task of the door to door challenge with instructions provided at the Demonstration Area (Weather stripping, installing rubber frame for glass windows, installing screws, etc. which is kind of easy if you have experience of being a mechanic). Next to finish the tasks: Adam & Courtney, then Phil & Martina, Taylor & Courtney, Leanne & Mar, Nancy & Mellisa, Zainab & Monica.

Next Task: 16th Century Fight Style, one from each team should wear a costume and fight on stage with the swordfight instructor (Fight sequence test using swords). First to finish the task: Phil & Martina.

Next Task: In Stratford, Ontario ( Candy & Chocolate factory). Teams/contestants should pack assorted jellies and chocolates in designated boxes and have to label the boxes (Rheo Thomason) accurately and wrap them with ribbons. First to finish the task: Phil & Martina.

Task on Paddle on Water using a specified water trike pedalled by legs the contestants have to gather clues from every post located on sides of the creek. First to finish the task: Taylor & Courtney. Next to proceed to the QUEEN OF THE SQUARE, which is the CITY HALL in Stratford, Ontario. This is the 5th Stop on the Leg of the Race

1. Taylor & Courtney first to arrive and won trip for two to London, England.
2. Courtney & Adam
3. Phil & Martina
 (the 2nd and 3rd teams were asked to carry their backpacks at the Pit Stop).
4. Dylan & Kwame
5. Nancy & Mellisa
6. Leanne & Mar
7. Zainab & Monica

Non-elimination round. TO BE CONTINUED to TORONTO, ONTARIO

Hidden Codes In Movies

 Before the $1 Movie of the week ends, I rented THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI. This is the most controversial, hottest movie during the Awards Nite last year. The movie garnered highest recognition in the Golden Globes and the Oscar (Academy Awards) recognizing the lead best actress Frances McDormand (Best actress for Fargo movie also gathered so many awards). She's such a natural actress, very talented and what else could we extract in her movie?

The movie is quite disturbing. It seemed like everyone's a suspect in a  small community of rural folks. When the police force cannot find or arrest a suspect or the criminal is not jailed then everyone's focus on the integrity of the police whether they are being lazy or just doing nothing while they were paid for the job.

Many months had passed and Mildred Hayes was in severe depression because the abductor/ rapist/ murderer of her daughter Angela Hayes  hasn't been found yet. So she decided to ask the Ebbing Advertising Agency to put up a billboard sign to shake up the police department under Chief Willowghby and in the message, what a startling message of incorrect grammar. It's kind of weird. They are in Missouri? (Where the word Missouri originated?) Is that a Japanese word? Where the original inhabitants of Missouri came from? Why Ebbing is the name for the place in Missouri? Ebbinghaus? You know the psychologist Ebbinghaus? He pioneered the "Learning curve of memory." Whether Carl Jung or the famous psychiatrist Sigmund Freud learnt from him or they all learned from Sigmund actually.



The many questions on Mildred's husband having a 19 year old girl the same age as her deceased daughter, as a girlfriend? I haven't seen this movie in the cinema. This is the first time I watched this movie. So I first thought the "girl" was actually Angela.

Why the Chief Willowghby killed himself, on a suicide when he will die anyway because of cancer. It only made him a suspect. But paying extra $5,000 for the billboard sign comes up like a way to sympathize with Mildred's grief of losing her daughter Angela. The police headquarters were shaken up that Dixon the "investigator" went upstairs to Ebbing Advertising Agency, punched the manager on his face and throw him up out of the window, fortunately, he landed so alive after the fall. Wow! That's totally amazing! (Like the scene in the PREACHER when the weirdo was still alive after falling from a building). 

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You know aliens love rural community. Heh! LOL. No. sorry it's not funny. Their community is probably inhabited by aliens from another planet. You know the story/article about aliens published in "Popular Mechanics" and how the agents assigned to capture the supposedly aliens, and how they will welcome them once their spaceship landed on their land.

Point is >>>> You don't know who is behind those masks and you don't know what color they represent.

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Dixon's brutal attack was witnessed by the black police officer (?) who happened to drop by at the police station and took Dixon's badge and gun. He was fired of course! 

Mildred Hayes was not convinced on what's happening at the police station, she was not buying all those craps that she decided to do something drastic and burned the station while Dixon was there trying to search for something and was too late to know that the station was already burning. What? He didn't even hear the noise and didn't smell the fire and smoke? I mean he is too slow to reaction. Anyway, he was able to save the police report and other documents regarding Angela Hayes's case.

In this photo above, Mildred Hayes went on a date with the guy who tried to save him from being jailed. Case: Arson. Mildred became a violent arsonist. Although the guy is being helpful, he is not a saint and there is hidden ulterior motive behind for that date.

There are certain movie scenes that are linking to other movies of suspense presented and had reflected to this movie adding value and mysteries to an already mysterious crime of rape and vicious violence. Is there a sequel to this movie?
 

Dixon and Mildred talking about the DNA gathered from the supposed to be suspect who is a rapist (who lives in Idaho). Whether the DNA test will match then the case is over. Put the criminal behind bars! How DNA Testing is done is you have  to consult the scientist who rely on this kind of scientific testing and proving that scientific instruments work efficiently and correctly. Why the DNA? They should include the RNA. If the DNA & RNA doesn't fit perfectly it's not a match. Chromosomes that do not fit, what do you think is missing?

How fast NCIS can find out if the test is proven correct and find the  suspect?  Real fast because of highly competitive agents who worked efficiently, not waiting months, not waiting years. They act right immediately wasting no time to capture the criminal or criminals. It's also because NCIS can declassified what is classified. For them nothing is classified and nothing is confidential. The system they used is highly modern technology unlike in the movie "Three Billboards _Outside_ Ebbing, Missouri."

The MESSAGE ON THE BILLBOARDS: Eye-catching message of Mildred or that message was from the minds of Ebbing Advertising Agency? Message made/created by writer? Let us analyze it: "Raped While Dying. Still No Arrests. How come, Chief Willoughby?"

Frances McDormand as Mildred Hayes wants a message that attack whoever is the suspect or the one who murdered her daughter. It's by hook or by crook that she needs the answer right immediately. The message sent a shocking force similar to an  "earthquake with twisters" in the small rural area of Ebbing, Missouri. 

Problem in that area is: I think that area is in the period of under-developed or it's a rural, farmlands, not into the high tech yet. By the way, Ebbing, Missouri is a fictitious place used in this movie. Is it? If it's real then it's like watching Oklahoma. The writer/author of this novel/movie is acting in the sense of justice for the victim.

The problem with high technology is ... what could be the conflict? Somebody evil can change the result with the click of a mouse. Hackers can hack and they are paid by the devil disguised as humans. You know there are so many million demons,   evil and devils in this world. That even Jesus was tempted by the devil and how you an ordinary human being can escape from the devil? can you defeat the evil of this world? You think that's ridiculous but actually not laughing matter. When money is involved too many are lured to do something evil. Money is not evil, some humans are evil.

