A New Challenge

We left Coquitlam at 07:00 AM and it was almost 09:00 PM when we got home! Today was the third day of work and I have a very long way ahead until the day I can feel that I really have a job. A. J. works like a horse and his cellular phone never shuts up! Yes. Making money is not easy. You have to dedicate your whole life to your job. And he almost eats nothing during the day. He kept us both hungry until the afternoon yesterday! I luckily had two McDonald's breakfast sandwiches! I'm so tired now but would like to write more. But think it's better to write later as have to wake up at 07:00 AM and hit the road again tomorrow.
(Photo: The Sea to Sky Highway is under construction be be ready for 2010 Olympic games which partially will take place in Whistler. Lost of rain but that does not stop these guys from working. Kiewit, I believe was a millionaire if not a billionaire, and is richer now by getting this big project!)

Difficult Move

I'm writing this from my cousin's place in Coquitlam using their wireless Internet. I finally flew to B. C. this afternoon. That was my first flight in Canada which faced almost half an hour delay. Hojam came to my place shortly in the afternoon, we changed the main entrance's lock and I showed him everything and gave him the keys. Then he drove me to the airport. I noticed that he was feeling a little different. He asked me to give Resurrect a call in Kelowna and say that regardless the fact that we don't love each other, we should take care of our friends and support them because we're all actually lonely here.
Then in the airport when I was sitting I though there was something wrong with the wings because only after a vehicle came and sprayed hot water on both wings, the plane took off.
When I got to Vancouver Airport an aboriginal girl helped me to get to SkyTrain station. I was going to give her my number but didn't find any chance. Then when I got on a bus for the second time after I got off the Train, Hodani called. He was drunk as usual and I had to lie to him because he won't remember what I said to him today. But felt really bad. We spent so much time together and ate together and talked for hours and most of the time he paid for me but I didn't even give him a call to say goodbye. I knew he was working but that's just an excuse. I and Hojam talked a little about him and the way he lives which is only drinking, sleeping with poor street prostitutes and working a hard labour job. But what can we do? I don't think talking to him ever helps. After all that's the way he likes to live. He's already passed his 50s and there are not much opportunities for someone like him anymore. Even I'm not very fortunate at this age. So what can we do for him? We have to take care of ourselves and if he doesn't want a change in his life then what's the point? He sacrifices his life for his idea. He doesn't even remember when was the time he left Iran but that perhaps was some year around 1990, according to what he still recalls.
Seems like this post is goin' to be just about Hodani from Bandar-e-Abbas but I just can't forget him because he's so soft-hearted and nice guy and what has happened to him in life so far, has been pushing him toward alcohol and at this age and with that sex drive, while there's no chance of having a girlfriend or marriage, poor drug-addicted street prostitute are your last chance.

International Car and Truck Show

I and Ali G. went to the International Car and Truck show in Calgary yesterday. That was my first time. It was really good. You could see anything from super expensive cars like Bentely, Aston Martin and Lamborghini to ordinary cars like Ford, GM, Toyota and Nissan and companies like Hundai that we didn't even get close to it! They have nothing to say. I didn't see companies like Peugeot or Renault as well as other European car manufacturers. It means they are not looking for a market in North America or may be not as active as they should be.
Range Rover was there with a few luxary model but when I asked one of the representatives if they are being manufactured in the UK, his answer was a big Yes. I remember that I read online almost 2 years ago that the last British car manufacturer is being sold and Iran and China are the prospective ownerz. Iran later lost the opportunity.
What caught my eye the most was a new model of Hummer from GM of course called H3T. That was a very nice, 2-door small truck with a very unique design. But that was only a protoype. Nothing has been said about the price or the release date. Also a few new models of truck from Ford was really catchy, including a F-450!
The most expensive cars obviouly came from Bently and Lamborgini. How many people in Calgary can aford a $160,000 car? Jaguar was another luxary car maker that I wasn't expecting but it was there, introducing regular sedans around $50,000 and super expensive cars.

