Davio's Den.

In addition to my last post about the Vancouver Police, I will relate to you a story told by my Political Science 100 professor.

He has a friend who is a cop, and one weekend they just went out for a drink. The cop was off-duty and he was in civilian clothing. The off-duty cop was driving. They were driving along the road, and suddenly a cop in an RCMP cruiser starts chasing them, instructing them to pull over. They were speeding -- and about to get a ticket for it. The cop went to the window and asked for his driver's license and secondary identification.

It just so happened that his secondary ID was his Police ID. When the cop about to give him a ticket saw this, he just laughed it off, and told him to "Try not to speed, buddy." Once again, I must say; WHAT THE HELL!!!! The Police are NOT above the law, so why do they act like they are?

Hi, tonight I have to work on another paper. Wish me luck. I would just like to tell a story about the wonderful police we have here in Vancouver before I start my homework.

I saw an article in The Province today.. actually it wasn't an article, it was a letter from someone defending a recent action taken by the Vancouver Police. You know sometimes when you're stopped at a red light, and someone comes to clean your window? Well the next time you see a squeegee kid come to wash your window, be aware, it might be a cop doing a seatbelt check. Do cops have nothing better to do than pose as some of the poorest people in our society so they can nab you for not having your seatbelt on, and charge you a fine? A fine that, by the way, will never go towards anything you would approve of?

Example: Parallel to my street, there is a street called "Royal Oak". This used to be the steepest street in Burnaby; maybe all of Vancouver. The government decided to rebuild it, make it a curve, so it was not so steep anymore. They built a completely new street, raised, like a bridge, that curves to the left, then back to the right again; and now its not as steep as before. Its still steep, mind you. To the right of it, is the old Royal Oak. Now instead of leaving the construction at that, they decided to build a paved footpath along the old street. This footpath curves back and forth about 4 to 5 times as it goes up the old Royal Oak. The local papers reported that the "improvement" to the old Royal Oak street cost the municipality a whopping total of $190,000. That miniscule footpath, that has been there for almost two years now, and looks brand new. Why does it look brand new? Well, because nobody uses it!!! WHAT THE HELL!!! I could have told the city that LONG before they even FATHOMED building it! But nooooooooo, the city must have its little footpath. The new road cost enough -- what need is there for the footpath, the new road came with a sidewalk for fuck's sake!!! But I digress.

As shown above, the city has many useless things to spend your money on, like a differently designed skytrain station for each stop along the way -- no, identical stations weren't good enough -- they needed a different architect to design each of the new stations. I have no idea how much more it cost to build it this way, but I'm sure its a huge cost.

The fast ferries... need I say more? So here are those cops -- posing as squeegee kids, doing seatbelt checks. Someone remind me why we have cops again? the police are like some sort of totalitarian gestapo. They don't listen to you... If you think you can find someone to listen to your complaints -- you're mistaken. They don't care -- all they care about is their goddamn speeding tickets and dough-nuts... That's all I have to say about that. Feel free to flame the hell out of me.

Serving our community -- Burnaby RCMP

My new blog is up and running - ready to be viewed. Anyone who likes English, and writing and stuff, should check out my second blog IfLit. This is going to be my essay posting site. Enjoy!! :)

Well - I had the worst nightmare this morning! MAN! I dreamt my parents came home early, and started bitching me out for not going to school today!!! Like holy, it was so realistic! First I was like, talking to her on the phone, and she was like, "Why didn't you pick up the phone earlier; you were still sleeping weren't you!!", and I was like, "Aw man.. I guess I slept in..." and she was like "Why aren't you in school!! What the hell!!!?" And then suddenly she was in the house, chasing me around yelling at me for not being in school. So I woke up very shaky, as you can imagine. Today and tommorow I am going to coop myself up in my house and work on my essay. I am taking the day off work tommorow, and will work at it all day today and tommorow. I have to finish it by tommorow so that I can hand it in on Thursday. So I am a bit nervous, I have a lot of work ahead of me. I got a new guestbook now, but it seems my Ifrit picture does not work.... You can't see it... I want picture support on blogger.. maaaaaaan; anyways... I wonder how jocelle got her pic on the page? grr. I must learn moooore! :) Oh and I have a counter too, so I can watch all you people walk across my page. Keep walking!! :)

Consumer Whores, remember?

You're in Marlborough Country now. -- Marlborough Cigarettes

Ok I got a good Web Counter on the site now, so start hitting!!! Yesssss Ifrit loves the pain!!