Stop Being An A-HOLE!

Is there anything in this world that will not relate to any game on planet earth? I don't know about you but almost everything there is that connection that resonates to games, play and players and all those sh-ts.

Sometimes, it's better to just turn OFF the television set or off the computer so that you wont be annoyed with such program of habitual connection and inter-connecting with sports, games, and nonsense.

Watch cartoons and animated shows and it deals with the same idea of linking you to the game and sports.

Watch politics and economics and surely you'll be totally annoyed because it also connects with the games and sports you hate.

Where in the world where people can do without games and sports and without those gambling?

Is there any other way where these annoying humans cannot use the same "words" and the same "names" and the same rodents rotten  of codes for such annoying games and sports?  

Why use those names with such inflicting nuisance that is over and over again as if that name is the only name on planet earth? Is that "name your holy god of rodents?" Are you a rat? Do you want to be an experiment and be used as guinea pigrat? Are you in the culture of rats in a maze? Is your culture a culture of violence, rape, harassment and abuse? What are you getting from using the same old rotten rod? is it because they were used in the Bible that rods can raise a plague? Is it because it can spread snakes all over its dominion? Well, you are not Moses! And you are not Aaron. Is it because without your rod you will be annihilated and thrown in the desert land of punishment? Rod doesn't help with rainfall. Science will tell you that rod has nothing to do with it. You and your rods must be the wrong herds of sinners who keep wandering thinking that God is with you all along. The rod has nothing to do with all those tricks and evil plans so why use that stupid rod? Unless of course if you belong to the rod of murderers who killed the innocents during and at the time when Jesus was born. Rod is simply bloody hell raising stink and warts that we don't want.

Warts are everywhere already! FGS! Do Not spread the warts because of your holly rods of wrath. He is not your god! Come to your senses and 13 is not the number of god, you ratsi nazi. He is not your king and he is not great and he is not  the creator of heaven and earth. There are too many game players and sportsmen who are better and worthy than the player whom you worshiped as if he is your god. How much that rod is paying you to advertise his game? We're watching this awesome player and the television sports announcer is announcing that rod. Are all the players named rod? How much you are paid to advertise that rod? Do you want a plague of bubonic? Are you the only human on earth? Fuck off the rod!

Are You Clueless?

Once in a while it's best to laugh and SOUTH PARK made me laugh sometimes. It's definitely not great for kids but you know humor is humor and it's a comedy in its show of grade school kids who are so frank and disrespectful with elders (not that you have to copy those kids for being rude)  just because that's the role they portrayed. Normal? In other parts of the world that's normalcy because being too nice seems absurd and awful. There is no 100% kindness and compassion. That's inhumane. There is that percentage of doubt in a hundred percent of a human who is too kind and angelic. There is no such thing as angels being so kind to humans. There are no humans who are too good, too nice and godly because in the Bible, God was also a Supreme Being that sent hailstones, wrath, floods and the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah. That God is willing to change the face of the Earth and let only the good ones to live and survive from deluvio.

Do you believe it? Do you believe what's inside the Holy Bible?

Whatever! GOD is the Highest Form of Life that can cause anything to happen because He made heaven and earth anyway. He is the CREATOR of the first humans on planet Earth, He is the creator of everything seen and unseen, invisible, invincible, divisible, changed and unchanged and we are all just the subjects to all His plans.

Be good to who is good to you. Be kind to one another. Follow the Golden Rule. Do unto others as you don't want others do unto you.

Amazing Race: Heroes Edition

It's Tuesday so it's time and day for AMAZING RACE.

From Cowichan Valley, British Columbia to Jakarta, Indonesia.

First to depart from Canada was team Taylor & Courtney first, then Todd and Anna, Leanne and Mar, etc, etc...

In JAKARTA, INDONESIA they were welcomed with the Indonesian national dance at the Fatahillah Square. The 8 teams signed up for  the "Performance Dance."

Next, They have to find the clue at the Pelabuhan Sunda Kelapa (The Old Port). The clue? LIFT SOME DURIANs. The spiky thorny fruit with the incredible smell (once its open,  but it's a delicious fruit no matter what, great for candies and pastries). The Teams carried durians to the dockyard and placed them inside the wooden cage-like boxes. They filled the boxes with durians until they reached the height for approval and they got the next clue. It seemed not really that hard work however, the hot climate in Indonesia is suffocating. Anyway, the contestants were fit enough to do that kind of task.

Next TASKS: Clean the snakes (mostly pythons in different sizes and colors). Then the Leech Therapy for Hypertension. 

Detour: SEWING at Kebaya. Sew batik blouse for a blazer.

DOUBLE U-TURN. BLIND U -TURN. I first thought nobody will double U Turn anybody but it's "anonymously been done" and the contestants (Teams) wont know who U Turned them. First team who were U Turned were Martina & Phil, then team Todd & Anna. The two teams will have to do the tasks: Clean the snakes and be the victim for leech therapy and sewing.

ROAD BLOCK: Who's Handy? Thousand Hands Dance. Must be in perfect synchonize with the rest of the dancers. Practice, practice and lotsa practice to keep up with those professional dancers. If you don't succeed try and try again.

MERDEKA SQUARE where the MONAS MONUMENT is located > at the PIT STOP  for this leg of the race where Host JON MONTGOMERY is waiting.


1. Leanne & Mar first to arrive and won the trip for two to Ho-Chi-Minh, Vietnam
2. Mellisa & Nancy
3. Kwame & Dylan
4. Zainab & Monica
5. Taylor & Courtney (they were ahead of Zainab and Monica in the dance performance they should be on 4th to arrive but they took the 5th) ? Maybe they were lost in the traffic or stop for snacks.
6. Phil & Martina
7. Adam and Courtney
8. Todd and Anna - I felt sad for this team, they were eliminated.

Next episode, all the Teams will have to return to CANADA.
 


 NOTE: I am not affiliated with AMAZING RACE TV SHOW. It's just my favorite show on TV and it's because it has its beginning from the novel of JULES VERNE  >> " Around The World In Eighty Days." 

There is a valid, legal reason and greater purpose for this around the world by the TEAMS that documented what is really happening in every parts, every country, every corner (North, East, West, South) of the world, they could be journalists, missionary, armed forces, geologists, geographers, or work for National Geographic... who knows. WE ALL WANT TO KNOW what is going on around the world, what has changed and what could be done in certain demographic areas when it comes to environment, climate, food resource, source of income, what  natural resources and what kind of employment is feasible or needed. Other than that what could be  truly heroic for them to do? It's their business not mine.

Keep Your Hands To Yourself

Keep your hands to yourself! That's the kind of honest suggestion for everyone especially if you are in schools and universities, including the workplace.