(Photo: H3T a concept from GM and one of my favorites. I decided to buy a Hummer or a Hybrid, prefrably a Prius when I'm ready to. This one has no price and plan for production but other Hummers are in the market and very expensive, starting form $40,000. So it is a Prius)

Wireless

When I bought the Acer laptop, I obviously connected it to the Shaw Internet I had. The wireless switch was on and I didn't notice that. So I received different message off and on from the computer saying for example You're connected to this or You got disconnected from that and I didn't know what's happening.
Then I appreciated that the said messages are from the different local wireless sources and I simply could use them. When I switched to this Toshiba laptop I discovered a few unsecured wireless sources, the ones that you don't need a password or security code to use it. And now after my cable was taken yesterday, I'm using them and it's good. There are usu. 3 unsecured available and one could be Futureshop's and I use whatever has a better condition. The signal conditions are defined as Excellent, Good, Fair, Low and Poor by the system and there are times that you can't get connected at all but that rarely happens. Here's how free Internet service works. Some organizations and cafes present free Internet service. For example Starbucks and Talisman and also Calgary International Airport but the Airport just limits you to the facilities at the airport. For example restaurants, hotels, retailers, flights and other services. I haven't tried the other two I just named but I will. I will try any free wireless Internet possible and may be I don't pay for that anymore! In the move Firewall I watched last year wireless Internet service is shown available free all around the city of Seattle. That would be the first American city I visit soon.

31M

Canada's population just reached over 31,000,000 according to Statistic Canada and based on last year's census. It's growing. But what makes the population bigger and bigger? That's not the original people, the European-rooted or the other ethnic groups who have been living here for years, for example East Indians and Chinese and it's not of course Aboriginals. It's the new immigrants or mostly refugees. Yes as I said before Canada is the biggest public toilet in the world. They have recently opened the door and let a huge number of Africans, Afghans, Kurds and Iraqis in, mostly murderers, thieves, runaways, former prisoners and war criminals.

Why the fuck this fucking stupid Government of Canada doesn't understand this simple fact? I have one answer for that:

They need people as part of their modern slavery program. If there's no fucking nigger or motherfucker stinky stupid piece of crap, Afghan or Kurd, Who's goin' to work all those nasty hard jobs in fucking factories and plants for $12 to $14 per hour? Canadians, I mean Caucasians barely do that, may be 1 out of 50 labourer is a Canadian with Western-European root.

But what these idiots don't understand is the disadvantages which are much bigger than advantages. Cities like Calgary and Toronto are not inhabitable anymore in my view. They are so crowded and dirty, slow traffic, gangs, drug and crime and multiculturalism which never worked and never will work. That why I'm planning to move out from Calgary soon. The best place to live is obviously where you have a well-paid, secure and challenging job. But the best thing to do is to be a self-employed. That's what A. J. does and that's what I have to do too or just stick to that National Defence job which keeps me busy, pays me well and keeps me away from big polluted, crowded and noisy cities.

Notebook or Laptop?

I sold my computer as I wrote earlier and went to the nearby Futureshop and bought an Acer laptop for $799. I actually used my Futureshop card to pay it off in a year. Then I noticed I had a problem with the sound system when I'm using Skype or YAHOO Messenger. I also tried to get a Microsoft Office package and the cheapest one I found was $179 excluding GST. I bought that but then returned it the other day without even touching it. I considered that too much of expense. Then I tried to overcome the technical difficulty I had with the sound system and couldn't. So I took it back to the Futureshop. Different people came and struggled with the computer but couldn't do anything to remove the issue. Then finally the first guy whom I met came and he found out through YAHOO Answers that many people have problem with Windows Vista, the new OS which is installed on all of the laptop and desktops, including mine and finally suggested to replace the Acer with a Toshiba, the one that Ali G. recommended when we went to the Futureshop after the the Home Show. The guy, Zach, said that Acer computer management system doesn't allow to run Skype or YAHOO Messenger under Vista properly. That model of Toshiba was $899 the day I bought the Acer one but it was reduced to $799 that day! So I switched the laptops and now I'm using it and everything looks fine. I talk to A. J. in B. C. over Skype, to Cyrus in Koln through the Messenger and to Hojam here in Calgary again using the Messenger. I also bought a bag for my laptop but today I noticed that it lacks a shoulder strap. So I have to go to the store again and find out what has happened to it. And finally I use WordPad instead of MS Word and have no spreadsheet until the day I have enough money and courage to buy an office package!

After all I don't believe that Toshiba is better than Acer or Sony is the best. They all use the same processor and only a few features are different. For example that Acer I bought first is better than the Toshiba I own now. It has built-in microphone, you can see the level of the sound when you turn it down or up while this one's volume is like the old grandma radio sets!

So don't waste your money on a specific brand if you're buying a laptop.