Boo! Hey... I'm in a good mood because my family has left camping! :) Alllllllllllllllllllllllllllright! I get to play loud music all night, and come and go as I please. Too bad there's nothing to eat, but I can stand to lose a couple of pounds! So yah.. I had the easiest day today!! I worked like seven or eight hours, and did about thirty minutes of real work, it is such an easy job!! Nobody gets really broken into during the day, so it's so easy. I wonder how the night shift will be? Any thoughts? I watched a couple ephisodes of Trigun today; man is that an awesome cartoon series. Try to find it wherever you can; I found the most Trigun videos on Imesh, it seems to be the best fileshare application out there right now, unless you live in Sweden, and have BBS, and use Direct Connect, you can find some great videos and stuff. Imesh can download one file from several different users, while Direct Connect is direct peer to peer. So Direct Connect is usually a bit slower, and if the user logs off, then you're just screwed!! So yah. Oh, and I payed $150USD for an ATI Radeon 8500 128mb DDR video card. It never came to me in the mail, so the seller is sending me a Radeon 9700 128mb DDR video card for the same price as the Radeon 8500.... Which is awesome because the 9700, which comes out in mid August, will sell for $400USD in retail stores. So I'm getting a killer deal, and I love it. I am writing an essay about 15th and 16th century women in Tudor England. I am focusing on Edmund Spencer's Faerie Queene, so if you have any good links for me, please pass them on. What is Spenser's view on women? What do you think? Thanks for your thoughts. I will be opening a new blog site soon that focuses strictly on my English studies, so anyone who enjoys English at SFU, or any other university for that matter can post there. :) Thanks for visiting, stay tuned for the next update. Oh yes, and we are all Consumer Whores.

Where do you want to go today? -- Microsoft

Hey. Watched the first half of Austin Powers: Goldmember tonight. Sucked until like, 1 hr into the movie, then there were some funny parts, but the sucking had already been established and it was too late for the movie to redeem itself. (Saw it at my gf's friend's house, she had it on VCD, go figure). Yay I finished my essay today, I am so happy about that. I did my non-narrative prose as well - that kind of sucks, but my essay is decent. Well there are no references, but it is still a pretty good piece of writing. *Fuck, this song sucks "drift and die by ... hoobastank" or some shit like that, better switch to MP3s, and listen to some 311* Sometimes the fox sucks, but sometimes its great. *sigh*, if you're reading this, check out my best friend's blog, he's pretty cool, will probably spout something funny. Yah he's my best friend Mike, him and Dave are my best friends. They're cool dudes. Ok I will not post my essay. I will create another blog to post it with. But I am not quite done with it yet; I'm going to review it again in a few days to make it better. Tra la la la la. Lets all be consumer whores! wheee.

Just Do It - Nike

I finished my essay... wanna see it?

vote in my comments, and maybe I will post it!

Hello to my good friend of many years, and few visits, Lisa!!!

An interesting development in the situation of my mother. Aggie's (my girlfriend) dad is a mechanic, and we've been taking our car to him because he does a good job, and gives us a good price, because ... well his daughter is dating me. So, just recently our car broke down, and my dad said he'd take it to Aggie's dad. My mother told him not to. What the hell. Who does she think she is? I am very angry about this. *sigh* But, living under your parents roof, means you must adhere to your parents' rules ... right?

Introduction of my English 377 Final Paper

This is not an essay. The de-definition of art seems to be the only way to create new art. The more an artist re-defines, and de-defines art, the fresher the piece is. This paper will be a culmination of what I have learned through this semester in English 377; Sonnets. This semester, I have not done as much learning as I have done experiencing. English 377 is unlike any class I have ever taken, and the experience was very interesting. What I have realized near the end of the class is that this English course was more a review of all modern art, than just focusing on Barrigan or Shakespeare. For two short months I had the opportunity to look into the world of modern art, through the eyes of someone who really appreciates it. It was great to finally get an inkling of what modern art is really about. I do not know if I have the right idea or not, but if I have listened correctly through the semester, I can assume that having the “right” idea is not always what we should aim for. I am hoping that this essay will express what I feel modern art is “about”. I will admit, that I am very skeptical about many of the things we went over in class, but at the same time I am very interested in them. With my limited study in the area of modern art, I have come to one major conclusion. For art to be art, it constantly must change. Traditional art was considered art, because it was ground-breaking, and so it must be with all art. How can art be ground-breaking if it has all been done before? This is why art must be constantly re-defined and de-defined. Art used to be something specific, now it can be anything. This is not an essay. This is a sonnet.

I went to the Richmond night market tonight... it runs from 7pm to 12am ever weekend!!! I baught 100 blank CDs for 35 buxorz.... great deal i think!! :) So yeah... right now I have to write like crazy, because I have two essays to finish before Thursday. Any ideas on the De/Re - Definition of Art? Comment it!! :) Thanks person who reads my posts! :)