Sexual harassment are legal issues and it's not something to be quiet about in this time and age. Silence? Watched that stupid movie already. I don't know if you are an observant, watching TV NEWS about so many women filing lawsuits upon lawsuits against their attackers. 

Even some politicians already caught in this women's issue, government workers are not immune to these legal issues.  Imagine if government workers will file lawsuits and they won their case? Government will go bankrupt. The taxpayers are the losers in this harassment issues. WHY? There are probably MILLIONS OF CASES out there in the X FILES. Some of them, like several of them were sexually molested by ALIENS.

YOU MIGHT AS WELL DECLARE WAR.

By the way, there is that LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY being emphasized in every blogs around the world. Why? Who are your readers?

Simply put it this way...who are your loyal readers? Why leading newspapers and smart magazines went bankrupt? Why some newspaper columnists would like the paywall? 

Measuring the level of difficulty and how smart your readers so that it uplift your level of greatness (?) and level of the higher education you have just mastered doesn't mean your blogs will be well read or doesn't guarantee that you will earn from such blog contents. 

We should stop all the cliche' trying to impress  readers. If readers would like to follow your blogs and read the content and context of your blogs then that's super duper great! Thanks from the bottom of my heart. Dude, it's 20,000 legs under the sea. The leagues? Ha ha ha!  If you are not read because your blogs about elementary then watch Sheldon and his gangs of nerds and try to snif or snip their butts with your nose.

That could be your worst nightmare!

Suspense Thrillers

"The movie TRAIN TO BUSAN" made me woke up late this morning. Shocking! This is a movie about passengers trapped inside the moving train from Korea to Busan and suddenly a passenger was infected of a fast-moving virus, waited for no second to take effect of its vital dangerous symptoms , just that one bite a human is infected and has to infect another until almost everyone is infected. VIRUS! Viral. That's the virus takes place and that's how they multiply. The zombies in this movie are deliriously rabid, highly mutated, can jump, can run and they have the adrenaline rush to infect other humans. Oh my! Crazy!! The cast of characters you thought will survive didn't survive. The pregnant woman survived! The innocent young girl survived but not her father. For having somebody survived in a pandemic, millions of people died, the casualty is so huge. That was a miracle.  It was a sad/happy ending. It was so sad that humanity has to end like in the most barbaric way. It's a happy (?) ending that at least there are but few people to begin another civilization. But you know zombie movie sometimes has sequels, pert. to Resident Evil that never ends. The Walking Dead that never ends. What keep our eyes open in this movie even it's past 10 pm already? Unpredictability. 

Now what happened to the BIG BROTHER America? I'm glad Sam won the HOH after she hollered to Tyler to let her win. Because I think it would be Tyler again leading the BB but Sam being the HOH, there is the purpose for such, maybe and she knew what she is doing. Good! First she informed the rest of the contestants that after that meeting to see the HOH HQ for Sam, no one is to set foot in her room and she wont reveal to anybody who she will nominate for eviction so there's no need for campaign. Great job Samantha. "God is  a woman too! " So, at the last minute, she announced the two women for eviction, Kaitlyn and Haleigh. Who should be evicted from Big Brother? 

That's the next episode for BB on Wednesday. I wonder who Faysal will nominate for eviction? Who you think he is loyal with? Kaitlyn or Haleigh? Hm, everyone should know, right? Because this F guy is in a fast-moving vehicle to harassment. ?  How old is Haleigh? Did she mentioned that her parents watch the BB show? Did she consent to whatever she is doing with that guy? They know there are too many BB Cameras in that house. All eyes are wide open watching their every move. It's like the CCTV cam. Or she was just trapped underneath those blankets? Whatever! They probably signed a contract that whatever happened to their bodies they are responsible for their own safety. Are they really allowed to do that for public viewing? Or they have a script? 

Jesse and Bayleigh's contradictory argument about the use of "N word" and the name calling "      " intended for short people. Good that Jesse (American/Hispanic) was able to explain everything to Bayleigh or else she'll act as if she is a victim of miscommunication. Is there a problem with N word? Think about that for every time that N stands for NO. N stands for New driver and N stands for every word that begins with N. Nunya. NOVICE. I think there are too many sensitive people in this world and the "N" word makes them cry.

Before the TV show opens, CBS provided a message on screen that CBS got nothing to do with the contestants behaviour and attitude or whatever they had shown, whatever they said,  reflected and whatever opinions its their own and do not reflect the BIG BROTHER show. Right! Whatever their scripts are, its their own. Unless of course they are mute and do not talk at all.

Who will win the Veto power or the POWER OF VETO?

The Power of Electricity

If only I have tons of textiles for my sewing project. What I'm doing is just augmentation. I should have used a different name for such like >> repair, alterations, alternative sewing, fixing, but "augmentation" is my choice of word this time.

I'm trying to be busy as much as possible. I don't like not doing anything. However, here in Canada for every move there is a corresponding value of money for such thing.

Sewing requires lil' energy from me but my sewing machine runs on electricity. You can't sew without thread, needles and pins, pair of scissors, fabric, buttons, zippers, elastic and other sewing notions to complete a "finished dress."

In housecleaning you can't do without the following cleaning supplies: broom, mop, bucket and water, cleaning brush, lysol spray, scrubbing pads, window cleaner, swiffer duster, swiffer pads, etc, etc and the list goes on and on. Vacuum for carpet? That too is powered by electricity.

Laundry time? Laundry detergent, Bounce scented sheets, clorox for white cloths, and laundry machine and dryer machine are run or powered  by electricity.

Washing, rinsing or cleaning plates, utensils, pots and pans? Everyone needs cleaning supply for cleaning and if you have dishwasher machine that too requires electricity to run and function.

You watch TV and of course that too is powered by electricity. You called to your parents, sister or brother using telephone and or chat with them through your computer FB account... you can't be chatting with them for free because not only you can have access to your internet without paying internet provider and computers are powered by electricity.

You have an EV? So you have an Electric Vehicle powered by electricity not by gasoline... you must be very rich! Not too many can afford an EV.

Travel for leisure and pleasure? Wow! You must be working so hard. Then after that extravagance, come back home and work so hard again. Are you punishing yourself? Sometimes, I felt like there are so many sado-masochists in this world.

Asado for viand? Hmm...

How about me? I wish have not to move anymore. LOL. Every time I move have to consume electricity and then realizing my family have to eat 3x a day and have some snacks (only if they want snacks) now it's time to cook.

Is our stove/oven powered by electricity? Electricity runs most of our appliances to function. Hydro, hydro, hydro!!!!!!!! There's a hydro power plant in BC and our hydro should be cheaper than most provinces in Canada. Actually in other countries where hydro powers their community, the community doesn't need to pay for hydro. Think about it. It is when the hydro delivers its services to other provinces then it's time to pay higher hydro (?) ... as if we are paying other provinces to consume the hydro from BC. Sounds ridiculous but are we inside THE MISSION movie? I first thought we are in the year 2018.

