Natural Born Talent

Have you ever known someone
who you can tell has Natural Born talent?

I always wondered how parents figure out
what their kids are born to be.

I mean, Tiger Wood’s parents knew he’ll be a golfer.

Michael Jordan wanted to play baseball,
but he was born to dominate another sport.

And most Guitar gods I admire,
have been playing since they were kids.

So I am trying to learn how to know
what kids are born to be.

I started with this venture
at the regular play place where we take Tyler to.

I saw the young boy who never stopped running,
might be the next marathon runner.

The young girl standing on top of the slide, singing,
might be born to be a great Opera singer.

But those are just speculations.

Although there was one incident
where I truly know what this one kid is going to be.

There is no doubt in my mind
that I have determined what this kid’s natural born talent is.

See, my son is just very friendly,
and that’s just how he is.
He talks to every single person wherever we go.
I feel bad for him sometimes,
when he says hi to other kids,
No one ever says Hi to him back.

So anyway,
at the playground where we were at,
Tyler was talking to this young girl.
He’s just trying to strike up a conversation I guess.

I presume the little girl to be about 5 years of age.
But the little girl kept running away,
trying to avoid my son.

But whenever they get to cross paths again,
Tyler would just start talking to her.

This happened quite a number of times,
but the girl just keeps on avoiding him.

Then, all of a sudden,
We hear this little girl shout at the top of her lungs to Tyler,

“Please leave me alone!”

It was so loud,
everyone heard her.

As my son, just walks away,
plays with someone else.

And this my friends,
is when I realized that,
that little girl,

Was born to be a bitch.

I know, I know.
She’s just a little kid.
They don’t know yet.
But what do you do?
What do you say?

Which brings me to this little question…

Is it wrong for me to hate kids
who has hurt my son physically?
Everytime they are together?

Say, they’re about a year older,
with the most irresponsible parents.
And worse,
they are family.

Am I really wrong?
See, I am a parent now.
And I have never been a parent before.
The safety and wellness of my kids is of utmost importance to me.
Does it give me the right to hate those who are mean to them?
Even if it is other kids?

It doesn’t matter.
I don’t care anyways.
I stopped caring about other things
quite a while ago.

Okay, maybe that wasn’t true.
And it doesn’t make sense.
Come to think of it,
I am not making sense here for the last 5 minutes.
Then why am I still talking?

Sheesh.
God I hate Mondays!
And stupid people.

I learned something new.

A toddler will spit out any kind of food,
if it is too hot.

Except,
fresh baked chocolate cookies.

Instead of spitting it out,
they would rather suffer and shake.

/Add that to the list.
//Gives the kid a drink.
///Refrains from laughing.

Daylight Savings Time

Congress approved to extend the Daylight Savings time?
Read all about it here.
cnn.com

Here too.
infoplease.com

Now correct me if I am incorrect.

If this means more sunlight for us in the afternoon,
doesn’t that mean we all get up and start our day
while it is still dark?

Children waiting for their school buses way before sunlight?

Then if this bill is meant to save energy,
doesn’t people use more light “in the dark?”
Isn’t light, “energy?”

Lawmakers also said that,
since there are more sunlight in the afternoon,
that would encourage more people to go outside.

Well, I don’t know about you,
but I don’t know that many people who parties everyday after work,
knowing that they have to wake up an hour early the following day,
in the dark.

Plus isn’t it if there is more sunlight,
equals more heat,
equals constant air conditioning?

And aren’t most establishments close at their normal closing times anyway,
Which leaves normal people no choice but to go home?
I mean of course, it doesn’t include,
those partying, bar-hopping people I don’t know about.

Isn’t the Daylight Savings Time implemented during the war?
Or to help farmers in the old days?

Is it still really necessary to have this put into practice
at this day and age?

Does it really help save energy for the country?

If parts of Arizona, Hawaii, Saskatchewan and some in B.C. does not follow DST,
do they have (or had) any energy crisis we know about?
(Or farmers complaining?)

Oh well, what do I know?
I guess it is best to submit all trust in the government.

After all,
The economy is great.
The war in Iraq is successful, over and done with.
Oil prices have never been so affordable.
Unemployment rate is a thing of the past.
Poverty has been totally eliminated.
And there is cure for cancer.

Oh no wait……

/Prays that America would stop voting for stupid people.
//Canada too.
///Amen

Another T.N.T.

(Tyler’s New Thingies)

I call this,
Random Cuteness.

Enter scene:
At the back porch,
Daddy reading the paper,
Tyler playing with his toy cars.

Then it started to rain.

Tyler: Oh no! Daddy! It’s weyning. (Raining)

Daddy: Huh?

Tyler: Weyning!

Daddy: (Joking around) What do you mean?

Tyler: Weyning. Daddy!

Daddy: What are you talking about?

(Tyler pauses and thinks)

Tyler: Daddy! It’s Weyning Water!

Well, what can you say?
He’s actually right.
I can’t argue with that.

On a side note,
Today, Tyler learns to pedal his 3 wheeler bike.
On his own.
Daddy feels very proud.
Now I better go and absorb more of his cuteness.

Here are some cool links:

Stuff we thought were true when we were kids —> iusedtobelieve.com
20 must eat hamburgers before you die —> men.style.com
Dumbest rules in sports —> espn sports
Winners of the 2005 World Stupidity Awards —> WSA.com

A Hot and Torrid Affair

I haven’t had time to do anything on this site.
I guess, when you have something new in your life,
You just can not stop thinking about it.

I must confess,
I have been spending a lot of time
and effort with my new hot affair.

