Infuriating, Dishonourable, Unfair... Usual life.

First off, let me say this. Today was a good day. Any day where I get to play football is a good day. Now, the stain on the suit is this: we lost that game. I don't care that we lost, even though I just said I did. Be quiet. Don't point out my contradicting points. The thing is, the city we played in had such bad officiating, that the referee was under-aged, inexperienced, and bias towards the home team, which, unfortunately, was not us. Not only that, but the linesmen were non-existent. Parents who had come to watch the game had to sub in. This was all well and good. Usually this happens, since parents are supposed to be the role-models, right? The honourable ones who set a good example for the children to follow. Yeah, tell that to the other guy.

I'm infuriated by the lack of honour that the linesman from the opposing team had. He let all of the calls go, and one of them, the last one, the ball was out by three inches, the player controlling it (who was on the opposing team, by the way), was at least two feet out of the boundaries, and the linesman was right there. This blatant show of bias, and downright cheating led to the tying goal (the referee missed a couple calls), and after that, he turned it against us. When we had a run-up down that side of the field, and were close to the boundary, but not out of it, he'd raise his flag, and the referee, who was either naive or incognito, agreed, and we couldn't get any plays completed!

Eventually, it ended in a shoot out, on a bad muddy field that shouldn't be used for a Cup Tournament game, which our game was. The weather was wonderful, at least. Probably about 2 Celsius, with a nice rain falling. I honestly enjoyed the weather. My hands were a bit cold though.

I cannot believe the nerve of that dishonourable wretch, that excuse for a parent, that excuse for a decent human being! I can at least take solace from the fact that we shall be playing them again late in February, so I'll be able to shove our to-be win in his face, giving him that "No matter how much you cheat, get me mad, and I'll spurn you right back" look. How anyone would come to fall for him and sire children with him, I have no idea, but he is a dishonourable wretch, completely made of slime, the type of person that has no honour, deserves no merit, and cannot be trusted. The kind of slime you always see fucking* up this world, the kind that ruins an otherwise perfectly fine day, for everyone. I hope his kids are ashamed of their father.


In other news, my father had another bout of road rage. He needs to get out of the city soon. He's overworked, overstressed, and needs to get back in tune with reality. Not just his reality, but everyone else's. I do love my father, but he frightens me so at times like those. It reveals the beast within him. Hm, at least he doesn't strike my mother. That, I am very thankful for. They both love each other, and my family isn't separated.

In other news non-related to the other news, I have finally found my guitar niche. The Blues. It feels wonderful playing it, and my mother remarked that before, practising songs, I had just been practising, but when I played the Blues pieces with the MP3 files my teacher had sent me, I was actually playing, and I was in the zone. That's good to hear.

Back to school on Monday, by the way, for all of you kids in my area. Not that any of you would actually read a blog like mine, heh.

If you are ever at the movie theatre, and don't mind subtitles, go and see Pan's Labyrinth. Once again, its a blatant shout to the declining quality of Hollywood Movies. A Spanish film, its about a little girl who's mother marries a Captain in Franco's Army, in World War II Spain. They're at a mill, trying to root out some rebels entrenched in the area. The Captain is a cruel, sadistic man who is so dominant as to just be unbearable. Obey him, or die. The antagonist of the film, for sure. For those of you squeamish ones, you might want to steel yourself before you come, or have two friends to suffocate in your terror... *cough* ... Theodore *cough*...

Anyway, the girl discovers a Labyrinth from times of old, and within that labyrinth is a well that leads to a portal. But the portal is sealed. There is a wondrous faun** there, who says to the girl that she is the Underground Realm's King's long lost daughter reborn into another body, and that to open the portal once again, she has to complete three tasks.

It's an amazing movie, and I would recommend it to anyone who can stand a bit of blood, cruelty, and if you bring a squeamish friend who clamps to arms when uncomfortable, loss of circulation.

*Hm... Okay, yeah. Interpret that as you will. I just mean the insensitive people with no sense of fairness that have absolutely no positive effect on the world.