Darn! Are we really back to the 1th - 18th Century during the Spanish Inquisition? Totally weird drama here folks! It's like we are warped in time. Don't blame me if I'm becoming a nuisance of questioning the power bestowed upon such individuals who are trapped/warped in doing things they are not supposed to do because of the hype of  Y2K.

I don't know when and where we can find the tunnel and have that most awaited MTR and we can just ride that vehicle as fast as the bullet train explores the other part of the world. Jules Verne probably has the answer but you know, he's dead. Omnibus where are you?

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You bet! You bet your ass!? LOL.

The Garden

 Would you be happy if I'm happy? Well, all our veggies turned out so great with its yields. No tomatoes turned out to be apples, although the green tomatoes are the size of a small apple. Still growing its size...

The zucchini plant yields and bears so much zucchinis and harvested about 4 and 2 later.
The cucumber planted in the tub yields 2 so far and had them for snacks. Real fresh!Crispy. Then the cucumber plant in the rectangle plot has two cucumbers hanging there, take about 4 days to be cut off. My oh, my the dragon tongue beans have flowers already!!!!!!

 Because we have extra zucchinis, have them for zucchini/blueberry/cheese muffins. Of course the taste is superbly delicious.

 How a small garden yields so much and what a big vegetable garden can help sustain a whole community? You know you can have a "green revolution project" in your community, in your school (for your cafeteria), on the rooftop of your condo, or rooftop of hospitals everywhere and have fresh vegetables. Don't you think restaurants should have their own garden for fresh produce? Heh, I should mind my own business. Do whatever that makes you happy. Help yourself!

I don't know what Freddie the cat is doing there as if watching something outside of the fence. Is there a mouse there Freddie?

My daughter and I just want to have a pictorial here under the sun, under the scorching heatwave, one sunny afternoon. My husband cut the grass and daughter watered the vegetables. It's nice living in a rural area where the loud noise comes from tractors, lawnmowers, humming and chirping of birds in different species. Once in a while humming birds frequently visit the backyard and they seemed choosy with the kind of flowers they got stuck their nectar suckers. We don't have those flowers intended for humming birds but the neighbors have. Haven't seen the woodpeckers yet after the raven showed up.

The weather is changing slowly... wildfire started to ravage other communities in the BC interior once again? That's crazy! Once a year? It's starting to get windy. Do you think there's a storm coming? 15 degrees C. today and will rise up to 23 dC.

The Fortress

You know when a certain function is fake or not. Can you? You know when a certain agency, branch of government or the supposedly GOVERNMENT that embodies the Government officials... is fake or not or just simply put it this way as a mockery to something that there is a TRUE GOVERNMENT out there run by true, real people who knows the truth. That those appointed officials were just "symbols" to augment certain necessary structure. That they are just the "front" to an existing form of government that is hidden from the public.

As I learned in my Elementary School, the knowledge that we thought and learned about "Elementary" as the basic fundamental knowledge begins and ends with ELEMENTARY.

What's next? Body snatchers? Or Alien Resurrected?

What Else Is New? Nothing's New!

It's the same old story. Same old annoying story. So many people with dementia and so many people who never learn from their mistakes, keep getting so many errors.

Where is the best place on earth? I think hell is far better than hevenne. LOL.

Oh, that mutant movie with Rick's son who is actually a daughter? What? Darn, why it's now common in Hollywood who are naming their daughters with male names? They are not trans. Just that naming masculine names for females is just a matter of  is to believe what's down there. It's not funny!

By the way, AMAZING RACE: Heroes Edition continued yesterday night. From Dawson, Yukon to Vancouver to Salt Spring city. The contestants traveled by seaplane courtesy of Harbour Air.

First Task: Chow down big blueberry pies. (Open Your Pie Hole). Can you eat a whole pie? All the contestants have to finish eating the whole pie.

The first to finish eating the blueberry pie were Akash and Joseph. Todd and Anna can't finish the pie and decided to use the Express Pass. The rest of the teams were vomitting and throwing up in their buckets.

Detour/Speed Bump: Zainab and Monica finished their task of tasting food inside the jar.

Second Task: Drive to Mt. Eskirne Trail Access and find the door under the tree where the next clue is located.

Road Block: Who's good with numbers?

Third Task: Ride the Ferry to the Vancouver island then travel to Motorcross Circuit. One on each team has to drive the Chevy Corvette (which has the performance data recorder) on desired speed for that race.  Todd finished the task with 77 km in just 2 minutes +. Next is Courtney (RCMP). The other Courtney broke the speed limit and has to repeat.

Fourth Task: Tie The Knot. You must be able to tie the knot and 15 seconds to release the bird of prey (OWL). Many had failed from first to 6x. It took Taylor 5 attempts to do the task, however he was the first to finish the task of tying the knot. Have you noticed the owl keeps getting smaller at the end of the task? Could it be that the big owl got so tired of them? lol.

At the PIT STOP: Once again Host Jon Montgomery waited for the contestants to arrive at the Magic Carpet, at the Kinsol Trestle Bridge  in Cowichan Valley.

1. Taylor and Courtney arrived first and won trip for 2 to Boston, Massachussets
2. Todd and Anna
3. Leanne and Mar
4. Martina and Phil
5. Dylan and Kwame
6. Courtney and Adam
7. Zainab and Monica
8. Nancy and Melissa
9. Akash and Joseph were the last team to arrive and were eliminated.

Farming Is A Well Respected Occupation

You know when Martial Law was declared and proclaimed 1081 during the Marcos Administration it was because the former President Marcos was protecting the Philippines from invasion. GREAT! It was so great!! Why? Because we would have been invaded by communists and Philippines was the next target after Cambodia and Vietnam. It was succession of invasion in Asia. It was systemic. Thanks to the many courageous Philippine soldiers. Great we have enough food to feed the soldiers.

Some of those dudes didn't know about it until recently when they were able to learn politics while being away from their own native land. You wont know until you can able to read and write in English and definitely can communicate in another foreign language. How can you? Through educational system. For those who are only educated in the name of sports or games we should all pray that for every change, for every result of the game at the end of the games there's a corresponding opportunity for the winners or winning country but a defiance in the loss or at the time of defeat. Games are played around the world and has considerable consequences on the part of the winners and losers. This is how war is played in the name of games. Not bloody. Non-confrontal barbaric and not brutal. It's the civilized world of acquiring lands and wealth without shedding blood and no death. So many leaders tried that until they ran out of food to feed their followers. They ransacked and looted food inside supermarkets and groceries were food are to be found. Never let your soldiers go hungry and thirsty.