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Hey people who read my board. Been busy kinda. Lets see.. today was fun.. I "modernized a traditional artform". It was a "creative critique" for English 377 (Sonnets) actually, its not about sonnets, but all about modern art. My traditional artform was tap dancing. I took a "Lord of the Dance" video file and instead of him tap dancing to his celtic music, he tap dances to "Snowblind" by System of a Down. Hahahaha! I modernized "Riverdance" as well, they dance to "Left Behind" by Slipknot. That was so fun! I included the original and modern versions of both video files. I hope my teacher (Carl Peters) likes it. Today I had two boring classes, and theres only one week left in school!! That means only four more classes total!!! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH I have two final papers I haven't started yet!!! What am I going to do!!!? I am going to start tonight!!! I have to, or I will never get them done for thursday! Between my classes I have a one hour break, and I decided to write up my presentation in that break. I have a partner for the presentation, and he wrote something as well, but it was all one sided. So I wrote the opposite as him, and we staged a class debate! It was fun! :) We didn't do any research or anything like that, but I hope our teacher (Tidthankar Bose) (unsure about the spelling of his first name), likes it! :) It was fun to do, reminded me of first year courses and highschool! :) hehe. So now all I have left is two papers, one take home final, and one creative critique.

This is where YOU can help me! Give me some ideas for "A Piece of Non-Narrative Prose". I have to write some "non narrative prose". What will I write? If worst comes to worst, I can just write nonsense, but I kinda want it to be better than that. My comments don't work properly and I don't know why. It shows all the comments people have left. Which is only 8, but its still annoying. I went out for dinner tonight with Mike, we ate at Mr. Ho's. Chinese food is good when you don't have it for a long time. I've been working my new job a lot.... working Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays, nine to four. Its a very interesting job. Lots of time for myself. Sorry I don't post much Jocelle, but when I do, its a good one! :) Oh and Jocelle, I met that friend of yours that baught the book from you again today... I gave her your number cuz I remember it now!!! :) So expect a call from her!! :) heehee. I don't have much more to say... Hm. Comment! :)

Yay I just got back from Swimming!! My best friend Mike's dad baught a new house with a pool and we went swimming in it. We spent some time just paddling around, and cooling off from the hot summer day. We talked about the Simpson's for the rest of the night, because the house is completely empty! There's nothing in it! Not even a telephone! Ah well. It's cool having a house to yourself. Anyways... bye! :)

Hey again.
Yesterday was my first day at work... mostly just reminicing about highschool. I think the reason I was hired was because we went to the same highschool, St. Thomas More. (Too bad that school might be sold soon). So yah.. It was a lot of fun. Probably a lot more fun than the regular shift I will be working when I am fully trained. Thats when I start work at 12am on Saturday morning (Friday night) and work till 8am that Saturday...

So thats kinda cool, I mean, I'll be making an easy $11 an hour. That is more than enough for rent, even working 2 days a week, if I get a day job at the same time, I may be even able to afford school or a car! So I'm looking for a new job. I found some more places, here they are:

1200 square feet, 2 bedrooms, my own laundry, kitchen, living room, bathroom, for $600 a month!

I think that one is really cool. Man 1200 square feet is bigger than my gf's house, which is 1150 square feet!!! And she lives in a 2 bedroom house with 3 other people (her family)!!!

Anyways, school is getting really busy. August 1st is my last day, and everything is due then. I have 2 final papers due (each more than 10 pages, but its double spaced, so its more like 7 pages each), I have a presentation to do, I have 2 creative critiques to do, and a take-home final exam. So I have a lot of work to do in the next 2 weeks. I'm gonna start working hard. Then I have a month free!! Yay! Then I go back to school in September... (maybe) If I move out, I will have to get a student loan, and then I will be back in school anyways! :) So I will go to school anyways, no matter if I live at home or not! I mean, I have to finish my major right?! Woohoo! Thanks for your comments!! :)

Hello.. My name is David.
If you've heard the song Johnny by my favourite band System of a Down you would know in what kind of voice I am introducing myself.
I had a great day with a rough ending today. I went rollerblading in Stanley park... That was fun, tanned for 2 hours... (burned the side of my face but thats ok), and went swimming. It was great! Dinner tasted good, I had some good laughs, ate some chocolate, drank some slurpee. So as you can see, it was a great day. I spent it all with Aggie. She is so sweet. Anyways, you know whos not sweet? My mother. She phoned me and yelled at me at the top of her lungs not to take her van to have "sex" in it. She did not let me say anything in between her accusations, and forced me to come home immediately. She then told me she'd kill me and promptly hung up the phone with a slam.
I thought to myself, 'Well, if I explain everything slowly, and in a low voice, maybe she'll see reason'. Boy was I mistaken. She didn't even let me say anything. While I was driving home she called my girlfriend's house, and told her that she was having sex in her van. My girlfriend, being totally confused, of course denied this (we didn't have sex. in the van). My mother screamed at her, calling her a liar and a whore. She then promptly hung up the phone with a slam. My household's poor telephone. Tonight my mother also told me that she hopes I "find a place soon" so I can "get out of here". I'm thinking of a student loan and moving in with my best friend Mike. There is a basement suite on Royal Oak and Kingsway with 2 bedrooms and 800 square feet. The rent is 500 a month. I think it is quite reasonable, but I'm not sure. What do you think? Please post some comments!