I saw her not too long ago at the store.
She wasn’t too extraordinary,
But I have fantasized about her and me,
spending time with each other.

She has a long sexy body,
a smooth, gorgeous neck,
and a beautiful deep voice,
that just gives me total satisfaction.

I told Tracy about her.
I told her that I have never had anything like this.
She would totally give me pleasures I have never known.

Then Tracy actually gave me permission to go and get her.

But the only problem is,
I don’t know her name yet.

I have to have a name to introduce her to all my other women.
Delilah, Destiny and Desiree.

Would you help a guy out?

Here’s a picture of her.

Click here.

(A name that starts with the letter “D” would be great. Thanks)

I learned…

One of the things I learned about
being a father of a toddler,
is that you have to be quick on your toes
with regards to how your kid explores his own surroundings.

How they experiment with pretty much everything
they lay their hands upon.

I am talking about small odd things like:

How I found some toy cars inside the VCR.

A Yoyo inside my acoustic guitar.

Some of my guitar picks,
inside my slot loading DVD-ROM.

Buzz Lightyear inside the fridge.

Not to mention,
even more odd things like,

Drinking the Soy Sauce, from the bottle.

And, how he tried mixing Milk with Root Beer,
and him drinking it.
(This wouldn’t have bothered me,
if he didn’t say “Yummy” afterwards.)

You know,
stuff like that.

Although there’s one thing I just found out,
that Tyler experimented on,
which I must admit,
took me days to figure out.

Well,
for a while now,
I have been trying to figure out
why I was having problems with the sound on my Electric Guitar.

Some days I just couldn’t get any sound to come out,
and if I did,
it produces some kind of muffled but cracking noise.

Then today.
I figured it out.

It wasn’t my guitar

It was this —->Click Here

AHHH!!
The excitement of parenthood!!

Road Trip Pics are up

Check them out under Photos.

Again, I apologize for the inconvenience of registering.
It just gives me the security of knowing who looks at our pictures,
and who makes fun of me.
Not that I can do anything about it,
but at least when they laugh at me,
I have the power to “delete user.”

Ah, who am I kidding.
There are only 4 people registered to view them.
And that includes 2 accounts from me.
Shheessshh.

Anyways,
With regards to the trip,
I would like to say thanks to the following people.

To Tracy’s folks in Kansas:
Thanks for the magnificent food you have given us.
Thanks for all of Tyler’s gifts and toys.
Thanks for bringing us to the lake.
Thanks for letting me drive the boat. (I think it’s more of a yacht.)
Thanks for taking me bike riding.
Thanks for taking me to that huge movie theater.
Thanks for taking us to the Prairie Rose Chuckwagon Supper.
(Which introduced me to a whole new world.)
Thank you so much.
We had a really great time.

Thanks to Devona and her family in Wisconsin,
for one memorable 4th of July celebration.
I do wish we get to spend more time together too.
Your kids are most precious.

Thanks to my Brother and his kids in Canada,
for reminding me how fun family is again.

Thanks to my Mom,
for the loads of food she has given us,
so we could feed an army for 3 years.

My thanks to my wife, Tracy,
for putting up with me
through the whole trip.

Thanks also to my son, Tyler,
for being a great traveler.
I am also sorry, you have gone through so much
at a very young age.

My apologies to
Abbie, Michelle, Irene and Edsel.
Whom I was supposed to meet in New York.

Like I said,
our vacation suddenly depended on other people’s time management.
Otherwise, we could have all met and had loads of fun.

Come to think of it, I would even have time to see
2 friends in Greely, Ontario,
1 friend in Windsor, Ontario,
1 friend from Chicago,
and probably, oh I don’t know,
5, 10 more from Ottawa.

All that could have happened,
if I just stuck to my guns, and learned how to say no.

Maybe someday.
Someday.

Someday when we take another road trip vacation in…
Oh, I don’t know.
10 – 20 years from now.

If it happens again

We were in Orlando yesterday
to see my Aunt and my Mom at DisneyWorld.
We were there very early.

Spent the whole day enjoying everything at the park.
It was our first time.

We left Orlando about one in the morning,
and drove back home.

And I guess, just from mere exhaustion from the day’s activities,
also from our recent 3 week road trip,
and not being able to sleep the night before,
because Tyler was miserably sick and kept everyone awake.

All these things added up,
made me very, very tired and drowsy at the wheel.
I swear I don’t remember driving almost 3 hours from Orlando to our house.

I just remember waking up a couple of times,
from the bumps on the road.

I don’t remember anything else.

Oh I remember taking our exit ramp.
That’s it.

Tracy and Tyler were asleep…
and apparently, so was I.

So,
I sincerely thank the Heavens above,
that me,
my wife
and my son,
are still enjoying each other’s company,
today.

And if ever this happens to me again.
I give you permission to kick my ass.

2 Days

Half Blood Prince

2 days!

A record time for me
to finish the 6th book.

I would have read it in one sitting,
but that would mean I have to neglect my Fatherly and
House-Husbandly duties.

Because you never know,
if the wife comes home to a messy house,
she might hex me with the “Avada Kedavra”.

Although, maybe I could practice the “Imperius” on her…
hmmm….

Oh well,
I guess I better change Tyler now.

“Accio Diaper!”

Back again

Just got back from the Road Trip.

I’ll post some pictures and tell you stories,
as soon as I get in synch with being at home again.

Now if you would excuse me,
I have to kiss the very floor I am standing on.

PS –
And just for giggles,
the mileage on the car as soon as we parked on the driveway,

5666 Miles.

I shit you not!