Anyway, years had passed and we are so thankful. Foreigners who came to Philippines to settle are wondering once again to change and replace something out of the ordinary. Remember change only comes frequently within cities. In the province, nothing has changed because you cannot wipe out the rice fields, the main rice granary which is the source of income for the farming community. However for those whose farmlands were sold  and developed into subdivisions will have to choose buying their own farm crops most especially rice from other countries esp. from Thailand. The price of rice is going up because they are now imported. The last time I had my vacation in Philippines, a sack of rice is worth P1,000 (I think it was 40 kgs). That was long time ago. What kind of rice is that? Usually the scented Jazmine rice is the popular and most expensive than other variety of rice. At present time, a small sack of rice weighing 18.1 kg rice is worth C$35 (P1,424.50) sometimes we wait for its price tag down to $25/sack of 18.1 kg (P1,017.5). Tatak Tandang or the symbol Rooster brand name rice is farmed in Thailand. It's the country that exports almost perfect Jazmine rice variety. Why we have to import rice from other countries? Canada is not a tropical country, it's impossible to grow rice in a cold country. Maybe if you can change the climate or have a covered hot house for rice production. The main staple food of Canada is wheat, second is potatoes while rice is only the staple food for Asian people. The population of Asians will soon dominate the Caucasians and Europeans or actually dominated them already in Race issues. The Whites are becoming endangered species and that's the reason why Pres. Trump is becoming out of bounds with his policies with immigration. The population of China and Indonesia are already in BILLIONS! Dud, they were already in billions in the Year 1900. lol. Would you believe? And if somebody out there is crying foul because they are already eating paper, plastic,cellulose or bark of trees and other humans eating bugs, dandelions and other non-edible food can you blame them? While others opted to smoking marijuana because it wards off hunger. According to Sigmund Freud when medical marijuana is prescribed in his days its because there is really nothing to eat during the depression caused by war. Marijuana is a symbol of poverty and poor economic condition of one's country. So, why not they cultivate the land and just grow some crops in the form of potatoes just like what Bernadette Soubiros did. Her family was happy cultivating the poor but arable lands and they planted potatoes and grapes. For her to succumb to death because of tuberculosis is somewhat a mystery. Drinking from the mysterious source of  water supposedly miraculous for ailing patients but not miraculous for the Saint is questionable.

 There is endowment in farming but only few people realized its value. Who would like to be farmers anyway? For the most educated they think that's a lowly degrading occupation. Really? Isaac Newton the scientist who is more than intelligent than Einstein, the physicist, the genius...Newton was a farmer! You wont believe that many scientists in 17th and 18th Century were mostly farmers or owned large tract of land. Gregor Mendel and many Spanish friars were not farmers but they were asked to work in a land (land acquisition) where they can observe, test, and discover the works of Science, Medicine and Physics.

Whatever, do I have to chase the white cabbage moth who doesn't like being caught? I would like that moth for my photo collection. Whatever is inside your mind...let me help you unravel them for you in my blogs.

NIRVANA IN FIRE can't be seen tonight. It's Saturday dude! The Walking Dead? I don't know if there's a marathon tomorrow, but FEAR The Walking Dead will resume sometime in August 2018.

Draft Or Not

Sometimes, my blog composition is on the DRAFT MODE. There is always a chance that draft mode serves a certain purpose.

Hunters and fishermen do the same kind of  baiting. Well who knows could be reading and or hacking my blogs? There could be more than 10 readers or those who secretly reading my blogs but never admit... maybe the Media were the first to hack the draft so that they can make use of such info. LOL. Ha ha ha for what? I'm not a celebrity. It doesn't concern them, but you know everyone is hungry and thirsty for dirty laundry. They are just trying to steal and when they've stolen somebody's blog story they thought it's their story. Tsk! tsk! Tsk!

Did you clean your laundry yesterday?

It's getting hot. Mercury rising at 28 degrees C. in the afternoon.

My husband bought a box of his favorite beer SLEEMAN to quench his thirst AFTER A HARD DAYS WORK.

While my choice of soft drinks are: Coca Cola, A&W Root Beer, 7-UP, Brisk Lemonade Tea and it must be very cold!

Or just simple, pure, safe drinking WATER with ice cubes.

Simple, Delicious Meals

 What else to do when I'm done with other household chores?  I looked inside our fridge and noticed that somebody had spilled something on the vegetable crisper. Juice and droplets of Ketchup on the glass cover surface of the vegetable storage that needs cleaning. No problem. Have to clean it with Fantastik for thorough clean/sanitize effect, done in few minutes.

Now to think again for our lunch and dinner. It's not easy to be a chef or it's never easy to be a cook at home. It's always been the question of what to cook this time without repeating the same viand. You know members of the family get so bored, annoyed or irritated with the usual ordinary boring same o same o kind of meals. However, there are members who would rather having same kind of meals from last week. Of course everyone would like spaghetti once every week. For me, like having pancit once every week. I would like to have at least a meal of rice and fish 3x a week. However, fish especially salmons are expensive in Canada. There are frozen fish available in supermarket such as: mackerels, scads, snapper, halibut (costly ier than salmon), white fish, tilapia, maybe tuna inside cans (canned tuna). I'm craving fish but husband doesn't like buying fish. He is a meat lover. He loves beef more than pork and fish for his viands.

He likes potatoes over rice and noodles.

 The kind of potatoes he likes for salad only. We ran out of eggs so that's for later. Instead had the ordinary potatoes for fries and grilled beef. I can't stand eating the whole beef steak, just a small piece is just okay and would rather have a scoop of steamed rice and beansprout/shrimps/sausage stir fry plus dessert.

The meal that is simple and ordinary is what makes me happy. Did you know that you can better taste and savor the flavour of beef when you just use simple ingredients of: dash of salt, ground  black pepper and sprinkle or oregano leaves. Yum!

Amazing Race Season Six, Episode 2

Let's tackle the continuation of AMAZING RACE: Heroes Edition. Hosted by Jon Montgomery. Episode 2, Season 6:  Fiddler's Fart what? probably Fiddler's Fort.

From Sea to Sky H-way to Squamish, British Columbia at 1:09 PM Leanne and Mar first to depart to Dawson City in YUKON. Yukon is the upper northern part province of Canada. In 1896, Yukon is the site of the Klondike Gold Rush. All the competitors were to compete here and finish all the tasks  required until they arrive at the Pit Stop where Jon Montgomery is waiting as usual.

First Task: They built a camp tent and have all their stuff and gears ready for viewing for the inspectors to see. First to finish the task are Todd and Anna. Then Dylan and Kwame, Courtney and Adam, Nancy and Melissa, etc.

Second Task: Use GPS to locate and find the Gold Coins (5) and Free Express Pass. They collected coins from the bank, post office, from a person sitting on a bench on a cold, cold weather temperature. It was snowy in Yukon Territory that period of time.