** The faun is made of sticks. Almost. It's cool. The Spanish did a wonderful impression of folklore, fantasy, and what looked to be ancient Celtic architecture.

An Inconvenient Truth - Convenient for Politicians

I saw the film by the name of An Inconvenient Truth a couple days ago, and I must say, it was as I expected. An exceptionally well done film that spoke only facts, and wasn't afraid to say the truth. I recommend it to you all, if you haven't seen it already. Now, even if you don't believe in this global warming, or don't want to see the film*, keep an open-mind and watch it anyway. There isn't anything wrong with having cleaner skies, at the least.

What I have noticed, is that Global Warming is a large topic among the politicians. Especially our unbeloved** Conservative party. They speak, pledge, and promise to do something, but really, its just an empty promise meant to ease our hearts and sink us back into a false sense of security once again. At least that's how I perceive it. Don't take everything I say at face value. Think about it first, and then believe every word I say... or rather, type.

Back to the point. They give us empty promises, and do nothing about it. I notice that a lot of people keep saying that they know that no one can change the world alone, that we should just wait for the government to change it, but the thing they don't understand is that every movement starts small, be it with one person or one hundred, these notions start small, and grow as more people become aware. Sitting around, waiting for others to change things won't get you anywhere. Since the others are sitting around as well!

Hrm, which is why I'm going to do some digging in my community and find out what I can do. If I'm to have a voice, I need to act.

Well, I daresay I've gotten quite off topic. Hm, no matter. My post is at an end.

*Bollocks. Believe in it, and do something, or you'll regret your decision fifty years later. If you're not six feet under, that is.

**Yes, I know I made a word up. Live with it!

Walkin in a winter wonderland...

Hm. We seemed to receive a good dumping of snow about a week past. Or was it two? I can't even remember. The last two weeks have been a haze. Interpret that how you will. From 1ft. to 3ft. in some places, it hit the Lower Mainland like a storm - literally. Temperatures dropped, snow became ice, and cars had a lovely time spinning around on the ice.

Apparently, we're supposed to get more snow tonight as well.

Just a short post, but I just thought you should know. The West is engulfed in piles of snow, while the East (as of a week ago*) has green grass and are playing soccer... in Newfoundland!

Remind me again, when did we exchange weather? Did our governmental leaders do that? They've been known to execute sneaky deals in the past. Let's all go petition.

*Now they're starting to feel the cold, but.. ignore it. Pretend this is two weeks ago.

Ignorance Or Faith?

I was in the usual area today, when a certain individual burst in, practically. He could not have been too old, which completely under minded his avid faith in God. He kept pronouncing that 'God was awesome', and that any others who did not believe in God would be cast down in to hell.

The troubling thing is that he was much too young to actually have formed such an avid faith in my own opinion. So I asked myself this, before kindly reprimanding him for enforcing his beliefs on others... was it ignorance, or faith? Surely, faith is not frowned upon. At least, I myself do not frown upon it, even though I consider myself to be a devoted Atheist. From past experiences with Christianity, or any other form of it though, I was inclined to believe that it was selective ignorance. A misinformation, of sorts. I judged the boy to be around thirteen years of age, perhaps a small amount older, probably with parents or a church community who had told him certain things, narrowed his area of judgement, and predisposed him to certain ideals.

Although I did try to reason with him as to why he should not enforce his beliefs on others, he eventually got frustrated and left. Of course, not before throwing a few slanderous comments my way. At that moment, I decided that it was indeed both Ignorance and Faith that were the cause of all this... It seems that both go hand in hand, from most believers I have seen...

Why is it that those who are faithful are so ignorant and narrow-minded, almost all of the time? I find only a rare few people who are not like that, and I greatly respect those people for their open-mindedness, but it becomes so confusing at times, to wonder how such a simple and pure belief could have been twisted, into a chaotic, narrow-minded, excluding, and in certain circumstances, even cruel ideology.

When is it that our race will finally progress? For right now, we are truly just fooling ourselves.