Teams who had the Express Pass: Todd and Anna, Leanne and Mar, Nancy and Melissa

Third Task: Chance Diamond Tooth D. (Detour- Dance the Cancan) Looks like some teams would rather play cards at the casino than dance the Cancan. But the Mounties tried the Cancan dance though.

At The PIT STOP where Jon Montgomery waited for the first team to arrive.

1. Todd and Anna - won $5,000 + trip for two to France
2. Nancy and Melissa
3. Taylor and Courtney looked so cool and not in a big rush to win or compete. ?
4. Leanne and Mar
5. Kwame and Dylan
6. Martina and Phil
7. Courtney and Adan
8. Akash and Joseph
9. Monica and Zainab (Non-elimination round and they have to race again in the next episode but have to finish the Speed Bump). I first thought one of them is Priyanka Chopra or her look-alike. ?

Next location: Salt Spring island.

What The Hell Is Happening?

July 10, 2018 (Tuesday) was a real torture, a torment of some kind because of the severity of headaches from 7:40 AM to succeeding time that made me scream so many times. I recorded the frequent bouts of painful, sharp cluster headaches in my diary. From 10:19 AM, 10:52 AM, 10:54 AM, 10:55 AM, 11 AM,  I tried to keep myself busy working at home, doing laundry, cooking, housecleaning, etc. etc.  blogging, watching TV just to keep me occupy while the sudden on and off pain in my head kept bothering me.

Cluster headaches. Why? I am not a smoker and definitely not an alcoholic. Why me? Is there something in this house where we live has something to do with my headaches? Is the air in this house or the air outside is not the air that we supposed to breathe? Or is the food that we eat the cause of it all? Or the softdrinks or coffee?

Could it be those jumbo eggs with double egg yolk that we ate recently? But why my kids didn't have headaches? My husband experienced headaches before after having those cherries he bought from the supermarket but he said his headache is from overwork (overfatigued) working on demo project and painting in one of those apartments he managed.

Anyway, after 2 PM decided it's best to have my afternoon nap and thank God it didn't bother me. No pain. I can't feel any sharp pain while I was asleep. When I woke up the quick sharp pain started again as if somebody's inserting sharp pins and needles at the back of my head again. Grabe na! My daughter looked at me, confused of what was happening. I'm okay told her so that she wont panic.

You know the pain of amniocentesis when doctor inserted that big needle on your tummy without anesthesia when you are pregnant or the sudden pain when you are given inoculation on your arm? That's the kind of pain that hurt on my head. Quick, sharp, forceful in just one second. Then another sharp deliberate forceful painful ordeal that I don't record anymore. For what? It felt like am being tortured by witches. OMG! What the hell.

Anyway, this morning July 11, 2018 (Wednesday) I'm feeling better and hope to God that there's no more aches and pain. I hope whatever toxins are gone. Whatever I ate, whether those crazy cherries, eggs with double egg yolks, onions and spices are gone and washed away after drinking too much water. Hmm, wait a minute... I washed and cleaned my hair with different brand name shampoo and washed away my red hair dye... OMG!!!!!! That could be the culprit!

And I heard, "You don't even know it's the hairdye colour is the culprit before?" Look when I applied the red dye on my hair there's no allergic reaction. It was only after few days when I had those cherry fruits and those cluster headaches bothered me. Why I didn't consult the doctor? Why? Whenever I go to the doctor they asked me questions what happened. And unlike me when I asked questions about patients on what they are feeling what bothers them. I know myself better than my doctor. Besides, I have knowledge in medicine.

Sharp, Severe Headaches

You know what? I'm experiencing a sudden severe and painful headache. It's totally different from the usual headache I had before. It feels like I'm being prick by needles so sharp sometimes that there are times I can't help but scream. OMG! Baka kinukulam ako!!!!!

It's an on and off pain and I don't know what time it will come back to haunt me.

It was last July 6, 2018 (Friday) when after I had eaten few cherry fruits when I felt that my jaw hurts. 10-12 pcs of cherry fruits wont hurt right? What kind of cherry fruits are they?  I told my husband about it. First thought it was nothing. Then that night I felt that stabbing, throbbing pain, on and off pain so I decided to take medication. I had Tylenol caplet before I went to sleep. The next day: July 7, 2018, I thought the headache is gone but it re-occurred once again. It's not that bad... I can manage the mild pain so I didn't take any medication.

July 8, 2018 (Sunday) I was not bothered of any pain.
July 9, 2018 ( Monday) The stabbing pain started bothering me, on and off again. It was severe at about 10:08 pm that I screamed because it felt like a sharp object just hit my left side of my head (the back side close to my left ear. Then followed by sharp pain in the next few minutes after minutes. What could be the cause of these headaches? Crazy headaches. I took one Tylenol tablet before 11 pm.

This morning while I'm  having my morning prayer suddenly the sharp pain comes back to torture me again. I think have to record the occurrence of such crazy headache one after another. So, had it at 7:40 AM (2x), then at 7:41 AM and many more stabbing pains. When will this stop?

For whatever reason why this headache is felt by me...I don't know. Is there somebody out there who is being a bad ass witch and playing poking sharp needles and torturing me and my head?

Natural Or Organic?

What do you think of my vegetable garden? Is it organic or natural? Sometimes I don't understand what other people are asking or just because they are used to hearing a terminology that they never understand or just that they want to be trendy or they just want to go with the flow.

My garden is natural. Some of the plants, mostly veggies originally started its life from seeds until it sprung out from the ground (soil). The soil that we bought from Canadian Tire store. The soil sold in plastic bags already had its nutrients in it combination of different ingredients to nurture the plants. They are not 100% ground soil, maybe there are fertilizers in it.  Maybe there are bits and pieces of bark mulch or whatever organic substance those farmers have in the soil. Ask Canadian Tire: Garden Centre. Well, I hope the soil is real soil not fake soil. lol.

ORGANIC PLANTS are plants that are raised in a controlled, highly maintained and cared for facilities, using solar lights and without the use of synthetic fertilizer and other modified ingredients for growth. There's no use of pesticides and other harmful sprays. No synthetic stuff in its growth.

HYDROPHONIC PLANTS are plants that thrive on a well maintained cared for facilities with the use of synthetic materials, solar lights or (electric lamp lights) hydrophonic water and air. Water and air without soil garden. Vegetables are submerged on water. Just like those plants cared for by astronauts-botanists in space.

NATURAL PLANTS are just the natural plants that need true real sunlight from the sun. Water nutrients from the water tap and plants that thrive in true, real soil in the garden, at the backyard, front yard or at the fields in open farm fields. These natural plants thrive and grow in open yards or fields and all kinds of insects can buzz around. But because its the natural plants you can let those bugs affect the growth of such plants that you need to protect them away from bugs and insects. The most common bugs for our veggies are slugs, caterpillars, yellow jackets and ants. Maybe aphids? No aphids found.

Look at those black  ants and its dwelling. Shocking!


Butterflies, moths, bees, and ladybugs are welcome. Yup, you are welcome garden friends because you are the subject for my pictorials.

We don't use harmful insecticides for our plants. Although we used  baits/feeds for slugs. We watered the plants everyday and used "Singles" or "Miracle Gro" once a week or once in two weeks as the food nutrients for these plants.

Darn it's just vegetables on a small plant garden and just happy to grow some plants from seeds. Just like blogging, gardening is also therapeutic and can make use of our time wisely. Remember: B.C. is not the place to be idle with.

Fresh Harvest

 Our small garden looks bright and productive with all the greens in it: dragon tongue beans (no yield yet at this time of the year, too early), swisschards, cucumber, zucchini, strawberry plants (with sweet fruits already), tomatoes, bell peppers, and chilis.

 My husband thought it's best to cut those two matured zucchinis, leaving at least six younger zucchinis on its mother plant. It takes two months (waiting period) for the zucchini plant to grow and yield its first produce.

 So these are 2 of those zucchinis that we harvested yesterday and what to do with zucchinis?

 Here they are on our iron wok ready for our supper. Rotini pasta with sliced zucchini's good and sliced tender pork, a simple way to be happy that the veggies are from our garden.

 Our jumbo tomato plant is now over 4 ft. tall and yields about two fairly sized tomato fruits, green not red yet. Take some time to have red tomatoes. Maybe the ripe red tomatoes will be ready for harvest in the next 2 weeks or before end of July 2018. They are growing and growing, bigger and bigger up to the size that is extra ordinary.

 While we are too impatient with these cherry tomatoes for its produce, they have so many flowers so maybe they yield awesome amount of fruits. Oopss, tomatoes are vegetables not fruit.

My cilantro plant is growing so fast that I have to trim it almost everyday and use it for garnishing for the viands that I cooked whether on soup, saute' or stews.

Living a simple life makes you very appreciative of  simple things, the living things and what really matters in a boring world. So maybe, next year will expand the size of the garden.

Tasks

 Just finished folding freshly laundered clothes, towels, quilt and bedding and  coordinates. Four loads of laundry in one day. I have to keep the quilt and shams for storage and have it on winter time and time to use the light comforter. Hmm, it's nice to snuggle freshly washed, cleaned and dried comforters and towels. Smells really good.

The weather condition is incredibly hot. Stated in the weather network that it 's 15 degrees celsius today but feels like 25 degrees celsius. I wonder why. Humidity is high.

Time to cook:
Know what? I was surprised of this type of eggs. Every time I cracked the shell of this jumbo egg it has two egg yolks inside. I first thought it's only in one egg. However, we had cracked the eggs so many times and every time all dozen of eggs have 2 egg yolks inside its shells. Wow!

 I wonder if these eggs are from hen. Well I hope these eggs from hens or chickens. Sure it's not from turtles or tortoise. Yuck.

 Twenty chicken eggs have double egg yolks... I haven't crack the remaining eggs.
Here's my question >> What if these double egg yolked from hen are not naturally been conceived? What if they are the result of  chicken feeds? Did it ever occur to your mind or your thinking whether this could happen in humans, women getting pregnant with twins and or multiple childbirths due to fertility drugs? 

Well, I hope these eggs are good for health. I hope these eggs are not from cloned hens.

 Scrambled eggs with garlic, onions, tomatoes and spices for lunch

 Beef caldereta for supper.

Fresh fruits for dessert. At summer time, the province of British Columbia has abundance of fresh fruits and produce from local gardens and berries, cherry and nectarine plantations. Okanagan has plenty of cherry and peaches and they are the sweet variety.

Where to go at Summer time to avoid the heatwave?

A Garden in a Tub

The picture above shows how our tomato and cucumber grows within a span of 2 months, from May 2018 to June 2018. Maybe at the end of July we can harvest the first produce of fresh tomatoes and fresh cucumbers. A garden in a plastic tub. Supposedly that tub is for water container just in case we run out of water. However it's impossible to run out of water within our district because the Hydro dam is full of water and there are many waterfalls surrounding the island which is surrounded by ocean water and water from the river and lakes.
Not to mention water on our water tap and faucet.

For the past few days, the heatwave has returned and here to stay

I hope not.

I don't like hot weather condition.

Maybe you are watching TV NEWS right now and the bad news of the hot mercury rising

yesterday had fatally caused deaths among the elderly and people with breathing problems.

The heatwave and wildfires in Colorado and California?

They are true real news not fake news.

They are bad news and nobody like bad news.

The good news is there are new weather forecast

That showers will be seen and poured in the next 3 days for 5 days.

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Yeah, pray for it to happen.

Amazing Race Canada - Season Six

The start of the AMAZING RACE CANADA! Yey! What really happened last night's premiere, hosted by Olympian athlete Gold medalist JON MONTGOMERY?

Amazing Race Canada is the 6th Season presentation on CTV Channel. Jon Montgomery introduced all the 10 teams who will race around the world but first inside the country Canada.

TEN TEAMS:
1. Chewy and Happy. They are Air Force Pilots. Retired.
2. Leanne and Mar. Mentors from Toronto (Cheerleaders)
3. Martina and Phil. Vancouver. Volunteers
4. Taylor and Courtney. RCMP Mounties. Brother and Sister team
5. Courtney and Adam. Nurse and Firefighter team
6. Todd and Anna. Edmonton Advocates. Todd is a cancer survivor
7. Monica and Zainab. NAVY sailors from Toronto
8. Dylan and Kwame. PE Teacher/Coaches
9. Joseph and Akash. Volunteers for Food Bank
10. Nancy and Melissa. Elite Athletes (Olympic athlete) from Alberta

From Hatley Castle - University Colwood, British Columbia to
BC FERRY to SQUAMISH, B.C.

First Task: Who wants to save a Beaver?
Zipline to the Canyon trail and stop at the center net nest in the middle of the Canyon and jump to reach the beaver hanging from a zipline. Would you like to save the beaver (which is a stuffed toy)?
But that's the first task and if you succeed then you have to proceed to the next task, after task until you finish the last leg of this amazing race. If you fail the first task of grabbing to save the beaver you have to try the same task again and again until you get it.
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What can you do? It seems like it's sort of an incredible GAG but it's the kind of training for true real action and where action should be. Like the rescue teams rescuing those hikers who lost their way in the woods to the Canyon. Something of a situation happened for real in real life and that training helps. Can an animator used that real life situation? Yup. remember the movie Jurassic Park?
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Next Task:  Squamish Festival - Climbing Tall Logs. Nancy and Melissa finished the 1st task and had to climb the tallest log to get the AR Clue. Leanne and Mar followed them on 2nd place.

Third Task: Crabbing. They used paddle board to get to the water site where there are buoys and they lifted the buoys one by one to look for crabs for inspection. Everyone brought the right sized crab except Taylor and Courtney, Martina and Phil, Happy and Chewy. They have to go back to the ocean to get the right sized crabs.

Fourth Task: To get to the THE PIT STOP at the Mill No. 3. Venue: Brittania Mine Museum (copper mine) Jon Montgomery waited for the arrival of the teams. The first to arrive at the Pit Stop wins the prize of trip for two to Tokyo, Japan. Winner: Leanne and Mar. What happened to Nancy and Melissa? They were the ones winning on the first task, 2nd task and yet arrived 2nd. Todd and Anna came at the Pit Stop on 3rd. 4th: Kwame and Dylan, 5fth: Courtney and Taylor, 6th: Monica and Zainab, 7th: Martina and Phil, 8th: Adam and Courtney, 9th: Akash and Joseph. 10th: Happy and Chewy.

Chewy and Happy were eliminated from the race. They were happy anyway, they are RETIRED PILOTS. I don't know what kind of planes they fly. Snowbird? I don't think they fly the Stealth because Canada do not have Stealths.

What could be the clue/code for this leg of the race?

I think I know. LOL.

At the end of the RACE. The winning team wins the PRIZE: $500,000 + Trip around the world for two + the AMAZING RACE. Do they get to win the Truck? I didn't hear Jon mentioned if they get to win the Chevrolet car or truck? You can win the brand new Chevrolet car if you will read and answer the direction of the contest on "twitter.com site." Why at twitter not at Google or Facebook? I don't have the clue.

CHARITY the only business that yields profit!

Why too many charitable institutions in Canada? How and why begging is allowed in Canada?

According to History, in 18th Century beggars and begging alms were not allowed in Great Britain. If those beggars were caught in the act of begging they were put to jail or shipped to other parts of the world together with other prisoners. Some of these beggars and prisoners were shipped to Australia and America.

Would you believe? Believe it because it was recorded in History.

Now at present time, charitable institutions are too many and the organizers are famous and fabulous. Why? They probably realized that the business with profit is charity.

Have you been to Thrift Shop? Most of the items being sold in thrift shops are donated. Free donated stuff: appliances, furniture, jewelries, silverwares, clothes, shoes, bags, belts, wall decors (paintings), knick knacks, almost everything that you don't want from your home and you would like other people to make use of you can donate these items and let thrift shop make it available to the public and earn from such donations.

 What thrift shops do with the earnings of free donated stuff? Maybe they used the earnings and profit for the use in community projects. They provide service and employed volunteers. Volunteers gain experience in the retail business and management of retail outlets.

The Many DON'TS In Canada

Probably you are wondering why I don't make use of my skills in sewing and make a business out of it just like the people in the Philippines.

Alam mo ang yumayaman lang yung mga  hindi sumusunod sa batas lalo na yung mahilig sa graft and corruptions.

Know what? It's totally different here in Canada. Just an ordinary simple business you have to register it legally whether you will earn profit or not. Even a simple small sari-sari store or lemonade stand owned by small kids as young as ten years old, you have to get permit. Have a lemonade stand at the front of your house, parents have to ask permit from the authority or else pay the penalty. The more that you sell something such as FOOD you must have permit, license to sell and you must have the valid certificate on "Food Safe."

You cannot sell fish or any kind of seafood if you are not a commercial fisherman. You cannot go fishing without fishing license. You cannot collect shellfish: oysters, clams and mussels in the BC waters and on the beach without license. You can buy them in supermarket or at fisherman's wharf.

You cannot use your house for selling and buying or using your house for any commercial use. Convenience store within certain limits and certain specified location.

In Philippines you can sell anything. You cooked viands and sell them in front of your house, that's okay. Have a barbecue grill in front of your house and sell hotdogs, shishkebabs, barbecue (pork, beef, chicken), banana cue, camote cue, springrolls, and other delicacies, fruits or anything that you want to sell that's okay. You put a table at the front of your house and sell lemonade and halo-halo... no problem. That's why you wonder how those poor families can afford to send their kids to College and University. It's not about being wise or how hardworking an individual but because the government allowed such kind of uplifting poverty helping poor families by taking advantage of their skills.

Are the Filipinos wiser than most people from other countries because they can send their kids to College?

First let me tell you...Many Filipinos are exempted from paying tax. They don't pay much on their land, house and other properties. Some of them never pay the same kind of high standard of living.
Take for example, some of them never pay $1,500/rent or mortgage in their house. Some of them live in free housing sites.  If you are paying that amount of money for your house's mortgage how you can able to send kids to school or University? Renting or Mortgage of $1,500 (P60,000) plus utilities of $500 to $800, Food ($1,000/m)
Medicare ($200+) vehicle+Gas, Insurance + etc, etc.  That's already the regular expenses for ordinary family. How other families can cope up with the high standard of living in Canada? I don't know. Ask some of the Canadians how they can afford. They would rather live in a comfortable and secured homes rather than in a dumpsite situation housing. I think it has something to think about. Send your kids to College and become homeless. Really, this is something for the Government to think about: Offer FREE tuition fees for College students in University. Germany has free tuition fee University and for Canada to follow the same trend in providing educational benefit for their own citizens is an important, valuable idea. Why not? Helping your own people is the best thing that you can do. Right Canadians? If you're Canadian you must help your own people. It is what it is. Unless of course you want to suck up helping third world countries and educate them and bring the here so that they can provide cheap labor. Whatever!

Would you believe that P60,000/month's rent in a condo in Philippines? That's lavishly modern lifestyle kind of living and some families are qualified to have a luxurious swimming pool. Here in Canada, a $1,500/month's rent for a house just qualify the tenants for a 3 bedroom/2 bathrooms, 5 appliances and garage without swimming pool.

That's why, too many homeless people here. There are many homeless people too in Philippines but how they can afford to send their kids to College? I don't know how. Maybe those students have scholarship grants or they are being helped economically by their rich or wealthy relatives. Or they are employed in big corporations and they are allowed to borrowed money in the form of loans. Utang dito, utang doon. Walang problema basta marunong lang magbayad. pag hindi makabayad? Laking gulo. Umpisa na nang giyera sa lugar nila providing so much drama in the community. OMG!

Why I'm posting this blog? It's because Government officials read my blogs. They used my blog for ideas. Maybe they will one day build a University with free tuition fees. Who knows maybe they will open their eyes and they will benefit from this idea. OPEN A UNIVERSITY OF EXPERIENCE without tuition fees because there are too many intelligent and smart Canadians who need the certificate for being smart. FREE TUITION FEES from the loophole sources. You know they deserve better. They deserve better life.